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Borinqueneers

Members of the all-Puerto Rican 65th Infantry Regiment, known as “the Borinqueneers,” pose for a photo aboard the USNS Marine Lynx while preparing to leave for the front lines in Korea, September 1950. Although the segregated unit formed almost 50 years earlier, it was not committed to combat until the Korean War.

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