By GI Korea on June 26th, 2010 at 12:45 pm

Picture of the Day: Awaiting MEDEVAC

Pfc. Edward Wilson, 24th Inf. Regt., wounded in leg while engaged in action against the enemy forces near the front lines in Korea, waits to be evacuated to aid station behind the lines. February 16, 1951. Pfc. Charles Fabiszak.

• Gerry
  10:46 am on June 26th, 2010 1

  February 1951. Ridgeway was now in control, the Chinese were stopped at Chipyong-ni, and operation ripper? was started. The 24th regiment was an all black regiment at the beginning of the Korean war.

  I don't know what their disposition was at this time. Still all black or being integrated.

• Teadrinker
  12:51 pm on June 26th, 2010 2

  #1,

  They were probably still segregated in early 1951 since the plan to desegregate the Army was announced in July 26, 1951. Ranger units, including the all black 2D Ranger Co., were disbanded and sent back to their original units in the week prior to this announcement. From September 1951 until late 1952, an effort was made by the US Army to maintain its units desegregated.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation#Militi…

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