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Combat engineer Robert L. Borders of Brock's squad is pictured. In a typical base camp, such as this station at Kumhwa, each squad would be in a tent with eight to ten cots. The squad shared not only a tent but the same missions. This was Brock's squad tent, as well. 2nd Infantry Division units saw black, white, and South Korean KATUSA soldiers sleeping, eating, working, and relaxing together. Also pictured are the mess kits of squad members hanging to dry in the sun. Outside the mess hall would be located large galvanized cans with oil heaters in the bottom to boil the water contained within. When soldiers finished eating, they would wash their mess kits in one can, rinse them in the other, and take them back to their tents to hang them up. Also in view are a machine gun and rocket launcher. The squad's weapons were left like this in front of the tent, so they could grab them easily and be taken in at night. Each soldier had an assigned weapon. Brock's was this rocket launcher.Despite countless examples of brave and devoted military service throughout American history, African Americans continued to face discrimination and segregation in the ranks of the U.S. military on the eve of the Korean War. The battlefield pressure of the Korean War would become the catalyst for the full implementation of President Harry S. Truman's Executive Order No. 9981 that provided for the desegregation of the United States armed forces. Issued in...
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Arms & Armament
  3. Bazooka
  4. Bazookas
  5. Chestnuts
  6. Dirt Roads
  7. Korean War, 1950 1953
  8. Machine Guns
  9. Military Camps
  10. Military Engineers
  11. Military Personnel
  12. Orchards
  13. Participation, African American
  14. Photographs
  15. Rocket Launchers (Ordnance)
  16. Soldiers
  17. Tents
  18. United States
  19. United States. Army. Infantry Division, 2nd. Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd
  20. Weapons
  21. Weapons Of War

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