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Right up there with Audie Murphy.Very cool movie.
During the pre-production of the movie , the director got Alvin York to visit Gary Cooper...so they go visit Cooper at his home....once there hardly a word was spoken...and in the words of the director:
"Great I have the two quietest men in America together in the same room..."
But at the suggestion to Cooper to show York his gun collection , all that changed and the conversations started...
Alvin York is on my list of Heroes...his story is worth the time to look up.
Andy
It was issued a 1917 but he swapped and got away with it. His son says he used a 1903 and they used 1903s in the movie on which York was a technical advisor. The one thing in the movie that was wrong was that he used a 1911 not a LugerThe Model 1917 Rifle was the rifle that appears to have been issued to York's Company...that said I wasn't in that unit or the Army at the time...so don't take my word for it....
Andy
Back in the Cold war, we came up with a counterpart to the Soviet ZSU 23-4, which was their radar guided anti aircraft tracked vehicle. We were more concerned that the ZSU guns could be aimed level and used on grounds targets (ie- ME!).
So we came up with the M247, otherwise known as the Sgt York.
Problem is that we only had about 50 of them compared to several thousand of the ZSU's. Plus there were lots of bugs. However, we made up for it elsewhere.
We had some cool stuff back then. I once got my a@@ handed to me when I put in a requisition to my CO for a flame thrower turret for my M113A2. Good times.
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Quite true. It was a more of a morale booster for our troops.The M247 was an abysmal failure, and definitely did NOT live up to the name Sgt. York.
Even more than that there was a strategy that if one side built something the other had to as well. Even if it didn't work it forced them to spend resources and time. We got lucky with Sgt York and pulled the plug but the soviets spent time and money they couldn't afford to counter/top it.Quite true. It was a more of a morale booster for our troops.