Woodson's story will also be told as part of a National Geographic docuseries, 'Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color.' Waverly Woodson Jr, a Black medic who served in the only all-Black regiment to take part ...

"We have filed the paperwork to restore Major Golsteyn's Special Forces Tab to him that was unjustly taken in 2014 and to issue is previously approved and signed Distinguished Service Cross," his ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Waverly Woodson Jr., a medic who was part of the only Black combat unit to take part in the D-Day invasion of France during World War II, is being posthumously awarded the ...

WASHINGTON — Waverly B. Woodson Jr., who was part of the only African American combat unit involved in the D-Day invasion during World War II, spent more than a day treating wounded troops under heavy ...

Army Staff Sgt. William D. Owens knew his platoon was in trouble. Part of A Company, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, his platoon had jumped into Normandy on June 6, 1944, ...

One never knows how they will respond when faced with incredible violence and destruction as death stares them in the eye. Throughout the Army's history, many Soldiers have risen above their own ...

During the American Invasion of Sicily in 1943, the 3rd Military Police Platoon, 30th Infantry Regiment landed near Licata. As the sun rose that morning and the soldiers made their way across the ...

In this 1942 photo, American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese are shown at the start of the Bataan Death March. A Vancouver High School graduate and Army chaplain, Ralph W.E.