LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - "When I was in the Army there was total discrimination," WWII veteran David Hubbard said. 

The 92-year-old said he fought in an all black unit in the South Pacific during WWII. 

"It was totally segregated," Hubbard said.

"They were fighting in a segregated Army, a segregated Navy," Purdue history professor Randy Roberts said about black soldiers. "For them the battle was twice as tough because often times discrimination on their own side as well as the enemy."

Roberts said black soldiers were fighting two wars. Termed the double V campaign they fought Fascism on the front lines and racism at home. After the victory in the South Pacific Hubbard said he came home to fight yet another battle. 

"I found same old Jim Crow segregation when I came back to the United States," the veteran said. "I don't know why we can't live together in peace. It's awful that I had to come back and fight segregation."

"You have to sit at the back of the bus, you can't go to movie theaters or you have to sit in the balcony," Roberts said about the experience of black people living post WWII United States. "Racism was all around you and you're serving your country." 

Now, 68 years later, Hubbard said he no longer faces discrimination like he did during and post WWII. He said he's honored to have served his country.

Along with a group of WWII and Korean War veterans Hubbard will visit war memorials in Washington D.C. on the third Honor Flight. The flight leaves Monday and News 18 will have a crew at the nation's capital covering the event.