Color Inside the Lines

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In April1943, Jack Savoy becomes only the third African American war correspondent accredited to cover the Army in the Mediterranean Theater. Jack visits the Tuskegee Airmen from their arrival at Casablanca to their early bomber escort missions launched from Ramitelli Airfield. In Naples, he witnesses the deployment of the first colored infantry troops in Italy. The risks Jack takes to report on the fighting at Salerno, Foggia and Anzio unnerves his editors at the Washington Record. Still, some reporters are suspicious of the competitive edge he seems to get from press officers and censors. A nurse lieutenant, Rachel Todd, falls for Jack but questions his refusal to condemn the Army's policies on segregation. Their 1944 Christmas Eve together ends abruptly when Rachel insists on returning to the carnage of the Gothic Line. Jack leaves to follow 5,000 truck drivers and laborers who have volunteered to offset combat casualties in the Ardennes. Hitchhiking across Europe, Jack scrambles to cover the integration of a storied infantry regiment closing in on Berlin. He races back to Italy to embed with the last regiment of Buffalo Soldiers a week before the German surrender. Through it all, Jack struggles with his journalistic voice, his integrity and the love of his life.