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69ยข.282 NEGROES OVERSEAS (Press Dispatch) The War Department reported tonight that 70 per cent of the 690,282 Negroes in the Army were serving overseas. As of Feb. 28, about 7,566 Negroes were overseas in all theaters including 709 WACS. Of the total, 140,154 were in the engineers. 63,079 in the Air Corps and 52,884 in the Infantry. There were 6,548 commissioned officers. The Army said that since Sept. 30, 1944, to tal Negro strength dropped 11,396 although Commissioned personnel decreased 744, including an increase of 96 Army nurses. Infantry person nel rose slightly in the same period.
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Ogdensburg Advance News
Ogdensburg, New York, US
Sun, Apr 29, 1945
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