Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black ...
He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.
During World War II, Black Americans were often relegated ... For a week, he did paratrooper jump training in Corsicana, Texas, through the Liberty Jump Team, an organization that works to ...