Private Robert Brooks, a tank driver was killed in the early afternoon on Dec. 8 by a Japanese bomb in the Philippines hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan’s strategy back then: “As Adolf Hitler’s armies rampaged across Europe, overrunning Germany’s neighbors in 1939-40 and threatening to invade the British Isles, the European colonial empires in Asia lay nearly undefended, ripe for the picking: the Malay Peninsula, the Dutch East Indies, Indochina. Rich sources of raw materials lay in all of them, rubber, tin, and especially oil, the precious lifeblood of any modern economy.
“He was the first casualty in the U.S. Armored Forces during the war,” says Matthew F. Delmont, author of the new bookBut during the funeral arrangements, it was revealed that Brooks was a Black American serving in an all-white unit. Despite a policy of segregation within the U.S. armed forces, the Army proceeded with its memorial. On Dec. 23, the fallen private’s family attended a ceremony that dedicated the main parade ground at Kentucky’s Fort Knox base Brooks Field. Six generals showed up.“In death there is no grade or rank,” General Jacob Devers, chief of the Armored Force, told attendees.
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