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Caption | African-American crew of US Marine Corps 51st Defense Battalion posed with their artillery 'Lena Horne', Southwest or Central Pacific, circa 1945 ww2dbase | |
Date | Mar 1945 | |
Photographer | Nicholson | |
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Source | ww2dbaseUnited States National Archives | |
Identification Code | 127-N-12174 | |
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Licensing | Public Domain. According to the US National Archives, as of 21 Jul 2010: Please contact us regarding any inaccuracies with the above information. Thank you. |
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Added By | C. Peter Chen | |
Photo Size | 1,434 x 1,069 pixels |
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19 Aug 2012 08:45:27 AM
My father Charles J. Lincoln was one of the men in charge of the 51st defense batallion. He is still alive and living in Maine. Are there others who are still alive? If anyone reads this and knows my father, I'd like to hear from you. He talks about the war every single night. He is 93 and can still communicate.