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overseas cap

American  

noun

Military.
  1. a wedge-shaped cap of cotton or woolen fabric, worn as part of the service uniform.


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A wartime photo of him in the American Legion post down the road in Union City shows a handsome man in uniform wearing his Army overseas cap at a jaunty angle.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2019

Nearby, Ray Chavez, 105, the country’s oldest survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack, sat in his wheelchair, wearing a white and blue overseas cap bearing the name of his ship, the USS Condor.

From Washington Post ● May 29, 2017

His men, getting used to the lanky figure in paratrooper boots, gold-braided overseas cap or three-starred helmet, called him "the front-line general."

From Time Magazine Archive

Donning an overseas cap to show his membership in the organization, he stepped up amid a cyclone of cheers to the same Stadium rostrum where 15 months prior he had accepted the Presidential nomination.

From Time Magazine Archive

There didn't seem to be any State Police or Army men around, but they'd passed through; Malone saw a forgotten overseas cap lying on the road ahead.

From Occasion for Disaster by Randall Garrett

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