In all, more than 2,400 sailors, Marines, soldiers and civilians ... He was working as a ship’s cook. At Pearl Harbor, besides Daniel Walker, seven other Black mess attendants were killed ...

African American soldiers have had a big impact on the Central Coast. Buffalo Soldiers built the Presidio of Monterey, Fort ...

Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Daniel Frye was 19 when he died during Pearl Harbor. Eight five years later, he's returning ...

The accepted viewpoint of the day was that African American soldiers were not equally capable ... One such example occurred on December 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese.

Payne was born in 1925, so he was 16 when Pearl Harbor was attacked and the nation ... That was the distrust the country showed to its Black soldiers. "They would always have White guys over ...

Chief Warrant Officer John Gaynor Connolly served aboard the USS Oklahoma, which capsized during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

By Amanda Holpuch Jessie Mahaffey, who was scrubbing the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it was hit by Japanese torpedoes at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and who was among the last living ...