Black Americans

In the armed forces

• over one million joined armed forces

• army --> served black-only units with white officers

- women nurses, only allowed to tend black soldiers

- Europe Battle of the Bulge (1944) & in Pacific in Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)

- fighter squadrons of black pilots e.g. 332nd Fighter Group commanded by Captain Banjamin Davis

- 1945 integrated units in army- US Supreme Commander General Eisenhower supported

• 1944 US marines allowed black soldiers into combat (<--transporting supplies…