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In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered
its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and
difficult, but which offer a unique insight into the history of
race relations in America. Though their African American fathers
had brought liberation from Nazi tyranny at the end of World War
II, they were in a segregated American military derived from a
racially divided American society. Decades later, some of their
children could finally know of a father's identity and the life he
had led after the war. Just one would be able to find an embrace in
his arms, and just one would arrive at her father's American grave
after 73 years. But they could now understand their own Dutch lives
in the context of their fathers' lives in America.
The role of Americans in the two world wars is well known - with a
glaring exception. By the time of the American entrance into World
War I in April 1917 and World War II in December 1941, tens of
thousands of Americans had already fought and died in those
conflicts in the uniforms of other nations. Most had travelled to
Canada to join the ground, air and naval forces of the Commonwealth
nations, others to France, Poland, China and the other nations and
armed forces that played a role in the continuing world conflict of
the first half of the century. In preceding their own nation to
war, they influenced the course of events in those years and,
though threatened with loss of citizenship, were ultimately met
with the acceptance of their own government. This book tells the
story of who these Americans were, why they took the actions they
did, their experiences in war, and the effects of their presence as
Americans in foreign forces.
Normandy, Flanders Field and other cemeteries for American war dead
buried outside the United States are well known. However,
lesser-known burial sites exist all over the world - in Australia
and across the Pacific Rim, in Canada and Mexico, Libya and Spain,
even as far north as the Russian Arctic. The story of who these
soldiers were and how they ended up in foreign cemeteries traces
the evolution of American attitudes toward its war dead and
simultaneously offers a new perspective on the nation for which
they died. The text provides the names of the war dead and the
location of individual burial sites.
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