Military Training at Camp Gordon

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During World War I General John Pershing insisted that U.S. troops, pictured here in 1917 near Camp Gordon in DeKalb County, learn open warfare techniques as well as European-style trench warfare.

Courtesy of Atlanta History Center, Photograph by Kenneth Rogers.

Military Training at Camp Gordon

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