Camera plane takes 790 square miles in one shot
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Camera plane takes 790 square miles in one shot
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Title: Camera plane takes 790 square miles in one shot
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IN SPITE of mechanization,
the Army mule still has work
to do. Part of it is carrying
the latest type of 75-mm.
howitzer in rough country
where wheeled or tracked ve-
hicles would be helpless.
This gun breaks down into
six pieces for transportation.
One mule carries the barrel,
another the wheels, and the
other four loads are the recoil
mechanism, base frame, tail
piece, and breech of the gun.
Five more mules are burdened
with ammunition loads, and
the twelfth carries the “pioneer
pack,” consisting of such tools
as an ax, saw, shovel, flares,
and emergency rations. The
last animal in the 13 compris-
ing each company is ridden by
the crew captain.
The 98th Field Artillery
(Pack) Battalion at Fort
Lewis, Wash., where these pic-
tures were taken, has 500
mules ready to take to the hills
with guns and supplies on their
backs. And the “muleteers” of
the outfit figure they can be
just as tough as any mule if
any balkiness shows up.
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1941-05
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129
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Public domain
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Sami Akbiyik
Popular Science Monthly, v. 138, n. 5, 1941
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