, "The DOD Program to Ensure Civil Rights
Within the Services and Between the Services and
the Community," Rpt 116, 1966, Industrial College
of the Armed Forces, p. 24.]

The commanding general of the 9th Infantry Division at Fort Dix raised
another question about integrating trainees. He had integrated all
white units other than reserve units at his station, he explained (p. 436)
to the First Army commander in January 1951, but since he was receiving
many more white trainees than black he would soon be forced to
integrate his two black training regiments as well by the unprecedented
assignment of white soldiers to black units with black officers and
noncommissioned officers.[17-23] Actually, such reverse integration
was becoming commonplace in Korea, and in the case of Fort Dix the
Army G-1 solved the commander's dilemma by simply removing the
asterisk, which meant black, from the names of the 364th and 365th
Infantry Regiments.[17-24]

[Footnote 17-23: Ltr, Maj Gen W. K. Harrison, CG, 9th
Inf Div, Ft. Dix, N.J., to CG, First Army, 19 Jan
51, sub: Request for an Additional Training
Regiment, G-1 291.2.]

[Footnote 17-24: Memo, DA, G-1 for CGIA, for 9th Inf
Div, 28 Feb 51, G-1 291.2; AGAO-I, 3 Mar 51, AG
322.]

The nine training divisions were integrated by March 1951, with Fort
Dix, New Jersey, and Fort Knox, Kentucky, the last to complete the
process. Conversion proved trouble-free and permanent; no racial
incidents were reported. In June Assistant Secretary of the Army
Johnson assured the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and
Personnel, Anna Rosenberg, that current expansion of training
divisions would allow the Army to avoid in the future even the
occasional funneling of some inductees into temporarily segregated
units in times of troop overstrengths.[17-25] Logic dictated that
those who trained together would serve together, but despite
integrated training, the plethora of Negroes in overseas replacement
pipelines, and the increasing amount of integrated fighting in Korea,
98 percent of the Army's black soldiers still served in segregated
units in April 1951, almost three years after President Truman issued
his order.

[Footnote 17-25: Memo, ASA for ASD (M&P), 5 Jun 51;
Mem