The Snapshots in Time Collection
Paratrooper with Surveying Instrument (Aiming Circle) in Field, European Theater, WWII
A paratrooper poses beside a tripod-mounted aiming circle, an instrument used to measure direction and lay artillery or mortar fire accurately. Fire support units within the 101st Airborne Division relied on precise surveying equipment like this to coordinate indirect fire in support of the division's airborne and ground operations across the European Theater. Project: 218672