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Photograph of Lieutenant Clarence Samuels of the United States Coast Guard, the highest ranking African American officer in the Navy

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Caption on back: "Lieut. [Lieutenant] (jg) Clarence Samuels, of the United States Coast Guards, now the highest ranking Negro in the Navy; A native of Panama, Lieut. Samuels has spent 23 years in the Coast Guard, during which time he has served in charge of a cutter in Savannah, Georgia harbor; in charge of the Coast Guard unit at Pea Island, near Manteo-Roanoke, N.C. and at the U.S. Coast Guard Training Station, Manhattan Beach, N. Y.; He is known throughout the service for his excellence as a signalman and marksman; His ribbons indicate pre-Pearl Harbor Service, Pearl Harbor action, American Theater of War action, African mid-eastern campaign, expert pistol shot and his good conduct ribbon has four bars.
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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 Soldiers
  2. African Americans
  3. Armed Forces
  4. Military Uniforms
  5. Navies
  6. Officers
  7. Panamanian Americans
  8. United States
  9. United States. Coast Guard
  10. United States. Navy
  11. World War, 1939 1945

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