The medical staff in war - combat medics, field surgeons and nurses, ambulance drivers and medevac crews - are often the unsung heroes of war, literally and figuratively. That doesn’t mean that they don’t deserve to be remembered and their sacrifices honored. There are undoubtedly many instances of exceptional bravery among the medical staff of wars throughout history - for which they rightly should be praised. But they should also be remembered for their everyday work in trenches or field hospitals, in jungles and deserts, at sea or in mid-air. Treating a seemingly endless stream of incoming wounded, trying to give relief to those in pain, comfort to those in agony, and hope to to those who have lost theirs - day in and day out, for as long as the war will last. If you missed part one of “The Ballad of Bull” you can see it right here: ruclips.net/video/ts_iAftE8Jo/видео.html If you would like to gain early access to our Sabaton History episodes and actively support this awesome project that we are so passionate about, you can do so by joining our Patreon community. There are some pretty cool perks when you become part of the Patreon family. Find out more and join here 👉 www.patreon.com/sabatonhistory
I was a medic in the US Army from 1988-1996. I was fortunate that I did not have but one patient in crisis. I am so proud though to have been a part of a field and service that is so important to how our heroes are helped in the field and getting as many of them home as possible. Thank you to all that served, and to the medics, corpsman, and medical staffs for all you do for our heroes.
Nurses of Vietnam by Barry Sadler is one where they are sung about as the heroes they are. "To each of the wounded on the operating shelf these nurses give a part of themselves"
In high school, we had a geometry teacher who was very religious. He would kick you out of class for saying "gosh" because that was a substitute for taking the Lord's name in vain. On Veteran's day that year, he wore his uniform from the Vietnam War (he was proud he could still fit in it). He told us his story which proved he was a true badass. He was drafted, but like Doss, he refused to carry a weapon so he became a medic. I guess he pull a lot of guys to safety, but what earned him his Purple Heart and Bronze Star was going out in the middle of a fire fight to pull someone to safety when he got hit in the arm... and he showed us the scar which went from his elbow to his armpit. I don't know if it was because of his beliefs, but he was a happy go lucky guy and told us his story matter-of-factly.
It's so unfair that the Germans can't celebrate men like Schmitz. They are, by all measures still heroes, even though they fought in a relentless machine for a idiotic maniac.
Exactly! Its like the last action of the 12th army. What those men did, what they died for was noble and heroic but because of the side they were on it often gets over looked.
The Germans turned down taking back a Armored Cruiser from WWI back from Turkey when they offered it, so they scrapped it. WWI was actually a noble cause, helping their Ally. Yet they keep U-2501, a U-Boat from WWII.
@@rebelgaming1.5.14 Yeah. People often forget that Germany got involved in the First World War for the exact same reason as Britain and France - because of their ally. Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia and that forced Germany into the war. The fact that Serbia was being invaded also pulled the Allies into the war. And then, because Germany lost, they had to surrender unconditionally and accept the full responsibility for the war. Geezz, it's no wonder they wanted a second round
@@henrykeyter53 Germany was unjustly Punished. I understand stuff like War Repairations, but Territory Loss (Danzig, Poznan, Katowice, but not Alsace-lorraine) was uncalled for. Sure Austria-Hungary got completely destroyed, with multiple nations breaking apart, same with the Ottomans, but they were already the sick men of Europe. The German Empire was young, forming less than 40 years ago at the time of WWI. They were on the rise as a major power, and even had an alliance with Russia. Then Wilhelm II took power. He Broke off the German-Russian Alliance, and fired Bismarck as Chancellor. Bismarck would roughly more or less tell him "20 years after my departure, your rule will end with abdication." Bismarck's prediction was only a few months off. Wilhelm II led Germany down a road that brings it to where it is today, a mere shell of its former self, with a much smaller military, a miniscule Navy, and massive Territorial Loss. The problems began even before WWI, and WWI could've still ended differently.
Medics are real warriors even if they refuse to carry weapons and kill because they are still fighting but their battle is not against men but rather Death itself.
@Troy EGA how I feel about my profession as an EMS paramedic as well, and I have personally kicked The Reaper in the and won before. Full disclosure, though, listening to the stories of combat medics in this video got me teary-eyed and I am not even sorry.
Reminds me of a quote about Theodore Roosevelt: "Death had to take him sleeping, for if Roosevelt had been awake, there would've been a fight" Be like Teddy, steal souls back from death himself.
As a currently serving RAF Medic I really appreciate both this song and these story's There are so many more from afgan and Iraq that most people don't know about. The best one I know is that of the man who lead my training. During Afghanistan he was on patrol when the point man stepped on an IED and lost a leg. When an ambush began and the medic was shot in the head. Lucky it penitarted the side of his helmet going around his skull but cutting him. This didn't stop him and he managed to get to the wounded and save him. He was awarded the military cross. And his helmet is on display at the IWM in England.
'The Ballad of Bull' is one of the most heartwarming Sabaton songs and topics, in my opinion. It's up there with 'No Bullets Fly'. It was great to hear more about the bravery of combat medics in World War 2. I already knew about Desmond Doss (from Hacksaw Ridge, obviously), but Schmitz and Mareseva's stories were just as interesting. Thanks for the great work!
Indy, you have my approval for a part 3, 4 and much parts as you want about this people. I wanna know more about these awesome people. Like it means one approval plus.
1. The two 101st medics that turned a church into an aid center and treated both americans and Germans 2. The surgeon on saipan that held off a Japanese assault singlehandedly 3. Technically not a medic, but the marine that went into the saipan jungle to bring back refugees
Good examples. While watching this video I thought of the Angels of Bastogne. Belgian nurses who treated the wounded during the Battle of the Bulge. One of which died in a bombing.
@@Death_Korps_Officer there were two 101st medics who used a French church to treat wounded american and German soldiers. They enforced a strict no gun policy inside the church, even telling a german officer to leave his guns outside. NY estimate is they treated 30 plus soldiers
@@Death_Korps_Officer there was a surgeon with the Marines on soldiers. The Japanese launched one all out last ditch counter attack. The surgeons field hospital was attacked, so he single handedly held the Japanese off with a machine gun, only dying after the hospital was evecuated
I think you should make an episode (and a song too) about Eugeniusz Łazowski (Eugene Lazowski). Although he had a very short episode at the front, it’s what he did when the Germans occupied the Polish lands that earned him a title of a local hero. He was a doctor in a small town Stalowa Wola. During the German occupation, his friend Stanislaw Matulewicz discovered that injecting a healthy person with a harmless bacterium gives a false positive result in German typhus tests. Łazowski used this knowledge to vaccinate the local residents with the bacteria and send the patients' blood to German laboratories. This way he convinced the Nazis that there is a typhus epidemic in Stalowa Wola. The occupant panicked. All the Germans who could, fled the area. Terror was significantly alleviated. The fear of the spread of the plague prevented the Nazis from transporting people to heavy works and concentration camps. It is estimated that Łazowski saved several thousand people from deportation and death. Łazowski described his exploits in his book "Private War", published in the United States, where he lived after the war. There are also many works on this topic available in English, but I will not share links so that RUclips does not consider this comment as spam. I recommend that you read this topic - it’s an amazing story.
I deeply appreciate these stories. I'm a retired Navy Hospital Corpsman and served twice in Iraqwith the Marine Corps. The medical staff in the Navy, Army and Air Force tend to be overlooked by everyone except the troops they serve with, but are deeply lived by those troops.
Aaron, I was an FMF Corpsman from 1991 to 1998. Do you think Doc Bradley or GySgt Basilone or even the battle of Iwo Jima deserves a song? I know Johnnie Cash did "The Ballard of Ira Hayes", but even the Navajo Talkers (I know, Hayes was a Pima Indian) deserve a bad A$$ song! All said, great job Sabaton History! I watch the music videos before the history lessons.
One medic who never gets the recognition he deserved was Corporal Phil Dobson. He was the company medic of D Company 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment during the Battle of Long Tan. During the battle a company of 105 Australians and 3 New Zealand artillery fire observers and a North Vietnamese force of around 2500 effectively walked into each other, immortalised in the film Danger Close. The company suffered 18 fatalities, and 22 wounded. This one medic was responsible for so many casualties that it boggles the mind, and he freely admitted that he didn't fully know what he was doing. One notable incident occured when there was a risk that one of the diggers might swallow his tongue on the stretcher, conventional wisdom dictates to roll the casualty onto his side but they were in monsoon rains and if that happened he would drown, so Corporal Dobson improvised and used a safety pin to staple his tongue to his lower lip so it wouldn't slip down. Something of a bodge job, but it worked. Dobson didn't lose a single casualty that day
That was a seriously lucky roll! Every time after they couldn't match their rolls and basically got outrolled until the US used an artifact and had a critical success
The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest award for bravery. Only three men have ever won it twice. Two of the three - Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake, VC & Bar, VD and Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse, VC & Bar, MC - were medics.
My great aunt was a nurse during ww2,she followed the infantry from the beaches of Normandy(Utah beach) to the battle of the bulge(seige of bastone) and beyond.
Last time I was this early, Leslie "Bull" Allen hadn't gone to war yet. The Winged Hussars had yet to arrive and Carolus Rex yet to rule. Im just seeing the Ghost Division in the distance.
Do a song about Saburō Sakai (1916-2000), a pilot of the Imperial Japanese Navy during WW2. Yes he shot down 64 planes (but probably a lot more however he would claim these where shot down by others who did not make it out alive in order to provide their widows with a small pension). What stands out for me was the encounter of him with a Dutch civilian DC3 in early 1942, the orders where clear to shoot down any enemy aircraft. But thinking that this plane could carry important people he tried to make the DC-pilot to follow him to a Japanese base, the pilot refused. Sakai descended and approached the DC-3. He then saw a blonde woman and a young child through a window, along with other passengers. The woman reminded him of a American woman who used to teach him at middle school. He ignored his orders and flew ahead of the pilot, signaling him to go ahead. The pilot and passengers saluted him. Sakai did not mention the encounter in the aerial combat report. He would shoot down more planes and was seriously wounded but kept on being deployed and defending his country until his latest mission on august 18 1945. And off course his "Danse Macabre" aerobatics over an enemy airfield. After the war he retired from the Navy. He became a Buddhist - vowing to never again kill anything that lived, not even a mosquito.
Seventh Day Adventist here raise as one i also severed in the us army as an infantryman. i was fortune enough to have gotten to hear Doss give his testimony on the events of the war. he was a very humble man and a huge influence in my decision to server in the infantry.
The Germans we’re not inheritly bad. It was an ideology if a few that infected a greater populace forcing those who may not and did not have the same views to fight.
@Jeager productions That is the problem: often times, the vocal minority is able to seize and maintain control because by the time the silent majority tries to do anything, the minority has Become the majority, and vice versa.
While the politics and actions were wrong if argue moat individual soldiers were just like american or allied soldier purely because they just wanted to live to see another day
remember par, everyone requesting this has heard the ballad of bull allen. we know what were asking for. you could call such an album "heros without weapons".
@@deptusmechanikus7362 Medics were protected under the geneva convention, you couldn't shoot them. *but* the Soviets didn't sign the Geneva Convention. so..
All of these stories are great, but Zinaida Mareseva rallying the soldiers for a counterchrage is badass as hell! Thank you for telling stories that are worthy of being told! Real legacy for us and for generations to come!
Their will to put themselfs at risk without hesitation... Truly treasurable souls.🙏🏼 I knew about Desmond because of Hacksaw Ridge movie. Thank you for opportunity to learn about Franz and Zinaida as well. And it was nice to see you again Pär! I really doubt Sabaton could disappointed fans! 🙂
These 3 are fantastic medics. I want to give you one more. Waverly Woodson Jr.. A medic from World War II who treated at least 200 men on Omaha Beach despite being wounded himself. He has not been awarded the Medal of Honor due to his being black and hopefully this wrong will be righted soon. This mans heroism is extraordinary and yet almost unknown.
Thank you for this awesome episode. I'm sitting here with goosebumps and tears in my eyes throughout the whole video. Medics are the unsung heroes in every war.
I recall watching an animation on youtube about 2 combat medics who holed up in a church and wound up treating both Allied and German Casualties... I'll try to relocate it and share a link... also a great story of Heroism without inflicting violence. Robert Wright and Kenneth Moore... I hope I've spelled their names correctly, link below
Reason why I'm holding my grandfather's role during the 2nd World War in such high regards is because he was an ambulance driver. He never took anyone's life, he helped saving them.
Yeah, I think that This nice song should be only one in its type as a ballad. And the way it sounds with its uppers and downs vocal melodies (sorry If I'm not describing it well) at the same time mixed with Joakim's voice ,,I feel like I'm laying on clouds...very nice :D
My favorite WW2 Medic story is the two combat medics on Normandy that made a neutral zone with a captured church, they'd treat and serve both Germans and allies. Multiple times Germans would walk into the church authoritative and aggressive, but every time the medic would get them to clam down. The Germans and American's both agreed that the church was a no fight zone. Even two German soldiers that were hiding in the church since the start of the neutral zone and eventually came down and started helping the medic.
So this episode is perfect, I've heard about desmond doss in the movie hacksaw ridge, But I only know about the other 2 heroes now and I believe there were a lot of them let the memory of these heroes live, thank you very much Sabaton History ❤️❤️🤘🤘😎
The true story of Desmond Doss is much more interesting than what the movie portrayed it as. I recommend on RUclips watching the Simple History video on him and another documentary that's free on Tubi called the Conscientious Objector.
These kind of episodes where they just tell some short stories without really going into any strategic aspects are, in my opinion, a lot more enjoyable to listen to! Great episode!
Did Indy just GLOSS OVER the part where a medic single-handedly captures an enemy tank to break his unit out from encirclement? Details, please! That sounds metal as hell!
I had to do a speech in year 10 on combat medics in english. When doing the research, It amazed me some of the stories. These medics are one of the most important combat units of an army. A haunting quote I love is "Of all the sounds of war, all the bombs and bullets. It is the sounds of dying and wounded men that scream the loudest."
I love this song, and having served with a relative of the Bull it makes me proud to know him and have him as a mate. I completely agree that Sabaton has a wide variety of skill sets to write and produce song like this. I would love to hear a song along these line for the service dogs that have saved countless lives over the year, a good book the get started is " Saving Private Sarbi" the song could be called "the unsung heroes" it could cover Explosive detection dogs, Tracker dogs, attack dogs, guard dogs.
The Ballad of Bull was one of two songs I used to introduce you guys to my mother, along with The Last Stand. Now, whenever I have the Heroes album playing in the car, she gets annoyed if I don't turn up the volume specifically for Bull. She *says* it's because her hearing's wonky, but I'm pretty sure it's because she likes the song more than most, and can relate to it seeing as she's a hospice nurse.
First. Well, those are names to learn off. Thanks for this episode to learn about them. Only the last one, I know off. So thanks for that. I hope to see we more of it soon of those guys. And well, I like to learn. And good thing guys that you also got a soldier from the 'other' side. Those three did the same thing. Save their fellow soldiers.
Make few more more songs like that, you won’t make it sounds less “Sabaton”, all great metal bands have great ballads, but all people love them, so try
being a medic is the perfect example of the duality of human nature. as a medic your primary enemy is not the guy on the other side of the battlefield, but rather death himself. in combat a medic sometimes has to fight both, even though the first mission of a medic is to save lives not take them. it's something every medic has to realize, accept, and push through knowing that you will never be perfect in your mission.
I vaguely remember reading about an American combat medic in the Pacific that covered the retreat of the wounded in his unit by manning a machine gun by himself against the Japanese attackers. I believe he had relocated his gun several times because the bodies in front became too high to shoot over. If anyone knows the name of him, please help me out.
First story: "Nope, not using a weapon." Proceeds to save more than 50 people in one day. HARDCORE Second story: "unusual for a medic, not so much for somebody who captured a TANK ALONE... HARDCORE Third story: you had me at "sent to Stalingrad during WWII which was so bad the band wrote a song about how bad it was". Totally HARDCORE, no matter what else she does.
If you love these kind of stories look up angles of mercy. It about two U.S medics/ paratroopers during D-day and how they saved the lives of 80 men both American and German. There is a video about it on RUclips
I don't know how many people would agree with me, but I would also actually really like to see a concept album from Sabaton on this subject. However, given that it would be difficult to make a nonviolent album, I would think that perhaps we could, rather, make it into an album about combat medics instead This way, they would be able to write softcore songs about people like Desmond Doss, who I've long wanted to hear a song about- And also more hardcore songs about people like Franz Schmitz, who I would also starting now really like to see in a Sabaton song! Thank you, as always- to Par and Indy for another wonderful, informative episode! And thank you, to all the members of Sabaton, for another amazing song. See you next time, indeed!
Thank you for not only talking about songs, but letting the world know about those who have not been sung about, and for those whose story has almost been forgotten.
You know what would be epic? A Back in Control Part 2 where you talk about the history of the Falklands, it's colonization, Luis Vernet, that kind of stuff.
Lost Battalion is not the answer... I mean making a song about a pigeon, that's some challenge? Maybe all the awarded animals, there's plenty of stories about heroic dogs, even cats, or a rat...
I got the energy and the passion to serve as a medic, right in the middle with the other guys. No less danger, just... while everybody else is taking life, I'm going to be saving it.
It makes me happy that there were people like these....I only knew of Desmond doss and bull Allen I didn't know there were great people everywhere....may their families be blessed eternally
I'm sure that any topic you choose to write a song about would definitely be fantastic. Because you are so professional that I'm really not worried about "would people like listening to songs about not fighting heroes?" Sabaton would never disappoint us. All you have to do is make any song sound... just in Sabaton way - epic music, strong vocal, great lyrics! As always :)
While on the topic of new album ideas: An album purely on Asian fights/battles (kamikaze pilots, admiral yi, the rape of Nanking,...) would be really cool
Small correction. If you meant Desmond Doss was the first 'conscientious objector' to win the Medal of Honor WITHOUT killing anyone, then your statement is true. However, Alvin York of World War One fame was also a conscientious objector who won the Medal of Honor. In his case, however, while under heavy enemy fire, he justified his actions with the knowledge that by killing SOME Germans, in that particular situation, he was actually saving the lives of MANY of his fellow soldiers. Therefore, he was the first conscientious objector to win the MoH.
Just the other day I thought that even though Sabaton has the Ballad of the Bull, there's a lot more like him out there who put their life on the line to save others and their heroic efforts deserve recognition. And here's Sabaton History releasing a video about it. Crazy! 🤷♀️
#Australia needs to award him a posthumous medal on par w/the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor or DSC. So something like The Victoria Cross (VC) or the George Cross.
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The medical staff in war - combat medics, field surgeons and nurses, ambulance drivers and medevac crews - are often the unsung heroes of war, literally and figuratively.
That doesn’t mean that they don’t deserve to be remembered and their sacrifices honored.
There are undoubtedly many instances of exceptional bravery among the medical staff of wars throughout history - for which they rightly should be praised.
But they should also be remembered for their everyday work in trenches or field hospitals, in jungles and deserts, at sea or in mid-air. Treating a seemingly endless stream of incoming wounded, trying to give relief to those in pain, comfort to those in agony, and hope to to those who have lost theirs - day in and day out, for as long as the war will last.
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This is Soo awesome my dad was a fmf navy corpsman from 1986 to 2004 over half of his active duty was in medical medivacs and front line corpmen
@@alexmclean760 *Hat off*
I was a medic in the US Army from 1988-1996. I was fortunate that I did not have but one patient in crisis. I am so proud though to have been a part of a field and service that is so important to how our heroes are helped in the field and getting as many of them home as possible. Thank you to all that served, and to the medics, corpsman, and medical staffs for all you do for our heroes.
Nurses of Vietnam by Barry Sadler is one where they are sung about as the heroes they are.
"To each of the wounded on the operating shelf
these nurses give a part of themselves"
I never heard this song but remember asking if they had a song about the medical side of war and they said no.
First rule of combat: You cannot save everyone
Second rule of combat: Doc will fight like hell to break rule number one
Never fuck with the doc either. That person will pull to the last
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Norris
Michelle "Chuck" Norris being one such example, she's a tough bastard
Doc only has 1 rule:
"Nobody is dying today, everybody is going home"
dam straight.
second rule: Never fuck with a medic
"Rolled the Dice for maximum sneak attack damage"
Was... was that a D&D reference in Sabaton history??? What???
InvictusByzantium they have been making tabletop references for a time now. I mean TimeGhost. Dunno bout Sabaton.
Yes and I love it
*Rouge Noises Intensifies*
Well, he did make reference to the Adeptus Mechanicus in an earlier video.
Douglass Whipple Which one?
In high school, we had a geometry teacher who was very religious. He would kick you out of class for saying "gosh" because that was a substitute for taking the Lord's name in vain. On Veteran's day that year, he wore his uniform from the Vietnam War (he was proud he could still fit in it). He told us his story which proved he was a true badass. He was drafted, but like Doss, he refused to carry a weapon so he became a medic. I guess he pull a lot of guys to safety, but what earned him his Purple Heart and Bronze Star was going out in the middle of a fire fight to pull someone to safety when he got hit in the arm... and he showed us the scar which went from his elbow to his armpit. I don't know if it was because of his beliefs, but he was a happy go lucky guy and told us his story matter-of-factly.
Bruh how tf is your comment from one day ago, the video came out an our ago lmao.
Also, that is an amazing story.
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Wow
Great story mate.
damn, Salute to your teach
It's so unfair that the Germans can't celebrate men like Schmitz. They are, by all measures still heroes, even though they fought in a relentless machine for a idiotic maniac.
Exactly! Its like the last action of the 12th army. What those men did, what they died for was noble and heroic but because of the side they were on it often gets over looked.
It's sad, really.
The Germans turned down taking back a Armored Cruiser from WWI back from Turkey when they offered it, so they scrapped it. WWI was actually a noble cause, helping their Ally. Yet they keep U-2501, a U-Boat from WWII.
@@rebelgaming1.5.14 Yeah. People often forget that Germany got involved in the First World War for the exact same reason as Britain and France - because of their ally. Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia and that forced Germany into the war. The fact that Serbia was being invaded also pulled the Allies into the war. And then, because Germany lost, they had to surrender unconditionally and accept the full responsibility for the war. Geezz, it's no wonder they wanted a second round
@@henrykeyter53 Germany was unjustly Punished. I understand stuff like War Repairations, but Territory Loss (Danzig, Poznan, Katowice, but not Alsace-lorraine) was uncalled for. Sure Austria-Hungary got completely destroyed, with multiple nations breaking apart, same with the Ottomans, but they were already the sick men of Europe. The German Empire was young, forming less than 40 years ago at the time of WWI. They were on the rise as a major power, and even had an alliance with Russia. Then Wilhelm II took power. He Broke off the German-Russian Alliance, and fired Bismarck as Chancellor. Bismarck would roughly more or less tell him "20 years after my departure, your rule will end with abdication." Bismarck's prediction was only a few months off. Wilhelm II led Germany down a road that brings it to where it is today, a mere shell of its former self, with a much smaller military, a miniscule Navy, and massive Territorial Loss. The problems began even before WWI, and WWI could've still ended differently.
Medics are real warriors even if they refuse to carry weapons and kill because they are still fighting but their battle is not against men but rather Death itself.
@Troy EGA how I feel about my profession as an EMS paramedic as well, and I have personally kicked The Reaper in the and won before. Full disclosure, though, listening to the stories of combat medics in this video got me teary-eyed and I am not even sorry.
Reminds me of a quote about Theodore Roosevelt:
"Death had to take him sleeping, for if Roosevelt had been awake, there would've been a fight"
Be like Teddy, steal souls back from death himself.
virgin soldier: fights against fellow soldiers.
Chad (& Chadette) medic: fights against the Grim Reaper, oh yeah, & wins a good few times too.
As a currently serving RAF Medic I really appreciate both this song and these story's
There are so many more from afgan and Iraq that most people don't know about.
The best one I know is that of the man who lead my training.
During Afghanistan he was on patrol when the point man stepped on an IED and lost a leg. When an ambush began and the medic was shot in the head. Lucky it penitarted the side of his helmet going around his skull but cutting him. This didn't stop him and he managed to get to the wounded and save him. He was awarded the military cross. And his helmet is on display at the IWM in England.
Listening to stories of these brave men and women risking their lives to save others is just heartwarming
'The Ballad of Bull' is one of the most heartwarming Sabaton songs and topics, in my opinion. It's up there with 'No Bullets Fly'. It was great to hear more about the bravery of combat medics in World War 2. I already knew about Desmond Doss (from Hacksaw Ridge, obviously), but Schmitz and Mareseva's stories were just as interesting. Thanks for the great work!
Couldn't agree more
I would add The Lost Battalion to your list in what I call "Sad-a-ton"
Indy, you have my approval for a part 3, 4 and much parts as you want about this people. I wanna know more about these awesome people. Like it means one approval plus.
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upvoting it 11 months later didnt see it first time but going through them all again waiting for a new song and a new sabaton history channel episode
I like that you even talked about a German medic as well
1. The two 101st medics that turned a church into an aid center and treated both americans and Germans
2. The surgeon on saipan that held off a Japanese assault singlehandedly
3. Technically not a medic, but the marine that went into the saipan jungle to bring back refugees
Good examples. While watching this video I thought of the Angels of Bastogne. Belgian nurses who treated the wounded during the Battle of the Bulge. One of which died in a bombing.
@Troy EGA I got the other two from extra credits series on the battle of saipan
@@jackthunderbolt4307 Can you tell me these three stories? Never heard of them.
@@Death_Korps_Officer there were two 101st medics who used a French church to treat wounded american and German soldiers. They enforced a strict no gun policy inside the church, even telling a german officer to leave his guns outside. NY estimate is they treated 30 plus soldiers
@@Death_Korps_Officer there was a surgeon with the Marines on soldiers. The Japanese launched one all out last ditch counter attack. The surgeons field hospital was attacked, so he single handedly held the Japanese off with a machine gun, only dying after the hospital was evecuated
I think you should make an episode (and a song too) about Eugeniusz Łazowski (Eugene Lazowski). Although he had a very short episode at the front, it’s what he did when the Germans occupied the Polish lands that earned him a title of a local hero. He was a doctor in a small town Stalowa Wola. During the German occupation, his friend Stanislaw Matulewicz discovered that injecting a healthy person with a harmless bacterium gives a false positive result in German typhus tests. Łazowski used this knowledge to vaccinate the local residents with the bacteria and send the patients' blood to German laboratories. This way he convinced the Nazis that there is a typhus epidemic in Stalowa Wola. The occupant panicked. All the Germans who could, fled the area. Terror was significantly alleviated. The fear of the spread of the plague prevented the Nazis from transporting people to heavy works and concentration camps. It is estimated that Łazowski saved several thousand people from deportation and death.
Łazowski described his exploits in his book "Private War", published in the United States, where he lived after the war. There are also many works on this topic available in English, but I will not share links so that RUclips does not consider this comment as spam. I recommend that you read this topic - it’s an amazing story.
I deeply appreciate these stories. I'm a retired Navy Hospital Corpsman and served twice in Iraqwith the Marine Corps. The medical staff in the Navy, Army and Air Force tend to be overlooked by everyone except the troops they serve with, but are deeply lived by those troops.
Aaron, I was an FMF Corpsman from 1991 to 1998. Do you think Doc Bradley or GySgt Basilone or even the battle of Iwo Jima deserves a song?
I know Johnnie Cash did "The Ballard of Ira Hayes", but even the Navajo Talkers (I know, Hayes was a Pima Indian) deserve a bad A$$ song!
All said, great job Sabaton History! I watch the music videos before the history lessons.
One medic who never gets the recognition he deserved was Corporal Phil Dobson. He was the company medic of D Company 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment during the Battle of Long Tan.
During the battle a company of 105 Australians and 3 New Zealand artillery fire observers and a North Vietnamese force of around 2500 effectively walked into each other, immortalised in the film Danger Close.
The company suffered 18 fatalities, and 22 wounded. This one medic was responsible for so many casualties that it boggles the mind, and he freely admitted that he didn't fully know what he was doing. One notable incident occured when there was a risk that one of the diggers might swallow his tongue on the stretcher, conventional wisdom dictates to roll the casualty onto his side but they were in monsoon rains and if that happened he would drown, so Corporal Dobson improvised and used a safety pin to staple his tongue to his lower lip so it wouldn't slip down. Something of a bodge job, but it worked. Dobson didn't lose a single casualty that day
When Japan rolls a nat20 on a sneak attack but the Gm gave the US infinite HP.
That was a seriously lucky roll! Every time after they couldn't match their rolls and basically got outrolled until the US used an artifact and had a critical success
Nah man, not infinite HP but Adamantium Armor
The Senate and then counter attacked with 2, 9th level Meteor swarms.
@@LordofEmbers nah, the US used something worse... unrelated side-note, did you know there are 12th level spells?
@@connorgramer6334 I do-Ish.... isn’t there one where you can control a god?
The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest award for bravery. Only three men have ever won it twice. Two of the three - Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake, VC & Bar, VD and Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse, VC & Bar, MC - were medics.
Holy moly, that german and soviet. I never heard about them. What great stories
Bless them for shedding light on those wonderful people.
My great aunt was a nurse during ww2,she followed the infantry from the beaches of Normandy(Utah beach) to the battle of the bulge(seige of bastone) and beyond.
Last time I was this early, Leslie "Bull" Allen hadn't gone to war yet.
The Winged Hussars had yet to arrive and Carolus Rex yet to rule.
Im just seeing the Ghost Division in the distance.
@Troy EGA Before your sending me to jail, let me say this: FAST AS THE WIND THE INVASION HAS BEGUN
Edit: spelling
@Troy EGA Better catch him before he gets INTO THE FIRE!
@Troy EGA Are you being serious? I legitimately can not tell.
@Troy EHA It's fine, I'm just bad at jokes and sarcasm, no problem.
Better march into the motherland quickly then
Do a song about Saburō Sakai (1916-2000), a pilot of the Imperial Japanese Navy during WW2. Yes he shot down 64 planes (but probably a lot more however he would claim these where shot down by others who did not make it out alive in order to provide their widows with a small pension).
What stands out for me was the encounter of him with a Dutch civilian DC3 in early 1942, the orders where clear to shoot down any enemy aircraft. But thinking that this plane could carry important people he tried to make the DC-pilot to follow him to a Japanese base, the pilot refused. Sakai descended and approached the DC-3. He then saw a blonde woman and a young child through a window, along with other passengers. The woman reminded him of a American woman who used to teach him at middle school. He ignored his orders and flew ahead of the pilot, signaling him to go ahead. The pilot and passengers saluted him. Sakai did not mention the encounter in the aerial combat report. He would shoot down more planes and was seriously wounded but kept on being deployed and defending his country until his latest mission on august 18 1945.
And off course his "Danse Macabre" aerobatics over an enemy airfield. After the war he retired from the Navy. He became a Buddhist - vowing to never again kill anything that lived, not even a mosquito.
Seventh Day Adventist here raise as one i also severed in the us army as an infantryman. i was fortune enough to have gotten to hear Doss give his testimony on the events of the war. he was a very humble man and a huge influence in my decision to server in the infantry.
Love it that you mention Germans although they stood on the „wrong side“ back then.
The Germans we’re not inheritly bad. It was an ideology if a few that infected a greater populace forcing those who may not and did not have the same views to fight.
Humanity is above politics sometimes.
Every side is both right and wrong it is war it is chaotic good and necessary evil
@Jeager productions That is the problem: often times, the vocal minority is able to seize and maintain control because by the time the silent majority tries to do anything, the minority has Become the majority, and vice versa.
While the politics and actions were wrong if argue moat individual soldiers were just like american or allied soldier purely because they just wanted to live to see another day
remember par, everyone requesting this has heard the ballad of bull allen. we know what were asking for. you could call such an album "heros without weapons".
German medics:"why are the Soviets firing at us we're medics"
American medics at the Pacific theater: "First time"
They call it w a r c r i m e , but I call it free kill for kill streak
Japan: What is a «war crime»?
If they didn't want to be shot maybe they shouldn't have invaded in the first place 🤷♀️
@@deptusmechanikus7362 Medics were protected under the geneva convention, you couldn't shoot them. *but* the Soviets didn't sign the Geneva Convention. so..
@@diegoleonardia5358 same as imperial Japan
Desmond Doss was a true American hero.
Hold on a fucking second I did not expect Indy to make a tabletop reference. What world am I living in?
All of these stories are great, but Zinaida Mareseva rallying the soldiers for a counterchrage is badass as hell!
Thank you for telling stories that are worthy of being told! Real legacy for us and for generations to come!
This song made me cry
Their will to put themselfs at risk without hesitation... Truly treasurable souls.🙏🏼 I knew about Desmond because of Hacksaw Ridge movie. Thank you for opportunity to learn about Franz and Zinaida as well. And it was nice to see you again Pär! I really doubt Sabaton could disappointed fans! 🙂
Desmond was my cousin
Very touching stories, since I served as medic in the german army in 2010 aswell. Never look down on a medic, but fear the day they look down on you.
These 3 are fantastic medics. I want to give you one more. Waverly Woodson Jr.. A medic
from World War II who treated at least 200 men on Omaha Beach despite being wounded
himself. He has not been awarded the Medal of Honor due to his being black and hopefully
this wrong will be righted soon. This mans heroism is extraordinary and yet almost unknown.
Medics in war: let me save one more. Comment section on this video & the part one: we need to honour one more. Pretty proud of this.
Sabaton Death metal song about Desmond Doss? HELL YES!
I could be about how he made the devil really angry for snatching so many people off his shovel.
*power metal. Death metal wouldn't suit
Prajwal Pingali no it would fit.
Not death metal, life metal
It would be great to hear a song about the chaplains. Like father colgan, CH Kapaun, Padre foote
Thank you for this awesome episode.
I'm sitting here with goosebumps and tears in my eyes throughout the whole video.
Medics are the unsung heroes in every war.
It can also be added the story of the Mercy Dogs of WW1
I recall watching an animation on youtube about 2 combat medics who holed up in a church and wound up treating both Allied and German Casualties... I'll try to relocate it and share a link... also a great story of Heroism without inflicting violence.
Robert Wright and Kenneth Moore... I hope I've spelled their names correctly, link below
101st Airborne... Screaming Eagles... so they already have a song; but damn is this story incredible anyways.
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One word to describe: Inspiring. As usual, great video!
Medics are simply Angel's in uniform.
Reason why I'm holding my grandfather's role during the 2nd World War in such high regards is because he was an ambulance driver. He never took anyone's life, he helped saving them.
He sounds like a legend!
Yeah, I think that This nice song should be only one in its type as a ballad. And the way it sounds with its uppers and downs vocal melodies (sorry If I'm not describing it well) at the same time mixed with Joakim's voice ,,I feel like I'm laying on clouds...very nice :D
Good change of pace to recognize the medics
My favorite WW2 Medic story is the two combat medics on Normandy that made a neutral zone with a captured church, they'd treat and serve both Germans and allies. Multiple times Germans would walk into the church authoritative and aggressive, but every time the medic would get them to clam down. The Germans and American's both agreed that the church was a no fight zone. Even two German soldiers that were hiding in the church since the start of the neutral zone and eventually came down and started helping the medic.
Even the mortar round that smashed through the ceiling wasn't going to defy that medic...
Nice work.
This was a beautiful episode. It brought tears to my eyes.
Amazing history of a man who decide to save life
So this episode is perfect, I've heard about desmond doss in the movie hacksaw ridge, But I only know about the other 2 heroes now and I believe there were a lot of them let the memory of these heroes live, thank you very much Sabaton History ❤️❤️🤘🤘😎
The true story of Desmond Doss is much more interesting than what the movie portrayed it as. I recommend on RUclips watching the Simple History video on him and another documentary that's free on Tubi called the Conscientious Objector.
These kind of episodes where they just tell some short stories without really going into any strategic aspects are, in my opinion, a lot more enjoyable to listen to! Great episode!
Did Indy just GLOSS OVER the part where a medic single-handedly captures an enemy tank to break his unit out from encirclement? Details, please! That sounds metal as hell!
Tell me about it!!!
Maybe I’m one of few, but I love Ballad of Bull even if it’s not a typical Sabaton song. And the story is beautiful.
I had to do a speech in year 10 on combat medics in english. When doing the research, It amazed me some of the stories. These medics are one of the most important combat units of an army. A haunting quote I love is
"Of all the sounds of war, all the bombs and bullets. It is the sounds of dying and wounded men that scream the loudest."
That was incredible. Absolutely incredible.
I love this song, and having served with a relative of the Bull it makes me proud to know him and have him as a mate. I completely agree that Sabaton has a wide variety of skill sets to write and produce song like this. I would love to hear a song along these line for the service dogs that have saved countless lives over the year, a good book the get started is " Saving Private Sarbi" the song could be called "the unsung heroes" it could cover Explosive detection dogs, Tracker dogs, attack dogs, guard dogs.
The Ballad of Bull was one of two songs I used to introduce you guys to my mother, along with The Last Stand. Now, whenever I have the Heroes album playing in the car, she gets annoyed if I don't turn up the volume specifically for Bull. She *says* it's because her hearing's wonky, but I'm pretty sure it's because she likes the song more than most, and can relate to it seeing as she's a hospice nurse.
That German medic has my respect.
Being stationed in Okinawa it's sureal seeing where these stories take place.
First. Well, those are names to learn off. Thanks for this episode to learn about them. Only the last one, I know off. So thanks for that. I hope to see we more of it soon of those guys. And well, I like to learn.
And good thing guys that you also got a soldier from the 'other' side. Those three did the same thing. Save their fellow soldiers.
Make few more more songs like that, you won’t make it sounds less “Sabaton”, all great metal bands have great ballads, but all people love them, so try
being a medic is the perfect example of the duality of human nature. as a medic your primary enemy is not the guy on the other side of the battlefield, but rather death himself. in combat a medic sometimes has to fight both, even though the first mission of a medic is to save lives not take them. it's something every medic has to realize, accept, and push through knowing that you will never be perfect in your mission.
Thank you so much!!! My Grandpa who recently passed was a field medic and got a silver star for his action near the Remagen bridge.
5:13 Indy? Is that you?
War might be one of the worst things but it can sometimes bring out the best of humanity.
Faith in humanity restored
Wow that doss guy was capital A and people called him a coward. What a guy
If any band could do a whole album on combate medics it would be Sabaton.😊
I vaguely remember reading about an American combat medic in the Pacific that covered the retreat of the wounded in his unit by manning a machine gun by himself against the Japanese attackers. I believe he had relocated his gun several times because the bodies in front became too high to shoot over. If anyone knows the name of him, please help me out.
Indy just confirmed that Japan is a level 20 rogue.
Thank you for keeping these stories..these men and women alive in the collective memory
First story: "Nope, not using a weapon." Proceeds to save more than 50 people in one day. HARDCORE
Second story: "unusual for a medic, not so much for somebody who captured a TANK ALONE... HARDCORE
Third story: you had me at "sent to Stalingrad during WWII which was so bad the band wrote a song about how bad it was". Totally HARDCORE, no matter what else she does.
If you love these kind of stories look up angles of mercy. It about two U.S medics/ paratroopers during D-day and how they saved the lives of 80 men both American and German. There is a video about it on RUclips
I don't know how many people would agree with me, but I would also actually really like to see a concept album from Sabaton on this subject. However, given that it would be difficult to make a nonviolent album, I would think that perhaps we could, rather, make it into an album about combat medics instead
This way, they would be able to write softcore songs about people like Desmond Doss, who I've long wanted to hear a song about-
And also more hardcore songs about people like Franz Schmitz, who I would also starting now really like to see in a Sabaton song!
Thank you, as always- to Par and Indy for another wonderful, informative episode! And thank you, to all the members of Sabaton, for another amazing song. See you next time, indeed!
The movie Hacksaw Ridge also tells the story of Desmond Doss, shortly after I watch that movie I discovered this song and loved it
Thank you for not only talking about songs, but letting the world know about those who have not been sung about, and for those whose story has almost been forgotten.
For those who are interested, the movie Hacksaw Ridge tells the story of Desmond Doss quite well.
Next album: "Sabaton Unplugged"!
Desmond needs his own song in my opinion
Respect
You know what would be epic? A Back in Control Part 2 where you talk about the history of the Falklands, it's colonization, Luis Vernet, that kind of stuff.
A challenge to you... make a song about a war hero, not being in fighting forces, air forces though...
Mon Cheri, the pigeon :)
Lost Battalion is not the answer... I mean making a song about a pigeon, that's some challenge?
Maybe all the awarded animals, there's plenty of stories about heroic dogs, even cats, or a rat...
@@juhakamppi7585 Not to mention a bear
DESMOND! YAAASSSS!!
I got the energy and the passion to serve as a medic, right in the middle with the other guys. No less danger, just... while everybody else is taking life, I'm going to be saving it.
More power ballads like this please!
It makes me happy that there were people like these....I only knew of Desmond doss and bull Allen I didn't know there were great people everywhere....may their families be blessed eternally
Big respect to those Medics
All of these ppl deserve a Sabaton-song, but personally I would like to hear one about Desmond Doss
"Rolled for max sneak attack damage at Pearl Harbor." Dude you cant just drop that with a straight face
I'm sure that any topic you choose to write a song about would definitely be fantastic. Because you are so professional that I'm really not worried about "would people like listening to songs about not fighting heroes?" Sabaton would never disappoint us. All you have to do is make any song sound... just in Sabaton way - epic music, strong vocal, great lyrics! As always :)
For those who don't know about Desmond Doss, you can check out in Hacksaw Ridge movie. Andrew Garfield play a role as Desmond Doss. I like that movie
While on the topic of new album ideas: An album purely on Asian fights/battles (kamikaze pilots, admiral yi, the rape of Nanking,...) would be really cool
Thank you guys for making this song.
Love this song.
As someone born and raised in Lynchburg its kinda cool hear indy talk about someone from here
Sabaton is the MMA of Metal. Being able to mix it up and combining skills.
Small correction. If you meant Desmond Doss was the first 'conscientious objector' to win the Medal of Honor WITHOUT killing anyone, then your statement is true. However, Alvin York of World War One fame was also a conscientious objector who won the Medal of Honor. In his case, however, while under heavy enemy fire, he justified his actions with the knowledge that by killing SOME Germans, in that particular situation, he was actually saving the lives of MANY of his fellow soldiers. Therefore, he was the first conscientious objector to win the MoH.
Like you said, there is duality. Bombastic and mellow.
Just the other day I thought that even though Sabaton has the Ballad of the Bull, there's a lot more like him out there who put their life on the line to save others and their heroic efforts deserve recognition. And here's Sabaton History releasing a video about it. Crazy! 🤷♀️
#Australia needs to award him a posthumous medal on par w/the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor or DSC.
So something like The Victoria Cross (VC) or the George Cross.
I cried way to much during this Episode.
Again iv learned more through you guys that Iv ever had in school !!!!!!!!!!
I'm a *bit* sad you didn't take Benjamin Salomon, but Desmond Doss was a good selection as well.
How about no bullets fly? One of my favourite sabaton songs even by sound. Yet about mercy instead of fighting.