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"Negro pilots in one of the flight formations which will soon carry them over enemy territory. Here they are flying the shark-nosed P-40 fighter aircraft." |
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"George C. Fields, 32, points proudly to the honor certificate presented him yesterday at graduation exercises for the tenth Negro class to be graduated from the Navy's Service Schools at the U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, IL. Fields served as President Roosevelt's valet for four years before entering the Navy." |
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"As a landing barge noses onto the beach, members of the Negro Seabee Battalion clamber ashore. This assault training is supplemental to the Seabees' chief work as construction crews for the U.S. Navy." |
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"CQM L.J. Russell, USNR, teaching navigation to Charles W. Divers, QM2c; Royal H. Goofen, QM2c; Lewis F. Blanton, QM3c; Clavin Bell, QM2c at NTS Norfolk, VA. Their ship (now being constructed) will be U.S.S. Mason." |
