This man speaks as if he's 50, not 90 something..crazy, god bless

I have watch hundreds of videos with ww2 vets and this man is unique. He talks and thinks like a 50 yr old. Just amazing. Im thankful for all of them.

This man had one of the hardest jobs, psychologically, I’d argue in history of man. I have unreal respect for this man.

So glad Mr Ciampa has a focus on bringing the price of freedom to young people, to make that price real and give it a face. I agree 100% that public schools fail so broadly to teach American history to another generation of patriots, the inspire love for our precious country. If America loses its freedom, there is no other bastion to flee to. 🙏❤️

This man is sharp as a tack at 90 years!

I was a combat engineer in Iraq. He brought tears to my eyes. Fine man! Be good

Graves and Registration is the one job I couldn't imagine doing. Mr. Ciampa you are a very special hero.

Please let them speak for longer! I could listen to Mr Ciampa tell his story and his message to the world all day. Soon enough we won't be able to get the advice of the wonderful men and women like him that we owe our freedom to.

He is so youthful because he still works! Absolutely a true hero! These chronicles should be mandatory in every high school in American! I'm 51 and have learned so much from watching these, thank God these great men got to tell their stories!

This is truly a “terrible job, but somebody has to do it”. Thanks for your service and your fortitude.

I feel blessed to be able to watch content like this for free on KZfaq. Many grandchildren could not get stories like this out of their grand parents so the work really is in paying for a formal interview that these men can respect and feel comfortable in to share a traumatic experience. Truly spectacular journalism right here.

Two tours Vietnam. We did not face artillery counter battery fire or enemy aircraft. In the four block neighborhood of my boyhood in the 1950's and '60's only one house did not have a veteran who resided or a direct relative who had died in the Great War, the Second World War or the Korean War. That was just how it was. The veterans usually distracted us instead of answering our questions, save one guy a little drunk who said , " You wanna play Army huh.? " Made us dig foxholes and get in. His wife intervened as he was watering down the bottom of the foxholes with the garden hose. That was good for a month of neighborhood talk. When my Dad, veteran of the Korean War got off the road and was told about it he surprisingly said, "Just be glad it wasn't t winter." Remember these Men. And Women.

For AMERICAN WATCHERS - Operation TIGER that he's talking about around 7 minutes in was a rehearsal / practice landing that happened on the UK shores at Slapton Sands for the upcoming D-Day. The men, this man included, were loaded aboard the LST's [Landing ship tanks] with no idea where they were going, and steamed out to sea, and then back in to the UK shores. During the time at sea, a patrol of German E boats happened upon the convoy and sank one of the LST's with all hands, by torpedo. Clearly with all this live fire and tracer bullets through the night sky, the men must have thought they were going in for the real landings, though of course the actual landing site was still Slapton Sands in the UK. Live ammunition was used on the practice landings and due to poor communciations the convoy began firing on itself in the confusion. The whole villages around Slapton had been evacuated and lockdown in secrecy. In the end about 800 American soldiers were killed in the operation, and the loss of the LST, so critical to the D-Day landings caused such concern that it was considered serious enough to warrant delaying D-Day until it could be replaced. In the end they went without a replacement. The whole operation Tiger and Slapton Sands incident was covered over at a government level of secrecy. The story really only came out in the 1970's as a chap who ran a hotel on Slaption Sands kept finding American war material washed up on the shores, and local residents continued rumours that something happened during the war that had been covered up. Our hotel man, I can't remember his name, eventually discovered two Sherman DD tanks on the sea bed off the shore. The tanks had launched from the LST's and sunk immediately due to faulty workmanship, He recovered one, while addressing the government for more information about what had happened, while everything was still denied officially. He erected this tank as a memorial on the beach to these 800 men. Eventually the government officials were forced to concede the cover up and what actually happened, and now feeling their nose was out of joint, they erected their own 'official' memorial to those 800 men, just up the road from the tank. Thus there is now two memorials to operation Tiger. With two memorials to look at, its up to you to choose which is the one that celebrates the sacrifice these men made. Everyone knows about D-Day. Few know about the Slapton Sands incident. These are your countrymen and this post keeps their contribution alive by expanding the missing context of what this veteran is talking about. Warm greetings from the UK - your not forgotten.

He looks so young! I thought he was a Vietnam War veteran for a sec!

You are a HERO in every sense of the word. Thank you for your service and for our freedom.

a genuine american hero ....... he bought the library of my freedom ...... and I am greatful ..... thank you sir .

Being an Infantryman, sometimes me and my fellow Infantry buddies talk crap about POG's, but hearing this man speak of his experiences and the true price of freedom really humbles me. In Iraq and Afghanistan I've seen my share, but thousands and thousands? Nope. What an awesome interview. I feel so proud of him and the things guys like him have done for freedom.

Sir, may you live a long, fruitful life. You are an American Hero!!

God bless this man and the men of the 607th. It is a horrible side of the war that has NEVER been told.

George Ciampa 6/16/1925 - 1/3/2024 RIP George we will never forget your service to our great nation.

RIP to a great American, George Ciampa.

Wow!! He doesn't look a day over 60 I thought he was a Vietnam veteran. Looks awesome for 90!

A genuine man of great heart, depth and clarity. Very moving.

I love these guys best of America

II would love to hang out with this guy he seems so down to earth and for real just a solid genuine individual that truly cares about people.

Only 18 yrs old?! Sad but moving...so moving. Thank you sir. It was a horrible job to have, but it is admirable that you and your fellow soldiers were so respectful.

What bothers me the most is the ppl who disliked the video. Very disrespectful Our freedom wouldn’t be what it is today had it not been for the men and women who gave there life for us

This is a great man thank you for your life of service

I really love this interview. This man seems like such a sweet, compassionate person, and decades after his service continues to give back across so many platforms. He is truly an inspiration.

i can't express it enough..... but ... THIS IS GOLD!!!!!!

---so appreciate your work and the getting people like George Ciampa to talk.. The only thing is when you get these people that really want to talk, you should let them talk as long as they want, please? We only have em around a little while longer.. I could listen to people like George talk until the sunrises.. What life this man gives! I am a vet from CA living in Germany Thank you!

God bless courageous men like George Ciampa. Graves Registration has to be one tough assignment with the horrors of war indelibly etched in his memory for life.

I really enjoyed this. This man is a true American Hero. Not only for his service during the war, but for teaching younger generations of the many sacrifices made to give us our freedom. God bless.

This gentleman doesn’t look old enough to have been in WW2. 🫡 We owe these guys everything.

God bless our veterans ❤

Who are the jerk-wads that give these heroic veteran stories a thumbs down?

Thankyou so much for your Service Sir...

5:25 I love that he wants to properly pace the story and keep it in a good order. I love this

Thank you Sir.

Graves Registration, there's a "job" that no one talks about, let alone could few even imagine doing that job. In Rick Atkinson's liberation trilogy books there is a great treatise on the work of the graves registration soldiers from the Italian campaign. I recall a story of how the bodies would lay out for months on the frozen battlefields as taking territory from the Germans was a slow process in the Italian mountains - if I recall the book correctly. Thank you for this most interesting video history! THANK YOU GEORGE CIAMPA!

Mr. Ciampa thank you endlessly for your service and also thank you for what you continue to do in support of freedom for all!!! May God bless you always!!!

His voice sounds so young, I was listening to this because I was working and I finally pulled my phone out to look. I knew he was older cause of the subject matter but in my mind he was in his 20’s. So weird…

Thank You for sharing your experience

I appreciate this channel so much. All and any vets that scroll on this comment thanks a bunch.

This the true cost of a world war. The loss of life is incomprehensible to anyone who didn’t witness these events. Even Hollywood couldn’t capture the true blood color of the waters after the evasion of D Day. This man lived the horror and cleanup. Mans true cost of war is not money because you can always make more money it’s the lives. Great interview

His documentary about the German children sounds fascinating.

To bad he got cut off I could have listened to him for hours.

Thank you sir!! Salute!!

At 18 and 19 years old this gentleman some more death, destruction, and decay than 99% of the entire human race can even fathom, yet he gets home and can’t even buy a beer. That kind of pisses me off. He had more of an internal war than most of the soldiers, which is a very different kind I would imagine. This would break most men.

Out of all the videos of ww2 vets,and I lost count of how many,he’s the only one that made himself sound like a hero and like he did something special. I appreciate his service none less but funny of the ones in the fight never talk like that

I love all his little sidebars -- commentary on Saving Private Ryan, his stolen jeep, his platonic girlfriend (why was it platonic? he never explains), the outcome of the football game

Great speaker! Thank you

I am a USC grad from 1961. I am so impressed with George and thankfull for his service. He is an amazing Patriot.

RIP George 🌹

Incredible interview! Thank you so much for posting this.

Damn, why am I being brought to tears listening to this Hero?

Outstanding

This is a great memorial to all warriors who lost their lives on both sides.

this dude is gonna live to be 200... i wanna know what his diet was like thru his life because he got somethin right

Thank you.

Thanks for sharing Mr Ciampa 👍👌 your experience’s in the Second World War

What a hero

I met him in my hometown in Palm Springs in 2014. It was an honor having a 1 on one conversation.

Such honor, such humility!!

Thanks

God bless this man, George Ciampa.

The HIGH Price of Freedom...

I always was curious about these things and how these people got buried and what they did with the bodies This was a great interview

Wow ,that was impressing ,and also his work after the war that helps to keep up peace👍

nice meeting you george

God bless this brave man 🙏 how thay could do this job what have we got to complain about we have it easy god bless them all least we forget🪖

I can’t believe this guy is a wwII vet, he has aged so gracefully! Those are some good genes.

Interesting MOS to hear detailed information from.

7600 Canadians died in Holland alongside 8300 Americans. This man is doing great work

A legend!

This veteran is absolutely correct about public schools not teaching students about past wars. I graduated in 1994 from Brooke High School. We were barely taught WV history let alone military history. My 3 children also graduated from the same school (2011, 2015 and 2019) but they learned more from the private catholic school they attended prior to high school. The end of this interview is terrible. This VETERAN should have been allowed to talk UNTIL he decided the interview was over without interruption. To all the veterans and active duty military...THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE AND SERVICE. Here's my grandfathers story as I know it...my maternal grandfather (Norman Virden Sr.) was a veteran of the Korean War and his job was to recover the dead. My grandma said her husband never returned even tho he physically was ok. My paternal grandfather (Roy Smith known as Red) was in the Army during WW2 and received a purple heart. He was shot multiple times, played dead in the mud along side his fallen Brothers in arms when a German soldier wanted to shoot him in the head but was instructed not to by a different soldier otherwise I wouldn't be writing this. My grandpap Red was "shell shocked" and we were told to never touch him when he was sleeping. I'm not sure what his MOS was because he never talked about his Army days but I do know he had vivid nightmares and flashbacks. He would dive on the floor and yell "hit the deck". Sadly they both passed in the early 90s but I'm grateful that their war is over for them. Thank u for reading about my grandfathers.

Excellent presentation. Thank you.

When I heard now we are 9ut of time I was like nooo I could hear this guy talk all day

Thanks for this ... .. but how do you not talk to this man for 3 hours (at least) Make it 3 parts ... whatever it takes

the high price of fredom what a touching story................

I'm 30 years old and am afraid of death how can't you be afraid of the uncertain

this means that our attitude should never change and stick to being adult attitude

Guarantee people mistake him for a Nam Vet. Get their mind blown when he says WW2.

8:44 the 88mm is not the same as the screaming mimi nebelwerfer

The best.

I'm anti-war, but have total respect for this man.

I buried soldiers (honor guard) in ft bliss tx in early 1996. Most honorable service of my scant 2 years.

This is very fascinating

The Luitenant that drew his 45 on him to get him moving, should be ashamed of himself. That Lt is no hero. I get it, they had to do their jobs, I suspect this guy would have done his job with a much different type of persuasion. Pulling a 45 on an 18 yr old kid to motivate him sends the wrong message. Eisenhower made General Patton apologize to his entire Brigade just for slapping a kid with his gloves in order to motivate him. Can you imagine what would have happened had someone told Eisenhower that this Luitenant was pulling 45's on the troops to motivate them. Wouldn't have been good. I was in the military myself and I can tell you without a doubt, a good leader would have found a different way to motivate his soldiers. You gain no respect from your men and of course they won't follow you. In fact if he did that enough, he may have found himself with no one to cover his back when he needed it. I doubt very many men would risk their own life or put their life on the line, to save the life of a man who just pulled his 45 on his own soldier. Just saying, hearing that really bugged me. I will end again with this, good leaders know how to get the most out of their soldiers willfully. In fact in one of the Army Leadership courses I took they always quoted the definition of leadership, from the actual Field Manual as this: "The art of influencing and directing soldiers in such a way as to obtain their willing obedience, confidence, respect, and loyal co-operation in order to accomplish the mission". This Lt. failed to do that. For those of you prior military and current military this used to be found in FM 22-100 page 3. I'm sure the manual has changed many times over the years, but leadership is leadership, it doesn't matter what year.

enough interrupting with these breaks! What is the point? Stop interrupting the god damned story when these men are revisiting such traumatic memories! Seriously, thanks

my dad did the same job in the pacific working the 3rd and 5th cemeteries on Iwo Jima in 1945

War is always grave business but this was a much different view than I've ever seen. To be 18 y/o feather-weight to be thrown in as a replacement soldier to a unit before going into combat must have been a difficult adjustment. The job of processing the dead for so many months, almost an unimaginable task. I will search out the documentaries Mr. Ciampa made. Best wishes to him and to all that have served past & present..

Can’t believe you cut him off in the middle of a sentence. I listen to a lot of these interviews and I get more irritated with the interviewer after each video.

they really sent kids to fight a war

What an interesting man! Great interview!

Lies allll lies!!!! This guy is NOT 90! It can’t be! He is razor freaking sharp!!! Holy cow, how utterly impressive!

Please do another part with this man!

He talks about the high cost of freedom. I appreciate what this man did and all that he is doing. Wonder what stories one could hear from solders of the first continental army under George Washington. I know what really happened at the surrender of Yorktown and pictures never can relate the actuality.

youd think you could interview this man as long as he wants to talk.

Why aren’t these interviews 3 hours long ?? More Details.