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Bookmark or Share- Remembering the Harlem Hellfighters | National Museum of African ...One of the most renowned units of African American combat troops during World War I was the highly decorated 369th Infantry Regiment — best known as the “Harlem Hellfighters” — heroes whose stories, until recently, had largely been forgotten.
- Harlem Hellfighters | Members, Battles, & Summary | BritannicaHarlem Hellfighters was the nickname given to the 369th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army during World War I. The French government decorated the entire unit with the Croix de Guerre, its highest award for bravery, as well as 170 additional individual medals for valor.
- Who Were the Harlem Hellfighters in World War I? - ThoughtCoThe Harlem Hellfighters were an all-Black combat unit whose heroic World War I service is once again earning recognition more than a century after the end of the war. About 200,000 African Americans served in Europe during WWI and, of those, about 42,000 were involved in combat.
- The Harlem Hellfighters: The most storied Black combat unit of World ...Remembering the all-Black 369th Infantry Regiment of the 93rd Division, aka the Harlem Hellfighters, as they fought segregation and the Germans in World War I.
- 369th Infantry Regiment “Harlem Hellfighters” - BlackpastFirst organized in 1916 as the 15th New York National Guard Infantry Regiment and manned by black enlisted soldiers with both black and white officers, the U.S. Army’s 369th Infantry Regiment, popularly known as the “Harlem Hellfighters,” was the best known African American unit of World War I. Federalized in 1917, it prepared for service in Eur...
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