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SALTZMAN, CHARLES McK., AS BRIG. GEN., SIGNAL CORPS

SALTZMAN, CHARLES McK., AS BRIG. GEN., SIGNAL CORPS

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MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MARINES PARADE

MARINE CORPS, U.S.N. MARINES PARADE

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Life saving corps, ARC. ... State College ... Saving Corps, Ames, Iowa

Life saving corps, ARC. ... State College ... Saving Corps, Ames, Iowa

Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov... More

Marine Corps entrants in 10 mile run with Lejeune, [3/3/25]

Marine Corps entrants in 10 mile run with Lejeune, [3/3/25]

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Presentation of French Battlefield Monument to Marine Corps, [6/13/25]

Presentation of French Battlefield Monument to Marine Corps, [6/13/25]

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Signal Corps Lofts, 11/30/20 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Signal Corps Lofts, 11/30/20 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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The Speaker's Secretary. Margaret M. Robertson, Secretary to Speaker Joe Byrns for the past 13 years, is one of the most obliging persons on Capitol Hill. She interviews all members of Congress who call upon the Speaker. She is the wife of Lieut. W.A.R. Robertson, U.S. Army Air Corps. They have four children, three girls and a boy. 1/25/35

The Speaker's Secretary. Margaret M. Robertson, Secretary to Speaker J...

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Taxes, Washington, D.C. Oct. 5. Lovell H. Parker, Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, heads the corps of experts now going over the entire tax structure so that a comprehensive picture may be ready for the next Congress when it meets this coming January

Taxes, Washington, D.C. Oct. 5. Lovell H. Parker, Chief of Staff, Join...

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PRESIDENT RECEIVES CCC ESSAY WINNER. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 6. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL ESSAY CONTEST CONDUCTED BY 'HAPPY DAYS', OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS, P.J. O'DONNELL, CCC COMPANY 1161 OF WOONSOCKET, RI, WAS PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT RECEIVES CCC ESSAY WINNER. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 6. WINNER ...

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Air Corps Chief before Senate Committee. Washington, D.C., May 24. Maj. General Oscars Westover, (left) Chief of the U.S. Army Air Corps, with Senator Elbert D. Thomas of Utah, Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee now conducting hearings on the Helium gas bill. General Westover is expected to testify tomorrow, 5/24/37

Air Corps Chief before Senate Committee. Washington, D.C., May 24. Maj...

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Named to WPA post. Washington, D.C., Dec. 29. Capt. G.E. Textor, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, has been named Executive Assistant to Maj. B.M. Harlee, another Engineer Officer recently appointed Assistant WPA Administrator and Chief of WPA Engineers, 12/29/38

Named to WPA post. Washington, D.C., Dec. 29. Capt. G.E. Textor, Corps...

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Landscape on top of bench, showing new lands, and farms beyond. Road was built by the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 67-1

Landscape on top of bench, showing new lands, and farms beyond. Road w...

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Marine Corps lieutenant studying glider piloting at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.

Marine Corps lieutenant studying glider piloting at Page Field, Parris...

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War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Elizabeth Little, age 30, the mother of two children, spraying small parts. Her husband runs a farm

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tan...

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A black and white photo of a dirt road, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a dirt road, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Phot...

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A tribal lunch at cavalry post at Tel-el-Meleiha, 20 miles North of Beersheba, Jan. 18, 1940. Christopher Holm, (Public Information Office) & G.W. Bell (acting District Commissioner of Beersheba) with mounted camel corps in background

A tribal lunch at cavalry post at Tel-el-Meleiha, 20 miles North of Be...

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Beersheba, inspection of Camel Corps by H.E. (i.e., His Excellency) Sir Harold McMichael. H.E. (i.e., His Excellency) speaking to members of Camel Corps

Beersheba, inspection of Camel Corps by H.E. (i.e., His Excellency) Si...

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[ Danny Kaye] performance at Camp Red Cloud gymnasium for Headquarters, I Corps (GP) personnel, 28 December 1961

[ Danny Kaye] performance at Camp Red Cloud gymnasium for Headquarters...

Korea, December, 1961 (General) The Library of Congress provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes and makes no warranty with regard to their use for other purposes. The written p... More

Beersheba, inspection of Camel Corps by H.E. (i.e., His Excellency) Sir Harold McMichael. Camels trotting past the observation dais

Beersheba, inspection of Camel Corps by H.E. (i.e., His Excellency) Si...

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Salvo of 600-pound bombs falling from formation of B-10 bombers in recent bombing practice by the 19th Bombardment Group, General Headquarters, Air Force, U.S. Army Air Corps

Salvo of 600-pound bombs falling from formation of B-10 bombers in rec...

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Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

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A black and white photo of a group of people in bathing suits. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people in bathing suits. Office ...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

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Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Testing one of 12,000 General Electric electrically heated flying suits being made for the U.S. Air Corps, at sixty-three degrees below zero (Fahrenheit) in cold room at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. D. C. Spooner, Jr., head of General Electric pioneer products division, Bridgeport, in suit

Testing one of 12,000 General Electric electrically heated flying suit...

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Civilian protection. Emergency feeding and housing corps is on the job feeding other civilian defense workers

Civilian protection. Emergency feeding and housing corps is on the job...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

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Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

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Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Air raid protection--what NOT to do when alarm sounds. DON'T turn in fire alarms during an air raid. Remember that your local fire department is active and is doing everything it can to meet the emergency. If you have an irrepressible urge toward fire alarms join the Citizens' Defense Corps. Training will then help you to know when to turn in an alarm and when not to

Air raid protection--what NOT to do when alarm sounds. DON'T turn in f...

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Langdon Tent and Awning Company, Wichita, Kansas. Balint 48 "pup" tents for shipment to the Army Quartermaster Corps supply depots. This plant is producing 1500 of these tents a day with two shifts of thirty-three people each. These tents are in two parts, one of which is intended to be carried by each soldier. Two soldiers putting their interchangeable half tents together form a two-man shelter in the field

Langdon Tent and Awning Company, Wichita, Kansas. Balint 48 "pup" tent...

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High school Victory Corps. Future airplane mechanics tear planes apart, build them up again in aeronautics class at Washington High School, Los Angeles, California

High school Victory Corps. Future airplane mechanics tear planes apart...

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Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage b...

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Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage b...

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Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. A Japanese-American girl in the apartment she has arranged for her husband and herself in the barrack building

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under...

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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Victory Corps boy learning to use the school's weather vane in weather forecasting, as part of his pre-aeronautics training in meteorology

Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Victory Corps boy l...

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Washington, D.C. A Griffith consumers oil tank truck showing the driver opening the door on which a United States Truck Conservation Corps pledge is displayed

Washington, D.C. A Griffith consumers oil tank truck showing the drive...

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Parris Island. Marine Corps gliders. An aerial "tugboat" of the Marine Corps. The leatherneck pilot of this glider will tow three planes high above Page Field at Parris Island, South Carolina as part of six-week training course the Marines are giving to selected units

Parris Island. Marine Corps gliders. An aerial "tugboat" of the Marine...

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Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. To release housewives for war work, girls in high school Victory Corps throughout America are helping to operate day nurseries. In addition to helping the community, these students at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, receive home economics credit for this work

Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. To release housewives ...

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Washington, D.C. Information is given to young women's Army Auxiliary Corps by Lieutenant Harriet West and Lieutenant Mildred Osby

Washington, D.C. Information is given to young women's Army Auxiliary ...

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Southington, Connecticut. Members of the youth drum corps

Southington, Connecticut. Members of the youth drum corps

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Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center - waitresses in natty blue uniforms line up before taking up their duties in the mess hall / U.S. Army Signal Corps.

Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center - waitresses in natty blue uniforms ...

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Parris Island. Marine Corps. "And we're proud to bear the title of U.S. Marines." Your true leatherneck, adept at every specialized branch of modern warfare, is just plain soldier at the core. These marines, finishing training at Parris Island, uphold the soldierly traditions of the nation's finest corps

Parris Island. Marine Corps. "And we're proud to bear the title of U.S...

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High school Victory Corps. A student at Benjamin Franklin High School in New York City, this boy takes a special interest in war news, for his study of geography enables him to locate the far-off places named in newspapers and radio programs

High school Victory Corps. A student at Benjamin Franklin High School ...

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Conversion (auto accessory plant). Photo shows girl workers at a New York City plant assembling field sterilizers for the United States Army Medical Corps.  Sol Lapides, partner in the firm inspects work. This firm formerly engaged in the manufacture of automobile accessories. Since converted ninety percent to war production

Conversion (auto accessory plant). Photo shows girl workers at a New Y...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Laying wire from a truck of the Signal Corps during a field problem

Fort Riley, Kansas. Laying wire from a truck of the Signal Corps durin...

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Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. Japanese-Americans weeding beans

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under...

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Washington, D.C. A scene at the first broadcast announcing the formation of a high school victory corps throughout the United States. The broadcast was made over station WMAL from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.

Washington, D.C. A scene at the first broadcast announcing the formati...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command base sixteen miles from Detroit, Michigan. Lieutenant Benton putting his orders into his briefcase. This type of briefcase has almost become an identifying mark of ferry command fliers

Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command...

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Other evacuees were transported from their residence areas to assembly centers by train / Signal Corps U.S. Army.

Other evacuees were transported from their residence areas to assembly...

Photograph shows a group of evacuees assembled at a Los Angeles railroad station waiting to board train for Santa Anita Assembly Center. Title and caption from item. Blind stamped: Signal Corps U.S. Army. Signa... More

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Some WAACs lean more toward the heavier work such as auxiliary Doris Johnson, of Leipic, Ohio, shown washing down a jeep. Fort Des Moines, Iowa

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Some WAACs lean more toward the heavier ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Riley, Kansas. A Signal Corps man attached to a truck unit

Fort Riley, Kansas. A Signal Corps man attached to a truck unit

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Southington, Connecticut. Members of the youth drum corps

Southington, Connecticut. Members of the youth drum corps

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High school Victory Corps. Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, California, teaches its students trades which fit them to help in the war program. This Negro boy is learning the use of an acetylene torch

High school Victory Corps. Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif...

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Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. The Orange Screen Company made metal screens for doors and windows and a number of related items before beginning production of equipment for the Air Corps

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. The Orange Screen Company...

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High school Victory Corps. To conserve and preserve for Victory, Virginia Connor and Patricia Maas, members of the Victory Corps at Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland, put into practice the newest and best canning methods taught at the school

High school Victory Corps. To conserve and preserve for Victory, Virgi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. A glider winch

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment tra...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parris Island. Marine Corps gliders. The Marines have this way of getting at 'em too. A leatherneck lieutenant, training as a glider pilot, is all set for a flight from Page Field, Parris Island, South Carolina

Parris Island. Marine Corps gliders. The Marines have this way of gett...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Another stopper for the Axis. Sections of a marine balloon barrage over Paris Island, South Carolina. The swaying balloons with their trailing cables and steel winch lines make dive bombing and ground strafing of important locations too costly in planes and crews

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Another stopper for the ...

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Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. Trainees and instructor

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment tra...

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WAACs (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps). Newly-arrived recruits being marched away from railway station at Fort Des Moines, Iowa

WAACs (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps). Newly-arrived recruits being mar...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Scout car attached to a Signal Corps unit on a field problem

Fort Riley, Kansas. Scout car attached to a Signal Corps unit on a fie...

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Sergeant Sidney Epstein, former Washington Times-Herald reporter, types reports on the progress of maneuvers during basic training at the Marine Corps base at Parris Island, South Carolina. Sergeant Epstein is now serving as a fighting reporter in a combat area for the Division of Public Relations, U.S. Marine Corps

Sergeant Sidney Epstein, former Washington Times-Herald reporter, type...

Public domain photograph of South Carlina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. Glider plane in flight

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment tra...

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Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. Trainee receiving a telephone message

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment tra...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center - Evacuees enjoying a hearty meal in Center dining hall / U.S. Army Signal Corps.

Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center - Evacuees enjoying a hearty meal in...

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Parris Island. Marine Corps gliders. Look out for these boys, Adolph. Some day, these lieutentants of the Marine Corps may land in battle dress at Berchtesgaden. Now they're learning how to pilot gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, South Carolina

Parris Island. Marine Corps gliders. Look out for these boys, Adolph. ...

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Washington, D.C. From March 4th to 14th the Australia-New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) had exhibits of photographs and posters in the headquarters of Bundles for Britain on Connecticut Avenue. Mrs. Close, wife of the South African minister, chatting with the wife of a Canadian official at the opening

Washington, D.C. From March 4th to 14th the Australia-New Zealand Army...

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Parris Island, South Carolina. A scene along the shore near the U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp

Parris Island, South Carolina. A scene along the shore near the U.S. M...

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Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Scene at the Marine Corps camp

Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Scene at the Marine Corps cam...

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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 Corporal Arvin L. Ghazlo demonstrating to a bayonet class technique of disarming the enemy. Corporal Ghazlo was once teacher of judo to the Georgia State Police

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, t...

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Fighting Filipino pilot. Manila. Captain Jesus Villamor, commanding officer of the 6th Pursuit Squadron, Philippine Army Air Corps, is pictured getting out of plane after returning from a flight to Batangas Field. The youth, who leads a daredevil squadron of six Filipino pilots in erstwhile training planes who took on fifty-four Japanese air raiders over Batangas and shot down two, said he "got so mad" he forgot to be scared. One of the Filipino pilots was wounded and parachuted to safety and another was killed, Captain Villamor said, when seven Japanese planes "rode him down." He is the son of the late associate justice of the Philippine Supreme Court and trained as a pilot at Randolph and Kelly Fields

Fighting Filipino pilot. Manila. Captain Jesus Villamor, commanding of...

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Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Scene of the 51st Composite Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps

Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Scene of the 51st Composite B...

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

Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Engineers of the 51st Composi...

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New York, New York. Garment workers in the N.M. dress shop which is now making uniforms for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). They are members of local 89 of the International Ladies Garment Worker's Union, predominantly Italian

New York, New York. Garment workers in the N.M. dress shop which is no...

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Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Scene and activities on camp grounds of the 51st Composite Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps

Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Scene and activities on camp ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Tired and foot-weary from his march to Brolo, Sicily, during the invasion of Sicily, Sgt. Norwood Dorman, Benson, North Carolina, falls into the pose of the statue in this memorial to the Italian soldier of World War I] / photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps.

[Tired and foot-weary from his march to Brolo, Sicily, during the inva...

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Philippine Woman's Club, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Miss "Nina" Zenaida Quezon, daughter of late President Manuel L. Quezon of Philippine Commonwealth and Mrs. Josefa Rustia, wife of Major Guillermo Rustia, United States Army Medical Corps serving with Merrill's Mauraders in Burma

Philippine Woman's Club, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Miss "Nina" Z...

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Rabideau Civilian Conservation Corps Camp, Oil House, County Road 39, Blackduck, Beltrami County, MN

Rabideau Civilian Conservation Corps Camp, Oil House, County Road 39, ...

Conservation Corps Camp Public domain photograph of a graveyard monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Fran Allison and puppet Ollie entertain First Lady Betty Ford and the Diplomatic Corps children at a White House Christmas party, Washington, D.C.]

[Fran Allison and puppet Ollie entertain First Lady Betty Ford and the...

Contact sheet folder caption: Mrs. Ford, hostess at White House Xmas party for Diplomatic Corps children. TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

Fife and drum corps performance at George Washington's estate, Mount Vernon, Virginia

Fife and drum corps performance at George Washington's estate, Mount V...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Sketch book showing positions of Second Corps, A.N.Va. in engagements of 1864-5 : [Virginia] /

Sketch book showing positions of Second Corps, A.N.Va. in engagements ...

Shows several battles with troop movements and names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Title from paper label affixed to cover. "Return to Jed. Hotchkiss, Staunton, Virginia"--On label on cover. Pen-... More

Hamilton Field, Hangar No. 9 & Air Corps Shop, Northwest end of Hangar Avenue, Novato, Marin County, CA

Hamilton Field, Hangar No. 9 & Air Corps Shop, Northwest end of Hangar...

Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Military railroad bridge over Potomac Creek. Aquia Creek and Fredericksburg Railroad. Built by U.S.M.R.R. Construction Corps in 40 hours

Military railroad bridge over Potomac Creek. Aquia Creek and Frederick...

Photograph showing a trestle railroad bridge built of timber by the United States Military Railroad Construction Corps over Potomac Creek. Includes handwritten text detailing the construction of the bridge, sig... More

Military railroad bridge over Potomac Creek. Aquia Creek and Fredericksburg Railroad. Built by U.S.M.R.R. Construction Corps in 40 hours

Military railroad bridge over Potomac Creek. Aquia Creek and Frederick...

Photograph showing a trestle railroad bridge built of timber by the United States Military Railroad Construction Corps over Potomac Creek. Includes handwritten text detailing the construction of the bridge, sig... More

[Falmouth, Virginia Drum corps of 61st New York Infantry]

[Falmouth, Virginia Drum corps of 61st New York Infantry]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Burnside and Hooker, November 1862-April 1863.

[Brandy Station, Virginia Guard mount of 114th Pennsylvania Infantry (1st Division, 3d Corps)]

[Brandy Station, Virginia Guard mount of 114th Pennsylvania Infantry (...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864.

[Brandy Station, Virginia, vicinity. Camp of 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry, 3d Division, Cavalry Corps]

[Brandy Station, Virginia, vicinity. Camp of 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864.

[Petersburg, Virginia Three surgeons of 1st Division, 9th Corps]

[Petersburg, Virginia Three surgeons of 1st Division, 9th Corps]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

[Petersburg, Virginia General Orlando B. Willcox and staff, 3d Division, 9th Corps]

[Petersburg, Virginia General Orlando B. Willcox and staff, 3d Divisio...

Photograph of the main eastern theater of the war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

City Point, Virginia. Supply wagons of 2d Brigade, 2d Corps

City Point, Virginia. Supply wagons of 2d Brigade, 2d Corps

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rabideau Civilian Conservation Corps Camp, Barracks, County Road 39, Blackduck, Beltrami County, MN

Rabideau Civilian Conservation Corps Camp, Barracks, County Road 39, B...

Public domain photograph of public works, FDR administration, New Deal, Great Depression, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Richmond, Virginia Wagon train of Military Telegraph Corps]

[Richmond, Virginia Wagon train of Military Telegraph Corps]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

Nat. Hayward (i.e. Heyward) House, 1860. General Saxton's residence, Beaufort, S.C., 1864 / photographed by E.W. Sinclair for Sam. A. Cooley, photographer Tenth Army Corps

Nat. Hayward (i.e. Heyward) House, 1860. General Saxton's residence, B...

Stereoview shows a street view of the residence and headquarters of Union Major General Rufus Saxton at the Whitehall ferry landing during the Union occupation of the Port Royal area. A wagon is stopped at the ... More

Report of the camps, marches & engagements, of the Second Corps, A.N.V., and of the Army of the Valley Dist. of the Department of Northern VA., during the campaign of 1864 : [Virginia] /

Report of the camps, marches & engagements, of the Second Corps, A.N.V...

Relief shown by hachures. A number of the maps from this report are reproduced in the Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1891-95. Pen-and-ink and pencil (some col.) wit... More

[Field hospital of the 5th Corps (Genl. Warren) at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia] / EF.

[Field hospital of the 5th Corps (Genl. Warren) at Spotsylvania Court ...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.221) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

9th Corps attacking Ft. Mahone better known as Fort Damnation

9th Corps attacking Ft. Mahone better known as Fort Damnation

Signed lower right: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title: It was not daylight; but a good many dead and wounded. Men rushing over the enemies line. Inscribed vertically right margin: cheveaux... More

The soldier's memorial - 34th Regt., N.Y.V., 1st Brigade, Company H., 2d Div., 2d Corps, Army Potomac

The soldier's memorial - 34th Regt., N.Y.V., 1st Brigade, Company H., ...

Mustered into the State Service May 1, 1861. Mustered into United States Service June 15, 1861, for the term of two years. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale R... More

Soldier's graves of the 5th A.C. (i.e. Army Corps) Wilderness battle field

Soldier's graves of the 5th A.C. (i.e. Army Corps) Wilderness battle f...

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). American Scenery (Stereoscopic) label on verso, no. 54. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.

Esprit de corps - Public domain sheet music. Piano, march.

Esprit de corps - Public domain sheet music. Piano, march.

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

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