Youthful WWII Veteran Shares About Shooting at the Germans 

When did you film these interviews? WW2 soldiers must be all nearing a 100 years old now so I'm surprised you found so many. In any case, great job guarding their stories for eternity, thanks!

why ? their idiotic fight made this crazy word possbile

@Ramona Rael lol :D i bet you believe in corona too

@@soundofeighthooves It’s not like anyone knew that though. They were young men who loved their country and fought for it honorably, regardless of consequence. That in itself is admirable.

@@mikev8577 if you outnumber you opponent by men and material by far and fight a fight impossible to lose then no honour is involved.

@@soundofeighthooves Stop being a wehraboo.

When it's your ass on the line aim small, so you kill everything trying to kill you.

Hit or Miss...hit or miss

In your experience.

You mean, the action I saw on "The A Team" wasn't like real combat?

And at further distance.

The "even instances" of medics treating wounded soldiers of either side was not all that uncommon. As an example, in the Falklands war (1982), the senior British medical officer on the Islands, Surgeon Commander Rick Jolly RN, triaged and treated casualties according to clinical need regardless of nationality. He was, as you might expect, decorated for galantry by the British after the war. Perhaps a little more unexpectedly, he was also decorated for galantry by his erstwhile enemy, Argentina.

Then compare that to the Apache helicopter pilots who gunned down the reporters in Iraq and then gunned down the father and his kids going school who came along in a van and tried to help the reporter. The technique of “Double tap” drone strikes to kill medics and rescuers got its own nickname.

While this may be true in some instances, we shouldn't absolve the German regulars, the Wehrmacht, of their crimes against humanity. The evidence that German regulars treated western European enemies "better" on the battlefield is anecdotal at best. This is perhaps due to relatively better treatment of western POWs by the Germans compared to those from the Baltics, African, and Slavic theaters who suffered immensely at the hands of the German Wehrmacht. Even at their best, many were brainwashed to believe non-Aryans were lesser and could be treated as such. There's little honor in fighting for a country determined to systematically wipe our entire races of people.

What did he fight for? For the election fraud...for the destruction of the 1st amendment and the whole constitution. Sham impeachments , fake dossiers??? For protecting the Chinese in Afghanistan? What would have he done if he would have known?

My father told me when his company where on a road heading for the front a German plane came in for the attack but when the pilot saw a red cross vehicle passing them he pulled out of the dive and even tipped both wings as he headed off elsewhere for other targets !

You got to be kidding. Thankful for the destruction of free speech and election fraud. This phrase is becoming hollow.

@@didierborne166 explain what you mean

@@MootGamez The military is no longer in operation for America. In Afghanistan they are protecting Chinese mining operations and poppey fields. LOL

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He probably shot dude in the face like five times I bet blew his shit to smitherines .

Respect to your uncle.

Its a warcrime to do so. Medics are protected by the Geneva convention.

@@imawsomeandyournot6108 if that's true, it's almost more grotesque than the war itself, in a way.

@@fredrickmiller6534 That is true. Also, after if you shoot the enemy but they don't die you have to help them when the fight is over.

@@imawsomeandyournot6108 Hahahahaha u mean the Geneva Suggestions?

@@idocoverz1100 its only a suggestion if you win.

"...the ones who really need killing for the benefit of Humanity tend to be those furthest from the Front." Roger that.

Your father sounds like a great man , I thank him for his service and I thank you for sharing this story . God bless

@@brettr7970 Thanks, Brett, During the next week, or so, I'm going to add a couple more stories about my Dad's wartime experiences, including what happened at Herakleion on the afternoon of 20th May, 1941 - the first day of the German Airborne Division's assault on Crete - and regarding the Luftwaffe's attack on the ships of R. N. Force 'B' on the 29th May - during the evacuation of the 4,000 men of the garrison of Herakleion - and, specifically, what happened to H.M.S. Orion - one of the two cruisers involved in the operation. Dad was on the top deck of Orion, which had 1,100 soldiers embarked. During the course of repeated attacks by Luftwaffe Junkers 87 'Stuka' dive bombers and Ju 88s throughout the morning and early afternoon, Orion was struck by two bombs which caused over 560 casualties - including over 300 dead. Both cruisers were badly hit - sustaining hits by two bombs each, two of the six destroyers involved were sunk, and over a thousand soldiers and members of the ships' crews were killed. On arrival at Alexandria, Orion sank at her moorings, but, having been refloated, sailed to the US where she was repaired and subsequently took part in the naval operation to provide fire support for the 'D'-Day landings on 6th June,1944. Fortunately, during the course of about a decade, I was able to make covert recordings of Dad's wartime experiences - he would never have put certain aspects of them 'on the record' - and these enabled me to understand what had caused the combat-related P.T.S.D which haunted him for the rest of his life and impacted very seriously on his family. In the event, the insights I gained into the cause of Dad's P.T.S.D., and the actions I took in order to completely resolve the serious depression I subsequently suffered from for the first four decades of my life, have led me to develop a major project based at St. Giles's Church, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire (near Windsor) which - apart from being famous as the subject of Thomas Gray's famous epic poem, 'Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard' (1750), was 'Home Church' of 4th (Prince of Wales's Own) Ghurkha Rifles Officers' Association from 1947 - 2007. The veterans had fought in Burma during the war and had been, variously, P.O.W. on the notorious Burma-Siam 'Death Railway'; fought against the attacking Imperial Japanese 15th Army during the Battle of Kohima; or served with 111 Brigade of General 'Uncle' Bill Slim's 14th Army, as Brigadier Orde Wingate's Chindit 'Special Force' during Operation Thursday in early March - early June, 1944. The intensity of the veterans' prolonged (3 1/2 years) captivity on the Railway, or during Operation Thursday, resulted in many of them suffering from serious psychological wounds for the rest of their lives, and it was their - and my father's - experiences which motivated me to develop this project. As for Dad, he died peacefully in his own bed, with just me and my brother with him, six days short of his ninety-first birthday on 4th September, 2009 - seventy years and a day following the outbreak of W.W.2. on 3rd September, 1939 - a week to the day before his twenty-first birthday. Best wishes!

@@bradgregersen7091 Thanks for your kind words, Brad! Knowing Dad, he would never have considered himself to have been particularly heroic: he would have seen himself as just an ordinary bloke caught up in extraordinary events. And this is what made (because, sadly, there are very few veterans of W.W.2. still alive who were in at the beginning) that generation (and his father's generation) such remarkable people. The very fact that you watched this video is proof of your interest in W.W.2., so I imagine you will also have watched Saving Private Ryan. If so, you may remember the scene where the section of G.I.s detailed to find Ryan has lost one of their number in an ambush by a German MG42 team. Having killed one and captured the other of the two Germans, the US soldiers debate killing their prisoner and force him to dig his own grave. In the event, however, the leader of the section - played by Tom Hanks - talks his men out of shooting the German by reminding them that none of them are professional soldiers, but are just ordinary civilians who have been called up to serve, and explains that he had been a school teacher.

@@petergleave7807 Wow...you do know a lot about the history. My great uncle was a Japanese PoW, but he died before I was old enough to really understand. Same with my grand father. He wasn't a PoW, but he was in the Navy and I got the impression he was involved with some clandestine activities in the European theatre. Brave men, all.

Yea real honorable to murder soldiers who weren’t fighting you and were walking on a sidewalk .

@@carlosdanger947 it’s very likely those 3 soldiers he killed would soon be firing to kill him. Kill or be killed is a fact of war unfortunately.

@@carlosdanger947 Troll

@@carlosdanger947 Completely honorable. Put down the game controller, only an idiot would give his enemy a fighting chance in war.

@@carlosdanger947 exactly.

If you can find a way to justify it, you’d be amazed with what a human can do

@@santiagovera7198 That's another subject entirely. Why did you bring that up?

@@TUCOtheratt what do you mean, I was agreeing with you

Man, getting killed with a couple of your friends while getting chow. War really is terrible.

@@santiagovera7198 Sorry I took it the wrong way. my bad.

And look at the State of the USA now !

@@hectorheath it's very sad tbh to see such a great nation absolutely brought to it's knees

@@drakesp9479 just a hiccup

@@joevogliardo3131 well I hope your right with Biben driving your bus good luck luck my friend

Nicolas d'Avout glad you got that off your chest. Have a great freedom packed day!

Growing up there was always an old cigarette case in my grandfather's dresser drawer that my uncle brought back from WW2. It was emblazoned with the 6th air Corp symbol and still contained the ancient cigarettes. I once asked uncle how he got it. He gave me a strand look then said he'd found it when searching a SS lieutenant. He confiscated it then shot him through the head. This was because SS men regularly murdered allied fliers they found.

No one really should but seeing what was happening in the death camps would make it a lot easier.

Maybe because he realized he was fighting for the wrong side?

@@midwestmatthew9752 Idiot

@@steelcurtain2576 curious but do you think your father was fighting for the right side?

@@hellkell8693 it wasn`t my father i was talking about. My uncle,fought on german ground for his country.And during this time,yes he was fighting for the right side in his view.

He said "A hundred yards" not "eight hundred yards."

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Basement dwellers hiding in moms basement with mask on

some people just hate patriots who believe and love their country. they also hate those who fight for their country.

We're all entitled to our opinion, that's what freedom of speech is about. It's one of the things men fight wars over.

lmfao it's not rocket science...it's because people respect the German Army who fought against so many enemies, more than the U.S Army who didn't join the war until 2 years later and that was only due to Pearl Harbor being attacked...so it might have taken even longer ? plus they've not really got a good reputation when it comes to winning battles and wars...supplying armaments, yes.

@rudy ruby Are you serious? You sound like a 1950s movie cliché.

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I think Chicago is worse... 4,100 shootings in 2020

@@williamphillip9749 lmaooo ur mad funny no where near words do you understand how many people died during ww2? not to mention just americans?????

@@brandojames-deancoico3410 yeah I said that to him because of the Chicago flag in his picture, mind your own business Blowdo James D-bag

Machine gunners spray a line horizontal.

I was a machinegunner. My M-60 was pretty accurate. The feeling of operating a machinegun stays with you.

@Nicolas d'Avout Have you been to other countries? He did not murder anyone. Can you speak a mix of German and Japanese? If you can't, maybe you should thank him.

@@ridgerunner106 how do you say "atleast we're not speaking German" in Chinese or Arabic?

Ridge Runner this guy Nicolas attacked me as well. He is real smart isn’t he. Like you I say God Bless all those who fought back then

+ Myron Coleman Why would the pledge mean everything to those fighting democracy in our country? I'd have thought it would only have been important to those who were fighting for democracy.

@@shamrockshore6308 You're right I m ade mistake

It's called war. Don't start crap and there won't be any crap.

Clearly you havent experienced war, or puberty.

@@PrayedForYou Clearly you do not understand corrupt leadership.

@@CoolDaysEnd Hey sorry nan, I was replying to Hernan Lecea not you, my bad.

better read the Patriot act jeffy. it is 19 yrs old now.

Well spoken Jeff Riles!

I’m sure that the rate of fire was faso than that... more like 600

Probably meant he fired about sixty rounds in the bursts.

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It sounds like he's saying 800 yards, but he said "I'd say 100 yards". He kinda ran it all together lol

@@WorldsMotorsports really ?!? Well that makes more sense in regards to the interviewers reply! Haha

@@shaun_177 yes it does lol! I'm like you, 800 yards you better be aiming at something lol

You got to be kidding. Thankful for the destruction of free speech and election fraud. This phrase is becoming hollow.

@@didierborne166 huh? What are you talking about? Free speach and election fraud? The man, regardless of what the political front was at the time (or now), served his country. He deserves respect and dignity for that.

@@btrswt35 Times have changed ...statues are being torn down ...Nancy just says "people do things". You would probably agree? He should have seen that Roosevelt was colluding with Stalin the butcherer and that this alliance would spell the end of Free America at some point.

@@didierborne166 Bud, the guy was probably a 18 or 19 year old kid at the time he served. He was a soldier doing what a soldier does, not looking 50 or sixty years into the future thinking or contemplating the politics of a world that was a lifetime away. If you want to blame someone for how the world is, blame the politicians and governments. They are the people and institutions that shape the world we are in.

Papa was a rolling stone

Futile? They stopped the Italians, the Germans, and the Japanese.

I'd think he'd be pissed

@@joevogliardo3131 I reckon he would say, "if you sit back and don't fight you, get taken over by bullies." As my RAF rear-gunner father in law would say, too

He said 100* not 800

@@kasperspangejensen5496 Correct .

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@Henrich Muller The ordinary German Wehrmacht soldier, yes, vast majority fought hard and with honour. Sorry, but the SS were not renown for their humanity to prisoners and enemy wounded.

Can you please share some of those RU-vid videos, I’m sure a lot of people would be very interested to watch them. Thank you

@@mirceacartas6489 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lkHGwF6c5Fg.html I will translate some of them and share them with subtitles.

He said 100. A lot of people seem to have thought he said 800