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Columbus, Georgia. Metal shelters and tents of Army men and construction workers in backyard of W.T. Mullis, who owns home and property and has grocery store on main highway about three miles from Fort Benning. For the shelters they pay ten dollars a month. For trailer or tent space two dollars a week. Mrs. R.M. Davis, whose husband is a First Sergeant at Fort Benning, now occupying metal shelter, used to live in hallway space in local home nearby and paid twenty dollars a month and had to furnish own bed. Her neighbor said "I hope these real estate men and people in Columbus who are charging so much and stealing from the poor people have to sit in their empty homes and shacks and starve when the defense program is over and finished."

Columbus, Georgia. Metal shelters and tents of Army men and constructi...

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Fort Knox. Armored force personnel. A first sergeant of the armored forces pulls his motorcycle to a standstill to study the effect of a tactical move during war games at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where young soldiers are learning the latest tricks of mechanized warfare

Fort Knox. Armored force personnel. A first sergeant of the armored fo...

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Fort Myer, First Sergeant's Quarters, Washington Avenue between Johnson Lane & Custer, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

Fort Myer, First Sergeant's Quarters, Washington Avenue between Johnso...

Significance: Originally part of Fort Whipple, this small vernacular building was moved to this site and remodeled into 1st Sergeant's quarters after the post was renamed Fort Myer. It may have been a part of ... More

Japanese-American volunteers. First AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteer to put on the uniform of the U.S. Army, Mitsuru Doi, eighteen, of Lihue, Kauai, is shown how to buckle on his ammunition belt. Doing the showing is Sergeant John H. Chynoweth, acting first sergeant of the provisional company of Kauai inductees, and nephew of the Brigadier General Chynoweth who was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his activities in the Philippines even after occupation of the islands by the Japanese

Japanese-American volunteers. First AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestr...

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Japanese-American volunteers. With battle helmet on his head and ammunition belt about his waist, Kauai-born Mitsuru Doi, eighteen, the first AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteer to be inducted and given a uniform is taught the rudiments of rifle drill by Sergeant John H. Chynoweth, acting first sergeant of the provisional company of Kauai inductees. Looking on are three of Doi's fellow volunteers (left to right): Hervert Y. Kondo, eighteen, son of a World War I veteran; and Chits Ugi, twenty-three, and Minoru Manabe, twenty-eight, first pair of brothers to be inducted into the AJA combat regiment now being organized

Japanese-American volunteers. With battle helmet on his head and ammun...

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Fort Myer, First Sergeant's Quarters, Washington Avenue between Johnson Lane & Custer, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

Fort Myer, First Sergeant's Quarters, Washington Avenue between Johnso...

Significance: Originally part of Fort Whipple, this small vernacular building was moved to this site and remodeled into 1st Sergeant's quarters after the post was renamed Fort Myer. It may have been a part of ... More

Fort Myer, First Sergeant's Quarters, Washington Avenue between Johnson Lane & Custer, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

Fort Myer, First Sergeant's Quarters, Washington Avenue between Johnso...

Significance: Originally part of Fort Whipple, this small vernacular building was moved to this site and remodeled into 1st Sergeant's quarters after the post was renamed Fort Myer. It may have been a part of ... More

U.S.S. Brooklyn, First Sergeant, Marine Corps

U.S.S. Brooklyn, First Sergeant, Marine Corps

Attribution based on negative D4-20231. "X 100," "X 44," and "603" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020239. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Edward H. Hart, American photographer active... More

Fort Myer, First Sergeant's Quarters, Washington Avenue between Johnson Lane & Custer, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

Fort Myer, First Sergeant's Quarters, Washington Avenue between Johnso...

Significance: Originally part of Fort Whipple, this small vernacular building was moved to this site and remodeled into 1st Sergeant's quarters after the post was renamed Fort Myer. It may have been a part of ... More

U.S.S. Brooklyn, First Sergeant, Marine Corps

U.S.S. Brooklyn, First Sergeant, Marine Corps

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Japanese-American volunteers. With battle helmet on his head and ammunition belt about his waist, Kauai-born Mitsuru Doi, eighteen, the first AJA Americans of Japanese ancestry volunteer to be inducted and given a uniform is taught the rudiments of rifle drill by Sergeant John H. Chynoweth, acting first sergeant of the provisional company of Kauai inductees. Looking on are three of Doi's fellow volunteers (left to right): Hervert Y. Kondo, eighteen, son of a World War I veteran; and Chits Ugi, twenty-three, and Minoru Manabe, twenty-eight, first pair of brothers to be inducted into the AJA combat regiment now being organized

Japanese-American volunteers. With battle helmet on his head and ammun...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: U.S. Army Signal Corps photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information.... More

Fort Myer, First Sergeant's Quarters, Washington Avenue between Johnson Lane & Custer, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

Fort Myer, First Sergeant's Quarters, Washington Avenue between Johnso...

Significance: Originally part of Fort Whipple, this small vernacular building was moved to this site and remodeled into 1st Sergeant's quarters after the post was renamed Fort Myer. It may have been a part of ... More

Japanese-American volunteers. First AJA Americans of Japanese ancestry volunteer to put on the uniform of the U.S. Army, Mitsuru Doi, eighteen, of Lihue, Kauai, is shown how to buckle on his ammunition belt. Doing the showing is Sergeant John H. Chynoweth, acting first sergeant of the provisional company of Kauai inductees, and nephew of the Brigadier General Chynoweth who was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his activities in the Philippines even after occupation of the islands by the Japanese

Japanese-American volunteers. First AJA Americans of Japanese ancestry...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: U.S. Army Signal Corps photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information.... More

Fort Knox. Armored force personnel. A first sergeant of the armored forces pulls his motorcycle to a standstill to study the effect of a tactical move during war games at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where young soldiers are learning the latest tricks of mechanized warfare

Fort Knox. Armored force personnel. A first sergeant of the armored fo...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Fort Myer, First Sergeant's Quarters, Washington Avenue between Johnson Lane & Custer, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

Fort Myer, First Sergeant's Quarters, Washington Avenue between Johnso...

Significance: Originally part of Fort Whipple, this small vernacular building was moved to this site and remodeled into 1st Sergeant's quarters after the post was renamed Fort Myer. It may have been a part of ... More