Old WW1 Veterans who Kept Fighting in WW2

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  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  Рік тому +161

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  • @bele2.041
    @bele2.041 Рік тому +720

    Interesting thing about Patton.
    After the 'Slapping Incident', he became interested in 'Shell Shock' and became educated about it.
    He realized what it was and it's effects and afterwards had compassion for those affected.
    I feel if he had lived into his later years, he would have become an advocate for the treatment of PTSD.

    • @tedhubertcrusio372
      @tedhubertcrusio372 Рік тому +118

      His son did, and he was a benefactor for the Patton Memorial Wing of the Philippine General Hospital Psychology Department

    • @TellySavalas-or5hf
      @TellySavalas-or5hf Рік тому +23

      Patton was in 1916 fighting in Mexico against Pancho Villa/

    • @bele2.041
      @bele2.041 Рік тому +4

      @@TellySavalas-or5hf And?

    • @markgarrett3647
      @markgarrett3647 Рік тому +26

      From his extensive research of Patton historian Kevin Hymel actually learned that Patton had a fellow soldier who committed suicide from what can now be called depression that he believed could have still been alive if they had just slapped sense into him.

    • @SuperNoobz22
      @SuperNoobz22 Рік тому +21

      Say what you will about medical/recreational marijuana use, but some of Patton's descendants have opened a dispensary in Massachusetts that primarily serves Veterans from around the area, helping some of them treat any lingering mental/physical health issues they might have suffered during their service. I think its great that Patton's legacy has become one of helping soldiers with PTSD

  • @nicholasmontgomery8594
    @nicholasmontgomery8594 Рік тому +294

    I remember there was a story of a US Civil War veteran who served in WWI in the Canadian military. He was in drummer boy for a Michigan regiment and lied about his age to enlist. He then lied about his age to join the Canadian army but was found out and sent home.

  • @smalltime0
    @smalltime0 Рік тому +441

    While he didn't get deployed in WWI, Norman Cota definitely deserves a mention. He was an instructor during WWI, and he personally landed during D-Day in WWII despite being over 50.
    High command ignored his warnings about D-Day (he wanted to land at night/pre-dawn), and General Bradley ignored is warnings about Hürtgen Forest (in that it was a deathtrap).

    • @user-oi9to7ux7k
      @user-oi9to7ux7k Рік тому +14

      He will get a mention in YOUR video on the topic.

    • @WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS
      @WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS Рік тому

      ​@@user-oi9to7ux7kdumbhead response, dumbhead responder

    • @sunshinehoward9649
      @sunshinehoward9649 Рік тому +4

      ty, looked him up. He knew how to rally the troops too. that is a must in a good leader.

    • @primalwolfe4711
      @primalwolfe4711 Рік тому +3

      Also gave the rangers their motto. "God damn it Rangers lead the way. "

    • @smalltime0
      @smalltime0 Рік тому

      @@primalwolfe4711 As much as a fanboy of him as I am, didn't know he gave them the motto.
      Force of steel.

  • @gabrielandradeferraz386
    @gabrielandradeferraz386 Рік тому +179

    Going through WW1 and deciding you still have enough fight in you for a WW2 is nothing short of impressive

    • @Putseller100
      @Putseller100 Рік тому +7

      Understatement

    • @DukeOfDiabetus
      @DukeOfDiabetus Рік тому +5

      My great grandfather had fought in both world wars. He joined young lying about his age and fought in France. Then at the time WW2 rolled around many families especially ones from farming communities were hit hard by the great depession. So that on top of wanting to serve the country he rejoined. And once again went to France and the Netherlnds. He survived both wars and eventually died in a car accident in his late 70's.

    • @brittakriep2938
      @brittakriep2938 9 місяців тому +1

      Most elderly men of german Volkssturm had beeñ veterans of wwl. And retired fieldmarshall von Mackensen, who fought in german - french war of 1870 was still alive.

  • @mangofoxy
    @mangofoxy Рік тому +1272

    “Let’s show the whippersnappers how to fight a war”

    • @sloshed-rat
      @sloshed-rat Рік тому +90

      "By golly, I think we shall."

    • @Briselance
      @Briselance Рік тому +62

      "Oi, Gramps! Retirement Home's not here. Do you even know what a proper tank and radio is?😏"
      Some British paratrooper, probably.

    • @salomonperez6377
      @salomonperez6377 Рік тому +11

      Yeah

    • @zako9396
      @zako9396 Рік тому +9

      Oh cool my favorite furry youtuber is into historical stuff as well. You rock man

    • @Justin-pe9cl
      @Justin-pe9cl Рік тому +11

      @@BriselanceHold my severed hand sonny boy!

  • @thegreatsallingerkaiser2545
    @thegreatsallingerkaiser2545 Рік тому +477

    Funfact: The famous German general, Erwin Rommel fought at the Italian front in WW1

    • @scottanos9981
      @scottanos9981 Рік тому +47

      Rommel is legendary. He kept a cool head, but a determined heart in the heat of battle.

    • @tomhenry897
      @tomhenry897 Рік тому +45

      So did Hitler goring and many others

    • @Slenderslayer351
      @Slenderslayer351 Рік тому +14

      Didn't know Rommel was a WW1 vet

    • @CommunistSpyware
      @CommunistSpyware Рік тому +5

      Infantry Attacks!

    • @ding1310
      @ding1310 Рік тому +36

      pretty much every german general served in ww1

  • @Inucroft
    @Inucroft Рік тому +71

    My great grand father served, starting aged 15, in the First World War. As a Royal Marine in the trenches.
    When demobbed, he returned to the naval shipyard he was at, but saw the way the wind was blowing and managed to enlist in the Royal Navy. He recived a commision and was serving on HMS Warspite from 1936-1944.

  • @TheFoolish727
    @TheFoolish727 Рік тому +42

    My Great Grandfather was one of these. Italian side of WW1 at 17, and his son was reserve canon-crew American in Vietnam.We still have an old canon shell, vintage fire extinguisher, and a bayonet marked U.S 1945 from him. I wish to be as amazing as Gaetano and Francis were.

  • @BoRaiChoWins
    @BoRaiChoWins Рік тому +636

    Can’t wait for the stories about WWII vets serving in WWIII.

    • @jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378
      @jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378 Рік тому +30

      Millennials telling Gen Z to survive? You're welcome.

    • @sombertownds149
      @sombertownds149 Рік тому +98

      Thatd be like the civil war vet who tried to fight in ww2

    • @CallMeAlbie
      @CallMeAlbie Рік тому +24

      Yeah, that’s not gonna happen. Nowadays they got all kinds of permits and customs. You gotta go through to join the military.

    • @billclay9511
      @billclay9511 Рік тому +3

      @@jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378 Blind leading the blind

    • @jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378
      @jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378 Рік тому +4

      @@billclay9511 If ww3 happened what do?

  • @inductivegrunt94
    @inductivegrunt94 Рік тому +293

    Don't mess with those who survived the first world war. They know a thing or two those youngsters don't.

    • @krazyspartanodst
      @krazyspartanodst Рік тому +17

      its kinda hard to mess with them since none of them exist anymore boss

    • @inductivegrunt94
      @inductivegrunt94 Рік тому +22

      @krazyspartanodst At the time they were plentiful, nowadays it's more anyone who survived Vietnam that could be the closest comparison.

    • @nullvoid2560
      @nullvoid2560 Рік тому +8

      those ww1 vets experienced a more painful battlefield than ww2 because of the use of chemical warfare.
      im not discrediting ww2 by any means but from what i could tell, seeing people slowly die from that gas sticks to you, kind of like seeing someone get tortured alive.

    • @jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378
      @jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378 Рік тому +3

      ​@@nullvoid2560 yea WW2 has more casualties and shortened lifespan after the war

    • @Recipe_For_Disaster_TV
      @Recipe_For_Disaster_TV Рік тому

      Yeah like Tactics that don’t make sense

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 Рік тому +407

    _“There are old soldiers and there are bold soldiers, but there are very few old, bold soldiers.”_
    *- Unknown*
    _“Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.”_
    *- Anonymous*
    _“Old soldiers never die...And they _*_don't_*_ fade away.”_
    *- Jack Morrison/Soldier: 76,* _Overwatch_

    • @rogerloger1935
      @rogerloger1935 Рік тому +24

      Imagine ruinnng a McArthur Qoute,shameful....

    • @AverageMann
      @AverageMann Рік тому

      wich one?@@rogerloger1935

    • @thej8656
      @thej8656 Рік тому +7

      People just really really love to find a way to start a argument do they

    • @SirEcuadorian
      @SirEcuadorian Рік тому +12

      "They’re gonna have to bury what’s left of ya in a soup can"
      Demoman, Team Fortress 2

    • @Krisz98
      @Krisz98 Рік тому +3

      @@SirEcuadorian God bless you dude, that was a good laugh :D

  • @kevmoful
    @kevmoful Рік тому +78

    My grandfather was in ww2 , korea, and Vietnam. He was not normal. He self deleted at the age of 89 when he lost the ability to care for himself. He made E6 and E8 2x , he only did what he thought was right .

    • @JStryker7
      @JStryker7 Рік тому +20

      I mean it’s a shame how he finished, but it makes sense. He sounds like he was a badass and very much sufficient

    • @borninthewoods4482
      @borninthewoods4482 Рік тому

      Self deleted? Was it sui**de?

    • @kevmoful
      @kevmoful Рік тому +2

      @@borninthewoods4482 yep that’s what he did . Right in front of my grandma.

    • @borninthewoods4482
      @borninthewoods4482 Рік тому +2

      @@kevmoful I wasn’t quite sure what you meant at first that’s why I asked, sorry for bringing the subject up. And right in front of your grandma. 🙁That makes it worse…

    • @vbadimothebadassjackass8011
      @vbadimothebadassjackass8011 Рік тому +1

      B.S

  • @florians9949
    @florians9949 Рік тому +128

    Wally: no retreat, no surrender.
    Devart: the guy that even god wouldn’t be abble to kill.
    Paton: *bald eagle scream*

    • @AverageMann
      @AverageMann Рік тому +11

      DeWiart*

    • @LanceChua9743
      @LanceChua9743 Рік тому +12

      Patton is bascilly the TF2 Soldier

    • @highchairman6428
      @highchairman6428 Рік тому +6

      @@LanceChua9743 I wouldn't be surprised if he were the inspiration.

    • @ethanwashington60
      @ethanwashington60 Рік тому +1

      ​@@LanceChua9743 how is he? He didn't fight in WWII and in WWI he was in a tank for the last bit of a war that had already been won.

    • @ethanwashington60
      @ethanwashington60 Рік тому +2

      ​@@LanceChua9743 being a General is a Commanding Officer position. He did no fighting in WWII

  • @scoutosaurus3473
    @scoutosaurus3473 Рік тому +34

    “Grandpa what did you do during the war?”
    “Which one?”

  • @philthegamer9634
    @philthegamer9634 Рік тому +17

    My great grandfather served in both ww1 and ww2, he was with the Canadian army. He was supposed to go ashore on D-day but broke his leg days prior too and remained in England.

    • @seanodwyer4322
      @seanodwyer4322 Рік тому

      ahh broke my leg in 2021 when kicked a scooter and nearly died off blood poisonning

  • @kristinarp526
    @kristinarp526 Рік тому +46

    Take “once a marine, always a marine.” To a next level.

  • @turkeybeard2010
    @turkeybeard2010 Рік тому +23

    Regular Soldier: I lost my hand can I go home?
    Adrian Carton de Wiart: Tis but a scratch! I've had worse.

    • @Byerly2k20
      @Byerly2k20 8 місяців тому

      A scratch? Your hand's off!

    • @FireheartSamurai
      @FireheartSamurai 7 місяців тому

      Dude’s ballsy af. And that’s considering how many injuries he has & how many battles he fought in.

  • @frankrizzo4460
    @frankrizzo4460 Рік тому +17

    My grandfather was in the first World War he came over from Italy and became an American citizen and was eager to fight for his new country. I remember the stories he told me when I was a little kid, he lost his sight and his hair years later from the usage of mustard gas in the war. He told me about the trench fighting and how difficult it was for many of them. He lived to 98 years old I'm glad I was able to have memories of him and his experiences.

  • @CaptainFox-wv8ni
    @CaptainFox-wv8ni Рік тому +36

    My great-grandfather was born in 1895 in a small village at the foot of Monte Grappa. In the First World War he served as an infantry sergeant on the Isonzo front and later on the Trentino front, in the regiment that first liberated Trento in 1918.
    He was decorated with seven medals (two of which however were awarded on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the victory).
    In 1939 he was sent by the fascist government, together with many others from his hometown, as Italian workforce (Fremdarbeiter) in a German factory that produced tanks.
    With the signing of the Italian armistice of 1943 he was put into forced labor for a few months, then he was forced to join a Panzer division of the German Army in the role of field repair mechanic.
    He remained at the front with them until March 1945, when they were captured by the Americans near Nuremberg.
    He remained a POW until the end of the conflict and then was able to return home.
    Basically you can say that he took part in both world wars!

  • @GREGORYABUTLER
    @GREGORYABUTLER Рік тому +8

    My grandfather served in World War I in the US Army (he was stationed in Panama guarding the canal) & in World War II in the Coast Guard - he was a boilermaker's mate on a Landing Ship Tank vessel in the invasion of the Philippines

  • @TomG1555
    @TomG1555 Рік тому +21

    I would definitely have added Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Fought on the Western Front, then re-enlisted during WWII and participated in Operation Torch and D-Day even though he was in his mid-50s by then. A remarkable life.

    • @davidtrindle6473
      @davidtrindle6473 Рік тому +2

      Yes. He was call Jr. because Teddy (who was the true Jr.) didn’t adopt it. He was actually the 3rd. His son (the 4th) was a young ambassador in west Africa in the late ‘60s. I met him there (I was 5-10 yrs younger). He was a great guy and very adventurous.

  • @rayhuntley8966
    @rayhuntley8966 Рік тому +11

    General Bernard Freyburg V C. Born in the UK but grew up in Wellington, NZ. Joined the NZ Army on the out break of WW1. A champion swimmer, he swam ashore at Gallipoli 25 April 1915 before the main landings to light decoy flares to distract the Turks. In 1916, he transferred to the Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division, and fought at the Somme, winning the Victoria Cross for commanding his battalion, despite severe injuries. At the war's end, he was a brigadier in the Royal Navy Division. Stayed in the British Army as a staff officer until just before WW2 started. Recalled to active service, he was promoted to General and given command of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, which fought with distinction in Greece, Crete, Syria, the North Africa campaign (including both Alamein battles) and Italy. Was popular with the troops under his command, who knew he would take care of them. His appointment as Governor General of New Zealand after the war was very popular with the public.

  • @RobertsArchives
    @RobertsArchives Рік тому +6

    My 2nd Great Granduncle served in the First World War with the Royal Canadian Artillery notably helping with the barrage at Vimy Ridge, in 1927 he achieved the rank of Master Gunner in the Royal Canadian Artillery and he fought in the Second World War with the Veteran Guard of Canada, he finally retired in 1959.

  • @stephenwood6663
    @stephenwood6663 Рік тому +80

    Honourable mention to the men of the German Volkssturm levy, many of whom were WW1 veterans, and who, in a more just world, should really have had the opportunity to retire in peace, having already absorbed their fair share of danger on their country's behalf. :(

    • @hauptmannnn
      @hauptmannnn Рік тому +3

      Well NO because that would be against the agenda

    • @djraythefurry0420
      @djraythefurry0420 Рік тому +2

      There's even an honorable mention at the end of world 2 , where in American group teamed up with the wehrmacht and French celebrities to save a castle from the waffen ss , a.k.a hitlers special army .
      The Americans French and wehrmacht soldiers completely destroyed the waffen SS trying to take over the castle, for more information wendigoon has a video on it I could probably find a link too
      ua-cam.com/video/ScHzMnAcn_s/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
      Here it is
      There is even a few famous pictures that were hand-drawn at the time of the based on the events of the defense of this castle with the Americans and Germans of the wehrmacht drank liquor and started singing songs and dancing together

    • @seanodwyer4322
      @seanodwyer4322 Рік тому

      @@djraythefurry0420 Howard Kippennburgger ended up in charge of new zealand army for 3 months in italy 1944 , when Freyburg had to go to a London city allied generaals meeting- both a German names.

  • @Crazycoyote-we7ey
    @Crazycoyote-we7ey Рік тому +28

    Fun Fact Patton was the last official Gunfighter/Gunslinger of the old west
    When Pancho Villa was running around, Patton fought in Mexico where he got into a Gunfight with five Mexican Bandits

    • @stunner9005
      @stunner9005 Рік тому

      Patton used a six shooter too.

    • @Crazycoyote-we7ey
      @Crazycoyote-we7ey Рік тому

      @stunner9005 it was the same Six Shooter that he used in that Gunfight in Mexico You can see the notches cut into it of how many men he killed in Mexico

    • @shaynewheeler9249
      @shaynewheeler9249 Місяць тому

      😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

  • @corymorimacori1059
    @corymorimacori1059 Рік тому +16

    JRR Tolkien: I caught my teeth in the trenches of the Somme, you larped your Santa Claus butt through Vietnam!
    Winston Churchill: I was saving the planet from an Axis of Darkness, while you were back home opening National Parks! Yes!
    Theodore Roosevelt: Let’s face it, you’re not all that great! You tossed away lives in Gallipoli like they were scraps off your plate!

    • @linkfuture4561
      @linkfuture4561 Рік тому +1

      Someone has seen a few Epic Rap Battles of History lol

  • @haldemarest
    @haldemarest Рік тому +49

    My Great Grandfather fought in World Wars I & II

  • @rickcs7050
    @rickcs7050 Рік тому +3

    4:18 "They say that the pen is mightier than the sword, i know which I would choose" Those were the words of Adrian Carton de Wiart before joining the war... After the war, his words became legendary
    *INTO THE FIRE THROUGH TRENCHES AND MUD
    SON OF BELGIUM AND IRELAND WITH WAR IN HIS BLOOD
    LEADING THE CHARGE INTO HOSTILE BARRAGE
    BY DESIGN, HE WAS MADE FOR THE FRONTLINE*

  • @OldFellaDave
    @OldFellaDave Рік тому +4

    This is why the WW1 Generation were the actual 'Greatest Generation'. Not only did they fight in both wars, they voluntarily enlsited in WW2 knowing what the horrors of modern warfare actually were and didn't join out of any sense of 'adventure' and 'romanticism', nor were they drafted (in most countries). They also raised families and fought their own post war demons through the Great Depression and led their country in the post war economic boom of the 1950's. They never beat their own chests or wore fancy hats around expecting praise everywhere they went. And then they quietly faded away. No other modern generation has matched them

  • @gavinwhite8506
    @gavinwhite8506 Рік тому +22

    When simple history posts a video it’s a good day 100%

  • @Briselance
    @Briselance Рік тому +12

    04:09
    Well... in his case, he was absolutely not too old. As long as they are fit and resilient enough to pass PT and boot camp, let them join the young blood.

  • @cannonball666
    @cannonball666 Рік тому +6

    5:04 He survived because the enemy feared his bayonet.

  • @ReconProductions117
    @ReconProductions117 Рік тому +28

    You should make more tank videos of ww2. Like the M6 or the T1 heavy! Thanks and keep up the awesome content

  • @earljohnson50
    @earljohnson50 Рік тому +1

    LTG Samuel Williams. Joined the Army during the Pancho Villa expedition, deployed to WWI a year later, WWII, Korea, and ended his career in Vietnam as the commander of MAAG-Indochina (later MACV). He began his career on the eve of americas involvement in WWI and ended it overseeing the advisory phase of the Vietnam war and the first US casualties in 1959.

  • @HSamee
    @HSamee Рік тому +4

    Brings to mind an old quote I've heard.
    "Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.”

  • @FROST76608
    @FROST76608 Рік тому +4

    There were thousands of soldiers in the Bulgarian army durring ww2,that not only fought in ww1 but in balkan wars as well. Most of them were either senior NCO's or served in support units, it wasn't uncomon for some to serve as artillery men or machine gunner's.

  • @monsterchild6371
    @monsterchild6371 11 місяців тому +2

    Imagine being 19 years old and a dude old enough to be your grandpa annihilates your squad and makes you surrender

  • @Christ-my-king
    @Christ-my-king Рік тому +34

    Once a badass always a badass

  • @linkfuture4561
    @linkfuture4561 Рік тому +2

    I have been to Rocky Gap Veterans Cemetery a few times. Among the head stones, they list the wars the veteran had served during. I remember seeing a few read "WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam"

  • @Scholaroflife
    @Scholaroflife Рік тому +2

    My great uncle fought in both world wars. In WWI he was an Austria-Hungarian cavalryman and in WWII he drove a truck for the USA in North Africa. He died in the summer of 1999, aged 102.

  • @landonbrown9943
    @landonbrown9943 Рік тому +45

    Salute 🫡 to all the veterans out here.

  • @samueladams3746
    @samueladams3746 Рік тому +2

    Grandad served as a sapper (combat engineer) in WWI. Got a recall notice at age 47 in 1945. He’d built bridges and steel frame building in the interwar years and they were so desperate for engineers for the invasion of Japan…thankfully war ended firs

  • @Zailen1
    @Zailen1 Рік тому +14

    Something not mentioned was that the soldiers under Patton absolutely loved and respected him. He wasn't a nasty man. He was a tenacious and stubborn man. A man with unique beliefs about himself, and a large ego to boot. But he cared deeply for the soldiers under his command. He expected the best. He got the best, and he gave back the best. The man was one of the greatest generals of WW2, and gained the respect of both his allies AND his enemies. He earned every bit of the fame he recieved.

  • @casey7266
    @casey7266 Рік тому

    1:55 Benchmade crooked River at the top of the screen. Such a beautiful knife.

  • @leaf0nthewind625
    @leaf0nthewind625 Рік тому +5

    “You damn kids get off my lawn!” -These soldiers apparently.

  • @alandaniel8098
    @alandaniel8098 Рік тому +8

    "Only the dead have seen the end of war"- Plato

  • @bramijdema759
    @bramijdema759 Рік тому +2

    Charles Herbert Lightoller, Second Officer onboard the famous Titanic, was one of only a handful of survivors to be rescued from the sea. Most of them were saved by him. He later was a naval commander during the first world war, where he committed war crimes such as shooting surrendering Germans. In the second world war, he helped rescue the stranded troops at Dunkirk by using his own civilian vessel. He survived the war, but lost a son.

  • @Artur_M.
    @Artur_M. Рік тому +5

    Among the high ranked officers being a veteran of WW1 was kinda a standard in WW2, rather than something exceptional.

  • @Zachary90
    @Zachary90 Рік тому +6

    Happy remembrance day for tomorrow may there rest in peace all of the soldiers

  • @alexbarron5184
    @alexbarron5184 Рік тому +3

    Adrian Carton “literally having too much fun to die” De Wiart

  • @fisch6294
    @fisch6294 Рік тому +11

    my great grandfather fought in both world wars on the german side, and he survived it all! The only thing that has happened him was hearing loss on one ear after a grenade exploded nearby.
    Wish i could have met him in Person.

    • @petrovicovic3172
      @petrovicovic3172 Рік тому +1

      Absoluter Ehrenmann

    • @JustaRandomGuy890
      @JustaRandomGuy890 Рік тому

      My great grandfather did kind of the same, he was a soldier for Germany in WW1 and was then in the holocaust (as we are Jews)

  • @Draperr2011
    @Draperr2011 Рік тому +11

    Very cool video it taught me a lot

  • @schnitzelmoerder83
    @schnitzelmoerder83 Рік тому +1

    my Great-Great-Grandpa was one of those men, being born in 1896 Germany, he won the Iron Cross 2nd Class in 1918 before joining the Kriegsmarine in WW2

  • @thingyithink
    @thingyithink Рік тому +2

    What’s even worse is that Patton died in a car crash a month and 19 days after World War 2 ended

  • @starwarzchik112
    @starwarzchik112 Рік тому +3

    4:20 INTO THE FIRE THROUGH TRENCHES AND MUD

  • @kevinmackay5233
    @kevinmackay5233 Рік тому +5

    Gunny Haney, K 3/5. Oorah, Happy Birthday Marines

  • @Goc4ever
    @Goc4ever Рік тому

    Another amazing from Simple History, kudos. Also salute for those brave young men who laid down their lives for their countries🫡

  • @BrianWinters-c5x
    @BrianWinters-c5x Рік тому

    A friend of my maternal grandfather had been 25 years in the US navy. He renlisted in 1942. He was too old for sea duty but helped by served in administration on a naval base. Many older men did so.

  • @Antsrule
    @Antsrule Рік тому +2

    Massive respect to Walter Ernest Wally Brown for helping defend Singapore against the Japanese

  • @andreykuzmin4317
    @andreykuzmin4317 Рік тому +1

    My grand-grandfather served in the Russian Imperial Army, then the Red Guard, then Red Army. He have fought in both World wars and Russian Civil war, was discharged due to a wound in 1943 and died being 103 years old.

  • @Humveevr
    @Humveevr Рік тому +1

    Gets shot: “boy I took a cannonball in 1914 you think this will stop me?”

  • @s.porter8646
    @s.porter8646 Рік тому +2

    My grandfather was a motor machinest mate submarines, served in both

  • @jerrmiahsalazar2326
    @jerrmiahsalazar2326 Рік тому +3

    Once a soldier always a soldier

  • @jerrylim6722
    @jerrylim6722 Рік тому +2

    Wiart, a man completely too chill to die. it literally took god making him fall down the stairs just to keep him in bed for a short while.

  • @Sarvonis
    @Sarvonis Рік тому +1

    Hey his hand grew back! 6:24

  • @TrunkyDunks
    @TrunkyDunks Рік тому

    Adrian Carton De Wairt needs a movie ASAP. What an absolute UNIT! He has such a crazy life

  • @oflunar_client7204
    @oflunar_client7204 11 місяців тому

    "If the first world war wont kill you the second will"
    Salute to this brave men who fought for their country

  • @johnrust592
    @johnrust592 Рік тому +1

    Good ol' Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart.
    "Into the fire through trenches and mud
    Son of Belgium and Ireland with war in his blood
    Leading the charge into hostile barrage
    By design, he was made for the frontline."

  • @different6620
    @different6620 Рік тому +3

    Erwin Rommel also served in ww1, if I remember correctly, he was a seargent and received the iron cross.

    • @raidang
      @raidang 2 місяці тому

      Same with Zhukov in Russian Empire

  • @leod-sigefast
    @leod-sigefast Рік тому +2

    Patton shouldn't really count as the vast majority of WW2 generals were also WW1 veterans. Montgomery was one of the first British soldiers in action in WW1 as a Captain in the early 1914 campaign, Mons, Le Cateau etc. With the small 'Old Contemptibles' professional British Army. He was wounded during that campaign.

  • @ProfessorDreamer
    @ProfessorDreamer Рік тому +17

    Simple History can you do a two videos on the atrocities committed during the French Revolution and during the American Revolutionary War and The American Revolution.

    • @tomhenry897
      @tomhenry897 Рік тому +1

      Left out the English civil wars

    • @ProfessorDreamer
      @ProfessorDreamer Рік тому

      @@tomhenry897 right shouldn't hav elf them out since they were just as horrible and brutal.

  • @theofficialken1755
    @theofficialken1755 Рік тому +1

    War starts.....*Grandpa quietly opens his guilded case under the bed, fixes bayonet*....."Stackin' time sonny".

  • @adventussaxonum448
    @adventussaxonum448 Рік тому +1

    My granddad. Boy seaman (14) served from 1914-18, including Jutland.
    Reservist called up in 1941 (age 41) Served in the Arctic and on D-Day.

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 Рік тому +1

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff

  • @Gage2054
    @Gage2054 Рік тому +3

    This is a neat video keep it up

  • @handsomeblackman255
    @handsomeblackman255 Рік тому

    Simple history has been on fire lately!!

  • @BeeWaifu
    @BeeWaifu Рік тому +7

    As I recall, Patton hated tanks when he was first assigned to them. He wanted to be part of the cavalry. I mean, he was part of the metal cavalry *shrug*

  • @C.A._Old
    @C.A._Old Рік тому

    *8:29** he is real legend of maggot.*

  • @Paceasanatateamanituieacerseta

    Volkssturm battalion "Siemensstadt", which had almost 800 mostly former WW1 veterans with good officers and reasonable good weapons hold their positions in the battle of Berlin from 21.4 until 2.5. when they fall back after heavy losses, many were awarded with iron cross.

  • @wulfthofengaming457
    @wulfthofengaming457 Рік тому +1

    paul papa hausser born 1880 fought in both ww1 and ww2 was age 59 when ww2 started and lived to be 92 when he died in 1972

  • @memorymangaming
    @memorymangaming 11 місяців тому

    My grandpa is a world war 2 veteran and really hated patton for his decision to make him and every other solider stay and push forward for so long during the Normandy invasion.

  • @forestjohnson7474
    @forestjohnson7474 Рік тому

    6:10 damn bro that dude was like, I lost another body part.....YYYYYYAAAAA

  • @zeuovelightning3510
    @zeuovelightning3510 Рік тому +3

    Can you do a Video on Homeguard in Uk,Aus,Nz and Canada and the State defense Force Us WWII?

  • @ExtantPerson
    @ExtantPerson 6 місяців тому

    They could make a movie or video game that’s just like John Wick, but follows someone fighting through both World Wars.

  • @wingcommanderdaltonwalton67
    @wingcommanderdaltonwalton67 Рік тому +2

    I wish we had these men now!!

  • @SandorSoptei
    @SandorSoptei 5 місяців тому

    2nd guy needs a 10 part TV show

  • @MalleusSemperVictor
    @MalleusSemperVictor Рік тому

    Guderian and Rommel served in WW1 and no doubt shaped their theories about warfare.

  • @Cueball3331
    @Cueball3331 Рік тому

    My grandfather, Stanley Harycki, served in both wars. Passed away at 104 years old and was a dirty old man till his last day. I have his bullet dinged helm on my wall.

  • @lemonadeenjoyer9611
    @lemonadeenjoyer9611 Рік тому

    i love how this was posted right on my birthday

  • @jon-paulfilkins7820
    @jon-paulfilkins7820 11 місяців тому

    Things that should make you change your booking immediately, Jessica Fletcher books into the same hotel as you, Adrian Carton de Wiart boards the same plane as you (he was in like 11 air crashes! Mostly between the wars in Poland).

  • @coreedawarrior2000
    @coreedawarrior2000 Рік тому

    Maitland Madge MM Australian Aboriginal served in WW1 where he received the Military Medal on the Western Front. During WW2 he with many other Allies got captured at the Fall of Singapore later on died a P.O.W during WW2

  • @undertow619
    @undertow619 Рік тому +3

    The immortal soldier finds his home.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 Рік тому +2

    Reminds me of that German Gendarmerie scene in Band of Brothers.

  • @agpaok0704
    @agpaok0704 Рік тому

    In Greece It was actually very usual to fight in multiple wars. I have met a man that fought ww2, keep fighting till 1949 vs communists, and then went in Korea as well.

  • @pablobarbuto2603
    @pablobarbuto2603 Рік тому

    Great video! Congratulations!

  • @LeoBug0128
    @LeoBug0128 Рік тому

    I have been watching you for years and u have made me love history than ever before

  • @Briselance
    @Briselance Рік тому +1

    08:44
    He advocated again for... full frontal attacks?? That late in the war??! Was he that oblivious?

  • @cooperdn24
    @cooperdn24 Рік тому

    the way you guys animated Patton makes him look like cotton hill but with his shins

  • @WhatNightmar3
    @WhatNightmar3 11 місяців тому

    As an American I honestly like to imagine the older British combatants saying "The Krauts are at it again, Ay? Not even the Kaiser can protect them this time"