Serviceman at shoulder arms in front of barracks
Gift of Russ Bennett
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Photograph. Serviceman in Class B uniform performing shoulder arms with an M-1 rifle (Garand). Developer stamp reads: "1942 / Fox-Tone / Fox Co / San Antonio, Texas." Presumably Fort Polk, Louisiana. 1942
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1942
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Photographs presumably of the service of Technician Third Grade William M. Peck of Alabama, who presumably served in the United States Army in the European Theater of Operations. Peck presumably enlisted in the Army 1944. Then, as returned to be part of on 20 September 1940 and served with the Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 31st Armored Regiment, 7th Armored Division. He was presumably stationed in Fort Polk, Louisiana, between March and November 1942. He then underwent desert training at Fort Coxcomb and at Wiley Wells, California, between May and April 1943. Peck then presumably underwent training as an Aviation Cadet in Miami Beach, Florida, Niagara Falls, New York, and San Antonio, Texas, between August 1943 and early the 7th Armored Division, presumably Headquarters Company, 38th Armored Infantry Battalion, and served in Germany, Austria, and Hungary, between March and June 1945. Presumably he returned to the United States in 1945 passing through Boston Harbor.