Photograph of four Tuskegee Airmen writing letters home

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A black-and-white photograph of the inside of a military bunkhouse with four men on beds writing letters. There are five beds pictured left to right with a trunk at the foot of all but the fourth bed and additional suitcases atop the trunks on the second and third beds. The four men pictured are in various stages of dress. There is also a fifth man lying on the first bed with just his legs showing and a sixth man standing next to the first bed with just his left side showing. There are shelves with various objects placed on them next to each bed between the windows.

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