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U.S. Army Air Forces Barracks Area, Training Cantonment, WWII (345th Bombardment Group Photo Album)

U.S. Army Air Forces Barracks Area, Training Cantonment, WWII (345th Bombardment Group Photo Album)

Rows of wooden barracks line a frost-dusted walkway at a U.S. Army Air Forces training installation, photographed for a personal album belonging to a member of the 345th Bombardment Group. Before deploying to Pacific airfields such as Ie Shima, airmen of the 'Air Apaches' trained at cantonments like this one across the United States, living in simple wood-frame housing that would soon give way to tents and Quonset huts overseas. Project: 218226