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From a sympathetic observer last week came a report on an infantry division which the U.S. Army has watched with keenest interest: the Negro 92nd. The man who made the report was Truman K. Gibson, Negro civilian aide to War Secretary Stimson. The essence of what he had to say: the 92nd's battle performance had been something less than good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Report on the Negro Soldier | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Censors have never permitted correspondents to tell the whole story of the 92nd. It is recorded that the division was activated in October 1942 and, under its white commander, Major General Edward Mallory Almond, and key white officers, packed off to Italy last summer. Three weeks after their arrival in Italy they were assigned to the front, east of Pisa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Report on the Negro Soldier | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

After that, few stories of the 92nd came through; those that did were wistfully played up by the U.S. Negro press. Gibson, on a special assignment to Europe, made his report from firsthand sources. In an interview in Rome he told some of the things which correspondents have never been allowed to cable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Report on the Negro Soldier | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...cited many instances of personal bravery on the part of the men of the 92nd. But, he admitted, units of the 92nd have too often "melted away" before the enemy. Certain units have been thrown into "more or less panicky retreats, particularly at night when the attitude of some individual soldiers seemed to be, 'I'm up here all alone; why in hell should I stay up here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Report on the Negro Soldier | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...Alps. To the west, American Negro troops of the 92nd Division clawed their way up the southeast slopes of the Monti Pisani, overlooking Pisa. On their left, A.J.A.s (Americans of Japanese ancestry) toiled up the south west slopes. The Germans pulled out in a hurry from Pisa, where they had been ensconced for weeks in the northern section while Americans held the southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ITALY: Horizontal Gothic | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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