His 30-year Army career took him around the world, from the battlefields of Europe to remote outposts in Alaska, and he has lived through some of the most trying times in American history the Jim Crow era, the Great Depression, World War II and, most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic.
As one of fewer than 3,000 World War II veterans remaining in Maryland, Gerald Greenfield of Columbia is pushing for visibility for the more than 1.2 million Black soldiers who served in history’s deadliest conflict.
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