Members of the advanced swimming instructors class learn to float a stretcher and patient at Fort Benning, Georgia on 11 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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1431. '11 July 44. Boll. By inflating their wet clothing members of the advanced swimming instructors class learn to float a stretcher and patient at Russ Pool, Fort Benning, Ga.[Georgia] 168-L-44-1755.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: Boll. 11 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:
Soldiers--American--Georgia
Swimming pools--Georgia
Litters--Georgia
Medical aspects of war--Georgia
Military training--Georgia