Machine Gun Insignia; Machine Gun Training Center; 22500 officers and men, 600 machine guns; Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga.; Brig. Gen. Oliver Edwards, commanding; Lt. Col. E.P. Pierson, directing – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Machine Gun Insignia; Machine Gun Training Center; 22500 officers and men, 600 machine guns; Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga.; Brig. Gen. Oliver Edwards, commanding; Lt. Col. E.P. Pierson, directing, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Machine Gun Insignia; Machine Gun Training Center; 22500 officers and men, 600 machine guns; Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga.; Brig. Gen. Oliver Edwards, commanding; Lt. Col. E.P. Pierson, directing
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The insignia at the center of this picture marks the Machine Gun Training Center at Camp Hancock, a World War I cantonment outside Augusta, Georgia. The caption card gives the training center's strength as 22,500 officers and men and 600 machine guns, though these figures are unverified. Brig. Gen. Oliver Edwards is listed as commanding and Lt. Col. E.P. Pierson as directing. Camp Hancock was one of many training camps the Army built quickly after the United States entered the war in 1917, and insignia like this one gave units an identity at a time when large numbers of new recruits were learning specialized weapons work.
| Created / published | c1918. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo copyrighted by Mole & Thomas. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,205 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138487 |
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