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 ...

Alvin York is a decorated American soldier who served in World War I. He’s most known for storming a German machine gun nest during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive on his own. Facing a wave of gun ...

Some of the machine guns that first appeared in World War II are still in used today, most prominently the German MG3 of 1959 and its predecessor, the MG42, which originated in Nazi Germany.

During this time, the German military fortified their position with machine gun nests. Metal detectorists searched the field in Kostolná-Záriečie but did not find any other artifacts, the ...