A pair of black soldiers who served in World War II were killed by a white superior officer for defying segregation and speaking to female Red Cross workers at a camp in , newly-unearthed documents have revealed.The slain soldiers - Allen Leftridge and Frank Glenn - were challenged by the sergeant for the breach of norms, the archived documents show, and then ruthlessly gunned down by another officer as punishment.Despite the illegality of the action and several witnesses seeing the murders firsthand, the killer - an unnamed American soldier - was cleared and one of the men's widows denied a survivor's pension.
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