General George Patton’s “Black Panthers” should have returned to ticker-tape parades and great fanfare, but instead were practically invisible despite their great service to their country. history, returned home to America from WWII along with 1.2 million other black veterans. In late 1945 and early 1946, the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African-American armored unit in U.S. But they had to fight a second war against white America to gain the recognition they deserved. Army and paved the way for the civil rights movement. In their fight on behalf of freedom, they changed the makeup of the modern U.S. in the grueling Lorraine campaign in France, the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhineland, and in the final conquest of Nazi Germany, Sherman tank gunner McBurney and his fellow Black Panthers had to fight two wars at once: one against the German Army, the other against the racism of their fellow white soldiers.
historyFighting under legendary General George S Patton, Jr. In Soldiers of Freedom: The WWII Story of Patton's Panthers and the Edelweiss Pirates, Book 5 of his WWII Series, historical fiction author Samuel Marquis tells the real-life story of Sergeant William McBurney and the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African-American armored unit in U.S.
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