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Nevada’s Heroic Run

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Surrounded by smoke and flame, the battleship made for the open sea in an attempt to escape the devastation at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941

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How Patton’s All-Black Tank Battalion Took the Fight to the Nazis

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General George S. Patton’s Black Panthers was the first all-black tank unit to see combat, fighting racial stereotypes both at home and on the battlefield

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