Contains action against enemy reports, lessons learned, field orders, losses in action, operational memorandums and notes, battle reports, awards and citations, unit journal, etc.
From back of photo: PFC Warren Capers recommended for Silver Star. With other members of his medical detachment, Private Capers set up a dressing station and aided over 330 soldiers on a beachhead on D-Day. August 18, 1944. Cunningham.
From back of photo: Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, MSG Hansen Outley, World War hero, is proud that he is a member of the Armed Forces. He has been in the service for 25 years during which time he was loaned to the Liberian government where he served as Chief...
From back of the photograph: Ft. Benning, Ga. African American selectees marching from the train to the African American reception center. August 1941.
From back of photo: L to R: 1st SGT Homer P. Lott, Co. M, 28th Regiment, 26 years service; SSgt Mack S. Davis Co. M, 28th QM Regiment, 30 years service; SGT Weaver A. Briscoe, Co. M, 28th QM Regiment, 20 years service.
From back of photo: MSGT Oliver Mason of Ordinance company. He is enroute to the Pacific War front, embarking on the USS West Point, at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, Ft. Mason, California. SGT Mason has had 29 years, 8 months of service,...
From back of photo: Fort Knox, KY. A dance followed the dedication of the four new African American recreation buildings recently with partners for the soldiers being girls from Louisville, KY.
From back of photo: Re-activation of a division in Alabama Buffaloe, B. Bill, year old mascot of a Div., which the division just acquired, and CPL Austin Valentine is shown with it.
From back of photo: American troops in Liberia. Equipment necessary in the tropical climate is issued to the troops. PVT Roman A. Bonilla, Puerto Rico, draws his mosquito bard; PVT Jake Kitchings of Washington DC, gets a head net to protect him...
From back of photo: Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands. A kitchen was set up along the beach for the labor battalion troops unloading the boats. This picture shows a couple of the men enjoying a hot meal for a change.
From back of photo: While on maneuvers, African American Yanks in England take a brief rest after the "Enemy". L-R: PFC Houston Calmoie, Lynchburg, VA; T/5 Albert Jackson, Brenham, Texas; and PFC John L. Winkfield, Miami, Florida.