Prisoner of War at 18! WW2 Veteran Shows Us How He Bailed out of a B-17 and Survived 

Thank you for these videos! Great work. Thank God for these men. ❤🙏

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I hope he lives to be 100 something.

They fought for the freedoms we are losing

Look I absolutely love hearing from this generation. And your doing a great job preserving history! However do what no interviewer ( English speaking) has done yet. German soldiers view on fighting the allies!! We NEED to record this for future generations before they’re all gone!!!

Yeah! What's the alternative?

@@newsguy5241 dieing young

I don't think we get old I think we die because of our sins. The more we sin, the quicker we get old.

@@GospelOfTimothy Charles Manson lived to be 83, dude.

Exactly what my beloved Mother said when she was aged...she was a Christian nurse, compassionate and strong!

Some of us are blessed😎.

Me too!.....Im 61 and he has more hair than I do.....

Genetics man.

I've heard obsessive masturbation causes hair loss among men.

Lol I know how u feel brother 😢

Colonel sanders

I literally just said that before I read it. Dudes is a beast

DB800187- just before my dad passed on in 1991 he went to a w.w.2 reunion but they would not let him in cause he looed age 28 with still black curly hair and zero bald spots. He was born in june 1921 and served in the new zealand army from - may 1940- july 1946.

Yeah this man has great genetics.

i'm 64 and i'd do him. LOL

I thank your father for his service🇺🇸

That was one tough-asses generation. The best so far. Now we have the Soy-boi generation. I love their stories.

The guy hollering in the background?the ads?

Wondered the exact same thing.

they must be demoncrats....

Possibly hit it by accident.

Someone that is ignorant and clueless, and lives in an alternate reality.

It will be

My dad served in the Army Air Corps, unlike you, however he only made it to 84. Hats off to you, sir.

They have a museum there that does interviews with all kinds of Iowan veterans, called "Voices of Iowa", I believe. It's about an hour from where I'm from.

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My grandpa was in uss sullivans. A ship named after the brothers

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@@johnnycaralta where is that at?

THANK THEM AND RIP!

Wow that is a great and true statement

Its all what you make it, ya know

You are absolutely right sir. I’m turning 58 next month and you’ll hear no complaints from me.

@@SoCal780 👍AMEN…

@@SoCal780Hello

Josch...thank you so much for your comment. ALL WAR IS DEVISTATION. 6,000,000 JEWS and 5,000,000 NON - JEWS were murdered. All of Europe was deeply affected and usa as well. Fascism, communism, socialism etc...is the deliberate annihilation of civil liberties and individual rights afforded to mankind.

Glad he made it, I am sure he isn’t happy about all the innocent. Non nazi civilian population the bombs killed though!

Honestly, I think the Marshall Plan did more for post war Germany. I have been to Germany once, and found it a great experience and loved every minute of it.

Time to return the favour

I wish I could hear it from the other side too.

AMEN!

Thank you for your service to our nation from the depths of my being. Really appreciate your patriotism.

AMEN! THANK U'ALL

Same with my Father and Mother; both WW II Vets.

My Grandfather was in the 45th infantry too! He fought in Sicily, Italy, Southern France and Germany. He was in the 180th Regiment and was a Forward Observer. He died in January 1997 at the age of 78.

Thank Him for his service may he RIP!❤

Check out Shawn Ryan Show interviewing Christian Craighead. SAS.....😮 wow

@Storm Designs Nice addition, thank you.

If he looks like this at 94 he must've been fit as hell in his prime.

@@phillipecook3227 yes sir. 20 year old frame, baby face. Amazing listening to him

Dude probably slayed a lot of tang

@@Jackmerius_Tacktheritrix5733 😆🤣🇺🇸🇺🇸

Takes balls! Good man

Did he make it back home ? 🙏

So true. In Canada, many servicemen and women fought during the liberation of Holland......and what is embarrassing is the comparison of what Dutch school children are taught about the liberators who came to save them, compared to the abysmal job the Canadian government are teaching Canadian children. The result today is few Canadians realize the heroic effort Canadian veterans played during the conflict.

Yes AMEN!

I thought the same thing! 👍

I didn’t think about it but you are right

O hell yea! Thank u for u'all service!

Yes 👍

At 4:20 when he made the interviewer repeat the question, I don't think he was slipping. I think he was thinking about someone from back then

Greatest generation!!

what youre talking about ? its mainly their fault whites get blamed for everything nowadays

I agree, the greatest generation.. I have the upmost respect for him.

@@soundofeighthooves Nah liberals are the reason whites get blamed for everything nowadays.

@@soundofeighthooves you know nothing. If it wasn’t for him and “his generation”, snowflakes like you would be working in a German factory for Das Fuhrer for 2 cups of grool with a boot at your neck. Today’s snowflake generation would piss themselves trying to deal with the Japanese and the Germans of 1940’s.

ABSOLUTELY!

Good point. I get what you mean, my friend, especially with the politicians who only pay lip-service or who only "talk the talk," but every single time that I, a pretty normal guy, but brazen patriot, walk up to a veteran or someone in service, look them in the eyes and say those words, the pride I see kindle in those eyes, along with the occasional hint of mist, while we talk for a few minutes, plus their strong handshake (when we could still shake hands!), lets me know that those words are still deeply appreciated, but only as long, kind of like you're saying, as they're said with meaning, and come from the heart. But you're right - buying them a beer or two and just bullshitting for awhile about anything, is something special. But, hey, if you, yourself are a vet, buddy, and some dumb looking slosh like I started out as comes up to you a little timidly, wide eyes kinda looking into into your own, mumbling something that sounds like "tanks!!" through their COVID-19-protective-mask, you can do one of two things after you've assessed those wide eyes for a second or two: (1) Turn and run like Hell in the opposite direction, or (2) Accept him as a newbie in walking up to someone he truely knows is someone special. Maybe he isn't very used to getting to thank his heroes yet, but he's working hard on it, and speaking as one, it comes from the heart and stirs the soul.

I’m 39. When I was a a Marine in Vietnam...hell...same thing as this. Listen to a 90 year old talk. This is a boomer. I was (am) a Marine, he’s a fake.

I feel the same way, but I do believe people who say it do so in good faith for themselves. I like a conversation starter, "Desert Storm, eh? I was a kid when that war started..."

And a Sincere THANK U!

He's a great man! Thank U!

The ball turret gunner was the least likely to survive

Sorry for him

ThAnx for your dads story.

Rip.

It amazes me why anyone would dislike such a story of a young 19 year old fighting for our freedom.

Correct

There still are - just not blindly (as in Viet Nam). World War II was a united effort and a just cause. 🇺🇸

I’m sure all the troops who have spent the last ten years dying in the Middle East probably consider themselves real men who loved America

@@Alan.livingston There are always exceptions to the rule.

@@Alan.livingston but ultimately pawns to corporations who run the US.

Mr. Thompson, this isn't the place for you to parrot your anti-American agenda. If you respected this man you wouldn't be using him as a platform for your phony culture war.

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I guarantee he would not accept it. These old Alpha males would look at you funny.

Alphas like him dont need snake oil.

@Ryan old people are hard and sometimes impossible to please

Cbd is garbage

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Lol my Grandpa hated the snow also said he saw all he wanted n France. When I told him I was deploying to Iraq in 03. He said well at least you won’t have to deal with snow.

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To be fair the germans were the most prosperous people in all of Europe and it was all because of that one man we aren't allowed to talk about.

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If that were even true, which it isn't, how would that be their fault?

You do realize alot of people broke down in combat then right? People won't be able to handle the stress it's happened in every single time in history. You don't know how the mind will react. Unless you ever been in a combat situation where things went wrong and the situation is dire then you would never understand.

It's not right to use this man's bravery as a means to belittle other people. Not every man was like him back then. Perhaps read about Eddie Slovik or the various anti-draft movements and tens of thousands of conscientious objectors. There was actually an organization called Civilian Public Service just to give people who objected to military service a way to contribute something to their country without having to fight.