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138: The 15th New York/369th or The Harlem Hellfighters

History That Doesn't Suck

CHAPTER

The German Raiding Party in No Man's Land

Short and Wiry Henry takes his Lebel by the barrel and swings it at this second attacker, striking him in the head with the rifle's butt. Two Germans have picked him up and are carrying the injured New Yorker off as a captive. But not while Henry's breathing. Pulling his Bolo knife, the scrawny yet fierce American leaps onto the back of the man grabbing Needham's arms and plunges the nine inch blade into the man's skull all the way to the hilt. This last scene is enough for the German raiding party. Despite their far superior numbers, they flee from the trench and away from this wounded, shot up, yet seemingly unstoppable Bolo knife

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