Gun-Camp-Lejeune
Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows a 155mm Coast Defense gun.
- Date
- 1943-03
- Photographer / author
- Roger Smith, Office of War Information
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 925 × 728 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US FSA/OWI; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page; permission field: Photographs in this collection were taken by photographers working for the U.S. Government..
Credit line
"Gun-Camp-Lejeune" (1943-03). Roger Smith, Office of War Information. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gun-Camp-Lejeune.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 120128.
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