This is an example:
Note that the National WW2 Museum explicitly breaks out “minority” numbers but nowhere do you see the White total. You have to subtract it from the overall.
Wanna find the actual White total? You can’t even get that!
https://search.brave.com/search?q=white+total+troops+wwii&source=web
Note that all the search returns focus on “minority participation” and of course imply that Nisei soldiers won the war in the Pacific.
And the ever nauseating Wokipedia finally mentions way down at the bottom in a table that the actual percentage of White people (the um, cough, Americans) were 87.3% of all “inductees” up through 1945. If you actually broke out combat unit demography it would be far higher: blacks were mainly support units and the actual combat numbers were tiny...but of course amplified as to achievement. The truth is that the US military in WWII was overwhelmingly White, as everyone knew before 1990, apparently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_the_U.S._Armed_Forces_during_World_War_II
And the picture they post is of Daniel Inouye, who leveraged his “fame” to become a Senator where he routinely used his war experience to castigate any who objected to his anti-American policies. Funny, but my relatives who died in battles like the Bulge didn’t get a chance to do that. They got dead.
It is not unlike the ubiquitous casting of black actors in British period pieces. Blacks play prominent roles Austin and Dickens and more recently a dancer from Singapore was chosen to portray a young Queen Elizabeth II, there apparently being no white English actress available to play the role.
And back to WWII, you are more likely to see the poster of Doris Miller at Pearl Harbor than photos of Halsey and Nimitz in the history books being used. Miller was brave and did his duty, but really no more than hundreds of others whose names have been forgotten.
But this is not that new a phenomenon. Crispus Attucks is always mentioned, but the four other guys killed at the Boston Massacre....crickets.