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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Johnston Carolyn Ross"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"My father's war : fighting with the Buffalo soldiers in World War II / / Carolyn Ross Johnston"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Tuscaloosa : , : University of Alabama Press, , 2012"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-8173-8620-3"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (xiii, 223 pages) : illustrations, maps"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"940.54/1273092"]
[{"$nulls":4},"B"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Italy"]
[{"$nulls":4},"World War, 1939-1945 - Regimental histories - United States"]
[{"$nulls":4},"World War, 1939-1945 - Participation, African American"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Part I. War and Memory; 1. The Buffalo Soldiers at the World War II Memorial; 2. \"This Is Your Father\"; Part II. Becoming a Buffalo Soldier; 3. The Road to War; 4. Training at Fort Huachuca; 5. Marriage and Bisbee; Part III. The Fight to Fight; 6. Buffalo Soldiers in the Jim Crow Army; 7. Maneuvers in Louisiana; Part IV. Women Waiting; 8. \"I'll Be Seeing You\": The Long Wait; Part V. Facing the Gothic Line: War Stories in Black and White; 9. Combat in Italy: September 1944-January 1945; 10. From Defeat to Victory: February-November 1945"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Part VI. Life after World War II; 11. Coming Home; Part VII. Afterword; 12. My Search for My Father's War; 13. Fort Huachuca; 14. Carlisle and the Battle for Memory; 15. Notes from Italy; 16. The Buffalo Soldiers at the Capitol Rotunda; Appendix I; Appendix II; Notes; Bibliography; Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","My Father's War tells the compelling story of a unit of black Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II. The 92nd Division of the Fifth Army was the only African American infantry division to see combat in Europe during 1944 and 1945, suffering more than 3,200 casualties. Members of this unit, known as Buffalo Soldiers, endured racial violence on the home front and experienced racism abroad. Engaged in combat for nine months, they were under the command of southern white infantry officers like their captain, Eugene E. Johnston. Carolyn Ross Johnston draws on her "]
[{"$nulls":4},"father's account of the war and her extensive interviews with other veterans of the 92nd Division to describe the experiences of a naïve southern white officer and his segregated unit on an intimate level. During the war, the protocol that required the assignment of southern white officers to command black units, both in Europe and in the Pacific theater, was often problematic, but Johnston seemed more successful than most, earning the trust and respect of his men at the same time that he learned to trust and respect them. Gene Johnston and the African American soldiers were transformed by the war and upon their return helped transform the nation."]