Letters from a World War 2 Navy seaman to a woman in Pennsylvania turned up in a box donated to a Kentucky Goodwill store over the recent Labor Day weekend.
The U.S. Navy was one of the last military branches to integrate Blacks into its service. By the beginning of World War II, the Army already had a Black general and had seen its first Black Army officer graduate from West Point Academy in 1877.
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