They presented him with a paratrooper patch and a Pulaski. An earlier version of this obituary misstated the year the U.S. Army was desegregated. It was 1948, not 1947. When we learn of a mistake ...
Joe Harris, Believed to Be the Oldest Surviving WWII Paratrooper, Has Died Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all ...
Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving WWII paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute infantry battalion, has died. Here, Harris is surrounded by family ...