621. _See also_ Committee on Equality of Opportunity in the Armed
Forces (Gesell Committee); Committee on Equality of Treatment and
Opportunity in the Armed Forces (Fahy Committee).

Defense Appropriations Act, 315.

Defense battalions
51st (Composite), 101, 108-10;
52d, 109-10, 262.

Denfeld, Admiral Louis E., 167-68.

Depot companies
2d Medium 269;
7th and 8th, 111.

Dern, George H., 225.

Desegregation. _See_ Integration _of the four services_.

Detroit _Free Press_, 421-22.

Devers, General Jacob L., 134, 165, 190-92.

DeVoe, Lt. (jg.) Edith, 246.

DeVoto, Bernard, 126-27.

Dewey, Thomas E., 87, 309.

Dickey, John S., 295_n_.

Diggs, Charles C., Jr., 503, 520-22, 535, 537.

Dillon, Lt. Comdr. Charles E., 76.

Dillon, Douglas, 508.

Discipline. _See_ Crime and disease rates.

Discrimination, racial. _See also_ Civilian communities; Committee
on Equality of Opportunity in the Armed Forces (Gesell Committee);
Integration _of the four services_; Racial policies _of the four
services_.
and complaints of in the 1960's, 501-04, 510, 520-21, 557, 571, 584-86;
and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights study of (1963), 521-22.

Disease rates. _See_ Crime and disease rates.

_District of Columbia_ v. _John R. Thompson Co._, 476.

Divine, Maj. Gen. John M., 429_n_.

Divisions. _See_ Airborne Division, 82d; Armored Division, 2d; Cavalry
Division, 2d; Infantry divisions; Marine divisions; National Guard
divisions, 40th and 45th.

DOD Directive 5120.36, 547-51, 556-57, 581, 619-20.

Donahue, Alphonsus J., 314.

Double V campaign, 9, 17, 56.

Draper, William H., Jr., 193.

Drew, Charles R., 36.

DuBois, William E. B., 14, 124.

Dutton, Frederick G., 506, 508, 512.

Eaker, Lt. Gen. Ira C., 159-60, 196.

Earle Naval Ammunition Depot, N.J., 254, 263-65.

Early, Stephen, 15.

Eberstadt, Ferdinand, 298.

_Ebony_, 408, 412.

Eddy, Lt. Gen. Manton S., 451.

Edgewood Arsenal, Md., 605.

Education program, EUCOM, 216-19.

Educational backgrounds, 24-25, 67, 75, 137, 171-72, 617-18.

Edwards, Daniel K., 394.

Edwards, Lt. Gen. Idwal H.
and continued segregation in the Air Force, 285-89;
and integration plan of 1949, 338-42, 352, 399-401, 616;
and overseas restrictions, 387;
and Army postwar racial policy, 159, 176.

Efficiency, militar