Make-shift cleaning a a 75mm Pack Howitzer bore with a wood ram and piece of dry gunny sack during mountain maneuvers 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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1854. '3-24-44. J. P. Johnson. PFC Walter Coogan, gun position #2, Battery C, 609th F.A., 71st L. Div., cleaning 75mm Pack How. Bore with wood ram and piece of dry gunny sack (only available material). Usually water and sal soda is used, but cargo mules cannot carry enough for a sufficient supply up the steep four mile firebreak trail to battery positions. During mountain maneuvers. HLMR Mtn. Man. 168-9-44-603.' 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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