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Author Moore, Christopher Paul, 1952-2022.

Title Fighting for America : black soldiers, the unsung heroes of World War II / Christopher Paul Moore.

Publication Info. New York : One World, 2005.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  D810.B53 M65 2005    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxxi, 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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].
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American.
World War (1939-1945)
United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans.
United States.
Armed Forces.
African Americans.
African Americans -- Segregation.
African Americans -- Segregation.
United States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Racism -- United States.
Racism.
African American soldiers -- Biography.
African American soldiers.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Heroes -- United States -- Biography.
Heroes.
Racism.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 0345459601
Standard No. 9780345459602