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WorksDuffy’s War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan, and the Irish Fighting 69th in World War I
The legendary Fighting 69th took part in five major engagements during World War I. It served for almost 170 days, suffering almost one thousand killed and thousands of others wounded. This highly decorated unit was inspired by its chaplain, the famous Father Francis Duffy (whose statue stands in Times Square) and commanded by the future leader of the OSS (predecessor of the CIA), “Wild Bill” Donovan. One of its casualties was the poet Joyce Kilmer. Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I
When the United States entered World War I, thousands of African-American men volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only limited civil rights. Many from New York City joined the 15th N.Y. Infantry, a National Guard regiment later designated the 369th U.S. Infantry Regiment. Before the war was over, the unit would make military—and musical—history. Duty, Honor, Privilege: New York’s Silk Stocking Regiment and the Breaking of the Hindenburg Line
In World War I, New York’s old Seventh Regiment, later the 107th Infantry, attacked the very center of the vaunted Hindenburg Line and lost more killed on a single day of fighting than any regiment in U.S. history. On that day, four of its men earned Congressional Medals of Honor. |
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