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TITLE: 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 latest type 90mm anti-aircraft gun mounted on tractor
CALL NUMBER: LC-USW3- 023031-C [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USW3-023031-C (b&w film nitrate neg.)
MEDIUM: 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1943 Mar.
CREATOR:
NOTES:
Title and other information from caption card.
LOT 1823 (Location of corresponding print.)
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 13, frame 1777.
SUBJECTS:
United States--North Carolina--Onslow County--New River.
FORMAT:
PART OF: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from intermediary roll film) fsa 8d28243 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8d28243
CONTROL #: owi2001024340/PP
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