Black medic who treated hundreds of troops under enemy fire on D-Day to be honored in Arlington
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Black Army medic Waverly B. Woodson Jr. will be honored posthumously at the Arlington National Cemetery for treating hundreds of troops while injured on D-Day.
Woodson, who was born in Philadelphia and lived in Maryland with his wife, died in 2005. He spoke to The Associated Press in 1994 about his harrowing journey.
"The tide brought us in, and that’s when the 88s hit us," he said of the German 88mm guns. "They were murder. Of our 26 Navy personnel there was only one left. They raked the whole top of the ship and killed all the crew. Then they started with the mortar shells."
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