Fighting for America: Black Soldiers--The Unsung Heroes of World War II.(Book Review)

FIGHTING FOR AMERICA: Black Soldiers--The Unsung Heroes of World War II CHRISTOPHER PAUL MOORE. Ballantine/One World, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 0-345-45960-1

The Allied victory in WWII was a triumph of logistics as well as combat power. Moore (Jubilee: The Emergence of African American Culture) looks deeply and broadly into those efforts and comes up with a major addition to the literature. He finds African-American units building the lion's share of the logistical infrastructure in Europe and the Pacific, as well as transporting everything from artillery pieces to bottles of plasma. Among combat units, the familiar Tuskegee Airmen and the Black Panthers of the 761st …