African Americans in the U.S. Maritime Service during World War II

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Artist George Wright, an American merchant seaman, presents to Russian Captain Orset Chevstov a painting depicting a Soviet woman war worker and an American seaman unloading a U.S. Lend-Lease tank at a Soviet port... Reginald Brandon recently completed the eight-month course in Radio Operations and Maintenance at Gallup's Island [MA] Radio Training School of the Maritime Commission. Joseph Banks Williams, first African American to graduate from the U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps. Picture of Clifford R. Jenkins, Jr. Capt. Clifton Lastic, Master of Liberty Ship [[SS] Bert Williams chats with Joe Curran, President of N.M.U. [National Maritime Union].
Captain and crew of a new Liberty Ship A mariner Members of a crew that brought a Liberty Ship from the United States to England, and their mascot, "Booker." Chief Mate Earl Stanfield coaches Bos'n Maxie Weisbarth (with whiskers) in mysteries of navigation Arnold R. Fesser, oiler, 17 years at sea
A merchant seaman Lt.(jg.) Stanly Marlowe Smith, U.S. Maritime Service; [Mrs. Marion H. Elliott] Assistant Executive Secretary of the National Council of Negro Women; and Mrs. B.L. Derrick, Chairman The launching party for the SS Harriet Tubman Two U.S. Maritime Service seamen in front of a 4th War Loan poster

05/22/03
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