Older post-war examples include the ZSU-57-2, M163 VADS ( mounting the Vulcan cannon ) and failed M247 Sergeant York.

He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

In 1975, Hawks was awarded an Honorary Academy Award as " a master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema " and, in 1942, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York.

In 1941 Hawks made Sergeant York, starring Gary Cooper as a pacifist farmer who becomes a decorated World War I soldier.

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director in 1942 for Sergeant York, but he received his only Oscar in 1975 as an Honorary Award from the Academy.

His films The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Red River, Scarface, Sergeant York, The Thing from Another World and Twentieth Century were rated " culturally significant " by the United States Library of Congress and inducted into the National Film Registry.

Films such as Sergeant York or the Ma and Pa Kettle series portrayed the hillbilly as wild but good-natured, and television programs of the 1960s, such as The Real McCoys, The Andy Griffith Show, and especially The Beverly Hillbillies portrayed the hillbilly as somewhat backward but with a wisdom that always outwitted more sophisticated city folk.

A further nomination followed the next year for Sergeant York.

A metaphor for America was Gary Cooper as the real life Sergeant York who went from hillbilly hell-raiser, to pacifist, to a draftee comparing the Bible to the History of the United States and deciding that his marksmanship against the Germans was righteous.

After that, Harry supervised the production of several more anti-German films, including Confessions of a Nazi Spy ( 1939 ), The Sea Hawk ( 1940 ), which made King Phillip II an equivalent of Hitler, Sergeant York, and You're In The Army Now ( 1941 ).

Television actor Edward Woodward was cast in the role of Sergeant Neil Howie after the part was declined by both Michael York and David Hemmings.

For the next four years, he co-wrote scripts for major films such as Jezebel, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Juarez, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet and Sergeant York ( 1941 ).

He was nominated for an Academy Award for his writing both Ehrlich and Sergeant York.

Huston writes that Sergeant York, which was directed by Howard Hawks, has " gone down as one of Howard's best pictures, and Gary Cooper had a triumph playing the young mountaineer.

Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I.

The film was based on the diary of Sergeant Alvin York, as edited by Tom Skeyhill, and adapted by Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston, Howard Koch, and Sam Cowan ( uncredited ).

In 2008, Sergeant York was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

Sergeant York was a spectacular success at the box office and became the highest grossing film of 1941.

The actual rifle used by Sergeant Alvin York was an M1917 Enfield rifle and is currently located at Middle Tennessee State University.

According to his diary, Sergeant York also used a. 45 Colt automatic pistol on that fateful day.

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* Sergeant York And His People, by Sam Cowan, 1922, from Project Gutenberg

* Photos and details of the discovery of the site where York earned the Medal of Honor, Discovered 21 October 2006 by the Sergeant York Discovery Expedition.

In 1941, Warner also produced the influential pro-war film Sergeant York.

As a supporting actor, his most notable success was as Detective Sergeant Bingham, a light comedy role played opposite Gordon Harker, in the popular Inspector Hornleigh film series: Inspector Hornleigh ( 1939 ), Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday ( 1939 ), and Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It ( 1941 ).

James Allen Ward, a Sergeant Pilot with 75 Squadron, was first, when he climbed out onto the wing of his Vickers Wellington bomber to smother an engine fire in flight on 7 July 1941.

Actor Charles Trowbridge played Hull in the 1941 film Sergeant York.

In 1941, during the East African Campaign, Sergeant Nigel Gray Leakey of the 1 / 6th Battalion was awarded the regiment's first and only Victoria Cross ( VC ).

* Sergeant York ( 1941 )

In the 1941 Sergeant York, he played a sympathetic preacher and dry goods store owner who advised the title character played by Gary Cooper.

Among his other well-known films were Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), They Were Expendable ( 1945 ), Joan of Arc ( 1948 ), in which he was atypically cast as Captain La Hire, Rio Bravo ( 1959 ), and Raoul Walsh's 1930 widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail, which also featured John Wayne's first leading role.

Arrowsmith ( 1931 / 32 ), Lady for a Day ( 1933 ), It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), You Can't Take It with You ( 1938 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ), The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ), The Quiet Man ( 1952 ) and Mister Roberts ( 1955 ).

* Sergeant York ( 1941 )

From 1941 until 1946, the rank was equivalent to grade 2, ranking with Gunnery Sergeant and other technical ranks with which it shared its insignia.

Warrant Officer Jozef Gabčík and Staff Sergeant Karel Svoboda were chosen to carry out the operation on 28 October 1941 ( Czechoslovakia's Independence Day ).

* Top Sergeant Mulligan ( 1941 )

* Sergeant York ( 1941 )

Cyril Barton volunteered for aircrew duties and joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, RAFVR on 16 April 1941, qualifying as a Sergeant Pilot 10 November 1942.

* Sergeant York ( 1941 )

A second bar to the DFM was uniquely awarded to Flight Sergeant Donald Ernest Kingaby in November 1941.

In June, 1940, Sergeant Helion, with a company of reserve troops waiting to go into battle, was sketching the hills south of the Loire River, when the war suddenly rolled in upon him.

On one of his 1921 ventures he was actually come upon by a Detective Sergeant John J. Ryan down on his knees with a tool embedded in a labour office safe in the Postal Telegraph Building ; ;

But his first few days with Troop H were full of surprises, beginning with First Sergeant Robert Early.

He had not made extensive preparations for this, but he had equipped himself with a forged paybook under the name of Sergeant Heinrich Hitzinger.

The following month, Ribbentrop was arrested by Sergeant Jacques Goffinet, a French citizen who had joined the Belgian SAS and was working with British forces near Hamburg.

In the 1960s, the cast of the sitcom Hogan's Heroes did a commercial with Carol Channing featuring Colonel Hogan, his men, Kommandant Klink and Sergeant Shultz having Jell-O and Dream Whip for dessert.

His preference was for navigator rather than pilot, for which he underwent extensive training in Canada, to qualify as an Air Navigator with the rank of Sergeant in 1944.

Landespolizei | German State Police officer in Hamburg, with the rank of Polizeihauptmeister mit Zulage ( Confirmed Police Sergeant Major ).

On 29 April 1992, a twenty five year old Captain Valentine Strasser lead a group of seven junior officers in the Sierra Leone army that that included Lieutenant Sahr Sandy, Sergeant Solomon Musa, Lieutenant Tom Nyuma, Captain Julius Maada Bio and Captain Komba Mondeh came all the way from their military baracks in Kailahun District and launched a military coup in Freetown, which sent president Momoh into exile in Guinea and the young soldiers established the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) with Strasser as its chairman and Head of State of the country.

* 1975 – Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline " I Am A Homosexual ".

Realizing that they will not be paid their $ 1 million apiece, Frye and Darrow, along with Sergeant Crisp ( Bokeem Woodbine ), decide mutiny against Hummel and his second-in-command, Major Tom Baxter ( David Morse ).

* February 25 – Guatemalan Sergeant Major Melchor de Mencos y Varón departs the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala with an infantry battalion, to fight British pirates that reportedly disembarked on the coasts of Petén ( today Belize ) and were sacking the nearby towns.

The series began with Carry On Sergeant in 1958.

The series began with Carry On Sergeant ( 1958 ), about a group of recruits on National Service, and was sufficiently successful that others followed.

" Nigger " is used by soldiers of both races in jokes and as expressions of bravado (" put a nigger behind the trigger ", says the black Corporal " Eightball "), with racial differences among the men seen as secondary to their shared exposure to the dangers of combat: Gunnery Sergeant Hartman ( R. Lee Ermey ) says, " There is no racial bigotry here.

Being consistent with his egalitarian view, Patton made certain at least some black officers served as judges in military tribunals with cases involving black defendants, and he was known, as was General George Washington before him, to spend significant time with his African-American aide, in this case, Sergeant Meeks, in which it was reported that it grew into a demonstrative mutual respect.

Sergeant Maylon Stark ( George Reeves ) has told Warden that Karen had many affairs at Fort Bliss, including with him.

Matters come to a head for Prewitt when Sergeant Galovitch picks a fight with Prewitt while on yard detail, and the two come to blows.

Charlene leaves Chris and goes with Marciano to a police safe house, where Sergeant Drucker ( Mykelti Williamson ) threatens to charge her as an accomplice and send her son to a foster home if she does not betray Chris to the police.

On his sleeves he wears three stripes pointed down with a lozenge of a First Sergeant.

Other characters include a cannibalistic African tribe ; Nazi Sergeant Gutterbuhg, who has a mechanical arm ; Betsy, a stowaway student who is suicidally in love with Indiana ; and a pirate leader named Kezure ( described as a Toshirō Mifune type ), who dies eating a peach because he is not pure of heart.