During this time the unit never lost any prisoners or ... advancements in the treatment of their African-American personnel. World War II was a watershed for race relations within the Armed ...

When the U.S. military decided to assign three African American engineering regiments to the Alaska Highway project, it departed from its usual segregationist policies. Since the Civil War ...

"Moreover, the only military unit that was commanded by an African-American before the Second World War", Domingo says. blacks, whites, Latinos and Jews fought together; there was no segregation.