Here's another snip from a review about Brokaws book about Johnnie Holmes that is not mentioned in the article you linked:
A case in point is the shocking story of Sgt Johnnie Holmes, who "encountered real, bitter racial hatred and segregation for the first time" when he arrived for training in Kentucky. Brokaw records that "Holmes is persuaded that Fort Knox dentists experimented on the black soldiers. He remembers being strapped in a dentist chair and getting his teeth drilled with no novocaine" (p. 195).
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ICK/is_2_14/ai_68507718
Johnnie Holmes really gets around.
"And the falsehood was given new life by NBC anchor Tom Brokaw in his bestseller, "The Greatest Generation."
One of the 50 or so veterans profiled in that work is Johnnie Holmes. In a nine-page profile, Brokaw never mentions that Hoilmes appeared in the notorious "Liberators."
Instead, Brokaw ignored Holmes' participation in one of the biggest Holocaust distortions of the last decade, writing only that while Holmes' unit "was not involved" in the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau, it was "in the area," and "some confusion" about the facts "lingers to this day."