Seven Americans walk out of the Argonne with 132 German prisoners

By the morning of October 8, 1918, the Meuse–Argonne offensive had stalled against German machine guns dug into the hills north of Chatel-Chéhéry. A patrol led by Acting Sergeant Bernard Early, which York was part of, lost six men killed and three wounded to German fire near Hill 223. York, as the senior noncommissioned officer remaining, then took command of the surviving seven men. York exchanged shots with more than thirty German gunners while several of the Americans returned fire and others guarded the prisoners, until the German gunners surrendered. When a German officer's pistol emptied without hitting him, the officer surrendered his entire unit. York and his seven men marched 132 prisoners back to American lines…