1918 Service Coat Specification Number 1356

The 1918 Service Coat, adopted in August of 1918, was an attempt to update the Army service coat. It is also known as the “Pershing” coat due to the fact that General Pershing himself helped to design the coat to copy other nation’s army uniforms. The jacket was made out of 20 oz wool instead of 16 oz wool, the lining was updated to be of a shrunken cotton drill of a 6 or 8 oz weight, and the epaulettes were lined with cotton underneath. The coat has four interior pockets much like the British model, with a diagonal seam going from the bottom of the collar down to the top of the bottom pockets. The jacket was also more form fitting to give the coat a more tailored appearance.