Great Documentary: "The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War"

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The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

The 369th Infantry Regiment, formerly known as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment and often referred to as the Harlem Hellfighters, was an infantry regiment of the New York Army National Guard during the first two World Wars that remained unhonored for decades.

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among the American ranks Colonel
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Hayward's troops were the most decimated
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of the war his was also the regiment
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that remained longest on the frontline
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191 days
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and the first to reach the banks of the
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Rhine
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Hayward's regiment and 170 of its men
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were given the Croix de Guerre making the 369
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ninth the most decorated American
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regiment of the First World War