157th Infantry Division (France)

[1] Two segregated African American regiments, integrated the division in WWI under the command of Général Mariano Goybet[2] and received the French Croix de Guerre.

Freddie Stowers of the 371st Infantry Regiment was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

[3] The 372nd Infantry Regiment was composed of segregated National Guard units as well as draftees.

234 "In transmitting to you with legitimate pride the thanks and congratulations of the General Garnier-Duplessis, allow me, my dear friends of all ranks, Americans and French, to thank you from the bottom of my heart as a chief and a soldier for the expression of gratitude for the glory which you have lent our good 157th Division.

"During these nine days of hard fighting you have progressed nine kilometers through powerful organized defenses, taken nearly 600 prisoners, 15 guns of different calibres, 20 minenwerfers, and nearly 150 machine guns, secured an enormous amount of engineering material, an important supply of artillery ammunition, brought down by your fire three enemy aeroplanes.