One American Soldier vs 30 Machine Guns, How He Captured 132 Germans Alone
One American Soldier vs 30 Machine Guns, How He Captured 132 Germans Alone He captured 132 Germans alone — and two years earlier, he'd begged the government not to send him to war at all. This is a true story. On October 8th, 1918, in France's Argonne Forest, Corporal Alvin York's patrol walked straight into a German machine gun ambush that killed or wounded more than half his men within seconds. With no cover, no officers left standing, and thirty machine guns firing down from the high ground, York did something almost no soldier in his position could have pulled off: he started picking off German gunners one at a time, using the exact same hunting instincts he'd learned as a boy in the mountains of Tennessee. This video tells the full true story of Sergeant Alvin York, from his religious objection to fighting and the ambush that put him in command of his own patrol, to the tactics that turned a massacre into a rout, the German officer who ultimately begged him to stop, and the Medal of Honor, fame, and quiet humility that followed him for the rest of his life. If you're interested in WWI history, military history stories, or true stories of unlikely courage in war, Sergeant York's story remains one of the most extraordinary individual actions ever recorded in combat. 🔔 Subscribe for more true stories from military history. 00:00 Nine Men Down in Sixty Seconds 01:54 The Boy Who Didn't Want to Fight 03:01 Denied Conscientious Objector Status 03:49 Arriving at the Argonne 05:06 The Turkey Shoot Begins 06:19 The Hunting Trick That Saved His Life 06:52 The Bayonet Charge 07:31 Lieutenant Vollmer's Surrender 08:39 Marching 132 Prisoners Home 09:46 Sergeant, Then Medal of Honor 10:52 The Fame He Never Wanted 11:46 Building a School Instead 12:46 Gary Cooper and "Sergeant York" 13:20 What the Numbers Really Say #WW2 #WorldWar2 #WWIIHistory #MilitaryHistory #WarStories #HiddenWW2 #B17 #NaziGermany #HistoricalDocumentary #AviationHistory #AirCombat #WW2Documentary #ForgottenHistory #BattlefieldStories #SoldiersStories #WarArchives #CombatFootage #HistoryVideos #UntoldStories #MilitaryDocumentary #WW2Crimes #WW2Tales #WW2Movies #WW2Map #WarAviation #USArmy #WW2Secrets #WW2History #HistoryDocumentary #WW2Stories #History #Aviation #Navy #worldhistory
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