Feb. 20, 1945 was the second day of the Battle of Iwo Jima, a five-week U.S. invasion of the island during World War II. Ambrose “Cowboy” Anderson of Gloversville, who died late last month, had just arrived on the Pacific island.
Feb. 20, 1945 was the second day of the Battle of Iwo Jima, a five-week U.S. invasion of the island during World War II. Ambrose “Cowboy” Anderson of Gloversville, who died late last month, had just arrived on the Pacific island.
By Bob Cudmore Bruce Anderson, a Black war hero buried in Amsterdam, fought alongside a Canajoharie white man, Zachariah Neahr, in a daring mission during the battle of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, near the end of the Civil War. Anderson was born in 1845, presumably in Mexico City, then worked a
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