The Medal of Honor is the nation's highest medal ... until ordered to the rear by his regimental commander." Cpl. Alvin C. York, from the 82nd Division, fearlessly engaged the numerically superior ...

ISBN: 0813145198 Alvin York (1887-1964) may have fought in the First World ... This is not only because York earned a Medal of Honor that day, in his words having “captured the whole damned German ...

Earlier this year, our nation lost two extraordinary men and fellow Vietnam War recipients of the Medal of Honor ... exploits of individuals like Alvin York and Audie Murphy to the lesser-known ...