A soldier clamping on W130 wire to a EE8A to be used as a local staff installation 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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1879. '3-24-44. Ecklund. M/Sgt J G Soffer, right, is connecting the W130 wire to an improvised Terminal strip that T/5 W.T.Gardner, center, and Pfc R. B. Kirkpatrick, left, holding a reel unit RL39, have connected to an EE8A 150 yards away. These men are from a wife OPN section of the 89 Sig Platoon and are working at the new location of 89 Div CP near Hill 2280. HLMR Mtn. Man. 168-9-44-629.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: Ecklund. 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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