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To: Regulator

Oh No, I have it on good authority that black battalions and the Tuskeegee airmen won the war singlehandedly.


I taught jr high history for years. As the years went by the choice and quality of history textbooks declined noticeably. In some you have to look carefully to find photos of white American men fighting in WWII, if there are any at all.


36 posted on 03/18/2024 8:35:40 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: hanamizu

This is an example:

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-us-military-numbers

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.


38 posted on 03/18/2024 8:54:04 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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