Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. A hard-running leap takes these artillerymen over one of the obstacles on the obstacle course at the anti-aircraft training center. Here we see the different phases of the jump; one man has just landed on the sandbags; two are in the air; and another man is gathering himself for the spring across

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Swinging across fifteen feet of horizontal ladders are soldiers of the anti-aircraft training center. This is the next-to-the-last obstacle on the course and comes at a time when a man's wind is coming hard and his arms are feeling fatigue. A fall here means a wetting to the unlucky soldier

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Officers, as well as enlisted men, are required to train rigorously on the ani-aircraft training center's obstacle course to keep in pink of condition. Above, officers are shown completing the final obstacles of the tough course, topping the six-foot wall, the last part of the under-and-over obstacles, where men have to crawl beneath the fence and then top the barrier

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. In perfect steeplechase form, these soldiers of the anti-aircraft training center fling themselves over the five-foot rail fence. Par for the course is three and a half minutes

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. A hard-running leap takes these artillerymen over one of the obstacles on the obstacle course at the anti-aircraft training center. Here we see the different phases of the jump; one man has just landed on the sandbags; two are in the air; and another man is gathering himself for the spring across

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Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1942

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Camp Edwards (Mass.), 41.65694, -70.54389

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Library of Congress

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