Colored Troops - American Colored Troops Camp in France. Machine gun instruction

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Colored Troops - American Colored Troops Camp in France. Machine gun instruction

1917-1918

Date Taken: 1918 Photographer: French Pictorial Service

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SNAC Resource ID: 11656176

National Archives at College Park

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Roberts, Needham, 1901-1949

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Needham Roberts (April 28, 1901 – April 18, 1949) was an American soldier in the Harlem Hellfighters and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Croix de Guerre for his valor during World War I. Roberts was born in Trenton, New Jersey and raised on Trenton's Wilson Street. He sometimes spelled his first name as "Neadom", which is how it appears on his grave marker. Roberts graduated from Lincoln Elementary School and attended high school, but dropped out before graduating so he could begin wor...