COLOR BARRIER BROKEN African-American tank battalions proved themselves in WWII Background information and quotes from E.G. McConnell were taken from Joe W. Wilson Jr.’s The 761st “Black Panther” Tank Battalion in World War II. By JOHN NEVILLE/Turret Staff Writer Sixteen-year-old E. G. McConnell took a train from New York to Fort Knox in 1941. Several […]

Re-published from the December 2004 issue of On Point magazine with the permission (2011) of the Army Historical Foundation (Click here to open/download an Adobe pdf file of this article.) Unit History-- 761ST TANK BATTALIONBy LTC Roger Cunningham. USA-Ret. In January 1941, the War Department announced that it intended to have African American units in […]