WWII - Negro Troops, Black 25th Combat Team, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 04Apr44

WWII - Negro Troops, Black 25th Combat Team, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 04Apr44 NOTE: additional coverage on LN 501-660 10:34:14 - 10:44:16. Aerial over beach showing heavily destroyed, burned over, jungle vegetation. Low w/ tanks & eequipment parked at treeline. DUKW & tank on sand. Troops moving along road. 10:02:07 Army troops crossing small river holding rope. Whites & Blacks. Man crossing beside log - probably Laruma River. 10:03:11 Four Blacks holding Japanese battle flags. Blacks & ?? crossing river towards camera holding rope. Blacks carry wooden crates across river; stacked in jungle & resting. Black on field telephone; eating in foxhole w/ mortar & ammunition above. Men on phones in jungle in tree w/ wires. Field telephone in foxhole cranked. 10:05:45 Black unit crossing log bridge over river; carrying crates & packs across stone stream crossing. Whites & blacks past camera; up jungle hillside trail, under phone wires. MCU past camera. Military Segregation; Integration; South Pacific;