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Three African American sailors walking across and trying to balance on wooden beams that are laid across a sand pit while others look on and wait their turn at U.S. Navy Receiving Station, Camp Robert Smalls

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

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Caption on back "Sept. 9, 1942 / The new sailor must be able to balance himself if he doesn't want a tumble into this pit--one of the barriers on Camp Robert Smalls' 'commando' course.
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Text
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Contributors:
United States. Navy
Created Date:
1942 09 09
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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