US serviceman aiming .50 caliber machinegun mounted on a 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage/ M7 Priest during training exercises at San Luis Obispo, California on14 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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873. US serviceman aiming .50 caliber machinegun mounted on a 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage/ M7 Priest during training exercises. '3-14-44. DuTiel. Sgt Robt Adamson of Kansas City, Mo. [Missouri] and Pfc Thos Brennan of Greenwich Village, N. Y. [New York] watching planes strafing mutual objective. The men are at their posts topside of an M-7. They are from the 2nd Sec of 1st Platn. Cannon Co 323rd Inf, 81st Div, which participated in 1st Bn attack exercises. Area 1-A, Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif. 168-L-44-871.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: DuTiel. Camp San Luis Obispo, California. 14 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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San Luis Obispo
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35.267
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-120.650
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Military training--California
Soldiers--American--California
Tanks (Military science)--American--California
Machine guns--California
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