World War II (7 Dez 1941 Jahr – 2 Sept 1945 Jahr)

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More than one million African American men and women served in every branch of the US armed forces during World War II. The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps all segregated African Americans into separate units because of the belief that they were not as capable as white service members. Adding to this indignity, the Army frequently assigned White officers from the American South to command Black infantrymen.

Nevertheless, black soldiers continued to fight on two fronts - for democracy abroad and against racism at home- like the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-Black fighter pilot group trained at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, who escorted bombers over Italy and Sicily, flying 1600 combat missions.

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