African-Americans ... this time the unit never lost any prisoners or territory to the enemy. France awarded the entire unit with Croix de Guerre, that country's highest military honor and 171 ...

the 442d RCT was reassigned in March 1945 to Fifth Army for the Po Valley campaign. Attached to the 92d Infantry Division, an African-American unit, the 442d RCT helped drive the Germans from ...

Battle of the Bulge Combat brought another opportunity to African American soldiers between December 1944 and January 1945, when the U.S. Army desegregated its units for the first and only time ...

in modern-day Benin. They started by protecting the king, but would go on to fight against the French. They are the fourth story in a new eight-part series, African Women who Changed the World ...