The Associated Press on MSN13d
80 years after D-Day, family of Black World War II combat medic receives his medal for heroism
Waverly B. Woodson Jr. treated 200 wounded men — all while small arms and artillery fire pummeled the beach — before ...
MedPage Today on MSN10d
Decades After D-Day, Family of Black WWII Combat Medic Receives His Medal of Heroism
In an era of intense racial discrimination, not a single one of the 1.2 million Black Americans who served in the military ...
The Mirror5d
Medals of a war hero who fought in WW1 and WW2 go under the hammer
The medals of the oldest member of The Few ... aged 39. He shot down a German artillery spotter plane and a Messerschmitt 109 fighter while defended allied troops evacuating Dunkirk in 1940.
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80 years after D-Day, the family of a Black World War II combat medic receives his medal for heroism
“The tide brought us in, and that’s when the 88s hit us,” he said of the German 88mm guns ... in the military during World War II was awarded the Medal of Honor. It wasn't until the ...