The night a fatal gun battle broke out between black GIs and racist US soldiers in Bamber Bridge
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on July 22, 2022
The deadly firefight lasted more than five hours and was one of the most extraordinary to take place during the Second World War, for the simple reason that it happened not just outside Potsdam or Palermo or Paris — but Preston.
By the time the shooting stopped, late on the night of June 24, 1943, a soldier lay dying, with a bullet in his back.
For their part in the violence, 32 others would be court-martialed and handed jail sentences . . .
