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Blacksmith Shop on the Front

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Description: Field blacksmith shop.
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Digging a Hole for a Telephone Pole

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Description: Digging in a telephone pole.
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Camp Travis

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Description: A view of soldiers digging trenches, some holding shovels or pickaxes, at Camp Travis, named in 1917.
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Portable Military Camp Forge

Date: 1914
Description: Two soldiers with a small forge during World War I. One of the men is smoking a pipe. There is a wagon in the background.
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Loading Supplies Onto Camels

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Description: Loading camels with provisions and entrenching tools.
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Transporting Supplies Through the Taurus Mountains

Date: 1915
Description: Transporting entrenching tools through the Taurus Mountains.
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Austrians Dig Trenches

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Description: Austrian sailors, who have completed their service and for whom no other military need was pressing, are being sent to dig trenches.
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Mechanic with International Military Truck

Date: 1944
Description: A man dressed in coveralls and a hat inspects a part on the rear of an International truck built for the U.S. Military. The side panel on the vehicle is li...
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Loading Supplies Onto Camels

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Description: Loading camels with provisions and entrenching tools.
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Field Carpentry Shop

Date: 1914
Description: Two German soldiers shaping axe handles at a field carpentry shop.
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Horse Grooming

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Description: Farrier shoeing a horse in the Taurus Mountains.
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On the Road to Antivari (Bar)

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Description: Civilians working on improving the railroad track bed.
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Butchers at Work

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Description: Butchers slaughtering beef on the Tirolian battlefront.
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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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Army Truck Radiator Repair

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Description: Repairing an army truck radiator, Montenegro and Albania.
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Madison Naval Reserve Surface Division

Date: 08 31 1954
Description: Bob Bell (left) uses a soldering iron in the electronics workshop at the Naval Reserve Training Center at 1046 East Washington Avenue in Madison. Looking o...
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Repairing Cannons at the "Cannon Hospital"

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Description: At a "cannon hospital" on the Carpathian front. Even the best constructed artillery pieces must be refurbished from time to time. That is why the introduc...
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Road Repair on Mount Lovcen

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Description: Repair work on Mount Lovcen to repair roads. Austrian troops using a rock crusher.
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Construction at Phan Rang

Date: 1967
Description: Men from the Air Force's Red Horse squadron, a civil engineering support force, use International Harvester construction equipment to make way for a runway...
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Military Meat

Date: 08 1951
Description: At Fort Sam Houston students from the Food Service School learn new meat cutting practices so that individual messes can pick up their rations ready for co...

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