An American gun crew during the Meuse-Argonne
offensive in France in 1918.United States Army Signal Corps
By Alan Cowell
Nov. 9, 2018
LONDON — Seconds before an armistice formally ended World War I on Nov. 11, 1918, Pvt. Henry Nicholas Gunther, an American soldier from Baltimore, mounted a final, one-man charge against a German machine-gun nest in northeastern France.