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The injustices of 1940s Jim Crow America are taken to life in this astonishing blend of armed forces and social record, an account that pays off tribute to the valor of an all-black battalion whose important efforts at D-day have eliminated unrecognized to this day. In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, a device of BLACK soldiers, landed on the seashores of France. Their purchases were to man a curtain of armed balloons meant to deter enemy plane. One person in the 320th would be nominated for the Medal of Honor, an honor he'd never receive because the country's highest decoration was not given to black military in World Warfare II. Pulling on newly uncovered military data and a large number of original interviews with making it through people of the 320th and their families, Linda Hervieux says the story of the heroic men charged with an extraordinary mission, whose efforts to one of the very most celebrated situations in modern record have been forgotten. A large number of African Us citizens were sent in another country to fight for liberties refused them at home, including these people of the 320th: Wilson Monk, a jack-of-all-trades from Atlantic City; Henry Parham, the kid of sharecroppers from rural Virginia; William Dabney, an anxious 17-year-old from Roanoke, Virginia; and Samuel Mattison, a charming passionate from Columbus, Ohio. In Europe these soldiers discovered freedom they had not known in a homeland that cured them as second-class individuals - encounters they carried back to America, fueling the budding Civil Protection under the law Movement. In sharing with the storyline of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, Hervieux offers a vibrant account of the tension between racial politics and countrywide service in wartime America and a moving narrative of human bravery and determination when confronted with injustice.
