How where black POW dealt with

BTW, sometime around the Battle of the Bulge Ike raised additional infantry platoons among the colored soldiers who volunteered for combat. These platoons were added to each infantry company so instead of three infantry platoons and one heavy weapons platoon, there were four infantry platoons and one heavy weapons platoon. The men acquitted themselves well.

Forgot what book I read it in, but one Red Ball Express driver took his charge virtually up to the fighting. The platoon was impresed as most drivers dropped men off at a safe distance and made them march to the fighitng. The platoon dismounted and were pinned down by the Germans. The driver was under no obligation to fight but he crawled up to the BAR man, took the BAR and said something to the extent of, "Let me show you guys how to do it." He then rose, advanced and fired into the German machine gun and silenced it. The platoon overran the Germans at which point the driver handed back the BAR and nonchalantly climbed into his truck and drove off.

Lest we forget, there was that black tank battalion that served under Patton's Third Army. Patton needed reinforcements and was happy to get them.

 

Last, Tuskegee Airman Jefferson Alexander was tail end charlie when he was shot down. He was placed in a PoW camp for officers no different from any other airman. One barracks immediatly grabbed him as a room mate. Why? Because they figure he wasn't a German spy and their barracks had all the escape stuff hidden there.

 

The problem with the premise of this thread is thinking blacks are treated outside of America in the same light as blacks are treated by Americans.

 

not all white or black Americans are evil and racist