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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...