NONCOMBATANT • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Noncombatant

... expansion program, the Army planned to accept Negroes in numbers approximate to their proportion in the national population, about 10 percent. Black officers and enlisted men were to serve, as was then customary, only in black units that were to be formed in each major branch, both combatant and noncombatant, including air units to be created as soon as pilots, mechanics, and technical specialists were trained. There would be no racial intermingling in regimental organizations because the practice of separating white and black troops had, ...

— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.