81st Infantry Division soldiers taking hill during training exercises at San Luis Obispo, California on 14 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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860. 81st Infantry Division soldiers taking hill during training exercises. '3-14-44. Wallis. First Platoon, Co D, 1st Bn, 323rd Inf, 81st Div, covers the advance of the Inf with rifle and machine gun fire on Area 1-A during a field problem at Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif. Advancing Inf is approx 100 yds below the 1st Platoon and are not pictured. 168-L-44-858.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: Wallis. 14 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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San Luis Obispo
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35.267
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-120.650
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Military training--California
Soldiers--American--California
Rifles--American--California
Machine guns--California
Hills--American--California