Meuse Argonne - Sergeant York

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

History

4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On October 8th, 1918, seventeen men of the AEF 82nd Division went on a fateful patrol into the Argonne Forest. One of them would become a legend.

This episode will tell the story of Alvin York, both from the conventional telling and a newer recounting from the side of the other sixteen men there.

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0:00.0	Well, York, I hear you have captured the whole damned German army.
0:09.9	Brigadier General Julian Lindsay. Commander, 164th Infantry Brigade, 82nd Division, AEF.
0:18.4	Argon Forest, October 8th, 1918.
0:21.6	Hey, Sergeant York.
0:51.6	Let's go ahead and let's start with some admin notes.
0:59.6	Shout out to listener Gordon, with whom I spoke on a recent Sunday afternoon.
1:05.8	Gordon told me about his aunt, who was an ambulance driver in the Verdun sector in 1918.
1:10.4	I love being able to connect with other World War I enthusiasts.
1:14.3	It truly is one of the best parts of this whole project.
1:17.8	So Gordon, thank you for giving me some of your time on that Sunday afternoon.
1:19.2	It's very much appreciated.
1:23.0	Another shout out.
1:30.0	This episode goes to Cynthia Jane, our newest patron on Patreon, which is a great way to do Patreon pitch time. That's been a while. So as patrons on Patreon, you, like Cynthia Jane, will have
1:38.4	early access to all new episodes, as well as transcripts and bibliographies for those episodes. Patrons also have
1:46.0	other perks, such as extra episodes that have not yet been released. Patrons currently have
1:52.5	access to an episode on the Battle for Femme and Femmet in the summer of 1918, and as patrons
1:59.2	requested, we are working our way through the battle of tannenberg and yes gentle folk
2:05.1	of the bf wp community i have not forgotten that there is a third and final episode to the story of
2:12.4	tannberg and we will get to it when I get back from France.
2:19.0	So psyched to say that.
2:22.6	And I haven't forgotten about Suasson either.
2:29.2	If this all sounds interesting to you, check us out on patreon.com Backslash Battles of the First World War podcast.
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