WWI, Wounded Arrive at Red Cross Hospital

U.S. American Red Cross Hospital No.5, Paris, France. Arrival of Wounded. The U.S. armed forces remained segregated through World War I. Still, many African Americans eagerly volunteered to join the Allied cause following America's entry into the war. By the time of the armistice with Germany on November 1918, over 350, 000 African Americans had served with the American Expeditionary Force on the Western Front

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African American Dogface Doughboy Expeditionary Negro

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