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The Most Ruthless Black American Soldiers Patton Was Afraid to Send to War

October, nineteen forty-four. The boardrooms of the Allied High Command in France were thick with smoke and heavy with tension. General George S. Patton, the man they called "Old Blood and Guts," was staring at a map that told him a story he didn't want to hear. He was running out of time. And more importantly, he was running out of tanks.

Across the ocean, and now waiting in the muddy staging grounds of England and France, sat a reserve of power that the United States Army had hesitated to use. They were strong. They were eager. And they were trained on the same M4 Shermans as every other tanker unit. But there was one difference. A difference that terrified the politicians back in Washington and unsettled the generals in the field.

These men were Black.