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Courage has no color : the true story of the Triple Nickles : America's first Black paratroopers
(2013)
By: Stone, Tanya Lee

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
ESL/HISTORY/STONE,T

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Details

PUBLISHED
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2013
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

147 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780763651176 (reinforced trade hardcover), 0763651176 (reinforced trade hardcover), 9780763651176, 0763651176 :, 9780763665487
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Examines the role of African-Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought against attacks perpetrated on the American West by the Japanese during World War II

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