Sunday, June 09, 2019

Fighting Germans and Jim Crow: Role of black troops on D-Day
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — It was the most massive amphibious invasion the world has ever seen, with tens of thousands of Allied troops spread out across the air and sea aiming to get a toehold in...
Roughly 2,000 African American troops are believed to have hit the shores of Normandy in various capacities on June 6, 1944. Serving in a U.S. military still-segregated by race, they encountered discrimination both in the service and when they came home. But on Normandy, they faced the same danger as everyone else.



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