overseas cap
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
A British overseas cap is cocked over the young pilot's bold and insolent eyes, ' a dashing camel's hair greatcoat rests on his shoulders, and spitting aircraft fill the wild blue sky behind his head.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The man frowned, pulled his overseas cap down over his forehead, where the hair grew very low, and looked about him mysteriously.
From Three Soldiers by Dos Passos, John
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