No one has pointed out that the USO also ran canteens, sort of "safe" clubs (no alcohol, I think) where the soldiers could dance with, talk with and otherwise socialize with the opposite sex. And, unless I'm way wrong, when the Army was segregated, so were the USO canteens. There'd be a black one and a white one. I do wonder which one the Navajo code talkers were allowed into, though. Or the Neissi battalians.

But I think this is the divisiveness which the original poster was referring to. And, of course, it's the same thing. How can we, in this day, expect the USO to have gone against US Army policy? Now, I do think that in Europe, the tendency was toward integration. The USO policy mentioned here was for home consumption.

Bob C.