Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-19
YoRK'S OWN STORY
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would help me to bear my hard tasks.
$50 there / was. was the home
sickest boy you ever seen"
This same little red books contains
Sergeant York's own story of the eX-
plot Marshal Foch called Tthe great
est thing accomplished by any private
of all the armies of Europe" Wrote
the American:
"On the 7th day of October we lay
in some little holes on the roadside
all day. That night we went out and
stayed a little while and come back
to our holes, the shells bursting all
around us. / saw men just blown up
by the big German shells which were
| bursting all round us.
80 the order came for us to take
Hill 223 and 24O the Sth.
$50 the morning of theaSth just be-
fore daylight, we started for the hill
at Chatel Chehery. Before we got
there it got light and the Germans
sent over a heavy barrage and also
gas and we put on our gas-masks and
Just pressed right on through those
shells and got to the top of Hill 223
to where we were to start over at
6:10 a. m. .Ea
"They were to give us q barrage.
The time came and no barrage, and
we had to go without one. So we
started over the top at 8:10 a. m. and
the Germans were putting their ma
chine guns to working al over the hill
! in front OF us and on our left and
right. / was in support and / could
see my pals getting picked off until
1t almost looked like there was none
left. lar
$50 II Of us boys went around on
the left flank to see If we couldn't put
those guns out of action. ~ 81
$50 when we went, around and fell
! in behind those. guns we first saw
| two Germans with Red Cross bands
on their arms. rs,.
"Some one of the boys shot at them
and they ran back to ourYight.
$50 we all ran after them. and when
we jumped across a little ystream of
water that was there, there was about
Is or 20 Germans jumped up and
threw up their handsaand said, Com
rade.' The one in charge OF us boys
told us not to shoot, they were going
to give up anyway. a., .
"By this time the Germans from
on the hill was shooting at me. Well
I was giving them the best had.
"The Germans had got their ma
chine guns turned around.Y n
"They killed and wounded 3. That
just left and then we got into 1t
right. So we had hard battle for a
little while" a,
This modest reference to "a hard
battle for a little while" covers the af-
fair of one man fighting single hand
ed against a hundred Germans in
machine-gun nests. The story con-
tipues: ,r,
'I got hold of d German major and
he told me if / wouldn't kill any more
of them he would make them quit fir
ing.
$50 I told him all right. If he
would do it now.oaq, nr
$50 he blew a little whistle and they
quit shooting and came down. and
gave up. had about 80 or 80 Ger
mans there.
''They disarmed and we had another
line of Germans to go through to get
out. SO 1 called for my men and one
answered me from behind big oak
tree and the other men were on my
right in the brush.
$50 ! said, Let's get these Germans
out of here One of my men said. It's
impossible So I said, No, let's get
them out of here
when my men said that this Ger
man major said, How many have you
got?' u
| And l said, i got plenty and
pointed my pistol at him all the time.
I'm this battle 1 was using a rifle or
45 Colt automatic pistol
$50 lined the Germans up in n line
Of twos and got between the ones in
front and had the German major be-
fore me. SO l marched them right
straight into those other machine
guns, and I got them. When l got
back to my majors p. c. l had 1872
prisoners.
$50 you can see here in this case Of
mine where God helped me out. had
been living for God and working in
church work sometime before | came
to the army. / am n witness to the
fact that God did help me out of that
hard battle for the bushes were shot
off all around me and I never got n
scratch.
80 you see that God will be with
you if you will only trust Him, and
| say He did save me-"
Alvin York's supreme reward Of
heroism Is the York Foundation.
After farm had been given to him.
he asked that no other gifts be
|