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"For a buck you´d double-cross your own mother."

"Why not? She´d do the same to me."

I Walk Alone (1947)

Director: Byron Haskin.

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only African American women’s unit to serve overseas in World War II.

Series: Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985

Image description: Lieutenant le Beau hands a glass bottle of Coke to Major Adams from behind a rough-looking bar. Under the bar are wooden crates of bottles. All of the women are wearing US Army uniforms and hats. Most of them are smiling.