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The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of African-American soldiers in the US military up to that point. [2] Though comprising 11% of the US population in 1967, African Americans were 16.3% of all draftees. [3] During the period of the Vietnam War, well over half of African American draft registrants were found ineligible for military ...
Milton Lee Olive III (November 7, 1946 – October 22, 1965) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of America's highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his heroic action in the Vietnam War when at the age of 18, Olive sacrificed his life to save others by falling on a grenade. In so doing so he became the first ...
11 July 2007. (2007-07-11) (aged 60) Memphis, Tennessee. Terry Marvell Whitmore (March 6, 1947 – July 11, 2007) was an American soldier, deserter and actor. A Black Marine, he who was one of the 503,926 soldiers and sailors who deserted from the United States military during the Vietnam War. [1] He wrote about it in Memphis-Nam-Sweden: The ...
Both numbers are comparable to PTSD rates for soldiers who served in the Gulf War in the 1990s (approximately 12%) and the current conflicts in the Middle East (PTSD diagnoses estimated between 11 ...
333rd Field Artillery Battalion African-Americans captured during the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944. 12th Armored Division soldier with German prisoners of war, April 1945. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American pilots in United States military history; they flew with distinction during World War II.
On July 23, 1968, to protest the beating of a Black prisoner, black and white soldiers seized control of the Fort Bragg stockade, holding it for over two days. [3]: 70–71 In the summer of 1968 two of the largest prison rebellions of the war took place in Vietnam, both led by Black soldiers.
Unit. Company B, 2d Battalion, 502d Infantry, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Battles/wars. Vietnam War (DOW) Awards. Medal of Honor. Purple Heart. Dale Eugene Wayrynen (January 18, 1947 – May 18, 1967) was a United States Army enlisted soldier and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor —for his ...
Wallace Terry (right) interviews G.I. in Vietnam 1969. Wallace Houston Terry, II (April 21, 1938 – May 29, 2003) was an African-American journalist and oral historian, best known for his book about black soldiers in Vietnam, Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War (1984), which served as inspiration for the 1995 crime thriller Dead Presidents and the Spike Lee's 2020 war drama Da 5 Bloods.