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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 February 2020 and 11 April 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Jerome Davis jr.

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World War II Section - Black Feminist Revisionist Hi-Jacking[edit]

Weird that the World War II section seem to be almost hijacked with an attempt to Glorify the very few African-american women who served "48 as nurse", compared to the extreme majority of African-american men.

the military only allowed men to server in combat, with rare exception for female nurse.

Also the women's corp is not the military.

This needs clean up. I'm going to remove some items I feel are not related to actually Military Service. Feel free to undo, but please leave a reason why if you like.

2603:3020:707:4500:5887:E4BA:FCCD:6A5 (talk) 20:05, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Medal of Honor recipients, Integration of the armed forces, World War II[edit]

The aspects of the article that needs to be developed. The sections that I will improve is Medal of Honor recipients, Integration of the armed forces, World War II and Military history of African Americans in popular culture. One sections that should be improved is they should list the most important individuals that payed the most important part in making black soldiers an actual thing. Another thing they should change is they should go more in detail on that blacks company's or units that contributed the most in every war. They should talk about how these black solders where eventually awarded for there service. Lastly talk about how black soldiers still go throw racism even though they where aloud to sever in the military. --Jerome Davis jr (talk) 17:02, 2 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The idea of racism in the armed forced in WW2 is certainly overlooked and I believe there should be more of a point here. I could possibly develop this further as I currently study this? I could further develop this by suggesting about the ideas of black soldiers at home and for example talk about the Stuttgart Incident. Goldenl03 (talk) 18:08, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Casualties WWII[edit]

The statement "A total of 708 African Americans were killed in combat during World War II" cannot be correct. The 92nd Division alone lost about 750 men killed and missing, and some of the artillery battalions at Bastogne took very heavy casualties. Likewise every US Navy ship that went down or was seriously damaged took African American lives with it. Sciacchitano (talk) 14:04, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]