The Company of Military Historians is a non-profit organization in the
United States
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whose mission is to disseminate "information on the uniforms, equipment, history, and traditions of members of the Armed Forces of the United States worldwide and other nations serving in the Western Hemisphere." It was organized informally in 1949 by its co-founders
H. Charles McBarron, Jr.,
Harold L. Peterson, Frederick P. Todd,
Anne S. K. Brown, J. Duncan Campbell, and Detmar H. Finke. It was formally organized in 1951 as the Company of Military Collectors and Historians and shortened its name in 1962 to its present version. From its inception, the organization has been made up of not only historians, but artists specialing in historical depictions of soldiers, uniforms, battles and similar illustrations. Among its members have been
George Woodbridge, who is better known as an illustrator for
Mad Magazine
Mad, mad, or MAD may refer to:
Geography
* Mad (village), a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia
* Mád, a village in Hungary
* Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, by IATA airport code
* Mad River (disambiguation), several ...
, and
Fred Ray
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, who worked for
DC Comics
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.
References
{{New England historical societies
History organizations based in the United States
Military historiography