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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3380/9960b8f6-72ec-48e2-a316-1d288878f408_hq.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Black US Soldiers Fighting on D-Day, Racism Back Home' data-article-id='3893'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='12063'>Books and films about D-Day often show an all-white group of soldiers arriving in Normandy on June 6, 1944.</span> <span data-start-time='12063' data-end-time='21083'>Among them, about 2,000 African Americans are believed to have landed at the time.</span> <span data-start-time='21083' data-end-time='29688'>The African Americans served in a United States military that separated people by race.</span> <span data-start-time='29688' data-end-time='35438'>But on Normandy, everyone faced the same dangers.</span> <span data-start-time='35438' data-end-time='45333'>The only African American force in battle that day was the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion.</span> <span data-start-time='45333' data-end-time='55396'>Its job was to set up explosive-rigged balloons to prevent German airplanes from attacking the Allies.</span> <span data-start-time='55396' data-end-time='69375'>Linda Hervieux wrote about the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion in her book “Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Black Heroes, at Home and at War.”</span> <span data-start-time='69375' data-end-time='80938'>Hervieux said the U.S. military resisted efforts to end racial separation policies as it prepared for World War II.</span> <span data-start-time='80938' data-end-time='88771'>The military kept separate units and separate areas for black and white troops.</span> <span data-start-time='88771' data-end-time='94104'>“This was a very expensive and inefficient way to run an army.</span> <span data-start-time='94104' data-end-time='103458'>The Army ... could have ordered its men to integrate and to treat black soldiers as fully equal partners in this war.</span> <span data-start-time='103458' data-end-time='107438'>The Army declined to do so,” she said.</span> <span data-start-time='107438' data-end-time='114875'>By the end of the war, more than a million African Americans served in the military.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button 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