One U.S. Sergeant Held His Machine Gun for 48 Hours and Stopped 200 Germans Discover the extraordinary true story of Master Sergeant Vito Bertoldo, the American soldier who single-handedly held off two elite German divisions for 48 hours during WWII's Operation Nordwind in January 1945. This meticulously researched 16,000-word historical account chronicles how a near-sighted former coal miner from Decatur, Illinois, initially rejected for combat duty, became one of the most decorated heroes of W