Soldiers at Camp Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts, receiving instructions on breaking a drowning man's hold during training. Sgt. Joe Hits took this photograph on July 23, 1920. It was later published in Eco Magazine on August 2, 1920, with the description and identification number (69,040).

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