From back of photo: PFC Cornelius Wright and CPL Myles Wheaton, Company M, assembling 30 Caliber machine guns, at the South Armory. Both men are of the 372nd Infantry NG.
From back of photo: Members of the 450th AA Battery are undergoing an intensive course of AA gunnery. They are under the instruction of British soldiers. Left seat, PFC Hurtzell Casey; Right seat, CPL James Moore; loading, SGT Charles E. Glover;...
From back of photo: Thirty black members, approiximately 75% of the 7800th Infantry Platoon, who have extended their enlistment to five years, stand at attention in Berlin, Germany. The Platoon is an honor guard composed of selected men from...
From back of photo: After the Infantry moved across the Arno River, the gun crew of Battery B, 598th Field Artillery, 92nd Division, moves to take their new positions near the banks of the Arno River. They prepare their 105 howitzer for a firing...
From back of photo: Black selectees waving goodbye. L to R: J. Syne, D. Whit, R. W. Thompson, J. L. Thomas, J. Stephenson, Stover, R. Thomas, Willis Smith, F. Wright, J. Weaver.
From back of photo: Some of the finest of the Army's old non-coms belong to the 24th Infantry at Ft. Benning. Here a group of them are seen relaxing in their service club. The regiment of about 900 to a war strength of 300. Most of the new men were...
From back of photo: Here medic, T/5 Charles Jones, 92nd Division, bandages the leg of PFC Thomas W. Skayhan, 1st Armored Division, a few hundred yards south of the walls of Lucca.
From back of photo: Enroute to Hill 165, members of the 93rd Division struggle through some clinging mud along the East-West trail on an island in the South Pacific. These are the first black infantry troops to be used in combat in this theater....
From back of photo: Weary black troops slice into the finish trench after going through the infiltration course. These troops made unusual time for the course.
From back of photo: The 93rd Infantry Division reactivated May 15, 1942, under the command of Major General Charles P. Hall, was the first all-black division to be formed during World War II. 93rd Division is somewhere in Arizona. Soldiers at...
From back of photo: The urge to win the war and a shared interest in prize fighting bring these two soldiers together on the parade ground in Nebraska. The Major is D.K. Scruby, Infantry, Commanding Officer of Fort Omaha, and the Sergeant is Joe...
From back of photo: An American medic bandages the head of a wounded tank driver, in a field in France. Medics in this sector cared for the wounded under heavy fire from both sides.
From back of photo: CPL Lindsay Smith gets the autograph of LT GEN Jacob L. Devers during an inspection trip by the general when he was looking over dock facilities and methods of handling disembarking troops.