Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color

Matt Roush says...

Idris Elba (Luther) narrates and is an executive producer of a four-part docuseries that explores the contributions of the Greatest Generation’s often forgotten soldiers of color, using archival footage and dramatizations to tell their stories. The back-to-back opening episodes profile three Black sailors who survived Pearl Harbor and then follows the members of the 320^th Barrage Balloon Battalion on D-Day, the only all-Black combat unit to storm the beaches. Earlier at 8/7c, the documentary The Real Red Tails, narrated by Abbott Elementary’s Sheryl Lee Ralph, aims to uncover an 80-year-old mystery with the help of underwater archeologists, hoping to explain why Tuskegee Airman Frank Moody’s P-39 airplane went down in Lake Huron, Michigan, in April 1944.

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