Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Winners of World War II
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Robert Child. (2022). Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Winners of World War II. Unabridged Bloomsbury Publishing (UK).

Robert Child. 2022. Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Winners of World War II. Bloomsbury Publishing (UK).

Robert Child, Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Winners of World War II. Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2022.

Robert Child. Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Winners of World War II. Unabridged Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2022.

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   • bioText: Robert Child is a military history writer, director, and published author with Penguin/Random House. The film rights to his book, The Lost Eleven, co-authored with Denise George have been acquired. Robert Child has also garnered more than 26 writing and directing awards including an Emmy® nomination and is one of only a handful of writer/directors whose work has been screened in the United States Congress. His film, The Wereth Eleven, was nominated for an Emmy® and won the highest honor at the G.I. Film Festival in Washington DC, the Founders Choice Award. In 2011, the survivors' association of the World War II aircraft carrier, USS Franklin, singled Child out for Honorary Crew Membership aboard the most decorated vessel in U.S. Naval history. Robert lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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The remarkable story of the seven African American soldiers ultimately awarded the World War II Medal of Honor, and the 50-year campaign to deny them their recognition. In 1945, when Congress began reviewing the record of the most conspicuous acts of courage by American soldiers during World War II, they recommended awarding the Medal of Honor to 432 recipients. Despite the fact that more than one million African-Americans served, not a single black soldier received the Medal of Honor. The omission remained on the record for over four decades. But recent historical investigations have brought to light some of the extraordinary acts of valor performed by black soldiers during the war. Men like Vernon Baker, who single-handedly eliminated three enemy machineguns, an observation post, and a German dugout. Or Sergeant Reuben Rivers, who spearhead his tank unit's advance against fierce German resistance for three days despite being grievously wounded. Meanwhile Lieutenant Charles Thomas led his platoon to capture a strategically vital village on the Siegfried Line in 1944 despite losing half his men and suffering a number of wounds himself. Ultimately, in 1993 a US Army commission determined that seven men, including Baker, Rivers and Thomas, had been denied the Army's highest award simply due to racial discrimination. In 1997, more than 50 years after the war, President Clinton finally awarded the Medal of Honor to these seven heroes, sadly all but one of them posthumously. These are their stories.

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The remarkable story of the seven African American soldiers ultimately awarded the World War II Medal of Honor, and the 50-year campaign to deny them their recognition. In 1945, when Congress began reviewing the record of the most conspicuous acts of courage by American soldiers during World War II, they recommended awarding the Medal of Honor to 432 recipients. Despite the fact that more than one million African-Americans served, not a single black soldier received the Medal of Honor. The omission remained on the record for over four decades. But recent historical investigations have brought to light some of the extraordinary acts of valor performed by black soldiers during the war. Men like Vernon Baker, who single-handedly eliminated three enemy machineguns, an observation post, and a German dugout. Or Sergeant Reuben Rivers, who spearhead his tank unit's advance against fierce German resistance for three days despite being grievously wounded. Meanwhile Lieutenant...

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Author's Note List of Illustrations Introduction PART ONE – CHARLES L. THOMAS Chapter 1: Graduation Day Chapter 2: Last Stop USA Chapter 3: A Hell of Fire PART TWO – VERNON J. BAKER Chapter 4: The Boy from Cheyenne Chapter 5: The Italian Front Chapter 6: Storming the Castle PART THREE – WILLY JAMES JR. Chapter 7: A Fifth Platoon Chapter 8: Crossing the Rhine Chapter 9: Into the Lion's Mouth PART FOUR – EDWARD ALLEN CARTER JR. Chapter 10: Baptism by Fire Chapter 11: A Mercenary Man Chapter 12: March to the Rhine PART FIVE – GEORGE WATSON Chapter 13: Picnic at a Hanging Chapter 14: Off to War Chapter 15: Operation Lilliput PART SIX – RUBEN RIVERS Chapter 16: Black Gold Chapter 17: A New Esprit de Corps Chapter 18: Patton's Panthers PART SEVEN – JOHN FOX Chapter 19: Transfer Student Chapter 20: Shipping Out Chapter 21: Give 'em Hell Epilogue: The Rest of the Story Afterword: The Long Road to Recognition Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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