Three Women in Gas Masks

ID: 152 ~ Source: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress. ~ Creator: United States Office of War Information. ~ Date: 1942-12

This file appears in: Fort Des Moines: Chronology

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. These three WAACs are shown with their gas masks on during gas mask drill. Fort Des Moines, Iowa

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Wartime

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Negative

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Image

This file appears in: Fort Des Moines: Chronology

Fort Des Moines: Chronology

By Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center

1901 Construction begins on the 400-acre base Fort Des Moines on Des Moines’ South Side.1903-1904 Two companies of the all-black U.S. Army 25th Infantry surprise Des Moines’ local citizens by arriving instead of white cavalry. The 25th had been…