Henry Johnson..a member of the Harlem Hellfighters(World War I)....after he was shot 21 times and out of ammo, he was still killing the enemy. This act earned him the nickname "Black Death".
Johnson was part of the "Harlem Hellfighters" and fought alongside the French Army in 1918 when the U.S. Army was racially segregated. Johnson fought off a German raid by himself despite 21 wounds and running out of ammunition. He swung his rifle like a club and hacked with a bolo knife, killing four enemy soldiers and wounding a dozen more, before the Germans retreated...
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Johnson was part of the "Harlem Hellfighters" and fought alongside the French Army in 1918 when the U.S. Army was racially segregated. Johnson fought off a German raid by himself despite 21 wounds and running out of ammunition. He swung his rifle like a club and hacked with a bolo knife, killing four enemy soldiers and wounding a dozen more, before the Germans retreated...
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