Remember your General, who is so glad of having commanded you, and be sure of his grateful affection to you forever.
General Goybet,
Commanding the 157th Division.
On January 24, 1919, for taking strategic town in Champagne Offensive the 372nd Infantry was cited with the Croix de Guerre and palm, the highest honor of the kind in the gift of the French Army. It was the first entire organization of the American Expeditionary Forces to be thus cited.[3] It was received at the hands of Vice-Admiral Moreau, French Commander of the Port of Brest, and the ceremony took place at Cours Dajot, overlooking the Port of Commerce of that city.
Miscellaneous Views of Officers and Men
1. Officers engaged in automatic rifle practice. 2. Sergeant Charles T. Monroe, a winner of the Croix de Guerre and Distinguished Service Cross. 3. Group of Officers of 372nd Infantry and French Associates. 4. At the mouth of a dugout. 5. Sergeants Ray Williams and Wadley Ellis receiving wireless messages from Eiffel Tower. 6. French Officer giving instructions in machine-gun tactics. 7. Two comrades of the famous “Red Hand Division.”
In a word of conclusion with regard to the entire record of the combatant troops, many of whom went overseas with hesitations and misgivings because of the great battle they had already been compelled to fight against the ill-will of their own countrymen, it seems that their wonderful achievements in the face of a propaganda that continued even across the seas, make them fully worthy of the beautiful tribute paid them in the following poem by Roscoe C. Jamison:*
These truly are the Brave,
These men who cast aside
Old memories, to walk the blood-stained pave