16101 Continental Line Officer Standing At Ease John Jenkins Airplanes 10051 - General “Black Jack”

10051 - General “Black Jack” Pershing 1917-18

Eisenhower

for ‘Stars ‘n’ Stripes’

He was retired by the Marine Corps in 1955

The companies would have to be brought up to a strength of about 250 men and organized into battalions and then into regiments

16101 Continental Line Officer Standing At Ease John Jenkins Airplanes 10051 - General “Black Jack”The majority of the enlisted men of the Continental Army came from the working class and were motivated to volunteer for service by specific contracts that promised bounty money, regular pay, food, and clothing. The officers of both the Continental Army and the state militias were typically yeoman farmers with a sense of honor and status and an ideological commitment to oppose the policies of the British Crown. Uniforms for officers were usually