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To: Tench_Coxe

They need to digitally modify D-Day invasion films to insert a large number of blacks among the American GIs storming the Normandy beaches. /sarc

This is not a criticism of blacks... the US military stupidly didn’t allow many to serve in the combat arms back then. Many would have served and served well if they had been given the chance.


15 posted on 09/09/2020 1:45:44 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

It was not the military that separated the races in WWII. It was Woodrow Wilson in WWI who put back into place the division of races in the military. Even with that, many blacks served in Europe in the first war.

Many blacks served in WWII in both theaters of war in all of the services. Montfort Marines, Tuskegee Airmen, any of those ring a bell?


61 posted on 09/09/2020 2:27:59 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: House Atreides

Where does Hogan’s Heroes stand?

There was Kinch and later Baker.


104 posted on 09/09/2020 4:05:38 PM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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