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Preferred Citation

African American GI Vietnam War Scrapbook, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Content Description

Ninety-eight photos with no captions of soldiers in Vietnam and West Germany. The majority of the pictures are of leisure activities such as card games, smoking, writing letters, playing pool, and drinking. Some of the subjects posed with cash, others with raised fists, or by pin-ups on the wall. Twenty-two of the photos are of the town near the barracks.

Content warnings for drug use, underage drinking.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- African Americans