In 1917, as the war in Europe was slowly drawing in the United States, a student dropped out of Princeton University because he was more interested in writing than grades. That young man was F. Scott Fitzgerald. He signed up for the Army and received a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant, ending up with the 67th Infantry at Camp Sheridan, Alabama, where he joined in for these group portraits in October 1918. The Great War ended before he could ship out, but his time in Alabama proved eventful when he met a southern belle by the name of Zelda Sayre, the youngest daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge. Their love would be a guiding force in Fitzgerald’s glorious and tragic life.
An old-school racist enjoys a smoke at a Klu Klux Klan rally in Montgomery, Alabama. December 10, 1967. Photo by Jim Peppler. Courtesy of the Alabama Dept. of History & Archives.
Klansmen march in a Klu Klux Klan rally in Montgomery, Alabama. December 10, 1967. Photo by Jim Peppler. Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives & History.
Patton, Bradley, and Montgomery sharing a laugh (lol no) somewhere in the ETO, July 1944
