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Arm: Couter or cowter: Plate that guards the elbow. Eventually became articulated. May be covered by guard of vambrace (see below). Spaulder: Bands of plate that cover the shoulder and part of upper arm but not the armpit. Pauldron: 15th: Covers the shoulder (with a dome shaped piece called a shoulder cop), armpit and sometimes the back and ...
A left-arm vambrace; the bend would be placed at the knight's elbow An ornate German (16th century) vambrace made for Costume Armor. Vambraces (French: avant-bras, sometimes known as lower cannons in the Middle Ages) or forearm guards are tubular or gutter defences for the forearm worn as part of a suit of plate armour that were often connected to gauntlets.
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German King Günther von Schwarzburg with splinted bracers and greaves. Splint armor (also splinted armour, splint armour, or splinted armor) is armor consisting of strips of metal ("splints") attached to a cloth or leather backing.
The shoulder sleeve insignia was originally approved for the Replacement and School Command on 1943-03-22. It was reassigned to the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command on 1973-07-01. (TIOH Dwg. No. A-1-558) Date: 22 March 1943: Source: Own work using: US Army Institute of Heraldry: Author
This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia produced by the United States Army Institute of Heraldry.It is in the public domain but its use is restricted by Title 18, United States Code, Section 704 and the Code of Federal Regulations (32 CFR, Part 507), .
When part of a division the infantry of a brigade wore one or more arm of service strips (2 inches (5.1 cm) by 1 ⁄ 4 inch (0.64 cm)), red for infantry, dark green for Rifle Regiments, indicating brigade seniority, one for the senior brigade, two for the intermediate and three for the junior. [10]
Rating badges in the form of a small patch were worn on the upper left sleeve and indicated the particular specialty of the sailor in question. The enlistment system of the Kriegsmarine was designed to differentiate between those sailors wishing to make the navy a career and those simply completing a standard tour of enlistment.