The New Cap (N.Y. Times, 1918)
A New York Times correspondent reported from Washington what the official line was as to why the U.S. Army had seen fit to toss out the campaign hat in preference to the European-style Overseas hat:
"When the Americans entered the trenches," said an official statement today, "it was found that the brim of their campaign hat interfered with sighting through the trench periscopes and that the high crown, in the case of tall men, could be seen above the parapets. The new cap is so low that it permits the men to move with the same freedom as when they are hatless."
| The W.W. I Overseas Cap Will Remain (Stars and Stripes, 1919)
A "Stars and Stripes" clipping from 1919 announcing to both Army and Marines that the era of the overseas cap had arrived and was not going away anytime soon:"The overseas cap, which has (not) protected its wearers from the rains of sunny France and the suns and snows and sleets all over the A.E.F., will be permitted to remain the official headgear of the returning troops after they get back to the States."
| Introducing the Overseas Cap (Stars and Stripes, 1918)
The writer who toiled over the attached "Stars and Stripes" article worked very hard to convince his Doughboy readership that the latest piece of U.S. Army headgear was "made on a scientific plan", terribly stylish and well-worth having around:"It has neither brim nor visor...It is better made than the old cap. It fits more neatly, looks more chic, adapts itself far more genteely to the average Doughboy braincase." "To put it in a word, the new cap is natty. And the old cap was not even hatty."
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