Bayonet Practice at Fort McClellan

Lt. B. Holmes, an officer of the 92nd Infantry Division demonstrates the use of a bayonet at Fort McClellan in Calhoun County in this photo dated November 1942. The 92nd was a segregated division composed entirely of African American men and was only the second such unit in the U.S. Army at the time.

Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration

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