A crewman aboard the first Navy ship with an entirely African-American crew has died in St. Louis. Thomas Howard, a gunner on the escort ship Mason in 1944, was 85. He was with the postal service for 40 years after the war ended.
A crewman aboard the first Navy ship with an entirely African-American crew has died in St. Louis. Thomas Howard, a gunner on the escort ship Mason in 1944, was 85. He was with the postal service for 40 years after the war ended.