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Plattsburgh - 1917 (Read 1920 times)
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Plattsburgh - 1917
Aug 25th, 2019 at 3:06pm
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While recently searching for Krag photographs (online) at the 'New York Heritage Digital Collections' site, I copied these photographs taken in 1917.
The location is Plattsburgh Barracks, near Lake Champlain (a good lake, but, not a Great Lake), N.Y.

Uniforms and rifles had changed, but, the Range Firing-Line, target butts, and cleaning routine were likely similar in the Krag Era.

These aspects of military life were not commonly photographed. I thought they were worth sharing.

I'm surprised some of the 'marksmen' were not 'chewed-out' and were allowed to violate the Firing-Line. (There's a leg and some arms across the line).

I like the 'cleaning bench' and the 'scorer's benches'.
  
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Re: Plattsburgh - 1917
Reply #1 - Aug 25th, 2019 at 5:21pm
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I love all the historical information in this forum.  Keep it up.
  
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