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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro grenade throwers. A Negro infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, poised to throw an American pineapple of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest. American soldiers make good grenade throwers

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Summary

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 1016.

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Date

01/01/1942

place

Location

fairfax county

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Source

Library of Congress

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Link

https://www.loc.gov/

Public Domain

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