Meuse Argonne - Army of One - a podcast by Mike Cunha

Finally, the retired United States Army motto finds a proper use.

 

On October 7th, 1918, PVT John Lewis Barkley, a scout in the 3rd Division AEF, decided “to make things interesting for the Germans for a while.” With a captured machine gun and some four thousand rounds of ammunition, he engaged an enemy battalion-sized unit. 

 

Single-handedly. 

 

From inside an abandoned tank. 

 

Here is his story. 

 

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