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TIL of the Townsville mutiny - a WWII mutiny by African American members of the US Army in Townsville, AU. Black troopers, subject to regular racial abuse by some of their white officers, turned their machine guns and AA guns on their officers' tents, firing 700 rounds. It was only revealed in 2011.

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