An infantryman runs with a flamethrower in training at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1942

U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. An infantryman runs with a flamethrower, a camouflaged soldier behind him also carries a flamethrower or possibly TNT in training. "Flame-thrower charging up through a gap in barb-wire entanglement. Man wit charge of TNT for blowing up pillbox is following." [Fort Benning, Georgia. 1942]

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Date: 
1942
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
Geography: 
Fort Benning
Latitude: 
32.350
Longitude: 
-84.967
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Military camps--American--Georgia
Flamethrowers--Georgia