African-American

An African-American serviceman inserts the M-5 igniter into the burster well of the a M-76 500-pound incendiary bomb, making certain that the pipe lugs of the igniter are to the rear. China. 2nd AAF Combat Camera Detachment, APO #493.

An exclusively African-American crew uncrates and prepares M47 A2 chemical incendiary bombs for use on on a 20th Bomber Command Boeing B-29 raid. China, during WWII.

GIs singing during Church service in Chabua, India, during WWII. Photo provided by Michael J. O'Brien to the editors of Ex-CBI Roundup (through reader submission) over many years of publication, and provided to the Remembering Shared Honor project.

Christmas religious service in Chabua, India, 1944, as well as of recuperating patients at the 234th Station Hospital. Image from Michael J. O'Brien.

Tony Sommerhoff hams with a cigar for the camera in the CBI during WWII. Photo form Bob Lichty.

"Thanksgiving 1943. Left to right center clockwise: Shanks, Simo, Widmoyer, Wolf, Capt Ratchford, Von Breyman, Burke, Boldt, Simonette & Sullivan. Howard M. Sharp is the Black mess attendant, and presently a magician in Washington D. C., name of HOSHA." Photo from Joseph J. Simon.

Entertainment for the GIs on the long ship ride home from the CBI after the war: "Callan Show -- Callan Crooner." Photo from John Dale Simmons.

African-American servicemen--Sgt. Smith, Allen, Jones, Pon, Spencer, Turner, Wilson--of the advanced medical detachment of the 21st Quartermaster Regiment. In the Burma during WWII.

Moving cargo in India during WWII.

African-American servicemen in a club or bar in Myitkyina in 1945, during WWII. Stars in pre-army life, the fighter Henry Armstrong and the football player Kenny Washington get full attention from surrounding fans.