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Isaac Woodard Jr. (March 18, 1919 – September 23, 1992) was an American soldier and victim of racial violence. An African-American World War II veteran, on February 12, 1946, hours after being honorably discharged from the United States Army, he was attacked while still in uniform by South Carolina police as he was taking a bus home.
24 kwi 2024 · Gladden, one of the dwindling number of veterans who took part in the landings that kicked off the campaign to liberate Western Europe from the Nazis during World War II, died Wednesday, April 24, 2024, his family said.
30 mar 2021 · On Feb. 12, 1946, Sergeant Isaac Woodard, 26, had just returned to the U.S. from fighting abroad in World War II and was on a Greyhound bus en route to his home in Winnsboro, S.C., when he...
4 cze 2024 · Bill Becker, 98, a World War II veteran, at his home in Hemet, Calif., before making the journey to France. He served as a top-turret gunner on covert missions delivering supplies to Resistance...
31 mar 2021 · In July 1946, four Black people, including George W. Dorsey, a distinguished veteran who had served in World War II in the Pacific and North Africa, were beaten, tortured, fatally shot and hanged...
27 sie 2013 · A second teenager was arrested Monday in the beating death of an 88-year-old World War II veteran in Spokane, Wash., and his family said he had "fallen in with the wrong crowd."
Londoner Percy Chafer is thought to be the second oldest surviving UK D-Day veteran, and just a few months away from his 105th birthday in November he has said he is "still going strong".
