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Trainees at Outdoor Lecture
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Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine guns and one man smoking a cigarette. Some of the men are sitting inside a truck, with the rest gathered around it. There is a dirt path and two trucks in the background. The photograph was taken in Panama.
1942
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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