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The full caption for this item is as follows: Two American Negroes win Croix De Guerre. These [African American] fighters routed a German raiding party numerically stronger. The two men, Henry Johnson, left, and Neadham Roberts, right, are members of the 369th Regiment Infantry. Each has been decorated with the French Croix de Guerre.
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  1. African American Soldiers
  2. African Americans
  3. World War, 1914 1918

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