[CAWats]

>History shows that the armed forces in WWII were segregated and the majority of blacks in that time were not allowed to fight.

That's pretty much what my Dad told me. He fought in WWII in Sicily, Italy and France in the 3rd Infantry Division. He earned two bronze stars and several unit citations. He said black soldiers would mock them when they headed out to battle.

[AnAmericanMother]

My dad says the same thing too. He was in Africa, Sicily, and Italy.

He also said that some of the truck drivers refused to do their work at Anzio under fire, the CO had to threaten to shoot them on the spot.

[Gaffer]

If you do a search on the internet for WWII deaths and try some google variations, you can find scans of the official US death tallys for all of WWII. They even have deaths month-by-month and by race, etc.

I'd dug it up because I was AF and he was Marine, and he was telling me that the Marines lost more men at IWO than the AAF lost over Europe....I found the data and it looked like at the height of the Air War over Europe, the AAF was losing more flight crews per month than all of IWO deaths.