Tag: Tuskegee Airmen
Unknown Soldiers – How Black Barrage Balloon Troops Kept the D-Day Beaches Safe
Published Date: 3 November, 2015
“Despite their achievements, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion is largely absent from the D-Day story.” By Linda Hervieux IN THE FALL of 1942, thousands of young American men descended onto a peaceful corner of northwestern Tennessee,…