On Oct. 8, 1918, while serving on the Western Front, Army Cpl. Alvin C. York led a charge against a German machine-gun position during World War I, which resulted in 20 enemy casualties attributed ...

On Oct. 8, 1918, while serving on the Western Front, Army Cpl. Alvin C. York led a charge against a German machine-gun position during World War I, which resulted in 20 enemy casualties attributed ...

From several hundred yards away, German machine-gun fire continued to rake the beach. ... George Kerchner, Army Ranger who led D-Day attack on German gun positions, dies at 93.

He was a machine gunner, operating the M1919A4.30-cal. belt-fed machine gun. During the afternoon of June 9, Pvt. Gandara was a part of an assault on German positions near Amfreville .

READ ON THE FOX NEWS APP He fired from three different machine gun positions, threw hand grenades, commanded bazooka teams and moved from foxhole to foxhole, coordinating action. The actions of him ...

Eventually American machine guns and British artillery fire cleared the German positions. By 5:30 p.m. the Americans reached their initial objective and dug in for the night.

As the men of the Green Howards landed on Gold Beach on June 6, they were met with great volumes of German machine gun fire from bunkers at the top of the beach. Sgt. Maj.

The enduring image of World War I is the machine gun, and usually a German machine gun. It’s easy to see why. The Germans armed their troops with machine guns far more lavishly than their opponents.

During World War II, American G.I.s called the German MG42 machine gun “Hitler’s buzz saw” because of the way it cut down troops in swaths. The Soviet Red Army called it “the linoleum ...

Winters assigned each of his men a target and positioned his machine-gunners and mortar team to direct their firepower towards the German machine-gun. Winters gave the order to fire. All seven ...