Soldiers

World War I soldiers, coming home from the front, wave from the windows of a train at Kansas City's Union Station, to the crowd waiting to greet them. From: Mrs. D. S. Catechis.

Military personnel boarding an LST 45 at Hawaii, prior to departure to Eniwetok to participate in the experimental atom bomb tests.

Before the bomb tests are made at Eniwetok, a tremendous amount of preparation takes place. A crew of men prepare a water sample cable with flotation blocks.

An inspection party on one of the islands at Eniwetok views the devastation caused by the blast of an atom bomb.

Participants in the experimental bomb tests at Eniwetok are carefully checked for radioactivity. Mr. Louis Hagemyer of Dayton, Ohio is being checked here while others await their turn in line.

Unidentified soldier relaxing with family in military housing located in Alaska.

This is a photograph of a military family standing in front of their one room housing unit in Anchorage, Alaska.

This a photograph of a military family standing in front of their housing unit in Anchorage, Alaska. The house has no plumbing or running water.

Senator Harry S. Truman (right) visits Camp Crowder, Missouri and shakes hands with Colonel Sol P. Fink (left). Other people in the photograph are unidentified.

This photograph was taken when young Harry S. Truman was a soldier in the Missouri National Guard. See also 79-22 for better copy of same photo.