The Distinguished Service Cross was posthumously awarded to African-American combat medic Waverly Woodson Jr. on Omaha Beach, 80 years after his heroic actions during the D-Day landings in Normandy, France.
The Distinguished Service Cross was posthumously awarded to African-American combat medic Waverly Woodson Jr. on Omaha Beach, 80 years after his heroic actions during the D-Day landings in Normandy, France.
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