The day I was saved by a German medic

[Music] i noticed a american jeep here but it was all all wired up you could see the wires on there and i told my men i said don't go near it it's booby trap so then we went on through the woods and we're coming just on the edge of the woods and i i see a german up ahead stepped out of the pine trees i said uh i said jerry and i raised my rifle up and that's all i remember it felt like somebody hit me hit my shoulder with a ball bed so i crawled to [Music] look far away to a big big tree and i took my sulphur pill and my morphine shot and that was it and i said i just i don't remember anything i don't know if i passed out or what until it was dark whatever time it was it could have been six it could have been ten i don't know it was dark and i heard voices and i how a medic two germans come over and they said something and uh one took off his coat and they went to and it rolled me on a coat and went to pick me up and it's just her shoulders hurt so much they put me back down uh they drugged me into these pine trees it was a little uh well we call them shacks and uh might have been a little cabin summer or whatever and uh he he stumped me with god he was stuffing me with god and i guess i might have been delirious to what but i said i said i didn't i didn't want to be be your person or shoot me i don't want to be your prisoner and i said i must have passed out and then in the morning he come to uh he's changing changing my bandage i guess and uh he says i want your dog tagged no oh first i told him again i told him i said shoot me i don't want to be your prisoner he said i want to be your prisoners i'm taking your dog can i have your dog tags whatever he said i don't know but he took my dog tags asked me where age station was i said well we last night in the farmhouse i said might be there so i how long he came over it came back with a a jeep uh and they loaded me in that german on a jeep and took me to the collecting station and that and that's the last time i seen him [Music] you

Channel: Florent Plana

Views: 3,935,636

Keywords: #army #ww2

Id: Xf_4FCUJK1c

Length: 4min 31sec (271 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 21 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/Ham-Man994]

Great video, would have been better without the fucking music through the whole goddamn thing

[u/animeyescrazyno]

What I expected: A heroic story of humanity coming together

What I got: me wanting to destroy the human who thought that music was a good idea

[u/thewebsiteisdown]

These guys experienced war in a way that later generations (myself included) can't fully appreciate because the nature of combat itself has changed. I was a soldier for 12 years and found myself in some relatively dangerous situations, but nothing that compares to an average day for guys like this.

He says the medic loaded him and (a wounded German? Or the medic himself?) up and brought them to an American aid station. It's incredible to hear about such compassion and bravery on that scale.

[u/StaplerLivesMatter]

Pacific theater version: "We found a dead GI who must have gotten wounded and left behind. The Japanese had tortured him to death, cut him open, and nailed him to a palm tree. From then on, we executed every wounded Japanese soldier we found."

[u/sheevlweeble]

I love the video, but how hard is it to make the voice track mono? the hard left panning is driving me nuts

[u/thecoolestguyonearth]

for anyone who can't understand him or can't hear him due to the background music:

On December 2, 1944, Mike Timko was leading his squad near the German border and saw a German standing by a pine tree. When he saw the German, Mike yelled "Jerry" to his men. He aimed the gun at the German when a shell exploded near by the American troops. Mike was wounded in the shoulder while the man next to him got hit in the chest. Mike crawled under a tree and applied sulfa drugs and morphine he had on him and then passed out. It was really dark when he awoke, he could hear voices close by. Miked call the "Medic" because of his wounds. A man approached him in a long coat with another guy. They were two Germans. One was a medic and the other was a regular infantry man. The medic stopped the bleeding in Mike's shoulder and patched him up. The two Germans picked him up, put him in a coat and dragged him to a shack. It was daylight when Mike woke up. He told the Germans to kill him because he didn't want to be their prisoner. The medic had studied medicine in the Chicago, Illinois before the war and could speak good English. They asked him where the American Aid Station was. Mike told them the last place he remembered was in a farmhouse. The Germans took his dog tags and left. Mike passed out again. When he awoke, Mike was in an American Aid Station. The German medic had returned Mike to the Americans. Mike never got the name of the medic and never located him after the war. Mike still wants to thank the German medic for having saved his life.

[u/Joten]

I tried to get through it, I'll try again tomorrow on mute/CC. That song + Right Channel voice only drove me up a wall..........but I should be in bed so I admit I'm cranky and this man deserves many many many all the chances to hear his story.

[u/riptaway]

The cheesy fucking music ruined it

[u/ocularpenetration]

I’m in no way trying downplay all of your complaints about the music, but I was so into what this vet had to say I didn’t even notice the music the first time I watched it. If you enjoyed his story, go watch HBOs Band of Brothers and The Pacific.