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<blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1822310" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xat1/v/t1.0-9/11535678_727866384009823_4624094933883324419_n.jpg?oh=352c35a8ad8bc3b7253314fa89403bf7&amp;oe=562DCD38&amp;__gda__=1445652455_f177788e903df9c0d8803cb2ef97e898" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Cpl. Carlton Chapman (S/Nº 33527792) a machine-gunner in an M-4 Sherman tank, attached to a Motor Transport unit, near Nancy in north-eastern France, November the 5th 1944.(Cpl Chapman was killed in action 4 days later)Cpl.Chapman served in the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African-American tank unit to go into combat. It was also one of the US Army’s most highly trained tank battalions, thanks to two years spent training at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, and Camp Hood, Texas. The unit’s first engagement came on November the 8th, only days after this photo was taken. The men of the 761st Tank Battalion, chose their own logo and motto shortly after the unit was activated in 1942: a black panther and “Come Out Fighting.” They lived up to the motto, enduring 183 continuous days in combat, and earning four campaign medals, 11 Silver Stars, 69 Bronze Stars and about 300 Purple Hearts. A Medal of Honor and a Presidential Unit Citation came laterCarlton Chapman from Pembroke, Virginia died on the 9th November 1944 and was awarded the Posthumous Purple Heart. He was buried at Plot C Row 23 Grave 60, Lorraine American Cemetery, Saint-Avold, France.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="emilioteles, post: 1822310, member: 3144"] [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xat1/v/t1.0-9/11535678_727866384009823_4624094933883324419_n.jpg?oh=352c35a8ad8bc3b7253314fa89403bf7&oe=562DCD38&__gda__=1445652455_f177788e903df9c0d8803cb2ef97e898[/IMG] Cpl. Carlton Chapman (S/Nº 33527792) a machine-gunner in an M-4 Sherman tank, attached to a Motor Transport unit, near Nancy in north-eastern France, November the 5th 1944. (Cpl Chapman was killed in action 4 days later) Cpl.Chapman served in the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African-American tank unit to go into combat. It was also one of the US Army’s most highly trained tank battalions, thanks to two years spent training at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, and Camp Hood, Texas. The unit’s first engagement came on November the 8th, only days after this photo was taken. The men of the 761st Tank Battalion, chose their own logo and motto shortly after the unit was activated in 1942: a black panther and “Come Out Fighting.” They lived up to the motto, enduring 183 continuous days in combat, and earning four campaign medals, 11 Silver Stars, 69 Bronze Stars and about 300 Purple Hearts. A Medal of Honor and a Presidential Unit Citation came later Carlton Chapman from Pembroke, Virginia died on the 9th November 1944 and was awarded the Posthumous Purple Heart. He was buried at Plot C Row 23 Grave 60, Lorraine American Cemetery, Saint-Avold, France. [/QUOTE]

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