The Man Who Captured Four Armed German Soldiers With an Empty Gun

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  • Опубликовано: 26 дек 2024

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  • @TodayIFoundOut
    @TodayIFoundOut  6 лет назад +1

    If you thought that guy's story was crazy check out this video and find out about The Unsolved Case of the Murderous Belle Gunness, “Lady Bluebeard”:
    ruclips.net/video/gxE5jtUaJL4/видео.html

  • @dominicesquivel3901
    @dominicesquivel3901 6 лет назад +156

    So he hopped a trench,killed a man with his bare hands,captured 4 armed soldiers with an empty gun and then using captured and scavenged equipment fought back an entire defensive. What sorta call of duty nonsense got into this guy?

  • @cripwalklover8380
    @cripwalklover8380 6 лет назад +105

    This man just went solo in a squads game

    • @K_D_A
      @K_D_A 6 лет назад +12

      Ishaan Shetty with no ammo

  • @Ebani
    @Ebani 6 лет назад +90

    What he didn't know was that the german soldiers didn't have bullets either.

    • @davieh6
      @davieh6 6 лет назад +6

      nice twist!

    • @hendrikskrijn
      @hendrikskrijn 6 лет назад +4

      Ebani probably!!

    • @thanksfernuthin
      @thanksfernuthin 6 лет назад +4

      Good one!

    • @pws3rd170
      @pws3rd170 6 лет назад +5

      Ebani that actually would explain alot and be very viable

    • @thundersheild926
      @thundersheild926 6 лет назад +4

      Ebani except he then preceded to use a machine gun with, presumably, bullets.

  • @ProfessorChops
    @ProfessorChops 6 лет назад +195

    Who coined the phrase "coined the phrase"?

    • @trowabarton101
      @trowabarton101 6 лет назад +2

      Dr Pancake Face Gaming ^^^

    • @JohnDoe-or3cl
      @JohnDoe-or3cl 6 лет назад +5

      Dr Pancake Face Gaming whoa, coinception.

    • @ChuckKeough
      @ChuckKeough 6 лет назад +9

      www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/origin-phrase-coin-phrase/

    • @tohopes
      @tohopes 6 лет назад +11

      Who coined the phrase "let me Google that for you"?

    • @ProfessorChops
      @ProfessorChops 6 лет назад +4

      Chuck Keough oh nice! I didn't realize they had a website. I just looked for it on youtube. I thought it was really weird that of all the obscure things they have covered that wasn't one of them.

  • @markhenley3097
    @markhenley3097 6 лет назад +30

    "How to rush B."

  • @jackzijdenbos5496
    @jackzijdenbos5496 6 лет назад +16

    Today I found Out:
    That my bus goes past his tombstone every single day and I never even knew

  • @timothymclean
    @timothymclean 6 лет назад +17

    Wasn't there a British soldier who captured an enemy soldier with an umbrella? (Needless to say, he was behind said soldier.)

  • @ChuckKeough
    @ChuckKeough 6 лет назад +63

    "Psyche"

  • @MichaelGGarry
    @MichaelGGarry 6 лет назад +2

    A similar thing happened to the British, Australian and Indian armies in Singapore, who surrendered to a shocked Japanese army who had ran out of ammo and thought the British were going to ask for *their* surrender......

  • @isaiahdobesh5109
    @isaiahdobesh5109 6 лет назад +11

    More of these bad-ass stories please!

  • @michelbelanger2845
    @michelbelanger2845 6 лет назад +7

    Only 4, I guess thats good for an English :) Canadian guy got 77 with just with his mouth. " MacDowell then spotted one German going into a tunnel. At the base of the tunnel, MacDowell was able to bluff the Germans to think he was part of a much larger force, resulting in the surrendering of two German officers and 75 German soldiers. He sent the prisoners up out the tunnel in groups of 12 so that Kobus and Hay could take them back to the Canadian line. Although wounded in the hand, MacDowell continued for five days to hold the position gained, in spite of heavy shellfire, until eventually relieved by his battalion. ." source: www.vimyfoundation.ca/victoria-cross-recipients/

    • @sawace1
      @sawace1 6 лет назад

      Yaas Canada!

  • @daxxonjabiru428
    @daxxonjabiru428 6 лет назад +1

    I believe "magnificent bastard" covers it!

  • @amdreallyfast
    @amdreallyfast 6 лет назад +4

    I wonder if this guy would get along with the guy who brought his sword and bagpipes into battle

  • @BusinessWolf1
    @BusinessWolf1 6 лет назад +22

    Just 4? How about the guy who was a pacifist who enrolled in the army but in the end had to fight and captured like 97 or so soldiers?

    • @Aramis419
      @Aramis419 6 лет назад +2

      Are you referring to Sergeant York?

    • @n-wordjim1724
      @n-wordjim1724 6 лет назад

      What about him? This video is not about him and doesn't have to be.

    • @matteaton9108
      @matteaton9108 6 лет назад

      who gives a flying fuck about anything you say

  • @captindo
    @captindo 6 лет назад

    Love these military videos Simon, keep them coming buddy.

  • @brasstard7.627
    @brasstard7.627 6 лет назад +11

    It's even crazier because you can look at a revolver from the front and see if it's loaded or not

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 6 лет назад +13

      If you squint. But it's not easy to tell, a few chambers are going to be hidden by the mechanisms of the gun (including the chamber right behind the barrel), and one of the biggest rules of firearm safety is not to look down a possibly-loaded firearm for any longer than you absolutely have to. (Right after not pointing loaded firearms at anything you don't want to kill/destroy and treating all firearms as if they were loaded.)

    • @gideonjones5712
      @gideonjones5712 6 лет назад +10

      hopefully you wouldn't waste time trying to figure it out. I can see a soldier doing that:
      "Benny, do you think he really has any bullets left?"
      "I dunno George, you'd think he'd of fired off a shot by now"
      "Why don't you check? if you look real close you can tell if he's got any bullets left."
      "Okay George." looks back
      "No George, I don't see any"- falls to the ground
      "Well I guess he had at least one left. wonder if he's got any more?"

    • @anzaca1
      @anzaca1 6 лет назад +4

      Exactly! Plus, some revolvers have the front of the cylinder completely covered.

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 6 лет назад +1

      "Did I fire six shots or only five?"

    • @Pm76664
      @Pm76664 6 лет назад +2

      It just goes back to confidently hopping into the trench, after that the soldiers had no reason to doubt that he was loaded.

  • @FluffytheChicken3
    @FluffytheChicken3 6 лет назад

    I love these unbelievable war stories that you manage to dig up! Today I definitely found out...

  • @huntermckenzie117
    @huntermckenzie117 6 лет назад

    Have you ever done a video on the Hope Diamond? If not I’d love to see one on that! Keep doing what you’re doing!

  • @MartinKelly-bx6ft
    @MartinKelly-bx6ft 4 года назад

    James Welch had joined the ranks of people like Teddy Roosevelt people who have challenged the Grim Reaper himself to a fist fight

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 6 лет назад +21

    There is a movie in which an African "Bushman" (Kalahari San) sets off to get rid of an "evil thing" (A coke bottle). He encounters a man with a rifle fixing his lunch and singing. The San picks up the rifle (not knowing it's a weapon) to ask what sort of stick it was.
    The guy puts his hands up then runs off. The San, thinking the guy was running from something behind him, so he runs too.
    It's a funny scene in a funny movie.
    ruclips.net/video/AKHU0MrArKU/видео.html

    • @dlbstl
      @dlbstl 6 лет назад +3

      Eric Taylor I love that movie! I think it's called "The Gods Must Be Crazy".

    • @ekramer2478
      @ekramer2478 6 лет назад

      Yes that is the name of the movie. "The Gods Must Be Crazy", and it was awesome!

    • @erictaylor5462
      @erictaylor5462 6 лет назад +2

      E Kramer2 Indeed. It's amazing that people call the movie racist. Granted it dose not accurately depict the real life of the Kalahari San but it's not a documentary, it a fucking satire.
      It shows "modern society" through the eyes of a "savage"
      "Are the voices in my head bothering you?"

    • @ekramer2478
      @ekramer2478 6 лет назад +1

      Unfortunately of late people are tending to call all sorts of things racist. A true pity when it comes to that movie. It was rather brilliant truly.

    • @erictaylor5462
      @erictaylor5462 6 лет назад +2

      I love the satire. It really does shine a light on how "civilized" we really are.

  • @HungLikeScrat
    @HungLikeScrat 6 лет назад

    You don't win a medal in the military, you earn it.

  • @LAPISTime25
    @LAPISTime25 6 лет назад +3

    What about the guy who captured 132 German soldiers with a 1911 doing World War 1? Look up Alvin York.

  • @blgan6543
    @blgan6543 6 лет назад +1

    this guy just rushed tilted and killed everyone with his pickaxe

  • @hameley12
    @hameley12 6 лет назад

    Lance-Corporal James Welch... what a brave man! Though, that 'Bonus Fact' was better than the actual first topic. Bonus Facts never disappoint! :)

  • @johnwilford3020
    @johnwilford3020 6 лет назад +4

    No videos from the archives?!?! Well, this whole video is ruined now. :P May want to check your end screen settings. Also, thanks for all your work getting these out every day.

  • @martinkelly5560
    @martinkelly5560 6 лет назад

    Lance-Corporal James Welch hid more than just a fist fight with the Grim FUCKIN Reaper

  • @orlendatube
    @orlendatube 6 лет назад

    awesome bonus fact today! like a whole extra video almost!

  • @BryanEshbaugh
    @BryanEshbaugh 6 лет назад

    I always enjoy your quality content. (On here and Biographics )

  • @AnnaAnnaYes
    @AnnaAnnaYes 6 лет назад

    "Blood is Freedom's Stain"
    -Bruce Dickinson.

  • @jur4x
    @jur4x 6 лет назад

    Can you do one on Jack Churchill? That was one mad guy :)

  • @12799MaDeuce
    @12799MaDeuce 6 лет назад +2

    I thought for sure this was gonna be about Jack Churchill

  • @babyjesusvideo
    @babyjesusvideo 6 лет назад

    Was this guy the freaking Master Chief?

  • @sebastianelytron8450
    @sebastianelytron8450 6 лет назад +23

    Wait, Goro was a real person? And he was German? And he was a soldier? And he had twins?

    • @talhatariqyuluqatdis
      @talhatariqyuluqatdis 6 лет назад

      Sebastian Elytron Who's Goro?

    • @Albukhshi
      @Albukhshi 6 лет назад

      mortalkombat.wikia.com/wiki/Goro

    • @Novellum
      @Novellum 6 лет назад

      *In the far distance* "I get it."

  • @Rerje97
    @Rerje97 6 лет назад

    This guy was such a badass!

  • @TerryTurner
    @TerryTurner 6 лет назад

    This need to be a movie. Staring J.K. Simmons...👍😉

  • @camgood2437
    @camgood2437 6 лет назад +2

    WHO DA MAN?? YOU DA MAN!!

  • @Jop3lius
    @Jop3lius 6 лет назад

    excellent video just like always :)

  • @turbosdolphin
    @turbosdolphin 6 лет назад

    What a badass!!! Awesome!!!! 😎

  • @Lee-wr2ts
    @Lee-wr2ts 6 лет назад +2

    Hey Simon , Would you do a video on "The
    biggest funeral" in the world ??

  • @shanachayadavison5857
    @shanachayadavison5857 6 лет назад +1

    0:26 boring early life, or a member Assassins Order?

  • @DarthSmirnoff
    @DarthSmirnoff 6 лет назад

    2:20 Of course he did, he had them right where he wanted them.

  • @jrstoelting
    @jrstoelting 6 лет назад

    “However, you are not Welch” 😂

  • @coolsniffs
    @coolsniffs 6 лет назад +11

    Can you do an episode on the history of soap and how it works?

    • @Charziken909
      @Charziken909 6 лет назад +3

      MKirk49
      All my knowledge of soap comes from the movie Fight Club lol

    • @bentaylor809
      @bentaylor809 6 лет назад

      MKirk49 how about the history of Soap and how he's so awesome? Probably at a high Price (badum-tiss).

    • @austinbevis4266
      @austinbevis4266 6 лет назад

      MKirk49 soap works because it’s molecules have a polar end and a non polar end, this gives it the ability to mix water and oils which allows for gunk to wash off your hands.

  • @RubyDoobieScoo
    @RubyDoobieScoo 6 лет назад

    How about a video on Charles Upham? Only combat soldier to win two VC's.

  • @Billybob-j7f
    @Billybob-j7f 6 лет назад

    You should do a video on Adrian Carton de Wiart.

  • @brianartillery
    @brianartillery 6 лет назад

    I believe, too, that in the first world war, a pilot attacked a Zeppelin armed only with a bread-knife. How do these odd things come to pass?

  • @1701spacecadet
    @1701spacecadet 6 лет назад

    Can just imagine it.
    Hans: are we safe yet?
    Helmut: he's still chasing us!
    Ernst: da fuq?
    Herman: let's keep running. He might give up.
    Some time later..
    Helmut: he's still coming!
    Hans: I know, let's stop and make a stand!
    Ernst: da fuq?
    Herman: this is why nobody likes you, Hans.

  • @joshuarotugal8496
    @joshuarotugal8496 6 лет назад

    This is what we need for America, If all American Soldiers is like this, WE CAN WIN AT ALL WARS!

  • @acdc09
    @acdc09 6 лет назад

    I must be this guy reincarnated because I do this all the time in nearly every Call of Duty game.

  • @hipp_katt
    @hipp_katt 6 лет назад

    You can always tell which ones Karl wrote by the jokes. 😂

  • @nathanielthompson7967
    @nathanielthompson7967 6 лет назад

    This dude was a fucking monster. Holy shit.

  • @Alex-jk9pq
    @Alex-jk9pq 6 лет назад

    Those soldiers got finessed

  • @MyDecade
    @MyDecade 6 лет назад

    Why does time go by much slower when you’re a kid?

  • @paulaclarke3421
    @paulaclarke3421 6 лет назад

    Yep, sounds like a British soldier to me.

  • @kabaret3
    @kabaret3 6 лет назад

    where is the video about Alves dos Reis?

  • @thewwefan57
    @thewwefan57 6 лет назад

    Those business stock photos never fit in with the war stories lol

  • @DadSkool
    @DadSkool 6 лет назад

    I thought he captured German Mutants until i watched

  • @toxic_teaaa7810
    @toxic_teaaa7810 6 лет назад

    i thought you were gonna talk about some dude who captured soldiers with four arms

  • @keltechindustries20901
    @keltechindustries20901 6 лет назад

    Hey could you do a documentary about where does the term Sadie Hawkins come from.

  • @jaredmitchener9175
    @jaredmitchener9175 6 лет назад

    Wait, I’m confused. What was he armed with? And I’m not really sure if it had bullets or not.

  • @nicholasambrosini3790
    @nicholasambrosini3790 6 лет назад

    What was he armed with I didn't catch that part

  • @rezaka116
    @rezaka116 6 лет назад

    Don't tell me that CoD is unrealistic after seeing this.

  • @williamrogers9918
    @williamrogers9918 6 лет назад

    He's good, but he's got nothing on mad jack

  • @sawace1
    @sawace1 6 лет назад

    I bet the four German soldiers were little more than children like many of the soldiers. If Welch was a large well built man who was confident at close quarters fighting, I don't think it would be that hard to capture 4 terrified 17 year olds. However the chances of them ALL being terrified 17 year olds is pretty small I think.. Crazy story though.

  • @davidofchinkov41
    @davidofchinkov41 6 лет назад

    this this is some pre-metal gear solid shit

  • @evilutionltd
    @evilutionltd 6 лет назад

    German! Really? I could have believed French without a blink of an eye.

  • @cnat_sepll
    @cnat_sepll 6 лет назад

    Apparently my grandad captured Hitlers photographer and made him take a photo of him

  • @illiteratebeef
    @illiteratebeef 6 лет назад

    Ammunition, not bullets

  • @glennleader8880
    @glennleader8880 6 лет назад

    Every time a watch a Today I found out video, it's very jumpy. Is it just me?

  • @darioildiario3001
    @darioildiario3001 6 лет назад

    Actually, a lot of people died saying "Fortune saves the brave"... no one rembers the failures O_o

    • @Pm76664
      @Pm76664 6 лет назад

      "Fortune favors the brave", therefore it doesn't really matter if they died as long as they accomplished their goal.

    • @darioildiario3001
      @darioildiario3001 6 лет назад +1

      +Preston Medley
      Geez, when i read Preston i thought you were gonna tell me that there is a settlement needing help... i guess i played too much Fallout 4, recently ^_^'
      About what you say, yep, but still many will say that hoping in good luck, and rush in desperate efforts to their doom :-(

  • @topviralclips_x
    @topviralclips_x 6 лет назад

    why didnt he just pickup the first soldiers gun?????

  • @rhopsi5620
    @rhopsi5620 6 лет назад

    Of course this one was authored by Karl Smallwood. :)

  • @melissazimmerman3511
    @melissazimmerman3511 6 лет назад

    I found the background music distracting in this one

  • @WCGwkf
    @WCGwkf 6 лет назад

    the germans could have been kids and were just scared shitless and wanted nothing to do with all of it.

  • @micflynn1
    @micflynn1 6 лет назад

    hey do one on Wilbert K Ross from Kentucky who captured a bunch of German's

  • @anatypicallyhumanperson7200
    @anatypicallyhumanperson7200 6 лет назад

    I wonder if I'm related to this bamf

  • @TheGreatMunky
    @TheGreatMunky 6 лет назад

    Damn. Brad Pitt was a badass.

  • @lonewanderer1900
    @lonewanderer1900 6 лет назад

    Why didn't he grab the gun off the first one he killed?

  • @lunaxparadox3053
    @lunaxparadox3053 6 лет назад

    1080p60

  • @Aodhan2717
    @Aodhan2717 6 лет назад +5

    Those poor four-armed German soldiers…

    • @ranjeethmahankali3066
      @ranjeethmahankali3066 6 лет назад +5

      Your hyphenation implies that each German soldier had four arms... hahaha

    • @huegass1650
      @huegass1650 6 лет назад

      Ranjeeth Mahankali who's to say they didn't have four arms?

  • @chiewie0165
    @chiewie0165 6 лет назад

    It will be a disaster if this is a video game. :D

  • @ghostmarine1036
    @ghostmarine1036 6 лет назад

    Lol inglorious Basterds all over again

  • @mcsabas1042
    @mcsabas1042 6 лет назад

    Do a video on the yidis politics snadal

  • @goliver9991
    @goliver9991 6 лет назад +2

    1:50 machine-gunning ? during ww 1 ?

    • @iancornell141
      @iancornell141 6 лет назад +7

      Mr.Halogames yes machine guns were used in WW1 and even saw limited use in the civil war. However they were bulky, awkward and unreliable. If you were able to capture a enemy trench, chances are they left the cumbersome machine guns behind if the retreated.

    • @goliver9991
      @goliver9991 6 лет назад

      yes but you wouldnt have machine gun set up to shoot in your own trench

    • @iancornell141
      @iancornell141 6 лет назад +5

      Mr.Halogames he captured a trench and it sounds like one was mounted in the trench he originally captured. WW1 trenches were set up in horizontal rows so forces could retreat and still hold some ground. All the guy had to do was likely turn the machine gun in his captured trench 180 degrees and he could open fire on the enemy

    • @goliver9991
      @goliver9991 6 лет назад +1

      but still if someone entered your trench you wouldnt be probably able to aim at him with that machinegun

    • @dontmindme333
      @dontmindme333 6 лет назад +4

      Yes dumbass. Believe it or not, machine guns were used in ww1

  • @ratintimbs4553
    @ratintimbs4553 6 лет назад

    why didn't he just take the german soldier's gun he killed barehanded

  • @sharkfinbite
    @sharkfinbite 6 лет назад

    Expected influx of foreigners talking abut something happened in the past their country done that was better upon this video. (weeny measuring to see who is biggest.) I am surprised to see a Canadian being the first doing it.

  • @shivramn
    @shivramn 6 лет назад

    What up notification squad.

  • @jaxamilius5237
    @jaxamilius5237 6 лет назад

    yea this didnt happen...

    • @finlaybullough499
      @finlaybullough499 6 лет назад

      Jax Amilius And you know this because you have extensively researched it?

    • @jaxamilius5237
      @jaxamilius5237 6 лет назад

      bro, i have never extensively researched the existance of santa either, or that of the magic tea pot circling the sun... but i KNOW ... they are bullshit.
      common sense brah... common sense....

    • @General_Cap
      @General_Cap 6 лет назад

      Jax Amilius yeah I don't really buy this atory either, too much of a tall tale.

  • @narri214
    @narri214 6 лет назад

    49 views

  • @embretroas3924
    @embretroas3924 6 лет назад

    15 views

  • @ArtyI
    @ArtyI 6 лет назад

    50 views

    • @jarlmaktoum7411
      @jarlmaktoum7411 6 лет назад

      Arty Ivanenko CORRECTION 49 GET IT RIGHT NIGGA

  • @pitchbluetopaz2681
    @pitchbluetopaz2681 6 лет назад

    First

  • @chrrmin1979
    @chrrmin1979 6 лет назад

    I got to choose between 400th like, and 10th dislike

  • @ekramer2478
    @ekramer2478 6 лет назад

    Well that had to be more interesting than working in a box factory.