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A Quick-Thinking Soldier Pulled a Driver from a Smoking Car — and Was Honored for Her Heroism

A Quick-Thinking Soldier Pulled a Driver from a Smoking Car and Was Honored for Her Heroism People 12/15/2020 © Provided by People 21st Theater Sustainment Command U.S. Army Sgt. Mary Ehiarinmwian (right) A brave and quick-thinking Army sergeant who immigrated to the United States in 2016 was honored Tuesday for rescuing a driver after his car flipped over. Sgt. Mary Ehiarinmwian, who was born in Nigeria and immigrated to Germany as a child before coming to the U.S., has been named Soldier of the Year by the United Service Organizations, the support organization for military service members. Ehiarinmwian was one of six enlisted service members to be honored, representing each branch of the military.

African-American troops at Manchester s Grenier Field

DURING WORLD WAR II Grenier Field in Manchester was a busy stopover facility for military aircraft bound for Europe, and it provided training for an estimated 50,000 airmen. During the course of the war the population of the base reached up to 6,000 servicemen. Many of the support functions at the base were carried out by African Americans. The first group of Black servicemen came to Grenier Field in December 1941, and in 1942 and afterward hundreds more arrived. The Army was segregated, so these men were billeted in an area that was separate from the barracks for the White soldiers. As Manchester’s Black population had been nearly nonexistent before the war, the sudden presence of Black soldiers in the city caused discomfort for some local citizens. This was not an era where there was an easy mixing of races in any part of the country—so, even in the northeast, racial prejudice was a reality.

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