Yes he was an Army Officer (Captain) in WWI where he saw and experienced combat.
Yes - WW1. There is a legend that his mother, who was driven from her home by Union troops in 1863 as a Confederate sympathiser, wouldn't let him into the house in US Army uniform.
Yes
Truman in 1951
Harry S. Truman
1948
Harry S. Truman
desegregating the military.
Patton
President Harry Truman banned racial discrimination in the military. The military was desegregated in 1948 with Executive Order 9981.
i want to know how much it could be worth of a hand signed letter by harry Truman to secretary of the army Gordon Gray and a hand signed letter from Gordon Gray to my father praising him for his service in the Military Gov?
desegregating the military
Yes, he served in the army in WW I.
President Truman signed an order that desegregated the military.
Harry Truman's proactive civil rights policy in 1946 recognized that the time was right. Very shortly after this time, full integration of the military took place.