Today in history: Pershing rides into Mexico to look for Pancho Villa, in 1916.

This brings up a common misconception of the deployment of black units in France. When the AEF arrived in France the French wanted our troops onto the line ASAP. Pershing needed time to retrain and re equip many units. He appeased the French by deploying most of the units that had been under his command in Mexico. Most of these were black units. It was not a slight, he sent them in because they were ready. All of the Artillery had been replaced with French equipment.

great Piece of History...
and it was the first time the Colt model 1911.45ACP was used on a Large scale...

Awesome, thanks for the historical story.