Soldiers firing a machine gun at Fort Benning, Georgia on 12 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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1484. '12 July 44. Ecklund. Candidates Wm. R. Wright, firing; E. Z. Crowley, coach, are acting as a team while they fire a 30 cal. water cooled machine gun mounted in a ton Ford as they fire at a OQ2A Radio plane at Galloway Range, Ft. Benning, Ga. They are members of class 349A at O.C.S. 168-L-44-1824.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: Ecklund. 12 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:
Soldiers--American--Georgia
Military training--Georgia
Machine guns--American--Georgia