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Two Coast Guard Reserves Trainees, one wearing a mask and the other looking down the barrel of his gun, appear to be inspecting their equipment, at the Hotel Ponce de Leon Training Center during WWII.

The families of the Coastguard Reserves trainees exit through the front gates of the Hotel Ponce de Leon, St. Augustine, FL

Weekly magazine produced with the soldier in mind full of contemporary articles of Army life at home and abroad between 1942 and 1945. There are also cartoons and a "Mail Call" section where soldiers have written into the magazine with comments.…

Aerial photo of the Camp Blanding Station Hospital and Reception-Induction Center, with Kingsley Lake in the background.

U.S. Servicemen posed in the courtyard of the Castillo de San Marcos.

U.S servicemen standing on the Castillo de San Marcos gun deck, in front of the bell tower

U.S. servicemen standing on the gundeck of the Castillo de San Marcos, looking at the Matanzas Bay

U.S. servicemen pretending to fire a large iron cannon on the gundeck of the Castillo de San Marcos

U.S. Coast Guard Cavalryman on horseback on the grounds of the Castillo de San Marcos. The Coast Guard patrolled remote stretches of the Atlantic Coast, including NE Florida, on horseback. They often patrolled on foot and with dogs in the more urban…

U.S. Coast Guard Indoctrination Ceremony. Officers in dark uniforms standing at attention on the Castillo de San Marcos gundeck.