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Military Training
The goal of basic training was to turn undisciplined boys into fighting men whose comradeship and loyalty to their unit would help them withstand the worst that battle had to offer. When American entered the war, it was totally unprepared. Its army ranked behind Rumania and still maintained weapons and materials from previous wars. It would take two years to train and equip the forces that eventually would help defeat both the Nazis and Japanese
The goal of basic training was to turn undisciplined boys into fighting men whose comradeship and loyalty to their unit would help them withstand the worst that battle had to offer. When American entered the war, it was totally unprepared. Its army ranked behind Rumania and still maintained weapons and materials from previous wars. It would take two years to train and equip the forces that eventually would help defeat both the Nazis and Japanese
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Japanese-American soldiers of Co. E, 442nd RCT train at Camp Shelby, MS. May 13, 1943. Daniel Inouye is in the right column, second from the front.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-176302)
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African American Marines train at Montford Point Camp, Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. March 1943
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3-023006-D)
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New African American Marine recruits at Montford Point Camp, Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. March 1943.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3-022971)
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Despite the bravery of African Americans in all of America’s previous wars, despite the argument made by the NAACP and others that “a Jim Crow army cannot fight for a free world,” the armed forces of the United States remained strictly segregated.
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Waterbury's Babe Ciarlo, and his sister, Olga, on the day that he left for the Army.
Source: The Ciarlo Family
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Babe Ciarlo writes home before going overseas, telling his family "the war will be over soon."
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Babe Ciarlo writes home from basic training.
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Burnett Miller, center, and four others outside barracks at training camp. They feign combat readiness. Miller would go on to participate in the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
Source: Burnett Miller
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We came home and said goodbye to our parents. We had no idea what we were getting into.
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Trainees perform calisthenics on a parade ground at Camp Joseph T Robinson, Arkansas. April 23, 1942.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-142009)
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Charles Mann at basic training, February 24, 1942.
Source: Charles Mann
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Sgt. Daniel K. Inouye cuts hair at Camp Shelby in Meridian, Mississippi. March 31, 1944
Source: U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii (USAMH3042)
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A trip to an internment camp changed his opinion of mainland Japanese Americans.
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At Camp Croft South Carolina, infantrymen train for a future seaborne invasion, clambering down the side of a 32' high faux landing craft. 1943
Source: National Archives (111-SC-164179)
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Swedish-American selectee from Minnesota being inducted into the U.S. Army. April 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3-001085-D)
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Mobile's Dwain Luce, left, with friends Hunter Marstan, Jack Manning and Stuart Waring. Luce, a glider pilot, would see action in Sicily, Italy, Normandy and Holland as part of Operation Market Garden.
Source: Dwain Luce
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Mobile's Dwain Luce poses for a snapshot. Luce, a glider pilot, would see action in Sicily, Italy, Normandy and Holland as part of Operation Market Garden.
Source: Dwain Luce
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Earl Burke at Reno Army Air Base. 1942. Photo is Inscribed to his father. A ball turret gunner on a B-17, Earl was wounded while serving with the 8th Air Force in France and Germany.
Source: Earl Burke
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Portrait of Herndon Inge, a ROTC student at the University of Alabama. 1943. From Mobile, Inge fought in the Battle of the Bulge and, along with Tom Galloway, was one of the prisoners temporarily freed in the Hammelburg Raid.
Source: Herndon Inge
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Famous James Montgomery Flagg recruiting poster.
Source: National Archives (NWDNS-44-PA-71)
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