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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

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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

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