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U.S. Navy African American Seabees covering a steel tank, South Pacific bases

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Naval Photographic Center (U.S.)

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Caption on back: "Constructing shore installations and seaplane bases in the Solomons, Guadal Canal, Florida, Tulagiand other islands, Negro Seabees are making an important contribution to the growing offensive against the Japanese in the South Pacific; Members of a Seabee Battalion are shown erecting a steel tank at a "tank farm" constructed deep in the jungles of one of the South Pacific bases.
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
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1939 1945
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. African American Soldiers
  2. African Americans
  3. Armed Forces
  4. Construction
  5. Military Depots
  6. Navies
  7. Oceania
  8. United States
  9. United States. Navy
  10. United States. Navy. Seabees
  11. World War, 1939 1945

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