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flag On D-Day's 80th anniversary, a French family shared a tale of wartime rape and murder by an American soldier.

flag As the 80th anniversary of D-Day was marked, a French family recounted a personal tragedy from 1944: an American soldier raped the family's 17-year-old daughter and shot her father as he tried to protect her. flag Though sexual violence by U.S. soldiers has long been a taboo subject, historians like Mary Louise Roberts have uncovered archival evidence showing racial discrimination, with the U.S. military disproportionately blaming African American soldiers for rapes, despite them making up only 10% of the force.

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