It probably would have been in 44 or 45, because my dad didn't start serving until near the end of the war. An interesting thing about that photo is my dad didn't even have a copy of it. One of my brothers was doing a google search of my dad's ship, and stumbled upon a site that had several crew photos from the ship. And there was my dad.

I always thought the integration was great as well. I haven't asked him about how well people got a long, but I probably should.