Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na ɗaya, Manjo Donovan ya jagoranci runduna ta 1, 165th Infantry na 42d Division. Sa'ad da yake hidima a ƙasar Faransa, wani makami ya harbe shi a kafa kuma hakan ya sa ya kusan makance. Bayan ya yi aikin ceto a karkashin wuta, an ba shi kyautar Croix de Guerre, amma ya ƙi shi saboda ba a ba wani soja Bayahude da ya shiga aikin ceto ba. Lokacin da aka gyara wannan cin mutuncin, Donovan ya yarda da bambancin. An kuma ba shi lambar yabo ta Distinguished Service Cross don jagorantar hari a lokacin yakin Aisne-Marne.
, wanda daruruwan membobin rundunarsa suka mutu, ciki har da mataimakinsa mai aiki, mawaƙin Joyce Kilmer. Fim din James Cagney na 1940, "The Fighting 69th", ya nuna abubuwan da suka faru a wannan yakin da kuma rawar da rundunar soji ta 69 ta taka a ciki.