Non-white WWII pilots

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Chiron

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Feb 17, 2005
Hey, were Allies recruited other ethnicities? Chinese, Blacks, Arabs, Jews....?

I know there were some African-American pilots, how about RAF in Britain? do they also enlist minorties too?
 
I think there was a website out there somewhere that listed foreign crews of the RAF. I will have to see if I can find that. I do know that there were crews from India. Mexico had a group of pilots that flew with the USAAF, as did Brazil. I don't havve a complete list.
 
Here's one from the Great War of interest - the first aerial Victoria Cross winner William Rhodes-Moorhouse, although born in England, had a native New Zealand mother. Kiwis like to call him theirs.

Fg Off Noel Pirie, RNZAF was part Maori and is credited with shooting down two Zeroes whilst flying P-40s with 16 Sqn, RNZAF in the Pacific.
 
I remember reading somewhere (wish I could remember where) about some bomber command crews having to be careful when visiting American airbases because of their mixed race crews which was unacceptable where they were landing.
 
I remember reading somewhere (wish I could remember where) about some bomber command crews having to be careful when visiting American airbases because of their mixed race crews which was unacceptable where they were landing.

I would expect non-white crew members would have to deal with the base's segregated facilities, which may leave those minority crew members sleeping in the plane.

I read that the British were asked, by the US Army, to declare some restaurants and pubs whites-only to appease the US's segregationists' sensibilities.
 

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