"Sergeant Stubby: The Most Decorated Dog of WWI
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- From 1914 to 1918, tens of millions of young men suffered the horrors of the Great War: the trenches, the maddening din of artillery, the hail of machine guns, and the deadly fog released by gas attacks. Almost 10 million of them never returned home.
But even when trudging through the mud, the mist, and the misery, millions of men could count on an army of brave and loyal companions: some 16 million animals who served on both sides of the conflict.
Horses, pigeons, and dogs were conscripted to transport supplies, serve as messengers, stand guard, or even provide first aid.
Dogs proved rather versatile, as they hauled weapons and supplies, carried messages, killed vermin in the trenches, detected enemy scouts, and stood guard. As many as 10,000 canine friends were trained to find wounded soldiers in no man's land. They became known as “mercy dogs”; clad in a Red Cross vest, they carried a first aid kit, water, and liquor to comfort wounded troops.
In today’s Biographics, we are proud to bring you the story of a small mongrel who could, and did, perform all of those duties. More astoundingly, our friend was not conscripted. In fact, one may argue that he volunteered.
This is the story of “Sergeant” Stubby, the most decorated dog of World War I.
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MAIN SOURCE:
‘Sergeant Stubby: How a Stray Dog and His Best Friend Helped Win World War I and Stole the Heart of a Nation’ by Ann Bausum, published by National Geographic, ISBN 978-1-4262-1310-6
OTHER SOURCES:
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www.historyextra.com/period/f...
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www.militarytimes.com/2017/06...
www.worldwar1centennial.org/i...
www.france24.com/en/20180424-...
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Sweet 🔥🔥🔥
Please make a Biographics video on Edson Arantes do Nascimento (a.k.a. "Pele"). Thank you!
Well, Stubby was wielding his teeth, so he technically died with a weapon, so he probably went to Valhalla.
Especially considering that he used those teeth as a weapon against a German Reconnaissance soldier I’d 100% agree you could classify that as a weapon.
Dog soldiers point out where the enemy is and step aside... they're kind of like generals.
A missed opportunity for the Real Time Strategy game genre.
@@Biographics *paradox rapidly scribbling notes for next hearts of iron DLC*
Apparently you've never been on a military base at the kennels. Dogs are fire and forget fur missiles.
Also I like that this Dog gets a biography. I hate that dogs are treated like second class citizens.
If this does well, we may do others.
@@Biographics Animal biographies? Hell yeah. That would probably open a whole new avenue of subjects for your content. Thanks ya for the top tier content yall.
Second class citizens? Many legislatures treat pets as property...
@@Biographicsseeing as there are probably many people( including myself) who love dogs more then humans I think this vid will do really well…
No, they aren't second class citizens! They aren't citizens at all
Permission to pat you sir.
One of my granddaughter's favorite movie is SGT. Stubby: An American Hero. It is a very good movie.
I knew a Vietnam vet who still cried for the enemy dogs he had to kill.
Honestly, anyone would cry for having to kill an enemy dog, they don't know any better and are just trying to make their owners proud
then he ate them
Thank you, Karl. I'm glad you're feeling better.
I've got two dogs and I'd be willing to give them a medal if they don't poop in the house for a little while lol
Awesome! Have always loved Sergeant Stubby’s story.
Still have to track down the animated film of his story, Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero that came out in 2018.
If you see a dog wearing a vest make sure to ask the owner if it's alright to pet the dog, as it may be a service animal and they're not supposed to be just petted at random. But as long as the owner is alright with it the dog will gladly accept pets.
If its owner is absent follow the dog since the owner may be in trouble.
This might be my favorite episode ever
2:05 - Chapter 1 - A mere wanderer
3:50 - Chapter 2 - The dog who went through hell
7:20 - Chapter 3 - Mercy dog
10:15 - Chapter 4 - Fetching the iron cross
12:15 - Chapter 5 - Lats legs of the tour
15:25 - Conclusion
I really can't picture anyone but Karl telling this crazy story.
Stubby is in Valhalla, count on it.
THE GOODEST OF BOYS! 😊😊😊😊
Oh man this was an awesome episode! I would love you guys to cover Just Nuisance! He was a Great Dane who became part of the South African navy
LOVE that this dog gets a biography! 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐶🐶🐶
Great video! I love your stories about your dogs too. I'm sorry you don't have a current canine companion. It sounds like you had great dogs and really miss them.
Still, bit sad that dogs pigeons and other animals, who had never to do with war, were brough to our fight, on one side or another
When a Dog is treated like family.. it is a natural pack behavior. Family..
Cats? Neither symbiotic or parasitic.. more like complementing each others natural ability to reach our goals..
Pigeons? Absolutely saved lives in many cases.
Horses, mules, donkeys..
Most of the humans weren't so keen on the war either..
Be Well.. 😀
LOVED IT!!!!!
Thank you Karl for all the dogs stories in this episode o7
one of the most heart touching doggo stories.
What a great dog
What a Doggy legend ❤
The smallwood intros will never get old 😂😂😂😂😂
The story of the book Warhorse is so amazing. And tear jerking. I love the story of Sgt. Stubby.
Bless Stumpy and his companion. Love this story. ❤
That photo of you and Penny always looks so happy. I loved it every time y'all showed it on Fact Fiend
Karl you've been ill a while now I really hope you feel better soon. Thanks for still doing the videos keep up the good work.
You forgot how Stubby won the Congressional Medal of Honor. He's the only dog to win the US's highest award
This would be a great movie, probably better than 1917❤
Feel better soon Karl. I love watching and listening to you
Thanks for sneaking in that gorgeous FF8 Amano artwork on the shelf into a Biographics episode! 6:35, such a ridiculously cute dog.
Such a good boy!!
My girl gizmo is a husky terrified of snow. She looks ferocious and her barking scared the new postman so much he now gives all our post to our neighbours!
The goodest boy. Hope there's a statue of Sergeant Stubby somewhere.
"sculptor Susan Bahary has captured Stubby in his iconic pose of salute. Ms. Bahary unveiled the official family-commissioned life-size bronze of Stubby, called “Stubby Salutes” on May 26th, 2018, at the Trees of Honor Veterans’ Park, in Middletown, Connecticut." look it up it's pretty cool
@@ram7021 Thank you for letting me know. It is really cool.
I love dogs so much. My kittle 15 lb Luna helped me chase a palmetto bug many years ago. She heard me in the garage when it spooked me running under the recycling bin. She came from the laundry room where she slept and then chased it towards my dad's SUV. We went around it to get the bug, but it had stayed hidding underneath it. Luna looked up at me as if to say "I've got this!" And ran under SUV chasing it back out the other side where I smashed the bug. Luna passed a year and half ago at almost 18 years. RIP my little Lunita lunera 😢
Sgt stubby get his own cartoon
I did a double take when I saw you in the autoplay preview. You're the perfect host for this channel. Don't tell Simon I said that
Simon and his dog genocide rant 😂
One of the best ww1 stories...and there is a movie. Whoch is my grandaughters favorite right after the grinch
Imagine joining the war effort and finding out you're outranked by the cutest pibble. I wouldn't even be mad. I'd be requesting a transfer to Sgt. Stubby's unit.
Just started watching this channel like a week ago and now karl is here perfection.
Good boy
great story! thx
I've always loved the story of seargent stubby, I never thought trap lore ross would do a piece on him
Best boy 🫡
Most decorated bostie in History.
I had never heard of Sargent Stubby, this was great!
Thanks for the video
Thank you.
Loooooved this video ❤❤❤
If it was possible to add pics to the comments I have a feeling this comment thread would be full of dog pictures. I also have a Staffy, Blue. He's an ESA and also helps do DPT for my physical pains. I'm also lucky enough to work at a dog daycare and can say that animals in your life will absolutely improve the quality of life you live. Sergeant Stubby also ensured the lives of his fellow men. But if anyone knows how he pulled off that salute please let me know, because my Staffy can't get his paw up that high without dipping his head a lot.
Great episode, so cool that a biographic is about a doggo.
It's been awhile since I've been to this channel, it was a shock that Simon isn't hosting but Karl is smashing it! Your story and photos of your dog is so sweet, I got so emotional. 🥹
Yay Stubby got a video. The best little boy around❤
This needs more views, so we can learn about more good boys!
I want Karl to get his own little staffie; he deserves the love of a good dog. All the years I've watched him, he's always been so happy when he talks about Penny that it makes me get all fuzzy inside. 🐶
God I love the film of him
What the dog doin?
Wow! He was the best boy! Awwwwwwwww
Please make a Biographics video on Edson Arantes do Nascimento (a.k.a. "Pele"). Thank you!
Actually its long been an American army tradition to wear bracelets commemorating fallen comrades that end with "til Valhalla brother/sister". I have one for a lost friend myself. Idk if it's directly related to Sgt Stubby. But it wouldnt surprise me, he was the best boy of the war.
Love the picture!
ABSOLUTE MAD LAD
Why don't we have animal Mad Lads anymore?
Not how big it is. Its how you use it Smallwood
Karl… stop the interim host bs. You’re the host now
Yes! This! 😊
I know it might not be this channels thing because its more recent, but i would love a deep dive into matpat from gametheory now he has retired. So many people dont really understand the impact he had or how he got his start
Excellent!
Fun fact: As a Veteran, Military Police K-9 handler, in the US Army the K-9 always outranks the handler by one rank, since the handler follows the K-9's lead, in a way giving the handler orders. IE: If the handler is an E-5, the K-9 is an E-6.
Don’t ever disrespect stubby hiding in the bushes with an iron cross.
Now, to cover Siwash, the US Marine Corps "devil duck." Was at the landing and battle of a Japanese controlled island, and got a decoration for beating up a Japanese rooster that had attacked her (Siwash was a female. )
Also, please cover the ultimately sad life (he didn't make it home, dying on the way) of Willis "Ching" Lee, the US rear admiral who was an Olympic gold medalist in marksmanship that the US Navy tried to deny admittance because he wore glasses. He was instrumental for the massive addition of guns on Naval ships, and railroaded through the use of radar.
I love this. I have the animated DVD
The 2018 film Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero received generally positive reviews and numerous awards including the Parents' Choice Foundation Gold Award and The Dove Foundation's All Ages Seal of Approval, despite the film not containing any explicit faith-based messaging.
Monument for Sergeant Stu by outside of Veterans Memorial Park in Middletown Connecticut
Wish some studio I would make an animated movie about him😊
Me: ah yes, a video about a dog in World War One, sure to make me cry
Also me: *watches the hell out of it*
Also as I was watching this before bed my mini rescue American Staffy girl came out from the bedroom to see why I wasn't in bed yet so she watched this with me getting a lot of cuddles 😅 she's basically Stitch from Lilo and Stitch and my shadow and runs into doors a lot because she's going SO FAST i call her zoomies Scrambled Legs and that photo of you (Karl) and your dog is the best thank you for sharing those stories
Atta boy.
Hero Dog.
Not a dog fan, but there have been dogs in my life for most of it. We got a dachshund-terrier mix when I was about 5. She was PTS my 2nd year of college. While she was supposed to be my brother's dog, she slept in my room most of her life. In the early 1980s my roommate agreed to taking in a dog. While she did most of the work of feeding her and stuff, I was the one who kept having to fix the fence to keep her in the back yard. She took the move to the house I live in and passed in the mid 1990s, she was probably about 13. A new roommate moved in with her dog, which got out of the yard during a thunderstorm while I was picking the roommate up from work. About 6 months later she decided she wanted another dog. This was in 2000. In 2005, the roommate's father was talking about taking the dog he had kept because his granddaughter had asked him to do so, then never came to see it. This dog was now 5-ish, about the same age as the roommate's dog. So, for the first time, I said I'd take it. It would've been different if he'd still been a cute puppy but he wasn't. When the roommate's dog started failing, the roommate wanted to get another dog to take her place. We went to the shelter and got one. That was in 2014 and he's still with us. But when both of the old dogs died in 6 weeks of each other, she wanted another dog because Boe - the dog - was "lonely." We adopted a pit mix who had to be PTS last summer, the vet thought she might have cancer, but since she had quit eating and mostly quit drinking, there wasn't much we could do.
Much better getting into videos quickly is an improvement coz a 17 min video in honesty should have been 13 tops
If you’re looking for another feel-good animal story how about Snowman, the ‘eighty dollar champion’ who got a last minute reprieve from the butcher’s wagon and went on to become a champion show jumper.
the goodest boy
Is vampire?
Sorry, please don't ban me
I remember that Fact Fiend video. Flying Vampire Car was one of my favorite jokes. lol
@@Biographics 😆
But... maybe is vampire 🧛♂️ 😂
Best dog ever ❤️ I wish I could share a picture of my staffy crossed
kinda disappointed I'd never heard of Sgt. Stubby before.
Penny!
What are you drinking? Is that mountain dew?
Ah, the amusement of a guy named Smallwood talking about Sgt. Stubby.
The goodest of boys.
Where is his little vest now? Was he taxidermized?
Where's Simon?
Rags episode when?
The Goodest of Bois
Karl is back and does he rlly have Smallwood 😂
Enjoyable but a suggestion would be to speak more slowly. With the accent too, it's hard to make out the words.
Ah!, the British *TFE* (Quackbang!) interesting...
I love how Karl In braces his last name.
Pink eagle 92
Pink eagle 92
Yeah so this story is about my beagle Freckles that we had till I was about 8 or 9. She was a thick girl and I swear to DOG she knew which days I was off and which days I was at school in Kindergarten. So on the days I was at school she would literally be waiting for me to come home at the door we came in (it was a side door connected to the garage) and then on days I was at home she would wait for me to finish breakfast and get dressed and then she woulld plop herself in front of the tv and look over me like "u coming?" I would lie on her side (a) i was really small so when I 5 I looked like I was 3 and b) it was more how u lean against a pillow when u sit in bed) as my pillow and we would watch cartoons together and she would lick my face and ear (probably to get the remains of my breakfast) as we watched.
Is this what wishbone is based off of?
Imagine the a good dog get a Medal of Honour while a black African American that fought the Germans ferociously like demon never even get appreciated
They got decorated by the French at least, but yeah it was shameful their own country didn't show any appreciation for a century.
Editor, dead air. No one wants to hear loud beeps.