[naturalman1975]

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[Jonty30]

What happened that would lead to mutiny?

[freeangel]

saving

[gaijin]

bookmarked with maximal non-surprise.

If they covered THIS up in the bad old days, how much more is covered up in these P.C. NEW days, huh..?

[Defiant]

Here's a link to a different source.

[traditional1]

You absolutely won't see a movie about this....it's not politically-correct, and black-on-white crime is NEVER publicized like "Hate Crimes" when it's white-on-black.

"Holder's People" have a way of being kept "covered".

[Steely Tom]

It’s a little bit hard to believe that something of this magnitude could have been hushed up for 70 years.

[Regulator]

So...

Port Chicago = OK to talk about

Townsville = Not OK

Gotta get the rules straight

[Tijeras_Slim]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10784814

The Kiwi’s don’t seem to be as keen to make a buck.

[politicianslie]

For later

[Jack Hydrazine]

Watch what happens when Whitey stops paying all that welfare to the Diversity Crowd. It ain’t gonna be pretty.

[af_vet_rr]

If this is what I'm thinking, there was one or two points where they were traveling across the Pacific on cargo or troopships, where white soldiers and sailors were allowed to have leave when they were in port, while the black soldiers were not.

Those cargo and troopships were not the best of conditions to begin with. If you were being confined to ship simply because you were black...I know I'd be pissed as hell if I saw one group get leave because they were of a certain color, and I wasn't because I was of a different color.

[Lloyd227]

This is not the only WWII mutiny. I have a family member, now deceased, who was himself involved in a pretty serious affair in Hawaii and it’s well known within the family on my mother’s side. It was all hushed up and he spent 2 years and an army infirmary being “treated” for mental disorders, released as fully recovered and even allowed to re-up again. Family history, you won’t read about it in any text book

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

one source

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I suspect I have an answer for him. The US has never ‘fessed up to how many military criminal prisoners were hung during the war, but there are strong suggestions that hundreds may have met that fate.

They try to suggest that Pvt. Slovik was the only one, but this is not the case.

I know of at least one military prison camp in southern Arizona, completely unknown today except for one reference about it carrying out frequent executions. No trace remains in the desert. It was not near Fort Huachuca, which is still an active military post.

As an aside, today military executions are never carried out, as the president must confirm the execution, and while George W. Bush was willing, the Pentagon intervened before he could order the execution and commuted it to life imprisonment.

Back then, however, execution orders were in the exclusive province of the military. While Supreme Commander Eisenhower authorized the execution of Slovik, in most cases a much lower ranking convening authority was likely able to confirm the sentence.

[jmax]

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We had our own....Camp Logan (Houston, TX) in 1917.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Riot_(1917)

Very interesting for those who were not aware.

[blueunicorn6]

30,000 rounds and they didn’t hit anyone? The movie won’t be called THE TUSKEGEE MARKSMEN.

[Bender2]

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