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One of the most splendid and comfortable of the big American hospitals in England, the Portsmouth Base Hospital, designed for about 2500 men. This is the lawn of one of the large ward buildings. In the background is seen the bell of the hospital chapel. Portsmouth is a good place to spend the winter in, and there is a plenty to do-croquet, tennis and Baseball can be played all winter in the South of England. The Hospital "boost" the finest baseball diamonds in Great Britain. The Doctors and Nurses come mainly form Albany and Schenectady, N.Y

Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. The 1147th quartermaster service group

G.A.R. Parade, 1923 - Public domain portrait photograph

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAACs are shown answering call to assembly. Fort Des Moines, Iowa, 1942

G.A.R. Parade, 1923 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Firemen parading, May 30 - Public domain portrait photograph

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200 square mile Marine base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows raw recruits ("boots") getting their equipment upon joining the Marines

Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. The 1147th quartermaster service group

A post of mountain howitzers that saw war service

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Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200 square mile Marine base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows raw recruits ("boots") getting their equipment upon joining the Marines

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows "boots" (new recruits) learning to drill

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows "boots" (new recruits) learning to drill

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Colonel Samuel A. Woods, Jr., is the commanding officer of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion. He is shown inspecting a section of his troops

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows "boots" (new recruits) learning to drill

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Colonel Samuel A. Woods, Jr., is the commanding officer of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion. He is shown inspecting a section of his troops

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows a 155mm Coast Defense gun

A black and white photo of two men in a field. Office of War Information Photograph

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows "boots" (new recruits) learning to drill

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200 square mile Marine base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows raw recruits ("boots") getting their equipment upon joining the Marines

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The Raw recruits, or Abraham's daughter

The source of the "bang." Members of the first "big" plebe class at U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., shown aboard the U.S.S. Babbitt, destroyer, where the newcomers are examining a deck gun. The boys are having quite a time before the regular opening of the academy for all classes. 9/20/35

At a General Assembly of the Governor and company of the State of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, 1782. Resolved by this Assembly, that a list of the deficient numbers of recruits, in each town in this state (exce

[Position of the Second Battalion of the Fire Brigade drilling with hooked ladders] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople.

Arab recruits in Nablus, May 6, '41

[A bugler of the First Battalion of the First Albanian Regiment of the Imperial Guard] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople.

Detail of farmer's blue jeans, boots and spurs. This man was once a cowboy and still prefers the cowboy's dress. Pie Town, New Mexico

A black and white photo of a man standing in the snow. Office of War Information Photograph

"Coin Collector." Washington, D.C., April 11. Mrs. Edness Wilkens, Secretary to Nellie Tayloe Ross, Director of the Mint, for the last four years has been collecting coins as a hobby, thru gifts, trades, and buys, she has a collection of over 400 coins ramping from half pennies to the old silver cartwheels, she is shown inspecting a half-dime , one of the first coins struck from the Philadelphia Mint in 1792, and Mint tradition has it that the silver it contains is from the tableware of Martha Washington, she at that time lived two doors down from the Mint, and gave part of her silverware for the first coins, April 11, 1938

Armory, 10th Battalion, N.Y.N.G. [i.e. New York National Guard], Albany, N.Y.

President Coolidge presents Congressional Medal of Honor to sailor Hero. William Russel Huber, Machinist Mate, First Class, United States Navy, receiving from President Coolidge today the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to him for an act of outstanding heroism. After a boiler explosion on the U.S.S. Bruce last June 11, Huber rescued shipmates and then succeed in closing off the steampipes at the risk of his own life. In the picture at extreme left is Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Chief of Naval Operations, while on the right is Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur

Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Engineers of the 51st Composite Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps, in a bayonet drill

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