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    Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers
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    Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers
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    Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers
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    Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers

    Written by Tanya Lee Stone

    Narrated by JD Jackson

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    About this audiobook

    World War II was raging, with thousands of American soldiers fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African Americans was playing out as much on Main Street as in the military. Enlisted black men were segregated from white soldiers and regularly relegated to service duties.

    At Fort Benning, Georgia, First Sergeant Walter Morris's men served as guards at The Parachute School while the white soldiers prepared to be paratroopers. Morris knew that in order for his men to be treated like soldiers, they would have to train and act like them, but would the military elite and politicians recognize the potential of these men, as well as their passion for serving their country?

    Tanya Lee Stone examines the role of African Americans in the military through the lens of the untold story of the Triple Nickles as they became America's first black paratroopers and fought a little-known World War II attack on the American West by the Japanese. The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, in the words of Morris, "proved that the color of a man had nothing to do with his ability."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 22, 2013
    ISBN9781469262604
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    Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers
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    Tanya Lee Stone

    Tanya Lee Stone has written several books for young readers, including the young adult novel A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl. She lives with her family in Vermont.

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    • 5/5
      Amazing book so far, it's so knowledgeable and so good to understand. It's really a great book everyone will enjoy reading, it really worth having
    • 5/5
      Although focused on the “Triple Nickles,” the first black paratroop unit in the U.S. Army, this penetrating, moving account uses official records and personal interviews to examine the injustice and impact of segregation on the U.S. Military during World War II.
    • 5/5
      A history of the Triple Nickels, the United States' first black paratroopers - how they were formed, how they were trained, how they were treated, and how difficult it was for African-Americans, serving as soldiers in a segregated army.
    • 5/5
      The Triple Nickles were the first Black paratroopers in America. While they did not see combat in World War II, they were instrumental in showing that Black soldiers were equal to White soldiers and, along with a farsighted General, began the process of integrating the U.S. Armed Forces. Tanya Lee Stone’s latest book, Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers is an immensely readable and enjoyable history of the Triple Nickles, from their humble beginnings (training themselves by performing the same exercies as the White paratrooper soldiers) to becoming a formal unit in the military to being decorated as heroes decades after the war was over. Unsure what to do with this highly trained group, the Triple Nickles were sent to the Western United States as firejumpers, those firefighters who parachute directly into fires to combat them. This was in response to the Japanese sending balloons laden with bombs across the Pacific with the intent of bombing the U. S. on its own turf. Some did actually land and start forest fires. Firejumping was a new profession in the mid-1940s and the Triple NIckles performed this function with honor. Although it was not fighting Hitler, it was still serving their country. Courage Has No Color was an eye-opener to me because I never realized the segregation and bigotry that existed in the Armed Forces during W.W. II. Stone’s writing style brings the action and people to life. The extent of her research is obvious in the writing and footnotes. In my mind, Stone, along with Susan Campbell Bartoletti are the two major forces in readable Young Adult non-fiction. For another eye-opener, read Stone’s previous book, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream. I couldn’t put either book down. You won’t be disappointed.