Title: Ethnic minorities in the US armed forces during World War II - Wikipedia
Headings: Ethnic minorities in the US armed forces during World War II
Ethnic minorities in the US armed forces during World War II
Contents
White minority participation
Latino-Americans
Jewish-Americans
Polish-Americans
Italian-Americans
Arab-Americans
Armenian-Americans
Possible reasons for ethnic minority participation
Detailed instances of racial discrimination
Statistical information
Minority groups
One million African-American inductions
Inductions of other minority groups
African American enlistments
Notes
See also
References
Further reading

Content: Detailed tabulations were not kept for these groups by the U.S. military, which simply listed them all as "white". Separate statistics were kept for African Americans and Asian Americans. Latino-Americans
Main article: Hispanic Americans in World War II
Hispanic Americans, also referred to as Latinos, served in all elements of the American armed forces in the war. They fought in every major American battle in the war According to House concurrent resolution 253, 400,000 to 500,000 Hispanic Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World Wa out of a total of 16,000,000. Most were of Mexican or Puerto Rican descent. By another estimate, over 500,000 Mexican-Americans served plus over 65,000 Puerto Ricans and smaller numbers of others. Hispanic-Americans constituted 3.1% to 3.2% of the total who served. A number of Hispanics served in senior leadership positions, the highest ranking being Marine Corps Lieutenant-General Pedro Del Valle . The exact number of Hispanics serving in the US military is unknown as, at the time, Hispanics were not tabulated separately, but were generally included in the general white population census count.