Here are two Yank Magazine articles from the same issue that report on the all-black combat units that fought the Germans on two fronts in Europe: one organization fought with the Seventh Army in France and Germany, the other fought with the Fifth Army through Italy:
“Hitler would have a hemorrhage if he could see the white boys of the 411th Infantry bull-sessioning, going out on mixed patrols, sleeping in the same bombed buildings, sweating out the same chow lines with the Negro GIs.”
Click here to read more articles about African-Americans in the Second World War.
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Click here to learn about the origins of the term “Jim Crow”.
Click here to read a history of African-Americans between the years 1619 through 1939.
Read about an African-American from the First World War…
