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 – 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 . . .
