This page from a WWII Army Air Forces publication documents a segregated African American unit at Scott Field, shown preparing and eating a meal in the mess hall. Produced years before the U.S. armed forces were desegregated by Executive Order 9981 in 1948, the page - including its period terminology and framing - stands as a direct historical record of the racially segregated structure of the WWII-era military. Project: 218123