A soldier receives a message over a receiver-transmitter set during mountain maneuvers at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 22 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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1842. '3-22-44. J. P. Johnson. Cpl J. L. Roberts of Battery C, 609th F.A., 71st L. Div., receives range corrections and other data over Receiver-Transmitter set, from computer phone at 609th C. P. who in turn receives the information from observers, and through switchboard. Cpl. Roberts will relay messages to gun positions close by, verbally. Receiver-Transmitter set is used only until a field phone is connected from C.P. Hill #3905. HLMR Mtn. Man. 168-9-44-591.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: J. P. Johnson. 22 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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Soldiers--American--California
Communication devices--California