4 accounts found for “machine gun”
Grenadier Heinrich Severloh, 1st Company, 726th Infantry Regiment
Stationed at strongpoint WN62 on the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach, nineteen-year-old German Grenadier Heinrich Severloh fired an estimated 12,000 rifle rounds...
Captain Taylor Fellers & Company A, 116th Infantry
On the morning of June 6, 1944, a small Virginia town of 3,200 people sent its sons to Omaha Beach. Nineteen of them died in the first fifteen minutes of the as...
Second Lieutenant Simo Häyhä, Finnish Army, Kollaa Front
Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä accumulated over 500 confirmed kills during the Winter War of 1939–1940, operating in temperatures below minus 40 degrees Celsius. He ...
Corporal Desmond T. Doss, Company B, 307th Infantry Regiment
Corporal Desmond Doss refused to carry a weapon on religious grounds, was assigned to a combat unit anyway, and then — over the course of one nightmarish battle...