The 9th Cavalry Regiment (Colored) appeared in both wartime forms of the 2nd Cavalry Division. In the 1941 horse division it was assigned to the 4th Cavalry Brigade while the division trained at Fort Riley and took part in the Second-Third Army Maneuvers. That version of the division remained in the United States and was inactivated on July 15, 1942.
The regiment reappeared in the 1943 2nd Cavalry Division (Horse) (Colored), activated at Fort Clark, Texas, on February 25, 1943. The division staged at Camp Patrick Henry in February 1944, sailed from Hampton Roads, and reached North Africa in March. It was not committed as a combat cavalry division. The 9th Cavalry was inactivated during the North Africa transition, and the division's personnel were redirected into service and engineer units before the division headquarters was inactivated on May 10, 1944. No combat actions or battle casualties are identified for the regiment in this division assignment.
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