Interview with Reid Johnson, June 24, 1994

Project: American Veterans: World War Two Oral History Project

Interview Summary

92nd Infantry Division (Buffalo Division - it and the 93rd Infantry Division were the only African-American combat infantry troops in the U.S. Army during the war); Italian Campaign; basic training at Fort Huachuca, Arizona; reason African-American troops were stationed in the desert; reception of the 92nd Division by African-American service troops in North Africa; 370th Regimental Combat Team; reaction of black troops to having white officers; duties with Headquarters Company; discrimination and segregation in the Army during the war; ASTP training; Louisiana Maneuvers in 1944; serving as liaison with Brazilian and South African troops; 442nd Nisei (Japanese-American) Battalion; escorting a German officer through Partisan territory in the Po Valley;

Interview Accession

1994oh125_ww207

Interviewee Name

Reid Johnson

Interviewer Name

Jeffrey Suchanek

Interview Date

1994-06-24

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Johnson, Reid Interview by Jeffrey Suchanek. 24 Jun. 1994. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Johnson, R. (1994, June 24). Interview by J. Suchanek. American Veterans: World War Two Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Johnson, Reid, interview by Jeffrey Suchanek. June 24, 1994, American Veterans: World War Two Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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