Europe

WWI's Harlem Hellfighters Who Cut Down Germans and Gave France Jazz

‘HALF MOAN, HALF HALLELUJAH’
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Photo Illustration by the Daily Beast/U.S. National Archives

What the 369th had that set it apart was strong leadership by black officers as well as white— and the best damned band in the American Army.