My Father's War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II

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Contents list of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi PART I. WAR AnD MeMoRy 1. The Buffalo Soldiers at the World War II Memorial 3 2. “This Is your Father” 7 PART II. BeCoMInG A BUFFAlo SolDIeR 3. The Road to War 13 4. Training at Fort huachuca 26 5. Marriage and Bisbee 30 PART III. The FIGhT To FIGhT 6. Buffalo Soldiers in the Jim Crow Army 35 7. Maneuvers in louisiana 49 PART Iv. WoMen WAITInG 8. “I’ll Be Seeing you”: The long Wait 59 PART v. FACInG The GoThIC lIne: WAR SToRIeS In BlACk AnD WhITe 9. Combat in Italy: September 1944–January 1945 65 10. From Defeat to victory: February–november 1945 89 viii / Contents PART vI. lIFe AFTeR WoRlD WAR II 11. Coming home 119 PART vII. AFTeRWoRD 12. My Search for My Father’s War 133 13. Fort huachuca 135 14. Carlisle and the Battle for Memory 137 15. notes from Italy 140 16. The Buffalo Soldiers at the Capitol Rotunda 150 Appendix I 161 Appendix II 163 notes 169 Bibliography 201 Index 213 ...