Documentary about world war i Harlem Health fighters, an allblack unit earned distinction serving with the french are many the french army. They are assigned to the french army because they needed men and because Many American soldiers besided to serve black men. It seems that we had listened posts. Dont know what that was in that time of warfare, this is nothing like the korean or vietnam. When the troops were holding a trench, every night they had a post set maybe 200, 300 feet from the main body. Every night they put two men out there just to listen and warn if there would be a sneak attack. Of course, the germans were doing the same thing. On this particular night, henry johnson, one of the greater , was there when these germans attacked the listen post. Approximately 24 germans attacked. Johnson fought them off. He shot and swung his rifle around and defeated the 24 germans, all of them wounded or killed. He had 21 wounds in his body, but refused to die. When we finally got out th
Documentary about world war i Harlem Health fighters, an allblack unit earned distinction serving with the french are many the french army. They are assigned to the french army because they needed men and because Many American soldiers besided to serve black men. It seems that we had listened posts. Dont know what that was in that time of warfare, this is nothing like the korean or vietnam. When the troops were holding a trench, every night they had a post set maybe 200, 300 feet from the main body. Every night they put two men out there just to listen and warn if there would be a sneak attack. Of course, the germans were doing the same thing. On this particular night, henry johnson, one of the greater , was there when these germans attacked the listen post. Approximately 24 germans attacked. Johnson fought them off. He shot and swung his rifle around and defeated the 24 germans, all of them wounded or killed. He had 21 wounds in his body, but refused to die. When we finally got out th
Documentary about world war i Harlem Health fighters, an allblack unit earned distinction serving with the french are many the french army. They are assigned to the french army because they needed men and because Many American soldiers besided to serve black men. It seems that we had listened posts. Dont know what that was in that time of warfare, this is nothing like the korean or vietnam. When the troops were holding a trench, every night they had a post set maybe 200, 300 feet from the main body. Every night they put two men out there just to listen and warn if there would be a sneak attack. Of course, the germans were doing the same thing. On this particular night, henry johnson, one of the greater , was there when these germans attacked the listen post. Approximately 24 germans attacked. Johnson fought them off. He shot and swung his rifle around and defeated the 24 germans, all of them wounded or killed. He had 21 wounds in his body, but refused to die. When we finally got out th
Documentary about world war i Harlem Health fighters, an allblack unit earned distinction serving with the french are many the french army. They are assigned to the french army because they needed men and because Many American soldiers besided to serve black men. It seems that we had listened posts. Dont know what that was in that time of warfare, this is nothing like the korean or vietnam. When the troops were holding a trench, every night they had a post set maybe 200, 300 feet from the main body. Every night they put two men out there just to listen and warn if there would be a sneak attack. Of course, the germans were doing the same thing. On this particular night, henry johnson, one of the greater , was there when these germans attacked the listen post. Approximately 24 germans attacked. Johnson fought them off. He shot and swung his rifle around and defeated the 24 germans, all of them wounded or killed. He had 21 wounds in his body, but refused to die. When we finally got out th
Documentary about world war i Harlem Health fighters, an allblack unit earned distinction serving with the french are many the french army. They are assigned to the french army because they needed men and because Many American soldiers besided to serve black men. It seems that we had listened posts. Dont know what that was in that time of warfare, this is nothing like the korean or vietnam. When the troops were holding a trench, every night they had a post set maybe 200, 300 feet from the main body. Every night they put two men out there just to listen and warn if there would be a sneak attack. Of course, the germans were doing the same thing. On this particular night, henry johnson, one of the greater , was there when these germans attacked the listen post. Approximately 24 germans attacked. Johnson fought them off. He shot and swung his rifle around and defeated the 24 germans, all of them wounded or killed. He had 21 wounds in his body, but refused to die. When we finally got out th