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 ...
He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.
Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute infantry battalion, has died. He was 108. Harris died March ...