Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 429

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MILITARY--VIETNAM.) Avoid Drafts. Black and white photographic poster, 28-3/8x22 inches, depicting a GI in a bombed out building, with a blanket over his shoulders and his feet in a tub of water. San Francisco, 1967
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The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of blacks ever to serve in an American war. During the height of the U.S. involvement, 1965-69, blacks, who formed 11 percent of the American population, made up 12.6 percent of the soldiers in Vietnam! The majority of these were in the infantry, and although authorities differ on the figures, the percentage of black combat fatalities in that period was a staggering 14.9 percent, a proportion that subsequently declined. Volunteers and draftees included many frustrated blacks whose impatience with the war and the delays in racial progress at home led to race riots on a number of ships and military bases.