Captain Roger B. Whitman, U.S. Signal Corp
1918
The explosion of a balloon at Fort Sill (Oklahoma)

Gelatin silver print, mounted with typed caption
U.S. Army
U. S. Signal Corp, 15460
 
This is an example of the rationale behind American military censorship during the First World War.
 
Included in - Lieut. Col. Kendall Banning, Signal Reserve Corps, U.S.A., 1926, The Military Censorship of Pictures: Photographs that came under the ban during the World War - and why, (Typescript)
www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/photos.pdf
 
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