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Joe Harris

Joe Harris

1916 - 2025

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Sgt. Joe Harris, a veteran of the U.S. Army's first all-Black parachute infantry battalion who is thought to have been the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper, died March 15, 2025, in a hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 108. Harris joined the military in 1941, at a time when it was still...

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