Black D-Day combat medic’s long-denied medal tenderly laid on Omaha Beach where he bled, saved lives
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 8, 2024
OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings was tenderly laid Friday on the hallowed sands where he saved lives and shed blood.
U.S. First Army soldiers held a ceremony in honor of Waverly Woodson Jr. on the beach where he came ashore and was wounded, and where hundreds of American soldiers were killed by withering fire in the June 6, 1944, landings in Normandy, northern France.
The Distinguished Service Cross is the second-highest honor . . .
