An ordnance man test fires a 60mm mortar following repairs at Cape Gloucester, New Britain in September 1944
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. An ordnance man test fires a 60mm mortar following repairs, several rounds lie on canvas behind him. "Ordnance officers test fire mortar, New Britain." Cape Gloucester, New Britain. September 1944
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1944-09-
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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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Gloucester, Cape
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Soldiers--American--New Britain
Mortars (Ordnance)--New Britain
Military officers--American--New Britain