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Negro Soldiers Cited In French Led Rhine March
New York announces brave 369th infantry and 93rd division colored troops cited for valor as Col Hayward praises their 191 days under shellfire. Sergt Henry Johnson of Albany earns Croix de Guerre with star. unit led French army to Rhine, occupied four towns, and captured many prisoners. Regiments aboard Stockholm and Regina bring 2,084 to 2,037 troops, with 14 nurses and 18 civilians aboard.
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New York
Stockholm
Brest
369Th Infantry Regiment
Transportation Corps
Maryland
Iowa
Mississippi
Black Watch
Old Town
Iam
William Hayward
United States Army
Fifteenth Regiment
New York National Guard
Rhine
Col Hayward
Gouraud
Champegne
162St Trench
Wilshem
le Bouc
Sergt
Henry Johnson
Orange Street
Albany
Wayward
Bois-Ranzey
Argonne
Johnson
869Th (Negro) Infantry
Santa Teresa