Get to know the heroic namesake of the newly christened Fort Johnson
The Army redesignated Fort Polk, Louisiana, as Fort Johnson on June 13.
By J.D. Simkins
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Remembering Sgt. Henry ‘Black Death’ Johnson, the first Black American WWI hero
Sgt. Henry Johnson was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2015 by then-President Barack Obama.
‘Each slash meant something’ — Harlem Hellfighter knifed his way to survival in the trenches of France
Johnson fainted after the hour-long fight and sustaining wounds to his arm, feet, face and back, primarily from knives and bayonets.
By J.D. Simkins