Quad Cities clinic named in honor of heroic WWII medic

April 15, 2022 KQRadio State News 0

The health clinic at the Rock Island Arsenal has been named in honor of a black medic who’s credited with saving dozens of soldiers on D-Day. Army Staff Sergeant Waverly Woodson, Jr., was a member of the only African American unit to storm Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Woodson was seriously wounded, but the […]