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hard as we could work towards the objective of the equality of opportunity which this Committee is interested in.

Those of us in the second World War learned many things. We learned that although Negroes were subject to all kinds of humiliating discriminations, they made an enviable record.

1. Negro Chemical Generator Companies played a large part in the allied drive across Europe.

2. In the Transportation and Quartermaster Corps, Negro soldiers played a tremendous part in the battle of supply in all theaters of the war.

As a matter of fact, Negroes made up fifty-eight per cent of the Quartermaster troops in the European theater of operations.  Sixty per cent of the truck drivers on the famous Red Ball Highway in Europe were Negroes.  Amphibian truck units established an unusually brave and magnificent record under fire.

The invasion of the Pacific Island was especially significant.

I may recall here, Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, one instance that I personally witnessed where we had non-segregation in practice during the war on a small island off the Coast of New Guinea, where we had a small group of reconnaissance planes.  One of the