A former boss of mine who had served in the (segregated) US Army in Italy in WWII referred to them as “night fighters”; he said that is what they told the Italian civilians the black troops were used for...
Ha, ha, ha, my father-in-law told me the same story about when he was serving in Italy in WWII. The Italians had never seen black troops before so they told them they were specially bred night-fighters.
“A former boss of mine who had served in the (segregated) US Army in Italy in WWII referred to them as “night fighters”; “
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That was commonly used during WWII——at least in my neighborhood.