Why Do Canadians Go Ballistic During War

[@Simplehistory]

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[@pyeitme508]

BRUH

[@bww9450]

Uh Canada!

[@BramdeKoning-x5n]

Simple history you forgot leo major.

[@ReinaTK8]

Deadpool: No One Said My. Country Name In Front Of Me!. Logan/Wolverine: You Know What?. Don't Make Me Angry About My Home. Trevor: Hey Is A Word From Canada OK?. (A Word From Few Canadian. That Is Not Very Nice To Us).

[@RandomEmergency392]

why'd you change the thumbnail

[@AssimilationKaelThas]

Canadian here. They taught us in school, that our units formed at the time of conscription kept people from the same community together. So, you fought alongside your family and friends. Seeing them die, would tend to induce strong feelings.

[@scottdelahunt586]

There's a road in Winnipeg that was renamed to Valour Road after three men who lived so close to each other each won the Victoria Cross for actions in WWI. There's a Heritage Minute about it and the men.

[@silverblueshadow]

i thought when they said we canadians fought valiantly, it's just what every textbook would say re: their own troops. i didnt know we're THAT much of a fighting beast. now it's up to us to live up to the legacy while maintaining ethics

[@petermaxwell6748]

I think you meant "enlistment", not "conscription". Canadians volunteered(enlisted) in both WWI and WWII. Enlistment campaigns allowed friends, family, and neighbours to serve together in the same unit. While it led to increased unit cohesion, it likely also contributed to revenge killings of POWs. Conscription only began to be implemented in January of 1918, and it was only after amendments to the Military Service Act in mid-1918, ending most exemptions that conscription started to be implemented in earnest. In WWI only 47,509 conscripted were even sent overseas, starting in May of 1918, with only 24,132 reaching France before the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918. In WWII conscription played an even smaller role, with only 2,463 conscripts being put on the front lines, out of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, before Germany surrendered in May of 1945.

[@ranvijaysingh5459]

@@scottdelahunt586 it’s a bus stop now😢 it’s sad such history goes unnoticed every day buy almost every one

[@zoloftsucks-archive7608]

When was this? Are you guys still ready for war?

[@robertwillsea3338]

"It ain't a war crime the first time". Canadians when they go to war

[@____________________________hi]

"Sorry, not sorry" *gunshot*

[@Chillkid-x5o]

True

[@frankisfunny2007]

Love the Fat Electrician!

[@victormontes7007]

I am not trusting any canned meat from canada

[@bitbrace]

Quack bang out

[@jasonrand5995]

Nova Scotian here. I remembere a vet talking, rather bluntly, about killing Germans crude and brutally (wont get into it cause NSFW). My dad asked why he did such horrid things, and I still remember the vets reply. "Cause I wanted to go home".

[@androidsystem5850]

Damm

[@blammela]

My GPa had similar stories

[@siouxxi]

Fellow nova scotian, I never see vets, pretty rare

[@Trigger200284]

@@siouxxiuhhh because WWII ended almost 80 years ago…

[@cameron3578]

I have a feeling I know who you're talking about

[@huntery3568]

As a Canadian immigrant, my observation is: Canadians are very polite, and place a high value on playing by the rules. When there are rules, Canadians will operate within them. If you break the rules, Canadians get very, very upset. If there are no rules at all, Canadians will quickly make it clear why there really should have been rules in place.

[@HiRye]

Interesting take. As a conservative thinking canadian, I tend to agree. Everyone is free to live, so long as they comply with what we deem to be basic, civilized behavior.

[@RemiCouture]

Yes, and it explains why I get upset with people that can't simply follow rules.

[@cookiesup2music]

complacency pretty much.. that's why we still have a king. sad, sad stuff. weak people in my homeland.

[@CaeridLock.]

Fool me once, shame on you...and that's all, that's it

[@BFRZ89]

That's what I always tell my wife from the Philippines. This is Canada, not the Philippines. We have rules, and rules create order. Follow the rules, or else.

[@theredscourge]

Canadian here, we found out that the longer a war lasts, the more likely we won't survive, so we just decided to end them as fast as possible, and it turns out the other side surrenders faster when they're terrified. Also, the Brits forgot to tell us that there were rules.

[@itsmrhunter]

Thank you for your service. You type extremely well for a 95+ year old

[@HistoryObliterates-o4k]

@@itsmrhunter Can't tell if this is sarcastic or real.

[@daveengland8931]

that "also" threw me off guard, thanks for that lmfao true yet funny, love it.

[@theredscourge]

@@itsmrhunter I thought it was you young whipper-snappers with your new-fangled texting and your acronyms and your TikToks who tend to not type so well.

[@Mr-__-Sy]

Lmao that last line checks everything about you

[@havokvladimirovichstalinov]

Remember: Canada is the reason behind a large portion of the early Geneva Conventions

[@Deere2154D]

Suggestions

[@taggie_]

Oh that might be true but I promise you that's all in the past. We aren't that 'uptight' and 'tough'. Lets Give credit to our neighbour down south.

[@soulknife20]

​@@taggie_We do love our war crime sticks

[@kylemackinnon5696]

You mean the checklist?

[@viper_1889]

Hush now that's a Secret

[@Banditt42]

An American Veteran said in a Documentary I was watching on the Italian campaign: If you can't take control of a city bring in the Canadians. They will clear it in a day. Tell them their is booze in there, and they will clear it in hours.

[@288theabe]

As a Canadian, WHERE???? 😂😂

[@icky_mack]

​@@288theabeto late hoser.

[@Killer1986Chris]

Try telling our forces that the city has the puck.

[@cruisinguy6024]

there is booze **

[@danielloewen2857]

​@@Killer1986Chris 30 minutes tops

[@Mrkabrat]

If memory serves, the canadian reasoning was "This is a war, the sooner we end it, the sooner we go home. So why play nice?"

[@DamienDarkside]

Canadian here, we gets jobs done. Tell us there is beer, it's done in hours.

[@DeNihility]

In school, we were taught that Canadians treated PoWs exceptionally well. What they didn't teach us was that these PoWs weren't captured by Canadians themselves, those PoWs were sent to Canada by their allies to hold on to, since they rarely ever took prisoners at all. 💀

[@288theabe]

Canada had room to hold them 😂😂

[@gilliesiut2332]

Our POW’s where actually any German or Japanese civilians that happened to be living in Canada who where put into holding camps

[@mikeemmons1079]

@@gilliesiut2332 Liberals, again. If you check, every horrible act performed by our government originated from a Liberal, or proto-liberal, in the case of Sir John A. government.

[@stinkypete2892]

​​@gilliesiut2332 not entirely true. The patterson armories in medicine hat ab housed captured German troops and I'm sure it's not the only one

[@Atlas_high-gaming]

​@@gilliesiut2332You're thinking of the second world war

[@oli9881]

Canada during peacetime: "I'm sorry" Canada during wartime: "You're sorry"

[@ThepursuitofHappiness-fb8iy]

American : there's more than 4 genders

[@Sinjon_Dakin]

More like “you’re sorry?”

[@BigERacing]

@@Sinjon_Dakin Actually the question mark goes after the ".

[@chrisallain2908]

No no no, canadians during peacetime “i’m sorry” Canadians during war time “im sorry”

[@theoddfellow8106]

"I'll make you sorry"

[@canardcoincoin1582]

My theory is that Canadian are polite and expect reciprocity. If you broke peace and make them stand up from his warm and cozy chair. he'll make sure you never do that again.

[@TiL_Deimos]

@@canardcoincoin1582 we canadians are built around respect and tolerance for others. breach that tolerance and you will reap what you sow. 🇨🇦

[@electrochocc]

​@@TiL_Deimossadly, there are a lot of Canadians that breach that tolerance on a daily basis

[@goosefromcanada]

lol we’re having theories of war now

[@nephicus339]

Can confirm.

[@West-rn-showvn-ist-chick]

@@electrochoccIt takes a lot for us Canadians to be so called “intolerant”… 3rd and 4th generation Canadians who’s ancestors literally built up this country like many members of my ancestors, cleared the land for farming, built houses themselves, had absolutely no handouts.. plus paid taxes for generations and now we see immigrants coming in and receiving government assistance, huge grants and subsidies, driving new vehicles, and taking advantage of our welfare system! Of course we are fed up! They get more money in grants than Canadian citizens to open businesses or take over businesses and hire their family members who can barely speak the language! Cause housing shortages and rents to skyrocket!! Ffs! There’s a point where being too tolerant is detrimental! My blond kids are not going to get affirmative action or diversity hired!! We have every right to be absolutely pissed! We’re paying for their luxury!

[@GideonGrimmGaming]

Look, when you’re stuck being polite all the time and the only release is hockey, war ends up being a great anger management tool.

[@joesalyers]

This is a really underrated comment HAHAHAHA! Hockey its like Boxing with the bonus of a team sport on ice!

[@VesBox-s2g]

gotta take advantage of the power play

[@johnrandolph1989]

And remember, Deadpool and Wolverine are canonically confirmed Canadians.

[@K3ntucky123]

Trevor was canadian doe

[@Canadianvoice]

Long before it was a trendy movie too.

[@Canadianvoice]

Same with ryan renoylds the whole reason you have that greatneas.​@@K3ntucky123

[@Hrrrrrrrrrreng]

Fun fact: Super man was also originally written by a Canadian, and is based on Ontario. The Fraser valley is also referred to as “little Hollywood”

[@GizmoGary]

wolverine was a WW1 and WW2 veteran, he probably sliced up thousands of jerries

[@blueballs9712]

My great-uncle served with many Canadians in WW2. He said they were just built different. Any time we speak about his experience at war, he always brings up the Canadians. He still raves about how little they seemed to be bothered by certain horrific conditions. They just shrugged it off and kept moving. He jokes around sometimes and says they were like a bunch of lions who weren't afraid of gunshots. They went for the kill. "Brutal and respectable men" is what he says.

[@ELee-zv5ud]

That's because even as late as WW11 most of the population was rural, had survived the depression and worked in mines, farms, lumbering, fishing and so were used to very primitive living conditions, brutal winters and massive poverty. Only the strong lasted. Electricity had not arrived in much of the prairies or north until the 50s or later for the north. e.g., There were houses in Toronto no less that still had dirt floors until after WW11.

[@abelis644]

​@@ELee-zv5ud And we survive our brutal winters by helping each other. 6 months of cold toughen us up!!!

[@abelis644]

Don't forget our winters!!!

[@bollocks42o]

My Welsh grandpa decided to move to Canada after fighting alongside them in WW2 🥰 Happy to be born Canadian

[@anari234]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWLEqKp3nLqSqpo The Canadians Arrive.

[@Zhornax]

Canadians be like: "we're so sorry for being absolute killing machines".

[@youngdenard264]

Laugh in Operation Cottage

[@kylemackinnon5696]

Peace time: sorry aboot that War time: yer aboot ta be sorry

[@dillonoakes420]

No we're not

[@redline841]

Sounds like an insult lmao

[@PilotLieutenant1]

Not sorry, sōrry.

[@abouttime5000]

Many Canadian soldiers were frontiersmen and farmers, lumberjacks, trappers, construction workers, railroad workers, and they were simply tough as nails.

[@DaveGIS123]

In WW1, many Canadian soldiers were immigrants from Great Britain who still felt loyalty to the "mother country".

[@danielmcturk3961]

My Grandfather was a Major in WW2 and once told me that "War is terrible and should be avoided at all costs but when it is upon you do what it takes to get it done quickly and efficiently. Its not a game, there is no honor, just do the job. The longer a war goes on the worse the suffereing and collateral damage".

[@zxph]

Your grandfather is a wise man

[@WireHedd]

amen.

[@AllThatRemains5]

​@@zxphAgreed.

[@vanessajones4626]

Agreed

[@georgeprosser8959]

Fus sure. THANK-YOU.❤

[@echowhiskeylima5276]

I remember reading somewhere they were so vicious cause they viewed it as a job to get done and go home.

[@zerospace101]

Funny enough it was

[@DavidPhaneuf-Dorval]

I talked to a veteran once and told me the same thing!! He said I had a kid and a wife and I need to get out of here fast for them... So like a job you get up get it done and get back to my loved ones.. the stories of that man 😬😱😨

[@TheDanLevy]

Basically Wayne from Letterkenny. Finish up fighting this war & get back home for some choring 😅

[@louisdesautels8462]

If I was send in a contry far away to combat for the people who colonize me and my friend die in front of me, I wont let those German live one more then second. (Btw I'm Canadien)

[@1SilverDollar]

​I wonder if that job mentality didn't further fester the battle rage. Encouraged to be a gold soldier not because of glory or duty but because everyone deserves to get his work and come back able. Maybe just my brain overthinking but when others watch they buddies go down it shatters the glory mentality as the reality hits like a truck. 'My poor friend. We were supposed to march forth easily and become heros to our folks and the nation.' With a less righteous mindset it makes it less terrifying and more frustrating instead. 'He was supposed to do a tour and come home. Now the ijots gunned him down recklessly.' That kinda feeling could have made it more pertinent to take revenge and do finish the job because it's the _least you can do._

[@OnlyIfiCould]

I what I like to consider a side effect of holding all that anger in for such long periods

[@princeofpokemon2934]

The same can be said about other people such as the Americans and Europeans

[@bobthecomputerguy]

This can also be seen when they play hockey.

[@BeingSleepySucks]

If we didn't have hockey we would be bloodthirsty warriors. But with it we still are, just slightly more sated.

[@joshuaingram571]

That and a need to burn off pancakes and syrup.

[@DarthJarJar_542]

@@princeofpokemon2934no Americans love to go to war

[@adampatterson]

Many of the Canadian Devil's Brigade members were from Edmonton's Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. My Dads brother was in that infantry but not the Devil's Brigade.

[@paddington1670]

Never forget, Canada declared war on Japan after Pearl Harbor attack before the Americans did. Canada was already into it, and was willing to go all in, every time.

[@SnailOXD]

Canada: "we see where this is going, alright you're on Japan" US: "Wait Canada, we haven't declared war yet" Canada: "Yet :)"

[@kenk7282]

Canada declared war when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Pearl Harbour was over two years later, on December 7, 1941.

[@BlargKing]

@@kenk7282 Yeah declared war on *Germany* in 1939, not Japan.

[@lalitmehra4652]

Well canadians were with others in the commonwealth army with the brits so that explains a lot

[@TheRealAaronSmith]

​@@kenk7282try to follow along.

[@titojaeden]

Never ask a Woman about her age Never ask a man about his salary Never ask a survivng ww1 Canadian veteran what they did during WW1

[@Jet-ij9zc]

From the story told in this comment section it looks like a lot of them liked to talk about it lol

[@lorpal1]

WW1 vets would be over 100 years old…

[@TooTallDean]

The last Canadian WW1 died several years ago

[@walterholder6077]

Or 2

[@skybladebloodheart4247]

i think were out of those now actually.... last one died at the ripe old age of 109 in 2010

[@KS-xk2so]

I remember reading an account of when a German officer was captured, the Allies thought they had a spy in their midst, because the Germans had successfully predicted several Allied attacks along the trenchlines in a row.... when asked how the Germans could've known exactly where the Allies planned to attacked the trenches he simply replied "We knew wherever you put the Canadians was going to be where the push was."

[@J1407b_slugcat]

That’s actually wild-

[@bradkubota6968]

Yes, The Germans primary information they wanted from accross the front line was, "where are the Canadians". This became known to the allies and tried to use it for advantage.

[@pulleyfm8585]

Canada's forces had basically no conscripted soldiers in ww1 or ww2. Historically just surviving in Canada meant you had to be tough as nails and ultimately you had to help your community no matter the danger or self sacrifice involved. To not help people around you was literally not an option because everyone at some point needed something to just survive. When your military's backbone is that strong of a core belief in what they're doing AND then combine it with men that were already used to living in harsh conditions. When you have units built of that fortitude you're going to use them where they can be the most effective. Even with the world become more global and most nations seeing their historic values erode there's a lot of Canadians who went to the Ukraine to fight. Think Canada's third for men that went behind the US and Georgia but there's not much in it really.

[@reillysharp4890]

@@elliotsadowy1371I haven’t heard about dieppe in forever holy crap it’s been like 10 years

[@vernonmcphee6746]

@@bradkubota6968 My father was a WW2 Canadian veteran and part of the routine when their units were shifted they were ordered to remove all Canadian identifying badges/insignia precisely for that reason. Towards the end of WW1they secretly moved the Canadian Corps in a series of night marches to another section of the line miles away for the same reason so the Germans would think the attack was coming in the original location.

[@KwanzaaKalus]

*Look up "best sniper shots in the world" and 3 of the top 10 are Canadian.* Up until recently, the top shot record was also Canadian for 6 years. Our military is under-funded, but lean. We don't have fancy kit, but our soldiers are tough as nails. We train them so hard that the weaker ones drop out due to rhabdomyolysis.

[@UnlaunderedShirt]

Other NATO countries either send their troops to do SERE training in Canada under Canadian Forces, or contract our troops to go over there and train their special forces

[@KwanzaaKalus]

@@UnlaunderedShirt My buddy was in infantry and then transferred into intelligence, but while he was infantry, he told me that they would do exercises with Americans and a single Canadian platoon (30-40 dudes) would do circles around a American company (3 platoons, 100+ dudes). I don't like doing the "MY MILITARY IS BETTER THAN YOUR MILITARY" bullshit because it's no better than "MY DAD CAN BEAT UP YOUR DAD", but we have the numbers to back up Canadian military success with what little we have.

[@danb239]

As a Canadian who was in the Army it's sad to see other Canadians and Americans rip on our Army out of pure ignorance. Just because it is small dosen't mean it isn't respected. Some of the best snipers in the world are Canadian, Rob Furlong/ Dallas Alexander and his team had the records for longest confirmed kill. I know it was a long time ago but World War 1 Canada was BADASS, they were the first to get attacked by gas in the battle of Ypres, they had too piss on cloths so they could breath through them and repelled the attack. Battle of the Somme there was 1.2 million casualties in 5 months, Britain lost 57,000 troops on day 1, the most on a single day in Britain's history. Canada shows up and uses the creeping barrage for the first time, takes multiple positions and wins the battle. There was also Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele among others, pretty amazing for a Country fighting together for the first time as an independent military.

[@dippshow]

Thank you for your service buddy!

[@carlchong7592]

We're good shots because we're cheap on the ammo budget. C9 gunners quickly mutter "budget cut" as a guideline for how long a burst should be. Quickly say Budget Cut. That's how long you hold the trigger down for as a Canadian SAW gunner.

[@Orthanderis]

Interesting to note, JTF2 is widely considered the best search and destroy special forces in the world because that's all they specialize in. Navy seals, SAS, and other T1 groups are the best of the best but they also serve other functions; JTF2 purpose is singular; fly in via helicopter, kill everything, leave.

[@shortyipper]

@@sommebuddy YOu just have a massive hateboner for Canada don't ya bud? also @danb239 on the sniper note. A buddy of mine, one of his grandma's was teaching the boys how to shoot Nazi's in WW2. So in essence she's the grandmother of modern sniping.

[@danb239]

@@sommebuddy Please explain who won the battle of the Somme then if Canada didn't. It was a stalemate until the Canadians showed up. Canada captured strategic positions Courcelette, Theipval Ridge, Ancre Heights and Regina trench. They captured Desire trench on November 18th 1916 and that was the end of the battle. As for the creeping barrage, this is directly from a world war 1 historical website: Although considered as a battlefield tactic as early as 1915 (and initially deployed by Bulgarian artillerists during the Adrianople siege of March 1913) the so-called 'creeping barrage' was not actually deployed until August 1916 by the British (Sir Henry Horne) during the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front. I'm not saying they invented it but they were the first to successfully implement it and perfected it. The British and Henry Horne weren't successful in using it and had 419,000 casualties during that battle. I have never heard of the British using it during the Boer war, after some research it seems that this was the first use of the barrage and it was used as covering fire, not the same as creeping barrage. Calling my history abysmal while trying to diminish the accomplishments and valor of the Canadians who faught and died in world war 1 is truly pathetic and classless. I joined the Army when I was 18 and was in the same regiment as some of the men who faught in these battles, I really don't need a history lesson from a keyboard warrior.

[@paddington1670]

Dont forget, Canadians went further inland than any other army during the first D DAY landing, on the SECOND most difficult beach behind Omaha. The only country's army to complete their day one objectives.

[@D-6106]

We don’t like dying so if we make it so nobody wants to fight us we can stop mass death by simply joining the group chat as it were’

[@Wataru-Endo-Dragon]

We were also hitting the least fortified beach but ya it was pretty kewl

[@drippylad3973]

​@@Wataru-Endo-Dragon Canadian politeness

[@IntrebuloN]

@@Wataru-Endo-Dragon The video isn't really accurate anyways. Interviews with vets reveal we lost all our armour in the first hours and units got split up. Proceeded forward anyways forming ragtag squads using creative tactics and makeshift weapons to defeat enemy armour and emplacements. One vet in particular described run ins on foot with S.S units and over running them and catching officer posts off guard because of how quickly they proceeded forward.

[@joemac4533]

A short 6 year war lol

[@manks5491]

There's no in between with a Canadian. Either one of the nicest person you could come in contact with, or an absolute feral animal. Idk why we're like this but that's how Canadians are

[@danb239]

Some of the nicest people are actually animals as well, you just don't want to piss them off.

[@manks5491]

@@danb239 precisely

[@zerospace101]

Beware the quiet nice ones. They are the first to let that rage take over

[@rally_chronicles]

​@@zerospace101😶😈

[@Gabryal77]

We don't like bullies

[@mallowalt2240]

one of my great grandfathers was in the devils brigade, we still have his knife and stickers from the war. apparently, according to him, it turns out the phrase wasn't translated properly and further confused and terrified the germans. i remember foggy memories of hearing stories about them sneaking into camps after taking out their patrols, and then dispatching the sleeping germans in their camp. having those stickers haunted me as a kid, considering their implications. they'd be slapped on helmets placed on the heads of corpses. grim stuff.

[@Reapous]

A story I heard from the Devil's Brigade was during an operation where they had to scale a cliff/hill face, some members would slip and fall to their deaths. But instead of screaming, giving away their position during this covert mission, they just saluted and fell with silence into the depths below... Sounds like folklore, or tall-tales, but boy is it a good one.

[@ralphvelthuis2359]

Ive heard this was a true story.

[@jeanlannes4396]

There is a similar story involving soldiers of Alexander the Great, while he was subduing the Sogdians in what is now Afghanistan.

[@AnyEnglishWord]

MY GRANDPA WAS IN THE DEVILS BRIGADEEEEE

[@AnyEnglishWord]

@@ralphvelthuis2359my grandpa was in the devils brigade

[@HashknightGaming]

If you love your boys, you don't make a sound.

[@bredsheeran2897]

“Geneva Conventions” ❌ “Canadian and Polish Convention for the Safety of Others During War” ✅

[@ethanor]

Geneva Checklist

[@northamericanintercontinen3207]

@@ethanorchecklist ? THEN HOW THE HECK DO WE ADD THE NEW STUFF ? (Mexican ready to dish it out) Like waterboarding with live hand grenades

[@PlanetJohnny]

In Canada, it's the Geneva Leaderboard.

[@BloonHero666]

*Geneva Recommendations

[@Nick-mp1zh]

There are three things all wise men fear. The sea at storm, a moonless night... And the anger of a gentle man

[@Rafel_ll]

Kingkiller Chronicles? A man with taste I see...

[@ZatralTMF]

Alternatively: "demons run when a good man goes to war"

[@catalhuyuk7]

Should add, a woman’s scorn.

[@Nick-mp1zh]

@@catalhuyuk7 fair enough, my wife scares me more than most men I know.

[@catalhuyuk7]

@@Nick-mp1zh I understand, I’m a Canadian woman. ♥️🇨🇦

[@vrylox]

0:44 so thats where trudeau gets it

[@JoeRogansForehead]

I just said the same thing 😂 he was just cosplaying as a ww1 solider

[@sanatan_07712]

From castro 😅

[@ddoherty5956]

He's more of a tunnel rat if you know what I mean 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jacrispy1141]

He gets it from his cuban father

[@Baldmelon]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@jknowlesphoto2498]

My Grandfather (Canadian) was shot by a sniper in WW2 as he drove a motorcycle in a convoy. He hit the tailgate of the truck in front of him and woke up days later in a military hospital. He told me once that when they found the sniper (in a ditch) he had dropped his rifle and was laughing maniacally. When I asked what they did with him, he looked genuinely surprised at the question and said flatly - "they shot him."

[@pancakebuffalo.gaming]

I mean they're not lying, at the very end they DID shoot him, it's everything that happened between laughing and shooting that he left out 😂

[@frontdoor3417]

Id give you a funny look too ngl lol

[@DaveGIS123]

Snipers are almost always killed, no matter what side they were on. Snipers are universally hated. If caught, they were usually treated "In the 'traditional' way..."

[@metaford3746]

​​@@DaveGIS123yeah there even cases where if they spot the sniper location even if it only like one dude they would call in a airstrike instead of attemping to push torward him or counter snipe

[@KellyTour-d9s]

I have a brilliant picture of my gramps riding a Harley(I think) through Germany.,Machine gun in one hand and a cig in the other.Covered in unmentionable muck.

[@bluehealer81]

On my wife's side of the family, her great-great grandfather was a full-blooded Mohawk from Ontario. He fought at Vimy Ridge and was wounded charging a machine gun nest, he recovered and he went to re-enlist, but he was denied, not just for his injury, but also because it was discovered he was only 15 years old and had lied on his original application. Wow, right?

[@TheEDFLegacy]

Dayum. 😳

[@AaronCubitt96]

As an Ojibwe bear clan, yeah. straight 🪖 warriors

[@HughTube-ni6kb]

IN WW2 every single man capable in Curve Lake volunteered. Every single one. To join, they had to give up their status. What community was your ancestor from? I taught in Tyendenaga and served with several in the RCN and Army. No one is tougher than the Kanien'kehà:ka

[@henryhernandez46]

Good movie material. My respect

[@vazken9178]

And in 2024 we now have tampons in the men’s bathroom on military bases.

[@rlgmedia5364]

My grandfather was in the Canadian army from 1915 to 1919. He told me how in the last weeks of the war when the German lines were collapsing and the allies would need to run to keep up with the retreating German. According to him the Germans would leave men behind to ambush the Canadians even though everyone knew the war was almost over. So when the ambushers ran out of ammo or nerve they would try to surrender. In my grandfather's words "we didn't take prisoners"

[@guyperson754]

I’m Canadian as well. Your grandfather was a madman but also a fucking hero. I cannot imagine the horrors he must have gone through in that time and still make it home.

[@ACTUALLYRICH]

My great uncle was an officer in the war and grandfather a pilot based in Scotland flying for the CAF/RAF during ww2

[@jknowlesphoto2498]

That's when my grandfather was wounded by a sniper - chasing the Germans through Europe. He said they weren't even allowed to stop and help wounded civilians.

[@FundyisleLegacy]

I remember hearing a story about prisoners, they had two train loads of German prisoners, but only one train and a river near by to dump half the bodies in

[@FPVivid]

I think a lot of this is to do with Canada being Day 1 deployments in BOTH WW1 and WW2.. they fought the whole war.. i can see them being pictured as savages when they have multiple years under their belts by the time others joined

[@Noob-Toast]

People always forget that the second most deadly beach was Juno

[@tacolord4209]

Probably the deadliest for Germany, but german casualties were never counted for juno

[@jballan]

My great grandfather was shot in the face and just kept fighting, he thought it was only mud spray. Told us the story at thanksgiving in the early 2000s.

[@Orthanderis]

It's also important to note that, not only was it the second deadliest beach, it was the only beach that had to deal with an elite SS tank regiment, and it's also the only beach that accomplished it's 1st day objectives.

[@Brewskie86]

As everyone knows, the most deadly battle was the battle of Schrute farms.

[@ryantron9]

If I recall, didn’t the Canadians actually drive into Juno beach too far and had to go back?

[@jon9021]

I remember watching a documentary years ago. They had interviewed a WWI German veteran (this was in the 1970’s)..& they were scared of Canadian troops coming into the line..BUT if they heard the skirl of the pipes indicating a Canadian highland unit, they became TERRIFIED as they knew they would take no prisoners.

[@madisonrogers9575]

im proud to have served as 5th generation highlander

[@whoopass2rb]

@@madisonrogers9575 Thank you for your service! What an honour.

[@andrewdonatelli6953]

My great uncle was a Seaforth Highlander. He was killed in the final month of WW I. Friends from Belgium were the first to visit his grave in 2018, 100 years after he died.

[@andrewb9940]

bagpipes are the only instrument considered a weapon of war. ( scottish canuck )

[@HughTube-ni6kb]

A hundred years ago, a taste of the Claymore would cost you an arm and a leg.

[@Super_Canadian]

If it’s not Hockey season we gotta let all that pent up aggression out some how

[@AgentDan]

Oh no

[@HammerJammer81]

Well WWII began just before Hockey Season, can you blame us?

[@Super_Canadian]

@@HammerJammer81 these yanks don’t understand hockey, it’s like if it’s not football or McDonalds season lmao

[@silentstarproductions2469]

THIS IS SO TRUE!

[@PomaFan2]

Fu*ckin right 👍

[@alg94]

my grandfather was deployed on Juno beach on d-day. his name is included in a memorial nearby. visiting the memorial and seeing where he fought was a surreal experience when I was a teenager. he survived World War II, had 6 children and 11 grand children before he passed in 2007. he was a cool guy

[@HiimAbyss]

I grew up close to the Valcartier base in Quebec, so active-duty uniforms and veterans were a common sight in my city, Val-Bélair. As a teenager, I worked at a convenience store and had the privilege of meeting several WWII veterans from the R22ER and the 2nd Canadian Division during the mid to late 2000s and early 2010s. One WWII veteran, who must have been well into his 80s or even 90s at the time-I never asked-would come in and sit with me at night until closing. He shared incredible tales of the Canadians on D-Day. You could almost see the horrors he witnessed in his eyes as he told the stories. I learned more from that single man than I ever could from any video or history class. I wish I had asked for his full name so I could honor him properly in this comment. Rest in power Bob and thank you for your service.

[@QuitYoJibby-JabbinFool]

This is the single greatest comment here. RIP Bob 🙏

[@abelis644]

You should write down his stories, don't let them disappear!!!

[@HiimAbyss]

@@abelis644 Its been over 10 years ago, my memory is working agaisnt me lol. I dont think i would be able to do it justice.

[@HiimAbyss]

@@abelis644 Maybe i will

[@mr.jordwell9084]

Hey Raise my glass to Bob! and thanks for taking nightmares so the rest of us can dream.

[@VilleKristian-qj8fx]

"Remember no prisoners they will eat your rations"is wild 💀

[@TheDeadEyeSamurai]

"You'll have to share your poutine and Maple syrup." "I'll require all their blood in return."

[@kithkindeck]

@@TheDeadEyeSamurai Look man, if we only have enough syrup for one pancake, I'm eating that pancake or I'm eating you. That syrup is making its way into my body one way or another.

[@shorgoth]

You have to consider that our supply lines were across the atlantic and we got no help from France and Britain to take care of that and we were a much less industrialized country than the USA.

[@The_Foxy2039]

@@kithkindeckas a Canadian, I approve this message

[@djangel3108]

​@@sommebuddy As a Canadian who has ate and enjoyed Poutine several times, what?

[@etiennesharp]

Mike Myers: "Don't mistake civility for weakness. You do so at your peril"

[@ConfusedWonkie]

I was born and raised in Canada, I think it’s more like we enjoy the happy warm days with family and friends but if you break the peace then you have made us get up from our warm cozy lives… may God have mercy on you. We do not forget

[@mr.unoriginal5674]

Side note though my great great grandfather said “we were there to do a job and it was to kill not make friends..” Edit jeez 914 likes that’s more than I thought I’d get thanks!

[@Cuz.im.batman]

And now the Germans are our allies aka "friends" 🌈

[@onelowvdub]

but if needed we can flip the narrative ​@@Cuz.im.batman

[@peter9477]

​@@Cuz.im.batman but without the quotation marks.

[@Cuz.im.batman]

@@peter9477 nah we'll always have an eye on them

[@ummoof7069]

@@Cuz.im.batman Don't need to, they are owned just like the rest of us, that was the whole point of ww2 to bring Germany back under the heel of the internationalist, the only people keeping an eye on them are politicians and the same goes for us which is why we see outsiders flooding our lands and a massive drop in intelligence and masculinity so we could never revolt against those who seek to replace us lol

[@Goc4ever]

Well done Simple History, well done. The Canadians were often overlooked in history explanations and i'm so glad channels like you, Yarnhub, The Front and many others acknowledged their exploits in war time. Aside from their ruthlessness and efficiency as shock troops the Canadians made themselves known through acts of heroism like Léo Major who singlehandendly liberated the city of Zwolle and for being the most proactive in providing help for the Dutch and for giving sanctuary to the royal family of the Netherlands which led to the two countries to become close allies and friends.

[@jakecannanite4558]

He's honestly one of the reasons the Dutch are so friendly to Canadians (and why Americans put Canadian flags on their backpacks)

[@sommebuddy]

And Dieppe, where they lost the bulk of their force in a poorly led raid, or the advance to Caan, where their screwups allowed thousands of Germans to escape the Falaise pocket....be truthful about history.

[@Da_Rivulet]

Yarnhub mentioned Day significantly improved

[@ViratKumarSingh-zv6ey]

Yarnhub rocks

[@OTDMilitaryHistory]

There are Canadians out there telling our stories. Just saying.

[@matthewrooke819]

It makes so much sense now why Wolverine and Deadpool are both Canadians.

[@matthewcao2279]

Isn’t Wolverine Australian?

[@miguelsuarez1842]

@@matthewcao2279actor yes - Comic book Lore no

[@NowYaKnow965]

@@matthewcao2279He's from a small town in the middle of nowhere. Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada.

[@zdvxr]

@@matthewcao2279Wolverine is from northern Alberta and Deadpool is from Regina.

[@joshwall6960]

Ha cold lake of all places ​@NowYaKnow965

[@keithbezanson1990]

Great uncle Herb Pepper from Truro NS was part of the first devils..... R.I.P passed away in 2018 I do belive at age 98

[@silentstarproductions2469]

As a Canadian, this might be my new favourite Simple History video!

[@DarthJarJar_542]

Same here

[@KMDragonS]

🇨🇦 Here here

[@thewafflegamer6152]

same over here

[@etherealessence]

War crimes? Or were we just so good at war that they made it illegal? You decide.

[@uberschnilthegreat22]

Canadian gang

[@DPCP-h9u]

Canadians in peace: "Lovely morning, eh?" Canadians during war: "PEACE WAS OPTIONAL! AND SO WAS MY MERCY!"

[@cyber1ifeconnor]

Bro 😂 thats so good!

[@bluenine85]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE, PANCAKES FOR THE PANCAKE STACK

[@Elemblue2]

You can only afford to be nice if you can pay the toll. The toll is the opposite.

[@wcjerky]

"Lovely mourning in the morning, eh?"

[@mr.jordwell9084]

​@@bluenine85 Guardsman: CADIA STANDS! Canadian Soldiers: CANADIA LAUGHS!!! ... wait... Major are supposed to take prisonners. Major: You keep it, you feed it! Canadian Soldiers: No one.. NO ONE TOUCHES MY MAPLE SYRUP!!!

[@kayleavansolkema8752]

My grandfather fought in WWII. He lied about his age and joined the airforce at 16. At 18 he was in a plane that somehow had something on fire on the wing. They were flying somewhere towards England. He CLIMBED OUT OF THE PLANE and ONTO THE WING mid flight and kicked the burning thing off and stopped the fire, then returned to his position. He told other stories too, but this one happened to be a big deal and the Montreal Gazette even published an article about it! Edit - I called my dad and he elaborated: a light exploded inside the plane and landed on the gas tank. Grandad kicked it off the gas tank but it was still in the fuselage. He somehow got it out, but the side of the fuselage was on fire. At this point he was using a fire extinguisher on the flames on the fuselage, hanging out of the body of the aircraft. The article was called 'Ahuntsic Flier Proves Heroic' - 1940 publication.

[@ma77bc]

I had a neighbor who also lied about his age to join the Air Force. He was a gunner, and luckily never needed to fire his guns. The one time he was going to fire his gun, it jammed... Which turned out to be a good thing, since the plane he was going to fire at was an ally, not the enemy. We only knew him for a couple years, but my dad used to go over almost every night to hang out with him, share a beer and listen to his stories. When my dad would walk into his house, he'd already have a beer waiting for him. He died at age of 92.

[@rainyee-pc5lf]

do you know what the article is called?

[@graceyjewels7148]

Talk about badass and brave! I guess you do what you need to do to live but that’s impressive!

[@chad1755]

No disrespect, but that did not happen. You can't climb onto a smooth wing with a 200mph wind pushing you off.

[@wilholmrykes6589]

@@chad1755Seconded. Unless you were harnessed to the plane in some way, you’d be blown right off the wing and, die. This is clearly just a tall tale.

[@wendellswendell2001]

Saskatchewan native here. We say "Quit when it's finished, not when you're tired"

[@Dreamer66617]

my grandfather drove a tank into D-day. he was an Olympic athlete and a black belt. When he had a heart attack he tried to fight the first responders, they had to tie him to the stretcher with sweaters. Absolute maniac. Loved that man so much. Yet he taught me all about baking and cooking...

[@graceyjewels7148]

Neat

[@alexanderleach3365]

In war, always respect the Canadians.

[@Trenchslammer5]

Cause if you don’t, they’re gonna use your blood as maple syrup

[@eaglewarrior7979]

Not anymore they’ve gotten soft. Same thing with America or any western country

[@GamerFrisco]

Why?

[@Ufgbja]

@@eaglewarrior7979 wanna go to war with em?

[@Bundysvideos]

@@eaglewarrior7979hi Putin puppet

[@BenKuyt64]

So back in high school, I had the chance to speak to a number of WW2 veterans (This was 2011, there was thankfully a large population of them in Canada still). When asked what it was like, the consensus feeling was they were doing a job as well as they could to just make it back home. One of them said "The other guys were doing the same, but we did our job better."

[@Jknight416]

7:01 Anyone noticed how that Piat in that Canadian’s hands suddenly magically transformed into a rifle the moment he started walking?

[@markorr999]

The First Special Service Force (Devils Brigade) was my uncle's unit. He won a Distinguished Service Cross. Orr, Ross, W. Staff Sergeant, Canadian Army Fifth Company, Second Regiment, Special Service Force Sate of Action: August 26, 1944 Citation: The distinguished service cross is presented to Ross W. Orr, Staff Sergeant, Royal Canadian Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Villeneuve-Loubet France on August 26th, 1944. When the only route for urgently needed supplies was cut off by three enemy machine guns emplaced along the road, Staff Sergeant Orr, without orders, elected to remove this obstacle. After selecting three men to provide covering fire, he approached alone to within seventy-five yards of the first gun. Armed with a submachine gun, he jumped into the middle of the road and demanded surrender. The enemy gunner immediately opened fire on him, but Staff sergeant Orr stood his ground and seriously wounded both of the crew with effective fire. Under continued assault by this four-man team, the other two machine gun crews finally surrendered, and the road was opened for desperately needed supplies. Soon afterward the fifth company occupied a castle on a hilltop to protect this supply route and Sergeant Orr immediately organized the area against counterattack. The enemy, two hundred strong, strove continuously and fiercely to dislodge his group from this stronghold. In the face of death-defying circumstances, Sergeant Orr with his submachine gun put an enemy machine gun which was covering an approaching demolition party out of action. The demolition party was dispersed with heavy losses by rifle fire and hand grenades effectively used under Sergeant Orr’s direction. In another similar counterattack, Sergeant Orr fired his submachine gun from a blazing barn into an attacking enemy formation. This attack was broken up and resulted in heavy losses to the enemy. Approximately one hundred fifty enemy losses were sustained during the day. A great many of these casualties were inflicted by Sergeant Orr and his platoon. His superb leadership and inspiring personal example throughout the battle were a major contributory factor in the destruction of the enemy defense line that seriously threatened to delay the advance of the entire regiment.

[@BrookieMacc]

That’s incredibly badass, glad I spent the time reading all that lol

[@infinitrixgaming4705]

It's thanks to heroes like that that we can live the life we are living right now, I hope he have and had a great life after the war! It's sad that we do not talk more about the war heroes of our own country and how they affected the way we can live now.

[@prodigaldog2747]

You forgot about Leo Major, who liberated the town of Zwolle single handedly, he captured 93 germans on his own. He was mad cause his friend died. One of 3 people who got the Distinguished service medal in 2 seperate wars

[@Xerxes7695]

Bro sounds like a Rimworld character.

[@watermeloneatergaming]

They did a whole video on that guy before kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3fJYoici8ZrgsU

[@skurt258]

​@Xerxes7695 it gets better... he lost his eye in the war and wore an eyepatch because "It makes me look cooler"... he broke his back, both ankles, and a few ribs and was put in a military hospital and told he was going to be discharged... where he proceeded to sneak out of the hospital and lived with a dutch family for a week... he then rejoined his battalion and volunteered to scout the city if Zwolle with his friend... which is when his friend was killed and he proceeded to take the entire city single handedly by using grenades to fake mortarfire and multiple stolen guns to fake reinforcements, all to inflict terror on the german soldiers... by the morning there were no german soldiers left in town... they all either died or fled in fear thinking the entire canadian army was storming the town...

[@Mr.Anders0n_]

​@@skurt258he was going to head to Berlin to capture it as well but he had run out of cigarettes... Aren't you confusing him with Rambo?

[@Stingzay_y]

​@@Mr.Anders0n_ Rambo is nothing compared to him

[@osseo9947]

My Grandfather (Canadian) was involved in Dieppe as an engineer, he avoided conversations about the war and stated it wasn't anything to brag or be proud about.

[@Jett-jbk]

love seeing people talking about our country!

[@bblvrable]

You don't go undefeated in war by playing by 'rules'. You go undefeated in war by making your enemies fear you more than death itself.

[@Gameprojordan]

What an ignorant statement that psychopaths have used time and time again through history to justify their attrocities. I guess you support the Mai lai massacre in Vietnam since that was a shock and awe tactic to scare the enemy except it resulted in an entire village of innocent people being wiped off the face of earth

[@runner3033]

There's only one rule in war - don't lose.

[@darkspire6666]

Well said eh

[@JohnYourMama]

you win by completing the geneva to do list

[@Bumblebee2361]

And that's how you get charged for war crimes.

[@juice6199]

Theres an anger that comes with being kind and patient most of the time.

[@TLHockeyCards]

Facts

[@AegixDrakan]

"Demons run when a good man goes to war" is the saying. Because when a patient and polite person snaps, they can go several bridges too far.

[@mr.jordwell9084]

Or when Hockey is over... and you ran out of maple syrup

[@joshjonson2368]

So kind they're giving their own population assisted suicide while moving in millions of indians 😂

[@ArchonKain]

Great granddad was a pilot, had horrible PTSD but he flew 93 missions and came out of every single one of them with multiple takedowns and confirmed, took out German train supply lines. He died of old age on Canadian soil, what he did was nothing short of incredible, but I wouldn't wish any human walk in his shoes, he told my grandma that he had to just forget about having friend "The next time you'll see them, they'll probably be a smoke trail headed towards the ground" cannot imagine the mental torment like that.

[@logarithmic7]

Grandpa saw the irony of terminating 36 supply trains only to end up surviving a deadly train crash in Canada 44 years later. As he jumped from the twisted flaming railcar, the only thing that broke his fall was a massive pile of wheat ironically in which he'd spend farming in SK post the ww2.

[@alexlupei1228]

Maybe it wasn't irony - maybe it was your grandpa's Maker talking to him. As in: yes he took many lives... but then he spent the rest of his life growing living things (plants of wheat), which keep people alive (people gotta eat). Maybe he was given a second chance and also was shown why, at the same time

[@arrow-lo7jf]

The commander of the Canadian Corp,Sir Arthur Currie said it best,there can be no half measures in war, its all or nothing and anything wearing a uniform is fair game,there are no rules in war after that gas attack, that is not war, that is chemists killing men with no honor,I think that is when the rule book went out the window,people also have to realize they were attack troops and did not have time to take prisoners,something I firmly agree with,the worst war is, the sooner it will end,making rules in war would just make us grow to fond of it,it needs to be brutal. Canada, I salute you.

[@Unwise-]

I'm a Canadian with many great uncles and a couple of grandfathers that fought in "The War" with stories of even more from the first. What I heard is that Canadian troops may have been less merciful because they were so far from home. They were among the first from overseas to fight in Europe, soon after UK in both wars, and it was a faraway exotic place for early 20th Century young men. There was no going "home" on leave, not until after the war was over, some were there for years on end unlike many of their British allies. Plus they were often used as cannon fodder on the front lines. They basically wanted to end the war ASAP and many weren't ready to take breaks or indulge in the niceties of civility in war that was en-vogue in Europe. Some of them may not have had the same gentlemanly aspirations although certainly a minority went as far as commit war crimes.

[@gabrielgboucher6546]

And people from farm and I talk from experience are juggernaut in terms of strength this makes them killing machine with all in one.

[@jaquigreenlees]

@@gabrielgboucher6546 well du-uh, the work day starts before sunrise and ends at sunset, there is no weekend or holiday time. Life on a farm pre wwII was manual labour until the job was done. Take that work ethic in a work hardened body and give them the job of killing enemy troops, you have the perfect base for a terrifying trooper being given the weapons and job to kill enemies. Growing up on a pig farm, if we weren't in school we were either feeding / watering the pigs or shovelling the pig crap from dawn to dusk.

[@iyam7852]

Its like that one friend that is super kind but not to be messed with when mad

[@LAB3NTLEY]

🤣🤣

[@everybody48]

as a Canadian i am that friend

[@catalhuyuk7]

I think our rage is just below the surface waiting patiently for a chance to escape. ♥️🇨🇦

[@TuberTugger]

I'm not polite because I'm nice. I'm polite because you damn well also be polite.

[@Koalalover70]

As a Canadian I can confirm that we go berserk

[@Nemy_Pred]

I concur.

[@stuartpostma8244]

This Canadian can confirm this

[@EPICtimPogwater]

So real

[@youngdenard264]

Quebec dude are the fighter,Anglo are the femboy who shoot each others

[@markbrown9558]

Canadian and going beserk on this comment.

[@Andrew-gn9qp]

Canada in World War II was English Protestant with a French Catholic minority, a loyal British dominion, with one of the largest navy on Earth. Canada today is not the same.

[@marcleslac2413]

Canada in peace: sorry, to hit you, no im sorry. Canada in war: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLLLLAAAKKKESSSS!!!

[@dcamaro0173]

Valid point also to add Canada in peace "hello how are you? What a fine day" Canada in war: "pave my path with corpses, build my castle with bones"

[@thesnowmexican763]

Historically accurate, Canada believed in Chaos before GW made it cool

[@ZagstrakEadSmasha]

We'z are more Orks den Spikie boyz as we enjoy krumpin gitz wif big dakka and krumping gitz in da funniest ways possible. WAAAAAAAAGH!

[@marcleslac2413]

@@thesnowmexican763 if nato article 5 happens, eastern european nato members and canada itself are the most likely to summon khorne demons

[@notsure6915]

Aksho kharneth akhash

[@Karen-p9t5g]

Independent thinkers. The crazy thing so many of our soldiers were in their mid teens, not hardened men. A lady friend of my mother was a 15 year old prairie girl, she volunteered to help. Declined she took a train to Montreal, was declined again. Worked on a ship to England, offered again to work, this time she lied about her age. She was accepted to drive ambulance in France on the front. Survived the war, was a total force to be reckoned with.

[@VojvodaSloboda]

I got a few names for you which you might find interesting to learn about. -Milunka Savic. Most decorated female soldier in history, achieved in ww1. -Dragoljub Jelicic. Child soldier who was awarded the rank of Lance Corporal at 14 years old by the King himself. -Momcilo Gavric. Corporal at 8 years old, Awarded by Legendary Field Marshall Misic.

[@brendensangster3571]

My dad was from a farm town in rural Ontario lied about his age at 15 and joined the infantry. I grew up in Bew Brunswick hard military and joined aswell. Definitely repressed anger in. My whole family haha.

[@mayththemyth]

The fact you didnt mention Leo Major is criminal

[@gagestandingready1472]

Nobody would believe it lol!!

[@InterventionIV]

Leo major was WW2

[@gagestandingready1472]

@@InterventionIV Didn't watch the whole video huh?

[@jasompinard4576]

The deadliest sniper in WW1, Francis Pegamegabow. Survives the war with over 400 confirmed kills. The guy was a legend

[@christianlapierre9155]

Or the "Van doos" 😉

[@atealab6152]

Thank you Solid Snake for the history lesson.

[@fatherobama7658]

We say sorry now so we don’t need to do it later.

[@288theabe]

Pre-emptive sorry 😂😂

[@Cuz.im.batman]

We've been apologizing for almost 80 years... when does it end.

[@mzdtmp2]

Don't lie, ya'll say "sore-ey", not sorry. 😋

[@idkidk2459]

You had me at brass knuckles. That has to be the most badass wartime weapon ever. Especially when the enemies have firearms.

[@TuberTugger]

Lefty and Righty never run out of bullets and never jam.

[@ovskii96]

Canuck here. Early on in WWI, Canadians had to dig their trenches mostly with their hands because the shovels they were sent *had a giant hole in the middle* (the shovel heads were supposed to be used as "rifle shields", but were useless as shovels and shields). So yeah, the Canadians were *very pissy* after this.

[@EeveetoUmbreon25]

"I spent 6 hours digging this trench with my bare hands, im not letting someone take it from me"

[@alphaallnightgaming7885]

That’s a cruel joke lol, “ here! We’ve got these brand new shovels to dig trenches, we put a hole in them so they’d be more useful!” Lmaooo

[@ovskii96]

​​​@@alphaallnightgaming7885It actually was. A lot of historians think the Shield-Shovel was a money-making scheme at the expense of the soldiers, because the shovels had no practical use besides breaking up dirt for hand-scooping.

[@TuberTugger]

@@EeveetoUmbreon25 You want me to dig a trench with my bare hands? I'll take their trench instead, with my bare hands.

[@FPVivid]

the MacAdam shovel! kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6fYi5lqq5mAgrc

[@PublisherGatineauHills]

Canadian here. I think the reason is because we just want to get it over with so we can get back to living our lives.

[@NoobZxReviewZ]

My grandad William "Sam" Magee was a veteran of the Devils Brigade. He fought on Monte La Difensa and used to tell me stories about it (with some details removed like slitting throats and killing people). Major thank you to this channel for giving his unit its well deserved props.

[@jeffvalley3363]

Bless him❤❤

[@adamleblanc5294]

The main reason Canadians got a reputation for not taking prisoners, particularly at Vimy Ridge, was because they were often the first wave to reach the enemy lines. It was often impossible for them to actually take prisoners, because when one group of Germans were trying to surrender, there would be another a couple hundred meters away still shooting at them. In those types of situations, it's impossible to actually safely take a POW.

[@gung2549]

As a Canadian if I was forced to fight for some euros I wouldn't take prisoners either. Would never give my life for Europeans though

[@yermom014]

@@gung2549 There wasn't any forcing, Canadians were still quite loyal to the UK and saw it as an obligation.

[@fdgod1931]

Just like the people France in a Revolution you don’t mess with Canadians in War.

[@Ironknuckle100]

French people fighting other people = hello kitty. French people fighting other French people = the expendables. -Heavenly Father

[@fdgod1931]

@@Ironknuckle100 i was waiting for that reference.

[@Ironknuckle100]

@@fdgod1931 happy to oblige.

[@youngdenard264]

@@Ironknuckle100you should learn about the “Furia Francese”

[@Ironknuckle100]

@@youngdenard264 I tried googling it but all I got was the meaning of the words individually. Fury and belonging to France. I think. Ok what’s it about?

[@nicholas8228]

As a Canadian veteran I’d say one of the biggest stories that could describe our tenacity is the story of Leo Major Look up “the one eyed scout who liberated a whole town by himself” if you are interested

[@CaeridLock.]

David currie, Aubrey cosens, smokey Smith, George topham, tons of real stand up gents out there

[@JayLee-od8ob]

Plenty of bayonet charge stories of little or no ammunition remaining. Stories of popularizing cqc with shotguns and crude hand tools. Very sad stories mostly.

[@uberreaktor4836]

They usually transfer their anger and hatred to the geese. Bit problematic to do that when you're overseas.

[@hamaljay]

Cobra chickens.

[@LM-oi3sf]

The only crime against humanity we would never commit is unleashing our geese on the enemy.

[@mikeramone003]

Release the Geese!

[@isabelleblanchet3694]

@@LM-oi3sf The attack cobra chicken are way too dangerous for the world. We like to keep them secret, as our ultimate weapon.

[@LM-oi3sf]

@@isabelleblanchet3694 We occasionally use them as anti aircraft weapons, but no-one suspects a thing, shhhh

[@PelsckoPolesko]

Don’t forget that most Canadians were fighting as brothers and fathers, family members seeing each other die to German machine gun fire, that also fueled their vengeance

[@thesolargamer9751]

especially in the maritime provinces (nova scotia New Brunswick etc)

[@FKamau]

That explains a lot.

[@Frostfirerotation]

Aaaaand what did you think half the of the German conscripts were?

[@PelsckoPolesko]

@@Frostfirerotation obviously brothers and fathers. I never said they weren’t?

[@Frostfirerotation]

@@PelsckoPolesko So the real question is, why didn't the Germans act the same way then? Considering they're utterly vilified in every other instance.

[@VigilanteAgumon]

You also have to remember that Canadians (as British North Americans) managed to set Washington D.C. on fire during the War of 1812.

[@Daniel2k25]

I was reading about this lately and if I recollect / understand correctly there was a huge element of British distracting in this instance and it was not Canadian ingenuity or force alone that got them there.

[@Daniel2k25]

also, Canada obviously did not exist and saying it's Canada is disingenuous with that in mind I have heard a large number of New Brunswickers even, who may have technically been Nova Scotians at the time, travelled by walking to take part

[@danb239]

​@@Daniel2k25Canada wasn't a country until 1867 and was a colony so of course it was considered the British.

[@ChineseChicken1]

That very night a hurricane came through and put the fires out as well as scattering the British Army.

[@cyber1ifeconnor]

​@@ChineseChicken1so only the forces of nature could hold them? Cool 😂

[@parvish6960]

Europa: The Last Battle is the best WW2 documentary ever. Heavily censored.

[@Atlas79115]

This is why I found it hilarious when Obama famously said " I don't find Canadians to be particularly scary." He is obviously not a student of history. There's a reason why they are polite most of the time, because when it's time to go to war all that pent up rage can finally be released. Mistaking kindness for weakness is the gist of it.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Canadians of today are a far cry from their ancestors. The odds of suburban and urban Ontario or B.C youth taking up arms to defend their nation is laughable. There are no arms anyway.

[@ryyzan3055]

I find it funny how you’re obsessed with Obama enough to mention him on a video about Canada, a whole eight years after he left office. Like you’re obsessed fam. You ok??

[@Thalanox]

​@@ryyzan3055 He's one of the most recent three presidents of our neighbors down south. Why should he be considered an irrelevant cultural measurement stick?

[@toaster3822]

He is an idiot

[@idrinkbreastmilk2883]

​@@ryyzan3055he holds the record for most bombs dropped on Syria and won the noble piece price somehow

[@dancampbell189]

You've got a country where it snows half the year, every settlement is remote, and most of it is less than two generations from being hewn out of the wilderness. Then you take all the boys from the farms, mines, logging camps, and indigenous reserves, send them thousands of miles from home, throw them into a muddy ditch, and tell them "When all the guys in that ditch over there are dead, you get to go home." What else did you expect?

[@sourloaf]

> every settlement is remote What? Canada has several major cities. Toronto is the 4th largest city by population in North America, Montreal the 9th, Calgary the 19th, Edmonton the 26th, Ottawa the 29th. 90% of Canadians live within 160 kms of the US border. The vast majority of us aren't living in remote wilderness. > most of it is less than two generations from being hewn out of the wilderness Again, what? Two generations is 20 to 30 years ago. Canada became a country 157 years ago with colonies predating that by centuries. You got the snow right at least.

[@dancampbell189]

@@sourloaf - How did you miss the references to trench warfare? Obviously I'm describing conditions during the Great War

[@SmallScreenCo]

@@dancampbell189 Your comment invoked the time of The Great War no problem. I don't know how Sourloaf missed it unless they just read the first sentence, got excited to correct you and didn't finish reading.

[@ak-gp6ug]

@@sourloaf now. this was a 100 years ago buddy

[@blackwavearcade3ms]

lol what?

[@M0J4-XD]

Make fun of the Canadian army all you want. Just remember, we never lost a war. Edit: It's ironic how i started ww3 in the replies 💀

[@TRUMPONTHEGO]

Facts

[@zdvxr]

We have small numbers of soldiers but historically that hasn’t stopped us at all from completing our objectives

[@psssshhh7730]

Didn't we the independence war twice?

[@M0J4-XD]

@@psssshhh7730 im pretty sure we just asked and got it.

[@sarahk8637]

Lost in Afghanistan, just ask the Talibans who now rule it.

[@scout8490]

Either way we are going home. Cheers boy's having a beer 🍺 for ya

[@zacharygriffin2041]

You should have mentioned the Battle of Dieppe, the precursor to D-Day. Despite heavy casualties and an overall failure, some Canadian units actually achieved their objective. Without the lessons learned at Dieppe the allies wouldn’t have properly prepared for D-Day. I mean Dieppe deserves its own video.

[@smithy86]

My grandpa fought in dieppe one of the lucky few to escape, then later fought on Juno and went on until the end of the war

[@MrDiddlebug]

The crappy part was that the entire thing was basically a test run, and Canadians were once again picked to be the Guinea pigs. I can somewhat understand why, because Canadian ground troops hadn't really done as much up until then (unlike the RCAF), but it does make us feel a bit like an afterthought, eh? Ah, colonials.

[@OTDMilitaryHistory]

@@smithy86 Did he move from a 2nd Division unit to a 3rd Division one? That would have had been the case for that to happen.

[@Chr1s-fm6bi]

You need to read about Leo Major. He was John Wick’s grandpa.

[@gavinl1565]

They already did a video on him.

[@inputnamehere1]

My uncle visited France often in the 70s and the 80s, and he would regularly drink for free or have his restaurant tab taken care of when an old timer heard his French Canadian accent because a lot of them knew someone that was rescued by our people in WW2, if not themselves.

[@eastvandb]

Yeah, my father did his post-doctorate in the Netherlands in the 50s. He was sometimes embarrassed to say he was Canadian because everyone would insist on buying him drinks. (He missed the draft by six or seven months, so he had not been there during the war.)

[@williamschweitzer6910]

It's our way of relieving the stress of being polite all the time.

[@richardshort3914]

For about the 10th time I compliment your weapons advisor for his accuracy. At 1:41 you show a No. 3 Ross rifle fitted with a scope. They had been withdrawn from service due to susceptibility to jamming caused by the muck of the battlefield, but were the preferred weapon of Canadian snipers due to their outstanding accuracy.

[@Pyromania717]

Fun fact: one of those snipers, Francis Pegahmagabow, was the deadliest sniper of WWI, ranks as the 3rd deadliest sniper in history, and was the most highly decorated aboriginal soldier in Canadian history

[@theodorebricker7492]

@@Pyromania717 The Ghost in the Trenches!

[@adamscott7354]

@@Pyromania717 3 Day Road

[@troystevens1976]

I learned to shoot with one of these guns. The recoil feels like a sledgehammer and every other gun I’ve fired since feels like a shoulder tap in comparison.

[@badgermacleod5588]

The Ross was fine on the range, but in service it was terrible rifle. It was quickly replaced by the Lee Enfield.

[@michiganmafia]

Heres a shocker, people who grow up and live in a rough environment and work hard to survive tend to make good soldiers. Obviously this doesnt apply to most modern Canucks, or Americans, but back then people had to work a lot harder in general, even in a nice climate

[@fastestdino2]

I agree for sure with people who live in our cities (cough cough Toronto/Montreal/Ottawa). I think our rural areas and smaller cities have a lot stronger people and natural fervor though.

[@michiganmafia]

@@fastestdino2 For sure, Im a born and raised farm boy, and I have respect for anyone who knows the true meaning of a hard days work

[@ChristopherLaHaise]

We still have JTF-2, the elite squad that the Navy SEALS defer to in war.

[@jasonbrisco]

Rural reserve units, to this day, out perform urban units...

[@Ayden-vi1io]

Why tf you throwing shade at Americans?

[@AgxntAqua]

Pops raised me not to start a fight but make sure to finish it. Seems like that’s how most of Canada sees things. 😂

[@beneque79]

We like our peace, very much!

[@owenmasters5208]

Can confirm

[@michaelbujaki2462]

My parents taught me something similar. Their parents taught them the same lesson.

[@trent2kg813]

also raised with strict manners

[@Lukewarmbec]

My parents told me the exact same thing and I’m Canadian too! 😂😂

[@CaptainRandus]

As both my wife and I are decedent's of war veterans including the first and second WW and Korea, I never got to meet my grandfather in person about Korea but have been told indirect stories about how fierce Canada fought in it, and had my wife's grandfather confirm rumours of WWII. When her and I were engaged i used to sneak coffee into him at the care home he was then residing at and was blessed with the incredible honour of being one of his pallbearers during his funeral (note: the coffee was a treat, he lived into his late 90s. He was a hero He was special to me because he was the only vet between my wife and I that I got to know personally in my adult years. My great grandfather was one of the ones who lied about his age to be allowed to join the army during the great war, and sadly passed in the 90s. In his elder years, he had broken his leg working the yard in the winter, and finished shoveling snow out of the 500m driveway before a hospital trip. Canada definintely cared more about coming back home sooner than later, and they made sure the world knew it.

[@robertreid9720]

Germans: What are you, special forces? Canadian: No, im just an outdoor enthusiast.

[@mr.jordwell9084]

Canada: is that an intervention UN? UN: No, it's a convention... the Geneva Convention. You got to stop those war crimes. Canada: Geneva what now? *Stabs a German prisoner*

[@pseudopetrus]

True, Canadians are very patient, and really try to be nice, but we expect the same, and if we don't get that, all bets are off.

[@christopherbataluk8148]

One of my mothers cousins suffered from lung injuries suffered from mustard gas for the rest of his life. It's accurate to say the Canadian soldiers were upset about gas attacks.

[@michaelbujaki2462]

To the average Canadian soldier, Fritz Haber was a major jerk.