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World War II Machine Gunner

Date: 1942
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...
Photograph

World War I Training

Date: 08 1917
Description: World War I recruits scramble over an obstacle during their training, while others watch in the background.
Print

General Grant

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Description: A portrait of General Grant surrounded with scenes of his life.
Photograph

Marines Operating Gun at Camp Elliott

Date: 1942
Description: Group of men, some with shovels and axes, setting up a gun on a artillery range. A large group of men in the background are setting up more guns.
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Second Harvester Maintenance Battalion at Camp Perry

Date: 09 1942
Description: Group of Army recruits in formation. Original caption reads: "The 609th Ordnance Base Armament Maintenance Battalion, recruited from IH operations... pictu...
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Soldiers Cutting Barbed Wire

Date: 1942
Description: Two male soldiers wearing fatigues cutting barbed wire during a training exercise at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School in Panama. The men are on their bac...
Postcard

Soldiers Arriving at Camp

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Description: A colorized postcard of soldiers in uniform arriving at camp, marching in a column. They have bedrolls and weapons over their shoulders. Trees and tents ar...
Photograph

National Guardsmen at the Depot

Date: 1885
Description: Group of Wisconsin National Guardmen standing on a platform, possibly at the Union Depot in Camp Douglas.
Photograph

Wisconsin National Guard, Light Horse Squadron, Troop A

Date: 1887
Description: Members of the Wisconsin National Guard Light Horse Squadron, Troop A standing in a row. Three women and one man, visitors to Camp Douglas, stand facing th...
Photograph

Camp Grant

Date: 1918
Description: Soldiers of Company I, Baraboo, Wisconsin, pose with their rifles at Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. There are tents behind them and a wooded area in t...
Photograph

Soldiers Waiting to Travel

Date: 1962
Description: A group of soldiers waiting together to go to Fort Knox.
Photograph

Turkish Sailors Marching

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Description: Turkish sailors marching in formation in the training camp.
Photograph

Turkish Sailors

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Description: Turkish naval unit marching.
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Turkish Sailors

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Description: Turkish naval unit marching.
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Volunteer Unit

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Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
Photograph

Woman's Khaki Military Uniform

Date: 05 28 1917
Description: Waist-up portrait of a woman wearing a uniform and holding a rifle. Her helmet has a pin with the caduceus, as was used on the United States Army Medical D...

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