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Are there any world War II vets who can tell me?
if there way a pay disparity between black soldiers and white soldiers in the US during this war?
The reason I'm curious is because a friend and I were discussing Ernest K. Gaines' short story "The Sky is Gray," set in Louisiana during World War II, and it seemed that the family wasn't getting much of anything. I was wondering if black soldiers were paid less or if their dependents received no benefits or what the situation might have been.
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- ChrisLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
The pay was the same. It was just harder for black soldiers to get promoted and the fields they could join where limited.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Not sure about the pay. I do know that there were bases where we kept German POW's and they were allowed to use the PX, Officer and Enlisted Men's Clubs and the blacks could not.
