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Sergeant Alvin York was played by Gary Cooper.
He is credited with capturing 132.
Alvin Cullum York was born December 13, 1887.
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Alvin York promoted to the rank of sergeant Alvin York was raised in Tennessee and was thought how to use a rifle gun. On October 1918,York was among a patrol of 17 men set out to stop the German machine guns keeping Americans from moving straight or forward. Alone, York treated fire with Germans, for a German rifle gun. He shot accurately and then the German major said'' don't shoot anymore!''. Then he was given the medal of honer and was promoted the rank of sergeant.
Sergeant Alvin York did NOT receive a Purple Heart Medal for service in WWI because the medal did not exist at that time. It wasn't resurrected until the early 1930's.
Alvin York was a sergeant in the US army in World War I, and was the most decorated war hero at that time.
That would be Sergeant Alvin York.
"Sergeant York" (1941). Stars Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, Ward Bond, June Lockhart, Dickie Moore.