al019.jpg American tanker "Byron Benson" burning off N.C. coast, 4/4/42		cg0029.jpg German and British officers talk as others listen (in N.C. Navy Yard barracks)
ww2093af-amer.jpg "Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training 3 months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square-mile Marine Base, Camp Leheune, at New River, NC. The first Negro to enlist was Howard P. Perry, shown here."		ww2094af-amer.jpg "The first Negro to be commissioned in the Marine Corps has his second lieutenant's bars pinned on by his wife. He is Frederick C. Branch of Charlotte, NC."

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