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- New York Times
J. Gary Cooper, Pathbreaking Marine Leader, Is Dead at 87
J. Gary Cooper, a two-star general and the first African American to lead a Marine infantry company in combat, who later became an Alabama state lawmaker, an assistant secretary of the Air Force ...
2 days ago
- Task & Purpose
First Black Marine officer to lead an infantry company into combat dies
When he was a child growing up in segregated Alabama, Jerome Gary Cooper snuck into the balcony of a movie theater to see a movie in which John Wayne played a Marine, his daughter Shawn Cooper ...
20 hours ago