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St. Louis man on first all African-American Naval crew dies

October 18, 2010 By [email protected]

A crewman aboard the first Navy ship with an entirely African-American crew has died in St. Louis. Thomas Howard, a gunner on the escort ship Mason in 1944, was 85. He was with the postal service for 40 years after the war ended.

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