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Mitchel Field, New York. Air Corps technicians must be expert in the handling of infantry weapons. Members of an airbase squadron learning to wage hand-to-hand combat with bayonets under the tutelage of Captain Clifford W. Vedder, squadron commander
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Credit lineMitchel Field, New York. Air Corps technicians must be expert in the handling of infantry weapons. Members of an airbase squadron learning to wage hand-to-hand combat with bayonets under the tutelage . 1942-01-01. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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