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My grandfather told me that when he was stationed in England during WW2. British soldiers had to tell white American GIs to cool it with the racism because they didn't want black soldiers sitting with them in British pubs. How often did British soldiers stick up for black American troops?

by /u/J2quared in /r/AskHistorians

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