Bulldozer fitted to front of tank at Fort Benning, Georgia on 8 July 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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1352. '8 July 44. Cherry. Bull-dozer on M4 medium tank (this is something new). Bull-dozer can be attached to tank quickly and detached quickly. Bull-dozer on tank enables tank to do work done by a regular bull-dozer such as clearing obstacles from roads, barbed wire and even repairing raods. Tank can be readied for battle within a few minutes by dropping bull-dozer. Taken during infantry-tank problem 448 in Fort Benning, Georgia reservation. 168-L-44-1632.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: Cherry. Fort Benning, Georgia. 8 July 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 Benning
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32.350
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-84.967
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Tanks (Military science)--American--Georgia
Bulldozers--Georgia
Soldiers--American--Georgia
Adaptive reuse--Georgia
Rural areas--Georgia