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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...
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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.
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General Sumner and Staff

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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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Colonel B.J. Sweet's 21st Wisconsin Volunteers

Date: 1863
Description: "Colonel B.J. Sweet's 21st Wisconsin Volunteer Regiments." Lithograph of the 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, on Parade at Camp Bragg (now Menom...
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General Grant

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Description: A portrait of General Grant surrounded with scenes of his life.
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Youth Machine Gun Training

Date: 07 1917
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...
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World War I Group

Date: 03 1918
Description: World War I soldiers at Camp Custer seated on Winchester rifle crates.
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Resting Soldiers

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Description: Soldiers resting on the grass at Camp Douglas. In the background are tents pitched among trees.
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Mock Battle

Date: 1894
Description: View down hill of the 3rd Regiment enacting a mock battle in an open, rural area.
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National Defense Photo Montage

Date: 1942
Description: Montage of machines and armaments produced by International Harvester for the war effort. Included are images of jeeps, crawler tractors (TracTracTors), an...
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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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Army Artillery Gun

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Description: A view of soldiers in uniform operating an Army artillery gun.
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Camp Meade

Date: 1918
Description: View across grounds toward soldiers during drill practice at Camp Meade, established in 1917. Men are lined up on the left in front of military buildings, ...
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Camp Meade

Date: 1918
Description: A group of soldiers practicing with bayonets at Camp Meade, established in 1917. The view includes military buildings behind the soldiers.
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Camp Lewis

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Description: A man demonstrating trench shooting in a fortified ditch at Camp Lewis, built in 1917.
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Military Training Camp

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Description: A view of a group of men during rifle practice. A fence divides the practice field from the wooded background.
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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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Trainees Set Dynamite Charges

Date: 12 1942
Description: Trainees at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School setting dynamite charges outdoors in Panama. The men are wearing brimmed hats and uniforms. One crouching ma...
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Trainees at Outdoor Lecture

Date: 1942
Description: Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine gu...
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Soldiers During Barbed Wire Training

Date: 1942
Description: Two men posing during a training exercise on cutting barbed wire at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School, Panama. The men are on their stomachs crawling thro...

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