Three African American GI's climbing a rope wall during practice for a sea rescue maneuver, Fort Lawton, Washington
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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: "Since the inauguration of the Overseas Replacement Depot at Fort Lawton, sub-installation for the Seattle Port of Embarkation, Negro troops have accounted for approximately 25 per cent of the 20,000 "G.I. Ambassadors" who have passed through Fort Lawton enroute to Alaska, Japan and Korea for occupation duties. A group of GIs are pictured here practicing a sea rescue maneuver. 9-4-46.
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
United States. Army. Signal Corps
1946 09 04