A soldier receives a message over a receiver-transmitter set during mountain maneuvers at Hunter Liggett Military Reservation on 22 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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1834. '3-22-44. J. P. Johnson. Radio Cpl Owen Curren receives message over S.C.R. 284 A Receiver-Transmitter set at H.Q. and Service Battery C.P., 609th F.A., 71st L. Div., during mountain maneuvers, while PFC Jay Gaplan sits at hand cranked generator ready to transmit. This unit keeps contact with Div. Artillery, Infantry units, and advance patrols. As soon as field phone lines can be run to these units, the set is cut off and not used to avoid interception. HLMR Mtn. Man. 168-9-44-583.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: J. P. Johnson. 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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Soldiers--American--California
Communication devices--California