Crisp-Dooly-Wilcox County GaArchives News.....CANADIAN PRIVATE BREAKS RECORD OF SGT YORK August 22, 1945
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CODELE DISPATCH August 22, 1945
TRUN, FRANCE
 ALL ALONG THE BLODY FRENCH BATTLEFRONT THEY'RE TALKING TODAY ABOUT FEARLESS 
CANADIAN PRIVATE. YES JUST A COMMON BUCK PRIVATE.BUT HE PROBABLY WON'T BE A 
PRIVATE LONG. BECAUSE HE SINGLE-HANDEDLY CAPTURED 160 FULLY-ARMED GERMANS IN 
THE BATTLE OF FALAISE TRAP.
 THIS BREAKS THE RECORD SET BY SARGEANT ALVIN YORK WHEN HE ROUNDED UP 132 
GERMANS IN THE WORLD WARONE BATTLE OF ARGONNE.
 DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT SAY THAT THE PRIVATE, EARL Mc CALLISTER OF 
HAMILTON,ONTARIO, BECAME SO BUSY TAKING PRISONERS THAT NEAR THE END OF THE 
ROUNDUP HE WAS SENDING THEM BACK TO THE REAR UNESCORTED.
 AND HERE, ACCORDING TO UNITED WAR CORRESPONDENT WILLIAM A. WILSON, IS HOW 
McALLISTER BAGED HIS RECORD; 
 IT STARTED WITH McALLISTER DRIVING BACK SOME WOUNDED GERMAN PRISONERS IN A 
CAPTURED AMPHIBIOUS CAR. HE SAW NAZI'S CROSSING THE ROAD. HE FIRED AT THEM. 
THEY SURRENDERED.
 LATER A FRENCH MARQUIS STOPPED THE PRIVATE AND TOLD HIM 30 GERMANS WERE 
HIDING IN A WOODS NEARBY. HE STARTED AFTER THEM AFOOT, ARMED ONLY WITH A STEN 
GUN AND PISTOLS. INSIDE THE WOODSHE SHOT AWAY AND 25 MORE NAZI'S PROMPTLY GAVE 
UP.
 McALLISTER SENT THEM TO THE REAR WITH AN UNARMED FRENCHMAN HE MET. HE WENT 
FARTHER IN THE WOODS TO FIND 6+ MIRE GERMANS WHO ALSO SURRENDERED WHEN HE 
OPENED FIRE,ALL WERE FULY ARMED AND FULLY FED UP WITH THE WAR.
 A FRENCHMAN TOLD McALLISTER A NAZI TIGER TANK WAS HIDING FARTHER ON . SO 
McALLISTER SENT THE 60 GERMANS TO THE REAR WITHOUT AN ESCORT AND STARTED OUT 
AFTER THE TANK. 
 IT TURNED OUT TO BE AN ARMORED CAR SURROUNDED BY ABOUT 70 GERMAN 
INFANTRYEN.ALL PUT DOWN THEIR ARMS AND SURRENDERED. 
 AND THAT'S HOW A PLAIN G.I. JOE FROM CANADA HAS TAKEN AWAY GERMAN -CAPTURING 
HONORS ROM AMERICA'S SQUIRREL-SHOOTING TENNESSEE MOUNTAINEER, SERGEANT YORK.

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