Hell fighter: The Battle of Henry Johnson

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Henry Johnson was a private in the all black 139th Infantry regiment. Known as the "Harlem Hellfighters", the unit served valiantly during the First World War. On May 14, 1918, Johnson single-handedly fought off an attack by 40 enemy soldiers. Despite his heroic efforts and being wounded 21 times, it took nearly 100 years for Johnson's contributions to be recognized by the United States government.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome once again to History Dweeps. I'm Tim. Welcome to the podcast where we take a lighthearted look at the dark side of history. The topic of our podcast today is Harlem Hellfighter Henry Johnson. The title of the podcast is the battle of Henry Johnson. Henry Johnson was an
0:22.8	African American who served with the Harlem Hellfighters during the First World War. We're going to
0:28.8	talk about his life. But before we do, let me remind you that we are a true crime history comedy podcast.
0:38.7	We use adult language.
0:40.3	There probably won't be so much adult language now that the five-mile sailor devil's not in this one, Timmy.
0:47.3	We tend to use more adult language when Brandy is here.
0:50.4	She tends to use more adult language.
0:52.0	Well, yeah, that's true.
0:54.1	I'm sure her mother's very
0:55.2	proud of her for that i i keep wanting to get up a collection for her so she can go to finishing
1:01.2	school because i really think she needs that i think she only got to stage one out of something
1:06.6	like they if she was in a 12-step program she she only made it to the first step, Timmy.
1:11.4	Wouldn't you like to see her walking with a book on top of her head?
1:15.9	So, for all our listeners out there, please encourage Brandy to write, send your emails, encouraging Brandy to complete finishing school.
1:26.4	Because she needs to work on a son of her
1:30.4	lady skills or lady skills she is not lady like at all and you know being on that page and I don't
1:38.2	want to start a whole lot of trouble our Facebook page history is a podcast yeah there's a lot of unlady like ladies on that so you think
1:46.5	and a few of our listeners could go some finish school yeah okay could go to charm school
1:52.3	well they're charming well they are very charming they're just not they're very attractive very charming
1:58.1	they're just very charming and very beautiful but uh they they tend to use a lot of foul language. Oh, they're shocking, Timmy. Yes. So if foul language just offends you, we probably won't use much of it on this particular episode, but generally... Well, we're gentlemen, Timmy. Well, we are. We're calling you gentlemen. And we're talking about a history topic today. Highbrow stuff.
2:18.4	Highbrow stuff.
2:18.9	That we can't do when the devil's here.
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