761st Tank Battalion

At a time when the U.S Army was still racially segregated, the all-Black 761st Tank Battalion was created at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana. The unit nicknamed the “Black Panthers” went on to earn combat honors on the battlefield with General Patton’s Third Army in Europe.


The Black Panthers, an African-American tank unit, was deployed to the front lines and fought fiercely in the Siege of Bastogne to support the 101st Airborne Division, which was surrounded by German troops.
My suggestions to bring them into the Enlisted world as a premium squad!

They boarded the M4A3(76)W VVSS. However, Warthunder does not have a VVSS, so you may divert the HVSS.
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Actual photo
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WT’s M4A3(76)W HVSS

VVSS/HVSS is a suspension, with the early type being VVSS and the later type being HVSS.
This part will change.


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HVSS

Their tanks have unique paint and markings
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Don’t forget to sign “Cool Studs”!

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Their unit insignia

and should have the M93 APCR which has more penetration than the Techtree M4A2(76)W.
The crew are all African-American, of course.
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Now that the M26 has been implemented, few may dare to use the M4, but it remains an icon of WW2.
Please implement Enlisted’s first African-American tank unit!

Documentation on them
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)

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I would like to see the 92nd Division as well. They produced two Medal of Honor Recipients, and the division saw combat.

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I’ve always found it strange that one of the US soldier voices is obviously an African American voice actor. Any idea if there were old event squads to go with this voice?

Does it break your immersion when Jose O’Connor has an Asian face and a black voice?

I want them
That COME OUT FIGHTING insignia was my go to in WT too because it looked sick

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Imagine if this was an instagram comment section

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If they were to add the African American tank unit definitely be under an event squad or premium I hope they eventually add the option to have African Americans as a customization option : (

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Believe it or not, the M4A3(105) is the only HVSS in enlisted. Every other Sherman has VVSS.

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I checked and it really was. :open_mouth:










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When Darkflow adds new premium with black soldiers

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Me when I heard boring racist jokes.
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Nah definitiv no Racist. I like yor suggestion and support it.
Was simply my first thought

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When discussing the history of American society, one cannot overlook the period before the Civil Rights Movement when blacks were openly discriminated against, but this is the place to talk about the topic of the game, so please do not derail it.
Even if it was satire done in South Park, be careful because satire is sensitive in itself and bringing it up out of context is just racism.

Being called racist by Japanese hits different.

Got flagged :black_flag:

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Asians, including Japanese, also often encounter racism. People do these things without malice.
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So many Asians are sensitive to these things like I am.

Perhaps his post was not malicious, but I think the lack of malice is another problem.

Well, this is not something to talk about here, so I’m done talking about this.

I mean he right that not racist but this datk humor is disrespectful regardless

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As Hungarian, I heard the you must be always hungry joke way too often. But its not big deal, I think people get offended way too easily nowdays.

As the famous Hungarian comedian Hofi said: there are jokes you can joke with and there are jokes that are funny.

It’s more clever in Hungarian so for non native speakers, the first one was meant as legally possible.

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I don’t want to continue this topic anymore, but what is the point of what you are trying to say?
It seems to me that you are trying to say that making fun of Asians with the slanted eyes gesture and posting images of blacks strapped to the outside of tanks in a topic talking about black tank troops is something not worth getting angry about.
Are you provoking me?

Not trying to

We just don’t see eye to eye here, but I will STFU because this isn’t worth it.
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It is an outdated stereotype that Asians have narrow, upturned eyes.
In fact, Asians have many different eye shapes. Many Asians do not like to be described in this stereotypical way.
But non-Asians do this really without malice, I used this analogy with the intention of referring to “unconscious discrimination”.

On the topic of the Black Panthers who fought in the war for their homeland, he posted an image of a black man strapped to a tank and asked, “Did they ride inside the tank?” He asked me.
I found this insulting to blacks. I felt he was describing blacks as if they were meat shields or something.

I don’t watch South Park so I don’t know what context that image contains.
Given the nature of the cartoon, he may be satirizing whites who discriminate against blacks. Ultimately, however, the way he quotes is inappropriate.
Whatever context the cartoon contains, the context of the cartoon is established by looking at it through the cartoon. You shouldn’t indiscriminately show South Park images to everyone and expect that the original context will be conveyed, and I’m sure he is aware of that.
That’s why I thought his reply was thoughtless and criticized him for the discriminatory nuance in his attitude of expecting the other person to tolerate it.

A joke is a joke because we can all laugh at it. Doing something that others don’t like is not a joke." Nor should you blame them for not getting the intent of the “joke”.

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