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PIC: Valley Forge Military Academy – 1968 Parade 📷 (Color vs Black & White Photo Comparison)

Black & White Photo -- Graduation Parade - 1969 - Note the size of D & I Troop and E Battery, as well as the 'Infantry" companies.

Color Photo -- 1968 Parade -- Had these nearly every week, once the snow was gone. Note Band in whites in foreground and Field Music in whites in left. Color Photo -- 1968 Parade -- Had these nearly every week, once the snow was gone. Note Band in whites in foreground and Field Music in …

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Lieutenant General Milton G. Baker, Valley Forge Military Academy Founder, Dead at 79 (New York Times Obituary – August 7, 1976)

Lieutenant General Milton G. Baker Dead (New York Times Obituary - August 7, 1976)

AUGUST. 7, 1976 Military funeral services were held yesterday at the Valley Forge Military Academy and Junior College for Lieut. Gen. Milton G. Baker, who founded the institution in Wayne, Pa., in 1928 and retired as supetintendent in 1971. His age was 79.General Baker died in his home, “Crossed Sabres,” in Wayne last Saturday.The services …

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