A soldier aims a Browning Automatic Rifle, Fort Benning, 1942

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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Mittelstaedt"s movement:

A soldier in glasses aims a Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) as two other soldiers look on. "Combat infantrymen and combat photographers train together at Ft. Benning, GA (1942)". Fort Benning, Georgia (1942) 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: 
Machine guns--American--Georgia
Soldiers--American--Georgia
Camouflage (Military science)--Georgia