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Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois 80-G-43080

Photo #: 80-G-43080 Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois
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Title: Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois
Description: Company 761, an African-American recruit unit, photographed on 20 August 1943. The company was entered in the station's Hall of Fame, established by the Great Lakes weekly newspaper to honor crack recruits. Company Honor Man was Andrew McNeil, Apprentice Chief Petty Officer. Andrew J. Morrison was Company Clerk and Allan Jackson was Master-at-Arms. Note E flag, at right in the front rank. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-43080
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