books.google.com - By the spring of 1943 more than a half million blacks were in the U.S. Army, but only 79,000 of them were overseas. Most were repeating the experience of their fathers in World War I - serving chiefly in labor battalions. Domestically, clashes between blacks and whites vying for the same jobs in boomtown...http://books.google.com/books/about/Harlem_at_War.html?id=JeejylOY-mgC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHarlem at War
