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My Father's War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II
University of Alabama Press, 2012 eISBN: 978-0-8173-8620-7 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-1768-3 Library of Congress Classification D769.31 92ndJ65 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 940.541273092
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
My Father’s War tells the compelling story of a unit of Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II. The 92nd Division of the Fifth Army was the only African American infantry division to see combat in Europe during 1944 and 1945, suffering more than 3,200 casualties. Members of this unit, known as Buffalo Soldiers, endured racial violence on the home front and experienced racism abroad. Engaged in combat for nine months, they were under the command of southern white infantry officers like their captain, Eugene E. Johnston. Carolyn Ross Johnston draws on her father’s account of the war and her extensive interviews with other veterans of the 92nd Division to describe the experiences of a naïve southern white officer and his segregated unit on an intimate level. During the war, the protocol that required the assignment of southern white officers to command black units, both in Europe and in the Pacific theater, was often problematic, but Johnston seemed more successful than most, earning the trust and respect of his men at the same time that he learned to trust and respect them. Gene Johnston and the African American soldiers were transformed by the war and upon their return helped transform the nation. See other books on: Campaigns | Officers | Participation, African American | Regimental histories | United States. Army See other titles from University of Alabama Press |
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My Father's War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
University of Alabama Press, 2012
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8620-7
Cloth: 978-0-8173-1768-3
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8620-7
Cloth: 978-0-8173-1768-3
My Father’s War tells the compelling story of a unit of Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II.
The 92nd Division of the Fifth Army was the only African American infantry division to see combat in Europe during 1944 and 1945, suffering more than 3,200 casualties. Members of this unit, known as Buffalo Soldiers, endured racial violence on the home front and experienced racism abroad. Engaged in combat for nine months, they were under the command of southern white infantry officers like their captain, Eugene E. Johnston.
Carolyn Ross Johnston draws on her father’s account of the war and her extensive interviews with other veterans of the 92nd Division to describe the experiences of a naïve southern white officer and his segregated unit on an intimate level. During the war, the protocol that required the assignment of southern white officers to command black units, both in Europe and in the Pacific theater, was often problematic, but Johnston seemed more successful than most, earning the trust and respect of his men at the same time that he learned to trust and respect them. Gene Johnston and the African American soldiers were transformed by the war and upon their return helped transform the nation.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
