LED 7 MEN, KILLED 28, CAPTURED 132 ENEMY SOLDIERS -SGT. YORK - MEDAL OF HONOR

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UNIQUE CACHED COVER (FRONT & BACK)
HONORING MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT, SGT. (THEN CPL.) ALVIN CULLUM YORK, U.S. ARMY,
WHO,
DURING THE WW-I
MEUSE-ARGONNE OFFENSIVE IN FRANCE.
AFTER HIS PLATOON SUFFERED HEAVY CASUALTIES AND THREE OTHER NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS HAD BECOME CASUALTIES, CORPORAL YORK ASSUMED COMMAND. FEARLESSLY LEADING SEVEN MEN, HE CHARGED, WITH GREAT DARING, A MACHINE GUN NEST WHICH WAS POURING DEADLY AND INCESSANT FIRE UPON HIS PLATOON.
AS A RESULT OF HIS HEROIC FEAT 28 ENEMY GERMANS WERE KILLED, THE MACHINE GUN NEST WAS OVER-RUN, RESULTING IN FOUR GERMAN OFFICERS AND ONE HUNDRED-TWENTY-EIGHT (128) ENEMY ENLISTED MEN, AS WELL AS 30+ ENEMY MACHINE GUNS WERE CAPTURED.
SGT. YORK'S MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION
APPEARS ON BACK OF THE COVER.
THE FRONT CACHET HAS A PHOTO OF SGT. YORK ON A A REPLICA OF A
"DISTINGUISHED SOLDIERS"
POSTAGE STAMP ISSUED MAY 5, 2000 IN YORK'S HONOR, THE
MEDAL OF HONOR
,
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
,
WWI & WWII VICTORY MEDALS,
YORK'S
"82ND ALL AMERICAN DIVISION"
PATCH, A REPLICA DOG-TAG, A
TENNESSEE STATE FLAG.
AND  A 'VETERANS WORLD ONE' POSTAGE STAMP (REPLICA). ALL THE AFOREMENTIONED CONTAIN PERTINENT TEXT.
FRANKED WITH THE
"WORLD WAR 1 T
URNING THE TIDE"
STAMP,
AND
CANCELED IN THE CITY OF HIS BIRTH, "PALL MALL, TN, 29 FEB. 2020
".
MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION IS ON THE REVERSE SIDE.
COVER IS NEW, UNADDRESSED AND 'POLY-SLEEVE' ENCLOSED.
NICE, ATTRACTIVE AND INEXPENSIVE SOUVENIR FOR THE MILITARY HISTORIAN.
USCS MEMBER
# 11835, COVER # 4 OF 10. "TOP SARGE"
CACHET.