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Museum of Black WW II History

Museum Gallery 1

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Coast Guard Photos
Models of cruisers.

Future Weapons Case

Nurses and medical units.

Bottom model of USS Ward which fired the first shot at Perl Harbor 7 Dec. 1941 an hour before the Japanese air attack hitting a midget submarine.  The brass cartridge case is for the 4 inch guns used on the destroyer.

These weapons were in the pipe line when the war ended 2 Sept. 1945.  3.5 inch rocket launcher, 2.75 inch air to ground rocket, 105mm, 75mm and 57mm recoilless rifle rounds.  Model Navy Skyraider and Air Force P.80 Jet aircraft.

Blacks could be ambulance drivers and stretcher bearers where they were verbally abused by wounded white troupes who they carried off the battlefield.

Tuskegee Airmen Case Navy gun ammunition from
3 inch 50 caliber to
8 inch 55 caliber
Naval Aircraft and Carriers
Blacks were not allowed to fly for the Navy in WWII.

Artillery Case

Both anti-aircraft and field artillery guns and ammunition.

German tank models and the ammunition for them from 85mm on left down to 37mm.

American model tanks and the ammunition for them from 105mm on left down to 37mm.

German fighters and bombers. American bombers and fighters.

Submarine, destroyer, destroyer escort display.

The USS Mason DE529 had 160 black sailors out of a crew of 200, the largest warship with a predominately black crew.

About 785 black stewards and officers cooks made war patrols aboard US submarines.  74 perished.  Mess attendant 1st class Nathanial Johnson was first aboard.  S-226 sunk in collision with its escort.  Steward's mate 2nd class Hubert Hackett and steward's mate 1st class Percy Johnson Jr. died 6 Aug. 1945 when the last sub USS Bullhead was lost with all hands.  Steward Killraine Newton made several war patrols.  When he retired from the Navy in 1971 he was Lt. Commander, the highest rank achieved by any war time steward.

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