Joe Harris, a sergeant with an all-Black infantry unit and believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper, died ...
Joe Harris, a sergeant with an all-Black infantry unit and believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper, died ...
Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving WWII paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute ...
He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.
During World War II, Black Americans were often relegated to more support-level jobs in the racially segregated military and President ... in his grandfather’s airborne footsteps.