13 men vs 60 germans the assault west point #history #facts #shortsfeed #ww2 #shorts

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Part three, 13 men charged 60 Germans and won.

[00:00:04]By dawn, Winters had his 13, four cannons, 60 defenders, one narrow trench. He split his men into flanking [music] teams, then he ran straight at the guns. Bullets tore through Private Popeye Wynn. Winters kept moving. They took the first cannon in minutes, [music] then the second, then the third.

[00:00:23]Thousands of men on Utah Beach lived because of them.

[00:00:26]West Point still [music] teaches this assault today.

[00:00:29]But Winters lost good men that morning and the war had barely started.

[00:00:34]Then came Operation Market Garden, where Easy Company would watch their own medic, Eugene Roe, run out of [music] morphine in a frozen forest called Bastogne.

[00:00:44]Part four.