... of their sons, Preston and Robert, had died on D-Day and that their oldest son, Edward, was missing in action and presumed dead in the Pacific. Meanwhile, the youngest Niland boy, Fredrick, a paratrooper, was fighting somewhere in Northern France." The Army began to a search for Fredrick, and sent him back to the U.S. But he was in a Japanese POW camp. "He was ... he's truly bi-racial. However, anyone who had skin as naturally tanned and dark as his would likely have been considered a black man and he would have been assigned to kitchen duty with the other African Americans. It's a sad ...

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