That just left 8 and we got into it right.
So we had a hard battle for a little while."
Yet, in the height of the fight, not a shot was fired but by York.
In their admiration for him and his remarkable achievement, so that the
honor should rest where it belonged, the members of the American patrol
who were the survivors of the fight made affidavits that accounted for
all of them who were not killed or wounded, and showed the part each
took. These affidavits are among the records of Lieut. Col. G. Edward
Buxton, Jr., Official Historian of the Eighty-Second Division. At the
time of the fight Sergeant York was still a Corporal.
From the affidavit by Private Patrick Donohue:
"During the shooting, I was guarding the mass of Germans taken prisoners
and devoted my attention to watching them. When we first came in on the
Germans, I fired a shot at them before they surrendered. Afterwards I
was busy guarding the prisoners and did not shoot. I could only see
Privates Wills, Sacina and Sok. They were also guarding prisoners as I
was doing."
From the affidavit by Private Michael A. Sacina:
"I was guarding the prisoners with my rifle and bayonet on the right
flank of the group of prisoners. I was so close to these prisoners that
the machine gunners could not shoot at me without hitting their own men.
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