Time Magazine features photographs from “Pot Luck”

In 1944 and 1945, while serving as a U.S. Navy photographer, Wayne created a photographic series about a segregated all-black unit that was assigned to the Naval Supply Depot on Guam. The men called their unit “Pot Luck,” and that was the name that Miller gave to the book that he planned to publish about them. The book never appeared; its maquette, or mock-up, was lost until 2018, when one of Miller’s daughters rediscovered it. Read more…

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