"Incident at Launceston – How Racial Tensions Among GIs" Topic
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Tango01 | 14 Jul 2020 9:09 p.m. PST |
…. in Great Britain Led to Armed Confrontation "IT WAS A cool September evening in 1943 and a column of American soldiers were on the move. Fully armed with tommy guns, rifles and bayonets, they marched forward in a loose formation towards their objective. The sound of their army-issue boots striking the road for nearly a mile echoed heavily in the pitchy-ink of the blacked-out night-time. It was something witnesses would remember to this day. It seemed as if a ‘whole company' of troops was moving through the night, it was said later. Undoubtedly the GIs were bracing for the fight of their lives. But it just wasn't Axis forces they had in their sights. Unbelievably, this scene of impending battle wasn't happening somewhere in Nazi-occupied Europe, but on Britain's homefront – specifically the market town of Launceston in Cornwall…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Legion 4 | 15 Jul 2020 9:32 a.m. PST |
A little known but none-the-less as sad event. Racism played and plays very largely into US history unfortunately. That is undeniable. |
Old Peculiar | 15 Jul 2020 12:58 p.m. PST |
There were similar incidents in towns in North West England, where often locals took action in support of the black troops who were almost always reported to have acted properly, and in a respectful way in the face of gross provocation from US MPs. |
Tango01 | 16 Jul 2020 12:54 p.m. PST |
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Legion 4 | 17 Jul 2020 8:18 a.m. PST |
Even after the ACW, the Union/USA had to keep troops in almost all Southern/former CSA states to stop the abuse and deaths of many former slaves. From organizations like the KKK, etc., … Then there was the introduction of the Jim Crow Laws which pretty much pushed the former freed slaves and their relatives to 3d class citizens. Even more … plus many of the CSA statues,, street names, etc. were placed in many Southern/former CSA states were done well after the ACW. In the 20s, 30s, all they way into the 60s in some cases. Were really put in place to remind the African-Americans that they were not really accepted, etc. To "Keep them in their place" it was said in the South, so to speak. Horrible, criminal mindset IMO ! Even the White vs. Black restrooms, riding in the rear of the bus, etc., etc., seems like something out of Sci-fi to me. Yet it occurred in my life time. Albeit I was very young and lived in OH. Where much of all that didn't happen. |
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