Henry Johnson was a World War I hero because of his remarkable performance in France. Johnson, born in 1897 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, moved to Albany, New York with his family when he was still a child. At the age of 20, he worked as a “Red-cap” porter at the Albany train station. On June 5th of that year, however, he joined the U.S. Army and was eventually assigned to the all-black New York 369th Infantry Regiment, better known as the “Harlem Hellfighters.” Nearly four months into his Army enlistment, Johnson married Georgia Edna Jackson of Great Barrington, Massachusetts on September 17, 1917. Johnson and the other troops were trained in segregated Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina. On January 1, 1918, the unit arrived in Brest, France and at first were used as laborers and stevedores. By mid-March the 369th was sent to the front and attached to the 16th Division of the French Army. On May 1, 1918, Johnson was promoted to ...