28^th Cavalry Regiment

The 28th Cavalry Regiment (Colored) served in the 2nd Cavalry Division (Horse) (Colored), activated at Fort Clark, Texas, on February 25, 1943. The regiment was assigned to the 5th Cavalry Brigade with the 27th Cavalry. Its wartime division record was shaped by the Army's abandonment of horse-cavalry division employment before the formation could be used in combat.

After training in the United States, the division staged at Camp Patrick Henry in February 1944, departed Hampton Roads on February 28, and arrived in North Africa on March 9. The 28th Cavalry was inactivated there on March 31, 1944. The division did not fight as a cavalry formation. Its men and equipment were redirected into service and engineer units, and the division headquarters was inactivated on May 10, 1944. No combat actions, killed in action, wounded in action, or died-of-wounds figures are identified for the regiment in its 2nd Cavalry Division assignment.