Sentence examples for machine gun battalion from inspiring English sources

The following Australian units received the battle honour of "Sattelberg" for their involvement in the battle: 1st Tank Battalion, 2/23rd Battalion, 2/24th Battalion, 2/48th Battalion and the 2/2nd Machine Gun Battalion.

In 1917, Connecticut's horse guard actually went into service on foot in France as part of a machine gun battalion.

As a major during World War I, he was in charge of a machine gun battalion and saw action at the Meuse-Argonne offensive.

The Squadron was called into federal service in 1916 & sent to the Mexican border, & a year later it was again mustered into federal service as the 105th Machine Gun Battalion of the 27th Division, which saw action in Belgium & France.

A single machine gun battalion attacked a position behind Radzymin.

The 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion had been diverted to Britain.

In March 1918, the four machine gun companies in each division were grouped into machine gun battalions.

The issue of the medium Vickers machine gun to Commando units set them apart from typical British Army infantry divisions, who tended to only employ the weapon in specialist machine gun battalions.

Model arranged for units to be sent straight to the units in action in order to avoid long-winded logistics, and rushed in specialist street fighting and machine gun battalions.

With the entry of the United States into World War I, he went to France in April 1918 with a machine-gun battalion, seeing action in the Saint-Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives.

Called to the regular army at the beginning of World War I, he commanded a machine-gun battalion in the Middle East as acting lieutenant colonel, a rank he lost after the war but officially regained in 1938.