Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts were the 1st Americans to be awarded the Fren
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Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts were the 1st Americans to be awarded the French Croix de Guerre, France’s highest military award for their World War I Heroism. Johnson & Roberts were manning a 2 man outpost when German patrol, estimated at more than 20 men, attacked with grenades. Wounded, both Americans emptied their weapons and Roberts, who was wounded in his hip or knee and unable to stand, tossed grenades to Johnson who hurled them at the enemy patrol to keep the attackers away.
