Jack Campin did not make it clear enough in his first post that it was French 'colored' troops who were short-gloried.

The BBC made the point clearly enough for me - Black Frenchmen were left out on the orders of the US top brass.

I might have been more explicit about something else I had in mind: the US military claimed at the time that their policies on race were simply fitting in with norms of the time, that it was not their role to be socially proactive. That was a lie. They were attempting to impose social change. Both in the way they they tried to manage relations between Black GIs and the host population in the UK, and in this piece of PR in France, they were strongarming their allies into adopting reactionary American racial policies that both Britain and France had left behind 150 years before.

And it seems like they succeeded extremely well in one respect: the songs of the Black servicemen of all the Allied nations have been erased from history even more effectively than the culture the slaves carried with them from Africa. There simply must have been responses in song and poetry to being dragged though hell on earth while being treated like garbage. where did they all go?