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"Negro Marines, attached to the Third Ammunition Company, take time out from supplying ammunition to the front line on Saipan. Riding captured bicycle is Pfc. Horace Boykin; and left to right, Cpl. Willis T. Anthony, Pfc. Emmitt Shackelford, and Pfc. Eugene Purdy." |
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"Aboard a Coast Guard-manned transport, a Negro Marine, Robert Stockman, goes over his carbine with Coast Guardsmen." |
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"Aboard a Coast Guard-manned transport somewhere in the Pacific, these Negro Marines prepare to face the fire of Japanese gunners." |
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"Surrounded by a veteran crew of Marines who have spent 15 months in the Southwest and Central Pacific, this gun, named the 'Lena Horne' by its crew, points majestically skyward. The gun is manned ny memebrs of the 51st Defense Batallion, one of two such Negro units in the Corps." |
