<I>No. 432 Colored Troops Receive Training on the 50 Cal. Anti-Aircraft Machine-Gun, Fort Bragg, N. C.</I>

W. R. Thompson & Co., American, 1888 - 1941

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].

Date: 1941 - 1944
Type: picture postcards
Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
Department: NMAAHC
Institution: National Museum of African American History and Culture
Object number: nmaahc_2010.36.5.16
Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

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<I>No. 432 Colored Troops Receive Training on the 50 Cal. Anti-Aircraft Machine-Gun, Fort Bragg, N. C.</I>

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