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ON BOARD THE USS MASON: THE WORLD WAR II DIARY OF JAMES A. DUNN

By John Sibley Butler, MANSEL G. BLACKFORD (Introduction), James A. Dunn (Introduction)
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By John Sibley Butler, MANSEL G. BLACKFORD (Introduction), James A. Dunn (Introduction)
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James A. Dunn was a signalman on the USS Mason, a destroyer escort during World War II, the only oceangoing warship in the navy to employ African Americans in positions other than cook or messmate. Manned by African American seamen (and commanded by white officers), the ship made ten crossings of the Atlantic from 1944 to 1945, escorting convoys of merchant ships to and from the United Kingdom and North Africa and operating in hunter-killer groups searching for German submarines. Dunn kept ...

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