• Interior of a YMCA hut set up for Romanian soldiers in Wallachia in 1917 by American YMCA secretaries. The civilian standing to the right is one of the American Red Triangle workers who volunteered for service in the kingdom after the United States entered the war and the Association expanded war work service to Allied soldiers across Europe. Source: For the Millions of Men Now Under Arms, 2:13 (10 June 1918): 26D.

Source: For the Millions of Men Now Under Arms, 2:13 (10 June 1918): 26D.

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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