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Object of the Week for May 10

Honoring Our Unified Armed Forces

This poster, in the collection of the National Museum of American History, shows the various insignia for different branches of the armed forces and different ranks, as of 1959. Can you spot the design differences between each rank?

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Links

  1. Learning Lab: Learn more about naval aviation with NASM
  2. Explore: Military Invention Day 2018 at NMAH
  3. Did You Know: Letters to Microfilm to Letters again - V-Mail in WWII
  4. Explore: Why We Serve - Native Americans in the US Armed Forces at NMAI
  5. 'Meet' armed forces desegregation activist Asa Philip Randolph at NPG
  6. Learn: Armed Forces Day History