Montford Point Marines

ID: 179 ~ Source: USA Today ~ Date: 1943
This file appears in: Montford Point
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Montford Point Marine recruits stand at parade rest in April 1943 in New River, North Carolina.

ID: A large group of Marine recruits in uniform stand facing another person while the American flag waves in the background.

This file appears in: Montford Point

By Lorenzo Wallace
“When I got there, they had built a lot of, I guess I would call them huts. They had a lot of huts in a line, and they started with the first platoon…each platoon, the first platoon, second platoon, third platoon, were housed in these huts. They…