LCM during training exercises at Morro Bay, California on 26 February 1944
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift in Memory of Maurice T. White, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
Description:
US servicemen in a 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 'Priest' inside an LCM [Landing Craft, Mechanized] nearing beach during training exercises. "2-26-44. Hussey. M-7 coming off LCM for 105mm 'softening up' of Yellow Beach. 322nd Inf. [322nd Infantry Regiment], 1st Bn. 168-L-44-686." Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: Hussey. Morro Bay, California. 26 February 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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Morro Bay
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35.350
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-120.833
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Military training--California
Landing craft--American--California