Rossum81

Rossum81 t1_itiltrf wrote

Reply to TIL the Port Chicago disaster accounted for 15% of all African American casualties in World War II by Butthole_Alamo

Which shows how under-utilized African Americans servicemen were in WW2. Of the 98 combat divisions (Army and Marine) only three were ‘colored.’ And one saw no combat. It wasn’t until after the Bulge that Army blacked Black soldiers is platoons within several White divisions. There were also the Tuskegee flyers- two groups, one of which never saw combat.

When Pearl Harbor happened, only 4 Black sailors had ratings other than cook, messman or stevedore. Two Black crewed ships (a destroyer escort and sub chaser) eventually sailed. The USMC did add some Black leathernecks in defensive battalions and they saw combat in Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

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Rossum81 t1_it7a7fb wrote

Reply to comment by Foreign-Complaint130 in TIL that the first trademark legislation was passed by the British Parliament under the reign of King Henry III in 1266, which required all bakers to use a distinctive mark for the bread they sold, Bakers’ Marking Law was enacted. by cristianmonroy

Right. There were marks used by artisans, craftsmen, smiths and other manufacturers in classical antiquity. This is a slightly different (though analogous) example.

The first trademark law in the modern sense was either in Bohemia under the Austrian-Hungarian Empire or France in 1857.

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Rossum81 t1_isssjod wrote

Reply to comment by DankVectorz in TIL about some US Marine named Charles Brown who received the Medal of Honor in 1872, but deserted in Shanghai before he could receive it. by dragoniteftw33

First Medals of Honor in a foreign conflict.

Korea was the ‘hermit kingdom’ in those days. Foreign visitors (especially missionaries) were banned. Many sailors who were shipwrecked were executed. As the US was trading heavily with China and Japan, incidents were bound to happen.

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