six trucks. But then, about the time we hit, we were somewhere in Belgium
 already, and there was an integration that took place of the entire Army.
 Somebody, of course, they, it was very cleverly done. They knew the war was
 won and that's the best time to integrate. Then, it was a victorious kind of
 integration that took place. It was on a high note that was well done. We had
 only one black guy came into our group. He was from North Carolina. And even
 though there was a lot of anti-Black feeling among most, most of the people in
 our unit were well, it was half from the South and half of them from the North,
 but there was a lot of anti-black feeling in the Army. In fact, one of, I can
 remember when we were in England one of the fellows in our unit, he's a sergeant
 in the medical unit, as a matter of fact. A very nice guy. A little older, he'd been
 a mortician by the way, made medical as a mortician. And he dated a black girl in
 England. It was actually a very mixed black girl, they call it a quadroon or
 something like that, because as a matter of fact that's the term used for it. And
 they gave him a kind of a, what would they call it? A "Kangaroo Court" was held
 by the entire unit in which he was found guilty by these, by members of my unit
 and for going out with a black girl. And he was told that he'd have to write a
 letter home to his wife apologizing. To give you some idea how... he was...

Q: He was himself white?
A: Yeah, he was from Wisconsin. And, but I think it was a part directed mainly at
 him because they, I don't know why they disliked him, he was...

Q.: Maybe they were just disgusted with his behavior?
A.: He was a little arrogant. He was a good guy, he was a very good guy and he was
 a little arrogant, but it was partly that but it was really a black mark on my unit for
 having done, having done such a thing. It's ridiculous, But then, when the black
 fellow come in he was, he was a driver too and he was a very popular guy in the,
 organization. And there was it was, no fanfare, there was nothing to it. It was
 just like somebody else had come.

Q.: When you got into the war and the actual battlefield, how many cases on average
 would you guys encounter on a daily basis?
A.: Well, we weren't exactly in the, you know, we weren't in the battlefield where
 most of them would be. Sometime inadvertently back when we first went on the
 beaches, it was D-Day plus 52. And there was still a lot of movement going on
 when we were there. The front lines weren't that far away. We could hear tank
 movements and so on, but and we weren't really operational yet. We were
 moving up to where we were going to operate. Then we moved over to the Brest
 Peninsula and there a large number of Germans were bottled up in the city of
 Brest and but we served as the medics for the tank, we were with a tank retrieval
 organization. Tanks were knocked out, our battalion took them back and then the
 sent them in for repairs more or less. But there the only battle ground was really
 the beaches where occasionally some American troops would play around on



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