The Snapshots in Time Collection
Newspaper Clipping: First Training Roll Call of the 719th Anti-Aircraft Gun Battalion, California National Guard, Alameda, 1949
A 1949 Oakland Tribune clipping documents the first training roll call of the 719th Anti-Aircraft Gun Battalion, California National Guard, at its new Alameda headquarters. Described in the caption as 'the only all-Negro National Guard battalion in Northern California,' the 719th represents a significant chapter in the history of segregated military service in the postwar era. Project: 218639