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Americans at War in Foreign Forces

1914 -1945

The story of named American war dead still buried abroad since 1804.

Foreign Burial American War Dead

Acosta, Bertrand Blanchard

Berry, Gordon

Lanphier, Sr., Thomas George

Lord, Frederic Ives

Schneider, Eddie August

Semons, Edwin

The Spanish Civil War

Many African-Americans were drawn to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Oliver Law, left, became the first known black American to lead an integrated military unit in war. His life and death were controversial, but he was honored with “Oliver Law and Abraham Lincoln Brigade Day” in his hometown of Chicago as late as 1987. (Tamiment Library, New York University).

The Archives of the Abraham Lincoln Brigades are held by the
Tamiment Library of New York University. American participants in the Brigades can be found here.

Members of the ill-fated Yankee Squadron:

NEW

The first comprehensive biography of the American soldier-poet in the French Foreign Legion, killed in the Battle of the Somme, July 4, 1916.