After decades of discrimination, Vernon Baker was finally recognized for his heroism during an assault on a German stronghold ...
The American 5th Army had invaded months earlier ... the infantry could follow in their sleds,” one World War II-era newsreel said at time, calling the concept the “modern equivalent of ...
The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corps began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets.