Black American Korean War Statistics

Miscellaneous

In June 1950 almost 100,000 Black Americans were on active duty in the Armed Forces.
The 100,000 made up eight percent of the total military manpower.
Active duty Blacks made up 9.7 percent of Army personnel, including 70,000 enlisted men and 1,200 officers.
Active duty b=Blacks made up 4.4 percent of Air Force personnel, including 21,000 enlisted men and 300 officers.
In the Navy and Marine Corps combined there were 6,000 Black Americans.
By the end of 1954, the last of the all-Black American units had been disbanded.
There were two Black American Medal of Honor recipients in the Korean War.
An estimated 5,000 Blacks were killed in the Korean War. The exact amount is not known because government casualty records were not differentiated by race.