Units belonging to one or both divisions fought with special distinction in the Forest of Argonne, near Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, St.Mihiel district, Champagne sector, at Metz and in the Vosges mountains.
In the 92nd division was the 325th Field Signal battalion, the only Negro signal unit in the American army.

The division also contained the 349th, 350th and 351st Artillery regiments, each containing a machine gun battalion; the 317th Trench Mortar battery; the balance being made up of Negro engineers, hospital units, etc., and the 365th, 366th, 367th and 368th Infantry regiments.
Enlisted, drafted and assigned to active service, upwards of 400,000 Negroes participated in the war.

The number serving abroad amounted to about 200,000.

They were inducted into the cavalry, infantry, field and coast artillery, radio (wireless telegraphy, etc.), medical corps, ambulance and hospital corps, sanitary and ammunition trains, stevedore regiments, labor battalions, depot brigades and engineers.

They also served as regimental clerks, surveyors and draftsmen.
Sixty served as chaplains and over 350 as Y.M.C.A.