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From: Richard Bond< >
Subject: [CARIBBEAN] Re: British West Indian Regiment
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:02:54 -0400 (EDT)


The Blacks, Colored and Indians from the Caribbean were not used in
COMBAT against Europeans. Egypt is not in Europe. Jews are European in
this context not Black or Indian.. White Caribbeans were treated as
European as were the Boers. Blacks were in labor details or used in
COMBAT against other non Europeans. Even if trained for COMBAT the non
European units in European theaters were used as labor. There were even
instances of nonwhite artillery men offered as laborers to relieve white
labor units.

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