History's Most Incredible One-Man Armies

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[colesmith]

Leo Major isn't just a hero to Canadians, but also to the Dutch. He single handily saved a town from being shelled an probably saved many civilians. What a legend.

[sidneysun]

u can probably do an entire video on Gurkha one-man armies lol all of their stories are just so insane its incredible

[Canadian_Skeptic]

6:11 -40 Celsius is the same as -40 Fahrenheit. It's the only time they are the same temperature in either scale.

[TheFireflasch]

The moment when Simon talks about stuff Sabaton already sang about and you get really happy :D

[pattonmoore]

Thanks for doing a story on York. As a lifelong Tennessean, he is almost a mythological character in our state. Fortunately the very most of his story is true.

[R.J._Lewis]

Pun deserved the VC for that action. He saved his base from an IED attack, he had enemy to both sides AND the front, and he fought them all off single-handedly, including hand-to-hand combat. If you saw it in a movie you'd think it was ridiculous and made up. Man deserves every medal you could throw at him.

[andrevolker]

So delightful to see Leo Major here, the man who liberated my home town. I am ever so pleased that I got to shake his hand on our Memorial Day and say 'sank jou ' when i was a wee boy.

[ziggyarendshorst]

I live in Zwolle and leo major is a folk hero. in the street where he threw hand grenades is the street where i grew up with my parents and around the corner where the fight started is a street named after him

[TerenceClark]

Biathlon (skiing and shooting) remains a fairly popular sport in Finland, from what my Finnish girlfriend has told me, at least relative to other countries. She participates here in the states and will likely continue to do so when she moves back to Finland in May. She also cuts and maintains a hole in the ice to go swimming in almost every day during the winter. Seriously, do NOT invade Finland in winter. Cold doesn't even slow them down, it only makes them stronger, lol.

[tituslaronius]

Love that you're talking about ww1 and showing modern warfare cosplayers. good job.

[lanefunai]

Simo No Scope, with a 505 to 0 kdr using just the starting gear. Freakin Legend

[martinstallard]

0:45 Alvin York
5:12 Simo Hayha
10:10 Leo Major
13:18 Dipprasad Pun

[alexnovak]

Everyone: do not invade Russia in winter. Russia: do not invade Finland in winter.

[troybaxter]

In the Draft of 1917, a man from Tennessee
Overseas to the trenches he went, from the land of the free
Into war he brought two things along, a rifle and his faith
Joined the ranks as a private, assigned to 338th.

[theAessaya]

A little disappointed you didn't include a short man from Texas (Audie Murphy), but the included four are definitely worth their spots in this video! There's always spot for him in the next one!
I actually haven't heard of the last two from this set. Very interesting stories.

[AngryCanine]

Leo Major isn't only credited for liberating a town all by himself from a large German force, but for also saving thousands of civilians from the bombs that would have been dropped on the town in a short while. He is a Canadian Hero, but he is also a Dutch hero too, a true legend who didn't let losing an eye stop him from doing the near impossible.

[theawesomeman]

Everyone of these guys deserves their own movies.

[variaxi]

the Gurkhas are ABSURD warriors, got a local Nepal community in my hometown and I hang out at the smoke shop they own because these dudes are just great to me and have so many stories and they one day had me look into the Gurkhas... the stories are tremendous. Everyone allied with em who had contact with the Gurkhas, even secondhand, seemed to harbor an intense respect for their abilities, one which carried by word of mouth into the modern day.

[stuartkseels]

Legitimate badasses!!!

The actor James Doohan (Scotty, Star Trek) wasn't far short of this accolade himself.

[JamesFromTexas]

Never heard that Major turned down a badass award just because Montgomery was going to pin him. That's awesome!