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Members of an African American company of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps lined up for review, Liberia

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

United States. Office of War Information

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Caption on back: "A company of Negro WAACS was reviewed by the Hon. Lester A. Walton, U.S. Minister to Liberia, recently on a visit to an American camp near Monrovia. The WAACS are shown as they lined up for review. PLEASE CREDIT: AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL PHOTO FROM OWI.
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
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1939 1945
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Military

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American Soldiers
  2. African American Women
  3. African Americans
  4. Armed Forces
  5. Liberia
  6. Military Camps
  7. Military Parades & Ceremonies
  8. United States
  9. United States. Army. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
  10. United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
  11. Women
  12. World War, 1939 1945

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