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These barracks housed African-American Army enlisted men during the Second World War. A lynching of the Italian prisoner-of-war, Guglielmo Olivotto, resulted in the wrongful dishonorable discharge of 28 African-American soldiers in 08/1944. It was believed in 2010 that a white guard was responsible for the murder and blamed the black soldiers for his actions. As a result of Jack and Leslie Hamann's 2005 book, On American Soil, the Army reexamined this case and changed its decision to oust the 28 and issued them honorable discharges. Fourteen of the soldiers had been found by 2010. Hamann and others hoped that a monument detailing this injustice be erected somewhere at Fort Lawton.

PCAD id: 15701