Re: X Corps Commander

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In a message dated 2/22/00 10:43:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
msmall@roanoke.infi.net writes:

<<   The 92nd ID was a Black
 division (that is, it was composed of Black troops, a rarity in that
 segregated Army) and had a fine combat record despite the many barriers
 thrown in its way.
  >>

The 92ID indeed had problems. Author Shelby Stanton, "Ten Corps in Korea 
1950," had this to say about the ineffectiveness of the 92ID after the 
divsion went on the offensive in February 1945 and was cut up by mine fields 
and German defensive fire: "Marshall conferred  with the senior Allied 
commander in Italy, Gen. Mark W. Clark of Fifteenth Army, who ordered two of 
the division's black regiments converted into engineer labor units and 
replaced by white and Japanese-American regiments. The 1945 reorganization of 
the 92d Infantry Division (Colored) gutted the formation in such a drastic 
fashion that it became obvious that the Army retained no more faith in the 
black unit's fighting ability." The Army blamed the blacks for their lack of 
performance, but the leader, Almond, came out smelling like a rose.
Marty