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TITLE:  [Photograph of several Tuskegee airmen attending a briefing in Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945]

CALL NUMBER:  LC-F9-02-4503-319-07 [item] [P&P]
LOT 12447-1 [item] (corresponding print)

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-13260 (digital file from original neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Photograph shows several Tuskegee airmen attending a briefing. First row: 1. Hiram E. Mann, Cleveland, OH, Class 44-F; 2. Unidentified; 3. Newman C. Golden, Cincinnati, OH, 44-G; 4. Bertram W. Wilson, Jr., Brooklyn, NY, 44-E; 5. Samuel W. Watts, Jr., New York, NY, 44-E. Second row: 6. Armour G. McDemoe, Martinsville, VA, 43-A; 7. Howard C. Gamble, Charles Town, WV, 43-K; 8. Harr;y T. Steward, Jr. Corona, NY, 44-F; 9. Earle R. Lane, Wickliffe, OH, 44-D; 10. Wyrain T. Shell, Brooklyn, NY, 44-F?; 11. Harold M. Morris, Seattle, WA, 44-D; 12. John E. Edwards, Steubenville, OH, 44-C; 13. John H. Porter, Cleveland, OH, 44-C; 14. James H. Fischer?, Stoughton, MA44-G; 15. Wyrain T. Shell, Brooklyn, NY, 44-F?; Third row: 16. William E. "Porky" Rice?, Swarthmore, PA, 44-G; 17. Tony Weaver?; 18. Charles L. White?, St. Louis, MO, 44-C; 19. George Arnold Lynch, Valley Stream, NY, 44-F; 20. Samuel L. Washington, Cleveland, OH, 44-F; 21. Calvin J. Spann, Rutherford, NJ, 44-G; 22. Frank N. Wright, Elmsford, NY, 44-F. At Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945. (Source: Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group pilots.)

MEDIUM:  1 negative : film.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [1945 March]

CREATOR:

Frissell, Toni, 1907-1988, photographer.

NOTES:

Also available as contact sheet in LOT 12447-1.

Title devised by Library staff.

Forms part of: Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress).

SUBJECTS:

United States.--Army Air Forces.--Fighter Group, 332nd--People--1940-1950.
African Americans--Military service--1940-1950.
World War, 1939-1945--African Americans--Italy.
World War, 1939-1945--Air operations--American--Italy.
Fighter pilots--American--Italy--1940-1950.

FORMAT:

Film negatives 1940-1950.

PART OF:  Frissell, Toni, 1907-1988. 332nd Fighter Group at air base in southern Italy

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original photograph) ppmsca 13260 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.13260

CONTROL #:  2007675065


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