Patrick K. O'Donnell

They initially decided they were going to have a German or an American officer, a general officer selected.

But the last minute, the French said, why don't you have an enlisted man?

Because they do the fighting.

And it falls upon Younger.

And I tell the story in my book, The Unknowns.

younger story as well as the Second Infantry Division, but more specifically, the Marine Corps, which they have eight men that are body bearers that bring back the remains, and they're the most decorated men in the AEF that Kershian can't select because they want to tell the story of what the Americans did in the AEF.

In the Marine Corps, there's an army.

Yeah, Steve.

They press into Mets and also Sudan where there's the main rail lines.

And this severs the main rail lines on the western front for the Germans.

But it pierces the formidable Hindenburg line, which just was laced with machine guns.

I've got one here.

Actually, it's deactivated, obviously.

But this is an 08-16, a Maxim machine gun that served on the Western Front.

I mean, it's camouflaged.

by the German army, even has a bullet hole in it.

But, I mean, this is what these guys faced on a daily basis.

This thing was called a light machine gun.

It was about 35 pounds, but could send down range 400 to 500 rounds a minute.

Absolutely.