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Bonus Army volunteers voting to go home, Ideal Park near Johnstown PA, August 3, 1932.
Credit: Image donated by Corbis - Bettmann
Driven out of the nation's capital at bayonet point, more than 4,000 broke and disheartened Bonus Army marchers spent the better part of two weeks in a makeshift encampment near Ideal Park, an amusement park near Johnstown, before returning to their homes.