Firearms Instruction
1942 - 1945

Besides communications training, the OSS also practiced weaponry in the park. They constructed ten weapons ranges in the park for this reason. Depicted here is Marine Major Albert Jenkins, the commanding officer for Area C, training recruits on the pistol range. Maj. Jenkins sometimes personally instructed trainees in the use of the .45 caliber automatic pistol as he did here in December 1943. On the extreme left are Martin Lubowsky from Pittsburgh, half in the picture, James Bisaccia from the Bronx, holding up a pistol. and Col Mulford, weapons instructor.

Paper. L 8, W 10 in
National Archives and Records Administration, NARA RG 226(2)