Photo by Gunnery Sgt. Bryan Peterson | 9th Marine Corps District | 12.31.2000
Sergeant Mike Stachowski greets Archibald Mosley, May 27, at the Colp Area Veterans Celebration, Dedication and Remembrance Ceremony, in Colp, Illinois. The ceremony honored fallen service members, Mosley and three other African American Marines from Colp, who were among the first black Americans to join Marine Corps during World War II. They became known as the Montford Point Marines. Nearly......
Photo by Gunnery Sgt. Bryan Peterson | 9th Marine Corps District | 12.31.2000
Jim Gentile, the project liaison for the Colp Plaza Veterans Memorial Committee, gives a speech to guests, May 27, at the Colp Area Veterans Celebration, Dedication and Remembrance Ceremony, in Colp, Illinois. The speech honored fallen service members and four African American Marines from Colp, who were among the first black Americans to join Marine Corps during World War II. Nearly 20,000......
Photo by Gunnery Sgt. Bryan Peterson | 9th Marine Corps District | 12.31.2000
Jim Gentile, the project liaison for the Colp Plaza Veterans Memorial Committee, gives a speech to guests, May 27, at the Colp Area Veterans Celebration, Dedication and Remembrance Ceremony, in Colp, Illinois. The speech honored fallen service members and four African American Marines from Colp, who were among the first black Americans to join Marine Corps during World War II. Nearly 20,000......
Photo by Gunnery Sgt. Bryan Peterson | 9th Marine Corps District | 12.31.2000
Archibald Mosley gives a speech after receiving a Congressional Gold Medal memento for Montford Point Marines, May 27, at the Colp Area Veterans Celebration, Dedication and Remembrance Ceremony, in Colp, Illinois. Nearly 20,000 African-Americans joined the Marine Corps in 1942, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a “presidential directive giving African Americans an opportunity to......
