Dummy bites dust

Dummy bites dust
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Title: Dummy bites dust
Description:

Soldier bayonetting a dummy on hillside, possibly at Fort Drum miltary camp near Watertown, New York. Caption on verso: "DUMMY BITES DUST: A long thrust by a 42d (Rainbow) Division infantryman and a dummy enemy is impaled by bayonet. Rigorous training prepared guardsmen for possible active duty."

Date: 1954
Location: Fort Drum (N.Y.)
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: Jul. 13, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Armories
Subject: New York (State). National Guard.
Soldiers
Military training camps
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: ARM 0030