My War Experiences

My War Experiences:

Gerson: After I left here, I went back to Fort Huachuca, Arizona. I was with the 92nd Infantry Division, Cannon Company, 365th Infantry. We went to Virginia to catch a boat to go to Italy. All of the 92nd went to Italy.

Daisy: After the honeymoon, he left to go, and that was in July of 1944. We stayed together five days, and then he was gone until December of 1945 - after the war was over.

Gerson: I guess you would say it was heartbreaking to have experienced what was experienced in the Mediterranean theater and then come back to the same segregation, the same problems that we left, [to] come back to Charlotte and go to the Union bus terminal, get off the bus, and go to the section that was for blacks and have to wait. You could only catch a cab that only blacks could ride in. And you often asked yourself  the question, “Is this really what I fought for? Is this really what I took a chance for? Is this really what I said that I was fighting for, the American way of life?”