Help me identify this WWII flick

[Jim H]

For a friend...

It's a film about a sort of country boy who ends up drafted in WWII.  He's probably against the Germans here.  He used to hunt squirrels and what not, so he's a crackshot.  He doesn't want to kill people, so he ends up wounding like 20 Germans and bringing them in as POWs.  Of course, that makes him a war hero, which he doesn't want - he just wants to go home to his sweetheart and live on a farm.

That's about all I've got.  It's probably older...  50s or 60s?

[Amanda]

That would be Sergeant York with ...Gary Cooper, I believe.  Great Movie...and the crack shot is parodied in Land of the Dead.  He always licks his thumb and then wets his sight.

[Jim H]

Wow.  I've heard of Sgt. York before.  I can't believe I didn't know...  Thanks!

[trekgeezer]

Sgt. York killed about 20 Germans and then he and the 8 survivors of his platoon captured 132. He was the greatest American hero of World War I.  He joined but was registered as a conscientious objector.  His feelings about killing were well known to his commanders and he didn't want to shoot until he saw his comrades being machine gunned down.