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Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles - America's First Black Paratroopers (Hardcover)
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Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles - America's First Black Paratroopers (Hardcover)
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A 2014 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist
They became America's first black paratroopers. Why was their story
never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of
the Triple Nickles during World War II.
World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are
fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back
on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African
Americans plays out as much on Main Street as in the military.
Enlisted black men are segregated from white soldiers and regularly
relegated to service duties. At Fort Benning, Georgia, First
Sergeant Walter Morris's men serve as guards at The Parachute
School, while the white soldiers prepare to be paratroopers. Morris
knows that for his men to be treated like soldiers, they have to
train and act like them, but would the military elite and
politicians recognize the potential of these men as well as their
passion for serving their country? Tanya Lee Stone examines the
role of African Americans in the military through the history of
the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought
in a little-known attack on the American West by the Japanese. The
555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, in the words of Morris, "proved
that the color of a man had nothing to do with his ability."
From "Courage Has No Color"
What did it take to be a paratrooper in World War II? Specialized
training, extreme physical fitness, courage, and -- until the 555th
Parachute Infantry Battalion (the Triple Nickles) was formed --
white skin.
It is 1943. Americans are overseas fighting World War II to help
keep the world safe from Adolf Hitler's tyranny, safe from
injustice, safe from discrimination. Yet right here at home, people
with white skin have rights that people with black skin do
not.
What is courage? What is strength? Perhaps it is being ready to
fight for your nation even when your nation isn't ready to fight
for you.
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