Museum object · Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
No. 432 Colored Troops Receive Training on the 50 Cal. Anti-Aircraft Machine-Gun, Fort Bragg, N. C.
1941 - 1944
Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A photographic postcard of African American servicemen receiving training on how to use a 50 caliber anti-aircraft gun at Fort Bragg, NC. The back of the postcard contains the message [Defend Your Country - / Join the U.S. Army] in the upper left corner. In the middle, printed vertically, is [W.R. Thompson & Company, Publishers, Richmond, Virginia].
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Catalog reference: 2010.36.5.16
