Frenchy

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Type: Bugeye

Year: 1900

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Location: Oriole

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Fetch?	Row ID	Media	Date	Vessel	Place	Related Places	Inscription/Marks	Subject	Notes	Archive Number
	1		8/28/1945	United States. Army. Port Company, 586th.; General J.H. McRae (Steamship : 1944).; Queen Elizabeth (Steamship : 1939).			Pvt. William Speller, 33799731, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a member of the 586 Port Company, is photographed on Pier 8, HRPE, Newport News, Va., with the Company mascot, Frenchy, after debarking from the USS GENERAL J.H. MCRAE. Frenchy joined this outfit on his own volition on June 1945 while the company was camped at Arlas Staging Area near Marseilles, France. The 586th Port Company was activated at Camp Plauche, Louisiana, in January 1944, and sailed from NYPE aboard the HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH on 22 June 1944. Photo taken for Historical purposes.	Cats–Virginia–Newport News.; African American soldiers.	Shows an African American soldier with a small cat perched on his soldier, his head is cocked slightly to look at the pet. Some other African American men can be seen in the background.	P0003/01-#L-15374