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11 cze 2014 · Eugene Bullard was actually a half…he was Creek Indian and half Southern US black, who left America because of racial prejudice and became a boxer in Scotland, and then eventually settled in...
11 lut 2020 · Researchers working on the black liberators project have found families of 24 black soldiers, including LaVonne Taliaferro-Bunch, whose great-uncle Lynwood Taliaferro was killed in the...
11 lut 2020 · Researchers working on the black liberators project have found families of 24 black soldiers, including LaVonne Taliaferro-Bunch, whose great-uncle Lynwood Taliaferro was killed in the...
7 kwi 2022 · An armored division commander credited the Red Ball drivers with allowing tankers to refuel and rearm while fighting. The Black drivers “delivered gas under constant fire,” he said.
8 kwi 2022 · From August through November 1944, 23,000 American truck drivers and cargo loaders—70 percent of whom were Black—moved more than 400,000 tons of ammunition, gasoline, medical supplies and ...
Jeff Jones, Charles Pittman, and other Black drivers on the Ledo Road kept China in the war. These young Black men were able to make a difference in the outcome of the war because of the expansion and transformation of US service forces during World War II.
12 wrz 2005 · Historian Alice Kaplan's new book The Interpreter describes the disproportionately large number of black World War II soldiers publicly executed by the U.S. military in Europe.