It’s impossible to underestimate the achievement and sacrifice of the Allied soldiers at D-Day. The 2008 documentary A Distant Shore offers gripping firsthand accounts of the events from surviving African-American soldiers.
Although the almost 2,000 African-American troops fighting that day helped to liberate France, those who lived still returned to an America that looked like this.
Remembering…
It’s impossible to underestimate the achievement and sacrifice of the Allied soldiers at D-Day. The 2008 documentary A Distant Shore offers gripping firsthand accounts of the events from surviving African-American soldiers.
Although the almost 2,000 African-American troops fighting that day helped to liberate France, those who lived still returned to an America that looked like this.
Posted by Stephen Robinson on June 6, 2013 in Social Commentary
Tags: A Distant Shore, D-day