Color guard consisting of African Americans Corporal Gilbert Henderson, Staff Sergeant Edward W. Malone, and Sergeant John Pierce, Antiaircraft Artillery and Guided Missiles Center, Fort Bliss, Texas
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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: "Corporal Gilbert Henderson, Montgomery, Alabama; Staff Sergeant Edward W. Malone, Greenville, South Carolina, and Sergeant John Pierce, New York City, form the color guard which received the colors of the 450th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, recently activated at the Antiaircraft Artillery and Guided Missiles Center, Fort Bliss, Texas. The newly formed battalion, which knocked down enemy planes in Italy during World War II, is composed of approximately 600 colored troops, the majority of whom are re-enlistees in the Regular Army. 7-25-46.
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
United States. Army
1946 07 25