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[https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-war/mobile by PBS] | [https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-war/mobile by PBS] | ||
Mobile, Alabama, before the war, was a sleepy southern town of 112,000, whose only real industry was shipbuilding, as it had been since the Great War a generation earlier. Discovered by Spanish explorers in the 16th century, colonized by the French, taken over by the British, then by the Spanish and finally incorporated into the United States in 1812, the city boasted a diverse, cosmopolitan population. | Mobile, Alabama, before the war, was a sleepy southern town of 112,000, whose only real industry was shipbuilding, as it had been since the Great War a generation earlier. Discovered by Spanish explorers in the 16th century, colonized by the French, taken over by the British, then by the Spanish and finally incorporated into the United States in 1812, the city boasted a diverse, cosmopolitan population. | ||
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[https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-war/fighting-for-democracy-african-americans by PBS] | |||
The all-African-American 332nd Fighter Group, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, never lost an escorted bomber to enemy fighters. They would be requested by numerous bomber crews. With the 51st Defense Battalion, the Marines became the last branch of the military to accept a segregated unit. The Red Ball Express was organized in August 1944 to move supplies 24 hours a day to the front. Three out of four drivers were African American. In less than three months, the Red Ball Express rolled through 40,000 tires while delivering 412,000 tons of ammunition, food and fuel. | |||
