I asked my grandfather years ago, who was a WW1 combat veteran, what he and his outfit thought of Sgt. York. He said, “the Huns were so tired of fighting, you could point a banana at them and company would surrender. They’d jump out of the bushes, from anywhere, in a big hurry to surrender. It would scare the piss out of ya.”
He was a bigger hero in peace than in war.