Saturday, May 23, 2015

Learn about the “Harlem Hellfighters”

This Memorial Day, learn about the 369th black infantry during World War I. http://www.blackpast.org/aah/369th-infantry-regiment-harlem-hellfighters 

Soldiers of the 369th (15th N.Y.) who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action, 1919. Left to right. Front row: Pvt. Ed Williams, Herbert Taylor, Pvt. Leon Fraitor, Pvt. Ralph Hawkins. Back Row: Sgt. H. D. Prinas, Sgt. Dan Storms, Pvt. Joe Williams, Pvt. Alfred Hanley, and Cpl. T. W. Taylor

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The arrival of the 369th black infantry regiment in New York after the first world war.