A member of a quartermaster truck guides a truck to a field grease pit at Fort Benning, Georgia on 6 July 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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1360. '6 July 44. Sharetts. A [African-American] member of 3535 Qm. Truck Co., 2nd Army, guides a 2 ton truck to a field grease pit which he is standing in. This pit was constructed as part of a Motor Maintenance in the Field by the 3535th while they were on Bivouac at Fort Benning, Georgia. 168-L-44-1640.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: Sharetts. 6 July 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 Benning
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32.350
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-84.967
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Trucks--American--Georgia
Soldiers--American--Georgia
Holes--Georgia