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...369th was a fine outfit, and I do not wish to detract from its record, which was outstanding. I was a Company Commander in the 371st Infantry made up of drafted Negroes from the South. I respectfully challenge your statement that: "With one exception their battlefield record [negro combat units] was not so good. Exception was Harlem's 369th...
...entered its second year, it was fought, at last, as it was originally pictured by its direst prophets, in a vast three-dimensional battlefield-over some 1,000,000 square miles of land and sea, in some 5,000,000 cubic miles of western Europe's air space. In twelva months the Germans claimed to have destroyed 6,950 enemy aircraft while losing 1,050 of their own, to have dropped 5,000,000 bombs. The British said Germany had lost 3,945 planes in a year, to 1,012 British. Last week the Russian Army's official...
...Negro can be a first-class fighting man. Of the 404,348 black soldiers drafted and enlisted during World War I, only about 10% were put into overseas combat outfits. With one exception their battlefield record was not so good. Exception was Harlem's 369th. Officered mostly by white men the 369th was brigaded with the French who called its black men les enfants perdus (the lost children) because of their separation from the rest of the A. E. F. The regiment lost 1,100 men killed and wounded, won 172 individual French and American decorations, was able...
...blessing by the Pope, but it sounded strange other than as a good-will gesture toward what remains of France. Marshal Petain, 84, brought up in the Catholic faith, has never been renowned for his devotion. Once he said that he would rather be buried in the battlefield of Verdun than in the hallowed ground of a churchyard...
General Marshall last week said that the Army by next October will have in hand enough equipment to train (but not to put on the battlefield) at least 300,000 conscripts. A Defense Commission spokesman announced that the 15,000 Army planes, 4,000 Navy planes which Mr. Roosevelt had just asked for should be turned out by July...