I know Pershing wanted at least Corporals and Sergeants in the AEF to be armed with a handgun in addition to a rifle. Does anyone know what handgun Alvin York was using the day of his actions that resulted in the award of the Medal of Honor? I know that, besides his deeds with his M1917 U.S. Enfield, he took on a group of Germans who attacked him at close range in a bayonet charge. He dispatched them all with his sidearm.
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