You will see that during the First World War it was not beyond the editors of The Stars & Stripes to indulge in ethnic stereotyping from time to time and, to be sure, they exploited that privilege in the attached article (“Yank Indian was Heap Big Help in Winning the War“) yet regardless of this fact, the performance of the Native American soldiers on the Western Front got high marks for a number of valued military skills from many of the French and British officers who came in contact with them. It was not simply their ability to shoot well that inspired the praise, but their nocturnal instincts while patrolling in the darkness of No-Man’s-Land as well as a unique sense of bravery.
The article is rich with a number of factoids that the Western Front reader will no doubt enjoy; among them, mention is made of German women serving in combat.
