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VAntage Point Contrasting lives: WWI Black Veterans Everett Johnson and Robert Chase This is the third installment in a three-part series on the officers and men of the 349 th Field Artillery Regiment in World War I. These blog posts profile the World War I service and post-war experiences of three Veterans of the 92 nd Division’s 349 th Field Artillery Regiment, one of the Army’s first predominately African-American units. Alabaman and Colonel Dan T. Moore was its reluctant white commander. First Lieutenant Everett Johnson, a black officer, commanded Battery E, and Sergeant Robert Samue...

VAntage Point Creating a formidable force: Colonel Dan T. Moore th Field Artillery Regiment in World War I.  This series of blog posts profile the World War I service and post-war experiences of three Veterans of the 92 nd Division’s 349 th Field Artillery Regiment, one of the Army’s first predominately African-American artillery units. Alabaman and Colonel Dan T. Moore was its reluctant white commander. First Lieutenant Everett Johnson, a black officer, commanded Battery E, and Sergeant Robert Samuel Chase was one of Johnson’s non-commissioned officers. All three survived the war and...