https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc en-us 2022-11-15 05:42:10 UTC 2022-11-16 17:01:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/270a.png 494mpe12 https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386927877 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 valour.]]> 2022-11-16 16:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386927877 494mpe12 https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386928144 The 369th’s battlefield prowess was almost overshadowed by its contribution to music, however, the Hellfighters’ regimental band was credited with bringing jazz to Europe.]]> 2022-11-16 16:41:59 UTC https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386928144 494mpe12 https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386928582 The Hellfighters originated as the 15th New York (Colored) Infantry Regiment, a National Guard unit. Members of the African American community in New York City’s Harlem district had been asking for the creation of a homegrown military unit, but white politicians blocked several attempts at establishing one. ]]> 2022-11-16 16:42:10 UTC https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386928582 494mpe12 https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386929079 In October 1917, they were ordered to Camp Wadsworth in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and experienced harassment and verbal abuse on the daily. ]]> 2022-11-16 16:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386929079 494mpe12 https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386929321 Having arrived in the port of Brest on December 27, 1917, they were sent to Saint-Nazaire, hundreds of miles from the front, and put to work on engineering projects that would pave the way for the larger body of U.S. troops to come. ]]> 2022-11-16 16:42:35 UTC https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386929321 494mpe12 https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386929680 The 369th Infantry Regiment was the first US unit to arrive in France during World War I.]]> 2022-11-16 16:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386929680 494mpe12 https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386930034 The all-black unit, initially sent to provide support to the French, spent more time in the trenches during the war than any other US unit.]]> 2022-11-16 16:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386930034 494mpe12 https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386931885 Even the weapons used by the Hellfighters were segregated. White people would refused to use the same weapons that the black soldiers did. ]]> 2022-11-16 16:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386931885 494mpe12 https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386933356 The 369th spent 191 consecutive days on the front lines. Which means they saw more action than any other American regiment. They were also the first Allied unit to reach the Rhine.]]> 2022-11-16 16:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386933356 494mpe12 https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386934296
More than 350,000 African Americans served in the Great War. The majority were assigned to labor and stevedore battalions—digging ditches, building roads and supplying the front lines. Throughout the course of WWI, only about one in 10 African Americans in the U.S. military served in a combat role based on leadership decisions at the time]]> 2022-11-16 16:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/494mpe12/bbnznxrq2yrxsarc/wish/2386934296