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[ 2009-12-23 11:05:00 | By: tuvw826 ] |
“The Navy and the civilian cheap clarks shoes media held back things that lots of us did,” Mr. Clark said. “For obvious reasons: the prejudice and bigotry that was going on at that time.”
He is part of “the greatest generation” whose valor remains largely invisible: he is among an estimated one million black veterans from World War II. Due to the endemic racism of the time, their wartime heroism was often not recorded in official battle reports, a history manipulated to negate their accomplishments.
Now there is a move to give Mr. Clark credit for his role in a dramatic tale of survival.
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The sun was setting on May 3, 1945, when the first kamikaze plane smashed the deck of the U.S.S. Aaron Ward. The plane was filled with gasoline to turn it into a missile, and the explosion tore young men into pieces. A fireball that followed consumed more lives, many just teenagers.
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