The service of Black soldiers, in short, was essential to winning the war. Company E of the 4th U.S. Colored Infantry at Fort Lincoln in the District of Columbia. Library of Congress Still ...

The orders also announced the formation of several new artillery and engineer units to be composed of Black soldiers, ...

Norman Goldie had only been with the Canadian Grenadier Guards tank regiment for less than a month. It was May 4, 1945. Adolf Hitler's Third Reich was in its final hours and Nazi soldiers ...