Illustrations

Maps

Map 1. Pall Mall, Tennessee

Map 2. The Western Front and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 26 September 1918

Map 3. Movement of York’s unit from St. Mihiel to the Argonne Forest, 26 September 1918

Map 4. American plan of action to move into the east flank of the Argonne Forest

Map 5. Planned U.S. 82nd Division attack into the Argonne, 7–8 October 1918

Map 6. York’s unit attacks into the Argonne Forest, 8 October 1918

Map 7. York’s unit is stopped, and York and sixteen other soldiers maneuver into the German flank

Map 8. York’s 8 October 1918 battle

Map 9. York’s unit advance from the Argonne to the Meuse Valley, 7 October–1 November

Map 10. The York battle location 0.9 miles northwest of Châtel Chéhéry

Photographs

Colonel Julian R. Lindsey

The 82nd, a singing division

Soldiers serving with York

York’s 328th Regiment marches to war

General John J. Pershing

U.S. troops marching in France

Buses operated by French Indochinese colonial soldiers

Major General George Duncan

German Württembergers on the attack

German General Max von Gallwitz

Châtel Chéhéry, France 94 Leutnant Paul Vollmer’s headquarters

A 75 mm gun of the 108th Field Artillery

The French Chauchat light machine gun

The German MG 08/15 machine gun

First report of York’s prisoners

York with prisoners

York’s promotion to sergeant

York’s regiment heading to a rest camp

Sketch of Sergeant York by Samuel Cummings Chase

York returns to the scene of action

Soldiers of the 82nd Division board the SS Ohioan

York on the deck of the SS Ohioan

York on the 1929 cover of the U.S. Army War College Annual Exposition

Major General Omar Bradley and York address the 82nd Division in 1942

Sets of unfired U.S. rifle bullets were found near the York site

Fired cartridges from the German machine gun engaging York and his men

Decayed American tunics found near the York battle site

Douglas Mastriano and his son, Josiah, at the York battle site

Personal effects of German machine gunner Wilhelm Härer

Three U.S. pistol cartridges identified as being from York’s sidearm

York’s rifle and pistol cartridges

York’s rifle cartridges

York’s .45 bullets and cartridges

M1917 Rifle cartridge with extractor mark

M1917 Rifle cartridge with extractor mark

Comparison microphotograph of two .30-06-caliber cartridge cases

Comparison microphotograph of a land impression on bullet jackets

Comparison microphotograph of a land impression on bullet jackets

Two .45-caliber cartridge cases from two different weapons

Ejector mark on the head of the .45-caliber cartridge case

Comparison microphotograph of two .45-caliber cartridge cases and primer

Comparison microphotograph of two .45-caliber primers with firing pin imprints