Merle Hunter ©Stars and StripesHohenfels, West Germany, May, 1956: Soldiers at a machine-gun emplacement try to cope with rain and hunger during an exercise at the U.S. training area at Hohenfels. Hundreds of troops were divided into "aggressor" and "defender" forces as they worked out a problem under the watchful eyes of a group of umpires.

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