Fleet Week 2019 Photo Gallery

The 369th Experience at Rockefeller Center during Fleet Week New York 2019

By Chris Isleib
Director of Public Affairs, United States World War One Centennial Commission

In foreground wearing civilian clothes, from left: Noble Sissel Jr., Cynthia Sissel, and James Reece Europe III, descendants of members of the original 369th Regimental Jazz Band, join The 369th Experience, a World War I tribute band sponsored by the U.S WWI Centennial Commission, as they perform in Rockefeller Center during Fleet Week New York, which this year is commemorating World War I, Saturday, May 25, 2019, in New York. The band, which is made up of music students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the U.S., play the musical repertoire of New York's legendary 369th Regiment "Harlem Hellfighters" Regimental Jazz Band. (Jason DeCrow/AP Images for U.S. WWI Centennial Commission)