Comments on: The Triple Nickles: Army’s First Black Paratroopers https://americacomesalive.com/the-triple-nickles-armys-first-black-paratroopers/ Quick Takes and Popular Postings about America's Past Sun, 04 May 2025 14:43:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kate Kelly https://americacomesalive.com/the-triple-nickles-armys-first-black-paratroopers/#comment-439749 Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:50:25 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=7982#comment-439749 In reply to Marie Watson McCloud.

Thank you for posting. You are so right. When you think about these men training themselves for parachute jumping—with no official trainer and only the equipment they had access to after hours—it begins to paint a picture of how difficult it would have been. This experience was all too common in the military during WWII.

]]> By: Marie Watson McCloud https://americacomesalive.com/the-triple-nickles-armys-first-black-paratroopers/#comment-439740 Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:04:04 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=7982#comment-439740 History has a way of minimizing and down playing the hardship and the role black military soldiers ,especially the triple nickel and other black military units…
They deserve better. They deserve to have the real stories of how they were treated and sent into harms way to pave the way for the white soldiers…
White washing history to hid the ills of America….

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