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69. A detachment of American
Negro Infantrymen Opertaing in the Front Line Trenches |
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70. Here is a photograph right
from the front, an unusual picture showing how the trenches really looked.
These are American and French Colonial colored soldiers in a French trench. |
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71. One of the Docks at Bordeaux
Where Negro Stevedore Regiments Played a Vital Part in the War in Unloading
Supplies for Our Troops. Transportation of supplies is just as important
a part of war as firing guns at the enemy. All the armies in the world could
not have defeated Germany if it had not been for the Service of Supply.
getting the guns, ammunition, equipment and food to them. |
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72. To give an idea of the enormous
quantities of supplies handled by Negio stevedore regiments, here is a photo
of a few cook stoves that came in one shipment. |
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73. On the Docks at Brest, another
French port where colored steveclore regiments were the chief reliance getting
supplies through to the boys at the front. |
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74. It took tens of thousands
of motor trucks to get supplies from docks to the front in France. These
had to be shipped from America and here are a few in Assembling Yard at
St. Nazaire, France, with cases and barrels of gasoline and oil in the foreground.
If it had not been for Negro stevedore regiments, these trucks could not
have been taken off the ships. |
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75. The Return of the 15th. Seen
on troopship as the 369th Infantry came into New York Harbor bringing back
the unique record of never having had a man captured, never losing a, foot
of ground or a trench, and of being nearest to the Rhine of any allied unit
wher the armistice was signed, and the first detachment of allied troops
to reach the Rhine after the armistice. |
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77. The only Negro General Court
Martial Board Which Ever Existed. Photograph shows the General Court Martial
of the 370th lnfantry (8th Illinois National Guard) convened at Camp Logan,
Houston, Texas. Officers in Picture indicated by numbers following: 1-Lieut.F.P.
Rose, 2-Capt L Jackson, 3-Cpt. James C. Hall, 4-Capt. George M. Allen, 5-Major
(now Lieut. Col ) Otis B. Duncan, President; 6-Capt. Wm. B. Crawford, 7-Lieut
C N. Hinton, 8-Lieui. Louis C. Washington, 9-Capt. L. E. Johnson, Counsel
for Defense; 10-Lieut. R, A. J. Sulaw, Judge Advocate, 11-Court Reporter
McCarty. |
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78. War Camp Community Service
Club for Colored Soldiers, Louisville, Ky. |
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79. What real war looks like.
Photograph of American Negro soldiers going into action in the attack on
Cantigny. American Infantry is co-operating with French tanks. |
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80. In the Trenches. The smoke
is from explosion of a hand grenade just thrown by the American Negro Soldier
at the right. |