American Colonel Benjamin Davis

 

Black American Colonel Benjamin O. Davis (right) of the 332nd Fighter Squadron of the United States Air Force looks after the loading of machine-gun belts for the 12.7-mm Browning M2 machine gun (0.5 Browning M2) of the North American P-51 Mustang aircraft at Italy’s Ramitelli airfield.
Benjamin O. Davis observes Roscoe C. Brown, (left) and Marcellus G. Smith, (center).



Benjamin O. Davis photo source: US Library of Congress.




Location: Ramitelli, Italy
Photo time: March 1945
Photo by: Toni Frissell

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