The Compton resident was a member of the 'Triple Nickles,' a World War II combat-ready unit who trained as some of America's ...

Sgt. Joe Harris was one of an elite group of Black paratroopers during World War II. He is being laid to rest today. He was ...

He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.

Joe Harris, a sergeant with an all-Black infantry unit and believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper, died ...

The 4th Infantry Division joined the fight in 1944 with Allied forces in WWII and participated in one of the bloodiest battles in the war, the Battle of Hurtgen Forest. One WWII veteran ...

TYCHOWO, Poland — The last time Lester Schrenk stood in this dense patch of forest in what is now northwestern ... a swath of land to build a World War II prisoner of-war camp known as Stalag ...

Even well into World War II, Black soldiers were typically relegated ... the men were also being taught by the US Forest Service to become the first military smokejumpers.