party."

"The men who stuck by me when death stared them in their faces,"
said Braxton, "deserve just as much credit as I do. I was only the
temporary leader of the men."

Corporal Depew Pryor, of Detroit, Michigan, was awarded the Medal
Militaire, one of the most coveted honors within the gift of the French
army, as well as the American Distinguished Service Cross. Pryor saw
Germans capture a Frenchman. Grabbing an armful of grenades, he dashed
upon the Germans killing, wounding or routing a party of ten and
liberating the Frenchman.

Sergeant Bruce Meddows, 285 Erskine street, Detroit, Michigan, brought
home the Croix de Guerre with silver star, which he won for bringing
down an aeroplane with an automatic rifle.

To have forty-six horses which he drove in carting ammunition up to the
front lines, killed in five months was the experience of Arthur B.
Hayes, 174 Pacific Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. He returned home sick,
with practically no wounds after risking his life daily for months.

Sergeant George H. Jordan of Company L, whose home was in Boston, Mass.,
won the Croix de Guerre and palm for taking charge of an ammunition
train at Verdun, when the commanding officer had been killed by a shell.
He saved and brought through eight of the seventeen wagons.

Lieutenant James E. Sanford of Washington, D.C., one of the early Negro
officers of the 372nd, was captured in Avocourt Woods near Verdun,
August 19, 1918. He was endeavoring to gain a strategic position with his
men when he was met by an overpowering force concealed behind
camouflaged outposts, he was taken to Karlsruhe and transferred to three
other German prison camps, in all of which he suffered from bad and
insufficient food and the brutality of the German guards.

[Illustration: U.S. FLAG AND 369TH REGIMENT FLAG, DECORATED WITH CROIX
DE GUERRE AT UNGERSHEIM, ALSACE, FRANCE.]

[Illustration: THE 369TH INFANTRY IN REST BILLETS AT MAFFRECOURT,
FRANCE. HENRY JOHNSON. ONE OF FOREMOST HEROES OF THE WAR. WITH HIS
FAMOUS SMILE. IN RIGHT FOREGROUND.]

[Illustration: THE JOKE SEEMS TO BE ON THE LAD AT THE LEFT.]

[Illustration: A FEW OF THE MANY GUNS CAPTURED FROM THE GERMANS.]

[Illustration: AMERICANS IN PRISON CAMP. PRISONERS ARE AMUSED LISTENERS
WHILE JOVIAL NEGRO FIGHTER RELATES AN EPISODE OF WAR LIFE TO A GERMAN
OFFICER.]

[Illustration: ARTHUR JOHNSON, A DOUGHBOY OF THE 8TH ILLINOIS (370TH
INFANTRY), WINNER OF CROIX DE GUERRE AND THE D