Generations of Woodson's family packed the audience, many of them wearing T-shirts with his photo and the words "1944 D-Day US Army Medic" on the front.

Generations of Woodson's family packed the audience, many of them wearing T-shirts with his photo and the words "1944 D-Day US Army Medic" on the front.

Waverly B. Woodson Jr., who was part of the only African American combat unit involved in the D-Day invasion during World War II, spent more than a day treating wounded troops under heavy German ...