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...which more than 1 million black servicemen helped defeat the Axis Powers. Those efforts include significant contributions to the fight for Iwo Jima. An estimated 700 to 900 African-American soldiers participated in the epic island battle, many of whom were Marines trained in segregated boot camps at Montford Point, within Camp Lejeune, North Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Were African-Americans at Iwo Jima? | 6/9/2008 | See Source »

...heeled young businessman, Prince Louis Napoléeon was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for his leadership in the French underground during the war. Since then he has spent a good part of every year living in a Paris apartment under the name of Comte de Montford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: End of Pretending | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

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