ONI JAN 1 Uniforms and Insignia Page 103 Royal Netherlands Navy WW2 Seamen October 1943 Field recognition. US public doc. No known copyright
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Uniforms and Insignia of the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN, Dutch: Koninklijke Marine, KM) during the Second World War. October 1943:Seamen; Leading Seaman, Boatswain (blue uniform); Leading Seaman, Boatswain (Summer uniform); Straw Hat Worn in East Indies. Old Style cap band; Cap; Cap Band; Rating Insignia, Leading Seamen; Tropical Uniform; Seaman 2nd Class, Boatswain (Winter uniform).
Page from "JAN #1 a joint Army and Navy publication UNIFORMS AND INSIGNIA prepared by the Military Intelligence Service and the Division of Naval Intelligence", a recognition manual released by the US War Departement during World War II for field use by the American fighting forces.This cumulative military manual was a "Joint Army-Navy" ("JAN") publication illustrating uniforms and insignia of the navies, armies and air forces of Japan, Nazi Germany (Heer/German Army, Kriegsmarine/German Navy, Luftwaffe/German Air Force, Waffen-SS/German Armed Elite Guard), Facist Italy, occupied France and the Netherlands (parts of their navies were based in Western Allied countries), neutral Facist Spain and Portugal, and Allied Turkey. The collection of plates was published as a US Government unclassified public document 1943-44, in the format of a pocket-sized loose-leaf string-tied binder allowing for additional pages and corrections. Today it is in the public domain without any known copyright restrictions.
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