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# Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War

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Review: Boardwalk Empire fans will enjoy the vibrant chapter on Atlantic City - "Forgotten" is thoroughly researched and thoroughly readable. It is the story of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, a unit of African-American soldiers who landed in France during the D-Day invasion via a U.S. Army system then-rife with institutional racism. While their mission at Normandy--particularly the heroism of a medic named Waverly Woodson, who tended to the wounded and the drowning for 30 hours before collapsing from his own wounds--was mentioned in army press releases and received extensive coverage in the black press, their contributions quickly disappeared from the public record and public discourse. Medals, if they came at all, were of a lesser degree. Even the GI Bill had limits in its implementation, as veterans recount, since trades such as TV repairman became de facto earmarked for white veterans in the parts of the country where Jim Crow persisted. Hervieux threads strands of social history, military history and journalistic interviews with the handful of 320th veterans who were alive during the 10-year span of her project to create a stirring narrative that is never sentimental. Boardwalk Empire fans will enjoy the vibrant chapter on Atlantic City, NJ, and the enduring love story of Wilson Monk and Mertina Madison. Quiz night and general knowledge aficionados will appreciate the chapter on the history of barrage balloons. British readers like me will find fascinating the policy battles that surrounded the stationing of U.S. soldiers on UK soil. "Forgotten" does the men and families of the 320th honor.
Review: The Baloon Battalion - Few Americans know anything abot the 320th Barrage Baloon Battalion or its contribution to the World War II offense. In Forgotten, Linda Hervieux not only provides a comprehensive story of the 320th--composed entirely of African American soldiers--but by placing it in the context of 20th century social history, she draws a dramatic picture of Jim Crow life and its cruelty. With a keen eye for the telling detail, she renders the background of many soldiers who risked their lives for a country that ignored their claim for equality. Based on hundreds of interviews, Hervieux points out how black soldiers were strictly segregated and mistreated while German and Italian prisoners of war were treated as friends. In the short months of their stay in Europe, the men of the 320th were treated warmly by the British population. This short term of normalcy in race relations was brought to an abrupt end when the black soldiers were returned to the strictly segregated United States military service. Hervieux recreates the drama and danger of DDay and the part the 320th played in that epic battle. Excellently written and widely researched, Forgotten is an invaluable addition to military and social history and just a plain good read.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,149,136 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #262 in Black & African American History (Books) #753 in African American Demographic Studies (Books) #989 in World War II History (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (763) |
| Dimensions  | 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches |
| Edition  | First Edition |
| ISBN-10  | 0062313797 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0062313799 |
| Item Weight  | 1.32 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 368 pages |
| Publication date  | October 27, 2015 |
| Publisher  | Harper |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Boardwalk Empire fans will enjoy the vibrant chapter on Atlantic City
*by R***E on January 27, 2016*

"Forgotten" is thoroughly researched and thoroughly readable. It is the story of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, a unit of African-American soldiers who landed in France during the D-Day invasion via a U.S. Army system then-rife with institutional racism. While their mission at Normandy--particularly the heroism of a medic named Waverly Woodson, who tended to the wounded and the drowning for 30 hours before collapsing from his own wounds--was mentioned in army press releases and received extensive coverage in the black press, their contributions quickly disappeared from the public record and public discourse. Medals, if they came at all, were of a lesser degree. Even the GI Bill had limits in its implementation, as veterans recount, since trades such as TV repairman became de facto earmarked for white veterans in the parts of the country where Jim Crow persisted. Hervieux threads strands of social history, military history and journalistic interviews with the handful of 320th veterans who were alive during the 10-year span of her project to create a stirring narrative that is never sentimental. Boardwalk Empire fans will enjoy the vibrant chapter on Atlantic City, NJ, and the enduring love story of Wilson Monk and Mertina Madison. Quiz night and general knowledge aficionados will appreciate the chapter on the history of barrage balloons. British readers like me will find fascinating the policy battles that surrounded the stationing of U.S. soldiers on UK soil. "Forgotten" does the men and families of the 320th honor.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Baloon Battalion
*by B***K on November 16, 2015*

Few Americans know anything abot the 320th Barrage Baloon Battalion or its contribution to the World War II offense. In Forgotten, Linda Hervieux not only provides a comprehensive story of the 320th--composed entirely of African American soldiers--but by placing it in the context of 20th century social history, she draws a dramatic picture of Jim Crow life and its cruelty. With a keen eye for the telling detail, she renders the background of many soldiers who risked their lives for a country that ignored their claim for equality. Based on hundreds of interviews, Hervieux points out how black soldiers were strictly segregated and mistreated while German and Italian prisoners of war were treated as friends. In the short months of their stay in Europe, the men of the 320th were treated warmly by the British population. This short term of normalcy in race relations was brought to an abrupt end when the black soldiers were returned to the strictly segregated United States military service. Hervieux recreates the drama and danger of DDay and the part the 320th played in that epic battle. Excellently written and widely researched, Forgotten is an invaluable addition to military and social history and just a plain good read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ it is so brilliantly written and enlightening
*by J***N on December 8, 2015*

This book is a must read, it is so brilliantly written and enlightening. I think it should be required reading in all nigh schools in the USA. The book, Forgotten isn't merely another WWII story, but the high ideals, intelligence and devotion of people before and after the war. These are human beings who gave their lives to this nation even though they were marginalized, tortured and murdered because of the color of their skin. Ms Hervieux in this book captures these men's feelings of joy and pain through survivors and family members of their treatment. I know some may think oh no another textbook, but you would be wrong. This book is a beautifully written story of a group of brave, self-sacraficing men who saved many lives at the largest assault in modern history, individual stories of heroes true, fighting for a country they believed in. Ms Hervieux writes so well and the stories have a grand fluidity that it made you want to keep reading. I hope we see many more books from this author in the future. These men had to fight to be able to fight, yet they were not given their due. Curtains in segregated train cars had to have closed because bigots would shot at the train cars if they saw it was filled with black soldiers. In the US they could not go to many restaurants, movies or USO's, yet they saw German and Japanese prisoners with their guards in those same establishments. However when they reach the British Isles they were welcome not as black Americans, but Americans, and the people loved them. The book Forgotten tells the story of these heroes and sheds light on the horrors of "Jim Crow" America which is either unknown by the younger generation and forgotten by other generations. The bigotry is less than it was then, but we still have a long way to go to eradicate it as we see in the news every day now.

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