Statistics are extremely difficult to compile since contemporary classifications and the Army's interest in data rarely match modern interests.
These Negro inductees made up 10.9 percent of all registrants inducted into the Army (8,108,531), 10.0 percent of all inductions into the Navy (1,526,250), 8.5 percent of all Marine Corps inductions (188,709) and 10.9 percent of all Coast Guard inductions (15,235).
Of this number 103,360 went into the Army, which was 9.1 percent of all Army inductions (1,132,962).
ArmyGroup South, commanded by Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, was to attack from southern Poland and Romania, its flank armies converging on Kiev to trap the Soviet armies in the western Ukraine in a great pocket west of the Dnieper (Dnepr) River.
ArmyGroup Center was to be reinforced at the expense of its two neighbors, and ArmyGroups North and South were to complete their missions with the forces remaining to them.
ArmyGroup E in Greece and Albania, after airlifting its troops from Crete and the other Greek islands, was forced to undertake a long and precarious march through the mountains of western Yugoslavia, which it did not complete until mid-November.
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