Christian soldier Sergeant Alvin York inspired Americans and the most hardened military men of Europe with his incredible exploits in World War I. He also inspired the WWII generation.
Sgt. Alvin C. York rose from poverty in rural Tennessee to become one of America's great heroes on World War I, despite first seeking a religious exemption from the draft.Yet the battlefield heroics of the born-again backwoodsman and"What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all the armies of Europe," he was reportedly told byYork's actions, for which he earned the Medal of Honor, still astound Americans today.
York may have doubted his deadly actions — but never his patriotism. Among his eight children: Woodrow Wilson, Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, Betsy Ross and Thomas Jefferson York. "He told producers that he felt like he was struck by lightning when he found Christ," grandson Gerald York said. Preview of film "Sergeant York" at Knickerbocker Theatre, Nashville, Tennessee, July 1941. Front row, left to right: Joe Oehmig, Gov. Prentice Cooper, Mrs. Gracie York, Sergeant Alvin York, Mayor Thomas L. Cummings.
"Our boys just went down like the long grass before the mowing machine at home," the hillbilly soldier wrote metaphorically of watching his comrades slaughtered. "I just knew that we couldn't go on again until those machine guns were mopped up. So we decided to try and get them by a surprise attack in the rear. We figured there must have been over 30," he also wrote — meaning 30 machine guns.
"There was so many [Germans] there was danger of our own artillery mistaking us for a German counter-attack and opening up on us," York wrote."Lieutenant Woods came out and counted 132 prisoners. And when he counted them he said, ‘York, have you captured the whole German army?’ And I told him I had a tolerable few."
"He outfought the machine-gun battalion with his rifle and automatic pistol," enthused Canadian war correspondent George Pattullo. Sergeant York used his royalties from the movie to support his church and fund a short-lived Bible school.
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