PALL MALL, Tenn. (WVLT) - Fentress County native Sgt. Alvin York is one of the most decorated veterans from East Tennessee and was laid to rest at Wolf River Cemetery in 1964. York is a Medal of ...

Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2014. Pp. xii, 224. Illus., maps, notes, index. $34.95. ISBN: 0813145198 Alvin York (1887-1964) may have fought in the First World War, but he’s hardly a ...

S. war hero No. 1. His name was Alvin Cullum York. Singlehanded, Sergeant York bagged 20 Germans in No Man’s Land, then, with seven of his men, brought in 132 more Germans. By the time the Big ...