Here is part of the new 55-piece Negro band at Jefferson Barracks, with the director, Technical Sergeant C. K. Young, at left. The band, compromised principally of soldier musicians who have played with top name bands in the country, made its debut yesterday when inspected by Maj. Gen. Irving J. Phillipson of Washington, executive director of the Army Emergency Relief, who came to the city in connection with the opening Monday night of the soldier show, "This Is the Army." The band introduced a new war song, "We Gotta Get Busy," the lyrics of which were written by Col. Thomas J. J. Christian, commanding officer at the post, and Mrs. Christian. The music was written by two members of the band.
Some of the 200 officers and men of the 356th Technical School Squadron at Jefferson Barracks who were guests of 200 members of the Women's Chamber of Commerce of St. Louis are shown as they roasted weiners on an oven at Wabash Country Club in Ferguson.
Miss Jane Pickens, accompanied by two members of the Red Cross Motor Corps, Mrs. John R. Caulk Jr. and Miss Francine Blessing Hammes, leaving the Park Plaza Hotel Thursday afternoon for Jefferson Barracks, where Miss Pickens sang for the patients at Station Hospital.
A group of soldiers attending 6:30 p.m. mass. The mass dispensation to hear mass after 12 noon was granted to army members by Pope Pius XII two weeks ago. Soldiers who receive communion are obliged to fast four hours from solid food and one hour from liquids before the mass begins. In this picture Lieut. Wolf, Catholic chaplain, celebrant of the mass, is about to distribute communion.
Official insignia of Jefferson Barracks will be patterned after this drawing, especially created for the purpose by Movie Cartoonist Walt Disney. The pugnacious-looking bee leaves a loop-the-loop trail to form the letter "J," first letter of the familiar Jay Bee appellation of the St. Louis post. In blue and gold, colors of the Army Air Forces of which Jefferson Barracks is a basic training center, the Disney-created emblem will be used in many ways to identify Jay Bee trainees.
New dress uniform for enlisted men is exhibited by Staff Sergeant George R. Johnson (second, left) Corp. Massengill (second, right) and Corp. George E. Francis (right). The general color scheme is the same, with the insignia in various colors indicating the branch of the service: light blue for the infantry, scarlet for the artillery and yellow for the calvary.
The colors approaching the reviewing officers yesterday afternoon at the 1175 youths of the Citizen's Military Training Camp at Jefferson Barracks hold regimental parade.
Company of the Citizens' Military Training Camp recruits who have been mustering in at Jefferson Barracks during the past three days for the 3o-day encampment.
View of the Jefferson Barracks, located south of the city limits, an old government reservation which was a soldier camp when troops were mustered in to fight the civil war. Located on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, its environs are scenically beautiful. This aerial views shows the parade ground, flanked by the barracks adn officers quarters.
Good neighbor salute was this review held at Jefferson Barracks yesterday in honor of Lieut. Gen. Manuel Tovarias, commander of the Chilean Air Force, and other high-ranking Chilean officers who were visitors there.
Jefferson Barracks, showing the old steps leading up from the river to the old administrative building. Established 30 years before there was a railroad in the vicinity, Jefferson Barracks was long dependent on the river for transportation. The hike up the bluff was a task for all men and equipment except gunpowder which was wheeled to the depot through a tunnel. These steps were one of three routes leading from the river landing and latterly the Iron Mountain (Missouri Pacific) railroad station to the barracks.
The Six Infantry (above) passing in review before its commanding officer, Col. Joseph A. Atkins, yesterday afternoon at Jefferson Barracks after the post had been inspected by Maj. Gen. Charles D. Herron, commanding the Sixth Corps area.
Buttons got a special shine yesterday at Jefferson Barracks, where Secretary of War, Harry H. Woodring inspected the Sixth Infantry. He is shown looking over one of the companies of the regiment with commanding officers of the barracks.
One of the newly-constructed grass greens on the course with (left to right) Capt. McCowan, Mrs. Van Zee, Lieut. O'Connell and Lieut. Van Zee holing out.