Six soldiers suiting up, some in a camouflage pattern not used during WWII, at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1942
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
Description:
From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Six soldiers suiting up, some in a camouflage pattern not used during WWII. The soldier to the left wears a flamethrower, and there is a bazooka on the ground. "Combat infantrymen and combat photographers train together at Ft. Benning, GA (1942). "Flame-throwers in camouflaged suits they creep up on pillboxes and send fire and flame into the opening so that the enemy can't shoot out. Then another man takes TNT and places it against the pillbox and blows it to pieces." Fort Benning, Georgia. 1942
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1942
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
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Fort Benning
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32.350
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-84.967
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Military camps--American--Georgia
Camouflage (Military science)--Georgia
Flamethrowers--Georgia