“Soccer team of British soldiers with gas masks, World War I, somewhere in Northern France, 1916.”

Sergeant George Camblair wearing M1A2 Service Gas Mask while undergoing smokescreen training, Fort Belvoir, VA, September 1942

GI in Photo Booth, 1950 by Harold Feinstein

Russian soldiers wearing costumes for an impromptu performance behind the lines during a lull in the World War I fighting, March 22, 1916

demons:

Signal Corps photographer Sam Vestal of Stars and Stripes somewhere in the ETO.

After the war Vestal would later go on to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for the Register-Pajaronian newspaper in California after taking a photograph at gunpoint to expose a corrupt District Attorney. He also took some of the most iconic photographs of the 1950s and 60s. He died at the age of 70 in 2002.

Sergeant Leonard George Siffleet’s beheading during WWII

Benjamin Piatt Runkle, age 21, c. 1857.  Union general and as the founder of the Sigma Chi fraternity, the original frat boy.