Location of Sgt. York’s WWI heroics found?

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Updated: 7:50 p.m. ET March 22, 2006


MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Researchers say they believe they have found the site where Sgt. Alvin C. York single-handedly captured more than 100 German soldiers during World War I in one of the U.S. military’s most storied exploits.
The precise location of the fight, immortalized in a 1941 Oscar-winning film starring Gary Cooper, has long been disputed, but two researchers from York’s home state of Tennessee say they unearthed spent shell casings they believe to be from York’s rifle this month from a site near Chatel-Chehery, France.
“They were buried 6 to 9 inches below the surface,” said Michael Birdwell, associate professor of history at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville. “We’re 80 percent certain that we have found the right location.”

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The most amazing thing about York for me was him killing the 6(?) soldier who charged him with his Colt 45. He made the deciison to shoot the last man 1st so that the other would keep running towards him, then the next man from the back and finally the front guy who fell on him dead (supposedly).

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Unless they have Yorks rifle and can match the firing pin marks on the casings its all speculation to me. By the way Sgt York is one of my favorite movies =)

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Originally Posted by KG_SSpoom

Unless they have Yorks rifle and can match the firing pin marks on the casings its all speculation to me. By the way Sgt York is one of my favorite movies =)

If im not mistaken his rifle and pistol were saved and stored in a military museum somewhere. Like the good country boy that he was, his exploits in marksmanship arent the suprising part for me, it was the fact that he kept his calm and never lost his nerve through the whole ordeal.