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Government Colors in Hex for Internet Web Sites
Olive Drab #7 Color
Olive Drab #7 - #3C341F
Olive drab is a grayish olive to dark olive brown or olive gray.
The first recorded use of olive drab as a color name in English was in 1892.
Drab is an older color name, from the middle of the 16th century. It refers to
a dull light brown color, the color of cloth made from undyed homespun wool. It
took its name from the old French word for cloth, drap.
Olive drab was the color of the standard fighting uniform for US GIs and
military vehicles during World War II. US soldiers often referred to their
uniforms as "OD's" due to the color. The color used at the beginning of the war
by the US Army was officially called Olive Drab #3, which was replaced by the
darker Olive Drab #7 by 1944, and which was again replaced by Olive Green 107
or OG-107 in 1952 and continued as the official uniform color for combat
fatigues through the Vietnam War, until . The ERDL uniforms were then replaced
by M81 woodland camo fatigues as the primary US uniform scheme in the 1980s,
and still retain olive drab as one of the color swatches in the pattern.
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