(MILITARY WORLD WAR ONE) Photograph of nine decorated soldi

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(MILITARY--WORLD WAR ONE.) Photograph of nine decorated soldiers from the famed Harlem Hellfighters. Silver print, 8 x 10 inches, with inked Underwood & Underwood credit stamp on verso; worn with a 1 1/4-inch closed tear and several smaller tears and chips, and a 4-inch fold near the left edge. No place, [12 February 1919]

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The 369th Infantry Regiment was formed as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment, but was widely known as the Harlem Hellfighters. The all-Black troops spent more time in the front-line trenches than any other American unit, suffered the greatest losses (1,500 men), and were the first to cross the Rhine into Germany. 170 of their men were awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French government in December 1918. Nine of them are shown here aboard the steamer Stockholm en route back to New York at the close of the war (as captioned at the National Archives). Front row: Ed Williams, Herbert Taylor, Leon Fraitor, Ralph Hawkins. Back row: Sergeants H. D. Prinas and Dan Storms; Joe Williams; Alfred Hanley; and Corporal T. W. Taylor.