However, it was impossible to keep them from fraternizing.
There were no religious disputes, nor is it of record that the Americans attempted to convert the Mohammedans.

But they did initiate their turbaned comrades into the mysteries of a certain American game and it is said that the disciples of Allah experienced considerable hard luck.
Most of the 93rd division was under fire from the early days of May, 1918, until the close of the war.

The 369th, which left New York with 56 officers and 2,000 men, returned with only 20 officers and 1,200 men of the original organization.

A few had been transferred to casual companies and other commands, but many will never come back; their bodies being part of the soil of France--killed in action, died of wounds or disease.
The tale of the 93rd is full of deeds of valor, laughter in the face of death, of fearful carnage wrecked upon the foe, of childlike pride in the homage their Allies paid them, and now and then an incident replete with the bubbling Negro humor that is the same whether it finds its outlet on the cotton-fields of Dixie or the battlefields of France.
Between the French and the colored troops the spirit was superb.

The French poilu had not been taught that the color of a man's skin made a difference.