On October 8th, 1918, amid the last of the Allies attempts to the Germans, Sergeant
Alvin York of Tennessee found himself and his platoon of only seventeen men trapped in the thick of heavy machine gun fire.
Many years later, I had to read a book like "Conscience" by Louisa Thomas to get a better understanding of the soul searching that people like
Alvin York went through before either reporting to the draft board, or becoming a conscientious objector.
Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne.
Army has helped keep the memory of
Alvin York alive by featuring his story in every leadership manual since the 1980s.
Alvin York in your article about the Pattern 1914/Model 1917 Enfields in the May 2015 issue of Guns & Ammo.
In this thorough biography of
Alvin York, the American hero of the Great War and Medal of Honor recipient, Douglas Mastriano avoids that mistake and allows the role and significance of York's devout Christianity to take center stage, which is almost certainly the way York and those who knew him best would have wanted his story told.
Besides church leaders, "governmental leaders, civil rights activists, and military veterans including William Jennings Bryan, Alice Paul, and Sergeant
Alvin York" gave addresses (2).
Chapter four, for example, begins with an account of the lives of the United States' most famous combat heroes from World War I and World War II, Sergeant
Alvin York and Audie Murphy.
Originally an infantry outfit made famous by Sergeant
Alvin York during World War I, the 82nd was deactivated following the war, only to be reborn a generation later during a new age of warfare.
Then add stocks of black walnut from the tree which shaded the family home of one of America's best-loved heroes, Medal of Honor-recipient Sergeant
Alvin York. For a final flourish, burn his signature into the grips.
The .30-06 is Theodore Roosevelt,
Alvin York and Ernest Hemingway.
Willie Carson enjoys a 791-1 treble at Nottingham as Causley (Bryan McMahon) beats Turbo Ross (Michael Jarvis/Tyrone Williams) in the claimer,
Alvin York (Mick Haynes) takes the seller from One Heart (Eric Wheeler/Luigi Riggio, 5) and Height of Folly (John Dunlop) outruns Trecauldah (Robert Williams/Richard Hills) in the two-miler.
