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Waverly Woodson Jr. To Be Posthumously Awarded Distinguished Service Cross
Black Enterprise· 3 days agoAs the Associated Press reports, the Distinguished Service Cross is awarded to U.S. Army soldiers...
D-Day 80th anniversary: Veterans fight back tears in Auld Lang Syne singalong
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoIt was only after the 15 D-Day veterans had made it safely on to a square overlooking the shores of...
The dramatic story of Pointe du Hoc, the backdrop to Biden's D-Day anniversary speech
KPBS San Diego· 12 hours agoPresident Biden’s itinerary for commemorating D-Day’s 80th anniversary in France includes giving a...
Pueblo Police Department honors its heroes Friday night with awards ceremony
KOAA5· 6 days agoThe Pueblo Police Department is honoring some of its heroes Friday night. The annual police awards...
The terrible fate of SAS heroes who landed in France ahead of D-Day
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoHaving escaped, and using only a pair of scissors, Cpl Allan had to amputate two of Tpr O’Neill’s...
Nearly 30 Years After His Death, Cpl. Waverly Woodson, Jr., A Black Medic And D-Day Hero, Is Finally...
Black America Web· 22 hours agoD-Day, Jr., a Black army medic who saved nearly 200 lives during D-Day in 1944, is being posthumously honored for his heroic efforts. On June 3, Woodson, who passed away in 2005 at the age of ...
Henry Johnson, Albany war hero, is honored with annual day in Arbor Hill
WAMC Northeast Public Radio· 1 day agoThe city of Albany commemorated a local war hero Wednesday. Sergeant Henry Johnson enlisted in the Army on June 5th, 1917, a date now commemorated in Albany as Henry Johnson ...
Photos: World War II veterans honoured on D-Day’s 80th anniversary
Al Jazeera· 1 day agoOn Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron presented a Legion d’Honneur award – France’s highest...
Time to recognize one last hero from D-Day
Colorado Springs Gazette· 1 day agoAlmost half of that number, 73,000, were American soldiers. There were many acts of heroism on that day and 12 soldiers, whose deeds were deemed extraordinary, would be presented with our nation ...
An all-Black battalion stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Why did it take 80 years to honor a...
WUSA 9 Washington, D.C.· 6 hours agoArmy Corporal Waverly Woodson, who settled in Clarksburg, Maryland after the war, was part of the...
