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Mr. Cromwell speaks about the interaction with the american army and how, for the most part, everyone got along.
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All the soldiers, the Americans and the Canadians all got along good. But the americans had their own army and the blacks had their own army. But there were the white american soldiers, they wouldn’t talk to you, they wouldn’t talk to a black man at all. But the black, they had their own outfit. That was during the war, yes. Interviewer: Did you ever talk to any of the black american soldiers? Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, no problem.Interviewer: Did they ever ask you about the treatment that you received in the Canadian Army? Oh yeah, because they would see us, well they would always see us together and mixed up and they’d say, “How can you guys all, have no problems? ” “No.”