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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The first African American Marine recruits arrived for basic training on August 26, 1942. Although, unlike white recruits who trained at Parris Island or San Diego, Black recruits were sent to a segregated training facility named Montford Point. Local Photo Identifier: 127-GC-404-5305. Date: April 1943. carrying ammunition.”

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The images broadcast in America’s living rooms during the war were often captured by military combat photographers. The military increased their production of photographs and moving images and because of this, NARA’s motion picture holdings relating to the Vietnam war are quite expansive. Medal of Honor SP/6 Lawrence Joel.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Although not professionally trained in geography or cartography, Hotchkiss studied map-making in his spare time and taught himself the skills necessary to create maps. Library of Congress. Born in Windsor, New York, Hotchkiss moved to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia prior to the Civil War. “Postwar Mapping.”

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Goldman is a PhD Candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University. The military went to tremendous lengths to supply a steady diet of fiction and nonfiction film to its troops with great speed. Inside an army film library. This post was written by guest blogger Tanya Goldman. envision the labor of media distribution.

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