Waverly B. Woodson Jr., who was part of the only African American combat unit involved in the D-Day invasion during World War II, spent more than a day treating wounded troops under heavy German ...

Waverly B. Woodson Jr. was part of the only African American combat unit involved in the D-Day invasion during World War II. Decades later, his family is receiving the Distinguished Service Cross h… ...

80 years after D-Day, the family of a Black World War II combat medic receives his medal for heroism Woodson's 95-year-old widow, Joann, was presented Tuesday with the Distinguished Service Cross ...

A Black combat medic who treated 200 troops during the harrowing invasion of Normandy during World War II is honored with the Army's second-highest award.