Gen. note
Includes index.
Contents
Two Americas? [1776 to 1941] -- Pearl Harbor [1941-42] -- America’s secret weapon [1942] -- Alaska to Guadalcanal [1942] -- The Atlantic war [1942] -- Ready for combat [1942] -- The road to Burma [1942-43] -- Black women at war [1942-43] -- FDR to Africa [1943] -- The Fighting 99th [1943] -- The long, hot summer [1943] -- Fighters over Anzio [1944] -- Landing in England [1944] -- D-Day [1944] -- Red Ball Express [1944] -- Sound off! [1944] -- Port Chicago mutiny [1944] -- Two trials and two generals [1944] -- Island to island [1944] -- Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s last charge [1944-45] -- The forgotten front: return of the Buffalo soldiers [1944-45] -- Captives of war [1945] -- WACs overseas [1945] -- The Holocaust [1945] -- Victory [1945]
ISBN
0345459601
Subject
United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans. United States -- Race relations. World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American. African Americans -- Segregation. Racism -- United States. African American soldiers -- Biography. Heroes -- United States -- Biography.
