As my father used to say when I was a child... "If you are fighting to an agressor there is no rules or style, use your teeths, fingers in the eyes, smash his balls, etc.". Good counseling...Thanks Dad.
@@Stoneyfonik Well if neither of them have fighting experience, I'd say it would probably pretty even. On the off chance that the guy with 1000 hours of watch time on ww2 melee training remembers stuff, then he'd probably be able to stick the finger in the eye. Also, I don't know what high-school you go to, but in mine there is no school jock. There are no giants with a body built like the Hulk, so it would pretty much be two somewhat equally sized dudes fighting each other. Real life High school isn't like the movies, there are 14-18 years old's, not 30 year old's. Everyone is either skinny or fat. Everyone is a similar enough height that it wouldn't make a huge difference. Would I be overconfident and think I could take someone over a foot taller than me and who has 20 lbs on me? No, but really no other student has that on me.
My vocational welding class in our 12th year of high school. One of my classmates asked our teacher if he served after he told us he survived Iwo Jima, he earned our respect and really was the best teacher most of us probably had.
The classic " eye gouge " ! Illegal in MMA but in war or a streetfight , works every time . Even if your opponent is 7ft tall and 350 lbs , He can't fight very good if he can't see .
The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation warns: "Smoking is dangerous for your health." A Russian man with a knife in his back wanted to smoke a cigarette before the operation. ruclips.net/video/doyJYOTJOl8/видео.html
Goes beyond sight. The general premise that I was taught was that if you cant: SEE, BREATHE, or STAND you can't fight. I would add Use of Hands. And in combat, anything goes if it'll help you get home. Some things are expressly prohibited under the current Geneva Convention i.e. Garrottes, Flame Throwers, Ballistic knives, certain chemicals. But no one outside of most NATO countries pays attention to the GenCon ! Special Forces personnel still use the items I mentioned...with the caveat 'use it then lose it'.
Whether you're in war or facing an enemy who wants to do you harm, this is good, timeless advice if you want to be the one who gets to walk away. Unfortunate, but essential.
@@libertyprime6932 false, not many die during training nowadays, in fact it’s gotten even more lenient, no need to run anymore during training according to the airforce. Our military is weak
@@seji8870 you realize it takes physical troops to hold territory, right? You don’t own anything when you are dropping bombs. 20 years in Afghanistan, we had troops and still lost to a bunch of farmers with beat up and shot out rifles dating all the way from the 1970’s to 1891 Edit: when I say shot out, I literally mean the barrels are so worn that the lands and grooves can’t grab the projectile to make it accurate.
Everything is legal in war! Just the way it should be. “No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country." General George S. Patton
I mean the kings of old fought and won many times, like Alfred the great and his son and grandson. Unless that was for dramatic effect in “The Last Kingdom” lol.
I had the honor to help a WW2 vet who fought in the pacific, he was my neighbor in one of the apartment complexes I lived when I was single. I would often press him to tell me stories of the war, he would tell me he saw and did horrible things and preferred not to talked about it, I stopped asking out of respect, but we became great friends and did talk about other stuff, James Robbar was his name, from Elgin Illinois. RIP James and those who served That are no longer with us.
@@deniscruz6112 my Dad told me somethings when he was stationed on the island Bora Bora and the natives liked him and taught him how to cook a fish in the ground and cover it with palm leaves and they couldn’t pronounce our last name right he would laugh, he was in the infantry signal Corp and he road a motorcycle but he never even told me that l found out from my cousin who was impressed by my Dads uniform when came home and he joined the army too and became a full colonel and worked at the pentagon he just died recently from agent orange he was in Vietnam
I’m watching in honor of my great grandfather. I never met him, but he fought in both Europe and the Pacific, and was one of the first American soldiers to enter Tokyo. I’d like to meet him, when I get the the pearly gates.
absolutely not. the leadership (the brass in charge of policy at least, not a majority of my NCOs) is very reluctant to encourage troops to be killers. its bad PR, i guess. Soft Cock, non-hacker CSMs and Officers have ruined the US Army, systemically.
It was no clever remarks in a nice house and an internet when my uncle lied about his age to get INTO the army. He ended up in the Battle of the Bulge and much later I understood why he never wanted to be around .22 pistols or fireworks and had a drinking problem most of his adult life after he made it back from WWII.
My great uncle was in the Bulge. He showed no outward signs of damage, but when my silly mother asked if he'd ever returned to Bastogne, he said that if he ever did it would likely cause his total mental breakdown.
Mr. JM of San Diego was an assistant manager at the apartment complex where I used to live. The most he told me was how they took an island from the Japanese, then they took it again and so on and so forth on about 4 or 5 occasions; 'they lost a lot of men doing that', he said. He also told me how the Japanese would take American bullets, fit them to their rifles and re-use them.
I think a WWI veteran said that if you strike a man a certain way with a sharpened spade, it can split them from the collarbone right down to the belly.
I think this was an exaggeration for effect and for that soldier to convey how brutal the fighting was, or perhaps that soldier had a VERY atypical experience. Most analysis of WW2 infantry combat suggests that actual melee fighting was extremely rare, even in urban engagements. The primary close combat weapon was the grenade, not the bayonet, shovel or any other bladed weapon.
I'll be Damn ! At 4:49 and 8:00 Is character actor Richard Jaekel. He was in Guadalcanal Diary, A Wing And A Prayer, Sands of Iwo Jima...the list is too long. The guy was everywhere. I think his last acting job was the TV series Spencer For Hire, before he passed away.
many actors were used in recruiting and training films as well as p.r. shorts for the war bond drives.. 👍🏽 One such actor/bonafide war hero was the great Audie Murphy
Wow you must be a huge Richard Jaekel fan. I never heard of him but I can appreciate your enthusiasm for the guy. He must have been a good actor. I like the flight video for the navy with Regan as the pilot.
👍my Grandpa Vinny "tended to" many a German in the Ozarks division. Love the classic narration! Pretty well choreographed acting too. Just imagine the incongruous brutality those men were about to meet, after watching an almost comical video like this...
I'm glad I was born at a time where I didn't have to fight in a war. I've amateur boxed and fought in MMA, and the other guys have said multiple times over the years that I have a fighter's instinct, but this is too much even for me. Having said that, I think what this film had to say is 110% true, you better go all out or you're going to get killed. My best chance in WW2 would have been ordered up against the Italians, who apparently can't fight. Also, like Dr. Strangelove said, it's funny how the toughest enemies make such damn fine cameras and cars.
Well, the Italians make beautiful cars don't they (Ferrari, Lamborghini, Alpha Romeo etc.)? The connection in the Dr Strangelove joke (which was Seller's UK RAF officer commenting on how the Japanese, who cruelly mistreated him as a POW, make such "damn good cameras") is that the Germans and Japanese are good at engineering, and therefore at war machine engineering. Except, of course, they still lost, because ultimately the UK, US, and Russia were ultimately just as capable in developing war machine technology.
@Commie Destroyer Yes, that is true to an extent. Greater numbers of slightly lower quality weapons can beat lower numbers of high quality weapons (classic T34 versus Panzers argument). And over engineered weapons can fail in the field. The Sten sub machine gun was crap quality, but cheap, easily made and able to function in a wide range of environments. I think deliberate decisions were made to not mass produce overly engineered, expensive and complex designs for many weapons for these reasons, NOT that we couldn't actually do it. I think the engineering and technology potential was very high with the Allies, especially as we were playing catch-up (the Germans had been growing their war machine capability all through the 30s). We invented Radar, Sonar, built a computer to de-encrypt the Enigma code, bouncing bomb, designed and built the Lancaster, Wellington, Spits, Hurricanes (good enough to win the Battle of Britain). And of course, we developed the ultimate weapon of the highest scientific and engineering complexity which would end all conventional mass wars; nuclear weapons. I say "we" because it was European and American brains behind the Manhattan Project.
@Forest Kommando agree the Spitfire was great and so was the P51. But the Sherman aka the Ronson? The 75mm and 76mm gun were way weaker then the German 88 and 75 mms. The had way less armor than the Tiger nevermind the Tiger II. And they didn't have the sloped armor of the Panther and T-34.
@Forest Kommando Ya, but how many Jumbos were actually produced? And I don't think the British 17lb. gun ever got installed in American Shermans, just Fireflies, end even then it was at best 1 Firefly per platoon.
My Dad was Trained by Col Fairbairn and used what he was taught as a Trainer in Algeria and Cairo and behind Enemy Lines in Greece and Italy.. My Dad Sgt. ARMY ORDNANCE / OSS Instructor and Operative. When I was growing up He would not teach me... He said all he knew was how to kill. 🙏💞🇺🇸
Didn't see any film like this when I went through basic training in 1962. But, I do remember my instructor for bayonet training say there is no such thing as a fair fight. It is not a duel. Try to get 2 of you on one of them if you can. While one engages from the front, the other should attack from the back.
fascinating! It’s amazing to see what new troops would have had to watch and realize they’d have to DO in future. Imagine that. I also liked how straightforward this was. No frills. And still, some very relevant tips for self-defense, when tussling. I admired the design of the trench knife too- prevents the hand from slipping down the hilt onto the blade. Not pretty, indeed, but yup effective.
@FuturisticCamouflageTimes2025 yes you Americans lost a lot of soldiers ,but other countries like Russian have much larger casualties than your country. But in the media it just like American soliders beaten the nazis or America lead other countries do this.
A lot of rare Hawley helmet liners were depicted in this video. They could have given our boys a disadvantage in combat because the Axis forces would have felt incentivized to capture them to sell on eBay for a fortune decades later.
Just goes to show that close quarter fighting hasn't changed much in the history of mankind. A Roman legionary would have felt much more at home than those lads.
@@GhostRanger5060 To be fair, WWI through the Korean War not all soldiers had automatic weapons. The WWII German soldiers had K98’s and the US Marines had O3’ Springfield bolt action rifles. Firing 5 to 8 rounds, they were limited in sustained fire plus if there were stoppages, you were screwed unless you had ‘Cold Steel’ to drive into the enemie’s heart! As for Desert Storm, the ground war lasted 4 days so I guess there wasn’t enough hand to hand fighting with all the Iraqi soldier surrendering by the thousands! I served as a medic in a field hospital (surgical tech) supporting an EPW camp.The few wounded that we took care of were soldiers who stepped on their own landmines trying to surrender to the Coalition Forces!
God Bless our Soldiers, Marines, and Sailors, we have always had the very best fighting men/women, in our military ,who fight with utmost gallantry. “ GOD BLESS THE United States”.
A professional soldier learns the laws and rules of war. A professional soldier doesn't put too much of his..her own emotions in it. It's a job. They don't take it too personally.
These films made young men fighting in stupid wars hate each other. So think first before commenting something like „that‘s gold“ or anything like that.
Americans had sympathy for Nazis then too. Some were proper Nazis, some were German soldiers who belonged to the same political party. Big difference. I think it's also fair to mention the Nazis were defeated in 1945. Anyone claiming to be one today is in denial.
@@S-early-user Well... the GERMANS may have lost WW 2... but the NAZIS didn't... their Heirs still hold positions of power to this day... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/879172/juncker-familys-link-to-nazi-regime/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Schwab en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Waldheim www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bloodlines/krupp.htm www.history.com/news/how-south-america-became-a-nazi-haven
@@SogoTX The American system has proven to be very weak. How little people trust their own state is still expressed in the election fraud allegations of the so-called elite democracy. Even as an American citizen, you can only vote for two parties, there is nothing more.
@@S-early-user from what I hear from former soldiers, they understood or at least later came to understand that they were the same as the ones they killed. They were both kids sent into a war they never wanted to be in to kill kids they never wanted to meet.
It’s the same music that plays in Yankee Doodle Dandy when the soldiers are off to (The Great) War. The film came out that same year, and it was blatant pro war propaganda so I’m not surprised about the cross over.
How much does being in your 50s' or 60s shape your fighting skills? I'm writing a story about a soldier somewhere in that age-line who engages in hand-to-hand combat with the hero. I just can't decide his age, partly because of mathematical pondering and whatnot. The scientific fact of what makes or breaks you with age, fighting skills, and physical style would help.
"Brass knuckles. Outlawed in the ring, but legitimate in war."
That was absolute gold.
Not legal for street carry either
Never give a sucker a break😇
@Wilhelm Geisler found the racist
@@GabrielRodriguez-oe9li Hating the kkk makes you racist?
Wilhelm Geisler based and RedPilled
As my father used to say when I was a child... "If you are fighting to an agressor there is no rules or style, use your teeths, fingers in the eyes, smash his balls, etc.". Good counseling...Thanks Dad.
Same here. There is no such thing as a fair fight unless it's in sports.
Who would win, the school jock, or the dude who has watched 1000 hours of ww2 melee training
@@Stoneyfonik Well if neither of them have fighting experience, I'd say it would probably pretty even. On the off chance that the guy with 1000 hours of watch time on ww2 melee training remembers stuff, then he'd probably be able to stick the finger in the eye. Also, I don't know what high-school you go to, but in mine there is no school jock. There are no giants with a body built like the Hulk, so it would pretty much be two somewhat equally sized dudes fighting each other. Real life High school isn't like the movies, there are 14-18 years old's, not 30 year old's. Everyone is either skinny or fat. Everyone is a similar enough height that it wouldn't make a huge difference. Would I be overconfident and think I could take someone over a foot taller than me and who has 20 lbs on me? No, but really no other student has that on me.
@raynaldo arlen k.eman nah u cunts stone people to death and duck goats and camels
Yeah war and killing ain't no Martial Arts Tournament or some s*** like that
My vocational welding class in our 12th year of high school. One of my classmates asked our teacher if he served after he told us he survived Iwo Jima, he earned our respect and really was the best teacher most of us probably had.
Damn, this narrator has one liners that would raise Rodney Dangerfield's brow!
"in war there are no rules" 🤘
Lol
Old school wit is golden
The classic " eye gouge " !
Illegal in MMA but in war or a streetfight , works every time .
Even if your opponent is 7ft tall and 350 lbs , He can't fight very good if he can't see .
The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation warns: "Smoking is dangerous for your health." A Russian man with a knife in his back wanted to smoke a cigarette before the operation.
ruclips.net/video/doyJYOTJOl8/видео.html
Goes beyond sight. The general premise that I was taught was that if you cant:
SEE, BREATHE, or STAND
you can't fight. I would add Use of Hands.
And in combat, anything goes if it'll help you get home. Some things are expressly prohibited under the current Geneva Convention i.e. Garrottes, Flame Throwers, Ballistic knives, certain chemicals. But no one outside of most NATO countries pays attention to the GenCon ! Special Forces personnel still use the items I mentioned...with the caveat 'use it then lose it'.
it doesnt work if they dont let you eye gouge them try eye gouging even a amateur boxer you'll wake up in a ambulance
Daniel Cormier's go to method
A knee to the nuts is also quite effective, though I'd prefer tossing the enemy a grenade.
Whether you're in war or facing an enemy who wants to do you harm, this is good, timeless advice if you want to be the one who gets to walk away. Unfortunate, but essential.
It's hard to imagine what these men had to go through. So many had only months to live after induction.
Some don't make it out of training, even now
@@libertyprime6932 false, not many die during training nowadays, in fact it’s gotten even more lenient, no need to run anymore during training according to the airforce. Our military is weak
@@d.i.m.eproductions6925 it’s a different time, we can just drop 10 tons of munitions on a target from a different continent now
@@seji8870 that doesn’t win wars but ok.
@@seji8870 you realize it takes physical troops to hold territory, right? You don’t own anything when you are dropping bombs. 20 years in Afghanistan, we had troops and still lost to a bunch of farmers with beat up and shot out rifles dating all the way from the 1970’s to 1891
Edit: when I say shot out, I literally mean the barrels are so worn that the lands and grooves can’t grab the projectile to make it accurate.
Everything is legal in war! Just the way it should be.
“No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country." General George S. Patton
I mean the kings of old fought and won many times, like Alfred the great and his son and grandson. Unless that was for dramatic effect in “The Last Kingdom” lol.
So gas poison rounds nukes all okay huh
whats worse than being a pawn , is being any other piece on the board, better to be the clock.
Amen!
And then a US soldier was charged with a war crime in I forget where
Just love these old videos, the narrative is superb
It's a good thing I saw this footage before going to the in-laws! I feel ready.
So how did it go
@@timcondon5184 I got destroyed with a simple look. I had no chance bud...no chance!
Take the Garand next time ....
@@brunotulliani next time call in for back up! We got ya!
😂🤣😂🤣.
I have the book "Kill or be killed" on close combat by Col. Rex Applegate, US Army WW2
Yeah, that man was a legend. This is the "nice" stuff from his book.
My Dad was in the Pacific fighting the Japanese, l understand now why he didn’t talk about it
Great point
I had the honor to help a WW2 vet who fought in the pacific, he was my neighbor in one of the apartment complexes I lived when I was single.
I would often press him to tell me stories of the war, he would tell me he saw and did horrible things and preferred not to talked about it, I stopped asking out of respect, but we became great friends and did talk about other stuff, James Robbar was his name, from Elgin Illinois.
RIP James and those who served
That are no longer with us.
@@deniscruz6112 my Dad told me somethings when he was stationed on the island Bora Bora and the natives liked him and taught him how to cook a fish in the ground and cover it with palm leaves and they couldn’t pronounce our last name right he would laugh, he was in the infantry signal Corp and he road a motorcycle but he never even told me that l found out from my cousin who was impressed by my Dads uniform when came home and he joined the army too and became a full colonel and worked at the pentagon he just died recently from agent orange he was in Vietnam
сын убийцы! позор!
мой дед никого не убивал, он работал на немецкую промышленность в качестве раба
I’m watching in honor of my great grandfather. I never met him, but he fought in both Europe and the Pacific, and was one of the first American soldiers to enter Tokyo. I’d like to meet him, when I get the the pearly gates.
"During a rough and tumble, the password is kill!"
Thanks, we didn't hear that from the video. Outstanding creativity
@@coyreeves7778 Amazing reply. You really got'em with that one.
Best one-liners on the internet!!!
Yes It Is 😎
I'm lost?
@@jeremybear573 Lost? Turn to Jesus Christ. He is the way, the truth and the life. #blessings
Insane what a man could do to another.
@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE Its demonic possession. everyone is suspending disbelief and allowing their ego to run the show.
And thereafter to himself
killing on command, and dumped in the end
The elites say kill people do it insane
@Alphonso Argon you is a fucking loser
I bet the U. S. military hasn't shown a video like this to its members since 1970.
absolutely not. the leadership (the brass in charge of policy at least, not a majority of my NCOs) is very reluctant to encourage troops to be killers. its bad PR, i guess.
Soft Cock, non-hacker CSMs and Officers have ruined the US Army, systemically.
Real lol
It was no clever remarks in a nice house and an internet when my uncle lied about his age to get INTO the army. He ended up in the Battle of the Bulge and much later I understood why he never wanted to be around .22 pistols or fireworks and had a drinking problem most of his adult life after he made it back from WWII.
My great uncle was in the Bulge. He showed no outward signs of damage, but when my silly mother asked if he'd ever returned to Bastogne, he said that if he ever did it would likely cause his total mental breakdown.
I’m belgian and thanks for people of your family that help us (sorry for the english)
You got to twist your instincts inside out to play this game... brilliant stuff
As a former infantryman this is spot on.
hoo-ah. Could you imagine being the flamethrower man? Legit one of the things that really freaked me out even though never really used them much.
@@Asymmetrical-Saggin In the Pacific Theatre they were.
captain america himself
Let's take a moment to thank all the guys and gals who fought ww2 for us.
Every day is poppy day
We defeated the wrong enemy. George S Patton.
@@Trump2024asw not in the spirit of things are you cheeser ?
@@Trump2024aswPatton was a fascist piece of sht. God bless the Red Army
Shut up
Yeah...thanks..😒
Mr. JM of San Diego was an assistant manager at the apartment complex where I used to live. The most he told me was how they took an island from the Japanese, then they took it again and so on and so forth on about 4 or 5 occasions; 'they lost a lot of men doing that', he said. He also told me how the Japanese would take American bullets, fit them to their rifles and re-use them.
A Russian Stalingrad vet said his favourite weapon was his sharpened trenching tool.
Ive heard that a Sharpened Shovel can be handy at close
range .
I think a WWI veteran said that if you strike a man a certain way with a sharpened spade, it can split them from the collarbone right down to the belly.
Entrenching tools have that weighted end that makes them especially devastating when they connect.
Cold winter was the main soviet weapon in the battle of Stalingrad.
I think this was an exaggeration for effect and for that soldier to convey how brutal the fighting was, or perhaps that soldier had a VERY atypical experience. Most analysis of WW2 infantry combat suggests that actual melee fighting was extremely rare, even in urban engagements. The primary close combat weapon was the grenade, not the bayonet, shovel or any other bladed weapon.
This has better combat choreography than most modern movies
6:42
Ediquette is for the training hall. In combat, the one who wins..... WINS. Miyamoto Musashi
Sage words
Respect for the cameraman,who recorded this without getting killed of beated🥶🙏
Fr
I'll be Damn ! At 4:49 and 8:00 Is character actor Richard Jaekel. He was in Guadalcanal Diary, A Wing And A Prayer, Sands of Iwo Jima...the list is too long. The guy was everywhere. I think his last acting job was the TV series Spencer For Hire, before he passed away.
many actors were used in recruiting and training films as well as p.r. shorts for the war bond drives.. 👍🏽 One such actor/bonafide war hero was the great Audie Murphy
I believe he was in an episode of ‘Little House on the Prairie.’
It was sad though. He portrayed a rapist if I remember correctly.
From Come Back Little Sheba to The Dirty Dozen he didn’t change much.
Richard Jaeckel left SPENSER: FOR HIRE for a godawful piece of tripe called SUPER CARRIER.
By the way, it's Spenser, with an "S", like the poet.
Wow you must be a huge Richard Jaekel fan. I never heard of him but I can appreciate your enthusiasm for the guy. He must have been a good actor. I like the flight video for the navy with Regan as the pilot.
"How to lift a Nazi's face without improving his looks"
This stuff is gold
Lmfao I want that on a T shirt
You’re one antisemitic goyim
That would be a good title for a punk rock album
@@replicaRocca Black flag or dead Kennedys.
@@jamesnevitt3400 I don’t know the first one, but that would def be good for the Dead Kennedy’s!
As several authors and military leaders have said...
"If you ever find yourself in a fair fight, you fucked up."
Narrator: We Americans like it clean.
Mike: is biting an ear.
👍my Grandpa Vinny "tended to" many a German in the Ozarks division. Love the classic narration! Pretty well choreographed acting too. Just imagine the incongruous brutality those men were about to meet, after watching an almost comical video like this...
Man that narrator is the tops!
I'm glad I was born at a time where I didn't have to fight in a war. I've amateur boxed and fought in MMA, and the other guys have said multiple times over the years that I have a fighter's instinct, but this is too much even for me. Having said that, I think what this film had to say is 110% true, you better go all out or you're going to get killed. My best chance in WW2 would have been ordered up against the Italians, who apparently can't fight. Also, like Dr. Strangelove said, it's funny how the toughest enemies make such damn fine cameras and cars.
Well, the Italians make beautiful cars don't they (Ferrari, Lamborghini, Alpha Romeo etc.)? The connection in the Dr Strangelove joke (which was Seller's UK RAF officer commenting on how the Japanese, who cruelly mistreated him as a POW, make such "damn good cameras") is that the Germans and Japanese are good at engineering, and therefore at war machine engineering. Except, of course, they still lost, because ultimately the UK, US, and Russia were ultimately just as capable in developing war machine technology.
just give it a couple more years friend.
we're all going to burn in the pyre of "democracy"
and it will be a glorious end to our foolish species.
@Commie Destroyer Yes, that is true to an extent. Greater numbers of slightly lower quality weapons can beat lower numbers of high quality weapons (classic T34 versus Panzers argument). And over engineered weapons can fail in the field. The Sten sub machine gun was crap quality, but cheap, easily made and able to function in a wide range of environments. I think deliberate decisions were made to not mass produce overly engineered, expensive and complex designs for many weapons for these reasons, NOT that we couldn't actually do it. I think the engineering and technology potential was very high with the Allies, especially as we were playing catch-up (the Germans had been growing their war machine capability all through the 30s). We invented Radar, Sonar, built a computer to de-encrypt the Enigma code, bouncing bomb, designed and built the Lancaster, Wellington, Spits, Hurricanes (good enough to win the Battle of Britain). And of course, we developed the ultimate weapon of the highest scientific and engineering complexity which would end all conventional mass wars; nuclear weapons. I say "we" because it was European and American brains behind the Manhattan Project.
@Forest Kommando agree the Spitfire was great and so was the P51. But the Sherman aka the Ronson? The 75mm and 76mm gun were way weaker then the German 88 and 75 mms. The had way less armor than the Tiger nevermind the Tiger II. And they didn't have the sloped armor of the Panther and T-34.
@Forest Kommando Ya, but how many Jumbos were actually produced? And I don't think the British 17lb. gun ever got installed in American Shermans, just Fireflies, end even then it was at best 1 Firefly per platoon.
poms: as long as everyone has fun in this war that's all that matters lads
yanks: if you run out of ammo you must beat the life out of the enemy
More Soviet, but you got the spirit.
Much of these techniques are from the Brits, especially William Fairbairn
Tell that to the S.A.S.
French: Surrender before you get get sweat
@@simonpowell2559 The CIA taught the SAS everything they know sir
I love watching these older instructional videos. I know if I'd been a young soldier watching these I'd be suitably scared!
Dang he said " toss em a grenade and let them divide it" cold line
My Dad was Trained by Col Fairbairn and used what he was taught as a Trainer in Algeria and Cairo and behind Enemy Lines in Greece and Italy.. My Dad Sgt. ARMY ORDNANCE / OSS Instructor and Operative.
When I was growing up He would not teach me... He said all he knew was how to kill. 🙏💞🇺🇸
Before my Dad died he told my brother and me he fought " so that we didn't have to".
Thanks Dad
'With a rifle u can tatto a German at 500 yards' . that's some cool lines
@6:28 that Nazi wins an Oscar for his acting skills; you S.O.B.! Pure gold!
Knowing the army, they made this film and then probably showed it to a bunch of supply guys or something. Sigh...
The Infantry guys would have thought it to be ridiculous but I bet for non-infantry types this would be a good start to explain grunt work.
Didn't see any film like this when I went through basic training in 1962. But, I do remember my instructor for bayonet training say there is no such thing as a fair fight. It is not a duel. Try to get 2 of you on one of them if you can. While one engages from the front, the other should attack from the back.
I worked supply and achieved a combat action ribbon. USMC 2003. Proves you never know what tomorrow brings.
fascinating! It’s amazing to see what new troops would have had to watch and realize they’d have to DO in future. Imagine that. I also liked how straightforward this was. No frills.
And still, some very relevant tips for self-defense, when tussling.
I admired the design of the trench knife too- prevents the hand from slipping down the hilt onto the blade. Not pretty, indeed, but yup effective.
War Literally Stinks But Someone Has To Do This Dirty Work... To Our Military, Amen! 💪✌️😎
Nice. I like how he sticks to killing with the proper weapon and don’t be stupid in what to depend on
Ngl, that knee kick was savage!!
They really knew how to talk back then brother
boy howdy!
@Figi Moheder You mean, insensitive, disrespectful and at at the expense of others lmao
@@matttheamerican3766 says matt the american. Fucking commie
I'm so proud to be an American.
😂
Why?
so your country just wait for the enemy become weak and then attack them?
@FuturisticCamouflageTimes2025 yes you Americans lost a lot of soldiers ,but other countries like Russian have much larger casualties than your country. But in the media it just like American soliders beaten the nazis or America lead other countries do this.
With a rifle you can tattoo a German at a 100 yards 😂brilliant they kept getting better a beg all to watch 👍
A lot of rare Hawley helmet liners were depicted in this video. They could have given our boys a disadvantage in combat because the Axis forces would have felt incentivized to capture them to sell on eBay for a fortune decades later.
Are you serious?
That intro was truly inspiring
Like how he mouths the words "shit!"
I noticed that, lol
6:42 Some excellent choreography here.
If only this happens, Mellish would not die in Saving Private Ryan
Hand to hand combat is up close and personal.
This should've been GI Joe's selling pitch.
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle!
Oh, this is just wonderful. It's like my Christmas list every year. Since I could walk.
This is the US I remember. I miss it.
"Toss in a grenade and let em divide it" 😆
Just goes to show that close quarter fighting hasn't changed much in the history of mankind.
A Roman legionary would have felt much more at home than those lads.
Nana loved watching this... I am pretty sure I couldn't do any of it. But definitely appreciated. Love, Nana
The men of ww2 were the toughest of the tough
@boomgoesblitzhound Yeah nam was crazy
@boomgoesblitzhound my great grand dad did
What has happened to us since 1990 (Desert Storm)?
@@GhostRanger5060 I don't know I love watching military h2h combat training and how the rules seem to have changed
@@GhostRanger5060 To be fair, WWI through the Korean War not all soldiers had automatic weapons. The WWII German soldiers had K98’s and the US Marines had O3’ Springfield bolt action rifles. Firing 5 to 8 rounds, they were limited in sustained fire plus if there were stoppages, you were screwed unless you had ‘Cold Steel’ to drive into the enemie’s heart!
As for Desert Storm, the ground war lasted 4 days so I guess there wasn’t enough hand to hand fighting with all the Iraqi soldier surrendering by the thousands! I served as a medic in a field hospital (surgical tech) supporting an EPW camp.The few wounded that we took care of were soldiers who stepped on their own landmines trying to surrender to the Coalition Forces!
Thanks for the recommendation in 2021, not ominous at all RUclips...
I am forever grateful that my generation didn't have to do this.
1940s military narration is the best.
You gotta figure those guys loved throwing hand grenades at stuff.
What it's like to chew 5 gum
6:32
The amount of violence in this video 😂✊🏼🤣
08:31 - "Sh*t"
Amazing that got past the censors
They swear throughout this video like at 6:41
@Swifty The Kaiser I don’t think most Americans consider that a swear word
@@kennedysuggs4691 well on fundamental level it's a swear word but it's not at the same time
@GohModley iM ofFeNdEd
@GohModley except for all the officers and any of the devoutly Christian soldiers
I love that tough guy accent they had back then.
0:44
How quickly this has been forgotten.
badass men in 1943
The voice over is fuxking amazing when America was a bad ass nation
there is no rules in war
Geneva Convention: *Am I a joke to you?*
only if you lose her...lol
Every active military on planet earth: *yes*
Geneva convention ain't gonna burst through the door and save anyone
What a sweet video.
"toss in a grenade & let em divide it" YEA !!!!! 😝
Yeaiehhh
A corporal once told us in training a grenade is like a bar of chocolate, everyone gets a bit.
God Bless our Soldiers, Marines, and Sailors, we have always had the very best fighting men/women, in our military ,who fight with utmost gallantry. “ GOD BLESS THE United States”.
God has blessed the US and our Soldiers.
*This film is restricted*
Me: Meh.
Has there ever been a soldier who only hurts enemies?
As a proud american. I salute the troops! May god bless you all! 🇺🇲
Now I've seen it all I'm ready
A professional soldier learns the laws and rules of war.
A professional soldier doesn't put too much of his..her own emotions in it. It's a job. They don't take it too personally.
It helps when you don't have those emotions in the first place
Geneva Convention becomes Geneva suggestions.
Showing you've never been in war... Seeing your friends get killed by the enemy will put emotions in you no matter what...
I just found the stupidest comment ever!
Everything your mom told you not to do is now ok ! Special effort made to explain how it’s ok if you’ll notice .
Just remember, anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.
This should be Call Of Duty WAW 2 intro
These films made young men fighting in stupid wars hate each other. So think first before commenting something like „that‘s gold“ or anything like that.
So you would've bent over for Hitler?
Pacifism is the morality of a slave.
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 Well the west is done for anyway now, so it was all a waste anyway
Don't kill or be killed. There is another way to be happy. People of the whole world, just make love!
When Americans has no sympathy for nazi’s. Thank you to all the service you true Americans gave me today.
Americans had sympathy for Nazis then too. Some were proper Nazis, some were German soldiers who belonged to the same political party. Big difference. I think it's also fair to mention the Nazis were defeated in 1945. Anyone claiming to be one today is in denial.
@@S-early-user Well... the GERMANS may have lost WW 2... but the NAZIS didn't... their Heirs still hold positions of power to this day...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/879172/juncker-familys-link-to-nazi-regime/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Schwab
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Waldheim
www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bloodlines/krupp.htm
www.history.com/news/how-south-america-became-a-nazi-haven
@@SogoTX The American system has proven to be very weak. How little people trust their own state is still expressed in the election fraud allegations of the so-called elite democracy. Even as an American citizen, you can only vote for two parties, there is nothing more.
@@S-early-user from what I hear from former soldiers, they understood or at least later came to understand that they were the same as the ones they killed. They were both kids sent into a war they never wanted to be in to kill kids they never wanted to meet.
This film was made BEFORE they created "SAFE SPACES" .
Well back then there was segregation in America so you could argue that the whole country was one big safe space
Hell yea guns can be friends too
...thanks for the life lessons
The difference between sport and war is that you have more to lose.. war is a terrible necessary fact of life 🤔
This was epic !
This was brutal but at least it feels good somehow that young men needed to be "hardened" for war like this.
These needed to be a lot more graphic to desensitize the soldiers and educate them on violence better.
Good old infantry.
My Grandpa was an MP that was missing an eye, he had a glass replacement that he would take out and play jokes with
The weaponry is awesome.
2021 Hope that video didn’t offend you😢
I think the music at the beginning is the same like from Tom and Jerry
😁
It’s the same music that plays in Yankee Doodle Dandy when the soldiers are off to (The Great) War. The film came out that same year, and it was blatant pro war propaganda so I’m not surprised about the cross over.
As a combat veteran I am glad it never came to hand to hand.
The last war we were in that we actually had a reason to be in.
6:28 There's something totally raw and overlooked hearing the soldier swear in such a heavily censored time
How much does being in your 50s' or 60s shape your fighting skills? I'm writing a story about a soldier somewhere in that age-line who engages in hand-to-hand combat with the hero. I just can't decide his age, partly because of mathematical pondering and whatnot. The scientific fact of what makes or breaks you with age, fighting skills, and physical style would help.