He died in 2005 without knowing there would be another push to recognize his heroism. He had to settle for fourth place, the Bronze Star.
Only one man was alive to shake the president’s hand. After an Army study found pervasive racism was to blame for the slight and President Bill Clinton awarded seven Medals of Honor to African-Americans in 1997. The nomination was significant because no African-Americans received the Medal of Honor in World War II. “This is a big enough award so that the President can give it personally, as he has in the case of some white boys,” a War Department aide wrote. Members of the unit demonstrate how barrage balloons are used to protect ships, installations, bridges and cities from strafing by low-flying enemy planes." Roger Smith Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. A crack Negro barrage balloon unit from Camp Tyson, Tenn., is one of the many features of the mammoth "BACK THE ATTACK" Army show now sparking $15,000,000,000, Third War Loan Drive in Washington D.
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