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World War, 1914-1918

Photograph of Battery B Regiment in a Parade

Photograph of Battery B, 2nd Missouri Field Artillery Regiment, assembled in a park near 17th Street and Highland in Kansas City, Missouri. After 8/5/1917,the group was referred to as: Battery B, 129th Artillery Regiment, 35th Division. The equipment seen in the photos is U.S. Model of 1905 3-inch Field guns and Limbers. These photos were found in the desk of former President Harry S. Truman after his death. The photo was by "Sully."

View of the Location of Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, Where President Truman Was Stationed Before World War I

View west by south from Camp Commander's tent near FP 17N, on a knoll overlooking the World War I Camp Doniphan area in Oklahoma. Note artillery burst on the slopes of Signal Mountain in background. The road at left follows in a general way the horseshoe arc of the Camp. Gillett Griswold and (Harry S. Truman Library museum curator) Milton Perry looking south toward site of President Truman's 129th Field Artillery Regiment Encampment in the distance. They are near Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

The Horseshoe Area of Camp Doniphan

View south from the eminence near FD 17N where the tent of the Commanding General, 35th Division, Missouri and Kansas National Guard was located in 1917-1918. This is in Camp Doniphan, in Oklahoma. Milton Perry (curator of museum at Harry S. Truman Library) and Mr. Gillette Griswold are seen in the photo. These photos were found in the desk of former President Harry S. Truman.