We Never FELT SORRY For the SS Troops

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  • čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
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  • @americanveteranscenter
    @americanveteranscenter  Před 3 měsíci +530

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    • @AfricanLionBat
      @AfricanLionBat Před 3 měsíci +3

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    • @TomasFunes-rt8rd
      @TomasFunes-rt8rd Před 3 měsíci +7

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    • @AfricanLionBat
      @AfricanLionBat Před 3 měsíci

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    • @woodworkerroyer8497
      @woodworkerroyer8497 Před 3 měsíci +6

      No. I'm not subscribing. And I'm commenting now.
      Your edits are SO bad. You cut this so he wasn't even talking about the SS. He's talking about sleep deprivation and rations in a tank. He mentioned them once, and then started off on being tired all the time. You should have started it when he talked about why they felt sorry for the enemy and ended when he starts talking about food.
      I love the content, but no way am I going to "like, sub, etc" when you can't even edit. It's not hard.

    • @JLDJR
      @JLDJR Před 3 měsíci

      Great men from two different countries deceived into killing each other for a bankers wars.

  • @bernadettecartin
    @bernadettecartin Před 3 měsíci +2387

    My Dad was with an artillery unit in WWII in Germany. For the rest of his life he loved a fire because there were many cold nights when they weren't allowed to have one. He also never was interested in barbecuing/ outdoor cooking because he said he'd had enough of that in his life and he wanted all the rest of his meals to be at a table.
    Edit: I really appreciate all the likes. I've never had so many for a comment. Not sure what Dad would think. He wasn't one to draw attention to himself. I guess he appreciates you all too.

    • @thomasdragosr.841
      @thomasdragosr.841 Před 3 měsíci +155

      My Dad would never go camping "I did enough camping in France and Germany..."

    • @deborahpfromer1362
      @deborahpfromer1362 Před 2 měsíci +106

      The young kids I worked with were making fun of the television shows of the 50s & 60s for being so sappy and sweet. I stated well considering all the things people had suffered during the war they needed that. All my uncles and dad were in WWII and Korea those men kept so much inside. But they didn’t want too much drama, they had experienced enough.

    • @2mac_mini952
      @2mac_mini952 Před 2 měsíci

      i feel like the SS have been demonized in military literature

    • @IamNiggler
      @IamNiggler Před 2 měsíci

      @@thomasdragosr.841sounds gay

    • @hansvonschlader8227
      @hansvonschlader8227 Před 2 měsíci +52

      Hogan's Heros is popular here in Germany, but it's illegal to say Heil Hitler, so its replaced with How High Is Your Corn.... I am not joking,

  • @BurtSampson
    @BurtSampson Před 3 měsíci +12043

    A lot of German tankers were executed because of their uniforms. Unfortunately for them, the German high command thought it would be cool for all the tankers to wear black uniforms that made them look like they were in the SS. A whooooole lot of non SS Germans were executed because of this. Because of a simple misunderstanding.

    • @donlarocque5157
      @donlarocque5157 Před 3 měsíci +628

      With pink piping. The skulls insignia was a big problem too.

    • @cisarovnajosefina4525
      @cisarovnajosefina4525 Před 3 měsíci +617

      Skill based matchmaking

    • @joeyschmidt6676
      @joeyschmidt6676 Před 3 měsíci +918

      They wore black uniforms because they would be constantly covered in oil and dirt and grub and whatever else you could imagine getting on your clothing while inside a tank

    • @amh9494
      @amh9494 Před 3 měsíci +716

      Because Americans are great at war crimes and friendly fire, overall poor soldiers though.

    • @user-ox7xr8nu4t
      @user-ox7xr8nu4t Před 3 měsíci +245

      That's simply a war crime.

  • @zippoamerika8794
    @zippoamerika8794 Před 3 měsíci +3165

    I have the humble honor of taking care of a veteran from this battle awarded the bronze star. He was a runner told me some amazing stories of what happened to him. From hiding in a barn overnight with German soldiers right outside to being shot at by our own troops..
    Rest in peace, Mr Passias

  • @kathleenmckeithen118
    @kathleenmckeithen118 Před 2 měsíci +31

    God bless this WW ll soldier. I'm so glad he was able to come home. My Dad came home from WW ll, also, that's why I'm alive today and a proud 75 year old patriot!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️

  • @Vinnie-Venom
    @Vinnie-Venom Před 3 měsíci +1053

    My great-uncle died in the Ardennes in the "Battle of the Bulge." The story we know is, he was trying to run a message, but was cut down by a MG-42. It was so cold, they couldn't recover his body for over a month.
    PFC Reed Lane Youngblood. He was a Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient. I'm honored to have his name as my middle name.
    Man thank you for your sacrifices and (without a doubt) suffering you went through, you guys saved the war, and kept them from breaking through.

    • @Kousaburo
      @Kousaburo Před 3 měsíci

      Would your great-uncle be proud of fighting for open borders and pride parades?

    • @jeng2336
      @jeng2336 Před 3 měsíci +16

    • @user-uy8wx4pk4h
      @user-uy8wx4pk4h Před 2 měsíci +8

      Nobody cares

    • @zSwax
      @zSwax Před 2 měsíci

      ​​@@user-uy8wx4pk4h shut up. Seemingly almost 100 care.

    • @daviferreirabarbosa6215
      @daviferreirabarbosa6215 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@user-uy8wx4pk4hyou cared enough to leave a comment.

  • @joeyhunter842
    @joeyhunter842 Před 3 měsíci +1431

    My uncle was a medic at the Battle of the Bulge. His fellow soldiers thought he was a doctor he was so accomplished in field medicine. He was such a humble guy too. God bless you Charlie.

    • @xglosis
      @xglosis Před 3 měsíci +28

      My grandpa fought in the battle of the bulge. He stormed Omaha beach on D Day.
      too. He was 16/17 years old when he got to Europe.

    • @roymunson1
      @roymunson1 Před 3 měsíci +30

      ​@@xglosisno kid should have to go through that madness, but they were made of something stronger back then. You grew up quick in normal society, never mind war.

    • @letsdosomething1566
      @letsdosomething1566 Před 3 měsíci +6

      do you know his regiment or anything? My grandfather was in Battle of the Bulge. Co L, 410th Reg, 103rd Inf Div. Squad leader.

    • @joeyhunter842
      @joeyhunter842 Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@letsdosomething1566 sorry I don’t know. I only found out about 15 years ago and he didn’t give specifics and honestly, I’d have forgotten them. He did take the honor flight with his granddaughter, my second cousin once removed.

    • @anthonymordawski-uf6ie
      @anthonymordawski-uf6ie Před 3 měsíci +8

      Medics stand tall when on thier knees looking after a brother ❤

  • @debbiemerls
    @debbiemerls Před 2 měsíci +77

    Sent this to my teenage daughter who is currently doing ww2 in history at school. So amazing we get to hear these guys speak, in their own words

    • @michellelittle9184
      @michellelittle9184 Před měsícem +4

      They are treasures of history these men. I find their personal stories incredible to listen to. What they’ve experienced & survived is unimaginable.
      My respect & thanks to each & every one of these brave soldiers.

    • @robertshipley6990
      @robertshipley6990 Před 28 dny

      Hope the history teacher hands out political writings from the founding on the fallacy on the irrationality of Americans getting involved in Foreign Wars. And how America's involvement in Europe was avoidable

    • @ravanpee1325
      @ravanpee1325 Před 11 dny

      His information is false..at the end of the war also draftees were send to the SS because someone in the administration volunteeres them e.g. nobel price winner Günther Grass

    • @DrHappy-hk4hl
      @DrHappy-hk4hl Před 7 dny

      ​@@robertshipley6990America needed to join WW2

    • @jordannachew2223
      @jordannachew2223 Před 4 dny

      No one cares

  • @krash66
    @krash66 Před 2 měsíci +265

    My late Uncle was in the 101th in the Battle of the Bulge. He was the kindest, gentlest man you would ever meet and always had a smile on his face. He gave me some of his old army kit and a backpack when I was a kid. He would never talk about anything that happened over there. He said he was just happy to return home alive and well. He had relatives in Germany and visited many times after the war. I am sure he much preferred enjoying a peaceful stay as a tourist in Europe rather than a soldier fighting there. Unfortunately he died very young, at 50, so I was only 11, and didn't get to know him better in my adulthood.

    • @aanderson2880
      @aanderson2880 Před 2 měsíci +7

      My dad was near by in the 82nd. They hated that cold!!

    • @GuyFieri-uf4jw
      @GuyFieri-uf4jw Před 2 měsíci +3

      he helped ruin the world congratulations!

    • @Smiley-Coyote
      @Smiley-Coyote Před 2 měsíci +5

      Much love and respect to your late Uncle. He may not be here physically but I still thank him for his service, same with all the WW2 vets, the WW1 vets, the Korean war and the Vietnam war vets, the Gulf war part 1 and part 2 is still going, our men and women are dying for rich men to get richer, and powerful people to gain more power. These people are simply following orders or else they'll go to prison, although if you disobey an order and it turns out to be a heroic move then you may get lucky and win a medal and be promoted.....idk what I'm saying anymore I'm too tired to be typing replies to anything LMFAO peace and love dude, your uncle is a fuckin hero and part of the greatest generation of the 20th century for sure

    • @lorrifrench4460
      @lorrifrench4460 Před 2 měsíci +4

      Thank you for sharing about your Uncle . I am for your loss. May he RIP 🌺 🕊️ 🙏 Take care & God bless ❤

    • @paulquantumblues3599
      @paulquantumblues3599 Před 2 měsíci +4

      Just be happy that you had the time that you had.

  • @Soccermom5.
    @Soccermom5. Před 2 měsíci +32

    Thank you for your Service and Sacrifice!🇺🇲❤

    • @GuyFieri-uf4jw
      @GuyFieri-uf4jw Před 2 měsíci +2

      yeah they sacrificed so much for nothing, they wouldnt have fought if they knew what their nations would become

  • @susandevitte2137
    @susandevitte2137 Před 3 měsíci +1008

    My dad lost his arm and leg at the Battle of the Bugle. He would always tell us stories about the war. He told us when they captured german soldiers they would show each other pictures of their wives and girlfriends.

    • @TS-np6co
      @TS-np6co Před 3 měsíci +164

      My gramps told a story of meeting a German POW who asked him “Where do you live?” And when my grandfather answered the POW gave him a history lesson about his hometown and surrounding areas, what they produced, the vital river in the area, the major neighborhoods in the area, a full synopsis. The POW said that when the Germans planned to invade the USA, his AO would have been my grandfathers hometown and they had been learning about the specific area they would invade and then occupy.

    • @theEWDSDS
      @theEWDSDS Před 3 měsíci +30

      Battle of the Bugle

    • @susandevitte2137
      @susandevitte2137 Před 3 měsíci +26

      @@theEWDSDS damn spell check, I know BATTLE OF THE BULGE.

    • @benb9151
      @benb9151 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Bulge, not bugle

    • @dianestafford6968
      @dianestafford6968 Před 3 měsíci +31

      My Maternal Grandmother was a Polish Christian Holocaust Survivor. There are millions of people that have their lives because of your Father and his comrades ❤

  • @barbaramollmann5990
    @barbaramollmann5990 Před 3 měsíci +327

    My dad was a soldier in the Wehrmacht during the Battle of the Bulge. His best American friend, Elmer Olding, was a soldier in the American Army also in the Battle of the Bulge. They used to sit on Elmer's patio and talk about the war and particularly the Battle of the Bulge. RIP

    • @nancyshapley7141
      @nancyshapley7141 Před 2 měsíci +26

      Please write the book

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul Před 2 měsíci +27

      My grandfather was also in the Wehrmacht and took part in that battle. Nearly his whole company died, and he was captured by the Americans.

    • @psycomutt
      @psycomutt Před měsícem +1

      ​@@VingulHow do you all look at the wehrmacht now? I'm sure the SS is despised but since it's so many people's grandfathers, how is it thought about or talked about?.

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul Před měsícem +9

      @@psycomutt I guess you assume I’m German (which is fair enough, don’t get me wrong), but I’m Norwegian and can’t answer for Germans on this. My grandfather was a Norwegian with a German father, which is why he was drafted. For my own part, I learned early on that there are «good people on both sides», as it were. There’s not a person I look up to more than my grandfather, though I was twelve when he died; he’s been gone for twenty years.

    • @psycomutt
      @psycomutt Před měsícem +5

      @@Vingul Thanks for your answer and sorry for assuming. I had no idea the wehrmacht was set up that way. Is there any stigma around telling people that your grandfather fought on that side in Norway? I'm forever interested in the " History is written by the Victor" narrative and how that affects people down the line. Sorry if I'm asking too many questions.

  • @davidclark3304
    @davidclark3304 Před 2 měsíci +10

    It's called the Greatest Generation for a reason.

    • @marshamariner7897
      @marshamariner7897 Před 12 dny

      Also the . Silent generation.. or was that the generation b4 🌎🌎😍

  • @toensingjeanette7459
    @toensingjeanette7459 Před 2 měsíci +25

    Thank you, Veterans, for your service. We are here because of you all.

  • @tammythomas851
    @tammythomas851 Před 2 měsíci +22

    War is hell. I am sorry you had to endure it. I am grateful to all if you! Thank you.

    • @guineanoneurbusiness2709
      @guineanoneurbusiness2709 Před 2 měsíci +9

      grateful to live in this modern hell they created lol

    • @MiltJohnson-sw9lc
      @MiltJohnson-sw9lc Před 15 dny

      @@guineanoneurbusiness2709
      Spoken like a true indoctrinated loser , but that’s just the way your lazy generation rolls

  • @Jo_Wardy
    @Jo_Wardy Před 2 měsíci +77

    My grandfather was a mechanic in WW2 and fixed all the airplanes for the Australian airforce. For the aussies who flew in battle of britain and fixed airplanes that flught against Japanese. He never saw action but without him these brave boys wouldn't have airplaine. Got a picture of him sitting in spitfire he repaired for the Aussie airforce.

    • @MinistryInside
      @MinistryInside Před 2 měsíci

      Gay

    • @MinistryInside
      @MinistryInside Před 2 měsíci

      EWWWW you stopped greatness and the new world, thanks bud, you FUCKEDUP THE WHOLE PLANET.

    • @patriciatinkey2677
      @patriciatinkey2677 Před 2 měsíci +2

      All served as they could. Thanks & Blessings to ALL who defended our Democracy, & kept Fascism & Dictatorship away from USA. From 'Rosie the Rivetors" to the Fromt Line, God Bless & Keep Them ALL!

  • @andydufresne8034
    @andydufresne8034 Před 2 měsíci +100

    I recently heard the story of a Luftwaffe fighter pilot flying high over a B-17 close to the ground over Germany which was shot full of holes and barely staying airborne. He flew down for a closer look and couldn't bring himself to shoot them down. Instead, he escorted them to the English Channel and saluted as he turned back. The pilots met years later and became dear friends. I love hearing stories of good Germans risking it all to do the right thing in that war.

    • @GrantBaker
      @GrantBaker Před měsícem +19

      Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler were the two pilots.

    • @nobodyimportant9127
      @nobodyimportant9127 Před měsícem +7

      Sabaton "no bullets fly"

    • @SK-xp9xi
      @SK-xp9xi Před měsícem

      So the Germans had more heart…. History full of lies talking like they were the worst 😂 uk and USA and Soviet Union were all devils incarnate!!! Churchill was a rascist war monger!! No different than Stalin or hitler!! 6 million German women raped after the war… you call yourself good guys?

    • @charlesdesaintlaurent5957
      @charlesdesaintlaurent5957 Před měsícem

      Thanks Mate cxz

    • @somedumbozzie1539
      @somedumbozzie1539 Před měsícem +5

      I heard a similar story of a Spitfire pilot who out climbed a 109 and passed out at 30,000ft when he came around he was spiralling at about 2000ft he managed to gather it up and when he looked for the enemy they were on either side him expecting them to have another go at him, they just saluted him and turned back for Germany.

  • @fun2916
    @fun2916 Před 3 měsíci +173

    My grandfather was in the 8th Air Force during WWII. He was a flight engineer and waist gunner. He survived 30 missions over Europe and then volunteered to fly more missions in the pacific theater of operations. His stories blew my mind

  • @dailyrider2975
    @dailyrider2975 Před 3 měsíci +547

    My grandfather had to house German soldiers while they occupied Holland. They got lucky not to get SS troops, but they ended up with one that had been on the Russian front. He was rough and taken a mental beating on the Eastern front. But my family survived and came out OK. Some crazy stories my Dad told of his time back then.

    • @psychshell4644
      @psychshell4644 Před 3 měsíci +50

      Hollander's still thank American soldiers for their freedom to this day. May we never take our freedom for granted.

    • @unkannyunkanny9232
      @unkannyunkanny9232 Před 3 měsíci +16

      Record your Dad's stories so your family doesn't lose them.

    • @tonyryan1574
      @tonyryan1574 Před 3 měsíci +10

      Do you thank the Canadian and British soldiers too?​@psychshell4644

    • @psychshell4644
      @psychshell4644 Před 3 měsíci +12

      @tonyryan1574 Most WW2 veterans have passed away. I leave the international commradarie to my son, who is an active duty U. S. Army soldier who has trained NATO forces. Our military & veterans do not get enough praise for the work they do and the sacrifice they make in the name of our nation.

    • @tonyryan1574
      @tonyryan1574 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @psychshell4644 I served in Germany during the cold war alongside U.S troops. My nephew is joining the army when he leaves school. My grandfather's medals and his brothers memorial scroll from 1941 is hanging on my wall. My friend is an ex SBS soldier. A lad I served with lost his soldier father to the ira when he was a baby.
      I'd say I'm qualified to speak mate.

  • @shannahornung6637
    @shannahornung6637 Před 3 měsíci +1203

    Funny, combat zones look different but, the lack of food, sleep and, hygiene are the same 😂 you know what they say “if your low on everything but enemy, your in combat.”

    • @sadierose2890
      @sadierose2890 Před 3 měsíci +30

      You’re… “you are”
      Your= ownership (“your lack of communication, your attempt at explanation”)
      🌈🪬

    • @smedleyfarnsworth263
      @smedleyfarnsworth263 Před 3 měsíci

      @@sadierose2890 Pluck cough.

    • @MDE_never_dies
      @MDE_never_dies Před 3 měsíci +28

      @@sadierose2890Thank you Hans.

    • @cameronmcguire1599
      @cameronmcguire1599 Před 3 měsíci +15

      Never heard that before, but it says so much about combat in a way all of us can understand.
      Akin to Sherman's quote, "War is Hell, and there is no refining it."

    • @LoudaroundLincoln
      @LoudaroundLincoln Před 3 měsíci

      ​@sadierose2890 nobody cares, son.

  • @MiG-21_SPS-K
    @MiG-21_SPS-K Před 3 měsíci +63

    My grandfather was in the volkssturm, he only had an armband, panserfaust and a volkssturmgehwehr 1-5 and he helped a panzer division surrender to the americans while under fire from soviets. He survived the war

  • @traceydaizy
    @traceydaizy Před 14 dny +2

    "Mean" that's an understatement.
    Thank you for your service Sir

  • @laymanware7350
    @laymanware7350 Před 2 měsíci +5

    We the people of the United States 🇺🇸 of America owe this man and so many like him so much. This generation helped save Europe and the USA.
    Thank you sir

    • @alrightsure9941
      @alrightsure9941 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Imagine thinking they saved europe when its worse off than ever before.

  • @jetcarddude
    @jetcarddude Před 2 měsíci +3

    One of the Greatest Generation.. Bless them all.

  • @jerirobinson8079
    @jerirobinson8079 Před 2 měsíci +35

    Thank you for everything you've done for our country

    • @SeverityOne
      @SeverityOne Před měsícem +1

      Not so much for the USA, but for Europe.
      My parents were toddlers when the Germans invaded. They were 5 and 6 when the war ended. My mum remembers the sound of bombers flying over. These must have been Allied ones, on their way to Germany.
      My in-laws lived on the most bombed place in the world during WW2. My late father-in-law fell three floors from a balcony that collapsed after yet another bombardment. That country was never occupied, contrary to my native country, but the bombing was worse than anywhere else on the planet.
      My father-in-law never spoke about the war.

  • @oledahammer8393
    @oledahammer8393 Před 2 měsíci +27

    My Uncle Bill was 82nd Airborne in D-Day and fought in the Bulge to stop the big push in northern "bulge" and the 101st Airborne rushed in stop the southern "bulge". He survived the war somehow. Thanks Uncle Bill for your service to preserve the way of life I have gotten to live!

    • @user-uy8wx4pk4h
      @user-uy8wx4pk4h Před 2 měsíci

      Your Uncle Bill fought for evil. If you still think he fought to preserve your way of life then you are too stupid to be allowed freedom

    • @aanderson2880
      @aanderson2880 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Same for my dad- .82nd, D-day, Battle of the bulge. The cold was bad.

  • @RobertHoward-xp3vl
    @RobertHoward-xp3vl Před 3 měsíci +18

    My dad was with the 29 th division 104 medical battalion company A. He never talked much to me about his service. He was and still is my hero. I love you Dad.

    • @user-uy8wx4pk4h
      @user-uy8wx4pk4h Před 2 měsíci

      Why does every boomer have to list their father/uncle's WW2 service records? No one cares. Those idiots fought for the wrong side. They fought for evil. Only boomer still believe the Germans were bad.

  • @JosephMiller-gh6mv
    @JosephMiller-gh6mv Před 3 měsíci +180

    My uncle died at battle of the bulge , it took me a long time to watch a documentary on it.

  • @glenn6583
    @glenn6583 Před 2 měsíci +9

    Thank you Sir for your contribution. Glad you made it back!

  • @moleculemagician8616
    @moleculemagician8616 Před měsícem +2

    Thank you for your service to our Constitution and our country.

  • @robertgoebel8149
    @robertgoebel8149 Před 3 měsíci +66

    My grandparents were in the wermacht and they served on the French campaign and the eastern front in Russia. Their stories were very condescending my grandfather from the French campaign had some what pleasent experience but my grandfather from the eastern campaign had a horrible dreadful painful greusom deathly experience. My grandfathers are from a town in Bavaria called Alzenau. I miss them very much and am sadden what they had to go through during the war. 🇩🇪

    • @juliehock6059
      @juliehock6059 Před 2 měsíci +7

      Yes, ordinary GErmans also had no choice - my uncle who was an industrial chemist and a pacifist had the choice join the army or get shot.

    • @RoosterFloyd
      @RoosterFloyd Před 2 měsíci +6

      Instead of condescending the better word to use is 'contrasting', which means "Differing Strikingly" I'm not being rude, I assume you aren't a native English speaker and figured I would offer some advice.
      Whether they enlisted or were conscripted I'm glad to hear you are proud of them and love them. All a man can do in this world is what he thinks is right and they fought bravely for their nation and people. I've met many Germans who are ashamed of their great grandfathers as if they were monsters.. it is disheartening to hear.

    • @Stephonix1st
      @Stephonix1st Před 27 dny

      Boo😿Hoo

  • @TS-np6co
    @TS-np6co Před 3 měsíci +324

    “We saw something coming, we were told not to fire, it was the British, they were all running, they looked bad, ripped up, terrible and the fear in their eyes as they ran, nothing made me more afraid in my life. Not the Normandy landings or any other part of it. And THEN you heard the engines of the German tanks. And it was cold. And you knew everything they had left was coming at you through those woods.” - Of the very few words my grandfather ever spoke of the war, in reference to the Battle of the Bulge. I needed no further context.
    Edit: Since the concept of British and Canadian forces fighting at the Battle of the Bulge (and apparently the war) seems to be in question. General Montgomery was temporarily appointed command of all allied troops north of the bulging line on December 19th 1944. Furthermore, General Patton strongly disliked Montgomery because his British counterpart continually was given the heavy fuel and ammo needed to make major assaults while the tactically superior General Patton was passed over for the roles. The reason being that the British had been fighting the Germans since late 1939 and the Brits frankly wanted heads to roll for The Blitz and considered it their war. Eisenhower probably believed more than anything he was saving American lives by letting the Brits take and frankly require they take the worst of it. Recall Germany declared war on the USA following the attacks on Pearl Harbor and not the other way around. That’s why we fought in the European Theater.

    • @Horribulus
      @Horribulus Před 3 měsíci +5

      Couldn't have been British soldiers

    • @TS-np6co
      @TS-np6co Před 3 měsíci +54

      @@Horribulus 55,000 British troops were part of the Battle of the Bulge, it most certainly was.

    • @knoll9812
      @knoll9812 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Sounds unusual. British joined the fight later on after Germans were stopped.

    • @TS-np6co
      @TS-np6co Před 3 měsíci

      @@knoll9812 Montgomery was temporarily placed in command of all allied units north between Givet and Prum on December 19th. Well before any Germans were even considering the prospect of defeat. I don’t know where you got that nonsense from but it is as the Brits would say “Rubbish”. Montgomery was constantly given the fuel and ammo over American divisions because the Brits were the real spearhead force in the war. That’s just a fact. The Brits wanted blood from The Blitz. They wanted Germans dead more for it. I’m a proud American Paratrooper and that’s just a fact pal. I don’t care to give the Brits anything more than they deserve but they were the front line for the majority of the war. And they fought in the Bulge, in lesser numbers than the Americans, but they still fought and died.

    • @callumhaines6874
      @callumhaines6874 Před 3 měsíci +16

      @@knoll9812I think you’re talking about Americans lol. It was the British and Soviets that did the heavy lifting. Americans didn’t join the war until they realised they could win. There’s a word for that, it’s called cowardice.

  • @alisonwalter2698
    @alisonwalter2698 Před 3 měsíci +470

    Thank you for your service, Sir. God Bless You!

    • @user-bx3hz6wl5m
      @user-bx3hz6wl5m Před 3 měsíci

      The German Army committed more atrocities than the Waffen SS, and that's saying something!

    • @okaydookay8556
      @okaydookay8556 Před 3 měsíci +13

      No

    • @airbrushken5339
      @airbrushken5339 Před 3 měsíci +12

      @@okaydookay8556 you need to re-evaluate your critical thinking man!
      (2/502 Infantry, 101st Airborne) I agree, Thank you for your service!

    • @chrisrussell7012
      @chrisrussell7012 Před 3 měsíci +11

      ​@okaydookay8556 men like this are the reason you don't speak German show some respect.

    • @gordonsylvester8457
      @gordonsylvester8457 Před 3 měsíci +10

      What did he think of western Europe 2024?
      Thank you for your... Service.

  • @alvashoemaker8536
    @alvashoemaker8536 Před 2 měsíci +2

    THANK YOU, Sir, for the effort you made in protecting us…! (I’m glad you made it home !). 🇺🇸🇺🇸👍🏻👍🏻‼️

  • @disc_golfing_with_d
    @disc_golfing_with_d Před 2 měsíci +3

    “…they were MEAN people…” Understatement of the century 😳😆

  • @Autistic_Cl0wn
    @Autistic_Cl0wn Před 3 měsíci +234

    The SS were mainly volunteers, that’s the biggest difference. MOST of them WANTED to be in the SS.

    • @joesplaylist9429
      @joesplaylist9429 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Thats what made them such p.o.s....

    • @davidlynch9049
      @davidlynch9049 Před 3 měsíci

      This is the correct answer. They also worshipped Hitler and most despised Jews.

    • @mamavswild
      @mamavswild Před 3 měsíci +41

      My grandpa would often talk about his time
      In Europe…some people can talk about it, others don’t. He would never tell us the super bad stories but he was just a good storyteller. He once said ‘the ss were ideologically motivated, whereas the regular army soldiers were just fighting for the nation. The ss were NOT fighting for their nation, they were fighting for their ideology’
      One quote that really got to me was when he said ‘they would have torn Germany to the ground if it meant they could meet their ideological goals, they didn’t care for their country, they cared about themselves’

    • @Merecir
      @Merecir Před 3 měsíci

      Any foreigner who volunteered to join the German army were automatically put into the Waffen-SS.
      So for example the Swedes who had volunteered to fight for Finland so they could fight Russians - but did not reach the front until the fighting was over - when they instead went to Germany to join up to fight the Russians, they were put in the SS. And are forever after called nazis for doing so.

    • @TheKieselstein
      @TheKieselstein Před 3 měsíci +61

      ​@@mamavswild You sure your grandfather said this, and not your television?

  • @davidearly7147
    @davidearly7147 Před 2 měsíci +3

    You TROOPS are our American PATRIOT Heroes!!! Thank you Sir for your service.

  • @johnym89
    @johnym89 Před 3 měsíci +9

    My Grandfather was in gen. Maczeks First Div. He rarely spoke of war, but in one story he said that after three days of fighting, they found a barn. Parked their tank in it and went to sleep. The guarding guy fell asleep as well. In the morning the barn was just gone. No one woke up to it being leveled to the ground.

    • @crisespinoza1979
      @crisespinoza1979 Před 2 měsíci +1

      holy chit!! i have an idea how tired they were to miss that.

  • @nikolaipotapenkov8823
    @nikolaipotapenkov8823 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Grandpa
    You did outstanding job 👏👏👏

  • @amiddleagedparkrat
    @amiddleagedparkrat Před 3 měsíci +162

    My great uncle, Michael Cozzi, lied about his age to enlist before 18, and was sadly killed at the age of 19 during the Battle of the Bulge.
    Rest in peace, Mickey, and thank you for your ultimate sacrifice for our nation, Sir. 🇺🇸

    • @thad1488
      @thad1488 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Died fighting his racial brothers. Just so jewish communists could flood our nations with non Whites. Sad sad sad

    • @CaptainHarlock-kv4zt
      @CaptainHarlock-kv4zt Před 3 měsíci +9

      Not only for your Nation. His sacrifice was for us all. Greetings from Greece.🇬🇷♥️🇺🇸

    • @louscannon6265
      @louscannon6265 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Bulge not bugle...

    • @DoubleDogDare54
      @DoubleDogDare54 Před 3 měsíci +3

      My Uncle Billy was in the Battle of the Bulge. He'd fought his way across Europe having enlisted right after Pearl Harbor. "The Bulge" was the last straw for him mentally. The stress was so great he was affected with "battle fatigue" as a result. He was shipped back State side and spent three years in a sanitarium before he could go home.

    • @amiddleagedparkrat
      @amiddleagedparkrat Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt That's actually a much better way to look at it. Greetings from the States 🇺🇸✌🇬🇷

  • @waynefay8210
    @waynefay8210 Před 3 měsíci +47

    tears fill my eyes
    I thank God I was never in this man's shoes (I was born in 55)

    • @zumbinisgm
      @zumbinisgm Před 3 měsíci +1

      I also was born that year. My dad was in the US Navy in the Pacific, 1942-1945.

    • @jarraandyftm
      @jarraandyftm Před 3 měsíci +1

      And you’re crying about that? Man up ffs

    • @waynefay8210
      @waynefay8210 Před 3 měsíci

      @@jarraandyftm I certainly am
      what sort of comment is "man up"?
      Do you completely lack empathy?
      What sort of hollow soul do you have?

    • @janetmalcolm6191
      @janetmalcolm6191 Před měsícem

      I was born that year. I still have pics of my dad out in the Pacific. We learnt more about what he went through my mum and I only over recent years. With stuff on tv etc. Lots of stuff she never knew about. She has recently passed but my dad took to drink and bouts of depression thinking about the war afterwards. It never really left him. He was such a good kind man himself. My grandfather used to help with him after going through WW1 in France himself. War ruins peoples lives. For most of their lives. Such a shame and we have not learnt even now have we.

  • @julianjeffbissette7238
    @julianjeffbissette7238 Před 3 měsíci +214

    My Dad, Julian S Bissette was in General Patton's 64th armored tank division as a combat medic.

    • @williestyle35
      @williestyle35 Před 3 měsíci +14

      Thank you for mentioning your father's service. My dad served at home for the U S Army signal corps, working with British advisors on radar. May they rest in peace.

    • @chinchintabete
      @chinchintabete Před 3 měsíci +17

      And we all know what Patton said about the Germans...

    • @abeedhal6519
      @abeedhal6519 Před 3 měsíci +17

      @@chinchintabete And everybody deep down knows he was right.

    • @vipwanrinkle6439
      @vipwanrinkle6439 Před 3 měsíci

      @@chinchintabeteyou have completely misunderstood what he was trying to say. He absolutely despised the nazis and their allies so not only did he want to destroy them, he wanted to keep pushing into Russia and go to war with them. Sorry to burst your neo nazi bubble but Patton wasn’t some nazi sympathizer.

    • @joelglanton6531
      @joelglanton6531 Před 3 měsíci +12

      Thanks to your family for fighting for homosexual special rights

  • @tedpikul1
    @tedpikul1 Před 3 měsíci +80

    Thank you for your service, sir.

    • @special_signi2998
      @special_signi2998 Před 3 měsíci

      Now France and Britain (which the Allies saved from the HECKING BAD GUYS!!!) looks 3rd world because of the 3rd worlders

    • @user-uy8wx4pk4h
      @user-uy8wx4pk4h Před 2 měsíci +4

      He fought for evil. He should not be thanked.

    • @johnfoster2584
      @johnfoster2584 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Bankers won

  • @TheSuzberry
    @TheSuzberry Před 3 měsíci +6

    Thank you for coming back to tell the story.

    • @user-uy8wx4pk4h
      @user-uy8wx4pk4h Před 2 měsíci

      No one cares. The generation that fought on the wrong side should not be lionized .

  • @themenace4017
    @themenace4017 Před 3 měsíci +33

    When I was around 7-8 years old, there was a piason of the family who was also in this battle and told me all he remembered, about a hour and some tears, I ❤️ military families

  • @GdHr-oz5ph
    @GdHr-oz5ph Před 2 měsíci +7

    We owe them everything. ❤🇺🇸

  • @kathygreer2097
    @kathygreer2097 Před 3 měsíci +6

    THANK YOU for your service.❤

  • @erwinbenally8027
    @erwinbenally8027 Před 14 dny

    I can't say thank you enough when i hear of stories of endurance to stand against an enemy. Thank you for your sacrifice.

  • @MH5XXXX
    @MH5XXXX Před 3 měsíci +13

    I couldnt handle that. THE folks who went thru this HELL WERE A VERY SPECIAL KIND OF FOLKS. VERY MUCH RESPECT TO THEM

  • @sandrakisch3600
    @sandrakisch3600 Před 3 měsíci +12

    Thank you, sir, for your service and all who fought for Freedom.

  • @user-bn2uw4bx9p
    @user-bn2uw4bx9p Před 3 měsíci +26

    Bless you, Sir. My dad was in the Battle of the Bulge, he was wounded but he got to come home and lived to be 80 years old.❤️

    • @user-nf6zs4sw7y
      @user-nf6zs4sw7y Před 3 měsíci +3

      My Father as well- he stayed in the Army for 28 years..Miss You Pop!❤

    • @user-uy8wx4pk4h
      @user-uy8wx4pk4h Před 2 měsíci

      No one cares boomer

    • @user-uy8wx4pk4h
      @user-uy8wx4pk4h Před 2 měsíci

      @@user-nf6zs4sw7y No one cares

    • @janetmalcolm6191
      @janetmalcolm6191 Před měsícem

      Many so lucky to live on as many had enlisted at such young ages. 17 was common. Everything ground to a halt. No college or schooling so they joined up. Like my dad. The women did the land army and the factory work. Like my mother and her sister.

  • @ButchBrown7
    @ButchBrown7 Před 2 měsíci +1

    God Bless all the Service men who are still alive to tell their stories 🙏

  • @wheelz23
    @wheelz23 Před 3 měsíci +78

    A real warrior of a man right here. Thank you sir for your service.

    • @TheScotian82
      @TheScotian82 Před 3 měsíci +7

      oh yea real warrior.
      You realize America came in to BOTH world wars once everyone else was bloody exhausted, right?

    • @johnanon658
      @johnanon658 Před 3 měsíci

      @@TheScotian82yep, and to bail out bankers and ultimately prop up the ussr. Yeah, those GIs served us all good n hard all right

    • @shy404usernotfound
      @shy404usernotfound Před 3 měsíci +10

      ​@@TheScotian82 Like 1941? Boy, y'all get exhausted QUICK then, according to you.

    • @shy404usernotfound
      @shy404usernotfound Před 3 měsíci +9

      ​@@TheScotian82 every single one of your comments under these vids, is being negative towards the USA, saying "we're ruining the West" and how "vastly overrated" we were in both wars. Tell me, how EXACTLY is that? What is being "ruined" for you, personally right now by the US? What country are you in? How are we overrated in the WWs? If you actually answer. I suspect you won't.

    • @nickos9523
      @nickos9523 Před 3 měsíci

      He didnt answer ​@@shy404usernotfound

  • @thomascorrea3937
    @thomascorrea3937 Před 3 měsíci +206

    Thank you Sir for your service

    • @chrisrussell7012
      @chrisrussell7012 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@user-ox7xr8nu4t what's your point

    • @whisper8742
      @whisper8742 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@user-ox7xr8nu4tThe Profiteers are still smiling...

    • @johnanon658
      @johnanon658 Před 3 měsíci +15

      You sure about that op? You seen the world we are living in now? Because it is exactly the result of this fool and so many others fighting on the wrong side

    • @Mr.Neophyte
      @Mr.Neophyte Před 3 měsíci +11

      ​@@johnanon658 so you're a Nazi? Cool lmao

    • @matthewbolton611
      @matthewbolton611 Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@johnanon658 is cause of you. Ur too lost in the kool aid.

  • @charlesoneill6760
    @charlesoneill6760 Před 3 měsíci +18

    My great grandfather David McAllister drove tanks in the army during the island hopping campaign of WW2. When we all would gather as a family, I remember my cousins all going up to the playroom while I sat in front of this man on the living room floor, listening to tank battle stories. After he passed away, I saw pictures of him, hanging like a monkey from his Sherman’s gun. I just wish I could remember more of those stories.

  • @bangeryun94
    @bangeryun94 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Listening to these stories is an honour. They're amazing acts of courage and sacrifice. My extended family members fought in the Pacific Theatre.

  • @MT-tn4ei
    @MT-tn4ei Před 3 měsíci +92

    Thank you for your service, sir. God bless

    • @Manperor
      @Manperor Před 3 měsíci +2

      He won't read this

    • @punishedgloyperstormtroope8098
      @punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 Před 3 měsíci +6

      Service for what?

    • @chrisrussell7012
      @chrisrussell7012 Před 3 měsíci +6

      ​@@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098dude fought ww2 literally saved the world from hitler.

    • @theamericanextremist
      @theamericanextremist Před 3 měsíci

      @@chrisrussell7012they didn’t save the world from anything. They stopped Hitler from eradicating communism and helped establish the state of Israel

    • @johnanon658
      @johnanon658 Před 3 měsíci +7

      @@chrisrussell7012lmao, you really believe that that vet fought on the good side, with the ussr???

  • @lisaanderson7924
    @lisaanderson7924 Před 3 měsíci +17

    I wish I could sit down with a WWII vet & listen to all their tales of war, they were truly humble & pragmatic.

    • @basher5107
      @basher5107 Před 3 měsíci +1

      There on here all you have to do is search

    • @janetmalcolm6191
      @janetmalcolm6191 Před měsícem

      Not many left alive now! Every year goes by less and less. They would be ashamed of how things are panning out now in both Britain and USA.

  • @lynnfisher3037
    @lynnfisher3037 Před 3 měsíci +10

    Thank you sir. We will never know the horrors and discomfort all of you went through. God bless you 💓

  • @elpanchito421
    @elpanchito421 Před 2 měsíci +1

    My granddad was a British commando on Crete. His ‘Layforce’ unit fought a rearguard action defending the allied retreat and were left behind to become POWs. He had nothing but praise for the German mountain troops who he fought against - said they were brilliant soldiers and dignified men. The SS, however, he described as “thoroughbred bastards” who regularly dished out sadistic punishments in the POW camp.

  • @crhu319
    @crhu319 Před 2 měsíci +7

    Funmy how a guy representing Gallician SS was invited to D-Day this year. Something is wrong.

    • @CarolCote-kd2is
      @CarolCote-kd2is Před 28 dny

      Not funny. It shows to whom tweedle Dee and tweedle dumb are taking their orders from. Karma is a b*tch

  • @dimitri4964
    @dimitri4964 Před 3 měsíci +10

    Thank you for you service Sir.🇺🇲

    • @user-uy8wx4pk4h
      @user-uy8wx4pk4h Před 2 měsíci +3

      He fought for evil. He should not be thanked but condemned.

    • @blitz8221
      @blitz8221 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@user-uy8wx4pk4hHe fought the nazis. The US aren't good, but they're far better than Nazi Germany. They killed 3 of my family members, and caused the rest to live in poverty.

    • @jonnycatland1987
      @jonnycatland1987 Před 2 měsíci +3

      You’re speaking to a wall. These guys read the “history” books so they’re cemented in their mind-cells.

  • @kevinjang2075
    @kevinjang2075 Před 3 měsíci +30

    Sir Harry Miller, thank you for your service. God bless you.

    • @ReinertZerker
      @ReinertZerker Před 3 měsíci

      What a good Goy, to help the communist sweep across Europe and America and dismantle their institutions with corruption within. He did his part, as a Christian, to serve the Jew.

  • @Jaecht88
    @Jaecht88 Před 2 měsíci +1

    This man had experience of a whole nother level of savageness. He fought a war against a strong and well equipped, well organized and determined enemy

  • @janetslicer3637
    @janetslicer3637 Před 3 měsíci +18

    Thank you for your service sir. Thank you for the sacrifice of your buddies that never came home. We will never forget you! ♥️🙏🇺🇲

    • @johnanon658
      @johnanon658 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Yes, we can thank him and his buddies for trans pride story hour at the local library, etc etc, because that is exactly what he was fighting for.

    • @anon2427
      @anon2427 Před 3 měsíci

      These men fought so america and Europe could degenerate into what they are today. Despicable

    • @joaquinvideo2959
      @joaquinvideo2959 Před 3 měsíci

      @@johnanon658I mean, trans people were sent to death camps by the nazis, so yes, at least a little, that was what he was fighting for, now, go to Nuremburg fasci

  • @truthpopup
    @truthpopup Před 3 měsíci +17

    This interview is preserved forever in history.

  • @user-lk5do2pc3x
    @user-lk5do2pc3x Před 3 měsíci +8

    These are the types of men (& women) who made/keep America safe & helped us to retain our freedoms…thanks to all of you for loving your country 🇺🇸 & all of yours sacrifices (and your family’s sacrifices ) to keep America 🇺🇸, her citizens & our allies safe. God bless all of you & God bless America 🇺🇸🙏🏻✝️🕊️

    • @ReinertZerker
      @ReinertZerker Před 3 měsíci

      How can you be this dumb and be able to write?

    • @Dasistrite
      @Dasistrite Před 3 měsíci +7

      What freedom? To teach your kids about eating da poopoo?

    • @valnwk
      @valnwk Před 3 měsíci

      I agree with you. These men in uniform, and men wearing overalls builded America, now people wearing suits destroyed.

    • @ricksomething
      @ricksomething Před 3 měsíci +2

      He's upset over mean people. That's pretty soft.

    • @user-ce1qr8gb8x
      @user-ce1qr8gb8x Před 3 měsíci

      Yeah they paved the way for America to become non white majority in just a few generations!!! But at least we arent speaking german huh?
      Absolute bot

  • @hideakiakio6698
    @hideakiakio6698 Před 3 měsíci +5

    There was 1 story about an ss soldier running into his own minefield to save a us soldier

    • @janetmalcolm6191
      @janetmalcolm6191 Před měsícem

      Possibly untrue though a Japanese guard let my father go on capture. There are always the good exceptions.

  • @jonbarkley7073
    @jonbarkley7073 Před 3 měsíci +6

    We invited an ss soldier into parliament to be praised and honored in canada and dont get me started on our finance ministers grandfathers nazi reign in Ukraine.

    • @CarolCote-kd2is
      @CarolCote-kd2is Před 28 dny

      Tweedle Dee and tweedle dumb, karma is a b*tch

    • @ravanpee1325
      @ravanpee1325 Před 11 dny

      Foreign soldiers were not allowed in the Wehrmacht so they automatically had to join the Waffen-SS

  • @BrotherHoodofTheDogxix
    @BrotherHoodofTheDogxix Před 3 měsíci +5

    We can’t forget his words or first hand experience.

    • @user-uy8wx4pk4h
      @user-uy8wx4pk4h Před 2 měsíci +1

      Correct - we can't forget that the WW2 generation fought for evil against the righteous Germans and destroyed their own grandchildren's' futures.

  • @larzgod
    @larzgod Před 2 měsíci +1

    A level of manhood and brotherhood mere mortals will never understand

  • @heathj9403
    @heathj9403 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Mean bastards actually believed in something.

    • @TrueEnglishMan01
      @TrueEnglishMan01 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Yep, they believed in crimes against humanity.

    • @GuyFieri-uf4jw
      @GuyFieri-uf4jw Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@TrueEnglishMan01 they tried to save humanity and we didnt listen

  • @jamesklima4078
    @jamesklima4078 Před 3 měsíci +7

    My Father survived the Battle of the Bulge

  • @wire54321
    @wire54321 Před 3 měsíci +4

    Thank You for your Service!

  • @Zulu2020
    @Zulu2020 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Veterans we are proud of you and will never forget the greatest generation

  • @Anymouse6980
    @Anymouse6980 Před 3 měsíci +64

    First Iraq war tankers endured the same.

    • @pauliecopez2683
      @pauliecopez2683 Před 3 měsíci +14

      For two weeks

    • @Irondiver1
      @Irondiver1 Před 3 měsíci +25

      yeah, WW2 and 1st Iraq war aren't comparable.

    • @pauliecopez2683
      @pauliecopez2683 Před 3 měsíci +13

      @@Irondiver1 Not even close

    • @MilaArfaqila
      @MilaArfaqila Před 3 měsíci

      Was it a war ?

    • @Xer405
      @Xer405 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@Irondiver1 Tank combat was the aame conditions not that the war was the same. Big difference, they just pushed amd slept and ate when they could.

  • @davidserrano4877
    @davidserrano4877 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Golem

  • @Rajonas007
    @Rajonas007 Před 3 měsíci +36

    Main difference between then and now is that back then they had a gf waiting for them or at least some hope of finding one. Now there's no family, no relationships, no financial motivation for wining. You come back to life alone and broke or you pass away. This is what next war will be like

    • @GuyFieri-uf4jw
      @GuyFieri-uf4jw Před 3 měsíci +14

      back when women were loyal and wanted family

    • @VeidtEnterprises
      @VeidtEnterprises Před 2 měsíci +6

      & that is why the US/NATO will lose, as they should. The US has all but fallen.

    • @tkatrich3
      @tkatrich3 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@GuyFieri-uf4jw Well you guys have to stop writing and saying horrible things like "women are gross used up desperate old hags if they aren't married with kids before they turn 30". Then maybe we'd actually want you for company and not 6 cats. :)

    • @drabhand
      @drabhand Před 2 měsíci +3

      I've heard lots of anecdotes from conflict, this one hits hard. Readjustment is almost impossible, there's always something there.

    • @atari7001
      @atari7001 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Divorce pays. Women know that. They’ll dump you for money. And the government made it that way intentionally. When men finally man up and say NO to the 50% crap, women will wise up and families will heal.

  • @duneflower8279
    @duneflower8279 Před 2 měsíci +1

    To all veterans & members of the armed forces, God bless you & your loved ones. Thank you for your service.

  • @SveinJohnnyFedje
    @SveinJohnnyFedje Před 3 měsíci +19

    People should really watch Europa - The Last Battle!

  • @jojokeane
    @jojokeane Před 2 měsíci +7

    He speaks of his hardships so matter of factly. GenZ talks of their trivial troubles with hatred and venom.

    • @mfawls9624
      @mfawls9624 Před měsícem

      White privilege.
      My dad was in the Pacific...you know, the theater that literally only got 30% support in materials and manpower. Another illustration of living in a whate male's world.

  • @davidweikle9921
    @davidweikle9921 Před 3 měsíci +35

    My grandfather joined the army as a young man during World War II. He would be 100 this November if he was still alive.

    • @USMC6169
      @USMC6169 Před 3 měsíci

      So he’s voting for Biden this November? JK bro, thank you for his service. Put him side by side with 18 yr olds today. Smh, not even close

    • @davidweikle9921
      @davidweikle9921 Před 3 měsíci +3

      @USMC6169 he's been gone for over 3 decades. I'm sure his identity has been passed around more than a barracks bunny.

    • @stetomlinson3146
      @stetomlinson3146 Před 3 měsíci +1

      I have a relative who joined the Royal Navy at 12, and fought at Trafalgar. He’d be 231 if he was still alive! Different times! 😂😂

    • @davidweikle9921
      @davidweikle9921 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @stetomlinson3146 I have a great uncle who joined the US Marines at 15. By the time he turned 18, he was a corporal and a drill instructor during the Korean War. The world has changed, and not always for the better.

    • @USMC6169
      @USMC6169 Před 3 měsíci

      @@stetomlinson3146so he’s still voting…for Q. Elizabeth too. My mom is officially 97 and she’s voting for Biden. Smh…she died in 2012.

  • @herrMuesli
    @herrMuesli Před 2 měsíci +1

    My Granpa was with a artillery unit in Poland. After second time the got rolled over by tanks by russians he and the only other survivor stole some civilian clothing and went home. He told me that on the way back he was terrified beeing shot by SS units in the rear. He was 19 back in the day and died with 91 - he was loving and caring grandfather!

  • @WatcherOfTheReaper
    @WatcherOfTheReaper Před měsícem +3

    A deer hunter gives thanks to God once they kill their deer, it's an emotional moment, they are out of breath, trembling, excited and sad at the same time. It's a deer, it's life, it's beautiful, and it's meat and hide nourishes, not one part wasted. Yet we have people on here talking like this about their own brothers? These were your brothers and sisters.

  • @Homus1337
    @Homus1337 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Good for you hope you enjoy todays America :D

  • @robertkeyes3263
    @robertkeyes3263 Před 3 měsíci +7

    Would love to talk to this combat veteran.

  • @TheDerperado
    @TheDerperado Před 28 dny

    I was a gunner in Armored Personnel Carrier in the army and I tell you, the seat made you sleepy in 5 minutes.
    During exercises, our vehicle often just stood still and waited for several hours, and I often fell asleep.
    You were not supposed to sleep while on duty, so I had my headset on and I learnt to wake up if someone said my name on the comms.
    Later I woke up if someone just talked to me, even without mentioning my name.
    Eventually I woke up if someone just said anything that might consern me.
    Even when asleep, my brain was constantly listeng to the comms and maintained some level of awareness. And somehow my brain knew exactly when I should be woken up.
    It's amazing how well the human brain can adapt to different situations.

  • @-ruttley3457
    @-ruttley3457 Před 3 měsíci +10

    By the time America faced the SS, they were also mostly draftees

    • @knoll9812
      @knoll9812 Před 3 měsíci

      Divisions differed. However the many problem they had was no air support and completely overmatched in support services.

    • @John-me7tx
      @John-me7tx Před 3 měsíci

      Lies , schatzi

  • @MustyChalupa
    @MustyChalupa Před 3 měsíci +7

    We should have never fought someone that should’ve been our ally

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 Před 3 měsíci

      *1945*
      🤡🤡🤡
      Geh woanders trollen
      *Kleiner Fascho*

  • @duyas1628
    @duyas1628 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Yeah alot of those old guys are really regretting who they fought now.

  • @NoName-mv1mw
    @NoName-mv1mw Před měsícem

    Strong. Brave. Men.
    Thank you for your service; may God bless you.

  • @willyishere
    @willyishere Před 3 měsíci +51

    The SS did draft men towards the end of the war, though.

    • @davidlynch9049
      @davidlynch9049 Před 3 měsíci +2

      They drafted old men and young boys given the decimation in their ranks.

    • @willyishere
      @willyishere Před 3 měsíci +17

      @davidlynch9049 Not true. The SS maintained relatively strict recruiting standards throughout the war, even denying many Germans entry due to height, ancestry, etc. I believe you're thinking of the Hitler Youth (boys) and Volkssturm (mainly WW1 veterans) used in the defense of Berlin.

    • @rafaa4988
      @rafaa4988 Před 3 měsíci

      ​​​​​@@willyishereThat's not true either. The Wehrmacht had a higher standard of racial purity than the Waffen SS from talmost beginning of its existence (Himmler's guidelines were immediately changed after the recruitment began). Moreover, Wehrmacht had sistematic priority for recruits so if someone meets idealized nazi standards, hete were taken by the competition. Therefore, out of a million people in the Waffen SS, half were forcibly mobilized foreigners, often non-Aryan, which would not have happened on such scale in the Wehrmacht. Also waffen ss was not elite. It had some elite divisions, rest were worse than regulars. Germans in waffen ss had fitness and health standards and trainning level lower than regulars.
      It's sad that so many people consider themselves WW2 experts, but the truth is that their knowledge is limited to Sabaton songs, a few games, short stories of veterans who, in the heat of battle and chaos, did not know what was really happening around them, and war/post-war propaganda.

    • @rexxo4957
      @rexxo4957 Před 3 měsíci

      No excuse

    • @willyishere
      @willyishere Před 3 měsíci +11

      @@rexxo4957 excuse for what?

  • @numbersindia5312
    @numbersindia5312 Před 2 měsíci +3

    People of same creed fighting due to gaslighting by an alien tribe

  • @keithnorrod6878
    @keithnorrod6878 Před 3 měsíci +12

    The Greatest Generation !!
    May God Bless and Keep Him Always 🙏

  • @sharoncassell5273
    @sharoncassell5273 Před 2 měsíci +1

    My uncle was a B25 bombardier. My Dad was Army infantry flame thrower who never talked about it.

  • @jackmeyers7805
    @jackmeyers7805 Před 3 měsíci +10

    Never should have happened.
    NO MORE BROTHER WARS!!!

    • @volvodude101
      @volvodude101 Před 3 měsíci +4

      the fact that there are so many comments here like this is heartwarming. so many people are realizing the truth now. unrelated, where can I get some airtight wooden doors?

    • @jackmeyers7805
      @jackmeyers7805 Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@volvodude101 Same place you get non insulated lighting fixtures that won't ignite hydrogen cyanide gas, of course.

    • @volvodude101
      @volvodude101 Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@jackmeyers7805 nice. I'll see if they have any time-travelling ballpoint pens while we're at it.

    • @specialandroid1603
      @specialandroid1603 Před 2 měsíci

      But it did. Wars will always happen.

  • @nbkawtgnobody
    @nbkawtgnobody Před 3 měsíci +4

    Thank you sir and God Bless!

    • @johnanon658
      @johnanon658 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Thanks for what? Trans storytime at the local library?

    • @test-201
      @test-201 Před 3 měsíci

      @@johnanon658 that in itself is german everything comes from frankfurt in germany

    • @vhufeosqap
      @vhufeosqap Před 3 měsíci

      @@johnanon658why are you trolling so hard?
      Chinese boy or something?

  • @sherryblack6114
    @sherryblack6114 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Thank you for your service. May your plate be full and time to enjoy. Glad you came home. Love from MN. ❤

  • @0Scoops
    @0Scoops Před 3 měsíci +9

    as a norwegian with family history of the war, the wehrmacht was not just "draftees" and i find it appalling anyone would ever make such a claim. The clean wehrmacht is a myth

    • @johnmurdoch8534
      @johnmurdoch8534 Před 3 měsíci +1

      They were all clean. Excpet the likes of the dirlewanger

    • @binary3111
      @binary3111 Před 3 měsíci +2

      ​@@johnmurdoch8534the Wehrmacht was not as bad as the SS by a good measure.
      Sure as hell weren't clean though

    • @johnmurdoch8534
      @johnmurdoch8534 Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@binary3111 they were fighting for a better future for europe. So they were all good. And had they seen the world today theyd have likely fought harder.

    • @binary3111
      @binary3111 Před 3 měsíci +4

      @@johnmurdoch8534 the common idea in Germany for a better Europe was inherently flawed. Current Europe isn't great, but putting it under a nazi regime would see everything fall apart. You can only blame Jews, communists, immigrants and gays for so long - eventually the Nazis would have had to reconcile with the fact their ideology failed. It just so happened they never got that far.

    • @johnmurdoch8534
      @johnmurdoch8534 Před 3 měsíci

      @@binary3111 fascism and ns (which are different) werent set purely around blaming others for flaws but had a positivie vision about WHAT the future would look like after the war. Dont be naive. Current europe is a third rate cesspit with surviellance states at war with their own people actively facilitating invasions from the nonwhite world into their own country who have obliterated the family. Literally a death cult.

  • @HockinHonton
    @HockinHonton Před 3 měsíci +9

    I love history because my dad told me about the Battle of the Bulge in the many battles that he was involved in but he never talked much about what happened he just said his boat was hit somewhere off the coast of Sicily and his friends and soldiers were about ready to drown but some sailor opened the hatch and they all ran out but he didn't talk much about the Battle of the Bulge she just said it was a tough and mean battle that they fought