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Collection: Before Pearl Harbor: Basic Training in Fort Jackson, SC

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1st Sgt Mike Magyar

First Sergeant Mike Magyar

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Bob Searl [NJ] & Howard Fabel [NY]

Carolina Maneuvers

"War Games" part of basic training for the 56th Signal Battalion during the autumn of 1941

Company "A" Gas Mask Drill. A "ragtag" bunch of recently drafted NY/NJ Citizen soldiers going through the adaption phase to military life...A far different well trained group they were when the Initial Assault beachead landings were made in June 1944…