On D-Day, only one Black combat unit, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, landed on Omaha and Utah Beaches, and 135 African-American men are buried at Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France.
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On D-Day, only one Black combat unit, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, landed on Omaha and Utah Beaches, and 135 African-American men are buried at Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France.