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I am in the Army now!
Title:
I am in the Army now!
Continental Chrome unused

Description:
I'm in the Army Now! Recruits arrive at Ft. Benning, Georgia and are quickly transformed into infantry soldiers. The Reception Station process includes medical and dental inspections, immunizations, military clothing, identification cards and tags, haircuts and creation of personal and financial records. Each year 35,000 recruits arrive here


Edwards Air Force Base
Title:
Edwards Air Force Base
Continental Chrome unused

Description:
Jim Stroup Edwards AFB is the home of the Flight Test Center where the Air Force has developed nearly every aircraft in its inventory. It is an ideal place to test aircraft becaure of Rogers Dry Lake Bed, a 44 square mile hardbed which serves as a perfect runway for test flight programs and emergencies. America's first jet flight, the first supersonic flight, world speed records, and space shuttle tests and landings have all been conducted at Edwards AFB. Photo by Jim Stroup



Relentless in Training
Title:
Relentless in Training
Continental Chrome unused

Description:
Today's infantry trainees at Fort Benning, Georgia learn the skills of hand to hand combat and practice bayonet skills with pugil sticks. Each year 35,000 American youth are transformed into world's finest infantrymen


Defenders of America: Navy Talos Missile Installation
Title:
Defenders of America: Navy Talos Missile Installation
Continental Chrome unused

Description:
Navy Talos Missile Installation Aboard Cruiser Galveston The Navy Talos Missile Installation aboard the Guided Missile Cruiser USS Galveston (CAG-3). The Galveston will be the first of several cruisers to use the TALOS Missile with its nuclear capability. It joined the fleet in the summer of 1958. This is No. 5 of the new 1959 series of twenty-four cards, illustrating and describing a different weapon or piece of equipment in the NABISCO Shredded Wheat "Defenders of America" series. Each of these cards is a full detailed reproduction of an official United States Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine photograph. One of these official photograph reproductions is packed in each package of NABISCO Shredded Wheat. Get the entire set by eating NABISCO Shredded Wheat regularly and trading with your friends. National Biscuit Company, New York 22, N.Y. Official U.S. Navy Photograph



Overall Aerial View of Lackland Air Force Base
Title:
Overall Aerial View of Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio (TX), Continental Chrome unused

Description:
Home of the Lackland Military Training Center. The Center--known as the "Gateway to the Air Force"--is responsible for transforming young men and women from civilians to members of the US Air Force. Lackland AFB, the largest training center in the free world, is located nine miles southwest of downtown San Antonio


Cruiser U.S.S. "Little Rock"
Title:
Cruiser U.S.S. "Little Rock"
Buffalo (NY), Continental Chrome unused

Description:
Cruiser U.S.S. "Little Rock" docked at the Buffalo Naval and Servicemen's Parl at the foot of Main Street on the Buffalo River, Buffalo, New York



SAC Headquarters, Offut Air Force Base
Title:
SAC Headquarters, Offut Air Force Base
(NE), Chrome unused

Description:
Dexter Press Inc


Army Center of the Northwest
Title:
Army Center of the Northwest
Ft. Lewis (WA), Chrome unused

Description:
Kyle Smith Mt. Rainier forms a magnificent background for this training center. Here are a few of the barracks and some of the mobile equipment that will be used in Vietnam or Korea



WACS at Right Dress
Title:
WACS at Right Dress
Linen unused


Lounge, Cadet Recreation and Athletic Club
Title:
Lounge, Cadet Recreation and Athletic Club
Pensacola (FL), Linen PM 1942 Dec-4



Barracks, Camp Atterbury
Title:
Barracks, Camp Atterbury
(IN), Linen unused

Description:
The most numerous buildings are the neat rows of barracks, the soldiers' "home away from home"


Instruction in Link Trainer, Canute Field
Title:
Instruction in Link Trainer, Canute Field
Rantoul (IL), Linen unused



Soldiers Leaving
Title:
Soldiers Leaving
Camp Grant (IL), Linen unused


Recruit Reception Center Flower Garden
Title:
Recruit Reception Center Flower Garden
Camp Grant (IL), Linen unused



Service Club
Title:
Service Club
Camp Grant (IL), Linen unused


Municipal Service Men's Club
Title:
Municipal Service Men's Club
Long Beach (CA), Linen PM 1944 Jul-29

Description:
Municipal Service Men's Club at Long Beach, California; recreation center for free use of men of the armed forces, owned by the United States Government and operated by the Long Beach Recreation Commission E. C. Kropp Co



The Armory
Title:
The Armory
Albert Lea (MN), Linen PM 1941 Aug-13

Description:
This modern home for the National Guard is owned and operated by the State Armory Commission. It contains air-conditioned rifle range, large auditorium, modern dining room and kitchen, large stage and dressing rooms


US Naval Training Center Dress Parade
Title:
US Naval Training Center Dress Parade
Bainbridge (MD), Linen PM 1945 Apr-23



Fort Francis E Warren
Title:
Fort Francis E Warren
Cheyenne (WY), Linen unused

Description:
Fort Francis E Warren named after the grand old Senator from Wyoming, is one of the principal military posts of the army and borders Cheyenne on the northwest. In bygone days it was known as Ft. D. A. Russell and was established during the days of the Indians and Buffalo to protect the Union Pacific Railroad as it advanced westward over the plains to the Pacific


Lowering the Flag at Retreat at Keesler Field
Title:
Lowering the Flag at Retreat at Keesler Field
Biloxi (MS), Linen unused

Description:
Retreat, traditional sunset ceremony as "Old Glory" is taken from the flag mast in front of headquarters, is a solemn moment for Keesler Field, huge Air Corps Technical School at Biloxi, Miss. Officers of the Field Command hold a proud salute as the flag comes down into the waiting arms of an "MP" honor guard



Engine Room of the Submarine
Title:
Engine Room of the Submarine
Linen unused

Description:
The Engine Room of the S-49 has two 900 horsepower Diesel engines. These engines run the boat when it is on the surface and through the motor generators create the electric power for operating the boat below the surface


Howdy! From Deep in the Heart of Texas Bound for Tokyo
Title:
Howdy! From Deep in the Heart of Texas Bound for Tokyo
Fort Worth (TX), Linen PM 1944 May-16

Description:
Liberator from Texas The U.S. Army Air Force's B-24 bomber from the new $22,000,000 plant of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation at Fort Worth. Named the "Liberator" by the R.A. F. it is an engine,high wing, all-metal monoplane incorporating the new high-speed Davis air fall. With armor plating, self-sealing fuel tanks, a top speed of over 335 m.p.h., a range of 3,000 miles, a bomb capacity of about four tons, and bristling with guns, it is the world's most efficient long range heavy bombing plane



Win! We Will
Title:
Win! We Will
Linen unused


Frigate Constellation
Title:
Frigate Constellation
Baltimore (MD), Chrome unused

Description:
This stern was originally flat, but was rounded in 1829 as an improvement in naval architecture to permit guns to be fired from the captain's cabin at a pursuing enemy on any quarter. The sunburst stars are quite old and were recently restored



P B Y Navy Plane
Title:
P B Y Navy Plane
(AK), Chrome unused

Description:
A famous P B Y Navy Plane flying over a picturesque spot in Alaska


USO Club operated by The Salvation Army
Title:
USO Club operated by The Salvation Army
Linen PM 1945 Jul-7

Description:
"A Home Away From Home" U.S.O. Club operated by the Salvation Army



Scene in Link Trainer Building, Naples Field
Title:
Scene in Link Trainer Building, Naples Field
Dothan (AL), Linen unused

Description:
"Learning to fly by not flying," these Cadets and their Instructors are busily engaged in piloting Link Trainers to a successful landing by the use of instruments only Curt Teich & Co


U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Ranger and Planes
Title:
U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Ranger and Planes
Linen unused



North American B-25 Medium Bomber
Title:
North American B-25 Medium Bomber
Linen unused

Description:
"Keep 'em flying!" Identification silhouettes on back


Howdy from Deep in the Heart of Texas (Bound for Tokyo)
Title:
Howdy from Deep in the Heart of Texas (Bound for Tokyo)
Linen unused

Description:
Curteich-Chicago



Loading Bombs on Flying Fortress at Macdill Field
Title:
Loading Bombs on Flying Fortress at Macdill Field
Tampa (FL), Linen PM 1944 Feb-2

Description:
MacDill Field US Army Air Base is the largest bombardment base in teh Southeast


St. Joseph's College & Military Academy
Title:
St. Joseph's College & Military Academy
Linen unused

Description:
The Academy was founded in 1908. High school courses and those of Junior College are part of the curriculum. It also has R.O.T.C. Honor School. Cadet enrolled in the academy are from more that fifteen different states of the nation



Consolidated PB2Y-2 Navy Patrol Bomber
Title:
Consolidated PB2Y-2 Navy Patrol Bomber
Linen

Description:
Keep 'Em Flying!


Howdy! from Deep in the Heart of Texas
Title:
Howdy! from Deep in the Heart of Texas
Fort Worth (TX), Linen PM 1943

Description:
Liberator from Texas The U.S. Army Air Forces' B-24 bomber from the new $22,000,000 plant of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation at Fort Worth. Named the "Liberator" by the R.A.F., is is a four engine, high wing, all-metal monoplane incorporating the new high-speed Davis airfoil. With armor plating, self-sealing fuel tanks, a top speed of over 335 m.p.h., a range of 3,000 miles, a bomb capacity of about four tons, and bristling with guns, it is the world's most efficient long range heavy bombing plane



Keep 'em flying
Title:
Keep 'em flying
Linen unused

Description:
Tichnor Bros. Inc


The Way We Solved the Gas and Tire Problem in South Dakota
Title:
The Way We Solved the Gas and Tire Problem in South Dakota
Linen unused



The Pathetic Side of War
Title:
The Pathetic Side of War
Divided Back unused

Description:
A soldier and his little daughter, who has come to see her father off to the front


Pine Camp, N.Y., Life
Title:
Pine Camp, N.Y., Life
Pine Camp (NY), Divided Back PM 1911 Aug-14



Battleship New Jersey BB-62
Title:
Battleship New Jersey BB-62
Chrome unused

Description:
In preperation for her fourth commissioning at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard


USS Resaoner (FF-1063)
Title:
USS Resaoner (FF-1063)
Chrome unused

Description:
Named in honor of First Lieutenant Frank S. Reasoner, United States Marine Corps, who was the second marine to win the nation's highest honor for gallantry during the Vietnam War. USS Reasoner is a Knox class escort ship especially designed for anti-submarine warfare. She is manned by 16 officers and 240 enlisted men with accommodations available to carry a lamps helicopter detachment. Commissioned on 31 July, 1971



U.S.S. Joseph Strauss(DDG-16)
Title:
U.S.S. Joseph Strauss(DDG-16)
Chrome unused

Description:
The second guided missile destroyer of her class honoring admiral Joseph Strauss, USN, an hero of World War I. Built by the New York Shipbuilding Corp at Camden, NJ. And commissioned on 20 April 1963. The ship carries the TARTAR, a supersonic surface to air guided missile and ARSOC, anti-submarine rocket


U.S.S. Mauna Loa AE-8
Title:
U.S.S. Mauna Loa AE-8
Chrome



U.S. Naval Training Center
Title:
U.S. Naval Training Center
San Diego (CA), Chrome unused

Description:
Recruits at Camp Nimitz are shown in formation alongside of new barracks. (Note laundry on lines). These two new barracks at Nimitz have three stories, three wings each, single deck bunks, and a total housing capacity of 1200 men


I'll Say They Do!
Title:
I'll Say They Do!
Chrome unused

Description:
Female soldier, clothing torn and otherwise disarrayed, hastily leaving a building marked "Officer's Mess." The says, "I'll say they do!"



Plattsburgh Barracks
Title:
Plattsburgh Barracks
Divided Back unused


Old Water Catchment - Wake Island
Title:
Old Water Catchment - Wake Island
Chrome PM 1962 Jun-25

Description:
Used during World War II



Falklands Task Force
Title:
Falklands Task Force
Chrome unused

Description:
H.M.S. Hermes prepares to leave with the Task Force


H.M.S. Alacrity, Armed With Exocet and Seacat Missiles
Title:
H.M.S. Alacrity, Armed With Exocet and Seacat Missiles
Chrome unused

Description:
Sovereign Pictorial A Series of Album Collections Royal Wedding 1981 30 Years Elizabeth Regina Royal Tours and State Visits Royal Family 1982 Queen and People Papal Visit 1982 Falkland Islands Task Force Each 60/63 postcards and illustrated album Falklands Task Force A Series of 63 Postcards Illustrated Souvenir Album Price L3.00 No. 24



No. 10 H.M.S. Invincible
Title:
No. 10 H.M.S. Invincible
Chrome unused

Description:
Britain's most sophisticated warship. Sovereign Series No. 7, Falklands Task Force. Sovereign Pictorial, a series of album collections, Royal wedding 1981, 30 years Elizabeth Regina, royal tours and state visits, royal family 1982, Queen and people, Papal visit 1982, Falkland Islands Task Force


The Cadet Wing and Academic Buildings, U.S. Air Force Academy
Title:
The Cadet Wing and Academic Buildings, U.S. Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs (CO), Chrome unused

Description:
The thrilling and precise military parades of massed Cadet Wing are a highpoint of any visit to the Academy. Frequently, as shown here, clouds hide the peaks of the majestic Rampart Range, directly behind the academic area in Colorado, the highest state in the Nation Great Western Post Card Co



Lockheed Lightening Interecepor, P-38 in Flight over Southern Califorina
Title:
Lockheed Lightening Interecepor, P-38 in Flight over Southern Califorina
Linen PM 1946 Feb-5

Description:
Fastest of them all, its the claim of the Lockheed Lightening Interceptor Persuit (P-38) now in mass productin for the Army Air Corps. It has a straightaway speed in excess of 400 miles per hour. Equipped with a turbo supercharger, it can follow bombers into the higher altitudes (from 25,000 to 40,000 feet) and butfly them


Flugreuge eubsatrberceit (Seaplane with Nazi ensignia)
Title:
Flugreuge eubsatrberceit (Seaplane with Nazi ensignia)
Linen



Navy Planes over Pensacola, aerial view
Title:
Navy Planes over Pensacola, aerial view
Pensacola (FL), Linen PM 1962 Feb-25


Instructions in Hydromatic Full Feathering Propellor, Chanute Field
Title:
Instructions in Hydromatic Full Feathering Propellor, Chanute Field
Rantoul (IL), Linen PM 1940 Oct-28

Description:
Photo by U.S. Air Corps OB-H9593



Getting Down to Business
Title:
Getting Down to Business
Linen PM 1942 Feb-20

Description:
Drawing of battleship with large deck guns and airplanes


Instruction in Hydromatic Full Feathering Propeller, Chanute Field
Title:
Instruction in Hydromatic Full Feathering Propeller, Chanute Field
Rantoul (IL), Linen



Army camp
Title:
Army camp
(NY), Linen PM 1945 Dec-16

Description:
Photograph of unnamed army training camp


Telephone Center, Camp Endicott
Title:
Telephone Center, Camp Endicott
Davisville (RI), Linen unused

Description:
Official U.S. Navy Photo



Infantry Attack, Souvenirr of the Army Maneuvers
Title:
Infantry Attack, Souvenirr of the Army Maneuvers
Linen PM 1940 Aug-15

Description:
Defend your country- Join the U.S. Army


Our Armed Forces Work Together That We May Face the Future -- Unafraid
Title:
Our Armed Forces Work Together That We May Face the Future -- Unafraid
Linen PM 1945 Jul-1



Tank Attack Supported by Army Air Force
Title:
Tank Attack Supported by Army Air Force
Linen PM 1940 Aug-8

Description:
Souvenir of the Army Maneuvers Photo by the U.S. Army Signal Corps Defend your Country, Join the U.S. Army


Commissioned Officers' Quarters, Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Title:
Commissioned Officers' Quarters, Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Aberdeen (MD), Linen PM 1943 Aug-3



Outward Bound
Title:
Outward Bound
Linen unused


Base Administration Building, Army Air Base
Title:
Base Administration Building, Army Air Base
Hill Field (UT), Linen unused



Aerial View of Wake Island
Title:
Aerial View of Wake Island
Wake Island, Chrome PM 1957 Mar-15


Interior Receiving Ward, Fitzsimmons General Hospital
Title:
Interior Receiving Ward, Fitzsimmons General Hospital
Aurora (CO), Divided Back unused



Keep 'em Flying
Title:
Keep 'em Flying
Linen


U. S. Naval Air Training Center
Title:
U. S. Naval Air Training Center
Pensacola (FL), Linen PM 1947 Nov-21



Battle of Lexington
Title:
Battle of Lexington
Divided Back unused


Sampson Row - Naval Academy
Title:
Sampson Row - Naval Academy
Divided Back PM Oct-2



Naval Dry Dock, Portsmouth Navy Yard
Title:
Naval Dry Dock, Portsmouth Navy Yard
Divided Back PM 1911 Aug-15


In Memory of U.S.S. Wahoo S.S. 238
Title:
In Memory of U.S.S. Wahoo S.S. 238
Chrome unused

Description:
In memory of U.S.S. Wahoo S.s. 238 and her gallant crew who sank 20 Japanese ships before being sunk by enemy action October 11, 1943. Crew of U.S.S. Wahoo still on patrol



Cadet, Falcon and F-10 Aircraft
Title:
Cadet, Falcon and F-10 Aircraft
Chrome PM 1971 Jul-14

Description:
United States Air Force Academy Cadets do not graduate from the Academy as pilots, but the majority go on the flight training at Air Force bases in the United States. The four year curriculum, totalling 189 semester hours is designed to provide a foundation for further development in any of the numerous career fields open to Air Force officers Great Western Post Card Co


Kodachrome Atomic Explosion
Title:
Kodachrome Atomic Explosion
Frenchman's Flat (NV), Chrome unused



U. S. Naval Air Station
Title:
U. S. Naval Air Station
Pensacola (FL), Linen PM 1937

Description:
U.S. Naval Air Training Station. Largest institution of its kind in America. Located 7 miles southwest of Pensacola on Pensacola Bay. Reached by paved highway or by the Bay Shore Line of the Gulf Power Company. Maintains about 300 planes for training purposes. All students are trained for both land and seaplane flying. Operates and uses exclusively five landing fields varying in size from 100 to 500 acres


Hollywood Canteen
Title:
Hollywood Canteen
Hollywood (CA), Linen PM 1944 Nov-27



WWII Mail Call Cartoon
Title:
WWII Mail Call Cartoon
Linen PM 1944 Sep-22

Description:
"The mail line is hard to crash so Honey don't let me down."


The Armed Forces In Louisiana
Title:
The Armed Forces In Louisiana
Linen unused

Description:
From Louisiana One of the nation's most quaint, romantic and interesting states. Buy war stamps and bonds



Think of Me All at Sea, Feeling so Blue--And Wondering if you are True
Title:
Think of Me All at Sea, Feeling so Blue--And Wondering if you are True
Linen unused


Gas Rationing can't stop me when I'm on Maneuvers!
Title:
Gas Rationing can't stop me when I'm on Maneuvers!
Linen PM 1945 Jul-8



The Jeep Peeps
Title:
The Jeep Peeps
Linen PM 1943 May-13

Description:
Buy War Stamps and Bonds


Whoooo Said Blackout
Title:
Whoooo Said Blackout
Linen unused



U.S.S. New Mexico at sea
Title:
U.S.S. New Mexico at sea
Linen unused

Description:
Three battleships belong to the New Mexico Class, the New Mexico, Mississippi and the Idaho, capital ships laid down in 1915


Roll Call
Title:
Roll Call
White Border PM 1917 Oct-7



Life in the U. S. Army Cantonment
Title:
Life in the U. S. Army Cantonment
White Border PM 1918 Jun-29

Description:
Interior of Y.M.C.A. Building


Target Practice
Title:
Target Practice
White Border PM 1917 Oct-8



U. S. Engineers Building Pontoon Bridge
Title:
U. S. Engineers Building Pontoon Bridge
White Border unused


Instructing Company
Title:
Instructing Company
White Border PM 1918 Jan-23



Field Artillery in Action
Title:
Field Artillery in Action
White Border unused


Loading a Four Point Seven Siege Gun, U.S. Army
Title:
Loading a Four Point Seven Siege Gun, U.S. Army
White Border PM Nov-5



Recruits Drilling Outside Barracks
Title:
Recruits Drilling Outside Barracks
Camp Upton (NY), White Border PM 1917 Nov-14


Guerre Aerienne
Title:
Guerre Aerienne
Divided Back unused

Description:
Station strategique allemander bombardee par nos avions AERIAL WAR - Strategical station bombarded by our avions



Haut Les Coeurs
Title:
Haut Les Coeurs
Divided Back unused

Description:
le souffle de la guarre a souleve les coeurs Au dessus de la terre, vers les saintes hauteurs Sur les ailes sublimes, d'amour, de priere Heureux celui qui croit, qui aime et qui espere M.R


" Sewing Time " on board U. S. Man O'War
Title:
" Sewing Time " on board U. S. Man O'War
Divided Back PM 1910 Aug-11



Gun Drill Rapid Fire Lower Deck
Title:
Gun Drill Rapid Fire Lower Deck
Divided Back


Gun Drill Aboard Ship
Title:
Gun Drill Aboard Ship
Divided Back unused



The Atlantic Fleet
Title:
The Atlantic Fleet
Divided Back unused

Description:
The Atlantic Fleet Passing Through The Straits of Magellan, February 8, 1908


Canteen Service, Savannah Chapter, American Red Cross at Work
Title:
Canteen Service, Savannah Chapter, American Red Cross at Work
Savannah (GA), White Border unused



Fencing March Aboard Ship
Title:
Fencing March Aboard Ship
Divided Back


General Porfirio Diaz
Title:
General Porfirio Diaz
Post Card (Undivided Back) unused



Peeling Potatoes Aboard Ship
Title:
Peeling Potatoes Aboard Ship
Divided Back


Typhus Inoculation
Title:
Typhus Inoculation
White Border PM 1917 Oct-7



Commando Training -- How to deliver the Mail...and live
Title:
Commando Training -- How to deliver the Mail...and live
Linen

Description:
Cartoon depiction of soldiers on a military base


The USS General William Mitchell
Title:
The USS General William Mitchell
Chrome unused

Description:
THE USS GENERAL WILLIAM MITCHELL, T-AP 114, operated by the Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service a a troop and dependent carrier, was built at Kearny, N.J. in 1943, and is named in honor of Brig. Gen. William (Billy) Mitchell, America's colorful and prophetic advocate of military air power. A P-2 type ship, the Mitchell is 623 feet long, 76 feet wide; has a weight of 17,833 gross tons and a cruising speed of 19 knots



USAF 2349th Personnel Processing Group
Title:
USAF 2349th Personnel Processing Group
Parks Air Force Base (CA), Chrome PM 1954 Jan-23

Description:
This is to let you know that I have arrived at Parks Air Force Base, about forty miles from San Francisco and reported to the 2353 Personnel Squadron, 2349 Personnel Processing Group


The Ultimate Weapon
Title:
The Ultimate Weapon
Chrome unused

Description:
My General Orders



U. S. Armored Cruiser "Montana"
Title:
U. S. Armored Cruiser "Montana"
Divided Back PM 1910 Sep-10

Description:
750 officers and men. Length 502 feet. Main battery 20 guns


U.S.S. Georgia
Title:
U.S.S. Georgia
Divided Back unused



U.S. Infantry Tanks Assembled Ready for Action
Title:
U.S. Infantry Tanks Assembled Ready for Action
Linen unused


Proposed Armory for the Third Regiment N.G.M
Title:
Proposed Armory for the Third Regiment N.G.M
Post Card (Undivided Back) unused



Carry Arms
Title:
Carry Arms
Post Card (Undivided Back) unused


Pleasant Arms
Title:
Pleasant Arms
Post Card (Undivided Back) unused



Service Firing
Title:
Service Firing
Linen unused


The Deadly Douglas TBD's of the U.S. Navy
Title:
The Deadly Douglas TBD's of the U.S. Navy
Linen unused

Description:
These Douglas TBD’s called the Navy’s “Devastators,” are two seater torpedo bombers used in aircraft carrier service. They have a speed of 250 m.p.h. and carry seven machine guns



One of the U.S. Navy's giant aircraft carriers and protecting bombers
Title:
One of the U.S. Navy's giant aircraft carriers and protecting bombers
Linen unused

Description:
This is a marvelous view taken from the air of one of the United States Navy's monster aircraft carriers. They are very properly the mothers of the Navy's planes to which they return like homing pigeons. In this view one of the planes has just taken off


Tanks Ready for Maneuvers
Title:
Tanks Ready for Maneuvers
Linen unused



Squadrone in marcia
Title:
Squadrone in marcia
Divided Back PM 1906


12 Inch Mortars at Fort Wright
Title:
12 Inch Mortars at Fort Wright
Divided Back PM 1919 Jun-27

Description:
Mortars of this type have proved very effective throughout the present war. The Allies have been using one known as the Schneider siege mortar, which they have found to be as effective an agent of destruction as the famous German 42 centimeter guns. This gun is being used in great numbers on the Western front. It hurls a projectile weighing nearly a ton a distance of ten miles, and can be fired three times a minute. Note the recoil mechanism on the under side of the gun and note also that the entire battery is situated in a pit, concealed and protected from the guns of hostile fleets



Officers' Quarters, Fort Sheridan, Ill
Title:
Officers' Quarters, Fort Sheridan, Ill
Fort Sheridan (IL), Divided Back PM 1913 Jan-17


Line of Officers Quarters, Fort Benj. Harrison
Title:
Line of Officers Quarters, Fort Benj. Harrison
Divided Back PM 1914 Aug-13



Salvation Army Making Doughnuts Under Bombardment of German Guns
Title:
Salvation Army Making Doughnuts Under Bombardment of German Guns
Divided Back unused


Monsters of steel in action
Title:
Monsters of steel in action
Divided Back unused



American Wounded after Bombardment
Title:
American Wounded after Bombardment
Divided Back unused

Description:
American soldiers use a stretcher to lift a wounded man out of trench on the battlefield in France


American Heavy Artillery moving into action - France
Title:
American Heavy Artillery moving into action - France
Divided Back unused



Americans creeping on the Germans
Title:
Americans creeping on the Germans
Divided Back unused

Description:
Barbed wire cut, Americans creeping on the Germans with hand grenades - France War Postal Card Department


Yanks in front line Trench watching No Man's Land - France
Title:
Yanks in front line Trench watching No Man's Land - France
Divided Back unused



"A German Charge, Fixed Bayonets" Photo Taken From American Lines, France
Title:
"A German Charge, Fixed Bayonets" Photo Taken From American Lines, France
Divided Back unused

Description:
The Chicago Daily News, War Postal Card Department


1937 - U.S. Soldiers in France
Title:
1937 - U.S. Soldiers in France
Divided Back PM 1917 Oct-10

Description:
The hand grip of two democracies



A Flock of Fighting English Tanks Ready for Action With American Troops in France
Title:
A Flock of Fighting English Tanks Ready for Action With American Troops in France
Divided Back unused

Description:
The Chicago Daily News, War Postal Card Department


American Front Line Trench, France
Title:
American Front Line Trench, France
Divided Back unused



English Tanks and American Infantry in Action
Title:
English Tanks and American Infantry in Action
Divided Back unused


Giving the Germans Gas, French Officers Amercian Infantry, France
Title:
Giving the Germans Gas, French Officers Amercian Infantry, France
Divided Back unused

Description:
War Postal Card Department



The Reality of War
Title:
The Reality of War
Divided Back unused

Description:
One of the first actual photographs from the battlefield. A brave young Belgian boy, shot in the battle of Huy, is being consoled by a comrade


Wonderful Night War Photo American Attack on German Line-France
Title:
Wonderful Night War Photo American Attack on German Line-France
Divided Back unused



Yanks going into action France
Title:
Yanks going into action France
Divided Back unused


Offutt Air Force Base Visitors Officers' Quarters Motel
Title:
Offutt Air Force Base Visitors Officers' Quarters Motel
Chrome unused

Description:
Offutt air force base visiting officers quarters motel is located across the drive from SAC headquarters. It was completed in 1959 and has fifty units and a beautiful pool and golf course facilities within yards of the front door. It's also located next door to the new officer's club



Blytheville Air Force Base
Title:
Blytheville Air Force Base
Blytheville (AR), Chrome unused

Description:
BLYTHEVILLE AIR FORCE BASE The personnel in direct support of the two operational types of aircraft stationed at Blytheville A.F.B., Ark. The B-52 Stratofortress is on the left and the KC-135 Stratotanker is on the right. Color courtesy of P.I.O. BAFB


USAF Academy
Title:
USAF Academy
Chrome unused

Description:
Aerial view of the academic area, in a picturesque setting overlooking the Great Plains, U.S.A.F. Academy, Colorado



Naval Signal Practice Spelling "Victory"
Title:
Naval Signal Practice Spelling "Victory"
Newport (RI), White Border PM 1920 Jul-26

Description:
Signal Practice Spelling the Word "Victory" at Naval Training Station, Newport, R.I


U.S.S. Wyoming Entering Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal
Title:
U.S.S. Wyoming Entering Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal
White Border PM Jun-14



Veteran's Buildings and Lakeside Ave., The Weirs, Lake Winnepesaukee, N.H
Title:
Veteran's Buildings and Lakeside Ave., The Weirs, Lake Winnepesaukee, N.H
Lake Winnipesaukee (NH), White Border unused


U.S. Navy Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr
Title:
U.S. Navy Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr
Chrome unused

Description:
Series CK.425, 2DK-1508 U.S. Navy Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr, was born on November 18, 1923 in East Derry, New Hampshire. On May 5,1961, Shepard piloted the Mercury-Redstone 3 "Freedom 7" spacecraft on the first manned space flight of the United States. MR-3 was a suborbital flight following a ballistic trajectory. The flight attained an altitude of approximately 116 statue miles and the spacecraft traveled about 254 statute miles down the Atlantic Missile Range



U.S.N.S. General Alexander M. Patch
Title:
U.S.N.S. General Alexander M. Patch
Chrome PM 1954 Mar-24

Description:
U.S.N.S. General Alexander M. Patch (T-AP122) is one of a globe-circling fleet of Navy and commercial ships operated under the Military Sea Transportation Service. This Navy agency provides ocean shipping for the United States armed Forces and other authorized agencies


N-666 U.S. Planes and Tanks During Maneuvers
Title:
N-666 U.S. Planes and Tanks During Maneuvers
Linen unused

Description:
Photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps



C111 Twin Fortresses Over Mount Rainier
Title:
C111 Twin Fortresses Over Mount Rainier
(WA), Linen PM 1945 Apr-17

Description:
C111 Twin Fortresses Over Mount Rainier A thrilling scene of two huge Flying Fortresses against the background of snowcapped Mt. Rainier in the northwest


Atomic Bomb Explosion
Title:
Atomic Bomb Explosion
Chrome unused

Description:
An atomic explosion as part of the recent test program of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commision. U.S. Army Photograph



Bayonet Exercise
Title:
Bayonet Exercise
White Border PM 1917 Dec-4


Company Bunks
Title:
Company Bunks
White Border PM 1917 Nov-22

Description:
Correspondance



Field Artillery in Action
Title:
Field Artillery in Action
White Border unused


G.A.R. Drum Corp
Title:
G.A.R. Drum Corp
White Border unused

Description:
Sanford C. West, who drummed the 13th Illinois Infantry through the war; the oldest surviving drummer of the Civil War. He made the drum he carries 66 years ago from an ash tree at Rockford, N.Y., and it has been in constant use ever since. Marquis L. Fowler, leader of the Fife and Drum Corps of the soldiers' home at Orting, Washington. His brother was fifer in the war with Mexico. He was fifer in the 20th Michigan. He has had charge of G. A. R. fife and drum corps ever since the war



Inspecting Bridge
Title:
Inspecting Bridge
White Border PM 1917 Nov-22


Machine Gun Practice
Title:
Machine Gun Practice
White Border PM 1917 Nov-15



Made in Japan - Caught in the Pacific - Tanned in the USA
Title:
Made in Japan - Caught in the Pacific - Tanned in the USA
Linen PM 1943 Jul-16

Description:
Here hangs the pelt of a Jap, who mistook a Yank for a sap; He never deserved to be preserved, so we just kept his hide and his cap


Military marching band
Title:
Military marching band
White Border unused



Motor Cycle Scouts in Action
Title:
Motor Cycle Scouts in Action
White Border


Naval Operating Base
Title:
Naval Operating Base
Hampton Roads (VA), White Border unused



Officers' Quarters and Club
Title:
Officers' Quarters and Club
Johnston Island, Chrome unused

Description:
Officers' quarters and club at Johnston Island with Sand Island in distance


Scene at Camp Lewis
Title:
Scene at Camp Lewis
American Lake (WA), White Border unused



Signaling
Title:
Signaling
White Border unused

Description:
Correspondance


Stationed
Title:
Stationed
Linen unused



Supply Train on Railroad Cars
Title:
Supply Train on Railroad Cars
White Border

Description:
Supply train on railroad cars Photo by Underwood & Underwood. N.Y


The Canteen
Title:
The Canteen
White Border PM 1917

Description:
Correspondance



Type of Submarine being Built at Manitowoc, Wis
Title:
Type of Submarine being Built at Manitowoc, Wis
Manitowoc (WI), Linen unused


Typhus Inoculation
Title:
Typhus Inoculation
White Border PM 1917 Dec-24



U.S. Armored Motor Car
Title:
U.S. Armored Motor Car
White Border


U.S. Army Motor Trucks
Title:
U.S. Army Motor Trucks
White Border



AFMTC's Technical Laboratory
Title:
AFMTC's Technical Laboratory
Chrome unused

Description:
The Air Force Missile Test Center's Technical Laboratory, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida. Data from all missile and satellite launchings are evaluated by highly trained personnel working in this building


219 Maine Maritime Academy Training Ship "State of Maine"
Title:
219 Maine Maritime Academy Training Ship "State of Maine"
Castine (ME), Chrome unused

Description:
Its 413 feet long, gross tonnage is 7,000 tons. It is the former United States Hospital Ship "Comfort" and as such was hit of Okinawa during World War 2, by a Japanese suicide plane, killing 36 people, including 16 nurses. The entire battalion of about 200 midship men and over 45 officers and crew members go on the cruise each year



Alert
Title:
Alert
Linen PM 1944 Aug-4


Lassie mending Soldier's Clothes. Frontline with General Pershing's Troops
Title:
Lassie mending Soldier's Clothes. Frontline with General Pershing's Troops
Divided Back unused



"Centennial of the Oranges', N.J." Fifth Regiment, N.G.N.J
Title:
"Centennial of the Oranges', N.J." Fifth Regiment, N.G.N.J
Orange (NJ), Divided Back unused

Description:
Series 11598


A letter to the Folks
Title:
A letter to the Folks
Divided Back PM 1920 Feb

Description:
Camp Life Series 102



Rookies Arriving in Camp
Title:
Rookies Arriving in Camp
Divided Back unused


Whippet Tank in action
Title:
Whippet Tank in action
Divided Back unused

Description:
Troops digging in action



United States Naval Ship: Upshur (T-AP 198)
Title:
United States Naval Ship: Upshur (T-AP 198)
Hackensack (NJ), Chrome unused

Description:
Series S11125C United States Naval Ship: Upshur (T-AP 198) is one of a globe-circling fleet of Navy and commercial ships operated under the Military Sea Transportation Service. This Navy agency provides ocean shipping for the Inted States armed forces and other aithorized agencies Shelton Color Process


U.S.S. America
Title:
U.S.S. America
Chrome

Description:
Series K18286 U.S.S. AMERICA Getting underway for Air Operations. This mighty Aircraft Carrier was commissioned January 20, 1965 Lusterchrome



Sage Direction Center
Title:
Sage Direction Center
Grand Forks (ND), Chrome PM 1966

Description:
Series 42487 Sage Direction Center Sentinal of the Sky Grands Forks Air Force Base Grand Forks, North Dakota


U.S.S. BELLEAU WOOD(LHA-3)
Title:
U.S.S. BELLEAU WOOD(LHA-3)
Chrome unused

Description:
P Series 6109 This modern versatile amphibious warfare ship combines the features of the APA, LSD, LPH, LKA and LPD. Highly automated electronics, cargo handling systems and extensive medical facilities provide flexibility for assault or humanitarian missions. Commissioned 23 September 1978 Length 820 Ft. Beam 106 Ft. Height 200 Ft. (From water line to top of mast)



Yaka Beach Rest Center
Title:
Yaka Beach Rest Center
Chrome PM 1964 Nov-12

Description:
YAKA BEACH REST CENTER Once of the many facilities to be enjpyed by the serviceman and his family


Marine and Wife
Title:
Marine and Wife
Divided Back

Description:
The Love Tale of a Marine-A Serious Reverse



A Call To Arms!
Title:
A Call To Arms!
Divided Back unused

Description:
E. Nash British Series 891 A young soldier with his love


I'll Be Here Till The War Is Over
Title:
I'll Be Here Till The War Is Over
Divided Back

Description:
Bernhardt Wall 2 little childen one is taking care of the other while injured



Soldiers & Cannon
Title:
Soldiers & Cannon
Divided Back PM 1907 Aug-06

Description:
Series 170-13


Soldiers & Wagons
Title:
Soldiers & Wagons
Divided Back

Description:
Series 17054



Soldiers and Wagons
Title:
Soldiers and Wagons
Divided Back unused

Description:
Series 170-4


Soldiers around Campfire
Title:
Soldiers around Campfire
Divided Back PM 1908 Feb-27

Description:
Series 87-5



Ulysses S. Grant
Title:
Ulysses S. Grant
Divided Back unused

Description:
President of the U. S


By Thoughts I See You!
Title:
By Thoughts I See You!
Divided Back unused



Calvary Soldier on Horseback
Title:
Calvary Soldier on Horseback
Divided Back unused

Description:
Series 12 Captain U. S. Cavalry


First Royal Dragoons "Telling The Tale"
Title:
First Royal Dragoons "Telling The Tale"
Divided Back unused

Description:
The British Army Series 9478



Germans Toast "Auf Wiedersehen
Title:
Germans Toast "Auf Wiedersehen
Divided Back PM 1908 Nov-18

Description:
When the German takes leave of his sweetheart, Knowing not when they'll meet again, Each drinks to the health of the other, With the words "Auf Wiedersehen." But when our soldier boy says good-bye, He has a way that is all his own; Just give him the girl he loves. Then clear out and leave him alone."


Reichsprasident V. Hindenburg And Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler In Neudeck
Title:
Reichsprasident V. Hindenburg And Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler In Neudeck
Real Photo unused

Description:
Series 556



The Flank Attack Meets With Feeble Resistance
Title:
The Flank Attack Meets With Feeble Resistance
Divided Back unused

Description:
Edgar Holloway Series 1738


The Germ Hun
Title:
The Germ Hun
Divided Back PM 1915

Description:
Series 660



Courthouse
Title:
Courthouse
Charlestown (WV), Divided Back unused

Description:
Court House at Charlestown, W. Va. (then Virginia), where John Brown was tried and convicted on Npv. 2, 1859. The scaffold on which Brown was executed was afterwards built into the porch of a house, bought by a Confederate soldier, still the owner. It was taken to Chicago and then brought to Washington. The Kansas State Historical Society will probably become its permanent owner."


German Army marching through countryside
Title:
German Army marching through countryside
Divided Back PM 1916 Mar-13

Description:
Series 20724



Grave Of Brown's Men Who Were Killed At Harper's Ferry
Title:
Grave Of Brown's Men Who Were Killed At Harper's Ferry
Divided Back unused

Description:
Ten of Brown's men were killed at Harpers Ferry. The bodies of nine of these were enclosed in two large "store boxes" and buried on the banks of the Shenandoah as shown in picture, about half a mile above Happers Ferry. Their bones were exhumed in 1899 and were b buried by the side of their old Captain at North Elba. N. Y."


Grave Of John Brown
Title:
Grave Of John Brown
Divided Back unused

Description:
After execution the body of John Brown was delivered to his widow, who had it conveyed to their residence near North Elba, N. Y. where it was interred and over it placed the tombstone of his grandfather, which he had carried with the family for some years. Underneath the inscription to his grandfather was placed one to John Brown himself."



Harpers Ferry
Title:
Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry (WV), Divided Back unused

Description:
Harpers Ferry is situated in Jefferson co., W. Va. (then Virginia), at the point where the Shenandoah enters the Potomac River, and is 45 miles northwest of Washington. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad runs through the place and the Shenandoah Valley road forms a junction there. The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal passes by on the Maryland side. In 1859 the United States had a highly important arsenal and rifle factory at the place, with from 100,000 to 200,000 stand of arms stored there. Power for the Factory was derived from a hydraulic canal. The population of the town was about 2,500, mostly employees of the Government. As a gateway through the Blue Ridge to Washington Harpers Ferry was of great importance during the war and much fighting occurred in and around it."


John Brown Arraigned Before The Court
Title:
John Brown Arraigned Before The Court
Divided Back unused

Description:
October 27, 1859, John Brown was arraigned before the Jefferson County Court, sitting at Charlestown, W. Va. (then Virginia), for conspiracy to excite a negro insurrection, treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia and murder. He was still suffering from his wounds and had to e helped to rise to his feet to plead. Judge Richard Parker presided. Brown was defended by Messrs, Botts, Greene, Chilton and Griswold, who sit at left of the Judge. Prosecuting Attorney Andrew hunter sits behind the Judge."





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