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Three crews of African American sailors sitting in their cutters at the end of a boat drill session, U.S. Naval Training Station

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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: "Two Negro crews are pictured at 'Toss' cars as their cutters glide down the slip ending a session of boat drill at the U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill., [as] many as 24 companies of recruits (averaging 120 to 130 men to a company) undergo boat drill daily in the Station's harbor on Lake Michigan.
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Text
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Contributors:
United States. Navy
Created Date:
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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