The Black battalion that rescued Tony Blinken's stepfather

It is, perhaps, one of the great ironies of history that a resourceful Jewish boy fleeing for his life in Poland was carried to freedom by a Black man in the storied 761st tank unit, fighting in a racially segregated army for a country that accorded the soldier little freedom at home, writes Steven Holmes.

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