The Story of Sergeant York: The Religious Pacifist Who Became One of America’s Greatest War Heroes
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Sgt. Alvin York— the reluctant World War I infantryman who became an American legend—has stood as a symbol of courage and sacrifice for over a century.The Tennessee mountaineer whose religious convictions at first kept him from fighting became the recipient of the Medal of Honor and nearly 50 other decorations for single-handedly capturing (132) or killing (28) an entire German machine‐gun battalion.Here to tell the story is JD Phillips, who runs the popular YouTube channel, The Appalachian Storyteller.
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