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| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Soldiers in formation at Camp Randall during winter. The season [there appears to be snow on the ground] and the tents indicate that this image was made in... |
| Date: | 08 1917 |
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| Description: | A visiting French officer instructs novice American pilots at Camp Mineola on the conditions that they can expect to find at the front. |
| Date: | 08 1917 |
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| Description: | A training ascension of a captive observation balloon. During their training, soldiers learned how to correctly estimate the effectiveness of artillery on ... |
| Date: | 05 1917 |
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| Description: | A ground school conducted by Princeton University for students who wished to enlist in the Army Air Service. During World War I most American aviators were... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | British-built Sopwith Camels at the American Expeditionary Force 2nd Aviation Instruction Center near Tours, France. The Sopwith Camel, manufactured by the... |
| Date: | 05 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Men of the 57th Infantry Division wait to begin loading on a C-124C "Globemaster II" for transport to their training site. The C-124, a development on the ... |
| Date: | 02 24 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of U.S. Naval Training School (Radio), Division #50, trainees, University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Date: | 01 22 1943 |
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| Description: | View of pumping units in the hospital heating building at Truax Army Air Field. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Although handwriting identifies this photograph as "Machine gun supporting tank attack," it is likely, since the print is also identified as having been ta... |
| Date: | 09 1917 |
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| Description: | South Carolina convicts building a road at Camp Wadsworth near Spartenberg in preparation for the camp's use as a National Guard training camp. The prisone... |
| Date: | 08 1917 |
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| Description: | World War I recruits scramble over an obstacle during their training, while others watch in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Entrance to Range Camp. Caption reads: "Entrance to Range Camp, Camp Douglas, Wis." |
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| Description: | General Edwin Vose Sumner and his staff officers: (from left to right) Capt. A.H. Cushing; Capt. L. Kipp; Major Clark; Lt. Col. Joseph Taylor; Major Genera... |
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| Description: | Recruits in their camp grey uniforms, before they were issued their regular blues. |
| Date: | 09 13 1917 |
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| Description: | New army recruits still in their civilian clothes arriving at an unidentified World War I training camp. Many barracks, some still under construction, are... |
| Date: | 07 30 1917 |
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| Description: | For these World War I recruits seen at an unidentified training camp on Long Island, the enemy was not the Germans, but ferocious "Jersey mosquitos" and th... |
| Date: | 07 1917 |
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| Description: | Machine gun training on the grounds of Peekskill Military Academy in New York during World War I. The training was part of a state-sponsored military inst... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across grounds towards the Northwestern Naval and Military Acadamy. |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of an unidentified WWI army camp. |
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