US serviceman with a machinegun during training exercises in Morro Bay, California on 26 February 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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706. US serviceman firing a .30 caliber water cooled machinegun during training exercises. '2-26-44. Henschel. Heavy machine gun, Cal 30, of simulated enemy from H. Co, 322nd Inf, holds off landing party from 1st Bn, 322nd Inf as they try to take beachhead. 168-L-44-704.' Photographer: Henschel. Morro Bay, California. 26 February 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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Morro Bay
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35.350
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-120.833
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Military training--California
Machine guns--American--California