You're in the Army Now. (Now Being the Year 5678.) - The New York Times - 0 views
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Men of the Jewish faith from New York, who have just been drafted into the national Army, attending a religious service during the Jewish New Year holidays in a cantonment building assigned to them for the purpose
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Resplendent in chapeaux, our cover subjects 100 years ago were Maj. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, the Army chief of staff, and his predecessor, Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott. Are you surprised that a uniform should look so quaintly ornate in an era of aerial bombing and chemical warfare? The chapeaux proved surprisingly resilient. “Although for all intents and purposes it died with the United States’ entry into World War I, the chapeau was not finally and officially dropped as an item of officers’ dress until 1936,” Edgar M. Howell wrote in “United States Army Headgear 1855-1902.”
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With almost every issue of the Mid-Week Pictorial, the camera was proving more adept as a chronicler of war at its decisive, spontaneous moments. The caption of the photograph below read, “Remarkable snapshot of a scene during the retreat of the Russians, showing the first mad rush after the cry was raised that ‘the German cavalry have broken through!’ ”