A little research answered most of my initial questions; the footage is from a 1965 documentary called "Africa Addio". Most of the men you see in the clip are from "5 Commando" - a mercenary unit of the Congolese National Army which was led by an ex-British military officer, Major "Mad" Mike Hoare. They were active from 1964-1967.
Ironic mentioning cell phones as the fight for the Congo, the southeast mineral rich portion Katanga, was for metals from uranium to the metal that makes cell phone circuitry.
Man, didnt know I wanted a Congo remaster so bad. Those guys went through a lot, you can see it in their eyes. Also the merc pirate who dolphin dives is just on another level
Ever since the first Mercenaries, Reach Out has been my go-to Spotify radio playlist during road trips. Thanks for the great taste in music in addition to the awesome videos.
I remembered watching this the first time and thinking "damn this is a weird movie". Knowing it's all real goes to show how great the camera quality was.
The creators really just went straight into the hell that was early post-colonial Africa, filmed everything they could walking on the razor's edge when it comes to safety, commented it as objectively as they could and left us this masterpiece. Rare thing back then, almost impossible nowadays.
This was honestly a hard watch considering it really brought back some memories. However it was some of the best camera work I think could have been done, especially considering the limitations of the equipment they had. These camera crews had amazing guts and balls of steel.
Things I could spot on detail: 1. M1911. 2. FN FAL (Standard Issue rifle & Paratrooper Version) - The RIGHT ARM of the free world. 3. Franchi LF-57. 4. LMG M1919. 5. CETME Model C 6. M2 HB (recognizable by the rear sight, the firing grip and trigger system) 7. Heckler & Koch HK33A2 8. Vigneron M2 9. FN Model 24/30
wasnt the HK33A2 produced from 1968? I thought this video was based on the Congo Crisis, which is during the early 60's (1960-65), or was there a war later that included loads of mercenaries?
@@bozo8724 pretty much, yes. It was designed in 1960's primarily for exports use. Now as of the video, I took the muzzle flash, front sight, left charging handle and barrel handguard as a reference for my searching, it was either _this_ specific model or maybe a clon or variant. Keep in mind most of the set-ups used on modern wars (starting from 60's) are way different than what movies or TV shows resemble. Look on Vientam's M60 door gunners set-up, it's way too modern for that era.
It's surprising at how incredibly similar it is to today's Congo, The country has developed so bad which literally has the same look it had in the 60's
Instead of rebelling, they should have been grateful to the Belgians. While Kind Leopold II's private rule had been a disaster, subsequent rule by the Belgian state was a great success. In the years leading up to rebellion, the quality of life in the Congo had never before or since increased so quickly. Life there was much better then than it is now. For everyone there. But the upper class blacks became so prosperous and educated that they started having notions of self-rule, not realizing that the majority of the population was still in too primative a condition for them to easily create a European-style country in central Africa without leadership from Europeans. The country descended into violent conflict and tyranny and has never emerged. If there hadn't been violent resistance to Belgian colonization for at least a few more decades, enough so that uplifting Belgian education programs could have spread, the Congo could have become a more peaceful and better-run country than South Africa or Botswana. It's even worse for the local blacks than what happened in Rhodesia. Life for blacks was better in Rhodesia than under Mugabe's dictatorship, and before Mugabe took over there was Muzorewa's often-ignored and short-lived black-led Zimbabwe-Rhodesia which should to this day be mourned as a tragic loss and the last decent government of the country before genocidal tyrant Mugabe took over. But in the Congo, the Belgian rule was seen as the most "enlightened" colonial rule in Africa, run for the benefit of the black natives. The blacks were being educated and provided and taught medicine and other social improvements. Black "évolués" were being created quickly, and life for them and everyone else in the county was improving quickly. Some of the newly educated, inspired by Marxist radicalism, living in their educated, modernized little bubble and ignorant of the fragility of the countryside newfound civilization, then tried to take over before the country was ready. They lasted about five minutes without the Belgians to lean on before other black natives, more violent, less civilized men, killed them to seize power for themselves. The whole country collapsed and has not recovered since. If they'd continued at the pace they were developing at before the rebellion and war against the Belgians, they'd be the most advanced country in all of Africa. Now they're one of the worst places on Earth. Most women in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have been raped in their endless wars. They have more rape and violence than anywhere on the planet. Congolese no longer survive to old age, but if there were any old people left they'd remember Belgian rule as better than what came after. I'm not saying the Congolese should have remained subservient forever. I'm saying a Commonwealth approach where a country reaps the modernizing benefits of colonization and then subsequently gradually gains independence works better. It maximizes stability and growth. Had they remained with Belgium, they'd probably be self-ruling or independent by now, as most European colonies around the world became. Most of them didn't degrade into what the Congo became. The Congo needed a delicate, gradual approach. The population was not used to the peaceful modern lifestyle the Belgians were promoting. Universal education didn't have enough time to work and give the masses opportunies and wealth.
@@ArturMorgan7491 how does this work and what does it mean to be restored indefinitely? Can it really be improved no matter how good our screens get or something?
@Jahtzee I wrote under her video that she should shave her Sasquatch legs, that she was clearly exposing on purpose. She replied something about happy pride month and then blocked my comments.
2:17 broke my heart... The way he tries to hold the tears in, brought me into tears. I was a soldier in the Greek heavy artillery division at a small outpost on a small island about 10 miles off the Turkish shores. There were many refugees with the same look of despair and fear of what's going to happen next, being literally washed ashore in these wrecked, half sunken boats.
I would like to know your perspective as someone that saw these things directly, can you get into more detail of your time in that island and your experience with the refugees? Those refugees were usually smuggled by human traffickers for a huge price then put on shitty boats that wouldn't survive the aegean sea. The ones here are islamists so I harbor no sympathy for them but I still feel bad knowing that there must've been a few decent people among the drowned.
I had a big complex about whether I would be a good officer because it is not an art to become an officer, but it's an art to not mess up. And until a person does something, he cannot be sure of himself. I was most afraid of being afraid... I had an additional problem. The problem of discipline... you had to rely solely on personal authority, because you could not punish a soldier, his friends in the next ambush might shoot you in the back. Rafal Gan-Ganowicz, mercenary.
More than 25 years ago, i had a customer at my motorcycle shop that was reputedly a mercenary in the '60's. He was grizzled, rough and intense. He rode his motorcycle all year, even in the snow. He claimed to have ridden it to the tip of South America, which was absolutely believable. I never had the nerve to ask him about it, but to this day i believe it to be true. This vid is Such a neat peak into a world of rough men that enjoy the mayhem of war and were willing to do ugly things for whomever was willing to pay the best.
hi this guy speak spanish??? i think i talk to this guy he told me he road all south america, africa and puerto rico can you describe me this guy??, he told he road a motocycle to
My 80yo Great Uncle enlisted as a mercenary to fight in the congo in the 60s. The pay was very good, like 3 soldier's salaries put together with some more up front. He said he enlisted because he was young and "felt invincible and feared nothing". Luckily the guy recruiting died or something because he ended up not going to the Congo. To this day we joke about how he narrowly avoided dying of malaria while fighting a guerilla XD. To be fair, he was and is a very fit man, and very possibly would have survived. But I'm just glad he didn't go to get PTSD in a jungle.
Watched the original video for a first time several days ago and I've fell in love with it. The footage selection, the music. You really have talent for making nice edits. Here's for a great 2022, MajorSamm. Keep doing great.
My father once joined the world peacekeeping force (Congo 1963) from the Indonesian National Armed Forces, served for one year... "salute to my father's achievements"...
Mostly ex members of the Parachute regiment , Rhodesian army and sundry waifs and strays . Brilliant irregular forces, got the job done , picked up their wages , and bugged out . If they survived many of them spent their days after ,propping up a bar somewhere ( or bought a pub )and going to reunions . We don't make them like that anymore
@@jarlbalgruufthegreater1758this guy doesn't know what he's talking about the same shit still happens today it's just the West looks down on mercenaries for whatever reason and they don't have as much leniency as they did back then.
These videos capture the times so well. I hope to see you make some videos on recent but already obscure conflicts such as Nagorno-Karabach and India-China.
Major Sam you deserve 1 million views. Those that get an emotional reaction from these films watch them over and over… When I was 15 I subscribed to SOF . I signed up in a peacetime military and was there for a short boring time. 20 years later the world erupts and I’m too old. Maybe I should at nearly 60 go to Ukraine and support port people
Swear everytime I watch this I find something new and interesting, like the incoming rounds impacting the ground when they're spraying the hut with the 1919, or one of them rocking a g3
Hey Ryan, hey Riley just wanna make sure you guys know how much I love you that I am going to do my best to always be here for you... unfortunately as you know, I am sick, but I am fighting every day for you guys.... you and Riley have given me all the motivation I need to go through everything that I'm going through... eventually I believe Cancer will take me, but I want you guys to know that you were my favorite people in the world and that I always want you to be happy
These guys were fierce hunters. You need balls of steels to press forward against the enemy with all that shooting. Praise for the Italian cameraman as well.
This is an amazing video. Seeing it made me want to read up on what actually happened and man was it an insane time. Currently looking to find "Congo mercenary" by Mad Mike Hoare, if anyone has a digital version that'd be much appreciated. Phenomenal video
If you are looking for books on Congo war "Condottieri" by Rafał Ganowicz is also a very good read. He was there as a mercenary and story about local shaman with medical degree from Prague that was cited in comments on previous version of this video is from that book.
Watching these certified legends makes me wonder how the Irish lasted for so long and took no casualties against mercenary’s presumably similarly to these at Jadotville.
Because the mercenaries where incompetent, and of barely any military value. Mike Hoare was way better at self promotion, than actually soldiering. He was known as a pretty arogant and poor leader of men. As most mercenaries, they excelled most in drinking, avoiding combat agaist anything resembling military opposition, looting and war crimes against civilans and prisoners.
Read the book Mad Dog Killers by Ivan Smith. He was there and gives a brutally raw and honest account of the goings on there. He is especially critical of Mike Hoare’s handling of the whites who were sheltering in a church in Stanleyville and butchered by the Simba’s. BTW a distant relative of mine was killed by the Simba’s during that time. He worked in the mining sector and was a non-combatant.
Never served. From time to time youtube leads me to this channel when i am drunk and this channel helps me alot to cry for all faults. basicly my faults. Iam very sure that majorSamm filters the most horror out so i can imagine some horrors. The way i try to thank you Major.
Watching Major Samm because his edits are amazing ---> broke Watching Major Samm because he has certifiable bangers and you want to find more ---> woke
Thats the rawest war footage I've ever seen, but the soldiers are clearly not trained well enough. I learned a whole story by just watching this 3 minute music video.
Film is more difficult to work with than tape, but it was much much higher quality. Once tape came around, and digital cameras after that, we moved to them for their ease of use, even though for a while that meant much lower quality (digital cameras have since improved in resolution).
![The Liberation of Boende - Congo '64 [Remastered]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zOQPiEmLHjE/mqdefault.jpg)
![The Liberation of Boende - Congo '64 [Remastered]](/img/tr.png)
This is a certified MajorSamm classic.
Petscop 2
Fuckin certed!
I really prefer the originals...
Honestly this video is what made me subscribe to this channel
This should be a certified fucking historic piece. Sam is incredible.
A little research answered most of my initial questions; the footage is from a 1965 documentary called "Africa Addio". Most of the men you see in the clip are from "5 Commando" - a mercenary unit of the Congolese National Army which was led by an ex-British military officer, Major "Mad" Mike Hoare. They were active from 1964-1967.
Great documentary, really weird but true
Yes, the epaulet worn at 02:21 by a Belgium is theirs.
Is that the guy with the bird on his shoulder?
mike was a fucking legend, such an interesting figure
Mad Mike lived to be a hundred years old
Not a cell phone in sight, just mercs living in the moment
And dying
OMG warcrimes and vibes 😌🥰
Hmmm, cell phones were a little hard to come by in 1964.
Life was 10x better without cell phones and internet.
Ironic mentioning cell phones as the fight for the Congo, the southeast mineral rich portion Katanga, was for metals from uranium to the metal that makes cell phone circuitry.
Man, didnt know I wanted a Congo remaster so bad. Those guys went through a lot, you can see it in their eyes. Also the merc pirate who dolphin dives is just on another level
Keeping human skulls as souvenirs might also be a sign that they've been through some things.
@@Vixctor13 communists aren't human
@@Rat__Trap based
@@Rat__Trap true
cocaine pirate's name is Tiv Wasilenko btw according to some people on the old version. Kind of just accepted as fact here that his name is Tiv
“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.”
-Joseph Conrad
This is end .. my only friend
The Horror
The Horror
“Savages…”
“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.” - every mercenary ever.
Sadly Walt Kurtz has gone completely insane.
Never enough of these chaps. Still trying to figure out who Coke Pirate is/was.
Me too bro me too
One of most mysteries of Internet: the unknown mercenary loved by all
What a savage though
is tiv wasilenko
@@chrisbarandao2208 idk bro
Ever since the first Mercenaries, Reach Out has been my go-to Spotify radio playlist during road trips. Thanks for the great taste in music in addition to the awesome videos.
Wait road trips
If you like the sound of the Four Tops you will enjoy Northern Soul.
You're very welcome, you have great taste by association now
Motown always comes through with the classic R&B. Greatest record label in American history
That's a good song to make a road trip in Africa
I remembered watching this the first time and thinking "damn this is a weird movie". Knowing it's all real goes to show how great the camera quality was.
With extra realistic death and a brutal sense of humor.
Yeah this murder and war, a real triumph of Photography, isn't it?... :/
The creators really just went straight into the hell that was early post-colonial Africa, filmed everything they could walking on the razor's edge when it comes to safety, commented it as objectively as they could and left us this masterpiece. Rare thing back then, almost impossible nowadays.
This was honestly a hard watch considering it really brought back some memories. However it was some of the best camera work I think could have been done, especially considering the limitations of the equipment they had. These camera crews had amazing guts and balls of steel.
@@lightblue254 it really is, it's beautiful
At first I thought this was fake, but then I looked at other parts of this documentary and I had to say that these videographers had serious balls.
they were almost executed by the locals, you can look up the meme video "wait they arent white, theyre italian" its the same guys
I love this one. The old version introduced me to your channel.
Same here I can thank this guy for so much good music
Enclave here. Why isn't your video feed working?"
@@lucluc7063 because I jammed a wrench in the screen
Same here as well.
Needs more enclave
Things I could spot on detail:
1. M1911.
2. FN FAL (Standard Issue rifle & Paratrooper Version) - The RIGHT ARM of the free world.
3. Franchi LF-57.
4. LMG M1919.
5. CETME Model C
6. M2 HB (recognizable by the rear sight, the firing grip and trigger system)
7. Heckler & Koch HK33A2
8. Vigneron M2
9. FN Model 24/30
I’m pretty sure that’s an isreal version M1919A4
wow. good eye
Yes but can you name the Ribbons on that Rupert?
wasnt the HK33A2 produced from 1968? I thought this video was based on the Congo Crisis, which is during the early 60's (1960-65), or was there a war later that included loads of mercenaries?
@@bozo8724 pretty much, yes. It was designed in 1960's primarily for exports use. Now as of the video, I took the muzzle flash, front sight, left charging handle and barrel handguard as a reference for my searching, it was either _this_ specific model or maybe a clon or variant. Keep in mind most of the set-ups used on modern wars (starting from 60's) are way different than what movies or TV shows resemble. Look on Vientam's M60 door gunners set-up, it's way too modern for that era.
It's surprising at how incredibly similar it is to today's Congo, The country has developed so bad which literally has the same look it had in the 60's
Corruption , war and greed
Instead of rebelling, they should have been grateful to the Belgians. While Kind Leopold II's private rule had been a disaster, subsequent rule by the Belgian state was a great success. In the years leading up to rebellion, the quality of life in the Congo had never before or since increased so quickly. Life there was much better then than it is now. For everyone there.
But the upper class blacks became so prosperous and educated that they started having notions of self-rule, not realizing that the majority of the population was still in too primative a condition for them to easily create a European-style country in central Africa without leadership from Europeans. The country descended into violent conflict and tyranny and has never emerged. If there hadn't been violent resistance to Belgian colonization for at least a few more decades, enough so that uplifting Belgian education programs could have spread, the Congo could have become a more peaceful and better-run country than South Africa or Botswana.
It's even worse for the local blacks than what happened in Rhodesia. Life for blacks was better in Rhodesia than under Mugabe's dictatorship, and before Mugabe took over there was Muzorewa's often-ignored and short-lived black-led Zimbabwe-Rhodesia which should to this day be mourned as a tragic loss and the last decent government of the country before genocidal tyrant Mugabe took over.
But in the Congo, the Belgian rule was seen as the most "enlightened" colonial rule in Africa, run for the benefit of the black natives. The blacks were being educated and provided and taught medicine and other social improvements. Black "évolués" were being created quickly, and life for them and everyone else in the county was improving quickly. Some of the newly educated, inspired by Marxist radicalism, living in their educated, modernized little bubble and ignorant of the fragility of the countryside newfound civilization, then tried to take over before the country was ready. They lasted about five minutes without the Belgians to lean on before other black natives, more violent, less civilized men, killed them to seize power for themselves. The whole country collapsed and has not recovered since. If they'd continued at the pace they were developing at before the rebellion and war against the Belgians, they'd be the most advanced country in all of Africa. Now they're one of the worst places on Earth. Most women in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have been raped in their endless wars. They have more rape and violence than anywhere on the planet. Congolese no longer survive to old age, but if there were any old people left they'd remember Belgian rule as better than what came after.
I'm not saying the Congolese should have remained subservient forever. I'm saying a Commonwealth approach where a country reaps the modernizing benefits of colonization and then subsequently gradually gains independence works better. It maximizes stability and growth. Had they remained with Belgium, they'd probably be self-ruling or independent by now, as most European colonies around the world became. Most of them didn't degrade into what the Congo became. The Congo needed a delicate, gradual approach. The population was not used to the peaceful modern lifestyle the Belgians were promoting. Universal education didn't have enough time to work and give the masses opportunies and wealth.
How much change can you do when your country is a literally forest?
@@frds_skce , South Korea and Singapore never existed ??
@@pepe__thefrog350 well, Germany or Canada as well
It always amazes me how good the camera quality is.
Cameras from this time are analog and not digital, they can be restored indefinitely
Nothing like film
@@ArturMorgan7491 I wish you had succeded, but not in art
Looks like 16mm footage.
@@ArturMorgan7491 how does this work and what does it mean to be restored indefinitely? Can it really be improved no matter how good our screens get or something?
My favourite is the one with Lauren O'Connels cover of Roland The Thompson Gunner 👌
Exactly
Definitely
Yeah, she's a bitter daike though, who can't take a joke.
@Jahtzee I wrote under her video that she should shave her Sasquatch legs, that she was clearly exposing on purpose. She replied something about happy pride month and then blocked my comments.
@@piotr277 How harry were they?
2:51 this guy still has the best drip in the universe
Wrong. The guy at 32 Seconds.
thats so called "f2p" friend
The footage quality increase is incredible
2:17 broke my heart... The way he tries to hold the tears in, brought me into tears. I was a soldier in the Greek heavy artillery division at a small outpost on a small island about 10 miles off the Turkish shores. There were many refugees with the same look of despair and fear of what's going to happen next, being literally washed ashore in these wrecked, half sunken boats.
you know that man rape and burn alive innocents in that document
I would like to know your perspective as someone that saw these things directly, can you get into more detail of your time in that island and your experience with the refugees?
Those refugees were usually smuggled by human traffickers for a huge price then put on shitty boats that wouldn't survive the aegean sea.
The ones here are islamists so I harbor no sympathy for them but I still feel bad knowing that there must've been a few decent people among the drowned.
If im not wrong he and his friend got caught after setting fire to school with children in it
@@savero-4228 Different dude
What a pansie
I had a big complex about whether I would be a good officer because it is not an art to become an officer, but it's an art to not mess up. And until a person does something, he cannot be sure of himself. I was most afraid of being afraid...
I had an additional problem. The problem of discipline... you had to rely solely on personal authority, because you could not punish a soldier, his friends in the next ambush might shoot you in the back.
Rafal Gan-Ganowicz, mercenary.
More than 25 years ago, i had a customer at my motorcycle shop that was reputedly a mercenary in the '60's. He was grizzled, rough and intense. He rode his motorcycle all year, even in the snow. He claimed to have ridden it to the tip of South America, which was absolutely believable. I never had the nerve to ask him about it, but to this day i believe it to be true.
This vid is Such a neat peak into a world of rough men that enjoy the mayhem of war and were willing to do ugly things for whomever was willing to pay the best.
hi this guy speak spanish??? i think i talk to this guy he told me he road all south america, africa and puerto rico can you describe me this guy??, he told he road a motocycle to
2:50 Finally, we get to see the Driplord in even higher quality
Always good to start of the year with Mercenaries in the Congo
If you are fighting mercenaries... and the point man is dressed like a pirate... and the CO has a parrot on his shoulder.. just fuckin' run.
Always loved the symbolism of the dude lighting that ciggie with the dollar bill
This remaster is incredible. Absolutely amazing Work.
Merc Pirate was definitely just there for the action, dude was blasting and diving
This one really deserved a remaster. Wonderful!
Starting 2022 with one of the most iconics videos
My 80yo Great Uncle enlisted as a mercenary to fight in the congo in the 60s.
The pay was very good, like 3 soldier's salaries put together with some more up front. He said he enlisted because he was young and "felt invincible and feared nothing".
Luckily the guy recruiting died or something because he ended up not going to the Congo. To this day we joke about how he narrowly avoided dying of malaria while fighting a guerilla XD.
To be fair, he was and is a very fit man, and very possibly would have survived. But I'm just glad he didn't go to get PTSD in a jungle.
Physical fitness helps, but it is no guarantee of survival.
Ain't no amount of pull-ups gonna save a man from a roadside mine.
@@Killicon93 He was fit for combat, that's what I mean.
@@Killicon93 yeah, a bullet odoes not discriminate nor does it judge
My father in law was a merc pilot there in that timeframe.
No telephones, no Wi-Fi just people living the moment
Watched the original video for a first time several days ago and I've fell in love with it. The footage selection, the music. You really have talent for making nice edits. Here's for a great 2022, MajorSamm. Keep doing great.
My father once joined the world peacekeeping force (Congo 1963) from the Indonesian National Armed Forces, served for one year... "salute to my father's achievements"...
Bapak saya also, tetapi dari Malaysia
My gran uncle was with the Irish UN deployment joined at 17
We had 6000 Irish fight in the Congo from 60 to 64
Never clicked a notification so fast. Shoutout to the cocaine pirate!
Mostly ex members of the Parachute regiment , Rhodesian army and sundry waifs and strays . Brilliant irregular forces, got the job done , picked up their wages , and bugged out . If they survived many of them spent their days after ,propping up a bar somewhere ( or bought a pub )and going to reunions . We don't make them like that anymore
Lol, in his book Hoare tells how half of his boys didn’t spoke English
I would totally commit multiple war crimes just to make my subsequent low-key beach bar more interesting. Gotta be authentic I suppose.
There are a lot of people like that around. They popped up in ukrain on both sides. Lots of people wanna fight
@@jarlbalgruufthegreater1758this guy doesn't know what he's talking about the same shit still happens today it's just the West looks down on mercenaries for whatever reason and they don't have as much leniency as they did back then.
These videos capture the times so well. I hope to see you make some videos on recent but already obscure conflicts such as Nagorno-Karabach and India-China.
Yes, more eyes on Armenia please
That Dutch looking dude with a beret and the pirate guy were hardcore as hell. They weren’t messing around. Kinda scary actually
The FIRST video that I saw from the one and only MajorSamm has been remastered! Legend.
Khakis, FALs, and M1 Helmets. Now in HD!
Never thought I'd see a remaster of this video.
Major Sam you deserve 1 million views. Those that get an emotional reaction from these films watch them over and over…
When I was 15 I subscribed to SOF . I signed up in a peacetime military and was there for a short boring time.
20 years later the world erupts and I’m too old. Maybe I should at nearly 60 go to Ukraine and support port people
dont fight in ukraine you will die
Ukraine is terrible
Pretty sure that songs from MajorSamm videos make up at least a third of my Spotify playlist
What's the songs name
Still as clean and masterfully edited as it was when you uploaded it for the first time. Keep it up Samm!
Swear everytime I watch this I find something new and interesting, like the incoming rounds impacting the ground when they're spraying the hut with the 1919, or one of them rocking a g3
0:10 Jeremy Wade from river monsters
Manliest vacation video I've ever seen
My 60yr mom started to sing the chorus immediately when the song started
Qual o nome dessa música?
@@ronaldocunha2716"Reach out" por "the tops"
@@ronaldocunha2716 The Four Tops - Reach Out
@@ronaldocunha2716I’ll be there
@@ronaldocunha2716 Did U find the name
Hey Ryan, hey Riley just wanna make sure you guys know how much I love you that I am going to do my best to always be here for you... unfortunately as you know, I am sick, but I am fighting every day for you guys.... you and Riley have given me all the motivation I need to go through everything that I'm going through... eventually I believe Cancer will take me, but I want you guys to know that you were my favorite people in the world and that I always want you to be happy
Holy shit the day just got way better, thanks Major
These guys were fierce hunters. You need balls of steels to press forward against the enemy with all that shooting. Praise for the Italian cameraman as well.
This is an amazing video. Seeing it made me want to read up on what actually happened and man was it an insane time. Currently looking to find "Congo mercenary" by Mad Mike Hoare, if anyone has a digital version that'd be much appreciated. Phenomenal video
I hope you find the book. It is a good read.
My mechanic here in LA served with Mad Mike. Next time I see him, I'll see if he has a copy.
If you are looking for books on Congo war "Condottieri" by Rafał Ganowicz is also a very good read. He was there as a mercenary and story about local shaman with medical degree from Prague that was cited in comments on previous version of this video is from that book.
I have it in pdf, if you’re still interested
@@pargoman854 may I
1:36 best dolphin dive
Cocaine is a powerful drug.
I still think this is the best honestly, for some reason it just hits differently out of all the Series so far
Thank you for remastering this!!!
2:35 i watched the documentary and that guy died a really gruesome death i cant even imagine actually being there.
They seem like good people. I'm sure they didn't commit any crimes while they were there.
Certainly they didnt commit crimes against humanity
This was my first Majorsamm video I ever watched, which started it all.
the remaster of the remastered remaster
One of these guys gifted my grandpa a looted fan from a hospital that still works to this day
Esto es una obra de arte
Watching these certified legends makes me wonder how the Irish lasted for so long and took no casualties against mercenary’s presumably similarly to these at Jadotville.
Faulques was too over-confident at the ability of the African fighters
@@conorbyrne3348 Plus, even the Irish get lucky once in awhile
Because the mercenaries where incompetent, and of barely any military value. Mike Hoare was way better at self promotion, than actually soldiering. He was known as a pretty arogant and poor leader of men. As most mercenaries, they excelled most in drinking, avoiding combat agaist anything resembling military opposition, looting and war crimes against civilans and prisoners.
Because the Irish were formed soldiers againts mostly thugs with a former WW2 french corporal at command.
Because their irish nuff said
Good way to start the year
I've been waiting for this video and it finally arrived! Also happy new year!
M1's, FN's, HK's, Colts. The weapons that shaped the modern world!!!
Read the book Mad Dog Killers by Ivan Smith. He was there and gives a brutally raw and honest account of the goings on there. He is especially critical of Mike Hoare’s handling of the whites who were sheltering in a church in Stanleyville and butchered by the Simba’s. BTW a distant relative of mine was killed by the Simba’s during that time. He worked in the mining sector and was a non-combatant.
The gift that keeps on giving.
The way they handle .308 and .30 like SMG's is just insane
My absolute favourite from all your videos, this is masterclass!
Never served. From time to time youtube leads me to this channel when i am drunk and this channel helps me alot to cry for all faults. basicly my faults. Iam very sure that majorSamm filters the most horror out so i can imagine some horrors. The way i try to thank you Major.
The golden era of mercenaries
Before they became PMCs?
@@kaptenlemper Hah, no one calls them "PMCs" outside of paperwork
@@zissimoskalarrytis3865 you mean news reports?
@@apileofcocaine6855 that and official documents from the UN and such
Well i mean mercanaries has been existing since medival era but there are no camera to record it
What a way to start off 2022. Thanks, Samm
Watching Major Samm because his edits are amazing ---> broke
Watching Major Samm because he has certifiable bangers and you want to find more ---> woke
whiteboy summer '64
😂😂
Based.
A lot of murders happened shortly off-camera after this was filmed.
the quality of the footage is amazing , i thought this was from a production at first !
Italian TV doc.
This and the original version are probably my favorite ones of your videos. Keep up the good work!
I knew you were saving the best for last. Glad to finally see this one get the remaster treatment
The energy of this video is impeccable.
All of these people seem so larger than life...
Fight house to house with Browning 1919. Be a man.
It's actually an FN30, which is very similar but not identical to a 1919.
Dude ran into that house with negative fucks to give.
Straight savages.
Much like wine, this video only gets better with age.
no coddling back then..just mercs kicking some major ass without mercy.
This one and the Boende liberation one are simply fantastic. The combination of the music, war... It resonates with how I feel these days.
Oka Crisis, 1990. Armed Mohawk standoff against the Canadian Forces and Quebec Provincial Police. Canadian media captured a lot of good footage.
The dude running around with the .30 cal Browning... that's a new level of *cool*.
Excelente, Major Samm!
The name is filled with levels of meta irony, i'm not even sure we can reach this mans level...
Nice to see: "Congo Remastered"
Absolutely love this video, great work as always MajorSamm. Can't wait for my FAL to arrive
00:25 the face of a war torn man
Hope it doesnt get age restricted
Thats the rawest war footage I've ever seen, but the soldiers are clearly not trained well enough.
I learned a whole story by just watching this 3 minute music video.
This never gets old. Epic!
Video quality is fantastic for '64 , makes you really feel that you 're there
Thank you, a perfect way to ring in the new year
The reason I know MajorSamm.
Please make more content from this era. It’s the best.
Dude I remember when this channel had like a tenth of the subscribers, what a legend
Gold standard Major Samm and the original was my introduction to this channel ;)
Why does this footage from the 60s look better than some modern war footage now??? Im so confused.
It was filmed on an analogue camera
Film is more difficult to work with than tape, but it was much much higher quality. Once tape came around, and digital cameras after that, we moved to them for their ease of use, even though for a while that meant much lower quality (digital cameras have since improved in resolution).
This is the second video I've seen on this channel, and it's top notch content. Just subscribed.
Love your content m8
probably one my favorite MajorSamm video, those guys will live forever.
Comiting Warcrimes and you love it
2perf 35mm has this gritty feel, not too much like 16mm but enough to not feel like proper 3perf.