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During the last months of the War in Europe, the U.S. Army gave 11 divisions platoons of Black soldiers. After they interviewed white officers and NCOs in 7 of those divisions across 24 rifle companies. The results were pretty significant.

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What did White U.S. Soldiers think of Mixed Race Units? (WW2)

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Andrew Avery

Super interesting. Great work on this and thank you.