Mexico

Mexican Air Force Captain Radames Gaxiola Andrade and members of the maintenance team photographed in front of a US P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft after returning from a combat mission during the Philippines Campaign in 1945. The team was part of Mexico’s 201st Fighter Squadron, which assisted the Allied efforts during …

Mexican family preparing to cross the border in order to work on farms in the USA, as part of the Bracero Program in 1944. The program was put in place as the US was struggling with labor shortages during World War 2, and lasted for almost two decades after the …