80-G-41776: Two hundred and four American patients, taken from USS West Point (AP 23) at Newport News, Virginia, on May 30th, 1943. They came from North Africa along with 2,944 captive Axis soldiers. This African-American soldier is Private George William Curtis who was hurt at Oran on February 24th. Photographed May 30, 1943. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/05/10).