This weathered clipping from Edward P. McAleer's wartime scrapbook shows trainees scaling and leaping from a wooden obstacle tower, part of the rigorous physical conditioning programs used to prepare airmen and soldiers for the demands of military service. The hand-drawn green ink marks were likely added by McAleer himself to point out his own image or that of a fellow trainee among the anonymous silhouetted figures - a small but telling gesture of personal connection to a mass-produced training photograph. Project: 218146