The unit was established 90 years ago as an all-black combat regiment based at the Harlem Armory at Fifth Avenue and 142nd Street.
The individual combat regiments were typically commanded by Latvian officers.
While not a combat regiment, the Black Pioneers worked to build fortifications and other necessities.
The 181st Infantry Regiment shares the distinction of being the oldest combat regiment in the United States Army.
It was raised in 2001 as the second combat regiment after the legendary East Bengal Regiment.
Raskova is credited with using her personal connections with Joseph Stalin to convince the military to form three combat regiments of women.
Certainly no one on the order of Major Kerman, who was a very important person, privy to many, many secrets in Great Britain's most secretive combat regiment.
You can pick and choose favorites here, but the image that resonates most for me is that of young infantry replacements reporting to a combat regiment in Korea.
As an exception, he did allow African-American combat regiments to be used in French divisions.
The lineage of each combat regiment still in Indiana can be found within the brigade.