The first image below shows soldiers boarding a transport ship, while in the second photo men are relaxing on the deck of a ship. We are not sure whether it is the same ship in both pictures, and we do not know whether the men are shipping out from the United States or are on [...]
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While the Selective Service Act of 1940—which established the first peace-time draft of men into the armed forces—banned racial discrimination in the recruitment and training of soldiers, segregation of the various units in the military was still a reality. As we have seen in some of the images in previous posts, Walter Lawrence Smith appears [...] The image below shows Walter Lawrence Smith standing on a monument. The style of the monument and the text carved into the stone to Smith’s left provide some indication of where he was likely stationed. The carved symbols, called kanji, represent Japanese text and tell us that the monument was built in the thirteenth year [...] |
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