Henry Gunther's Final Charge
About this episode
Henry Gunther, November 11, 1918: the last American soldier killed in World War I, charging a German machine gun at 10:59 a.m., one minute before the Armistice.
Research sources for this film
- Records Shed Light on Last American Killed in World War I | National Archives
- The Text Message
- Four Years And Out? - CBS News
- WHAT WERE THE CAUSES OF THE DELAY OF THE 79TH DIVISION
- Henry Gunther
- World War I: Armistice Day remembered 100 years after peace was declared - The Washington Post
- November 11, 1918) · History | BunkerAtlas
- Thomas Enright
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