African American Female Soldiers in Training

ID: 532 ~ Source: M. Alexis Scott; Army photos assembled by David L. Reeves Jr.

 ~ Creator: U.S. Army ~ Date: 1944
This file appears in: Training in Mississippi
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U.S. Army units for female soldiers were also segregated by race during World War II.

This file appears in: Training in Mississippi

By W.A. Scott III
"They changed the program, and we were sent to organize an engineer combat battalion in Mississippi, and that's really how I ended up, you might say, going into the phase that I did. But when I got into this engineer combat battalion, we had a…