American Red Cross
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Service and Dress Uniform - Part II
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American Red Cross Military Welfare Corps
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.. Military Welfare Winter Uniform

Members of the Military Welfare Corps served with the Armed Forces.
They wore an Oxford gray wool winter suit with a special designed overseas cap.
A few wartime pictures show the uniform also worn with the ARC visored cap.

The single-breasted jacket was closed with four ARC buttons. It had two simulated breast pockets with pointed flaps and two hip pockets with straight flaps.

A white shirt was worn underneath the jacket with the Red Cross pin at neck level. 

The uniform was worn with beige stockings and black shoes. White gloves could be worn on dress occasions.

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The Red Cross Military Welfare patch was sewn on the upper left sleeve an inch below the shoulder seam. 

The collars had horizon-blue collar tabs with center black stripes and button fastenings at the upper ends. The ARC insignia was pinned at the lower end of each collar tab.

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Military Welfare Overcoat
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The double-breasted Military Welfare overcoat was worn over the winter uniform. It had two vertical side pockets, shoulder epaulets and sleeve tabs. The Military Welfare patch was sewn on the upper left sleeve. 
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The coat could be closed high
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A white muffler and white gloves
(for dress) were optional. 
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Military Welfare Summer Uniform
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. The Military Welfare summer uniform was made of a lightweight gray Palm Beach material.

It was closed with four black ARC buttons. The jacket had two pleated breast pockets with pointed flaps and two bellows type side pockets with straight flaps. 

The bronze ARC insignia was pinned on each collar parallel to the edge. The Military Welfare patch was sewn on the upper left sleeve. 

The uniform was worn with a matching garrison cap. The cap had the Red Cross pin fastened at the front of its left side.
 

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Military Welfare
Seersucker Uniform

The gray seersucker uniform was closed with four ARC buttons. It had two breast patch pockets with pointed flaps and two hip pockets with straight flaps.

The uniform was worn with a matching overseas cap made of the same material as the suit. 

All distinctive Red Cross insignia were placed like on the Military Welfare summer uniform.

The uniform was worn with white shoes and beige hose.

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American Red Cross Clubmobile Service
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.vv Members of the American Red Cross Clubmobile who served in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) were provided with special uniforms consisting of a battledress-styled jacket with trousers and a matching visored ARC cap. The Clubmobile uniform was made of RAF blue-gray wool.
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Charlotte Colburn, Mary Moore and Marianne Shellabarger in front of their Red Cross Clubmobile.
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Online Picture Source: http://www.clubmobile.org  (Many thanks to the Clubmobile Ladies and webmaster Jim Gasperini for permission to use their pictures )
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The single-breasted, fly-front jacket with lapel and convertible collar had two pleated patch pockets with scalloped flaps. The waistband was closed with a metal buckle on the left side.

The Red Cross Clubmobile patch was sewn on the upper left sleeve. Clubmobile captains or supervisors could wear a red emblem embroidered with their rank in white letters below the Red Cross patch. The ARC insignia was worn on both sides of the collar at the lower edge. The Clubmobile uniform could be worn with a white scarf and white gloves. 

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The trousers of the Clubmobile uniform could be tucked into boots, which were needed for movement under field conditions. Therefore, the trousers had adjustable tabs at the lower legs.
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.. A white shirt was worn underneath the jacket with the Red Cross pin at neck level. Sometimes, in the actual field, under wartime conditions, the white shirt was worn open with the collar over the jacket. This style was quite popular because it allowed more working comfort in the field.


Charlotte Colburn, Marianne Shellabarger
and Elma Ernst
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Some female American Red Cross members wore a variant ("crushed" style) of the visored ARC cap. It had three folds on the right side of the cap that gave the cap a stylishly slanted and smarter appearance.
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The picture above shows Lieutenant General Omar Bradley with two Clubmobile members. The woman on the right side wears the cap variant described above. General Bradley was a great and unselfish leader who was known as the “Soldier’s General”.

In Europe, the Clubmobile workers performed their duties close to the frontline and thus provided an important boost to soldier morale. For example, their service in forward areas of France was encouraged by General Omar Bradley for this reason.

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Red Cross workers assigned to the armed forces could wear a corresponding patch on the upper right sleeve. The former member of the uniform shown above was assigned to the 12th Airforces (which served in Sicily, Italy and France during WWII).
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Another individual crushed cap variant that gave the cap a more fashionable touch was to tuck down the front crown of the cap in the middle. Such a variant can be seen in the picture on the right worn by Charlotte Colburn and Marianne Shellabarger. ...
Online Picture Source: http://www.clubmobile.org 
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... Additionally, Clubmobile workers could wear the Military Welfare Service Uniform with Clubmobile patch on the left sleeve.
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More information about the work of ARC clubmobile workers here:
ARC Clubmobile Special
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For all you model maker out there - here is a little diorama of a 
GMC Clubmobile Truck "in action"
made by my husband (the only way for me to own one :-)
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