20inch x 30inch Poster USS??Mason??(DE-529), an??Evarts-class destroyer escort, was the second ship of the??United States Navy??to be named??Mason, though DE-529 was the only one specifically named for Ensign??Newton Henry Mason. The USS??Mason??was one of two US Navy ships with largely??African-Americancrews in??World War II. The other was the??USS PC-1264, a??submarine chaser.??These two ships were manned with African Americans as the result of??a letter??sent to??President Roosevelt??by the??NAACP??in mid-December 1941. There is a border around the image. The image size is correct.