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(MILITARY—WORLD WAR TWO.) PHOTOGRAPHY.
Large wide-angle
lens group photograph of the important 95th Engineer Battalion.
Gelatin silver print
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x 13 inches, on the original (?) cardboard mount. Leonard Parke, photographer.
Fort Belvoir, VA, September 1941
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The African-American 95th was one of the best trained engineer battalions in the entire service.
Formed in April of 1941 before the war, they received training that later construction outfits, brought
together after Pearl Harbor, did not. Following further training at Fort Bragg, they were sent to
Canada to build the Alcan Highway in 1942.
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