SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Air Force retiree Greta Hamilton was familiar
with the Harlem Hellfighters, a storied all-black infantry regiment that
won fame on the World War I battlefields of France only to be virtually
shunned by the U.S. military back home.

But it wasn't until she volunteered to help the New York State Military
Museum digitize the unit's post-WWI records that she came to know the
soldiers better: what they did for a living, where they were born, when
they enlisted and for how long.

She and other volunteers have recorded the data from about a quarter of the
approximately 10,000 personnel cards of the Harlem Hellfighters for a
database that has been posted on the New York Heritage and military museum
websites. A$2,500 grant from the Capital District Library Council is
helping pay for the project.
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Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library