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The divisional nickname, "Buffalo Soldiers Division", was inherited from the 366th Infantry, one of the first units organized in the division. The 92nd Infantry Division was the only African American infantry division that participated in combat in Europe during World War II. Other units were used as support.
Buffalo Soldier sites from 1860 to 1900 Image taken in 1898 of the 9th U.S. Cavalry.. Sources disagree on how the nickname "Buffalo Soldiers" began. According to the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum the name originated with the Cheyenne warriors in the winter of 1877, the actual Cheyenne translation being "Wild Buffalo".
The Atlantic Wall (German: Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal defences and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defence against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from the United Kingdom, during World War II.
The Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II: Documentary film co-produced by Bill Miles and Nina Rosenblum and narrated by actors Louis Gossett Jr. and Denzel Washington. It tells the story of the primarily black 761st Tank Battalion (United States) and 183rd Combat Engineers during World War II. 1993 () Posse
Frank Sheeran, an American labor union official and associate of Jimmy Hoffa, served 411 days in World War II, including the Battle of Anzio. William Sidney, awarded the Victoria Cross for actions as a Major with the 5th Battalion, Grenadier Guards in the Anzio beachhead. Sidney's father-in-law, Lord Gort, also had been awarded the Victoria ...
James Harden Daugherty (1923–2015) served in the only African-American infantry division to see action in Europe during World War II during the 92nd's Italian Campaign.After the war, Daugherty returned to live in Maryland, where he encountered Jim Crow laws that segregated African Americans from whites in many aspects of life.
Robert Walter Dixon (September 11, 1921 – November 15, 2024) was an American World War II veteran who was the last surviving member of the U.S. Army’s all-Black regiment known as the Buffalo Soldiers. [1]
The Battle of Ambos Nogales (The Battle of Both Nogales), or as it is known in Mexico La batalla del 27 de agosto (The Battle of 27 August), was an engagement fought on 27 August 1918 between Mexican military and civilian militia forces and elements of U.S. Army troops of the 35th Infantry Regiment, who were reinforced by the Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry Regiment, and commanded by Lt ...