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Description: 442nd Regimental Combat Team (United States) at Camp Shelby building a pontoon bridge during training. The bridge completed, a company of infantry rush with fixed bayonets to the opposite shore and enter the enemy's heavily wooded territory. The 442nd combat team at Camp Shelby is composed entirely of Americans of Japanese descent who volunteered for services in the armed forces. This unit of approximately 8000 men is undergoing intensive training in all branches of combat duty, and they are looking forward with eagerness to actual services at the front.
Title: 442ndCampShelby
Credit: Digitized version online at California Digital Library via The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Author: Military Photographer: Mace, Charles E.
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License: Public domain
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