Anti-Fascists kicking Fascist Butt Celebrates 76 Years Anniversary

[Soph0571]

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June 6 1944, D-Day. The most important day ever for the freedom of Europeans. Let us never forget how much we owe to the brave soldiers who lost their lives during #WW2

Brave men and women stood up when it counted in World War 2 to stop the last lot of fascists that thought they could rule for ever... just sayin'. Also very reassuring to remember that generation of anti-fascists just as this generation of anti-fascists are being labelled a terror organisation by an actual fascist.

[Cha]

1. Kick! TY Soph..

[Throck]

2. The US Army was sadly racist in WWII

Minorities had to fight to prove themselves, segregation was rampant.

[sarge43]

4. Sad, but true. It wasn't rampant; it was virulent

Name a black combat unit.

[Trumpocalypse]

6. The Tuskegee airmen

Heroes to a man

[sarge43]

7. The only one, as far as I know.

Indeed they were. The bomber crews they rode shotgun for were always glad to see the Red Tails show up. They didn't hot dog; they took care of business.

CAVU, Airmen.

[Harker]

12. 761st Tank Battalion.

A unit in Patton's Third Army.

[sarge43]

17. Thank you n/t

[rockfordfile]

9. true

[irisblue]

8. 92nd Infantry , and I had to google

Activated: 15 October 1942.

Overseas: 22 September 1944.

Campaigns: North Apennines, Po Valley.

Awards: Medal of Honor: 2 (Posthumously in 1997); Distinguished Service Cross (United States):. 2; Army Distinguished Service Medal:
1; Silver Star: 208; Legion of Merit: 16; Soldier's Medal: 6; Bronze Star: 1,166. ;Purple Heart: 1,891; Order of the Crown of Italy:



Returned to the United States: 26 November 1945.
Inactivated: 28 November 1945.

[sarge43]

10. Thank you, irisblue

Good to know. Sad that we have to dig around to find them.

Duty done, Soldiers.

[irisblue]

11. I knew that unit from WW 1 history class, but I didn't know they reactivated

My late FIL bombed Italy, it was a hard campaign

[Aristus]

18. The 761st Tank Battalion.

Denzel Washington was going to make a movie about them, but it died and went to development hell...

[FailureToCommunicate]

19. Not Blacks, but the most decorated unit of WWll was the Japanese American 442nd

Infantry Division.

Talk about racism, their relatives were being rounded up in internment camps, while they fought for the USA.

Senator Daniel Inouye was in that unit.

I knew anoth one of those brave men. He was NOT to be messed with.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)

[AllaN01Bear]

22. you beat me to it .:)

[Trumpocalypse]

5. The Nazis were more racist

Much more.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Segregation was transplanted from civilian society

It wasn't going to be solved quickly. Large white sections of the military would not have accepted it, and there was a war to get on with. Eleanor Roosevelt pleaded with her husband for more integration. FDR knew it wasn't immediately practicable, would affect morale and the ability to fight.

I knew a dentist who served in WWII, he was friendly with the family. He told the tale of a white soldier from the South who presented with a toothache. Learning the dentist was from NY, he refused to be treated and asked for another dentist. So they sent him to one. When he went to the second dentist, he learned the dentist was black. So he returned to the first, and NY, dentist, who was suddenly a suitable choice. Unfortunately these were the racial and regional conflicts of the time.

[Maxheader]

3. Incredible feats by men and women...

Mom was in the reserves..Dad and Uncle were in the pacific

theater. Thanks for the reminder..

[keithbvadu2]

14. Violent

[keithbvadu2]

15. Photograph Emerges of Leftist Anti-Fascists VIOLENTLY Disrupting Conservative White Supremacists!

Photograph Emerges of Leftist Anti-Fascists VIOLENTLY Disrupting Conservative White Supremacists!!!!!

[JustGene]

16. I fscking love it! nt

[Ponietz]

23. Great day for Pelosi to remind the nation in exactly these words

[FailureToCommunicate]

20. Important to remember, especially now. Thank you Soph.