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- SABATON - Hellfighters (Official Lyric Video) Reaction
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The American army even went so far as to file a official complaint to the French High command about French soldiers being friendly with black American soldiers. While France also had segregation, in the military they saw each other as brothers of war.
There was not segregation in Frznce. That's why France had laws for equality and refused to separe soldiers because of their color. The harlem hell fighters introduced jazz in France. A lot of african american artists were living in Paris after ww1 in the 20' and 30'. There was not segregation and they discover a feeling of freedom.
@@fabs8498 Considering Frances actions in regards to Algerians and some African groups France had a form of selective segregation. If you cooperated you were seen as a fellow Frenchmen, if not you were deemed lower class.
@@MadKlauss there was not segregation laws iin France. All the zfricans americzns who used to come in France in the 20' or 30' were searching that. Most if the africans were living in their countries but the high school students were the equal of the french. When people like Alexandre Dumas or Severiano de Heredia were living like the others. Segregation was in Usa and south africa.
You can see this in the game hearts of valour
The Buffalo Soldiers, Harlem Hellfighters, and Tuskegee Airmen all proved that it is not the color of one's skin that makes the difference, it's the character of the person that makes the difference. These 3 groups ALL deserve, and earned, their places in history.
Sabaton actually does take recommendations on their website z
General Black Jack Pershing, the US Commander, knew the courage of the African-American soldiers from his time commanding them early in his career (which is where he earned his nickname), but he also knew that prejudices among other American soldiers would lead to tensions and possible violence, so he sent the 369th to reinforce the French Army. The French had plenty of black soldiers from their colonies in Africa, so they were very welcoming of these American reinforcements and quickly integrated them into their lines.
One of these soldiers, Henry Johnson, earned the nickname Black Death from his German opponents for his ferocity in a trench raid, when he fought off over a dozen attackers with a shovel. The French awarded him their highest honors, but it wasn't until a few years ago that the US finally gave him the Medal of Honor that he so rightly deserved.
Lo e for 50 years or so the only major venue in lincoln Nebraska was the Pershing auditorium, he taught at the war College st the university of Nebraska, he also ended up giving my great grandfather an immediate field promotion after seeing him as a private(he had been a lieutenant in the nebraska army guard but wasn't allowed to deploy, so he resigned moved to t
His father's farm in Kansas and joined the Kansas guard. He ended up serving withiberty division in the Argonne
Henry Johnson was alone (he was with 2 wounded Frenchmen, one was unable to get up and the other was injured in the arms and unable to help, the one with injured arms made the report for him for his bravery as witness) on a trench network corner outpost, they had 11 men reposition as the fighting seemed to brood else-ware. Durring this stage they had just started running into the early stage of the troops attacking at night. Durring a late night attack he heard a enemy movement at the early stage of the engagement, he fired his P14 rifle till dry, he loaded another shot from a box to his left and fixed bayonet, he spotted another man and fired and the gun exploded cause it was a 8mm Lebel cartridge (over pressured, mis-shaped round for the gun he had, causing the frame to explode and make the gun unuseable), as they broke threw the barbed wire, he threw 1 grenade and pulled out the Trench Shovel and jumped onto the makeshift palisade to engage 30 German infantry soldiers to his front. The Frenchman thought he was mad at first then he watched in shock as the American cut threw the lines receiving injuries he thought impossible to survive. At the end of 23 minutes of fighting he killed 30 men, forced the remainder to retreat. Of his injuries and disposition: A dented helmet where a pistol round skipped, he had 8 stab wounds, 12 gunshot wounds, he had a piece of shrapnel from a grenade pass threw his right flank, and he had several fractured ribs when he dropped back into the trench to keep in cover.
Shortly after the battle the 11 man team was returning to the line as quickly as they could cause the Frenchman managed to request aid (never explained how or when he went for aid). They were still trying to patch the man up, luckily one was a medic and was treating the wounds quickly before he passed out.
For the Remainder of the year there was talk about a man in the French lines that was ferocious and deadly as Death himself, leading to his nick-name later being called as such (Black Death) for how ruthless in battle he was capable of being.
The Unit was named the Harlem Hellfighters because they were more forward thinking, it was mostly un-welcomed by the standard army to have them join so the Hellfighters were mostly sent to French Lines under an American Officer group as mentioned above, he was very down to earth with the concept of these men being in the lines as well as knew there potential over all. The French welcomed them with open arms and even shared equipment, rations, and made friends in those lines. Such a different world that must have been, getting treated better in the Trenches by Other countries and select people compaired to what they delt with back home. They were highly reguarded in France even after the war and France rewarded them medals and features that no "White" unit ever received in such reguards, going so far as to hand write every personal document for the soldiers to show the authenticity of each award, signed by the person who issued and the person who proposed the award. Now its not ALL great, there was the fact they didnt keep track of American soldiers in there lines, and any soldier who was K.I.A. and wasnt named didnt get a chance at there award, but that went for many in the first world war.
Honor to the fallen and much respect to those who serve, no matter the Branch of service or the time of war, I salute you for your all and what you have given and done!
What an absolute mad lad, awesome stories of the Harlem Hellfighters
The military didn’t let his family know for a number of years, but they buried Private Johnson with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.
Leroy Johnston was a veteran of ww1, who fought for the hellfighters. He was lynched by a racist mob only a year later. It’s such a deep shame that we couldn’t take care of people who sacrificed their lives in one of the deadliest wars in history, just so that we could enjoy freedom. R.I.P. and long live the Harlem Hellfighters.
My favorite fact about the Harlem Hellfighters is simply how they never lost any ground…to really grasp the significance of that, we need to appreciate how battles were often fought in WW1.
Typically, the attacking side would amass as much firepower as they could on a single spot of the line, unleash as much destruction as they could, and then send in the infantry to mop up the enemy and secure the new position (as a basic summary).
At the same time, the defending army would lose the first handful of trenches and ready their reserves to re-take them. Due to technological shortcomings at the time, it was very hard for the attackers to press any advantage since they could not communicate back with their command. So the attackers would get bogged down, the defenders would ready their counter attack, and then by the end of the battle the front lines would have barely moved at all.
In short, units losing and regaining bits of ground was very common in world war 1, but the Harlem Hellfighters NEVER LOST ANY GROUND!! That was so insane to me when I first learned about WW1 that they instantly became my favorite American unit of the war!
Just found your channel but thought I would share my thoughts, keep up the great work reacting to some bangers!
"Sabaton is putting their _foot_ down on this album!"
What serendipitious phrasing!
Because, when it comes to knightly/full-plate armor, a "Sabaton" is the piece of armor that specifically covers the _foot!_
Just a random thing, don't mind me
I’m so glad you got that haha. Didn’t think anybody would catch it 🤣
This song makes adrenaline pump in a way I've never felt before. Such a masterpiece. Sabaton really gave a hell of a recognition for Hellfighters.
About Harlem Hellfighters, sorry for long text, but there's just so much to tell about them:
The 369th Infantry Regiment of the 93rd Division, formerly the 15th New York National Guard Regiment, was unique.
on 8 October 1917 the Regiment traveled to Camp Wadsworth in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where they received training in actual combat. Camp Wadsworth was set up similar to the French battlefields. While at Camp Wadsworth they experienced significant racism from the local communities and from other units. There was one incident in which two soldiers from the 15th Regiment, Lieutenant James Reese Europe and Noble Sissle, were refused by the owner of a hotel shop when they attempted to buy a newspaper. Several soldiers from the white 27th Division, a New York National Guard organization, came to stand with and support their fellow New York soldiers. Lieutenant Europe, however, directed them to leave before violence erupted.
There were many other shops that refused to sell goods to the members of the 15th Regiment, so members of the 27th Division told the shop owners that if they did not serve black soldiers that they can close their stores and leave town. The white soldiers then stated "They're our buddies. And we won't buy from men who treat them unfairly."
The 369th landed at Brest, France, in December of 1917.
In March of 1918, the regiment began training under French command due to their need for replacements.
By summer, they were fighting in the Champagne-Marne Defensive and the Aisne-Marne Offensive.
It would be then that the Harlem Hellfighters would see grisly combat during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which began on Sept. 26, 1918.
As part of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, in which more than a million American and French troops attacked the German lines, the 369th suffered some of the worst casualties suffered by an American regiment in the war, with 144 killed and almost 1,000 wounded.
"What have I done this afternoon?” wrote Captain Arthur Little in his memoir, From Harlem to the Rhine. “Lost half my battalion-driven hundreds of innocent men to their death.”
In recognition of their bravery during the offensive, 171 officers and men received medals and the entire regiment received the Croix de Guerre from France. The 369th returned to a huge victory parade in New York in February of 1919.
Among the more than 14,000 total American soldiers buried at Meuse-Argonne is Freddie Stowers, a member of the 93rd Division, 371st Infantry Regiment, and the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor from WWI.
These all-Black units, which served under mostly white officers, readily took up arms with their fellow Americans, hopeful that their patriotism and service would lead to better treatment at home.
In the end, the Harlem Hellfighters, as they were likely first dubbed by their German adversaries, spent more time in continuous combat than any other American unit of its size, with 191 days in the front-line trenches.
The unit also suffered 1,400 total casualties, more than any other American regiment. Many of those soldiers are buried or memorialized at American military cemeteries overseas managed by the American Battle Monuments Commission.
The name Hellfighters was given to them by the germans and the french called them The Men of Bronze, Just imagine the pure respect they had from their foes and friends alike
The 369th Harlem Hellfighters were also given their own comic my Seth McFarlene the writer of the Spawn series. I definitely recommend it as a read.
They are still to this day recognized as Hell Hounds and Satan’s War Dogs
You mean Todd McFarlane
Sabaton did the Harlem Hellfighters justice! Outstanding song! I covered it on my channel but man you nailed it! The song is a BANGER!
Idk if anyone else's said it, but in case you don't know, they didn't call themselves the Hellfighters, it's believed that their enemy, the Germans, gave them that name. Imagine how terrifying they had to be to have their enemies basically calling them demons.
Their french allies called them The Men of Bronze and treated them as the heroes they were. It's a shame that they had to go home to a country where they were still getting treated like shit.
There was an officer/NCO that keep fighting even when he is wounded or was that someone else? Kept shooting until he mistakenly put an American bullet in a French rifle and it jammed and used his bolo knife to keep fighting until the Germans retreated?
@@Twittershouldceasetoexist Henry Johnson, he also rescued a squad mate from getting captured and lobbed several grenades. What a legend
They lost no ground and took no prisoners, it was for these two reasons that the Germans called them the Hellfighters
DON'T TREAD ON ME! GODDAM! LET'S GO! - motto of the 369th. And yes, you should bellow that out at the top of your lungs.
Man, I really want you to do Lady of the Dark or Dreadnought next. Lady of the Dark has in my opinion the best chorus on the album (it's insanely anthemic) and a really cool story behind it. It's about the most decorated female soldier in recorded history. While Dreadnought has MY favourite chorus on the album, it's very ominous (ooh, ~ominous!) and groovy. It's one of those unique Sabaton songs that aren't very common, but always amazing and as the name suggests, it's about the ship called *Dreadnought.* The coolest ship of all time, even beating Bismarck.
Hate to be tht guy, but Dreadnought was a class of battleships. There were many of them build by many nations. They became obsolete over time and Bismarck class ship was in many ways better, because it had better technology used etc. But great song all around, and as you said, ominous!
I also want Sabaton to do a song about the Tuskegee Airmen, 92nd Infantry Division, or the 761st "Black Panther" Tank Battalion if we're going to talking about Black troops that never surrendered and almost never failed in the world wars. The 761st fought continuously for 183 days in France, Belgium, and Germany. Most US tank battalions would've been rotated off for R&R and replacements long before that. The 761st also helped rescue the 101st Airborne at Bastogne, fighting off the Panzer spearheads. Their motto was "Come out fighting." They fought ferociously and earned their nickname and their motto.
With the Tuskegee Airmen, they were some of the most talented pilots in any faction of the entire war. They had a near flawless record in every escort mission they flew protecting American bombers flying over Italy, Germany, and elsewhere. One of the Tuskegee Airmen, Dr. Roscoe C. Brown Jr., was one of the first Allied pilots to shoot down a Me-262 jet while it was in the air.
Going off of that I hope Sabaton eventually does a song about the USS Iowa, or at least the Iowa class, the baddest battleship that ever set sail. The Iowa served from the middle of WW2 all the way up to the 1990s. It was the most technologically advanced battleship of WW2 and was continuously updated to remain relevant even in the age of the aircraft carrier.
@@RavetsU called after the HMS Dreadnought. Fun fact: it had no flag motto. It was the only ship in the fleet without a motto.
Her name was her motto. She was the first of her kind and ruled the seas as queen for 2 years.
@@TDKtheFIGHTER Thanks for the info, never knew that! I'm not that into naval warfare, so there is so much for me to learn about that.
@@RavetsU you are welcome
Really cool that they finally paid respect to the Hellfighters, and the song is a banger.
it's the best from that album imo
I feel like I'm going to have to listen to this song more than once,its definitely a historical banger. 10/10 Kudos
My favorite song from this album is ,,The Valley of Death"-about the biggest English lost in WW1 from the bulgarian forces, but this one is lit too.
It also sounds like it should be the theme song for an 80s cartoon.
@@drakesucks valley of death actually has some of the same chords as the og
pokemon theme
@@shimakazef.7809 makes sense, the bulgarians are pokemon after all.
@@kojbo that would imply you can "catch" a bulgarian
as an englishman
we learnt we can't catch the bulgarians
not with rifles, nor cannon, nor gas
As far as I have heard, the 369th regiment being on the battlefield for six months straight, meant that they were out in the field longer than any other regiment in one sitting before getting relieved.
Love from Germany!
To this day the Harlem Hellfighters are among one of the fiercest groups in military history in my eyes! This song always gets me pumped when I hear that chorus
Hellfighters and Stormtroopers are my new all time favourites!
If you really liked this one, there is a band called 1914 who do only songs on World War I. Their song Don’t Tread on Me (Harlem Hellfighters) tells the story of Private Henry Johnson and how he received the Medal of Honor for his deeds. The band is considered blackened doom death metal. They are fantastic and don’t really hide how horrific that war was.
oh yea 1914 really go crazy with that song but they got the message across that what this regiment produced were not regular soldiers but those from hell instead
Salute to the Hellfighters! Fighting for freedom overseas while being denied freedom at home.
We all know we’re gonna learn something from Sabaton, but gotta say it pissed me off that it’s 12 years after graduation that I just learn that they were the first to the rhine. I mean we all know why, but still, it blows my mind that it’s not more widely known that the first Americans to the rhine in WW1 were black.
Oh yeah this is one of my go to Sabaton songs now. I love the way he annunciates "At the edge of the Argonne"!
3:07 I don’t know about you, but the way this line is sung puts in my mind the image of an army of people slowly walking out of the trenches, into no man’s land. Slowly, menacingly, like they have come out of the depths of Hell itself
Great story. Best fucking song on the album. Been waiting for a song about them. I was disappointed that this wasn't on The Great War, but I can't complain now.
Should definitely check out Lady of the Dark. My favorite from the album (excluding the singles)
God damn Harlem Hell fighters! Man, I wish I could go back a hundred years and shake all their hands
These black amaricans don't get much recognition in ww1 and this song gives them some recognition they deserve I love and respect their spirits
The Hellfighters were in WW1. Meanwhile the US army was still segregated right through WW2, and this caused tensions. When troops were stationed in the UK the place wasn't segregated, and American MPs could not get venues and facilities to segregate. There were fights in pubs because black Americans were dancing with white Brits, and the white Americans couldn't deal. The US army even had to put out a video on how to behave yourself in the UK.
It really popped off in Lancashire at the Battle of Bamber Bridge. White MPs in Lancashire (think Manchester, Liverpool, that part of the world) were writing up black troops for petty bullshit, the troops got argumentative, the locals backed them against the MPs, and it ended in a running battle through the town of Bamber Bridge. First a riot, with black soldiers and the locals against the MPs, and then the guns came out and it turned into a night-time battle. 1 dead, 7 wounded.
The army desegregated shortly after the end of WW2. I figure they saw that a repeat of all that would be bad for effectiveness.
I was looking forward to this song. One of my friends ran a game of Call of Cthulhu set right after WWI, revolving around a few surviving members of the Harlem Hellfighters. It's not a happy story but it gave us a great idea of the social forces at play after the war.
The Hellfighters are my favorite WWI story. Prejudiced in their own country but accepted by their French allies. Their name was the black rattlers (i think), but the french respected them so much they called them the men of bronze. the germans were so scared of them that THEY called them the Hellfighters, and consistently tried to recruit them with promises of equal treatment. Spent the longest time in the trenches than any other American division, the first to reach the Rhine, and they never lost any ground. They had men captured, but they were always recovered before being taken fully prisoner. That’s only the beginning. Such a badass division.
I love this song. It's like Sabaton's take on an Amon Amarth track.
Yay! You did this one! This song just STARTS OFF LIKE A WRECKING BALL, coming in hard and fast, fitting for the Harlem Hellfighters. This song is so heavy and it goes super well with Joakim's grit and rasp in his voice. He gets really down in there in the dirt of the trenches vocally. Also, that squealing, shredding guitar solo just comes screaming in like a bat out of hell and also suits these men and their bravery.
My only gripe is that the hook is also in the chorus and I, personally, would like to have them be seperate so they would have to flex more in the lyrics.
Other than that, I loved this song. I was so happy the Harlem Hellfighters got a song. Apparently, they wanted to do this topic and song so BADLY but it didn't fit on the Great War album so I'm glad they got to do it here. All the members were like, "Hellfighters? That's the best fucking name ever! And it's a perfect song title for metal! We don't even have to think up a track name bc it's already there! WE MUST DO IT!"
Your reactions to the solos are awesome xD
they cookin up some real good shit on this album
5:36 is just the best part of it like you were saying you liked it. It just scratches an itch I never knew I had
I got addicted to the chorus so fast when I heard it the first time!
It isn't every day where reaction channels can actually talk about what they like, but you do it. I never even noticed that bit about how he pronounces "at the edge of the Argonne"
my man do be vibin'
I like how you disect the song and research and give a quick summary.
There was a sergeant of the hell fighters that fought off a German unit with a knife
I’m actually hoping they make a Tustegee Airmen (Red Tails) song at some point. Another group of men that are not given the honors they truly deserve for the work they did.
Preconceptions turned is so funny. I mean it’s 2024 and hindsight is 20/20 as they say. But it’s just funny. Up until Korea when they finally were desegregated , the same preconceptions persisted about troops of color. They’re not as brave, they don’t learn as fast etc. Even though they fought with distinction in every American war until then. 54th in the civil war, the black jacks and Tuskegee airmen in ww2, hellfighters in ww1 to name just a FEW. Fucking love it.
Sabaton rocking it for everyone.
This song and Lady of the dark are my favorites
Make sure to check out Dreadnought from this same album, it's got a very catchy chorus.
I will have a reaction to every song on this album soon enough.
Harlem hellfighters bring the best motto, GOD DAMN LETS GO!
Battlefied 1 not having a mission (besides the intro) where you play as a soldier in the 369th was some bullshit.
Be sure to check out Henry Johnson. The man was a force of nature.
In the end the hell fighters were the bravest soldier
Dont Tread on Me, God Damn, Lets Go...
Hope you check out "Lady of the Dark" from this album. It's my personal favorite track on it, and it's about the most decorated female soldier in all of recorded history, Milunka Savic, who took her brother's place in the Serbian army after he received call-up papers.
Henry Jahannson is a Legend. You should read more into him
Another one you should check it out, its the best modern 80s style hard rock/metal band i have found in a while called Battle Beast one song in partìcular is stay black its so good
War must be in history or games, not in real. Мирного неба над головой.
Hello mate you should try, brothers of metal. Another great Swedish metal band. The song yggdrasil is amazing👍
Ah the famous Harlem Hellfighters
You should listen to the Valley of Death
you should check valley of death and new Music video race to the sea both are good, MATTER OF FACT ALL OF THEM ON THIS NEW CD ARE GOOD, ALSO THIS IS THERE BEST YET OF CDS.
BECAUSE I AM HEADBANGING AND KNEEBANGING TO ALL OF THEM. AND I DONT DO THAT MUCH LOL😂
would be cool if you did a reaction to En Livstid I Krig live in Gothenburg
Beautiful song with an amazing performance plus it has English lyrics
@What It Do Dave I meant subtitles sorry
Harlem Hellfighters always forward… never losing ground… 369th Infantry Regiment let’s go! 🤘🏻
Sabaton rocked this. Great reaction to a great song! Big Salute and immense Respect and Gratitude to the brave heroes and legends of the Harlem Hellfighters. 👍🏻🇺🇸
Awesome track isnt it? Let me know what you think of my bass boosted version, I would appreciate it very much
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Do Dreadnought next please!
Hey Dave Let Me Ask You a Question How Many Years That You’ve Been Since On RUclips?
I started in 2019 with my first channel.
@@whatitdodave then What is your first channel?
You should react to manowar heart of steel
_Harlem Hellfigters!_
_United States most fearsome soldiers!_
Try to beat Vietnamese, Afghanistan or russia or Iraq first 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@second2version_Amateur Armies during WWI...some of them didn't even exist back then!_
You should definitely read the Historic Fact at the bottom of each video, and I have some song suggestions:
Devil Dogs
Blood of Bannockburn
Midway
Man of War
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Love your channel and your soothing voice❤️
No other reaction channel describes their music better than u!
Let's be honest. When it comes to American military, the Germans come up with the best nicknames for them.
I was here just for Chris solo...bye
Well, not my favourite from the album, yet still awesome.