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Episode #521

I Can Count to Solo

#521 I Can Count to Solo
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credit: Castle Aghinolfi on the Gothic Line (www.apathtolunch.com / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Georgia:

Lieutenant Vernon Baker and Lieutenant John R. Fox

Episode sources:

Vernon Baker

  1. “World War II Hero Vernon Baker Dies” by Ken Olsen (The Spokesman-Review, 2010)

  2. “Baker, Vernon World War II Medal of Honor Recipient” (Congressional Medal of Honor Society) 2020

  3. “FACEism: Why black soldiers during WWII were denied recognition for heroism” by David Ono (ABC 7 Eyewitness News) 2023

  4. “First Lieutenant Vernon Baker's Medal of Honor” by Kim Guise (The National World War II Museum) 2020

  5. “Medals of Honor Awarded at Last To Black World War II Soldiers” by James Bennet (New York Times) 1997

  6. “Honor Deferred: Black Veterans and the Medal of Honor” by Stephanie Hinnershitz (The National WWII Museum) 2023

  7. “Vernon Baker” (Biography)

  8. “Shaw University” (Wikipedia)

  9. “Vernon Baker” (Wikipedia)

  10. “Vernon Baker” (National Park Service)

  11. “Vernon Joseph Baker” (Congressional Medal of Honor Society)

  12. “Vernon Baker, Belated Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies at 90” by Richard Goldstein (New York Times) 2010

  13. “Father Flanagan’s Boys Home (Boys Town)” (National Park Service)

John R. Fox

  1. “Lt. John Fox: An American Hero” (Back is America Podcast)

  2. Braided in Fire: Black GIs and Tuscan Villagers on the Gothic Line 1944, by Solace Wales

  3. “Almost-Forgotten Heroes / Italian town honors black GIs who were shunned by their own country” by Frank Viviano (San Francisco Chronicle) 2000

  4. “1st Lt. John R. Fox - 1944 WW2 Medal Of Honor Moment” (LionHeart FilmWorks)

  5. “A Black Soldier Received the Medal of Honor More Than 50 Years After Calling Artillery on His Own Position” by Blake Stilwell (Military.com) 2022

  6. “A brave story of valor under fire” (Wicked Local) 2007

  7. “Buffalo Soldier” (Wikipedia)

  8. “Heroes Among Us: Lieutenant John R. Fox” (Go For Broke National Education Center)

  9. “‘I Did Not Send for You: John Fox and the Medal of Honor” by Corey M. Ackerman (National Medal of Honor Museum)

  10. “John R. Fox” (Wikipedia)

  11. “John R. Fox” (National Park Service)

  12. “John Robert Fox” by Solace Wales (Associazione Ricreativa Sommocolonia)

  13. “Lieutenant John Fox's Medal of Honor” by Cory Graff (The National WWII Museum)

  14. “Statistics and FAQs” (Congressional Medal of Honor Society)

  15. “JOHN ROBERT FOX” (Congressional Medal of Honor Society)

 
 

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