Bayonet and stick used as splint for broken arm during training maneuvers at San Luis Obispo, California on 27 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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944. Bayonet and stick used as splint for broken arm during training maneuvers. '3-27-44. Paik. Emergency treatment for broken arm on Cpl. Clarence Mattson of CO.K.3rd Bn. 323 Inf. 81st Div. Bajonet [sic] and small tree limb are used immobilize broken arm. Copl. Mattson is from Marianette, Wis. 168-L-44-1015.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: Paik. Camp San Luis Obispo, California. 27 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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San Luis Obispo
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35.267
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-120.650
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Military training--California
Soldiers--American--California
Medical aspects of war--California