Thirty-three photos documenting a mixed-race unit of U.S. soldiers, including many African Americans, on the front lines of the Korean War. The Korean War (1950–53) was the first overseas war following President Harry Truman’s 1948 Executive Order desegregating the U.S. military. Some 600,000 African Americans served, and nearly ten percent.....
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An ample and compelling photo album assembled by a U.S. serviceman and documenting America’s military presence in the Philippines during the 1920s, the native people of the Philippines, and the Sino-Japanese conflict known as the January 28 Incident (or Shanghai incident) in 1932. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Stanley Stephen.....
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A fascinating, carefully organized album of original photos, maps, official military documents, letters, and other materials compiled by Intelligence Officer and later New York University Law School dean and professor Alison Reppy, the author of the regimental history Rainbow Memories (1919). Born in Hillsboro, Missouri, Lieut. Alison Reppy (1893–1958) served.....
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An evocative World War II-era photograph showing some 106 African American Navy servicemen and one white officer of Company 831 at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station on Lake Michigan in Illinois. Organized in five lines, the uniformed company is shown here standing on bleachers in front of several buildings.....