Name: The 758th Tank Battalion in World War II: The U.S. Armys First All African American Tank Unit (en Inglés)
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Author: Joe Wilson
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Libro Físico

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McFarland

Autor

Joe Wilson

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Inglés

N° páginas

214

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781476669991

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Segunda guerra mundial - (c. 1939-c. 1945)
Segunda guerra mundial

The 758th Tank Battalion in World War II: The U.S. Armys First All African American Tank Unit (en Inglés)

Joe Wilson (Autor) · McFarland · Tapa Blanda

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In 1941, the U.S. Army activated the 758th Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit. By December 1944 they were fighting the Axis in Northern Italy, from the Ligurian Sea through the Po Valley and into the Apennine Mountains, where they helped breach the Gothic Line--the Germans' last major defensive line of the Italian Campaign. After the war the 758th was deactivated but was reformed as the 64th Tank Battalion, keeping their distinguished insignia, a tusked elephant head over the motto "We Pierce." They entered the Korean War still segregated but returned fully integrated (though discrimination continued internally). Through the years, they fought with almost every American tank--the Stuart, the Sherman, the Pershing, the Patton and today's Abrams. Victorious over two fascist (and racist) regimes, many black servicemen returned home to what they hoped would be a more tolerant nation. Most were bitterly disappointed--segregation was still the law of the land. For many, disappointment became a determination to fight discrimination with the same resolve that had defeated the Axis.