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Soldiers on a World War I Recruiting Drive

Date: 1917
Description: World War I soldiers standing in front and on the back of an International truck with a recruiting poster.
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World War I Navy Recruits

Date: 04 1917
Description: Elevated view of Navy recruits at Newport, boarding a train destined for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The printed caption indicates that they had had only eight...
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Dickey Chapelle Photographs Training Exercise

Date: 1955
Description: Dickey Chapelle crouches on the ground as she takes a photograph of a Marine at the San Diego Recruit Depot.
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Chapelle Photographs Marines

Date: 1955
Description: Front view of Dickey Chapelle shooting photographs of two Marines, who are shown from the back.
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Civil War Recruits

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Description: Recruits in their camp grey uniforms, before they were issued their regular blues.
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Army Recruiter Receiving Award

Date: 01 31 1947
Description: Army recruiter Sgt. Elmer Thompson, Janesville, receiving the Army commendation ribbon from Major Edward Millot, right, field operation officer of the Fift...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsors

Date: 05 27 1948
Description: Freddy Fleury, 14, of 210 N. Paterson Street, talks over plans for his 1948 Soap Box Derby racer with Master Sgt. Wilfred W. Wall at the U.S. Army & Air Fo...
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Ludden Brothers at Army Recruiting Office

Date: 07 27 1948
Description: Staff Sgt. John C. Ludden, U.S. Air Force, filling out enlistment papers for his brother, James G. Ludden, 17, a 1948 graduate of East High School, at the ...
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Gladys McConochie--First Area WAF Volunteer

Date: 01 03 1949
Description: Glady McConochie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chris McConochie of Pardeville, in center, taking her oath from Elmer H. Gibson, at left, commanding officer of ...
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Madison Navy Recruiting Center Receiving Award

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Navy recruiters of the Madison sub-station are presented a banner and certificate of merit for leading the Chicago area district in number of enlistments f...
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Marine Corps Recruiting Trailer

Date: 1942
Description: A uniformed Marine stands beside an International U.S. Marine Corps recruiting trailer to speak to two men. The original caption describes the interior fea...
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Marine Corps Reservists

Date: 08 10 1950
Description: A Marine corps officer stands behind a seated recruit in the reserves as he fills out papers.
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Neils Lassen

Date: 03 05 1952
Description: Twenty-two year-old Danish immigrant, Neils Lassen, right, uses a globe map to point out his native Denmark to Major Roberts of the Madison Army and Air Fo...
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Military Training Camp

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Description: Elevated view of rows of tents at a military training camp. Men in formation march in the direction of Lake Champlain.
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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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Sauk County Conscripts

Date: 05 27 1918
Description: A group of more than 70 draftees poses on the steps of the Sauk County Courthouse on the day they left Baraboo for Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. Most...
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U.S. Air Force Recruiting

Date: 10 14 1965
Description: Sgt. Gerald Johnson is shown in front of a recruiting banner for the U.S. Air Force.
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Company "C"

Date: 1917
Description: Men from Company "C" are lined up in a double row on a dirt town street. A soldier in uniform stands at the head of the line. In front are Ed Fryk (2nd fro...
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Recruits at a Meal

Date: 1914
Description: German Army recruits, still in civilian clothing, taking a meal break.
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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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