Personally this is a genre and story that I love and enjoy reading but unfortunately I was unable to capture the essence of the story. I understood the concept of the story yet found it difficult to grasp and failed to hold onto my attention.

Interesting, it rather dry history of the USArmy unit of the title. Nevertheless less, it gives the needed reminder of discrimination against Black soldiers drafted or voluntary in the services in WW2.
The narrative is slowed by the when the author’s recitation of types , calibers, and other technical specifications of the weapons in the various units and the shortcomings relative to the job they were fashioned. For the casual reader of WW 2 history there is a bit too much detail. At times it reads more like a doctoral thesis than a popular history, dry and stiff.
Summary, not exactly what I expected, but ok.