Korean War veteran Charles Navarin, 94, rides in the 106th annual Staten Island Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 26, 2025.

Vietnam War veteran Edward McFarland is urging Americans to remember and honor fallen Black servicemembers on Memorial Day.

Photo: Getty Images Memorial Day began in the mid-1800s as a way to honor the people who died in the American Civil War. The ...

Harlem Hellfighters (World War I) Posted: December 13, 2024 | Last updated: December 13, 2024 The 369th Infantry Regiment was constituted on 2nd June 1913 in the New York Army National Guard as ...

After all, 70 percent of the 369th called Harlem home, and their families ... who reviewed his Hellfighters from a pair of stands on 60th and 133rd Streets. Congress would not make Armistice ...

It’s where units like the 133rd Composite Supply Company, 369th Sustainment Brigade (Harlem Hellfighters) — who recently (June) conducted a rotation at Fort Johnson — come to learn ...

Source: Members of the all-Black 369th, or Harlem Hellfighters, pose on the boat home from World War I. (Photo via National Archives, originally captured by Western Newspapers Union ...

He led his all-Black 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the “Harlem Hellfighters,” in a parade up New York’s Fifth Avenue in 1919 and became the first American — Black or white — to be ...

Johnson personified the Army values and was the epitome of strength. As a former member of the 369th Harlem Hellfighters myself, I could not be prouder to be part of this ceremony.” The renaming ...

Fort Polk in Louisiana will be renamed for New York National Guard Sgt. Henry Johnson, a World War I hero, during a June 13 ceremony at the post. The Army installation named for Confederate Gen.

Nicknamed the “Harlem Hellfighters,” the 369th was one of eight segregated African American infantry regiments that fought in France during the war. The Hellfighters spent more time on the fro ...