I'm a little confused, during WWII, were some black soldiers always allowed in combat with whites?

Question

if not, Battle of the Bulge was the first time. Correct?

Answer 1

I believe it wasn't until the Korean War that the troops were fully integrated. In the meantime, black troops rang up some super fantastic heroic deeds but never got acknowledged for it.

Answer 2

You are close. I read an article in World War II magazine that talks about this, but it was at Remagen in March 1945. They needed troops and they filled some areas with black combat troops. When the white troops saw the black troops coming, they realized that the black troops were not there to relieve them protecting the bridge at Remagen, but to join them in combat. This situation stayed this way until almost the end of the war. When soldiers were starting to be sent home, the black units were pulled out of the white units and were told that segregation back on. Several tried to rebel, but they were told sorry. It is an interesting article.

Answer 3

In 1944 in September The 94th and 95th Divisions ,made up of black soldiers, were placed with the 442 RCT, made up of Nisei Japanese soldiers, and The 34th Division made up of White Soldiers, were combined into the first integrated combat corp in the United States Army. They fought together until the end of the war.

Answer 4

I cannot directly answer your question, but I know there were black units landing at Normandy Beach on DDay.

I want to share a story told to me by a German man who fought in WWII. Toward the end of the war when it was obvious the German's would be defeated, they began enscripting younger and younger boys into the army. He was 14.

Somewhere in Europe, he and 3 other German boy-soldiers were told to capture a certain hill. They crept up on their bellies, rifles cradles in their arms. It wasn't really a hill, more of dune. They rested a moment before they stood up and charged and as they did, they were facing 4 American black soldiers. Altho the boys had heard of black people, they had never seen any and deep down inside, didn't really believe they existed.

In a state of shock, disbelief and terror at seeing the enemy, the boy-soldiers immediately threw up their arms, dropped their guns and begged for mercy. But the US soldiers didn't understand them - or hear them. For they too had dropped their guns and were begging for mercy. After a moment, both groups stopped and stared for a long time. They realized with the language barrier that surrendering to each other was impossible, so each group slowly picked up their guns and gradually backed up. I suspect that each group never reported the encounter.

Answer 5

the ***** population did hav e men fighting in the battles of the country long before wwII, the military had back in the indian wars what are known as the buffalo soldiers that fought just like the indians and they were in the battles of the war between the states.during the war in the 40s the ***** men were not accepted as openly as they are now, the negroes in wwII hte militry had a company of fliers and they had to prove themselves because the whites did not approve of thembeing fighters or fliers.they got all the dirtiest jobs that we had in any service area.

Answer 6

Since the Civil War, blacks were allowed to fight alonside whites, and the same is with the World Wars, and especially in our society. I am white and I say blacks are one of the most patriotic men I have ever met. Even more than I am. They deserve to be recognized as heroes too in all our wars.

Answer 7

No to both. There was a cook on the Arizona that manned a machine gun during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Blacks were highly discriminated against during WW2.

Answer 8

No. The units were black, but fought in the same battles as "Everybody else" so stupid.

Answer 9

They tended to be segregated in American federal forces.