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<p>WAC typist with Fort Slocum recruitment drive poster, 1944.</p>

WAC w WAC recruiting poster tea 11 jun 1944
<p>Taken in the spring of 1942, this photo postcard may show the combat platoon organized early in the Second World War to protect Fort Slocum from saboteurs and commandos.&#160; The men stand south of Buildings 61 (left) and 59-60 (right).&#160; With equipment spanning 30-plus years of Army designs—from 1903 Springfield rifles through 1917 Brodie helmets and water-cooled machine guns (on carts) to 1930s uniforms—the platoon embodies the American soldier in transition from doughboy to GI.</p>

Platoon S Side Blg 61 late 1930s front 4-5kc
<p>Boarding a bus in June 1933 bound for Fort Slocum, these veterans of the First World War from New York City had just been accepted for dollar-a-day jobs in the new Civilian Conservation Corps (Library of Congress, Prints &amp; Photos Div, NY World-Telegram &amp; Sun Newspaper Photos digital collection).</p>

RoosvFA CCC_recrts_to_Slocum_1933 NYWTS-NewsPhoto
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