My hyde
900 servicemen and none recorded in the history -seems a bit far fetched, to my understanding. Let's say Captain Thomas was there indeed with other black marines/army on the mission, they should have a record of his duty at least. Let's assume the white commanders didn't bother to record it, then there should be other black servicemen/women to back up his story of the war on those islands. And their records needs to be checked for the credential. The reporter, Dan, should present a copy of the interview, written or recorded. If those things are presented forward, then we can have a "acknowledgment" like you said.If not it's just mere Spike's publicity. We'll see in the coming days.
Tisa,
Ken Burn's episode was really eye opening especially the Japanese story. They were defending America and fighting the Europeans, while thousand of family /friends were put in internment camps for just being Japanese, many of them were born and raised in the US.Thousands died. There are still places on the West Coast where Japanese has settled before the Whites living a simple agricultural life, but they were all hoarded into the camps.You don't hear their side of story too much, do you?  nor DO THEY wine like Spike. Japanese have far succeeded over their misery in Japan and overseas with hard work and intelligence.