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US Lawmakers Seek Posthumous Medal of Honor for Black D-Day Medic

Leslie Bonilla

   A yearslong campaign to award a Black D-Day medic the Medal of Honor --
   the United States' highest military award -- received a boost this week
   after a bipartisan group of [1]U.S. lawmakers announced legislation to
   make that happen.

   The June 6, 1944, invasion at Normandy, France, known as D-Day, was a
   critical turning point in World War II. Tens of thousands of Allied
   forces stormed an 80-kilometer stretch of beaches that had been
   fortified by German soldiers and artillery. More than 4,000 Allied
   troops died, and nearly 10,000 others were injured in the assault,
   according to the National D-Day Memorial Foundation.

References

   1. https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ARM19G05.pdf

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