WWII - Negro Troops, Black 25th Combat Team, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 04Apr44ca

WWII - Negro Troops, Black 25th Combat Team, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 04Apr44ca NOTE: More coverage on LN 501-658 06:00:12 - 06:07:19. Men pulling log across Laruma (?) river w/ rope; Black soldiers washing out socks & boots beside river. Crossing w/ crates. 15:35:17 4 Blacks holding Japanese battle flags. 15:35:38 CU dead Japanese w/ flies. Men crossing river w/ rifles & crates, past camera, w/ CUs (GOOD). 15:36:26 Blacks GIs sitting in mortar pit eating & talking. (GOOD). 15:37:14 Men building wooden footbridge across river. Blacks carrying ammunition & crates across; moving into jungle. Up steep bank, thru foliage & mud. Supplies; African-American Soldiers; Segregation; Troops; 1944; WW2;