The Battalion Nobody Wanted: The Black American Tankers Patton Hesitated to Deploy—Until a Frozen Night in Lorraine Forced the Truth Into the Open
They called them the “Midnight Eight”—eight tanks and the men who rode inside them like thunder trapped under steel. The nickname started as a joke, the kind soldiers tell to keep their teeth from chattering when the wind cuts through canvas and bone. Then it stuck, because the Midnight Eight almost always moved after dusk, … Read more