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...have just finished reading an article in TIME [April 23] concerning the 473rd Infantry Regiment in which you referred to us as Negro troops . . . We are definitely a white unit and are getting sick & tired of being referred to as Negro troops. This letter is not being written to further racial discontent but only to get the facts straight, as we are satisfied to let the combat record of the Negroes speak for itself. . . . (PFC.) CHARLES WHITING (Ppc.) C. WEAVER (CPL.) LLOYD JOHNSON (PFC.) ROBERT WTARREN (SGT.) THOMAS TROGDON...
...TIME gladly rights the record. Dispatches from the Italian front failed to specify that the 473rd was an all-white regiment attached to the 92nd (Negro) Division...
...Ligurian coast Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott's Fifth Army thrust for the old naval-base town of La Spezia. Working a pincers, the 442nd Regiment (Japanese-Americans) and the 473rd Regiment (Negroes) cleared enemy defenses around the famed marble center of Carrara. Italian Partisan units swarmed out of caves and quarries to help the troops capture the village...
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