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  title info:
    title: Hero on the Western Front
    sub title: discovering Alvin York's Great War battlefield
  name:
    name part: Kelly, Michael
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxix, 343 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: They knew it was the end. Weakened by four years of war, the reality had finally dawned on the Germans that their armies could never stop the combined might of the Allied forces, now bolstered by the fresh, enthusiastic Americans, who were now determined to be involved in the conflict that had engulfed the world.The U.S. effort in 1918, in what became known as the Hundred Days Offensive, was focused on the Argonne Forest. It was there that 1,200,000 men were deployed in what was to be the largest offensive in the United States' military history. It was in the fighting in the Argonne Forest that one of the most remarkable incidents in the entire First World War took place. In October 1918, Corporal Alvin Cullum York single-handedly captured 132 Germans and killed twenty-one in a desperate firefight. York's battalion of the 328th Infantry Regiment had become pinned down by heavy machine gun and artillery fire. Its commander sent Sergeant Bernard Early, four non-commissioned officers, including the recently promoted Corporal York, and thirteen privates to infiltrate the German positions and neutralize the machine guns.The small American force came upon a large group of enemy troops having breakfast, and these were taken prisoner. They then came under fire from German machine guns which left eight men were killed or wounded and York as the senior NCO. York and the survivors returned fire and silenced the enemy, allowing the Americans to rejoin their battalion with the 132 prisoners in tow. York was promoted to Sergeant and he received the Congressional Medal of Honor.The site of this famous action was believed to have been identified in 2009 and a memorial erected by the French authorities. However, a team of archaeologists, with help from the French Department of Archaeology and the use of modern day Geographic Information Science, believe that the memorial is incorrectly situated, and have uncovered thousands of exhibits to support their claim. Complete with detailed …
  table of contents: Events in the Argonne forest -- The discovery of the York fight location.
  note: by Michael Kelly ; Thomas J. Nolan, PhD, Brad Posey, James B. Legg.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: York, Alvin
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    genre: Personal narratives
  classification: D545.A63 K45 2018
  identifier: 9781526700759
  identifier: 1526700751
  identifier: 9781526700766
  identifier: 152670076X
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180116
    record change date: 20190122151046.0
    record identifier: in00004029923