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"Negro sailors of the U.S.S. Mason commissioned at Boston Navy Yard on 20 March 1944 proudly look over their ship which is the first to have a predominately Negro crew." |
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"American prisoners of war celebrate the 4th of July in the Japanese prison camp of Casisange in Malaybalay, on Mindanao, P.I. It was against Japanese regulations and discovery would have meant death, but the men celebrated the occasion anyway. July 4, 1942." |
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"A gun crew of six Negroes who were given the Navy Cross for standing by their gun when their ship was damaged by enemy attack in the Philippine area. Crew members: Jonell Copeland, AtM2/c; Que Gant, StM; Harold Clark,Jr., StM; James Eddie Dockery, StM; Alonzo Alexander Swann, StM; and Eli Benjamin, StM." |
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"Marines unloading Japanese POW from a submarine returned from war patrol. Lt. Comdr. Horace Bristol, ca. May 1945." |
