US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. 11 Marine Reservists, in uniform with rifles, lined up to board train, with 3 officers at right, 1 on stool looking into train, with about 6 other men looking out train windows Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, November 6, 1933, Thousands View “Battle,” Marine Reserves Rout “Enemy” at Mines Field in Land and Air Maneuvers. Approximately 15,000 persons witnessed spectacular landing maneuvers by the First Battalion of the Twenty-Fifth Reserve Marines at El Segundo yesterday … commanded by Maj. John J. Flynn …Those directing the battle under Maj. Flynn were Capt. Joseph P. Sproul, executive officer; Capt. O.E. Jensen, commander of B Company, and Capt. H.W. Card, commander of D Company. Handwritten at edge of negative: 1st batt - 25th reg M.C. Reserves Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Sproule, James Judge
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
2929 uclamss_1429_2929 ark:/21198/zz002cm1hz
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Militias--California Transportation War United States. Marine Corps Reserve
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