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Henry Johnson biographical cartoon by Charles Alston, 1943.. Henry Johnson enlisted in the United States Armed Forces on June 5, 1917 as a 5-foot-4-inch young man. This was almost two months after the American entry into World War I, joining the all-black New York National Guard 15th Infantry Regiment, which, when mustered into Federal service, was redesignated as the 369th Infantry Regiment ...
Location of Forest of Argonne in northeastern France Forest of Argonne in 1915 Forest of Argonne in a valley near Chatel-Chéhéry, France, where Sgt. Henry Johnson, known after his heroic battle as the Black Death, and Sgt. Alvin C. York fought in World War I U.S. soldiers in the Argonne Forest resting in a trench, 1918
Brig. Gen. Evan M. Johnson Maj. Gen. Robert Alexander: Oise-Aisne Meuse–Argonne: 78th Division ("Lightning Division") 5 August 1917 12 September 1918 Maj. Gen. Chase W. Kennedy Brig. Gen. John S. Mallory Brig. Gen. James T. Dean Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott Maj. Gen. James McRae: Saint-Mihiel Meuse–Argonne: 79th Division ("Cross of Lorraine ...
World War I (also known as the First World War and the Great War) was a global military conflict that embroiled most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Entente and the Central Powers. [1]
The early French initiative, to capture territory lost to the Germans in the 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War, which France started, was played out in a series of frontier battles between the Germans and the French, known collectively as the Battle of the Frontiers.
The 91st Infantry Division is an infantry division of the United States Army that fought in World War I and World War II.From 1946 until 2008, it was part of the United States Army Reserve.
The year the United States entered World War I was marked by near disaster for the Allies on all the European fronts. A French offensive in April, with which the British cooperated, was a failure, and was followed by widespread mutinies in the French armies.
The First World War, also known as the Great War and in the United States as World War I, was a global military conflict that embroiled most of the world's great powers, [5] assembled in two opposing alliances: the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. [6] More than 70 million military personnel were mobilized in one of the largest wars in ...