A story of equal valor is of the 761st Tank Battalion. All African-American tankers that were finally deployed near the end. Fought brillantly at The Bulge.
My dad went over just after the Bulge and always spoke highly of the black soldiers, who he referred to as “colored guys”. He’d never been around many before and had no prejudice, it was just a descriptive term like saying “fat guy” or “a guy from New Jersey”.
Being a wiseass, I’d ask “what color was he?”