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A growing chorus of historians, members of Congress and the U.S. First Army are pressing the case for Waverly B. Woodson Jr., who died in 2005, to receive the nation's highest award for valor.
A growing chorus of historians, members of Congress and the U.S. First Army are pressing the case for Waverly B. Woodson Jr., who died in 2005, to receive the nation's highest award for valor.
Cpl. Waverly B. Woodson Jr. was with the all-Black 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion and treated more than 200 troops during the landing of forces at Omaha Beach, the stretch of French coastline that saw the worst fighting on D-Day.