In this thread, we will talk about the fucking awesome soldiers that single handedly killed a shitload of people, or willing to save lives, or capture a bloody city. I'll be focusing on world war 2 mostly, but please post people that did awesome stuff in other wars as well.
Thomas Baker
[quote]For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty at Saipan, Mariana Islands, 19 June to 7 July 1944. When his entire company was held up by fire from automatic weapons and small-arms fire from strongly fortified enemy positions that commanded the view of the company, Sgt. (then Pvt.) Baker voluntarily took a bazooka and dashed alone to within 100 yards of the enemy. Through heavy rifle and machinegun fire that was directed at him by the enemy, he knocked out the strong point, enabling his company to assault the ridge. Some days later while his company advanced across the open field flanked with obstructions and places of concealment for the enemy, Sgt. Baker again voluntarily took up a position in the rear to protect the company against surprise attack and came upon 2 heavily fortified enemy pockets manned by 2 officers and 10 enlisted men which had been bypassed. Without regard for such superior numbers, he unhesitatingly attacked and killed all of them. Five hundred yards farther, he discovered 6 men of the enemy who had concealed themselves behind our lines and destroyed all of them. On 7 July 1944, the perimeter of which Sgt. Baker was a part was attacked from 3 sides by from 3,000 to 5,000 Japanese. During the early stages of this attack, Sgt. Baker was seriously wounded but he insisted on remaining in the line and fired at the enemy at ranges sometimes as close as 5 yards until his ammunition ran out. Without ammunition and with his own weapon battered to uselessness from hand-to-hand combat, he was carried about 50 yards to the rear by a comrade, who was then himself wounded. At this point Sgt. Baker refused to be moved any farther stating that he preferred to be left to die rather than risk the lives of any more of his friends. A short time later, at his request, he was placed in a sitting position against a small tree. Another comrade, withdrawing, offered assistance. Sgt. Baker refused, insisting that he be left alone and be given a soldier's pistol with its remaining 8 rounds of ammunition. When last seen alive, Sgt. Baker was propped against a tree, pistol in hand, calmly facing the foe. Later Sgt. Baker's body was found in the same position, gun empty, with 8 Japanese lying dead before him. His deeds were in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Army.[/quote]
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. This man killed so many bloody enemies. Plus, he killed eight people with the eight bullets given to him! And he ran with a bloody bazooka!
Lewis K. Bausell
[quote]
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with the First Battalion, Fifth Marines, First Marine Division, during action against enemy Japanese forces on Peleliu Island, Palau Group, September 15, 1944. Valiantly placing himself at the head of his squad, Corporal Bausell led the charge forward against a hostile pillbox which was covering a vital sector of the beach and, as the first to reach the emplacement, immediately started firing his automatic into the aperture while the remainder of his men closed in on the enemy. Swift to act a Japanese grenade was hurled into their midst, Corporal Bausell threw himself on the deadly weapon, taking the full blast of the explosion and sacrificing his own life to save his men. His unwavering loyalty and inspiring courage reflect the highest credit upon Corporal Bausell and the United States Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.[/quote]
This guy sacrificed his life for others. A true hero.
Argh, I gotta sleep. I'll update tomorrow.
Also, there is a german soldier or major who single handedly captured a town or city in world war 2. I've forgotten his name, so hopefully someone can post him. Night!
That Russian sniper from Stalingrad. Vasily something.
And two Delta snipers who got post-humous Medals of Honour for acts of bravery during the First Battle of Mogadishu (Black Hawk Down).
The first guy is Epic
[QUOTE=PlamZ;20974271]The first guy is Epic[/QUOTE]
so much agree right here
What about that one soldier who captured some terrorists and covered them in pig blood before killing them? Only he let one go so he could tell everyone what they do to captives.
I think that story might have been fake, but its a damn good idea. Die unclean and you don't get no virgins in heaven :clint:
[quote]he discovered 6 men of the enemy who had concealed themselves behind our lines and destroyed all of them[/quote]
[B]Destroyed[/B]
Damn that first guys story is like something out of an action film.
[QUOTE=BlazeFresh;20974300][B]Destroyed[/B][/QUOTE]
Like, tearing them apart and making them into little diced cubes.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Severloh]Heinrich Severloh, the beast of Omaha.[/url]
[quote]The site of Severloh’s last active mission was a simple foxhole in the section of Omaha Beach known to the Americans as “Easy Red”, close to the present site of the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial near Colleville-sur-Mer. Severloh’s superiors had ordered him to use all means to drive back the landing American soldiers. His foxhole was part of a medium-sized emplacement known as “Widerstandsnest 62” (English: resistance nest 62). In the absence of a well-developed defensive line, such “resistance nests” had been established along the Atlantic coast and allocated numbers for identification. There were radio and telephone connections between the various emplacements, and many were also within eyesight of one another. The soldiers manning the emplacements in a firing line could therefore coordinate with one another.
Severloh was assigned to a Lieutenant Frerking. While Frerking coordinated the artillery fire of his battery from a bunker, the young Severloh manned an MG42. He fired on the waves of approaching American GIs with the machine gun and two Karabiner 98k rifles, while comrades kept up a continuous flow of ammunition to him. By 3 p.m., Severloh had fired approximately 12,000 rounds with the machine gun and 400 rounds with the two rifles. Some have asserted that this resulted in an estimated 2000-2500 American deaths and injuries, however this is likely a gross overestimation, since total American casualties on Omaha Beach were approximately 3000. GIs finally found a thinly manned gap between resistance nests 62 and 64 (directly below the site of the U.S. War Cemetery) and were thus able to attack Widerstandsnest 62 from behind and take it out (resistance nest 63 was a command centre in Colleville and not an emplacement)
The American GIs had bad tactical positions from the outset during the storming of the beach. Between the edge of the water and the dunes, there was a very wide, treacherous strip of sand to cross, which was completely flat and without cover. The advance bombing of the German defensive positions had not produced concrete results. Severloh’s lines of fire almost entirely covered the sections of beach known as Easy Red and Fox Green. Furthermore, the Americans took several hours to pinpoint Severloh’s position. Only when the shortage of standard combat ammunition led him to the use of tracer ammunition were U.S. war ships able to locate his foxhole and attack it with heavy artillery.
Moreover, Heinrich Severloh with his MG42 was forced back into his bunker at least twice as the result of precise grenade attacks and yet he returned to the position he had been ordered to hold each time and continued to fire. This was out of obedience rather than zeal.
The bunker is only a couple of square metres in size. It had been built as an observation post for an artillery spotter (on 6 June 1944, this was Lieutenant Frerking). Some sources therefore claim that Severloh only stood in a foxhole beside it.
It is also notable that Severloh continued to fire using a rifle while he had to wait for both barrels of his MG42 to cool off (he only had access to one replacement barrel). Even with this slow weapon (slow to load in comparison to semi-automatic weapons), he was able to fire the rifle more than 400 times before it failed. According to Severloh, even “kicking the loading lever” didn’t help any more, as the weapon had been warped by heat.
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I know that there were some finish, or norwegian I can't remember, guy with a rifle.
He sat on this hill and shot an estimated of 600 soviet soldiers. They even tried mortaring him, but he was sick on that day.
I just can't remember the name.
[QUOTE=Zeraux;20974333]I know that there were some finish, or norwegian I can't remember, guy with a rifle.
He sat on this hill and shot an estimated of 600 soviet soldiers. They even tried mortaring him, but he was sick on that day.
I just can't remember the name.[/QUOTE]
Simo Hayha
Simo Häyhä can destroy all those pussies.
[QUOTE]Häyhä was born in the municipality of Rautjärvi near the present-day border of Finland and Russia, and started his military service in 1925. Before entering combat, Häyhä was a farmer and a hunter. His farmhouse was reportedly full of trophies for marksmanship.[3] It was during the Winter War (1939–1940), between Finland and the Soviet Union, that he began his duty as a sniper and fought for the Finnish Army against the Red Army.
In temperatures between −40 and −20 degrees Celsius, dressed completely in white camouflage, Häyhä was credited with 505 confirmed kills of Soviet soldiers,[2][4] - 542 if unconfirmed deaths are included.[4] The unofficial Finnish frontline figure from the battlefield of Kollaa places the number of Häyhä's sniper kills over 800.[5] A daily account of the kills at Kollaa was conducted for the Finnish snipers. Besides his sniper kills, Häyhä was also credited with over two hundred kills with a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun, thus bringing his credited kills to at least 705.[4] Remarkably, all of Häyhä's kills were accomplished in fewer than 100 days.
Häyhä used a Finnish variant, M/28, of the Soviet Mosin-Nagant rifle (known as "Pystykorva" rifle, meaning "spitz"), because it suited his small frame (5 ft 3 in/1.60 m). He preferred to use iron sights rather than telescopic sights to present a smaller target (the sniper must raise his head higher when using a telescopic sight), to prevent visibility risks (a telescopic sight's glass can fog up easily), and aid concealment (sunlight glare in telescopic sight lenses can reveal a sniper's position). Another tactic used by Häyhä was to compact the snow in front of him so that the shot wouldn't disturb the snow, thus revealing his position. He also kept snow in his mouth so that when breathing the steam wouldn't reveal his position.
The Soviets tried several ploys to get rid of him, including counter snipers and artillery strikes. On March 6 1940, Häyhä was shot in the jaw during combat by a Russian soldier. The bullet tumbled upon impact and left his head. He was picked up by fellow soldiers who said "half his head was missing". He regained consciousness on March 13, the day peace was declared. Shortly after the war, Häyhä was promoted straight from corporal to second lieutenant by Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. No one else has ever gained rank in such a quick fashion in Finland's military history.
[edit]Later life[/QUOTE]
tl;dr : 505 sniper kills
+200- sub-machine gun kills.
[QUOTE=Eluveitie;20974318]Like, tearing them apart and making them into little diced cubes.[/QUOTE]
i kinda pictured him walking in and looking at them and them just exploding from his eye beams
One of the most incredible I've seen is [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Ulrich_Rudel]Hans-Ulrich Rudel[/url] the most highly decorated German servicemen in the war.
[quote]Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions and successfully attacked many tanks, trains, ships, and other ground targets, claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed - including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery guns, a destroyer, two cruisers, one Soviet battleship, 70 landing craft, 4 armored trains, several bridges and nine aircraft which he shot down[/quote]
He was shot down or forced to land 32 times, 7 behind enemy lines. Stalin place a 100,000 ruble bounty on his head. After the war his input was used in the development of the A-10 Warthog.
[QUOTE=Dbuhos;20974363]Simo Häyhä can destroy all those pussies.
tl;dr : 505 sniper kills
+200- sub-machine gun kills.[/QUOTE]
Dammit I was just about to post about him
First guy is Fucking awesome and deserves an Epic Stephen Spielberg movie.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;20974207]I
Thomas Baker
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. This man killed so many bloody enemies. Plus, he killed eight people with the eight bullets given to him! And he ran with a bloody bazooka![/QUOTE]
Damned noob tubers
Yeah, I guess he is fairly well known because his amazing kills.
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Kylel, I mean.
[QUOTE=Swim;20974419]Damned noob tubers[/QUOTE]
he was camping at that tree goddamnit
Mother fuckin Rudel. Probably one of the best pilots in human history.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Ulrich_Rudel[/url]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/HansUlrichRudel.JPG.jpeg/220px-HansUlrichRudel.JPG.jpeg[/img]
"[B]Achievements[/B]
According to official Luftwaffe figures, Rudel flew some 2,530 combat missions (a world record), during which he destroyed almost 2,000 ground targets (among them 519 tanks, 70 assault craft/landing boats, 150 self-propelled guns, 4 armored trains, and 800 other vehicles) as well as 9 planes (2 Il-2's and 7 fighters). He also responsible for the sinking of the Soviet battleship Marat, two cruisers and a destroyer. He was never shot down by another pilot, only by anti-aircraft artillery. He was shot down or forced to land 32 times, several times behind enemy lines.
On one occasion, after trying a landing to rescue two downed novice Stuka crewmen and then not being able to take off again due to the muddy conditions, he and his three companions, while being chased for 6 km by Soviet soldiers, made their way down a steep cliff by sliding down trees, then swam 600 meters across the icy Dniester river, during which his rear gunner, Knight's cross holder Henschel, succumbed to the cold water and drowned. Several miles further towards the German lines the three survivors were then captured by Soviets, but the irrepressible Rudel again made a run for it, and despite being barefoot and in soaking clothes, getting shot in his shoulder, and then being hunted down by dog packs and several hundred pursuers, jogged his way back to his own side over semi-frozen earth during the following days. He became infamous among the Soviet Red Falcon pilots who could often be heard receiving orders to "get that Nazi swine in the Stuka with the two bars who keeps shooting up our tanks", the bars being a reference to the two Bordkanone on the Ju87G. Eventually a 100,000 ruble bounty was placed on his head by Stalin himself.
In total he was wounded five times and rescued six stranded aircrew from enemy territory, although the two mentioned above were recaptured. The vast majority of his missions were spent piloting the various models of the Junkers Ju 87, though by the end of the war he often flew the ground-attack variant of the Fw 190.
He went on to become the most decorated serviceman of all the fighting arms of the German armed forces (the only person to become more highly decorated was Hermann Göring who was awarded the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross), earning by early 1945 the Wound Badge in Gold, the German Cross in Gold, the Pilots and Observer's Badge with Diamonds, the Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe with 2,000 sorties in Diamonds, and the only holder of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds (the highest-scoring ace of World War II, Erich Hartmann, also held the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds — but his Oak Leaves were not gold). He was also promoted to Oberst at this time. He was the only foreigner to be honored with Hungary's highest decoration, the Golden Medal for Bravery"
Cracked.com. A little late.
Audie Murphy (Literally does the machinegun scene from Rambo IV - on fire)
[quote]Second Lt. Murphy commanded Company B, which was attacked by six tanks and waves of infantry. 2d Lt. Murphy ordered his men to withdraw to a prepared position in a woods, while he remained forward at his command post and continued to give fire directions to the artillery by telephone. Behind him, to his right, one of our tank destroyers received a direct hit and began to burn. Its crew withdrew to the woods. 2d Lt. Murphy continued to direct artillery fire, which killed large numbers of the advancing enemy infantry. With the enemy tanks abreast of his position, 2d Lt. Murphy climbed on the burning tank destroyer, which was in danger of blowing up at any moment, and employed its .50 caliber machine gun against the enemy. He was alone and exposed to German fire from three sides, but his deadly fire killed dozens of Germans and caused their infantry attack to waver. The enemy tanks, losing infantry support, began to fall back. For an hour the Germans tried every available weapon to eliminate 2d Lt. Murphy, but he continued to hold his position and wiped out a squad that was trying to creep up unnoticed on his right flank. Germans reached as close as 10 yards, only to be mowed down by his fire. He received a leg wound, but ignored it and continued his single-handed fight until his ammunition was exhausted. He then made his way back to his company, refused medical attention, and organized the company in a counterattack, which forced the Germans to withdraw. His directing of artillery fire wiped out many of the enemy; he killed or wounded about 50. 2d Lt. Murphy's indomitable courage and his refusal to give an inch of ground saved his company from possible encirclement and destruction, and enabled it to hold the woods which had been the enemy's objective.[/quote]
[B]Hiroo Onoda[/B]
[img]http://www.badassoftheweek.com/onoda.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Badassoftheweek]Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese Imperial Army's Intelligence Division was sent to the Philippine Island of Lubang in 1944 with a top-secret mission - to stay out of sight, collect information on Allied troop movements on the island, launch guerilla attacks, disrupt the enemy and generally just be completely fucking nuts. He took this mission so seriously that he ended up fighting for his life well after everyone else had called it a day and went home. If the delicate line between insanity and badassitude is measured by determination, then Lt. Hiroo is probably high in the running for being one of the most badassed men of World War II.
Onoda and his small, elite four-man reconnaissance team were initially tasked with exploding the airfield and pier on the island, but not long after they deployed the entire Philippines was overrun by American forces. Onoda's men managed to elude capture and retreat back into the dense jungles on the outskirts of the island, where they were forced to live off of the land to avoid detection by enemy scouts and patrols looking to shove their guns up some Japanese asses. From this super-secret base of death, destruction and mayhem, Onodo and his men conducted lightning raids against the occupying armies, engaging in numerous gun battles with U.S. troops garrisoned on the island as well as the local Filipino police force. They survived on rice, coconuts and bananas foraged from the underbrush, and occasionally made daring night raids into town to steal beer and other supplies from peoples' outdoor fridges.
For a year and a half Onoda and his team avoided detection and fought sporatic skirmishes with the local garrison, until one day, in August 1945, a plane flew over the jungle dropping hundreds of leaflets. The leaflets basically said, "Hey jackasses, the war is over. Come out and surrender already." Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda immediately believed this to be a ploy by the Allies to trick him and his men into surrendering their positions. The citizens of Japan were all being trained to fight to the death and to protect the homeland and the Emperor at all costs - how could the Imperial Army have possibly surrendered so quickly?! It was inconcievable. No, Lt. Hiroo had strict orders to stay put until he heard from a superior officer, and that's exactly what he was going to do. Unfortunately for him (and the people living on the island of Lubang), it appears that the Japanese High Command forgot to copy Onoda on the memo that he needed to stop rigging transport ships with explosives and indiscriminately shooting anything that moved.
For years these brave, misguided souls hung out in the jungle, kicking peoples' asses and executing balls-out guerilla raids against the local police station. The Japanese and Filipinos left numerous pamphlets, leaflets and newspaper clippings indicating the end of the War in the Pacific, but Hiroo wasn't in the mood to hear these stupid bullshit fucking lies. He continued to stab faces and lead his men in their mission to the Empire. In 1950, one of his men decided he was sick of sleeping in the jungle and eating fucking coconuts three times a day, and he surrendered to the Filipino authorities. Four years after that, the second man in Hiroo's unit went down, killed in a particularly nasty gun battle with local police. By 1959, Lieutenant Hiroo's military status in Japan was changed from "Missing in Action" to "Killed in Action", because to the Japanese military, it seemed perfectly reasonable to pronounce him dead - especially since they hadn't fucking heard from him in fifteen years.
Meanwhile, back on the island of Lubang, Onoda and his final surviving team member were still strategizing plans of attack, collecting critical reconnaissance data, eating more raw bananas than a soccer team comprised entirely of ravenous monkeys, robbing convenience stores for food, and firing their bolt-action rifles at pretty much anybody they deemed an "enemy combatant". In 1972, the final member of Onoda's squad was killed by the cops. Hiroo continued to evade "enemy patrols" sent to look for him (some of which were actually teams of Japanese diplomats sent to bring this fucking guy back to the mainland) and fight occasional gun battles with enemy scouts. He was, quite literally, an "Army of One" - kind of like Rambo or John Matrix, only instead of killing terrorists or Commie pinko bastards he was shooting more cops than the Italian Mafia.
Finally, in 1974 a Japanese college student named Norio Suzuki came across Lieutenant Hiroo's hideout deep in the impenetrable Filipino jungle. Norio told Hiroo that the war was over, but Hiroo refused to believe it. He told this kid that he refused to surrender until he recieved orders from a superior officer. Norio Suzuki promptly returned to Japan, found Hiroo's former commander (he was now an old man working in a bookstore), and the Japanese government flew this dude out to tell Onoda that World War II had been over for 29 years.
On 10 March 1975, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda came out of the jungle wearing his immaculately-kept full military dress uniform and surrendered his sword to Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos. During his time on the island he and his men had killed over 30 Filipinos and Americans and wounded over 100 more people, but given the extenuating circumstances he was officially pardoned for his crimes. Onoda returned to the island of Lubang in 1996 to donate $10,000 to local scholarship funds, but as you can probably imagine the people of the Philippines pretty much completely fucking hate this guy's guts.
Hiroo Onoda is awesome because he's also completely fucking insane. This guy fought World War II for 30 fucking years, which is a claim that not even some of the most hardcore fucking WWII re-enactors can make. He survived in the jungle for three decades with no supplies, no reinforcements, and no official orders, he refused to give up even when pretty much everybody from the Emperor to his own mother were telling him to come home, and he basically represents the physical embodiment of the mantra "refuse to lose". As far as I'm concerned, that's pretty badass. [/QUOTE]
He's far from the most badass soldiers, but he's surely one of the most persistent!
[URL="http://www.cracked.com/article_18429_6-soldiers-who-survived-shit-that-would-kill-terminator_p1.html"]6 Soldiers who survived shit that could kill a Terminator[/URL]
[QUOTE=Kai-ryuu;20974635]Audie Murphy (Literally does the machinegun scene from Rambo IV - on fire)[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuY1qfCqxT8[/media]
[QUOTE=snake eye;20974700][B]Hiroo Onoda[/B]
[img]http://www.badassoftheweek.com/onoda.jpg[/img]
He's far from the most badass soldiers, but he's surely one of the most persistent!
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Alvin York
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/York.jpg/200px-York.jpg[/IMG]
[quote]
During an attack by his battalion to secure German positions along the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decauville"]Decauville rail-line[/URL] north of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatel-Ch%C3%A9h%C3%A9ry"]Chatel-Chehery[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France"]France[/URL], on October 8, 1918, York's actions earned him the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor"]Medal of Honor[/URL].
He recalled:
The Germans got us, and they got us right smart. They just stopped us dead in our tracks. Their machine guns were up there on the heights overlooking us and well hidden, and we couldn’t tell for certain where the terrible heavy fire was coming from… And I'm telling you they were shooting straight. Our boys just went down like the long grass before the mowing machine at home. Our attack just faded out… And there we were, lying down, about halfway across [the valley] and those German machine guns and big shells getting us hard. Four non-commissioned officers and thirteen privates under the command of Sergeant Bernard Early (which included York) were ordered to infiltrate behind the German lines to take out the machine guns. The group worked their way behind the Germans and overran the headquarters of a German unit, capturing a large group of German soldiers who were preparing a counter-attack against the U.S. troops. Early’s men were contending with the prisoners when machine gun fire suddenly peppered the area, killing six Americans: Corp. Murray Savage, and Pvts. Maryan E. Dymowski, Ralph E. Weiler, Fred Waring, William Wins and Walter E. Swanson, and wounding three others, Sgt. Early, Corp. William S. Cutting (AKA Otis B. Merrithew) and Pvt. Mario Muzzi. The fire came from German machine guns on the ridge, which turned their weapons on the U.S. soldiers. The loss of the nine put Corporal York in charge of the seven remaining U.S. soldiers, Privates Joseph Kornacki, Percy Beardsley, Feodor Sok, Thomas C. Johnson, Michael A. Saccina, Patrick Donohue and George W. Wills. As his men remained under cover, and guarding the prisoners, York worked his way into position to silence the German machine guns.
York recalled:
And those machine guns were spitting fire and cutting down the undergrowth all around me something awful. And the Germans were yelling orders. You never heard such a racket in all of your life. I didn't have time to dodge behind a tree or dive into the brush… As soon as the machine guns opened fire on me, I began to exchange shots with them. There were over thirty of them in continuous action, and all I could do was touch the Germans off just as fast as I could. I was sharp shooting… All the time I kept yelling at them to come down. I didn't want to kill any more than I had to. But it was they or I. And I was giving them the best I had.
During the assault, a group of eight German soldiers in a trench near York were ordered to charge him with fixed [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonet"]bayonets[/URL]. York had fired all the rounds in his rifle, but drew out his pistol and shot all eight of the soldiers before they could reach him.
One of York’s prisoners, German First Lieutenant Paul Jürgen Vollmer (who spoke fluent English) of 1st Battalion, 120th Württemberg Landwehr Regiment, emptied his pistol trying to kill York while he was contending with the machine guns. Failing to injure York, and seeing his mounting losses, he offered to surrender the unit to York, who gladly accepted. By the end of the engagement, York and his seven men marched 132 German prisoners back to the American lines. His actions silenced the German machine guns and were responsible for enabling the 328th Infantry to renew its attack to capture the Decauville Railroad.
York was awarded the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Cross_%28United_States%29"]Distinguished Service Cross[/URL] for his heroism, but this was upgraded to the Medal of Honor, which was presented to York by the commanding general of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force"]American Expeditionary Force[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Pershing"]General John J. Pershing[/URL]. The [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France"]French Republic[/URL] awarded him the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croix_de_guerre"]Croix de Guerre[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9gion_d%27honneur"]Legion of Honor[/URL]. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy"]Italy[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro"]Montenegro[/URL] awarded him the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croce_di_Guerra"]Croce di Guerra[/URL] and War Medal, respectively.
York was a corporal during the action. His promotion to sergeant was part of the honor for his valor. Of his deeds, York said to his division commander, General [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Duncan"]George B. Duncan[/URL], in 1919: "A higher power than man power guided and watched over me and told me what to do."[/quote]This man single-handedly took out a machine gun nest of 30 machine gunners. Fucking. Badass.
what about that one british guy who sprayed his bren from the hip and killed a bunch of germans?
[QUOTE=Dbuhos;20974363]Simo Häyhä can destroy all those pussies.
tl;dr : 505 sniper kills
+200- sub-machine gun kills.[/QUOTE]
He also survived a sniper shot that hit just under the eye
Damn, he's indeed, badass
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War make you ungly, kids
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