U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

U.S. First Army soldiers held a ceremony ... about 2,000 African American troops are believed to have taken part in the D-Day invasion. Woodson died in 2005, at age 83, and is buried at Arlington ...

He is also thought to be the first Baptist missionary to travel overseas. During the Civil War, African-American soldiers fighting for the Union were initially paid less than their white counterparts.

Despite policies of racial segregation and discrimination, African-American soldiers played a significant role from the colonial period to the Korean War. It wasn't until the middle of the 20th ...

Despite there being an all African-American battalion involved in ... You can learn more about the D-Day landings and the soldiers involved in the three-part series D-Day: The Unheard Tapes ...

The accepted viewpoint of the day was that African American soldiers were not equally capable as -- and would require more intensive leadership than -- their white counterparts. Furthermore ...

The commander of the American Expeditionary Force, General John Pershing had refused to lead black soldiers into battle. Most of the third of a million African Americans drafted into the US Army ...