![]() battle for Fallujah in November of 2004 in Iraq. ![]() ![]() David Bellavia, who will discuss his heroic efforts to save lives during the U.S. The next "Date With History" presentation is a "Conversation with a Medal of Honor Recipient" from 7 to 8 p.m. "But the efforts of the other 16 men who survived were just thrown out." "The story is amazing about taking out German machine guns and capturing so many enemy prisoners, and Alvin York did what he said he did," Gregory noted. But he insists that wasn't his intention. ![]() 18 day in 1918 during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Gregory said he had received some flak about his work, some alleging he was trying to taint York's deeds on that Oct. "They were essentially pushed out of the story." "The other men were kind of thrown under the bus in the movie," Gregory said. ![]() The question about what happened faded until Warner Bros. "The War Department was scrambling (with its version of what happened) when the other men were saying it didn't happen like that." "The men were just telling the truth about what happened and that it was not just a single-handed myth," Gregory said during his presentation. ![]()
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