Ever wonder how yur grandpa/great-grandpa became a nat'l hero in French..?

[illdog]

But...not in the u.s..?

African Americans in the Military during World War I

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, Americans were very reluctant to get involved and remained neutral for the better part of the war. The United States only declared war when Germany renewed its oceanic attacks that affected international shipping, in April 1917. African Americans, who had...

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https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/02/world-war-i-african-american-soldiers-battle-more-than-enemy-forces/

Henry Johnson, the One-Man Army Who Fought Off Dozens of German Soldiers During World War I

In May 1918, Henry Johnson found himself alone in the Argonne with a wounded ally, an empty rifle, and dozens of German soldiers closing in. He didn’t run. He fought.

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[illdog]

Weird...French kids learn this in grade school..i found out only after taking an elective Black history class in college.

 

[Dark19]

But...not in the u.s..?

African Americans in the Military during World War I

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, Americans were very reluctant to get involved and remained neutral for the better part of the war. The United States only declared war when Germany renewed its oceanic attacks that affected international shipping, in April 1917. African Americans, who had...

www.archives.gov

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/02/world-war-i-african-american-soldiers-battle-more-than-enemy-forces/

Henry Johnson, the One-Man Army Who Fought Off Dozens of German Soldiers During World War I

In May 1918, Henry Johnson found himself alone in the Argonne with a wounded ally, an empty rifle, and dozens of German soldiers closing in. He didn’t run. He fought.

getpocket.com

Need a Proper Big Screen, Blockbuster, Black Panther Level, Epic About Them and the Buffalo Soldiers

 

[SPECTRE1]

Some of the biggest coons are black military vets, I don't cosign fighting in Europe where you are humiliated when a white POW sits in the front. This is not a good example of discrimination, it is embarassment to me.

For Corporal Rupert Trimmingham, it came as no surprise that he’d have to eat inside the lunchroom’s kitchen, invisible to the diners enjoying table service. This was 1944, and the Deep South. Trimmingham and eight other Black soldiers were en route from Louisiana’s Camp Claiborne to Arizona’s Fort Huachuca and, as he later wrote, he knew the only boss was “Old Man Jim Crow…”

But what Trimmingham and his companions saw as they looked out at the lunchroom from inside that kitchen defied even their weary expectations. About two dozen German prisoners of war who entered with their American guards “sat at the tables, had their meals served, talked, smoked, in fact had quite a swell time.” In an April 1944 letter to Yank, a weekly Army magazine, Trimmingham asked the obvious: “Are these men”— Nazi troops who’d been captured while fighting on Hitler’s behalf—“sworn enemies of this country? Are we not American soldiers, sworn to fight for and die if need be for this our country? Then why are they treated better than we are?”

 

[oskie]

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