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During WWII, most African-American Soldiers served in support units away from the front lines. All that changed during the War in the Pacific where because of the close proxmity of the conflict, black soldiers found themselves fighting shoulder to shoulder with their white counterparts.\xa0 In this episode, Lee Spearman of Bay Springs remembers the only objective was to stay alive.\xa0\xa0

Journalist Ernie Pyle reported from the frontlines in Europe and the Pacific during WWII.\xa0 Spearman was there when Pyle was hit by enemy fire.

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