WW2 Marine Remembers His First Combat Experience on Okinawa / Remember WWII With Rishi Sharma

[@mountainman4987]

This old hero is one helluva BAD ASS! Don't make em like this anymore! Thank you for your service sir! 🫡

[@mikecook8712]

They do, but their in the s.o.g.

[@PelicanIslandLabs]

This guy is a hard core and real hero!

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

Amen.

[@markpaul-ym5wg]

This guy looks and acts just like my uncle who was in the army and served in New guinea and the phillipines.He lived to the age of 95,and passed away in 2004.What a character he was,and I truly miss him.

[@TCHING25]

Thank you so much for your service sir. It's a privilege to hear your story

[@jameshuff8763]

The greastes generation to ever walk this earth. Thanks to all the WW2 vets who saved the world. That was the last war we had any business being involved with.

[@garymckee8857]

Outstanding old MARINE

[@Shogunslossy]

Anyone else here because of Shane Gillis?😂😂

[@BrianCrane-lm7dl]

I am!!!

[@zacstarkey1369]

What an recommendation from Shane

[@eazypeazy33]

F yes!

[@Aaronlovesmusic970]

Bet your ASS lol

[@Shrimpfish666]

Absolutely and it's chefs 💋

[@zmanthemercenary5378]

God bless this wonderful man. America was built on the backs of men like this.

[@Anon-yl7dl]

The GOAT. Salute from all the DAWGZ! 🫡 S.O.D.T.A.O.E 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Cam_88]

🫡

[@ChancetheCanine]

I really like this vet! Of all the interviews with the service men this has to be the best!!!

[@thestone46]

Thank you Sir For defending your Country.. And Thank you GOD for for this Wonderful, Brave, MARINE!

[@J23-o7u]

This old dude has the best story I’ve heard about the war and I’ve watched dozens of them wow unbelievable this dude was business!!!!!

[@thomasgonzalez7133]

This video has special significance for me as my grandfather was in the 6th Marine Division. The last Marine division to be formed in WW2. The only US Marine Division to never set foot in the United States. Formed on Guadalcanal and service ending/disbanded in China after the war. Encourage you to search The Sixth Marine Division Association for more information.

[@Naltddesha]

Interesting

[@XHollisWood]

Thank you for your service, courage and sacrifice ❤🇺🇸

[@briancooper2112]

I lived in Okinawa because dad was in USAF. Beautiful country.

[@johndilday1846]

Thank you for your service, sir!

[@russm535il]

Thank you for your service sir ! My father Nicholas J Dejulio was a Navy surgeon on Okinawa and Guam . Unfortunately he never spoke about it before he passed in his 80’s . Russ Dejulio Pittsburgh PA

[@EbolaSquirrel]

This man is an incredible story teller, what a gift to hear his stories.

[@robertspoon8497]

Thank you for your service you and others that severed with you will alwase be my and our heroes

[@brightman2011]

Thank you for your service. Unfortunately I could not hear the interviewers questions

[@suspicioustumbleweed4760]

Turn it up

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

WALTER VINCENT FELIPEK INTERVIEW (USMC) 00:00:00 warning 00:00:16 trailer 00:01:02 Walter's USMC company 00:01:19 LCVP 00:02:20 spider hole 00:02:56 Kentucky Windage at 500 yards 00:03:56 reality of combat + banzai attack + the ole saying 00:06:05 dud grenade from entrenched enemy + sugarloaf hill attack, equipment, strategy and prep + bloatflies 00:10:16 saving squad leader + spider hole + Walter's injury 00:13:15 unwanted visitor with FNGs 00:15:00 90 day wonder 00:16:14 Okinawa naha with prisoner + japoneses faking 00:20:50 You don't know until you're there + I never worried 00:22:14 Sargeant and the hole 00:24:02 Japanese Propaganda and collaboration + sanatorium + cave with sardines 00:27:02 FNGs learn from Walter's combat experience + hara-kiri 00:30:22 IA Shima + Okinawa + Zero Pilots 00:33:40 Japanese using USMC weapons, ammo, combat tactics, tanks 00:36:25 found Hara-kiri knife + sleeping in tombs + kamakazi attacks + helmet shower + law of survival 00:45:35 Bronze star story 00:46:06 spider hole definition 00:47:13 receiving the bronze star 00:50:40 family and backstory + training before the war + Woodrow Wilson HS + boot camp 00:57:40 Guard duty + Col. Bulldog 00:59:20 Marine Reunion 01:00:06 Walter's amazing joke

[@macmccollum6064]

Very interesting. Thanks for your service.

[@markpaul-ym5wg]

My uncles worked in Beckley WV in the coal mines.Howard married a girl from charmco WV. named Patricia Ann Lockhart. Another uncle of mine married a gal also from Berkley WV. named Doris L. Hopkins. What a crew they were.My other other who were among my uncles,were all brothers. Jessie Clyde stover was captured at Normandy, then sent to dresden and was in the slaughter house 5 barracks.He and 2 others excaped,and walked for 3 days to American lines.There,they told the soldiers where the allied troops were.😊😊😊

[@bilbobaggins7467]

Some 1 said they wish they could be half the man he once was.....I say no u wish u were half the man he is now.

[@NotOnDrugs]

i bet he still fucks. for hours. my grandfather was in the pacific on a destroyer in ww2. he never talked about it much, because i was young. wish he was still around. had a cousin that was a MACVSOG guy in 'nam. he'd smoke him some crack & tell me some CRAZY shit. his crack-smoking girlfriend ended up taking him out w/ a fuckin lamp one night........fighting over crack. lol. sad. he was a hell of a dude.

[@Townsendcat2]

This dude reminds me of my grandpa. I miss him so much and their stories are very similar. Only he was on the Ryan river campaign in Germany. I think of him just about every day they don’t build them like these men anymore.?!!!!!!💯✊

[@coltonbrandt1121]

My great grandpa was on that same campaign, he ended up liberating dachau

[@martylost167]

Thank you Mr. Filipek for telling it the way it was and not sugar coating it. My grandfather was in Europe and my father-in-law was in Asia. Both talked very little about the war and didn't want to go back to the death like you talked about. Each of them would touch on the horror, but not go into many details. I regret not recording them, but death never leaves you, you can only leave death. When you really go back and concentrate on the details, time slows down and then I go blank. I guess that's to protect yourself. Yes, there are times you see the blood squirt, victim going into shock and then others I don't. New life replaces some of the bad and the next sunny day brings new. You turned it loose and have 94 years of the past behind you. It's mind blowing to think about what you have seen, done, experienced and lived, but God has forgiven you and left you with your mind. Be proud and teach people.

[@markpaul-ym5wg]

Death smiles at all of us.All we can do is smile back!

[@martylost167]

Good one, thanks.@@markpaul-ym5wg

[@ChancetheCanine]

@@martylost167Gladiator 😊

[@markpaul-ym5wg]

@@ChancetheCanine YEP

[@Cam_88]

Hey Shane!! Your favorite veteran is back!! Hell yeah, where my dawgs at!?!! 12:15 😂

[@bda2444]

Semper Fi _ daughter of spearhead 5th marine div, iwojima. Purple heart. Wva cowboy, cherokee mix and mountain farmer _ musican and father of 9. Sniper shot after a long march. He was commander of the vfw until his death. Much respect sir. Freedom isn't free.

[@hoiyeeau1240]

Thank you so much for the precious interview Rishi. ❤

[@789stv]

What a hero and a tough soldier. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Slay-m1u]

Thank you for the freedom we enjoy today rest your soul

[@Woppa-xl7jk]

Does it irritate anyone else this dude doesn’t put the veterans name in the description? Like I feel like he should let people know who he is he’s a fkn hero man I wanna know who he is

[@tomroberts9794]

Thank you for your service sir!

[@andylawson87]

Fantastic account. My father was also in the 6th Marine Division on Okinawa. He was with the 6th Engineering Battalion Charlie Company, attached to the 29th Regiment. Served 83 days there, back to Guam and sent to Tsingtao China in 1946. You couldn't get him to speak much about it. I found out why when I was able to read accounts he started writing privately around the year 2000. Horrifying. I started to piece them together and submitted them to The Striking Sixth newsletter dedicated to the 6th Marine Division and they were nice enough to print parts of it last year. Thanks for sharing your account. It inspires me to keep working on Daddy's account with hopes of having an account worthy of publishing someday in his honor.

[@davidmarshall1697]

The photo was probably taken at Nanjing near the old city wall, not at the Great Wall. Much of the Nanjing wall is still there.

[@rodzor]

RIP Mr. Filipek 🙏🇺🇸

[@1KemosabeLarry]

Best of all interviews.

[@SW-jw6il]

🇺🇸 Thank You Sir for your service !!!

[@davedangerous2012]

Thank you for your service and sacrifice Sir. 🫡

[@leegilley221]

Thank you for doing what you had to do !

[@SSoHPKCSON]

Greatest generation. We need more men like this today. Take back our country and our world

[@bernardokonski5122]

Tough Polish American Bad Ass. Proud of him in the old country, although we cannot complain on lack of them here in long history of victories and defeats.

[@trevorminer3413]

Thank you

[@adcaptandumvulgus4252]

I'm having deja Vu watching this I know I've seen this before that shirt how could you forget that shirt

[@Upcamehill]

I didn't realize that he passed away in January.

[@gilreathproductions4958]

They gave them the John Wayne shower kit 🤣🤣🤣

[@GravityFuct420]

Yes shane put me on

This guy carried cannon balls betwix his legs.

[@liljoenyc01]

Definitely a real marine Semper fi

[@DannieGemz]

I always wanted to do this sadly all i managed to get was my Grandfather (Who has sadly been deceased since 2011) and his friend, however if possible i'd love to get the chance to submit his story to this collection sometime ?

[@RedPilz1]

Great man from the Greatest Generation. Thank You.

[@joshlanter0928]

I hate that they made you edit the video and take the part of him showing his war trophies and the picture

[@Fyrpylit]

Badassery

[@Bobbyphantom]

Imagine being the doctor and hearing him tell you he gonna kill you 🤣🤣

[@drewrussell9628]

Goat

[@1KemosabeLarry]

Re inda me of my TUNNEL RAT cousin, Grady. Mean. That got him through!

[@vickimurley3707]

❤

[@rastareptilerescue]

Is dis vet still alive? If so him 99 dis year 🎉

[@j1st633]

Napalm? In WW2? I thought this weapon was developed for the thick foilage in Vietnam.

[@donnycooke56]

Nope. Napalm was developed during WW2. Came out roughly 1943. Used in the Pacific Theater

[@DarkLotusIIV]

🐦‍🔥

[@MarvelousLXVII]

Lol this is exactly what you want in war. Wow!

[@James-xj3bl]

Whaddup dawgz

[@TME_Doomsday]

Here because of Shane Gillis button ⬇️

[@jaredberry7807]

Heck yea right here. The japa-knee dude.

[@NorrielPierre]

Facts 😭😭

[@sandycollins7709]

Me also, but what a real HERO

[@karenkaren2369]

I fall in love with grandpa Adam’s apple 🍎!

[@stevenjohnson9506]

post amazing nostalgia disorder

[@UnlicensedOkie]

Shane Gillis brought me here

[@RVsByDave]

First!

[@gilreathproductions4958]

Thank you for my freedoms sir 🫡🫡🫡🇺🇸🇺🇸 definitely a great generation of young men and women .

[@GetOffMyYard]

Stop watching this and find the original video with Mr. Filipek. It is 4 years old and has a little prewar personal part at the beginning. It has not ridiculous disclaimer warning you about the upcoming interview with a man who has no remorse and will speak in detail about how he conducted himself in war THIS IS ALSO EDITED IN AREAS WHERE IT NAKES NO SENSE QND TAKES COLORFUL PIECES OUT OF THE STORY. I love this channel and believe in the mission but this is actually kinda shameful

[@Bigrips94]

Thank you I thought this was the original video. How dare they cut out this man's story

[@GetOffMyYard]

@ Did you watch the original? The first time he tells the picture story at about the 15 min mark was cut completely and it’s the better version. He killed the guy just to get the picture after stripping him. If you watch this one it’s easy to spot the editing done to make It his story less harsh.

[@telluride4017]

Thank you