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[https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-war/fighting-for-democracy-african-americans by PBS] | [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. | 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. | ||
=====Why is it that journalists aren't heroes anymore?===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/tags/publicopinion.html by Earl Caldwell PBS] | |||
The public is not on our side, and I think that in the news media, one of the things is you have to have the public on your side. This is what the biggest difference is now for me. When we ended up going against the Black Panthers -- and in that period, the people used to be happy to see us coming as reporters, because they actually believe that we were going to be a part of telling some truth; that there were situations where I'd see us come onto a scene and people would actually applaud us. We were hero figures. You might say it's part of the last great time to be a reporter, especially a newspaperman, in America. But that is what's different. We don't have that kind of trust now. People don't hold us in that high regard. ... | |||
