"Soldiers at Camp Devens, Ayer, Massachusetts, demonstrate a lifesaving exercise during training. The image captures a soldier rescuing a drowning man and breaking the hold of the drowning man in the water. The photograph was taken on July 23, 1920, and has the identification number 69,033."

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