Word: messman
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...larger islands life is luxury compared to that on the little specks. The Officers' Club on one of these large, well-defended outposts has a radio, a pool table and magazines only six or eight weeks old. The tiny wooden bar is tended by a Negro naval messman who has a big electric refrigerator to keep the beer in. The bar opens at 15:00 hours-three o'clock-and stays open until 22:00 hours. Across the dirt road from the mess there is a barnlike recreation hall for enlisted men, which also serves as a movie...
...Navy's 20-year ban against Negroes for anything but the Messman Branch was lifted last week...
...announcement was no surprise. The deal got a boost on Dec. 7 when heroic Doris Miller, Negro messman aboard the Pearl-Harbored Arizona, manned a machine gun, blasted away at Jap planes until his ammunition ran out. The idea speeded up when Joe Louis handed $89,00 fight proceeds to Navy Relief, was practically clinched when Wendell Willkie urged the Navy to drop its anti-Negro rule...