Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day

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There is a great story here of the 761st Tank Battalion, an all black tank battalion that fought in the European Theater of WW2. Even men of monumental stature can be so immature into allowing their latent racism surface in unnecessary moments. They would be placed alongside an all-white unit whose reactions to them ranged from caution to outright contempt, and win most of them over with their courage, skill, dedication and humanity, demolishing stereotypes that blacks weren't brave or intelligent enough fight or lead.

Brothers in Arms by Geraint Jones - Pan Macmillan Brothers in Arms by Geraint Jones - Pan Macmillan

And to think that each time they were put with another battalion, they were despised, insulted, and abused makes my blood boil.I was all set to rate this book a little lower than five stars - there are inaccuracies, it's a little dry and the incredible detail of numerous specific events makes me wonder whether some artistic license was employed. This goes through the trials and tribulations of their training - experiencing hostile white southern populations where their bases were located - to their superior officers, their service in Europe and their lives after war. For a history like this, it helps to provide some broader context of what is going on around the unit.

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million Black American men served and fought in the US military, and despite hundreds of well-documented stories of self-sacrifice by these men, not one of them were awarded the Medal of Honor. Yet, these young men were resilient and steadfast in the military performance while also dealing the American tradition of racism.This is a poignant story of the young men’s pure innocence, their loss of innocence seeing their friends’ tragic demise, their unthinkingly, enthusiastic and eager readiness to take part in warfare, and the unfortunate racialization experienced. This was corrected in the 1990's by an independent commission), you can see why no one heard of these soldiers. In the flush of outrage and patriotism in the days and months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans by the hundreds of thousands volunteered to serve in our nation's armed forces.

Brothers in Arms Series by Mary Connealy - Goodreads Brothers in Arms Series by Mary Connealy - Goodreads

More Americans need to understand what our Black countrymen have had to deal with, live through, PUT UP WITH, just to be seen as whole, as a person.Within days they’d be on the ground in Musa Qala with the rest of 3 Platoon – a mixed bunch of men Gez would die for.