Native Americans and World War II - Gallery

Gallery

  • Apaches assisting in the unloading of beds for Japanese internees at the Poston War Relocation Center on April 29, 1942.

  • Native American women as Marine Corps Reservists at Camp Lejeune in 1943. The women here represent the Blackfeet, the Potawatomi, and the Ojibwe.

  • Private First Class Ira Hayes, who was an Akimel O'odham, preparing to parachute out of an aircraft in 1943.

  • Lieutenant Woody J. Cochran, a Cherokee Indian and bomber pilot, holding up a captured Japanese flag during the New Guinea campaign on April 1, 1943.

  • Lieutenant Ernest Childers, a Muscogee, being congratulated by General Jacob L. Devers shortly after receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1944.

  • Hopi Indians at the Poston Center in September 1945, after it was turned over to the Colorado River Indian Reservation.

  • Dan Akee, a code talker from the Navajo Nation.

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