One of three Black Watch soldiers tragically killed in a suicide bomb attack in Iraq's 'triangle of death' did not believe in the war, his brother has revealed. Private Paul Lowe, aged 19 ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

He was born enslaved in 1745 in nearby Chelmsford, Massachusetts. And when the Revolutionary War broke out a few decades later, he became one of the area’s Black soldiers fighting for the American ...

“Remember Us: American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and A Forever Promise Forged in World War II,” which will be published by Harper Collins ... but also the culture shock of the Dutch people on getting ...

He sailed to earth on numerous missions as a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black paratrooper battalion during World War II, the 555th, aptly nicknamed the “Triple Nickles.” At his ...

I was there in 1997 when seven Black World War II soldiers finally received the military’s highest award, one that had been denied them for half a century: the Medal of Honor. The histories of ...

WSAV Savannah Beaufort park to honor first black civil war soldiers in South Carolina Posted: April 8, 2025 | Last updated: April 8, 2025 The city of Beaufort, South Carolina is planning to turn ...

A U.S. Army honor guard folds a flag to be given to relatives of Joe Harris after the World War II veteran's burial at Inglewood Park Cemetery on Saturday. (David Butow / For The Times) ...

BEAUFORT, S.C. (WSAV) — Beaufort officials are working on designs for a new park that will honor the first Black Civil War soldiers who once fought on the city’s soil. City officials called ...