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Boxer Joe Louis, a U.S. Army sergeant, looking at a painting in VFW Carney Post, Duff Street, the Hill

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Harris, Charles Teenie

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The Sergeant William F. Carney VFW Post No. 46 was located at 609 Duff Street in the Hill. Joe Louis served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946, touring the country as an army boxing instructor.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Interiors
  3. Louis, Joe, 1914
  4. Men
  5. Military Uniforms
  6. Pennsylvania
  7. Pittsburgh
  8. Soldiers

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