Yet today, the cross has been trivialized. What was once a symbol of state execution — akin to a modern electric chair — is ...

A Black medic credited with treating many wounded soldiers on D-Day has been posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross ... of Nazi Germany in World War II. Woodson, who became ...

More than a million Black men wore the uniform of the United States in World War II, and many of them saw ... Thomas received the Distinguished Service Cross, survived the war and died of cancer ...

WASHINGTON — Army Medic Waverly Woodson, who treated 200 wounded men on D-Day, was finally awarded the Distinguished Service Cross on Tuesday ... home after World War II, Woodson was denied ...