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title: Col. Charles Young - West Point graduate, military attache to Haiti, Liberia
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-col-charles-young-1943/
description: A pencil panel sheet shows a large portrait of Colonel Charles Young in uniform, a vignette of cavalry at San Juan Hill.
section: Collection
---

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# Col. Charles Young - West Point graduate, military attache to Haiti, Liberia

A pencil panel sheet shows a large portrait of Colonel Charles Young in uniform, a vignette of cavalry at San Juan Hill, a scene of soldiers crossing a river under fire, and portraits of two newly commissioned lieutenants. The tell is transfer: the record of a past officer is extended to current Black cadets 'following in the footsteps' of their predecessor.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
THE LATE
Col.
Charles
Young
WEST POINT GRADUATE
MILITARY ATTACHE
HAITI, LIBERIA.

SPINGARN MEDAL
1915

RESCUED TEDDY
ROOSEVELT AND
HIS FAMOUS
"ROUGH RIDERS"
AT SAN JUAN
HILL.

IN THE
PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION
DURING A TERRIFIC TROPICAL
STORM, HE LED HIS MEN
ACROSS A RIVER THROUGH
A HAIL OF BULLETS TO THE
RESCUE OF OTHER TROOPS,
BRINGING THEM FOOD
AND AMMUNITION.

LIEUT.
CLARENCE
DAVENPORT

LIEUT.
ROBERT
TRESVILLE

FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF
THEIR FAMOUS PREDECESSOR -- THESE CADETS
WERE RECENTLY COMMISSIONED IN THE U.S. ARMY.

Alston
for OWI
```

[← Charles Henry Fletcher - Soldier of Production](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-charles-henry-fletcher-1943/) ["December 7th 1941 - Remember!!" (Dorie Miller at Pearl Harbor) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-december-7th-remember-1943/)

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