671st Ordnance Ammunition Company personnel loading shell cases and 'Cloverleafs' with sand at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 24 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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1918. '3-24-44. Boll. 671st Ord Amm Co at Jolon. 671st personnel loading shell cases and 'Cloverleafs' with sand. These are used by the 71st and 89th Divisions to simulate the weight of live ammunition. Sandbags are now being used instead of the shell cases because of the large number of the latter that have been lost. 168-9-44-668.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: Boll. 24 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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Ammunition--California