Military education

Aerial photograph of Quantico Marine Base, Quantico, Virginia.

Group of unidentified Marines standing in front of a biplane at Quantico, Virginia. Two children are also in the photo, presumably standing next to their father.

Group of unidentified Marines working on a project at the Marine Corps School, Quantico, Virginia.

Marine infantrymen advance under cover of the amphibious and heavily armored landing craft as they approach a sham "enemy" concrete emplacement. This was taken at the Marine Corps Training School at Quantico, Virginia.

Naval pre-invasion bombardment, simulated by static demolitions, precedes the onslaught of the Marine amphibious invasion. Clouds of ominous smoke from the high explosives dissipate and conceal the "enemy" emplacements. This was taken at the Marine Corps Training School at Quantico, Virginia.

Bazooka men, highly specialized and exactingly trained assault men, prepare to send a rocket explosive shell screaming into an embrasure of the "enemy" concrete pillbox seen over the turret of the amphibious assault vehicle (upper right) in this photo, taken at the Marine Corps School at Quantico, Virginia.

A fiery blossom of death, the napalm jellied gasoline mixture is an aerial hot-foot well calculated to make destruction complete. Exploding with a lumpish "whoompf", the bomb completely consumes an "enemy" target as shown in this photo, taken at the Marine Corps Training School at Quantico, Virginia.

Unidentified United States Marine Corps officers and others at the Quantico, Virginia Base during a presentation of a Distinguished Flying Award to an officer.

Four Grumman F7F Tigercats begin to pull out of their dive after screaming in to attack their objective with simulated demolition bombs. A geyser of water and sand spouts skyward during the detonation. This was taken at the Marine Corps Training School at Quantico, Virginia.

Exploding in a whirl, four static demolition charges simulating bombardment by the four Grumman F7F Tigercats veering out of the photo (upper left), conceal the hypothetical targets in the middle foreground.