Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. When a husky leatherneck throws his weight on a line, things come his way. A member of a marine balloon barrage unit in training at Parris Island, South Carolina helps to ground one of the big bags that the Corps has added to its kit of fighting tools

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 31, frame 557.