Explosive damage shown during training at Fort Benning, Georgia on 9 October 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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1682. '9 Oct 44. Johnson. Experiment by TPS Demolition School, Ft Benning, Ga, shows effect of charge from rocket head HE AT M6A3 on a steel block. Slight indentation at left is results of charge without metal cone. At right is hole made using cone. Both Charges fired with stand off distance. 168-L-44-16402.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: Johnson. 9 October 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
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Explosives--Georgia
Steel--Georgia