Benjamin O. Davis Senior’s career started during a time when society and, more so the military, did not think highly of ...

assigned to U.S. Army Pacific and a native of Lumberton, North Carolina, celebrated his promotion to Chief Warrant Officer 5 Feb. 25 at Fort Shafter, Hawaii. Grice is the first African American to ...

Going back to the 19th Century, just after the Civil War, the “Buffalo Soldiers” were the first African American army regiments in the U.S. Peacetime Army, with four stationed out of Fort Davis.

Battle of the Bulge Combat brought another opportunity to African American soldiers between December 1944 and January 1945, when the U.S. Army desegregated its units for the first and only time ...