Signal Corps Trainee Rigging a Field Antenna in Snow, 1950s

Somewhere in a Cold War training area, a soldier in a wool cap and field jacket stands ankle-deep in snow, frowning at a bent sapling as though it has personally failed him. It has: the tree is doing service as an improvised antenna mast, wire strung taut between it and its neighbors in the confident manner of a man who has been told this will reliably reach battalion headquarters.