More opportunities will come to our soldiers but we must be ready for them” (page 44). Y our anger will ruin your hopes for a military career. , the highest-ranking black officer in the ar my: “Curb your tongue quiet your temper. Bradley Biggs, one of the officers of the 555th, recounts advice given to him b y Colonel Benjamin O. Why did Roosev elt, who worked for racial equality, make such a statement? Was the amendment to the Selective Service Bill followed by the ar med forces? How were black troops utilized at the beginning of W orld W ar II? 3. Yet in 1940, President Roose velt issued a press release saying that desegregating the ar med forces “would produce situations destructive to morale and detrimental to the preparation for national defense” (page 11). An amendment to the Selective T raining and Service Bill stated that, “there should be no discrimination in either the selection or training of men” (page 11). What does Colonel Queen mean by that statement? What led him to believe that? 2. This in its turn caused considerable confusion in the minds of the draftees as to who the enemy really was” (page 10). The Neg ro soldier’s fir st tast e of warfare i n World W ar II was on Army posts right here in his own country. Colonel Howar d Donovan Queen, commanding office r of the all-black 366th R egiment of the 92nd Infantry Division in World War II, is quoted as saying, “World War I one big racial problem for the Negro soldier.
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