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African American sailors rolling out barrels from a vessel to shore of Biak Islands

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United States. Coast Guard

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Caption on back: "From a Coast Guard - manned LST, Negro troops roll out the barrels of oil for American planes and mechanized land equipment on the beach of Biak Island off the northwest coast of Dutch New Guinea; At Biak, American invaders captured three Jap air strips for use in clamping tighter the ring about Japan's strangling sea empire.
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Text
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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 Men
  2. African American Soldiers
  3. African Americans
  4. Armed Forces
  5. Barrels
  6. Biak Island (Indonesia)
  7. Navies
  8. Ships
  9. United States
  10. United States. Coast Guard
  11. United States. Navy
  12. World War, 1939 1945

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