Unjustly Dishonored: An African American Division in World War I

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A crowd turned out at the Drake University Stadium to see the candidates of the Officers Training School perform, July 22, 1917. (John L. Thompson, History and Views of the Colored Officers Training Camp, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines.) Pillbox in the Argonne. Beside it is Lt. Col. J. Edward Cassidy, 317th Engineer Regiment, October 30, 1918. (III-Signal Corps 30577. All Signal Corps photographs are from the National Archives, College Park, Maryland.) Maj. Gen. C. C. Ballou. (Emmet J. Scott’s Official History of the American Negro in the Great War.) Log road, 317th Engineer Regiment. (Album, box 15, Ninety-second Division historical, RG 120. All designations with Record Group numbers are from the National Archives.) Putting in a standard-gauge railroad track, 317th Engineer Regiment. (Album, box 15, Ninety-second Division historical, entry 1241, RG 120.) Perhaps the engineer, 317th Engineer Regiment. (Box 15, Ninety-second Division historical.) Col. Earl Brown, Lieutenant Colonel Cassidy. (Album, box 15, Ninety-second Division historical, entry 1241, RG 120.) Brig. Gen. John H. Sherburne in his office, Marbache sector, 167th Field Artillery Brigade. (lll- Signal Corps 44017.) Mess line, 317th Supply Train, Belleville, October 12, 1918. (lll-Signal Crops 39550.) “Big Nims” showing a problem with the standard gas mask, Third Battalion, 366th Infantry, Ainville, Vosges, August 8, 1918. (lll-Signal Corps 25930.) Maj. Warner A. Ross, Second Battalion, 365th Infantry. (My Colored Battalion, frontispiece.) Lt. Gen. Robert L. Bullard, Toul, October 28, 1918. (lll-Signal Corps 31923.) The commander-in-chief addressing the officers of the Ninety-second at the forwarding camp for the voyage home, near Le Mans, January 29, 1919. (lllSignal Corps 52537.) ...