FORT POLK - In a ceremony Friday at the Fort Polk Joint Readiness Training Center, the Vernon Parish Army base was ...

Fort Polk, an Army installation in Louisiana that for decades bore the name of a Confederate general, was re-designated Fort Johnson on Tuesday in honor of Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black ...

A U.S. Army base in west Louisiana has been renamed in honor of Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black hero of World War I and Medal of Honor recipient.

In a ceremony held Tuesday, Fort Polk was renamed Fort Johnson in honor of World War I hero Sgt. William Henry Johnson.

A U.S. Army base in western Louisiana has been renamed in honor of Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black veteran of World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient.

In addition to the Louisiana National Guards’ Camp Beauregard, nine U.S. Army bases around the South will be renamed as part of the Pentagon’s efforts to move away from names linked to ...

A U.S. Army base in western Louisiana was renamed Tuesday to honor Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black hero of World War I who received the Medal of Honor nearly a century later.

FORT JOHNSON, La. — A U.S. Army base in western Louisiana was renamed Tuesday to honor Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black hero of World War I who received the Medal of Honor nearly a century ...

A U.S. Army base in Louisiana was renamed Tuesday to honor Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black hero of World War I who received the Medal of Honor nearly a century later.