A view of the lawn and a collection of red brick buildings at Jefferson Barracks, south of St. Louis in Missouri, Built in 1826, Jefferson Barracks is the oldest military installation west of the the Mississippi River.
Eating--This is one thing recruits at Jefferson Barracks do not have to be taught. After hours of drilling and exercise they say they "just come by it natural." This menu includes potatoes, pears, lettuce, coffee, bread, veal and peaches.
Private Bredemeyer thought he would take this machine gun apart to see what made it "tick." An apparent case of "spring fever" is handicapping his efforts to get it back together again.
St. Louisans also seemed anxious to see what they could see about the new 37 mm. antitank gun at the encampment on Memorial Plaza. Soldiers were on hand to answer questions.
These rookies have been in the army less than a month but under the intensified training schedule at Jefferson Barracks they are rapidly being converted into soldiers. They are shown here marching in review on parade grounds. Lieut. R.C. Huggins, in charge of the training of recruits is shown marching with drawn sword in front of the troops while Major Walter C. Philips reviews them from the sidelines.
Congress, after the Black Hawk War, ordered a regiment of "dragoons" added to the military establishment. Accordingly, the First Cavalry, which won undying fame in the West, was established at the Barracks in 1833. Cavalry units expanded with the frontier and it was 1878 before "horse troops" returned to the Barracks. Photo shows cavalry stables there in the 1890s.
Missouri editors learned camouflage technique first-hand from Capt. William C. Pahlmann, commanding officer of Jefferson Barracks camouflage school, whose troops gave a practical demonstration to some 250 state editors, members of the Missouri Press Association, who were "inducted" into the army Friday for a 24-hour period. From left, Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Miller of the Carl Junction Standard, Capt. Pahlmann, H. H. Coffee of the Western Newspaper Union, Mrs. C. L. Blanton Sr. of the Sikeston Standard and H. M. Jungbluth of the Western Newspaper Union, discussing the demonstration.
Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman of Temple Israel presents "The Eternal Light," Jewish symbol of the perpetual existence of God, in a candlelight service last night at one of Jefferson Barracks' chapels. The gift of Temple Israel's Junior Congregation, the light (seen in the top center of the altar) was accepted for the post by Chaplain First Lieutenant John L. Harris.
Toughening up for action in an obstacle race are these Jefferson Barracks soldiers. The 4-foot rail fence was only one of the obstacles that marked the quarter-mile course over which the trainees yesterday were sent in groups of six, armed and helmeted and ready for the enemy.
Mrs. Alfred Chance of Akron, Ohio, visited her son, Clarence, 25, at Jefferson Barracks yesterday on Mother's Day and shortly after her arrival found herself playing mother to nearly 25 service men. In the above picture Mrs. Chance plays piano for soldiers in the Hostess House. Her son stands behind her.
New recreation hall at the Jefferson Barracks Reception Center, where friends and relatives of newly-inducted servicemen may see them in uniform for the first time, will be formally dedicated at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
This young soldier is working over a tearful panful of onions, but doesn't seem to mind it. Learning "to take it" is one of the first lessons of the young soldiers, and St. Louis business leaders, desiring men with such character training have employed so many members of the Sixth Infantry who have completed their terms that the regiment is now short-handed and is making an effort to obtain recruits among the higher type young men of this vicinity.
Maj.-Gen. Drum second from the right, is shown asking the noncommissioned officer at the left, who had just put his men through an attack formation for column of squad, how he would employ his soldiers to take a near-by building occupied by machine-gunners.