The importance of not having this mission performed by a virtually all-white unit seems obvious.

He is a veteran of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, an all-white unit with a reputation for lethality.

Those who entered the armed forces, which were segregated until 1948, were often classified as white and attached to all-white units.

Battery M, 3rd New York Artillery was the only all-white unit in the defenses.

Though the 45th remained de facto segregated as an all-white unit in 1950, individual unit commanders went to great lengths to integrate reinforcements from different areas and ethnicity into their units.

He cites commanders in Korea who compared the regiment's record favorably with all-white units there and in World War II.

In Unit B, Schillinger suggests to Pancamo and Hoyt that an all-white unit should be created which Tim McManus ardently rejects.

On 11 May 1949, Air Force Letter 35.3 was published, which mandated that black Airmen be screened for reassignment to formerly all-white units according to qualifications.

Mexicans were also allowed to serve in all-white units during World War II.