Courage Has No Color, The True Story ..., Tanya Lee Stone
Courage Has No Color, The True Story ..., Tanya Lee Stone
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Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles
America's First Black Paratroopers

Author: Tanya Lee Stone

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 2 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 01/22/2013

Synopsis

World War II was raging, with thousands of American soldiers fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African Americans was playing out as much on Main Street as in the military. Enlisted black men were segregated from white soldiers and regularly relegated to service duties.At Fort Benning, Georgia, First Sergeant Walter Morris’s men served as guards at The Parachute School while the white soldiers prepared to be paratroopers. Morris knew that in order for his men to be treated like soldiers, they would have to train and act like them, but would the military elite and politicians recognize the potential of these men, as well as their passion for serving their country?Tanya Lee Stone examines the role of African Americans in the military through the lens of the untold story of the Triple Nickles as they became America’s first black paratroopers and fought a little-known World War II attack on the American West by the Japanese. The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, in the words of Morris, “proved that the color of a man had nothing to do with his ability.”

About Tanya Lee Stone

Tanya Lee Stone is a former editor and the Sibert Medal–winning author of Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream. Her new book was seven years in the making, as she did extensive original research and collected archival photos. She says, “These men helped shape our history. Americans need to know who they are. Getting to know Walter and some of the other men has been the highlight of this project. This is why being a nonfiction writer is so exciting ?— ?discovering stories of extraordinary human beings and being lucky enough to have the honor of telling them. One of my goals is to help fill in some of the missing pieces in the fabric of our history and to encourage readers to think not only about what happens but also about how and why it all unfolds the way it does.” About Courage Has No Color, Walter Morris, the first enlisted Triple Nickle, says, “Tanya Lee Stone takes a giant leap forward in telling an accurate account of the history of the Triple Nickles. Now our history will not be lost, and future generations will know the importance of what we endured.” Tanya Lee Stone lives in Vermont.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dj on August 08, 2014

Courage has no Color. When I was looking through a bunch of WWII books I came across one that talked about the 555th Parachute Battalion. I was surprised because I had never heard of this unit before. Now I am not going to say that I know every Battalion designation of the War but in a time of milit......more

Goodreads review by Deacon Tom on April 14, 2022

Superb book. It was painful to read about the prejudice against black solders. It was beyond spectacular to read how these professionals overcame all to become a powerful fighting force in WWII. This is a good one.......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on July 04, 2013

If I were able to sit down with my small, childhood self to render advice about the world, I’d probably just hand myself a series of thoughts about subjects I was forced to learn about in school. For example, I would probably mention right off the bat that though my textbooks made it infinitely clea......more

Goodreads review by Penny on March 13, 2013

If your tween or teen likes "Saving Private Ryan" or "Band of Brothers," this is a great book to recommend (and it also fits the Common Core curriculum with primary sources, etc.). Many people have heard of the Tuskegee Airmen, but few have heard of this group of African-American paratroopers, nickn......more

Goodreads review by Allena on March 27, 2021

This was a great book about a piece of history I didn’t know about. I learned a lot from it but kids would also enjoy too!......more

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