Courtesy of the Camp Blanding Museum. Click on the image above to visit the museum's website.
Camp Blanding was a major U.S. Army training facility during the Second World War.
Additional information on the history of Camp Blanding during WWII can be found in a paper here.
BLACK WACS RECALL ERA OF WARTIME SEGREGATION
Click on the link above to read an article on segregation at McDill Air Force Base during WWII.
Launching of the W. S. Jennings in Jacksonville, 1944. Courtesy of the Florida Memory Project
Letter on display Merchant Marine Museum JAX
The 75th Anniversary of the Sinking of the SS Gulf America in Jacksonville,FL
Courtesy of the Beaches Museum. Click on the image above for more information.
Sinking of the SS Gulf America. Courtesy of Jacksonville.com Click on image above to be taken to an article on this subject.
