{"id":62235,"date":"2015-10-08T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T15:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62235"},"modified":"2015-10-08T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T15:34:07","slug":"alvin-york-97-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62235","title":{"rendered":"Alvin York; 97 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On October 8th, 1918, Alvin York, the hillbilly from Pall Mall, Tennessee, taught the Kaiser’s troops the importance of marksmanship over the volume of fire when he killed more than twenty Germans and captured 132 others, destroying 32 machinegun emplacements nearly single-handedly with his M1917 Enfield rifle and his M1911 Colt semi-automatic pistol in the Muese-Argonne. That day he earned the Distinguished Service Cross which was upgraded to the Medal of Honor a few months later and presented by “Black Jack” Pershing. The French Republic awarded him the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. Italy awarded him its Croce di Guerra al Merito and Montenegro.<\/p>\n

The citation<\/a> for his Medal of Honor was pretty brief and unexceptional;<\/p>\n

After his platoon had suffered heavy casualties and 3 other noncommissioned officers had become casualties, Cpl. York assumed command. Fearlessly leading 7 men, he charged with great daring a machinegun nest which was pouring deadly and incessant fire upon his platoon. In this heroic feat the machinegun nest was taken, together with 4 officers and 128 men and several guns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was such a popular figure, whenever I had visitors while I was stationed at Fort Bragg, sixty years after the war and 15 years after his death, they were most excited when they encountered his uniform in the 82d museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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