The 93rd Division
in France

A 1919 feature article from The Stars & Stripes concentrating on the war-time activities of the four African-American infantry regiments that composed the U.S. Ninety-Third Division (the 369th, 370th, 371st and the 372nd).

Two of these regiments were awarded the highly prized Croix de Guerre by the Republic of France . Illustrating this history is a black and white illustration of the Division’s insignia. Those Americans who served the longest in the W.W. I trenches were the African-Americans regiments under French command: the 92nd and the 93rd Divisions.

Click here to read more magazine articles about the African-American efforts during the First World War.