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Sergeant Presley: Photographs of Elvis’ Time with the Army

Unwritten Record

Here in the Still Picture Branch at the National Archives, we have a handful of photographs within our holdings that show a glimpse into Elvis’ time with the military. Army’ 3rd Armd Div Winter Shield Exercise plan the day’s reconnaissance during field exercise in Bavaria in West Germany.

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Wings for This Man: Celebrating the Tuskegee Airmen

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The country needed to quickly increase the number of soldiers in the military while also increasing the production of wartime goods and manufacturing. Army Air Forces, was the first military unit to be made up entirely of Hollywood professionals. Other parts of their training are also depicted, such as flight simulation and exercise.

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New Director of Records Management Training

National Archives Records Express

While I have seen National Treasure, most of what I knew about NARA was through the museum and exhibits at Archives I downtown. I first became involved in the training field during my time in the military. In my free time I enjoy working out and most days you can find me doing some form of exercising.

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Student Societies of Amherst Academy & Their Questions

Archives Blogs

Most meeting minutes don’t read like this, and it seems likely that Sapis/Stone was exercising his writing muscles and ability for tongue-in-cheek prose with this first notebook entry. Have military heroes been beneficial to the world?”. Ought Quakers to be compelled to do military duty?”. Is deception justifiable in any case?”.

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An Update on Still Picture Catalog Additions

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Though our research rooms remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, National Archives staff have been diligently working from home to make records more accessible to the public. Army Signal Corps Photographs Of Military Activity During World War II and The Korean Conflict. 111-SCA: U.S. 111-SCA has not been fully digitized.