FIFTH ARMY : THE 'NEGRO' COMBAT TROOPS - Black American drivers on bulldozers making a road up to the Bailey bridge on Route 1221, outside Loppia. The term “negro” was historically used by Europeans to describe Black people from Africa. It comes from the Latin niger, meaning black, which gave root to many words in European languages to describe the colour black and later Black people.“Negro” came to be used to describe enslaved people and became associated with the racial sciences of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The word is now regarded as derogatory, British Army

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