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Vietnamese Training

Date: 06 1962
Description: Training exercise for South Vietnamese soldiers in helicopter deployment. This photograph of the early stages of American involvement in the war in Vietna...
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M*A*S*H Helicopters

Date: 1960
Description: Bell Model 47 light observation helicopters during a training exercise at Fort Benning, Georgia. One of the most popular helicopters ever built, the Model ...
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower at Fort Benning

Date: 1960
Description: President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike), as commander-in-chief, inspects a soldier at an exhibition at Fort Benning.
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Flight Nurses during Aquatic Training

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Description: Six female flight nurses posing outdoors. The women are wearing bathing suits and holding life vests around their necks at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip d...
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Flight Nurses in Training Pool

Date: 1943
Description: Six female flight nurses in a swimming pool during aquatic training at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip. Four of the women are in a raft, and two women are i...
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Trainees Set Dynamite Charges

Date: 12 1942
Description: Trainees at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School setting dynamite charges outdoors in Panama. The men are wearing brimmed hats and uniforms. One crouching ma...
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Explosion at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School

Date: 12 1942
Description: An explosion set by trainees at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School in Panama in a rural area, with trees and shrubs in the forground.
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Trainees Demolish a Bridge

Date: 12 1942
Description: Trainees at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School, Panama, gathered around a wooden bridge they are rigging with dynamite charges. The men are wearing fatigue...
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Trainees at Outdoor Lecture

Date: 1942
Description: Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine gu...
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Soldiers During Barbed Wire Training

Date: 1942
Description: Two men posing during a training exercise on cutting barbed wire at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School, Panama. The men are on their stomachs crawling thro...
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Soldiers Cutting Barbed Wire

Date: 1942
Description: Two male soldiers wearing fatigues cutting barbed wire during a training exercise at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School in Panama. The men are on their bac...
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Soldier on Obstacle Course

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier from the 14th Infantry balancing on an obstacle course at Fort Davis, in Panama. The soldier is balancing on a wooden log, and is wearing a sleev...
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Soldiers Training on Obstacle Course

Date: 1942
Description: Two men from the 14th Infantry are running over logs on an obstacle course at Fort Davis, in Panama. One man is wearing a jumpsuit and the other man is wea...
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Military Men Crossing Wooden Bridge

Date: 07 1942
Description: A group of men from the 14th Infantry running while crossing a newly constructed wooden bridge over mud in a field in Panama. The men are in uniform and ar...
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Algerian FLN Training

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian National Liberation Front members doing push-ups in the desert near boulders.
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FLN Member with Burning Stick

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian National Liberation Front member showing other members a burning stick. He is wearing a cap and a shirt with the FLN insignia on it. He is poin...
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Group of FLN Members

Date: 08 1957
Description: A group of Algerian National Liberation Front members sitting watching another member holding a can and what appears to be a fuse. The men are dressed in f...
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FLN Members in Formations

Date: 08 1957
Description: A group of National Liberation Front members stand at attention in front of another member with a rifle on his shoulder. The men are preparing for training...
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FLN Training in Mine Setting

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian National Liberation Front members practice what it would be like to set a mine in the field. One man is digging a hole while a group of men watch ...
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Chinese National Marines Training

Date: 1959
Description: Chinese National marine crawls on his stomach beneath barbed wire in an infiltration training course in Formosa. Another man is on the right. The course in...

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