the death of charles simpson they never review to his family in wwii, A WWII soldier was killed in France. Family never knew why until now. For decades, Charles Simpson’s family didn’t know much about how his uncle James died near the end of World War II. James’s death seemed like a cruel twist of fate. The Arkansas soldier was captured in France in 1945, then liberated from a German prison months later. While waiting to return to the United States, the Simpson family was told, he was accidentally shot by a U.S. military police officer trying to break up a fight between two Black soldiers. From time to time, Charles said, his family tried to learn more. But they were denied access to court-martial records of military police involved in the shooting. And they were told that James’s service record was destroyed in a fire. Charles Simpson, who never knew his uncle, has pieced together a scrapbook about his life from family photos, newspaper clippings, James’s letters and his ow...
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