The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who were found to be unjustly punished in 1944 following a horrific port explosion that killed hundreds of service members and exposed racist double standards among the then-segregated ranks.
President Joe Biden said the decision to exonerate is “righting a historic wrong.”
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@nursefrombirth and the background to that incident is these men had volunteered for combat assignments but the Army of the time wasn't having that. So they were loading ammo in lousy conditions and the inevitable happened.
Prof Delmont covers it in Half American
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624655/half-american-by-matthew-f-delmont/