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A submarine hall of famer tells tales of the silent service

February 21, 2018 11:00 pm • Last Updated: February 22, 2018 10:58 am

Eighty-eight-year-old James Mosely of Waterford, the first African-American medical corpsman to go through the Navy’s nuclear training school, remembers the day when the U.S. military was desegregated and tells about being part of a Library of Congress history project.

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