Comments on: The Position of Black Troops in the US Army in WW2

By: mokujin22

mokujin22 — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:01:20 +0000

When you diligently push out 3-4 articles a day, every day and have thousands of people reading your blog, maybe then you can criticize typos.

Sheesh. Folks are so ungrateful.

Keep up the good work, SS!

By: geowolf

geowolf — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 01:07:35 +0000

Thanks SS! I was reading a novel currently about this subject, Hart’s War, and this is really helpful for an assignment.

By: DeathbyLOLTRAKTOR

DeathbyLOLTRAKTOR — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 23:41:27 +0000

My Super-Pershing crew is all black (no gold used) and they have some (plz don’t be offended) very African-American sounding names… Like ‘Delmar’ and ‘Eli Oomis’ although I would assume a British crew with someone named ‘Basil’ or a German crewman with the name ‘Helmut’ would be similarly stereotypical. WoT – u so silly.

By: Conchita Wurst

Conchita Wurst — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:42:51 +0000

What does it have to do with internet tanks anyway? Apart from SS’s hatred of minorities.

By: newman8r

newman8r — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 21:10:09 +0000

I can set you up with an invite via email. PM me in WoT if you see me on. newman8r42

By: kam7r

kam7r — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:04:02 +0000

racism is bad … in late WWI , when the US entered the war , their soldiers didn’t want to fight with their black ones, so they were sent to reinforce french units… Where they were welcomed and well liked by the “white french” without any discrimination, they even received a lot of distinctions… thats why a number of them went back to france after the war bringing with them the Jazz and blues culture who were really popular in france in the 1920s
same in WW2..

By: Zarkus

Zarkus — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:06:18 +0000

“Brothers In Arms” by Kareem Abdul Jabbar is a good read to get their point of view, but it doesn’t flow very well. There are quite a few historical errors, too…such as describing Von Goering as a skinny propaganda minister.

By: Freddy3

Freddy3 — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:48:16 +0000

A big deal was made about ‘Black’ units having poor records in Korea while ‘White’ units who acted the same way were glossed over – this was in part a last ditch attempt to justify segregation.

As a note I did an exchange tour with a US Engineer Bridging Company in 1985 – although the unit was mixed it was still split into different ethnicities on site, in the cookhouse and in the bar – Whites, Blacks and Hispanics – they did not socialise outside their groups and tasks were done in their respective groups.

It seemed to us to be just how they work – not a doctrine

We got some odd to nasty comments as we were fully integrated in work and socially

By: fishercat

fishercat — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:17:56 +0000

My father was one of those white officers (yeah – I’m old). He was a captain in the Army Corps of Engineers in charge of a company of black soldiers, mostly from rural Alabama. They spent much of the war creating airfields in New Guinea.

Since they were making airfields, the brass wanted to transfer them to the Army Air Corps for simplicity of command structure. The AAC General refused to have black troops under his command, so the transfer did not take place.

As to the men, all my father would say was that they were good guys and did their jobs well.

By: ewanc9

ewanc9 — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:05:40 +0000

i imagine that’s to do with maintenance more than build quality.