Yup, could have put all of them in the first wave of Omaha Beach, Tarawa, Iwo Jima....
During WW2 18 year olds were storming the beaches while being shot at.
Now 18 year olds get frightened by a mural or statue.
You know what? Since America is so racist (maybe so in parts of America in that era),why didn’t we put all of the “diversity” in the front lines and waves like the Imperial Japs and Soviets? We could have saved so many white people.
During the Civil War the Union Army did just that. They used the black troops to use up the Confederate ammunition in Florida, the Carolinas and at Petersburg. At Brices' Crossroads the black troops bailed out the Union Army; if it hadn't been for two regiments of black troops, Forrest would have bagged the whole army.
Could you imagine the howls of anguish if we HAD put them all in the first wave on D-Day? Then we would have been excoriated for being racist and putting minorities out front to die for white men.
It’s a lose-lose.