"Negro troops, moving over the Atlantic on a Coast Guard manned troop transport, sprawl on a hatch to `bat the breeze' and talk of home. They are on their way to the fighting lines in Europe."
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- 1941–1945
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- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- 3,000 × 2,401 pixels
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