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Photo #: NH 95624

"The Golden Thirteen",
the first African-American U.S. Navy Officers


Photographed 17 March 1944.
They are (bottom row, left to right):
Ensign James E. Hare, USNR;
Ensign Samuel E. Barnes, USNR;
Ensign George C. Cooper, USNR;
Ensign William S. White, USNR;
Ensign Dennis D. Nelson, USNR;
(middle row, left to right):
Ensign Graham E. Martin, USNR;
Warrant Officer Charles B. Lear, USNR;
Ensign Phillip G. Barnes, USNR;
Ensign Reginald E. Goodwin, USNR;
(top row, left to right):
Ensign John W. Reagan, USNR;
Ensign Jesse W. Arbor, USNR;
Ensign Dalton L. Baugh, USNR;
Ensign Frank E. Sublett, USNR.

Courtesy of Surface Warfare Magazine, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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26 June 1998