His mother, who had married a black serviceman, hid Lee and his sister, Linda, in the closet for months after the fall of Saigon.
In December 1944 Guam was the scene of the Agana race riot, between black and white servicemen stationed on the island.
Phillips began his photographic career when while still very young he was given a Kodak Brownie by a black American serviceman.
The Japanese, however, saw the suspects as American servicemen, not black servicemen.
The project: Draining the swamp to build segregated housing for black servicemen.
(Historians estimate that between seven hundred and nine hundred black servicemen participated in the battle.)
Resettlement workers say that here, as in Vietnam, it is the children of black servicemen who suffer the worst discrimination.
Hai Nguyen never met his Vietnamese mother or his American father, a black serviceman.
Mr. Johnson won several awards for his coverage of black servicemen in Vietnam and Europe.
He particularly took up the cause of the children of white women and black overseas servicemen; these children were often abandoned by their parents.