(September 5, 2015 at 7:32 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Yeah, as I said, the US practiced institutionalized racism. My point was that blacks did indeed fight the NaZis, no matter the rationale.
Although the 332nd wasn't formed from a shortage of pilots, but rather at the behest of Eleanor Roosevelt, iirc, after talking with the heads of the NAACP.
Your own example just proves how racist the country was. It was like the Confederacy. While it did have some black troops it refused to grant the slaves freedom to enlist in large numbers because they didn't want to be beholden to the blacks for any potential victory. Even the head of the future KKK, Nathan Bedford Forrest, had a squad of black troops as his aides. Black troops were free to kill the Japanese. The Us government didn't want blacks getting used to killing white people, even if the whites were Nazis who were intent on conquering the world. From a practical matter there wasn't very much difference between the US and Nazi Germany at that time. The US just had better propaganda.
