Introduction

The Student Army Training Corps was designed to give young men an opportunity to get an education and serve their country at the same time by military training. Units were established in colleges of any size all over the United States. Section A, Student Army Training Corps (S.A.T.C.), at the State University in Missoula, Montana, was established on October 1, 1918 and ended on December 18, 1918.

The photograph album of the Student Army Training Corps of the State University of Montana (now the University of Montana-Missoula) provides visual documentation of the university campus, Corps housing, officers, new arrivals, formal poses of Companies A, B, and C, the S.A.T.C band, classes held outdoors during the influenza epidemic, trench construction, bayonet drill, field work, and bridge building. The scrapbook is located in the Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. Comments and questions regarding the exhibit can be sent to library.archives@umontana.edu