[fire03]

guys were the Marines boots black or brown when worn with the dress blues? only pics i have seen are in B/W. thanks for your help

 

[GregT]

have you seen this site?

http://chinamarine.org/Peking.aspx

look for this pic:
"A Marine Sergeant as he might have appeared while serving in a landing party just prior to and during the start of the Boxer Rebellion."
on this page:
http://chinamarine.org/HeadgearUniformsandEquipage.aspx

really interesting, but almost no mention of boots

 

[ZeroDelta]

They wore both brown and black boots from what I could gather from the Osprey Books on the subject.