Four 75mm pack Howitzer gun positions at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 24 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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1850. '3-24-44. J. P. Johnson. C Battery, 609th F.A., 71st L. Div., on rearward slope of Ridge East of Hill #3509. There are four 75mm pack How. Gun positions here, only one of which is firing, due to a lack of water supply for cleaning. Pack mules could not haul enough water up the steep, 5 mile long fire break trail. HLMR Mtn. Man. 168-9-44-599.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: J. P. Johnson. 24 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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