On January 26, 1945, near Holtzwihr, France, 2nd Lt. Audie Murphy climbed onto a burning tank destroyer and used its .50-caliber machine gun against advancing German infantry. The official Medal of ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Browning M2 heavy machine gun—“Ma Deuce” or “50-cal” to the troops—casts a long shadow over U.S. military history. When Lauren Bacall Wellington served during the ...

Marines operating an M2 Browning machine gun mounted on a tripod at Khe Sanh Combat Base, Vietnam. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images) For over a century the M2 Browning .50-caliber machine gun, known ...

A U.S. paratrooper fires a M2 50 cal machine gun at the 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command’s Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Jan. 26, 2016. (U.S. Army photo by Visual Information ...

During World War II, the United States had two dominating submachine guns, the M1A1 Thompson, also known as the Tommy Gun, and the more affordable M3 submachine gun (SMG) which was produced later ...

The Army is revving up development and delivery of advanced targeting technology for its .50-cal machine gun to increase precision, widen the mission envelope and destroy challenging targets such as ...