The One eyed Scout who Liberated a Whole Town by Himself in WW2 - Reaction

[@StevenFox80]

The town of Zwolle named a road after him. Might be one of the most-earned road names ever

[@CanadiansReact]

Wow that’s cool. Your absolute right about it being well earned!

[@peterwhite507]

They also named a park Willie Arsenault park, for his friend who was killed.

[@matvangogh]

They should have renamed the town after him. It should have been called "Leomajor" now.

[@llgoved9]

also awarded him honorary citizenship

[@llgoved9]

In zwolle

[@RG-qn2qm]

We Canadians do not glorify our soldiers, we honour and respect our soldiers for their sacrifice. Least we forget.

[@BWBDCan]

His family only learned what he did in the 80's, when asked why he never told them. He said "who'd believe me?"

[@xGoodOldSmurfehx]

when Canadians go to war, they really go to war Leo Major is really the icing on the cake, the badass of all badasses

[@stub011]

Brought a tear to my eye, people who put their lives in the line, just wow

[@CanadiansReact]

Yeah it’s pretty intense to think about -Adam

[@loriburnip]

I agree with Leo Major that Montgomery was incompetent. He was not fit to pin a medal on a man like this. Just look up the debacle that was operation Market Garden. He got OVER 10,000 allied soldiers BUTCHERED because he wouldn't listen to intelligence that there were Panzer divisions in the area & that the paratroopers were being dropped too far from the objective, over 8 miles away from it in fact!! It's worth reading up on. Or if you want a dramatized version, the movie "A bridge too far" is about Operation market garden & the ensuing slaughter.

[@jean-rochdion4898]

as a french-canadian vet from 2R22R cant agree more!! we still have that kind of caracter in the unit...well 10 years ago! lol

[@TheDylls]

​@@jean-rochdion4898 Is that the Van Doos?

[@jceepf]

@@TheDylls Yes ! 22 is vingt-deux in French which is then butchered into in English as Vandoos since English has neither the nasal "in" nor the eu sound like the German ö. So vandooes it is.

[@TheDylls]

@@jceepf Hey, at the very least... I'm an anglophone with French Canadian family, so I knew exactly HOW I was messing up the pronunciation ❤️

[@jceepf]

@@TheDylls Ha sorry, your question seemed to imply the reverse. Incidentally I am in Japan. Japanese do like French : "put ze puck in ze net. While French Canadian say: put da puck in da net! But Japanese also use affrication like the French Canadian, so di and ti is here dji and tchi. (French Canadian tsi, dsi but not Acadians)

[@mike7104]

PS LEO MAJOR should be awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously. IMO

[@chicocano100]

The Korean saga has Leo Major attached to 2 PPCLI. This battalion along with the Aussies and New Zealanders were awarded a presidential Unit Citation. PPCLI has 3 Presidential Citations and they are not American.

[@corneliusantonius3108]

As being from The Netherlands, I thank the Canadians and Leo, The Quebec Rambo, for liberating ny country,😍💋🦄 Alsoo Leo was right about General Montgomery

[@TheDylls]

I've seen how you guys still treat our vets over there... WE are the ones thankful for YOU ❤

[@videogamevalley7523]

.....is it me or do dudes from the 40’ (especially the war vets) always have the most epic one liners - “Glad that they can’t shoot” and “I only need one eye to aim a rifle”

[@rikk319]

History records occasional badass one-liners, like the Spartan at Thermopylae who said of the Persian thousands of archers, "Then we will fight in the shade."

[@SonOfMuta]

There is a movie about Léo Major called "The One Eyed Ghost". A documentary film about his exploits, Léo Major, le fantôme borgne, has been produced in Montreal.

[@CountryLifestyle2023]

No one's going to watch that, I don't want subtitles on my movies

[@flycraps2456]

They dont do us canadians justice in movies especially with war stuff.

[@xGoodOldSmurfehx]

i dont think most people know just how intense a mortar fire has to be in order to warp the barrels

[@tomjones2121]

not true , The Devil's Brigade places Canadians in the highest regard

[@mikenelson1614]

@@tomjones2121 Actually that is very true, there are quite a few war movies based on actual events that minimize or eliminates the Canadian roll, look up the real story on The Great Escape and then watch the movie, Canadians played a big roll in that event but in the movie the only mention of a Canadian is when one gets slapped around by an Aussie, there are many more examples. Having said all that it's not up to Hollywood to tell Canadian stories that is something that Canadian film makers should be doing.

[@JellothePallascat]

One of Leo majors sons said of his dad was American. There would be 50 movies made about him.

[@CountryLifestyle2023]

@@mikenelson1614 Canadian film makers are in Hollywood lol

[@cap.deanmarcelwinchester]

We have a saying in Canada... "NEVER piss off a Crazy Canuck!" We love PEACE... but in war, we go NUTS.

[@Fordo007]

A man who was a WWII video game protagonist in real life...

[@MrLandega]

On top o' that, tabarnak...this be the 'by' that provided somethin' else to videogames, achievements n' trophy hunting.

[@krognak]

Damn, two crossed machine guns, that is badass...a-and...a beaver. I love Canada.

[@xanbex8324]

lol

[@MrLandega]

The beaver is indeed a hardy species to pay tribute to, no question. However, ALL of us Canucks know who the official blood-god is whom we as a nation, must pledge our undying-allegiance and fealty to. 'Tis thee who grants us unbridled rage primarily, coupled with an ingenuity that keeps our nation undefeated. All hail the mighty Canadian Goose!

[@TheDylls]

​@@MrLandega It's really just safer to worship them than to risk a losing our first war as a nation! 😅

[@MrLandega]

@@TheDylls Safer, indeed! They'll eat us alive if we come back defeated. 😂

[@mike7104]

It is sad that Leo Major was not taught in school. I only learned about him a few years ago and am so proud to call him Canadian but also dismayed there are no monuments to this man. A well-funded movie would be amazing too. In Korea Leo and 18 men under his command took and held that position against 12,000 Chinese soldiers. 12,000 for real

[@cap.deanmarcelwinchester]

"LEO ENTERS THE BAR"... 'music in the bar IMMEDIATELY changes to BOSS MUSIC from a video game....

[@toyota420xp]

Canada needs a leo day

[@CanadiansReact]

Yeah I really don't understand why we were never taught this in school. The guy is a legend! - Adam

[@Xtra_Medium]

Jeez H Crist this guy was Canada's version of Audie Murphy or Mad Jack Churchill

[@CountryLifestyle2023]

Did they single handely capture 200 SS nazis ? Than liberate a town ?

[@Xtra_Medium]

@@CountryLifestyle2023 Audie Murphy single handedly stopped a Nazi company at the Colmar Pocket for an hour (at one point firing from the turret of a flaming tank about to explode) as the Nazis retreated a wounded Murphy linked back up with his soldiers and personally lead the counter attack despite being low on ammo, wounded and (according to some accounts) suffering from malaria. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor 🏅

[@rikk319]

@@Xtra_Medium Audie Murphy in WW2 and Alvin York in WW1 are American badasses and CMoH winners that lived to tell their tales.

[@Xtra_Medium]

@@rikk319 I'm aware, my second comment was addressed to CountryLifestyle who took umbridge with the comparison

[@walkingwounded3824]

There definitely needs to be a movie !

[@CanadiansReact]

💯-Adam

[@coreyrees840]

Check out “The white death” from these guys as well. About Simo Hayha the Finnish sniper, another absolute bad ass

[@Patrick_AUBRY]

He's now sold as a french-canadian hero by Quebec nationalists⚜️🤩 (We have so few). He's call "Le Rambo québécois". The reason there's no movie on him is that is french-canadian and that will boost nationalist among white people. That's not possible in a "post national state" (Trudeau) with multiculturalism (communitarianism for non Canadian readers).

[@CanadiansReact]

Hmmm very interesting! Thanks for that insight. I've been trying to do as much research as I can on him. Crazy stories. - Adam

[@SonOfMuta]

There is a movie about him. It's called The One Eyed Ghost

[@Keboomrang]

@@SonOfMuta It's not a movie but 1h documentary

[@SonOfMuta]

@@Keboomrang Documentaries are also movies. JFC

[@CountryLifestyle2023]

@@CanadiansReact he is politically motivated and twisting the situation to his view.

[@IbrahimservantofAllah]

That fact he never got a VC is insane.

[@mariovilleneuve-ti1yx]

is french that why

[@berryscott3590]

Leo actually went AWOL from the hospital, after he fractured his ankles/back, for like a month, and hole-up with a Belgian family, think it was (who likely helped him escape the hospital, considering he could probably only crawl at that point)...Word is, he had a girl friend, might have been Belgian or Dutch? There are conflicting accounts... Then he just magically reappears with his unit... No reprimand, nothing... The COs are like, 'Leo you're back, eh?... That's good'...

[@jackmorris7809]

Leo Major has never been given the recognition he truly deserves. His story needs to be taken up, and told to people as part of Canadian history. Another great Canadian story is The black Watch Snipers, recommend you give it a watch.

[@rikk319]

Leo didn't seek recognition. He was the definition of humble. His history definitely deserves to be spread, as he's inspirational.

[@xanbex8324]

The reason a movie will not be made is because he's a Canadian!

[@CountryLifestyle2023]

There was one made, just not Hollywood

[@istiles1]

I would propose that because he was Quebecois there is less support in making a movie about him. Just as Angelina Jolie made the movie 'Unbroken' about Louis Zamperini, someone should make a movie about this man. [Unfortunately, I think who ever would make this movie would turn it into an unbelievable, hagiographic film of a brave, oppressed French Canadian instead of viewing him as one of the bravest & most effective soldiers of WW2 & Korean War, who, by the way, was French Canadian.]

[@CountryLifestyle2023]

The fact that there is no movie based on him has nothing to do with him being French,,but him being Canadian. Hollywood portrays American heroes not Canadian. Quebec is Canada...

[@Sebastienpoliquin]

​@@CountryLifestyle2023Québec is Canada only when you guys want to appropriate our Heroes, the history of Canada was QUÉBEC.

[@CountryLifestyle2023]

@Sebastienpoliquin Quebec is always Canada, it's only separatist that don't consider Quebec part of Canada. Stop making issues where there are none

[@Sebastienpoliquin]

@@CountryLifestyle2023 LÉO MAJOR was a true Québécois for independance by the way, You will be surprised soon enough buddy, Ottawa and the federal have done so much damage to our nation, inspite all those assimilation attempt and the hate of our culture, pull a chair and watch.

[@CountryLifestyle2023]

@Sebastienpoliquin no one hates your culture. The government isn't focusing Quebec. Quebec has put forth laws that suppress non French speakers. Basically only one being hateful and suppressing others is Quebec. I'm from Quebec and a Quebec voter and so is my whole family. I protested during the last referendum !

[@matvangogh]

Mel Gibson needs to make a movie about this. They need to call it 'One Eyed Monster" ( LOL)

[@CountryLifestyle2023]

That crazy fucker....don't let him taint Canadian history

[@nathalie_desrosiers]

He was not a monster, quite the opposite. He refused to kill POW.

[@matvangogh]

​@@nathalie_desrosiers its a joke ONE EYED MONSTER. THINK.. HARD LOL

[@sharis9095]

Does anyone else wonder if main character from the 1970's TV show "The 6 Million Dollar Man" was named after Leo? The character was named Lee Majors.

[@rikk319]

The actor was Lee Majors. The character was Steve Austin. He was based on a real-life test pilot, Bruce Peterson, who was badly injured in the crash of an experimental lifting body in 1967 that would lead to the development of the Space Shuttle.

[@joeylabelle17]

7:47 mostly because he was a french canadian or Québécois ,

[@collinscody57]

Imagine have to talk to that man before you took his daughter to prom

[@SilentStorm4U]

🇨🇦 Leo major.... That’s a great true story... I like that term about the zombies lol

[@nuntichaapsiram2560]

Wonderful! My father won many medals in Holland. This to me is truly Canadian!

[@collinscody57]

I always thought if he was British he would have got a Victoria Cross

[@robertsavard9293]

Léo major. Un grand Québécois. Un héros !

[@tomjones2121]

shocked you didn't learn this in school.

[@CanadiansReact]

yeah what's with that?! - Adam

[@rikk319]

The guy didn't even share the tale with his family until the 1980s. Typical Canadian humility.

[@tomjones2121]

Here's one about Canada's Ace pilot George Beurling , ( The Falcon of Malta ) possibly the greatest pilot of WW 2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZmqdoN_nMmsjKM

[@KurtAnderson812]

Liked Adam’s Owen Wilson-esq “WOW” there

[@CanadiansReact]

🤣 I see it -Adam

[@eduardolpz386]

Canadians are the nicest, unless they are sporting eyepatch and sneakers, and they are wet and cold. In that case run, just freaken run.

[@AL-fl4jk]

Haha Canadians in war is a whole other thing. There’s stories from WW2 that show we are still polite - eg carefully escorting German people out of whole towns - then burning the town down as revenge for the killing of a fellow Canadian soldier

[@tylerjohnston9679]

If I didn’t see this video I probably would not of believed this was true

[@CanadiansReact]

Right?!! It’s so crazy.

[@dross2172]

The truly remarkable thing is that this is all completely true. No embellishments were needed to make this an amazing story. It's well documented in military dispatches. Furthermore, Leo went home never mentioning his exploits even to his wife. As a matter of fact when the Dutch Prime Minister paid a visit to Canada, he demanded of our Prime Minister P.E. Trudeau, to meet Leo and even Trudeau didn't know the story. Leo's wife was even more confused about all the fuss as she knew nothing of any of it.

[@AL-fl4jk]

@@dross2172 agreed. Do a google images search of some of the records - some of the communications officers took notes around the communique margins, they say stuff like “not sure this is true”. Even while it was happening people couldn’t believe it

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

Man deserves a statue.

[@dross2172]

I believe there is a statue of Leo in the city of Zwolle. The Dutch sent a government delegation to his funeral and his wife, who had never heard Leo talk about his WW2 and Korean exploits, had no idea why they would be there or why the Dutch press would be interested in him. Imagine her surprise at hearing all this.

[@stuartwayne4978]

I think no movie was ever made because studios think that no one would be interested in a story with a Canadian hero instead of American.

[@douglaswayne3149]

I think that if generals Patton and Westmoreland were able to command a division of soldiers all like Leo Major, WW2 and the Vietnam war would have been over within a month... LoL

[@marthahanley6650]

Sorry guys. I did about three double takes because I thought it said One Eyed Snake.

[@jceepf]

The Quebec government only recently acknowledged Leo Major---finally. In Canada we prefer to erect monuments to communists like Normann Bethune than Leo Major. To be fair, Major went to war only to prove to his unloving dad that he was a real man. There was a strong isolationist movement among French Canadians in both WWI and WWII. Major was a very low key person. Never bragged. Never uttered a peep. (incidentally he was born in the USA!)

[@renaudhobden4236]

Actually Normand Bethsume was a gift of the Chinese government, not made by the government of Canada. Like the Liberty Statute was a gift of France to USA.

[@jceepf]

@@renaudhobden4236 True.

[@CountryLifestyle2023]

Isolation movement has nothing to do with Leo Major. Same with Chinese statues. And even if that is his reason....what does it matter, ppl go to war to Pau off debt....

[@mike7104]

Check out the Black Devils and Tommy Prince, The Black Devils were what the Germans called them but First Special Service Force or FSSF is the official name. It was a WW2 Commando unit made up of Canadian Commando with mountaineering skills and the best of the best of USA new recruits. This unit is what led to the Navy Seals, Green Beret, our JTF2 ect. globally. Canada had already been in the war for nearly 2 years when the US decided to stop supplying the Nazis and join us for the Win. The Devils were formed specifically to take Italy and fortified mountain positions in Italy. FYI this UNIT received the Congressional Gold Medal among MANY others but look up the Congressional Gold Medal.

[@meowbatter4966]

Big... Boss!?!😲

[@AL-fl4jk]

Was just missing the ponytail

[@meowbatter4966]

@@AL-fl4jk your right. 😆😆😆

[@MrLandega]

@@AL-fl4jk ...Was the headband real, though?! IIII- "Infinite Ammo"

[@williamnadeau4698]

The reason why there is no movies about him, its because he is french canadien... they dont like us when we proud... get of the way of pistof québécois tabarnak ✌️

[@dannyphilippo2719]

Dont worry. Us dutchies know.

[@SilentStorm4U]

Who’s we ?

[@ImAfrogQC]

@@SilentStorm4U There was a separatist movement in the french province of Canada (Québec) that led to what is known as the October crisis in 1970. Diplomats were kidnapped and one of em was killed. The prime Minister invoked the war measures act and eventually the second diplomat was released. Following these events two referendums about sovereignty were held. Québec stayed part of Canada but to this day there is political group dedicated to making Québec a country of it's own. Kids in Québec are not really taught about the October crisis nowadays but kids in Ontario (the neighboring province) do learn about it... this and other things are being seen by some has means to keep those discussions buried and Québécois's pride... I wouldn't say in check but you know not high enough to reignite those ideas of grandeur. Hopefully you get the idea. There is a lot more to it then just what I wrote here...

[@CountryLifestyle2023]

@@ImAfrogQC Bombing of civilians, targeting of political figures. I had a friend who had a built in secret safe room in there house, it was used to hide from FLQ.... The only time the military was brought in, was to deal with Quebec....who we cater to like a spoiled child....tired of them winning and complaining that Quebec is targeted, not treated fairly, oppressed.....fuck off and leave if you feel like that. I live in Quebec and so does all my family. Strong proud and free Canadians.

[@cast_outlaw]

That would be a movie longer than Lonesome Dove

[@malcolmwilson1175]

I found this link (kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3bCfmewitGaprs) and a couple of interviews. All the interviews are in French.

[@tmcgrenere]

What glory is this!

[@Sebastienpoliquin]

Pfffffff are you serious.

[@tomjones2121]

Nice seeing your pride just ooooze out ...

[@LostPanda135]

don t know if you ever did a reaction video on Canadians Change When they Hear the Word “War”,

[@jonathancunningham8739]

He was the real life BJ Blazkowicz.

[@anniecharbonneau6657]

No movies cause is Canadian even more french Canadian

[@ctarroyo887]

WW2 forged legends like Leo

[@tomjones2121]

Rambo was french Canadian , get over it hen !

[@428chase]

speaking of one eyed so I am sitting in a resturant eating, when a lady sitting nearby when all the sudden she seem to be choking on her food she stood up and was caughing and gagging, something flew toward me and by reflex I caught it. Looking into my hand I notice it was a glass eye, I returned to the lady and she thanked me. Later as I was paying for my food. the cashier said that my meal was paid for by the lady, she was still there so I went and told her she didn't have to pay for my meal. She said well, you caught my eye Cheech & Chong - Santa Claus and his Old Lady kzbin.info/www/bejne/joSraqWvh997h5Y

[@CanadiansReact]

Hahaha 👍👍👀

[@hugodalpe1812]

The sad part of this is that if is this was ever done by an Anglophone Canadian... He would be a Legend but as this was done by a French Canadian soldier, he was thrown into abyss... Only remembered lately with the help of KZbin... This is just saddening.

[@CountryLifestyle2023]

This has nothing to do with French vs English. Hollywood doesn't panded to Canada. So we dnt get Canadian based movies. Has nothing to do with Quebec..... Side note, if you don't like Canada get out. Tired of hearing the whinning from the most spoiled child in Canada......

[@hugodalpe1812]

Why am I so surprised that only one person ever reacted to the fact that he is not known as a Canadian hero... He just happens not to be from an English origin and will always be an outcast from the Canadian army. I was in the Canadian army for 6 years and the only ever "thank you for your services I ever got was from an American.. Thank you English Canada for your support...

[@AlainPare]

​@@CountryLifestyle2023Une autre autruche qui se cache la tête dans le sable.

[@cotefabrice1801]

Jesus what do you have to do to win the victoria cross

[@retepevil3211]

Im to high

[@CanadiansReact]

😂😂😂😂

[@Smilenol]

Why hasn't Mel Gibson jumped on this story....beats me

[@mmooney6860]

he was to much Canadian French not good for the VC

[@laurag2112]

Canada Post issued a commemorative stamp for his heroism celebrating VEDay. Google Canada Post leo major to see it.🇨🇦