Lawrence E. Allen - U.S. Navy

Lawrence E. Allen (center) and two unidentified African American shipmates from an unidentified U.S. Navy ship [believed to be the USS Macon], pictured walking down the road wearing their U.S.

Navy uniforms and white “Dixie” caps, in Sweden. Other Navy sailors can be seen in the background walking on the streets (1950s).

[Photograph printed by: H. O. Moberg & Co., Göteborg and Stockholm, Sweden].

Source: From Lawrence E. Allen Sr. Papers, CLDW 23, Cold War Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.

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