Between 1937 and 1938, Henry Armstrong was the greatest fighter ever. He won 27 fights in 1937 with 26 KO’s and then won 14 more fights in 1938 with 10 ending in knock outs. In addition, he won the ...
CINCINNATI (WXIX) - A Kentucky native returned to Normandy, France, to observe the 80th anniversary of D-Day. World War II veteran Henry Armstrong, 99, now lives at Traditions at North Bend. Armstrong ...
With each passing year, living testimony of the hell those Allied forces endured in the name of freedom is fading. "We cannot allow what happened here to be lost in the years that come," President ...
Everybody loves a comeback. Last week flat-faced, chocolate-colored little Henry Armstrong, who once held the feather, light-and welterweight championships of the world simultaneously, endeared him ...
At millions of U. S. radios, one night last week, fight fans fidgeted. Scheduled for 9:45 was the Manhattan set-to between Welterweight Champion Henry Armstrong, Negro buzz saw, and Light weight ...
Henry Armstrong, the first boxer to hold three world titles simultaneously, is shown in an action pose in 1938. Armstrong's first title was the featherweight championship in Oct. 1937; his second ...