Camp Hancock Formation

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This military formation, shown from an aerial view circa 1918, included 22,500 soldiers and 600 machine guns to replicate the insignia of the Machine Gun Training Center at Camp Hancock, near Augusta.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Camp Hancock Formation

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