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[Chinese soldier making broad jump carrying full equipment. Trining exercise] – Vintage Wall Art

[Chinese soldier making broad jump carrying full equipment. Trining exercise], [between 1938 and 1943] — historic photograph
[Chinese soldier making broad jump carrying full equipment. Trining exercise], [between 1938 and 1943]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 soldier clears the ground in a broad jump while carrying his full field equipment, a demanding load that makes the exercise a test of strength as well as skill. The Chinese Military Pictorial Service issued numbered photoprints like this one to document army life during the Second Sino-Japanese War, which lasted from 1937 to 1945 and pushed the Nationalist government inland to Chongqing. Images of drill and physical conditioning were meant to show soldiers building the stamina a long, grinding war would demand. The caption's date range of 1938 to 1943 is unverified, so the exact moment the photograph was taken is uncertain.

Created / published[between 1938 and 1943]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhotoprint by Chinese Military Pictorial Service. No. 228. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: China--Hist.--Military training; Sports.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,184 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151244

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