Three Women in Gas Masks
This file appears in: Fort Des Moines: Chronology
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. These three WAACs are shown with their gas masks on during gas mask drill. Fort Des Moines, Iowa
This file appears in: Fort Des Moines: Chronology
Fort Des Moines: Chronology
1901 Construction begins on the 400-acre base Fort Des Moines on Des Moines’ South Side.1903-1904 Two companies of the all-black U.S. Army 25th Infantry surprise Des Moines’ local citizens by arriving instead of white cavalry. The 25th had been…