• French soldiers sit and stand outside of a Foyer du Soldat somewhere in France after a heavy snow fall. These men preferred to spend their leisure time at the YMCA instead of pursuing a variety of social vices available to soldiers in wartime France. Source: For the Millions of Men Now Under Arms, 2:11 (1 June 1917): 26A.

Source: For the Millions of Men Now Under Arms, 2:11 (1 June 1917): 26A.

From Pursuit of an "unparalleled opportunity": American YMCA and prisoner of war diplomacy among the Central Power nations during World War I, 1914-1923 by Kenneth Steuer

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