Re: Race Relations and Korea

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Shelby L. Stanton in "Ten Corps in Korea 1950" had this on pg. 319, "Marine 
Major General Smith personally integrated the 1st Marine Division by 
distributing a thousand black Marines throughout his command, rather than 
keep them in a separate service outfit, an act that incensed Almond. The 
Corps itself contained mostly black service units, including both its medical 
ambulance companies, engineer dump truck companies, and ordnance ammunition 
companies, as well as its signal construction company, salvage company, 
bakery company, petroleum support company, and laundry company. Of the six 
corps truck transport companies, four were black." Marty