(July 6, 2018 at 12:03 am)Fireball Wrote:(July 5, 2018 at 10:43 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Maybe we were fighting for white peoples' human rights but we sure as hell wasn't fighting for minorities' human rights. The racist pricks wouldn't let black people kill white Nazis and sent most blacks troops to fight the Japanese. At the start of the war they wouldn't even let black people donate blood. It was Jim Crow to the Max.
Some of what you are saying is true. Some of what you say makes me wonder if the Jimson Weed tea hasn't worn off. You have a few more posts before I decide. Don't take that as any sort of threat- it will just be my personal judgment call about your mental state.
Just for grins, go look up Tuskeegee Airmen. http://tuskegeeairmen.org/explore-tai/a-brief-history/
So which points do you disagree with?
And The Powers that Be (TPTB) has a shit fit when they heard about the plan to allow black guys to fly military planes.
" I`ll assume you are American.
US forces were completely segregated at the time.
Black Army units were mainly used to act as Stevedores and Transport Units. Few Units were allowed into combat and were often poorly utilised. See here http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwi...
Black men were allowed aboard US Navy Ships in the more menial jobs such as cook. Only One ship, the USS Mason carried a black crew with white officers. http://www.ussmason.org/
The US Army Air Force tried out a scheme, under severe political pressure, to train a fighter squadron of black pilots supported by black ground crew. They were trained in a place called Tuskegee in the deep south. You can imagine how well that went down.
Despite every possible barrier put in their way they became the 99th Pursuit Squadron who fought in the ETO in P-40 Warhawks before transferring to the all black 332nd Fighter Group in Italy.
· Over 15,000 combat sorties (including 6000+ for the 99th prior to July '44)
· 111 German airplanes destroyed in the air, another 150 on the ground
· 950 railcars, trucks, and other motor vehicles destroyed
· 1 destroyer sunk by P-47 machine gun fire (Lt. Pierson's flight)
· Sixty-six pilots killed in action or accidents
· Thirty-two pilots downed and captured, POWs
· A nearly perfect record of not losing U.S. bombers, a unique achievement
· 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses earned
· 744 Air Medals
· 8 Purple Hearts
· 14 Bronze Stars "
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index...121AAD67vO
Now you should notice several things =
The military was Jim Crow to the core and it didn't train the black pilots like it trained the white ones. The blacks had to go off base to a black college for their training.
The other thing you should notice is that it was just this one group of black pilots that saw air combat in all of the theaters around the world in WWII.
It was January 1949 before the Navy got its first black pilot, Jesse L.Brown. He was killed on a combat mission on December 4, 1950, flying over Korea. His body and plane were napalmed by our fighter planes on December 6, 1950, so his bones will never return home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_L._Brown
