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Fort Des Moines and the first Black officers
1917
Des Moines, Iowa
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The army trained 639 Black officers here in 1917, the first commissioned in any number, after a campaign by students and the NAACP. The same post trained the first Women's Army Auxiliary Corps units in 1942.
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