“What’s a little snow?” laugh two members of the predominantly African-American crew of the USS Mason (DE-529) as they stand proudly beside the bow of their new destroyer escort vessel, commissioned at Boston Navy Yard. Eventually, nearly the entire crew of this ship would be African-American. Circa March 1944, Boston, Massachusetts.
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