Coloured NCO's pose with various weapons

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In this posed shot four coloured NCO's pose with various items of ordance. One of them holds a mine which certainly seems to have the attention of the other three.

The only combat formation in the whole ETO that contained African Americans was the 92nd Infantry Division which served the whole war in Italy. African Americans on the western Europe front were typically used in second line roles such as driving on the redball express. The US army was already unusual in holding onto the racial segragation of combat troops, European armies had used troops drawn from their colonies for many years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redball_Express

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/92nd_Infantry_Division_%28United_States%29