Sgt. Joe Harris lived a beautiful life. He sailed to earth on numerous missions as a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black paratrooper battalion during World War II, the 555th, aptly ...

(Tribune News Service) — U.S. Army Sgt. Joe Harris sailed to earth on numerous missions as a member of a paratrooper battalion during World War II, the 555th, aptly nicknamed the “Triple ...

They presented him with a paratrooper patch and a Pulaski. An earlier version of this obituary misstated the year the U.S. Army was desegregated. It was 1948, not 1947. When we learn of a mistake ...

Sgt. Joe Harris: Believed to be the oldest paratrooper to have served during World War II, he died on March 15. Harris was 108. (Bob D'Angelo/Cox Media Group) By Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group ...