The bravest kid in America

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Well, let's get into today's story in 1937, the Japanese declared war on China and invaded their country, the United States, who they were friends with. Initially, China did not intervene for fear of provoking Japan, but after the Japanese murdered hundreds of thousands of unarmed Chinese civilians and the Japanese attacked an American warship, the United States was forced to intervene. American officials responded to Japanese aggression by imposing severe economic sanctions and trade embargoes on Japan believing this would cause their war efforts in China to force them to withdraw; However, these sanctions and embargoes did not have this effect, but simply angered Japan and made them even more determined to maintain their position in China for years to come.

The United States and Japan tried to negotiate some kind of agreement, but neither side made any concessions, so neither side relented. A few years later, on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched an air attack. surprise attack on the US military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after the two-hour attack, more than 2,400 Americans were killed and another 1,000 wounded and 300 aircraft and 20 ships were destroyed or severely damaged. The Japanese hoped that this attack would lead the United States to lift sanctions and embargoes. They had imposed them since 1937, but instead all the Japanese did was bring the United States into an all-out war with them.

One day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States officially declared war on Japan, thus entering World War II. The day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Jack Lucas, like every other American in the country, was glued to his radio listening to the news, he was devastated and shocked by this carnage he was hearing about in Hawaii, and so when the president of the United States. he was declaring war on Japan. Jack had already decided that he would enlist and fight for his country, however, there was a problem. Jack wasn't old enough to join the military.

He needed to be 17 years old. and jack was only 14 years old but this wasn't going to stop jack so he created this fake document that said he was 17 years old and he forged his mother's signature and then after bribing him he got a notary to sign this document. Additionally, Jack took his forged paperwork, gave it to the recruiter and before long Jack was accepted into the military and was headed to Marine Corps Boot Camp after completing initial training and becoming a Marine, the Marines. They found out that Jack's documentation was actually fake, but instead of kicking him out of the army they said Jack, you can stay but under one condition you can't go overseas to fight you have to stay in the United States you can drive a truck and help around here but you can't deploy and go to war until you're of age jack was not happy about this but initially he did as he was told and just drove a truck and supported it as best he could but after about a year and two years and a half of this cat he couldn't do it anymore, that was not the reason why he had falsified this document to enter the army, he had done it so he could go fight in the war and finally when he was only 16 years old.

The old man abandoned his post and got into the back car of a troop transport train that was heading to another military base and when he arrived at this base that was in California he jumped out and then ran towards the docks where these large military ships were. war. and he saw that one of them had a bunch of troops loading on it and he thought that was where he had to go, so he snuck onto the ship and hid below and then after the ship took off and was out to sea, he he revealed himself and approached a naval officer and kind of played with oh I must have gotten on the wrong ship but you know I'm here can I join your unit and this officer who had no idea how young he was.

Was it Jack? Finally it was said okay, but get ready because we are going to invade Iwo Jima. Now Jack had never heard of Iwo Jima and didn't know what it meant, but frankly, Jack didn't care, he was just glad to be able to see the combat. What Jack couldn't know and what the other Marines on this ship couldn't have known either was that the battle for Iwo Jima would become one of the bloodiest and deadliest battles of the entire war, the Japanese who were on this island defending it. . They were absolutely fearless and would not surrender despite being outnumbered and were heavily entrenched in these caves and tunnels built all over the island and they rarely came out of these caves into tunnels, which meant that Jack and the other marines when they landed on this island were the only way.

They could fight the Japanese by literally crawling into these tunnels that were usually filled with booby traps and fighting up close and personal with the enemy. The ship jack arrived off the coast of iwo jima in february 1945, when jack was still 16 years old in february. On the 19th, the first wave of Marines descended the side of this large ship to these smaller amphibious landing craft and then, one by one, began heading toward Iwo Jima to begin the invasion. Jack was not part of this initial invasion that he would go on. We went out on the second day with the second wave of marines, so Jack and all the other second wave marines just stood at the front of the ship and watched these amphibious ships come ashore and then get completely shot down by a machine Japanese. gunners who were lined up on the beach and so, by the second day, when Jack and the rest of the marines are preparing to launch their assault, there were literally thousands of dead Americans lined up on the beach, but Jack and the other marines of the second wave they knew that this was their job this was their duty and so they did not flinch they went down the side of the ship they boarded their amphibious landing craft and began the journey towards the island as they approached the Japanese machine gunners opened fire not only on jack and the ship was inside, but all the crews coming towards the beach and hundreds of Americans were being gunned down before they even reached the sand cat and his crew managed to get to the beach and so when the door fell on their boat and as Jack runs towards the beach, the men around him are being cut to pieces by these machine guns.

Jack manages to avoid being shot and along with three other marines they run to the beach and lie down in front of the sand dune that protected them. From these machine gunners, Jack knew that he couldn't stay there for long because the Japanese were also firing artillery shells towards the beach, so it would only be a matter of time before it exploded, so Jack and these three other Marines who They had arrived at the same time they began moving north doing their best not to get shot or blown away, stopping behind rocks and trees and jumping behind sand dunes and after a couple of hours of doing so the four of them reached the airfield on the north end of the island and when they get there, a gunner inside a pillbox, a pillbox is like a small concrete fort that only has openings in three or four, but the sides are big enough for a machine gun impale a gunner inside one of These pillboxes realize that Jack and the other three marines open fire on them and somehow Jack and these other three marines managed to not get shot at and were able to maneuver and then shoot through one of those openings and eliminate the machine gunner that was inside and So now that this gunner is down and the others see the opportunity to run forward and take more ground on this airfield and as they run into other Japanese soldiers nearby, they see them and start to open fire on them from other pillboxes and other places and forces Jack and these marines to simply jump into the nearest trench to avoid being shot at, so they are jumping into a Japanese trench, which is a deep hole dug in the ground to protect themselves from the shots and while they jump.

There they expected to see Japanese soldiers coming towards them, but there were no soldiers, but they knew that they couldn't stay there for long because eventually the Japanese soldiers would pass by here and then kill them, so they quickly decided that their best option was to basically get out of this trench and run towards the pillbox where they knew they had eliminated the gunner inside so they could take that pillbox for themselves and their plan was to run towards it and stop inside. from each of the trenches along the way to protect themselves because they know there are other Japanese who know where they are and then once they get to the pillbox they can regroup and call for reinforcements, so one of the men Jack was with said yes .

I'll go first and he comes out of his trench while the Japs are shooting at him and he runs about 10 or 15 feet until he gets to the next trench on the way to this pillbox and Jack is watching while this guy jumps. in this trench and as soon as he disappears from sight, this marine immediately turns around and fights his way back out of the trench and is trying to run towards Jack and the other two marines he was with, it would turn out that this guy had jumped to another Japanese trench that was full of Japanese soldiers.

He had actually landed on top of a real soldier, but these Japanese soldiers were so caught off guard that they didn't have time to react and shoot this marine before the marine could. run out and get back to jack and the others and then for the next few minutes jack and these other three marines opened fire on these japanese soldiers in this trench about 10 or 15 feet away and these japanese soldiers also opened fire on jack and the other three jack was able to take out two of the japanese soldiers before his gun jammed so he crouched down in the trench to work on his gun and when he was there he realized there were two grenades in the ground right next to him and Then, without hesitation, he shouts grenades at the other marines and then jumps on top of them, suffocating the grenades with his body.

One of the grenades was a dud and that's why it didn't explode. The other one was not a failure and was shot. The way a grenade works is that there is a small piece of explosive that is inside a metal casing which is usually spherical and this metal casing is what you actually hold on to and throw when you throw a grenade and when this small explosive activated by pulling When you release the pin and release the spoon, it detonates and causes the metal casing to shatter and fly basically when a grenade explodes, it's like having hundreds of pieces of jagged metal shooting in all directions, all traveling at approximately speed. of a bullet or faster and therefore naturally a grenade up close is incredibly lethal, in fact the destruction radius of a typical fragmentation grenade is approximately 5 meters when the grenade below Jack, who was not A failure, it exploded, sending Jack flying into the air and then when he came back down his comrades looked at him and could see that he was clearly devastated from all the fragmentation that had been pumped into his body, so they assumed he was dead, but even if they thought he was alive for some reason, there was nothing they could do.

He could have helped him because they were actively being attacked by dozens of Japanese soldiers who were only 10 or 15 feet away and eventually these three other Marines that Jack had just saved were forced to leave Jack where he was and retreat. to the beach and everyone would live, the Japanese soldiers in the trench they were fighting would eventually reach Jack's trench, but most likely when they saw Jack lying there, completely ruined by this grenade, they assumed he was dead and I just left him there, but Jack wasn't dead, he just couldn't talk and couldn't see anything and couldn't really move, although he could move a few fingers on his left hand and so on for hours while he lay there. agonizing pain in and out of consciousness, he simply moved the fingers of his left hand hoping that an American would see him and know that he was still alive and you have to imagine that all this time it is constant chaos around him, his chances of survival are incredibly scarce. the idea that an American was going to find him and be able to evacuate him is almost non-existent and he must have known, but by some miracle finally another American unitHe found his way into Jack's trench and they noticed him moving his fingers on his left hand and so they were able to evacuate him from the trench to the beach and from there, under the cover of darkness, they were able to take him to a hospital ship at sea and there he would begin the first of 26 major surgeries to remove it. grenade shrapnel from his torso, arm and face despite his serious injuries jack would surprisingly make a full recovery eight months after his injury the president of the united states would award him the highest decoration for bravery the medal of honor would be the The youngest winner of this award from the 19th century to the present day is one of the few miners to have won this award after his release from the military cat.

He would survive a near-death experience while skydiving when both his parachutes, his main and his reserve failed and he simply crashed to the ground, but somehow he survived, he would also survive a very serious fire in his house and would survive an attempted of murder against his life by his ex-wife and therefore naturally titled his memoirs, Indestructible Jack, he would eventually die of natural causes on June 5, 2008, he was 80 years old. years, so that will be enough guys, if you found the secret in today's episode, let us know in the comments section what it is and where you found it, so give us the timestamp, if you are the first to do it, we will we will fix you at the top of the comments section, if you have anything from today's episode and you haven't already, continually maneuver your vehicle in front of the car with like buttons on the road and then turn on your flashing lights, but don't .

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