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AdvertisementSubmit a letter:Email us letters@nybooks.comReviewed:Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroadby Matthew F. DelmontViking, 374 pp., $30.00In the summer of 1944 First Sergeant Jefferson Wiggins was just outside the French town of St.-Lô, on his way to help liberate the Netherlands, when a woman offered him a bottle of calvados. “You don’t understand how it is to have your freedom, to lose it and then to regain it,” she told him. Wiggins, an African American soldier from Dothan, Alabama, was in his late teens. He did not speak...

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