Army Regulations No. 30-3000
Quartermaster Corps: Price List of Clothing and Equipage
Dated 16 October 1944 (55 Pages)

About Army Regulations 30-3000

Army Regulations AR 30-3000 was a clothing and equipage price guide used by accounting and finance personnel to calculate the cost of issues, transfers, and sales of these items. It was also used to settle individual clothing accounts. The publication was updated on a yearly basis and the prices therein represented an average cost per item. Evolving over time, the publication originally included enlisted men's clothing and standard issue equipage and then by 1944 grew to include women's and officer's clothing as well.

A wealth of useful information can be found inside a copy of AR 30-3000. For the uniform enthusiast, it provides a much more thorough listing of the clothing that was available in the Army supply system than was published in the more commonly known Army Service Forces QM-1 Catalog, Enlisted Men's Clothing and Equipment. The publication provides the correct nomenclature and each item is ordered using the Army's taxonomical classification system in use at the time. Being aware of the correct nomenclature and how the Army classified items brings us a better understanding of how the Army purposed each piece of clothing. Additionally, the publication provides the unique stock number range for each item. This is an important feature because it enables the positive identification of artifacts by matching its stock number within the correct range for a particular item. It should be emphasized that the use of stock numbers in the identification of WW2 period clothing is critical due to a practice in place at the time of issuing multiple items under a single specification number. Because of this, aside from any obvious visual differences, the stock number can be the primary indicator that one item is different from another and possesses a separately defined purpose.

In addition to clothing items, AR 30-3000 includes a section titled Materials and Findings that lists the types of buckles, buttons, and cloth used in the manufacture of Army uniforms. Among the useful information contained in this section are the proper name and weight of fabrics as well as the proper name, colors, and sizing terminology used for buttons.