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Title: Missouri Editors Learned Camouflage Technique
Date: 1943-07-11, 1943-07-11
Description: 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.

Title: Mother's Day At The Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1942-05-11, 1942-05-11
Description: 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.

Title: New Recreation Hall
Date: 1943, 1943
Description: 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.

Title: He Knows His Onions--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: 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.

Title: 'What Would You Do?' Asks Maj.-Gen. Drum--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1938-05-28, 1938-05-28
Description: 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.

Title: Another Day, Another Shave--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: "We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards, too, but single men in barracks, most remarkable like you." runs one of Kipling's poems. These two soldiers, performing their abulutions at Jefferson Barracks, give truth to the word as they look most familiar at these everyday tasks.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Golf Club
Date: 1935-05-12, 1935-05-12
Description: The three most interested parties in the advancement of the club. Left to right: Capt. R. S. Henderson, in charge of construction and a member of the Executive Committee; Johnny Pepp, professional, and Lieut. Regnier.

Title: Citizens' Military Training Camp at Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1936-07-22, 1936-07-22
Description: 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.

Title: Good Neighbor Salute
Date: 1943-11-02, 1943-11-02
Description: 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.

Title: Soup's On at Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: Cook filling a soon-to-be-empty platter with slices of meat. Recruits are assigned regular terms at waiting on the tables. And their "customers," hale and hearty fellows, boast of appetites of considerable proportions.

Title: Rowboats
Date: 1942-09-24, 1942-09-24
Description: One of the hostesses does the rowing while the others simply sit back and relax.

Title: Soldiers At Jefferson Barracks Sing As They March Along Post Grounds
Date: 1944-04-09, 1944-04-09
Description: At Jefferson Barracks, the Army Air Forces No.1 basic training center, teaching a soldier to sing is considered just as important as teaching him to shoot straight. Photo (above) shows the twenty-third training group singing while on the march. Reaching every activity, the program enables soldiers to march farther and faster with less fatigue, the army has found.

Title: The 8-Foot By 24-Foot Mural By Sergt. George H. Schneider
Date: 1942-11-26, 1942-11-26
Description: Creator of the much admired militrary painting which hangs in the Service Club at Jefferson Barracks. Sergt. Schneider received the order to paint the picture from Col. Allen Kimberly, Post Commandment, and his predecessor, Col. Frederick F. Christine. Marching troops, tanks and ships have their place in the painting, as well as eight planes--bombers and pursuit ships.

Title: Soldiers' Food
Date: 1943-04-17, 1943-04-17
Description: Soldiers' food, served yesterday at noon mess to 125 St. Louis AFL and CIO labor leaders on a tour of Jefferson Barracks to see how civilians are transformed into fighting men, was enthuastically received. Yesterday's menu consisted of soup, lamb roast, potatoes, spinach, slaw, coffee, and cake.

Title: Toughening Experience
Date: 1942-04-04, 1942-04-04
Description: Jefferson Barracks soldiers on an obstacle race, clear though a 5-foot trench.

Title: Three United Soldiers Of Foreign Nationality Receive Citizenship
Date: 1942-06-09, 1942-06-09
Description: Federal Judge Charles B. Davis is shown bestowing American citizenship to three United States soldiers of foreign nationality who applied yesterday under the new law entitling them to citizenship after three months' service in this country's armed forces. Judge Davis commented, "we are touched by your aspiration and devotion." Taking the oath are, from the left: Corp. Jiri Hermann, a Czech; Corp. Gerald H. Loew, an Austrian and Private Gabriel Lazar, a Czech. Court Clerk John Jarvis is reading the oath of citizenship. These Jefferson Barracks soldiers were the first to apply for citizenship here under the new law.

Title: They "Double In Brass"
Date: 1942, 1942
Description: With these twin buglers serving at reveille, U. S. Army Air Corps soldiers may have still less excuse for late rising. Twin brothers, Roger and Al of Cincinatti, are playing in Jefferson Barracks' Drum and Bugle Corps and the Rambling Rookies dance band. Al (left) enlisted to join his brother at this Air Corps replacement training center.

Title: Miss Pickens Sings To Soldiers
Date: 1942-08-23, 1942-08-23
Description: Miss Pickens sings to the soldier boys in front of the Station Hospital at Jefferson Barracks.

Title: The Wednesday Club Of St.Louis
Date: 1942-08-09, 1942-08-09
Description: The Wednesday Club of St. Louis on Tuesday formally turned over two new recreation rooms at Jefferson Barracks which it had furnished to the boys of the 356th Technical School Squadron. From the left: Mrs. Arretus F. Burt, chairman of the Federated Club Committee; Mrs. Lewis Haslam, president of the Wednesday Club, presenting the key to the rooms to Maj. V. L. Glines of the school squadron, and Mrs. Allen Kimberly, wife of Col. Kimberly.

Title: Conducting The Services
Date: 1944-09-25, 1944-09-25
Description: Conducting the services was Chaplain Wilburn C. Small of Jefferson Barracks. To the left is Col. E. Anderson, commanding officer of the post, who also spoke.

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