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1940s War Fashion – Black Women serving in WW11 - C C - Aug 3, 2016 http://glamourdaze.com/2016/08/1940s-war-fashion-black-women-serving-in-ww11.html EXCERPT: It is difficult enough to find photographs of ordinary African Americans who served in the US Forces in the 1940s, and extraordinarily difficult to find images of women who served, as many thousands did. Most of these photographs were picked from the holdings of the Still Picture Branch (NNSP) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Compiled by researcher Barbara Lewis Burger, a retired National Archives Still Picture Senior Archivist, in her effort to redress the imbalance in Black military history....