170th Engineer Combat Battalion Compressor crew checking fuses on dynamite charges at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 21 March 1944
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift in Memory of Maurice T. White, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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1830. '3-22-44. Du Tiel. View looking north from near the summit of Osborne's Peak, Los Burros Trail, HLMR showing C Co., 170th Engrs Compressor crew checking fuses on dynamite charges placed to clear the road. vehicle carrying compressor shown in background, also main fuse line is visible. The charges are to be set off by using the blasing machine from the area near the jeep parked on the hill behind the compressor truck. HLMR Mtn. Man. 168-9-44-579.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: Du Tiel. 22 March 1944
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From the collection of Maurice T. White, Captain in the 168th Signal Photographic Company, US Army Signal Corps. The collection consists of 2,000+ images of training exercises, predominantly documenting the 81st Infantry Division in the United States in 1944
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Fort Hunter Liggett
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35.917
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121.250
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Soldiers--American--California
Military vehicles--American--California
Explosives
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