The Army Tried to Kick Him Out 8 Times — Until He Defeated 700 German Troops with Just 35 Men

Описание: The Army Tried to Kick Him Out 8 Times — Until He Defeated 700 German Troops with Just 35 Men

June 1944 – Normandy, France. Twenty-five-year-old Jake McNiece stood at a destroyed bridge with 35 starving paratroopers and a German officer demanding surrender. The officer had 700 soldiers. Jake had the high ground. And three days of eating grass had made him extremely motivated.
The Army tried to kick Jake out eight times. Fistfights over butter. Stealing trains. Beating up military police. Never promoted past Private because he refused to salute, refused to call officers "sir," and refused to participate in what he called "the dog and pony show."
But Jake was also the best demolitions expert in the 101st Airborne. The best marksman. The best at every actual combat skill. So leadership stuck him in his own platoon with other discipline problems. They became the Filthy 13 — the mohawk-wearing, face-painted paratroopers who inspired The Dirty Dozen.
On D-Day, Jake's plane exploded over Normandy. He gathered 35 scattered paratroopers, and captured a bridge against orders. Held it for three days with zero supplies while Germans threw everything at them. When American P-51s blew up his own bridge, Jake repositioned on high ground and took down 700 Germans with 32 men.
Zero American casualties.
Then he jumped into surrounded Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge and called in 247 resupply drops in 24 hours — saving 11,000 soldiers while the German army tried to kill him.
The Army never promoted him. Never gave him a medal. Kicked him out after the war for threatening an MP.
Jake spent his final decades selling stamps at a post office in Oklahoma. Nobody knew he'd saved thousands of American lives.
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