Osborne's Peak, Los Burros Trail, showing 170th Engineer Combat Battalion during maneuvers at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 21 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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1825. '3-22-44. Du Tiel. Pfc Ca mel Solis, Emporia, Kansas; and Pvt. Lauren Pederson, Hastings, Minn [Minnesota] both of Co 'C' 170th Engr., 3rd Corps, both of the Compressor Crew, are shown here drilling rock with a jackhammer. Five holes must be drilled on this job to accommodate the 18 to 20 pounds of 60% dynamite needed to clear the road through to the top of Osbornes Peak about two hundred yards S.W. T/5 Lewis Lehr is shown planting a fuse at the right and the Compressor Truck is shown in the background. Los Burros Trail. HLMR Mtn. Man. 168-9-44-574.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: Du Tiel. 22 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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