The OLDEST Soldiers of War

[@Simplehistory]

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[@davidspencer8373]

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[@pilotmonkey-vp5ls]

All men who fought in these wars are heroes but sadly not many people care

[@sadekmohamed4193]

​@@pilotmonkey-vp5lsyes my friend but real fact a lot political that time

[@christianebersold829]

Part of the score is Ouverture 1812, I believe, although Tshaikovsky was no Russian

[@olliephelan]

Carton de Wiart did NOT HAVE HIS HAND AMPUTATED. The doctors refused to amputate it. It was half off. They wanted to re attach it. So he pulled it off. He ripped off what was left of his hand with no anesthetic. It was either his daughter or wife who refused an anesthetic to remove her appendix, and they were forced to take it out with her fully conscious. She did this based on his example. They were nuts

[@daxota_6750]

5,000 WW2 Vets also served in the Korean and or Vietnam War as well, those men are also impressive

[@jackdaugaard-hansen4512]

That’s unsurprising, the Korean War was only 5 earlier, the youngest us veterans wouldn’t have reach 30 by the time the Korean War started or ended, and even includes people who fought from the start of world war 2

[@Redneck-kw6hh]

battle hardened veterans tend to be that way

[@GorillaWithACellphone]

@@jackdaugaard-hansen4512the Korean War was just over a Decade before American involvement in Vietnam

[@charliehay1520]

Much RESPECT to our vets🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@apollothefirst]

Park Chung-Hee was one of those men, he was president of Korea and modernized the country for the Non-Koreans out there

[@Brodrich]

"Fear the old man in a trade where most die young"

[@randomuploader2276]

My great great great grandfather served in the British army during world war 1: His name was Thomas Milne, he was born in 1858 in County Tyrone, Ireland. He enlisted in into the 36th Ulster Divsion as a machine gunner along side his two sons in 1914 at the age of 55-56 although he did not see combat until 1st July 1916 at the battle of the somme He survived the war leaving aged 59-60. He died in Belfast in 1945.

[@ryv2484]

I just looked this up this morning. A 70 year old man fought in WW1.

[@Kingdom_Of_Terrestia]

What side?

[@User2jn]

He used that huge twirly horn to hear what direction the enemy is coming from

[@MikaalHasnain-ep7qu]

Bro was fighting after the goddamn Napoleonic wars

[@olliephelan]

A huge number of Ukraines army are in that age bracket. I think the average age is 40. Most of the younger ones are dead

[@Soad-lover]

Sorry no ww1 ended in 1918

[@stevensmith688]

Older soldiers face a lot of scrutiny so I feel like they are more eager to prove themselves. Absolute legends.

[@olliephelan]

Carton de Wiart did *NOT HAVE HIS HAND AMPUTATED* . The doctors refused to amputate it. It was half off. They wanted to re attach it. So he pulled it off. He ripped off what was left of his hand with no anesthetic. It was either his daughter or wife who refused an anesthetic to remove her appendix, and they were forced to take it out with her fully conscious. She did this based on his example. He retired to live in peace on County Cork, where only in 1923 ---only a few years earlier --- he would have been assassinated by the IRA as a definite target. ( the others either stayed in their garrison or stayed in Dublin Castle) He moved outside the British Empire just after the Republic was declared. It would be similar to a British general retiring to Jordan today and going about enjoying his retirement, safe in the knowledge that he wouldnt be touched or , saying "the Irish Republicans have no reason to target me" About 50 miles from where he retired a Col Ferguson Smyth (in 1920) was shot 6 times in his own officers country club for issuing a particularly brutal order. Smyths brother was sent to Ireland to join intelligence determined for revenge, was identified by the IRA and promptly shot. So, De Wiart wasnt too put off by the idea. But they were nuts

[@randomstuff4997]

Yup, and this guy is a real mad lad indeed

[@DontblinkTee]

Maybe write it, in you're own words instead of copy and paste through Wikipedia 😂

[@danielgulevich3613]

I don’t see the bravery in losing a hand that could be reattached but whatever, he’s still a maldad who fought for our freedom. But really, if all he wanted was to reach the frontlines asap, couldn’t he get surgery and later demand to be dismissed? Surely, you’re as fit to serve with one hand as with two hands with one recently operated, there would have been zero difference except HAVING A HAND.

[@ives3572]

My utmost admiration and gratitude for all those brave souls who fought valiantly and honorably, and gave up their lives for something greater than themselves.

[@elmergantry6282]

You guys should dig into Samuel Whittemore, at the age of 79, fought in the battle of Lexington & Concord, he ambushed British Grenadiers, killing 2, and mortally wounding a 3rd, when the British reached his position, he drew his sword and attacked, he was shot in the face, and bayonetted numerous times, he was given up for dead, but survived, and lived to the age of 97.

[@johnnyklebitzrevenge4793]

According to Stephen Ambrose in Citizen Soldiers, Norman Cota has to teach a platoon of 29th Infantry troops how to clear out a house, which he did himself

[@D3m0n1c4t]

Hard to imagine anyone who fought in the trenches would want to keep fighting in ww2

[@jasonnijland725]

Yes it is

[@silverhawkscape2677]

Built Different and not all of WW1 was trench warfare

[@halotwenty3992]

Balls of steel

[@tusharsharma-hk5sp]

No one would. If I had experienced the trenches I would fear garden holes

[@glamorgirl911]

…….Not every part of ww1 is about trenches. Not everything is the Western or Eastern front. and if anyone says “I dOnT ThINK the EAsTern Front bElongs in tHAt Example.” Please shut up as based on archaeology by modern scholars and ww1 archaeologists trenches formulated in the battle of Tannenburg and Brusliov offensive. ON ThE EASTERN FRONT There were of course the Balkan Front, middle eastern front, and the Japanese pushing the Germans out of Meloneisa and the German occupied Atoll Islands in the WW1 pacific campaign 1914-1918. People seem to forget there was a pacific war during ww1 aswell.

[@kyletravis6735]

Thanks!

[@BimmyC]

There were Spanish-American War vets who were in WW2 as well

[@rexdilligam6261]

Wow hold old were they?

[@BimmyC]

@@rexdilligam6261 at the time WW2 started, Walter Krueger was 59. He served from 1898-1946 and was in the Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, Border War, WW1 & WW2

[@chadrowe8452]

Ernest hemmingway sort of

[@hawkeyeten2450]

Fun fact: As of 2021, there were still 26 children and 36 spouses of Spanish-American War veterans still receiving VA benefits or pensions. They'll still be paying some of those families for another decade or so, in all likelihood.

[@BimmyC]

@@hawkeyeten2450 that’s very cool!

[@metaljunkie8393]

Frank Woods and Alex Mason were damn near 60 years old at the Panama Invasion 💀

[@badassbillyb]

RIP mason....i mean depending on where woods shot

[@RSK412]

The embodiment of "Thirsty for more."

[@Koalalover70]

Old man be packing the Micro Uzi 💀

[@Thaligamathor]

It's amazing these are the ones WE know about. The soldiers that hid it so well they took it to the grave 🫡 God bless our soldiers

[@Goc4ever]

This video was truly interesting, thank you Simple History. I'm surprised by the fact that a few soldiers chose to still serve their countries despite their old age.

[@justinelighthouse6047]

9:26 you made him sound like tf2 soilder

[@H.E.C.U_amugos]

Rest peace Rick may

[@dianacitrola76]

Great video!

[@matthewskudzienski888]

My Grandpa was a ww2 veteran because he didn’t fight that war before then different few years later he died in October,1,2001 after I was born in March,9,2001

[@Andy-im3kj]

The guys that re-enlist and re-deploy are the guys you want to look up to and listen. I know I did and came out of the Marines with good experience.

[@stevenbullard1435]

I have never laughed so hard at the end of ne of your videos 😂 literally me shipping to basic training at the age of 32

[@landonbrown9943]

Salute 🫡 to the OG’s of war

[@Harikejn]

Here is one fun fact. Once George S Patton told one thing about Josip Broz Tito. And that goes like this: "Marshal Tito and his partisans had both political and military courage to take up arms in the middle of occupied Europe, and when our affairs were not going well, and inflict an unexpected and heavy moral blow on Hitler. And not only a moral, but also a serious military blow, tying a large number of German divisions to the Yugoslav front, which he lacked many times on other battlefields, both in the east and in the west of Europe."

[@alanroberson9749]

Excellent work dudes!!

[@walterbar3118]

In World War II the everage age of the cobat soldier was 26, in Vietnam it was just 19.

[@IsaacMartin-wj8pm]

Story 2 is the definition of "But it refused..."

[@radustavaru9406]

In Romania dumitrascu Lacatus fought in 3 wars-Balkan war Ww1 Ww2 And last cavalry man And the last ww1 veteran in Romania plus one of the only 21 soldiers who survived ww1 and ww2.

[@Rocky-wz2li]

You guys forgot Charles De Gaulle He fought in the first world war in the battle of Verdun

[@aleksandarvil5718]

He was 50 Y/O WHEN France fell in June 1940, and LATER he became leader of Free France movement

[@Edvard-f5f]

I know that weapon models aren't supposed to be portrayed accuratly if we are talking about a specific person, but why does everybody have a Mosin nagant at 3:26 ?

[@AidanC850]

My 2x Great grandfather was born in 1887 and he was in the Navy in WW1 I have his military record which says he joined the navy in 1903 at 16 years old starting off as a page boy. He was 27 or so when he was in WW1 and eventually in the mid 1920s, he became a school leading seaman. It states his military career finished in 1926 however there's another military record of him joining again as a page boy in 1929 and was even sent to Egypt in 1940 during WW2 which is officially the year of his last service meaning he experienced both World wars and being involved in the 2nd world war at 51 - 53 years old. He passed away in 1957 at 70 years old

[@batjimadventures2201]

The second guy with the eyepatch, give me big boss vibes from metal gear solid

[@illuminantedits]

“You got the shiniest balls” 💀

[@luked8873]

I always thought old Wally said, no bloody surrender for me

[@Tristian-h3w]

make a video about the kill dozer

[@SumitKumar-oo4qr]

Thx for starting of with my home country:)

[@Crazycoyote-we7ey]

George Patton is the Last Wild West Gunfighter He got into a Gunfight in Mexico back in the Mexican Revolution

[@ragingbanana886]

Can you made a video about a tetrarch light tank of british army in ww2?

[@freddiebinthaplace2be634]

Actually the doctors refused to amputate so Adrian actually tore the fingers off himself

[@ibrahimahmedabdelmajidbarg2099]

This is a re-upload?

[@doomhippie6673]

Pretty sure you could find lots of old man in the Volkssturm. Not to mention Gerd v. Rundstedt, who was a bit older han young man Patton.

[@merel101]

Fun fact about Adrian, when he was refused an amputation he ripped his 2 fingers off so it could be amputated.

[@bvillafuerte179]

Good video.

[@случайныйпареньиздругогорайона]

bro went from being a sniper to tf2 heavy

[@tomfox9083]

What music is this 28:14

[@Billy_yank1865]

when they made adrian de wiart they forgot to put in the quit

[@jetz7052]

29:37 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Cactusgamer303]

Re-Upload?

[@sightablestudiosofficial]

12:41 I assume that is Theodore Roosevelt's son they are referring too.

[@counqerland5490]

5:47 how do you tie his hands?? He only has one 💀💀

[@Kasierriech]

They tie his wrists I think

[@animeXcaso]

don't underestimate a sicilian herder

[@badassbillyb]

"No surrender for me" god what a goat

[@followernumber1]

Please add a video about vito bertoldo to Valor playlist

[@SigmaEzec23frfr]

26:53 why does norman smile look so cuteeee tho

[@princessmarlena1359]

Some day, not too far into the future, we’ll probably have more old soldiers in war…not as military regulars, but rather militia resistance.

[@diddlethepoodle4812]

It doesn't matter the age a warrior's heart will beat until their dying breath!

[@olliephelan]

The WW1 crisis ! AND the WW2 debacle !!!!! Christ He couldve made it to the Korean upheaval Or the Vietnam altercation

[@91mrpogi]

Nikolai morozov is perhaps overall the oldest man to enlist in the army at age 87

[@Gumbyforty]

My dog exploded bruh

[@corymorimacori1059]

Michael Jackson: You shoulda stayed in the army dude! Shamone! Theodore Roosevelt: You should be ashamed of your military honor!

[@claytonhill936]

Huh?

[@throttleblipsntwistedgrips1992]

Those who know, know 😉 Hitler: you leading an army of white men, disgraceful!

[@EarwaxYouDeserve]

Context?

[@buckbomb9867]

Bro has been consistently doing this 😭😭

[@Autobotmatt428]

Patton wasn’t apart of the DDay landings

[@Bethany_Marie]

He was with operation fortitude.

[@Autobotmatt428]

@@Bethany_Marie yes but not the real landings

[@jumangi2322]

Kasserine pass happend. Patton scared the NAZIS. That slap made everyone understand they had to man up. Patton started his military career when Pancho Villa Viva Villa. Was fighting for Mexican Freedom. I love this page! 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇲🇽

[@Danzel_Gaming]

Isn't Erwin Rommel a WW1 veteran and Hitler as well with many more?

[@doomhippie6673]

Literally every senior officer in WWII was a veteran of WW I. The two wars are just 20 years apart.

[@leggonarm9835]

How did Cota not get a medal of honor?

[@johnwiemer120]

Patton had a high squeaky voice. Not a raspy baritone.

[@rexdilligam6261]

Nikolai was 92?! God damn!

[@rexdilligam6261]

Highlighted comment

[@CentralIntelligeinceAgency]

‏‪"1:14‬‏ you're australian you dont die " Battlefield 1

[@fbi9050]

What was going on in the thumbnail?

[@pyeitme508]

SO OLD!

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

Man, let the old have respect.

[@mujahidinabdullah5594]

Wiart collecting memories instead Having PTSD

[@shaggyrebel8737]

The animation at the end of the video 😂

[@aleksandarvil5718]

Don't forget Albanian Golgota & Salonica Front [in World War 1] veteran Pero Tunguz (1840 - 1919) , Serb from Herzegovina, who had first battle in Herzegovina uprising (1875-1877) against Ottoman Empire !!!

[@MrWarThunderGuy12-871]

Yea am back (again)

[@singusthetexan]

This video is interesting.

[@thunderkatz4219]

Ww2 vets could never handle the trenches of ww1

[@Liamgames-v2n]

29:37 who let grandpa have the minigun

[@man-ji9dm]

9:48 song

[@sgtjohnnywallsmith8720]

World War II? I think we can go ahead and say the oldest in any War ,past and present, at 90 years old.

[@kingjoe3rd]

I fought in the Iraq War, which was 20 years ago, and that's the same time distance between WW1 and WW2. I'm only 39, which is far from being an old man.

[@sundarkidambi4691]

German Soldier: I am not afraid even if a Russian bear fights against us but we are when an 87 yr old Sigma male fights against us

[@fat-hen649]

...that was never said. quit implementing brainrot into serious things like war you heathen.

[@MemekingJag]

As questionable as the accents are, I love the impressions done for the quotes

[@doomhippie6673]

Gerd v. Rundstedt was abit older than young man Patton.

[@brickmasterey]

good history

[@EpEasCollection]

wow really good

[@rustyknifelover4463]

Hoping to see Billy Waugh

[@freesheep0]

The End from MGS3

[@isthattrue1083]

My grandfather adored Patton. He didn't like MacArthur. MacArthur attacked his own men in Washington DC.

[@12x02]

Ye making a 54 year old fight is genius

[@rexdilligam6261]

Isn’t George S Patton notable in media?

[@pathonnn]

We need Patterson back in the forces.

[@doomhippie6673]

Sparkling in the sunlight?

[@HeadphoneDog123]

RIP to all who died in the 2 wars, even those who were in Hitler's rule... (Also amazing video)

[@alvinsmith5346]

Very Odd! at 20:20 those planes look a lot like Ki-27 "Nates" and they were Japanese!!

[@korkronwarlord]

Lol, that ending.

[@ThiCath]

0:14 anybody have any theories on how this could happen?

[@Aplldh]

They volunteered

[@ThiCath]

@@Aplldh I mean the bug with how the fingers are fixed on the gun

[@Guessnought]

Don't use the timestamp exploit

[@greenphantom1955]

There are quite a few 60 year olds today that serve in executive outcomes

[@canoshit]

2:16 SINGAPORE MENTIONEDD!!!!!

[@Duckz_VR]

1 hour gang!!

[@skorgevondoom___9571]

If you didn't mention chesty puller then there shall be angry marines

[@collinscody57]

Be warry of a old man in a young mans game