[Illustration:  Wounded negro soldiers convalescing in base hospital.  In the picture are two colored women ambulance Drivers.]

[Illustration:  Sample of identity card carried by soldiers of the American expeditionary forces.  Each identification was printed in English and French and included A photograph of the owner.  The number on the card corresponding with A Metal Tag on the man’s arm.]

[Illustration:  Negro officers of 366th infantry who achieved distinction in France.  Left to right.  Lieut C.L.  Abbott, Capt.  Jos.  L. Lowe, lieut.  A.R.  Fisher, Capt.  E. White.]

[Illustration:  Distinguished officers of the 6th Illinois (370th infantry).  First row, left to right, Capt.  D.J.  Warner, A.H.  Jones.  Lieut.  E.G.  White, lieut.  J.D.  Rainey, lieut.  Bernard McGWIN.  Second row—­lieut.  Luther J. Harris, lieut.  Alvin M. Jordan, lieut.  E.L.  Goodlett, lieut.  J.T.  Baker.  Third row, lieut.  F.J.  Johnson, lieut.  Jerome L. Hubert.]

[Illustration:  Distinguished officers of 8th Illinois (370th infantry).  Left to right, lieut.  Lawson price, lieut.  O.A.  Browning, lieut.  W. Stearles, Capt.  Lewis E. Johnson, lieut.  Edmond G. White, lieut.  F.W.  Bates, lieut.  E.F.E.  Williams, lieut.  Binga Dismond.]

[Illustration:  Colonel Charles young, ranking negro officer of the regular army.  One of three who have been commissioned from the united states military academy at west point.  A veteran officer of the Spanish-American war and western campaigns.  Detailed to active service, camp grant, Rockford, Illinois.  During the world war.]