Scouts Training for Civilian Defense

Creator

Tom Dillard

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Identifier

20050620

Description

Boy Scouts throughout Fort Worth, Texas, are undergoing civilian defense training. To gain membership in the Emergency Service Corps, they must learn first aid, signaling, message transmission, emergency feeding, and water purification. Practicing first aid under blackout conditions, left to right, are Seascouts Earl Gammons and James Van Buskirk. Mr. Gammons is administering first aid in pitch darkness, except for the small glow of a blackout lantern. The photograph was snapped using blackout flashbulbs, a new technique that gives off no visible light, but instead uses infrared rays. This exercise is the fourth in a series of training activities. The Emergency Service Corps would serve as the civilians' first line of defense in case of bombing war in the country.

Archival Date

1941-10-24

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-1431

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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License

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Subjects

Gammons, Earl; Van Buskirk, James; Emergency Service Corps; Electric power failures; Civil defense