2007-01-23 13:53:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
here is an excellent article from an interview with Samuel LeBon Wooten.
"Wooten, 44, was born in France to an black American father and a white French mother and grew up in the tiny town of St. Mere Eglise, the heart of American D-Day airborne operations. As a youth, he remembers dressing up in uniform each June for annual French celebrations of the day, and recalls he was once taunted by another child who told him people with brown skin like his weren't part of the original D-Day.
In fact, blacks were among the assault troops that June 6, and one unit was responsible for maintaining barrage balloons over the beachhead that protected troops landing.
Wooten said the exact number of blacks involved in the D-Day landings is unknown, as is the number of casualties. He estimates that from 1,500 to 2,000 of the 57,000 troops involved were black. The Army didn't record racial or ethnic differences when counting the dead; Wooten said he knows of at least three blacks buried in the American cemetery on the bluffs overlooking Omaha Beach at Coleville-sur-Mer.
Wooten said he also wants to explore how blacks were received in France, and the troubled story of what the black soldiers did behind the lines. He said he knows of 12 courts-martial involving black soldiers involved in rapes, murders or other crimes in Normandy that led to hangings in 1944, although he suspects there were 11 more cases that he can't yet document..."
http://afrigeneas.com/forumb/index.cgi?noframes%3Bread=11090
2007-01-23 14:09:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are military cemeteries in France holding the graves of U.S. soldiers killed both in WWI and WWII. Some of the soldiers were black, maybe even in both wars. You can even visit them. France is mindful of holding the graves of those.
2007-01-23 22:04:50 · answer #2 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah there were many buried during WW2 why are you makinga racist statement like that ? Thats like saying no Jews died during WW2
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2007-01-23 21:57:10 · answer #3 · answered by danielschmidt94521 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. You see, beaches really don't make ideal burial grounds. Ya?
2007-01-23 21:56:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably a few there were so many killed .
2007-01-23 21:55:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course there are, so many where killed it would be insane for there not to be one.
2007-01-23 21:57:15 · answer #6 · answered by elphaba_of_georgia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋