Barracks interior with three members of the newly-formed 1st Machine Gun Battalion at Quantico, taken sometime between September and December 1917 by a member of the battalion, Alpheus Appenheimer. In December, this battalion would sail on the USS DeKalb to St Nazaire, France, from where, in the first days of 1918, it would ride a boxcar train across France to the Bourmont training area in the foothills of the Vosges Mountains to join in the formation of the 4th Brigade of Marines, 2nd Division, A.E.F. Shortly after joining the division, they would be redesignated the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, and would serve with prominence in all the engagements of the brigade until the war's end. To the machine gunners of this battalion would go the distinction of repulsing the initial German assaults on Marine positions in the opening days of the Battle of Belleau Wood. This shot shows beds made up for the day, with blankets folded at head, campaign hats hanging from wall, and pack equipment hanging at the foot of many of the beds. From the side of one bed, right foreground, the muzzle end of an '03 Springfield can just be seen suspended by a cord. Other equipment plainly visible are packs, canteens, bayonets and what appear to be large bolo knives in scabbords. At the back of the barrack, one Marine sits quietly, looking at the camera, while behind him two Marines practice fighting stances with rifles and bayonets.

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