ASK THE GLOBE

The Boston Globe | December 21, 1996 | Copyright

Q. I've sometimes heard about the World War I hero called Sgt. York. Can you supply the details? R.D., Boston A. Alvin Cullum York, who died in 1964, was a Tennessee mountain boy and conscientious objector who only reluctantly accepted US Army service during World War I. On Oct. 8, 1918, York, then a corporal, single-handedly killed 25 Germans and then forced the German commander to order the rest of the battalion to surrender. During the encounter, York, a sharpshooter hunter, used his technique for hunting wild turkeys, always picking off the most distant German so the others ...

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