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hollowyaounde848 t1_itld4az wrote

1578 combat missions, 112 enemy aircraft destroyed in the air, another 150 on the ground and 148 damaged.

Not one of them allowed into the Officers Club, because they were black.

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appliedecology t1_itm2ac0 wrote

After the war, six Tuskegee airmen lived in my small historically segregated neighborhood. Not one of them was allowed to eat or stay at the downtown hotels for another 20 years. Those dudes changed military and social history.

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Impressive-Shame4516 t1_itng2iw wrote

Treatment of minority veterans after WW2 was a massive catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.

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HawkeyeTen t1_itmjxdg wrote

I think that was true to an extent with non-white folks in the British Army too, at least some of them. I've heard Indian officers were not allowed in the Club. It sounds like racial/ethnic prejudice was a problem on both sides of the Atlantic, even if it was significantly different.

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Ellisoner t1_itn151q wrote

The baffling thing is this in comparison to the treatment of black soldiers on the British Home Islands. Brits on the home island for example, at the battle of Bamber Bridge, fought white Americans in defence of black Americans being allowed into pubs and public spaces with everyone else, yet in India this attitude was not carried over at all.

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jangma t1_itomrsy wrote

Unfortunately the "it's different when they do it" attitude is something we see time and time again across nations/ethnicities/religions.

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