A machine gunner
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This photograph is part of the online exhibit, “Wildcats Never Quit: North Carolina in World War I" and is published courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives.
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- North Carolina in the early 20th century: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the first decades of the twentieth century (1900–1929). Topics include changes in technology and transportation, Progressive Era reforms, World War I, women's suffrage, Jim Crow and African American life, the cultural changes of the 1920s, labor and labor unrest, and the Gastonia stirke of 1929. (Page 3.2)
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A machine gunner from the 115th Machine Gun Battalion, 30th Division takes aim as he sits next to another soldier on an earthen ledge of a trench. The 30th Division was named “Old Hickory Division” for President Andrew Jackson.
