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Herbert K Pililaau VS The North Korean Army (2016x126)

Fecha de emisión: Jun 23, 2016

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut What Does the "D" in "D-Day" Stand For? https://youtu.be/rZXiQdF4AxM?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 That Time the US Accidentally Nuked Britain's First Satellite https://youtu.be/4mMa3coqdgo?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k In this video: Hollywood often makes up stories about nigh-unkillable, enemy-stomping individuals who laugh in the face of certain death, only to deliver that death to countless bad guys instead. In real life, if you put a single individual up against a large contingent of well armed soldiers, the soldiers tend to effortlessly dispatch said individual, no matter how much courage and determination he possesses. But then, there is the story of 22 year old Herbert K. Pililaau who for one day might as well have been Captain America without the shield. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/02/herbert-k-pililaau-hawaiis-first-medal-honor-recipient/ Sources: http://www.koreanwar.org/html/hawaii.html https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3-bUBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=Herbert+K.+Pililaau&source=bl&ots=rkbYPQJ47I&sig=o6reTAVb_OSwLlXfR7jgPZP37Go&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-cGaVOnFEqKc7gbz2oCgDg&ved=0CEAQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=Herbert%20K.%20Pililaau&f=false http://honolulu-art-in-public-places.silk.co/page/Private%20First%20Class%20Herbert%20K.%20Pililaau%20Field http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7745648 http://www.army.mil/article/26442/ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gbzIoTq1RzYC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq=Herbert+K.+Pililaau+drafted&source=bl&ots=F96FrZBQMM&sig=UlzPpIgwYF2MzESSKF7rS4yRzIE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WceaVNqVEo2P7AaltYGQDw&ved