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1953, Fort Riley, Kansas. Master Sergent Charles Brown with Masquerader, a 1936 Olympic jumper. The Army sent many of its retired show horses and cavalry horses to Ft. Riley after the demobilization of the U.S. mounted forces in the early 1950s.
1953, Fort Riley, Kansas. Master Sergent Charles Brown with Masquerader, a 1936 Olympic jumper. The Army sent many of its retired show horses and cavalry horses to Ft. Riley after the demobilization of the U.S. mounted forces in the early 1950s.

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1953, Fort Riley, Kansas. Master Sergent Charles Brown with Masquerader, a 1936 Olympic jumper. The Army sent many of its retired show horses and cavalry horses to Ft. Riley after the demobilization of the U.S. mounted forces in the early 1950s.
Horse and rider both wearing gas masks.
A shot of the inside of a typical WWII barracks in 1941. Nearly 125,000 men stayed in barracks like these at Ft. Riley during WWII.