The First Army will present Waverly Woodson’s widow with a badge he should have gotten 80 years ago. He deserves far more.
Waverly Woodsonthat followed when his boat hit an enemy mine andan exploding mortar shell sprayed the steel deck with burning metal. All around lay the bodies of young men who, moments earlier, had been amped up on pre-combat adrenaline or heaving into their helmets from seasickness. Woodson grimly surveyed his own inner thigh and buttocks, ripped open by shrapnel. He would later write in an unpublished account that he thought he was dying.
On Wednesday, the First Army, which was in charge of the troops that fought in Normandy, will present 94-year-old Joann Woodson with the Combat Medic Badge, a basic acknowledgement of her husband’s service that he should have gotten, but didn’t, in 1944. Organizers are hoping the gesture will cast a spotlight on the greater injustice done to Woodson.
For the past two years, First Army historian Kevin Braafladt has sifted through thousands of existing records on his own time in a questConnecting many dots, Braafladt believes that infighting among Army leaders in 1944, among other factors, likely contributed to Woodson, and many other men whose units served under the command of the First Army missing out on the medals they deserved.
That piece of paper sits in a folder in the Truman Presidential Library. Stapled to it is a handwritten note informing an aide to President Roosevelt that a recommendation for “a Negro from Philadelphia” was elevated to the Medal of Honor. The author, an assistant director in the War Department, wrote, “This is a big enough award so that the President can give it personally, as he has in the case of some white boys.
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