when the U.S. Army desegregated its units for the first and only time during World War II, at the Battle of the Bulge. Roughly 2,500 African Americans fought alongside white soldiers to repel the ...

On the battlefield, most soldiers died alone ... to recover servicemen who are missing and presumed dead from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. And with a $137.6 billion budget the Department ...

After that battle, Sergeant Major Christian Fleetwood ... War I—both of them posthumously—and none at all during World War II, in which more than 125,000 black soldiers served abroad.

White bedsheets camouflage them in the snow. (Photo: U.S. Army) Seventy years after the end of WWII's Battle of the Bulge, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs sits down with Veterans who were ...

A new PBS documentary ... the war — they had to battle the anti-Semitic prejudice of many of their fellow soldiers. All told, some 550,000 Jews served in World War II. A few had experienced ...