Sergeant York

Sergeant York is a 1941 American World War I biographical movie directed by Howard Hawks based on the diary of the same name by Alvin York. It stars Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges, Margaret Wycherly, Ward Bond, Noah Beery Jr., June Lockhart, Charles Trowbridge, Harvey Stephens, Joseph Sawyer and was distributed by Warner Bros.. It was nominated for 11 Oscars and won 2 Academy Awards in 1942.^[1]

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Conscientious Objector Claim of Appeal for Alvin Cullum York (1917)
328th Infantry Regiment line of advance in capture of Hill 223, October 7, 1918, 82nd Division, Argonne Forest, France. (World War I Signal Corps Collection)
Sergeant Alvin C. York by Frank Schoonover, 1919
Sergeant Alvin C. York at the hill where his actions earned him the Medal of Honor (February 7, 1919)
U.S. Army Sergeant Alvin C. York after his return to his Tennessee home. His mother is pouring water into the basin and his younger sister is standing on the cabin's back porch. York turned down many lucrative offers, including one worth $30,000 (370000) to appear in vaudeville, to return to the life he had known before the war.
Alvin C. York after World War I
The graves of Alvin (right) and Gracie (left) York at Wolf River Cemetery, Pall Mall, Tennessee
Near the Chatel-Chéhéry battlefield in 2010

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