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Title: Jefferson Barracks - New Commander
Date: 1945-03-05, 1945-03-05
Description: "Work Area: These are the officers who will call the shots. Big boss is Maj. John Del Eason (center at desk), formerly of the Sixth Infantry, which was stationed at the Barracks for years. He has returned "home" to take command of the induction center."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Mule Care
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: "He Gets A Kick Out Of This - After a few months of disciplinary training at the Barracks, army life loses some of its original "kick," but the boys who are charged with caring for the mules always have it in potentiality at least. Here is one of the kickers taking a drink outside the stable."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Air Corps Photo of Grounds
Date: 1941, 1941
Description: "Air view of Jefferson Barracks, infantry post south of St. Louis for more than one hundred years, to be taken over by Air Corps."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Veal for Lunch
Date: 1937-06-06, 1937-06-06
Description: "For That Empty Feeling - Veal is the victim of the day as the cook prepares for the healthy appetites at Jefferson Barracks. The cameraman was invited to lunch. "We eat at 12 o'clock," the commander said, "and when soldier boys say they eat at 12 o'clock, they do."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Pre-1900 Soldiers' Quarters
Description: "Barracks where recruits are quartered - built before turn of century."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Cooking
Date: 1941-03-02, 1941-03-02
Description: "The modern army cook must forget the can opener and specialize in roasts and such other dishes as would catch the fancy of a master in the art. This is Private Eugene la Rouque of Cawker City, Kan., a student chef at Jefferson Barracks."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Fingerprinting Instruction
Date: 1940-11-17, 1940-11-17
Description: A recruit receiving instruction in fingerprinting from a senior officer. All draftees will be fingerprinted by clerks.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Executive Officer
Date: 1941-01, 1941-01
Description: Photo of Capt. I. G. Siemens, Executive Officer of Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - 'Groundwork!'
Date: 1941-03-02, 1941-03-02
Description: "This recruit, Glenn P. Thoreson of Proctor, Minn., figured it would be pretty interesting learning about planes and how to fly them at the Army Air Corps recruit training center at Jefferson Barracks. Yes, that's what Glenn figured, and he figured it right except - well, he also has a bit of woodpile work to do along with his air training. And he's really not as disgusted as he looks, because the plane training makes up for jobs like this."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Parade for Visitors
Date: 1941-09-15, 1941-09-15
Description: "Recruits Parade for Visitors at Barracks: Air Corps replacement recruits in training at Jefferson Barracks showed snap and precision yesterday as they passed in review before the post commander and his staff and 15,000 visitors who were present for open-house ceremonies there."

Title: New Jefferson Barracks Reception Center
Date: 1941-11, 1941-11
Description: Image of new Post Exchange Reception Center at Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Parade Spectators
Date: 1941-09-15, 1941-09-15
Description: "Part of the 15,000 Spectators: Part of the crowd at the open house at the Barracks watching a parade of the soldiers. Well represented in the group are parents, sweethearts and small brothers and sisters of the soldiers."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Mess Hall
Date: 1941-03-02, 1941-03-02
Description: "The biggest camp worry is "how soon is chow?" Gone are the days of "corn willie" and "slumgullion." Uncle Sam's soldiers are reputed to be the best fed in the world."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Post and Supply Officers
Date: 1941-01, 1941-01
Description: "New office of Capt. C. D. Stumpf (at left), post inspector, and Capt. M. S. Ferguson, supply officer."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Tent City
Date: 1941-03-02, 1941-03-02
Description: "A City In Itself - This is a partial view of the tented community at Jefferson Barracks, where Uncle Sam has about 4000 of his boys getting their preliminary training in the ground work of the air corps. Compared to pre-conscription days, you'd never recognize the area. With the population of the camp considerably more than tripled, there's a constant buzz of activity as hundreds of eager youths arrive daily to do their bit for the nation's defense program. Coming here unassigned, they are sent on to technical schools, usually within 30 days, where they learn the fundamentals of everything from photography and mechanics to parachute rigging and meteorology."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Christmas Dinner
Date: 1940-12-26, 1940-12-26
Description: "Uncle Sam-ta Claus served a Christmas dinner of turkey, ham, cranberries, vegetables, fruit cake, pie, soup and cigars at his fast-growing army posts yesterday. Jefferson Barracks recruits are getting their dinners at the mess hall assembly line in this picture. They are wearing their raincoats. Christmas Day leave started right after dinner."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Gas Demonstration
Date: 1938-05-28, 1938-05-28
Description: "The ' Gas House Gang' Near Second Base - A Sixth Infantry unit is shown as it charged through a wall of gas, with masks at place and guns at ready. A strong wind complicated the gas demonstration considerably. Center foreground is second base on the barracks baseball diamond."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Skating Event
Date: 1941-03-22, 1941-03-22
Description: Skating party put on for soldiers at the Winter Garden. "Mrs. J. E. George, 4918 Clifton ave, one of the hostesses, is skating with Private Melvin E. Boewe from West. Salem, Ill."

Title: Jefferson Barracks - U.S.O. Event
Date: 1941, 1941
Description: Soldiers and hostesses enjoy themselves at a United Service Organization event at Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Induction Center Opening
Date: 1940-11-17, 1940-11-17
Description: "Capt. John R. Andie (left), in charge of the newly established induction center for draftees at Jefferson Barracks, going over plans for reception of the first 292 next week,with Lieut. Harmon J. Barton Jr. (center), transport officer, and Lieut. Robert L. Kasha, chief surgeon. The center was opened last Tuesday."

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