Simple minimalistic and effective.

As a 22 years Army medic, I can agree that it's EXCEEDINGLY tiring to carry a litter for an extended amount of time. But one thing we do now is EVERYONE has their own first aid equipment on them, EVERYONE knows how to use the contents of that kit (so you can apply it to yourself or your buddy rather than wait for one guy to run through enemy fire), and EVERYONE is part of the casualty evacuation plan by creating aid and litter teams, not just the medic.

You are by far the most WW2 soldier looking person I have seen on socials. Somebody get _this_ guy a role

My grandfather was a medic, at 16 in ww2. He was a terrible soldier, uncoordinated as hell. Just before they were about to Chuck him out as being useless from the RAF reg, they made him take a first aid test- he aced it. 100% pass. Then they told him to take another. He passed that with 100%. Then they gave him another and told him to prepare for it. Two days later he aced it again. So he ask about the exams. Accord to his officer he’d just done 3years of medical school in a week. They didn’t know that from aged 12 he had worked at a hospital, and had even been a lab tech for Alexander Fleming- who discovered penicillin. A couple of weeks later he landed at Tunis- saw 11 country’s over the next 6 years. Excluding a spell in hospital himself after being blown up.

When inventions and technology from 1940-45 seems way smarter than the shit we have today: Edit: A better word would be "ingenuitive" instead of "smarter".

“Sorry but your shoulder pain isn’t service related”

this guy is the coolest WW2 history teacher ever.

As a current day combat medic, I have no clue why we stopped this

I can't believe how young this ww2 soldier looks. Amazing.

The medics kit was also designed to access his pouches with medical equipment while still carrying a patient. Those pouches on your hips carried the medics full load split between the pouches. Each medic packed their kit in identical fashion so if another medic picked up the kit the necessary items could be immediately found.

My dad was a USN Corpsman assigned to a platoon of US Marines in the European & North African theaters of operation for most of WWII. The litter straps freed up dad’s hands, something that saved his life (and the lives of those to whom he lent aid) on more than a few occasions. They also allowed him to drag wounded men to safety when assuming anything more vertical than either a prostrate or supine posture would have gotten one killed. Simple yet eminently handy contrivance were those straps.

As an EMT sometimes I forget that a lot of medics don't have the luxury of having rolling electronic stretchers and stair chairs.

Amazing piece of knowledge

My guy looks exactly like a WW2 american soldier

My Grandfather was a combat medic in WWII. They don't make men like that anymore. Those guys walked through the bowels of hell for us. They saved us from world domination. And to say I was raised by one of those heros is an honor in itself. He wasn't just my Grandfather. He was my best friend.

Grandpa was a medic in the Philippines bronze star purple hart. He was a hell of a man.

I was in the Army for 17 years and never knew what those extra wide straps were for. I was even issued some back in the early 80s and never questioned the setup.

Remember kids, work smarter not harder.

As a combat medic I don’t know why we still don’t have these

Not just that, but the fatigue on your hands from carrying all that weight. 😮

It's kinda bizarre seeing a normal kid in this gear and realizing just how many men with such young faces did what most of us could never imagine.

I was an Army medic and carrying a big guy on a litter was a huge workout if you did it over a long distance.

These medics were the stuff of greatness. Respect for all who served.

Fun fact: it's a war crime to kill a medic in war

The webbing also seemed to be issued to OSS agents and soldiers on covert airborne ops, especially snipers... Mainly because they were expected to jump out of an airplane with a drawn weapon (meaning the weapon is not in a bag or case as in the case of paratroopers), so the sling and the gun may be 'hooked' in the webbing without any fuss or worry that it might tangle on your body. Also the M1A1 carbine having a folding stock makes it easier for the same webbing to keep the weapon on your chest.

I learned something new today 🤔. It's why I subscribed to this. I know a lot about WWll, but your showing the little thing we seen, but had know idea what it's for. Keep up the great work and keep showing the little things that matterd back then.

As someone who did first aid in the middle of the bush with various industry crews this was a phenomenal short to see. Nobody ever talks about how tiring it is to carry a stretcher with a person on it out of a location. Those straps would be hella handy.

Short, precise, and informative. Well done and thank you.

You look very young which makes the amount of knowledge you have on ww2 topics that much more impressive. Very cool channel. Keep up the good work my friend.

Bruh that would be so nice. I’ve carried people for literal miles and it felt like my fingers were breaking!

God bless the men and women who worked as medics and nurses. Literal angels

I used to play airsoft a couple years ago and for a milsim event we had to carry an "injured" teammate on a hike through a forest for like 30min without being spotted. It was ungodly brutal and we even had someone almost pass out from pushing themself too hard (the guy wasn't even out of shape) and on top of that the "injured" teammate was like 14 not even an adult! I couldn't begin to imagine the dedication it would take a medic to do constant trips back and forth.

Fuck me , why’d they discontinue this. It would have saved me so much energy during my medic training

If I had a history teacher like you I would’ve paid a hell of a lot more attention

My mother was a paramedic for 4 years and she says that pushing/pulling a stretcher can be tiring. So she knows their pain... kinda.

As a medic in the army today, this would be extremely useful.

Soldiers today use those same systems. Its called a yoke (In the British army anyway) Whilst we have systems such as the Osprey and Vertus modular armour systems, we still use the yoke and a modular webbing belt for lightweight training and duties. It's great for distributing weight away from the hips allowing for full range of motion which in turn, aids physical endurance. Fully laden webbing belts can really be cumbersome when running or even walking so the yoke really helps.

“Your back problems are not service related”

Well done young man. If only more young people were interested in learning history instead of erasing it.

I'm non-english speaker and those videos help me a lot not just to learn some cool stuff from ww1 or 2, but also to learn more vocabulary, appreciate it buddy!

This is actually useful because even in a skirmish this would save the medic a lot of time.

When my nephew was in the Army a few years ago, he was the "casualty" on the stretcher during a training exercise. He's a big guy and got "accidentally" dumped off the stretcher. He ended up with a concussion and became a real casualty.

Nothing in war and in military is random! Thank you for posting 😊

It was a great invention, ww2 inventions are very surprising

That's really interesting I didn't know medic suspenders worked like that. 👍

I think i found my new favorite channel. My grandfather was a WWII legend and POW and I'm exceptionally intrigued by the war. ❤

Wow, answered a question I didn't even know I had AND in an incredibly succinct, satisfying, and thorough manner. Nice! Super effective use of a short :]

This is awesome possum to know . Keep up the good work

It’s cool that they did the research to make sure the medic uniform was correct and didn’t just give him a normal GI uniform and paint a Red Cross on his helmet.

Keeping history alive and well. We love to see it!

My dad was a medic in Italy. He came home with his medical bags. It was very interesting to go through them. My hero, RIP dad😢

Nowadays we (Corpsman and medics) just make other people carry litters 😂

It’s like someone back in time and brought you back to tell us this lol

Simple, cost effective and easy to use. This is wartime engineering at its finest

4 years as medic and we didn’t have anything like this 😂 that would’ve saved so much energy

im glad there is not that much fast food at that time and they do alot of excersise in training because i will beg the high command to put me everywhere other than being strecher carrier

Bro used the time machine just to explain small details to his grandchilds

As a combat medic myself I can confirm that it is super tiring to carry someone on a stretcher.

I was Raised in a military family, but I Didn't Know about 75% of what you told us... Thank you...

I did one stretcher exercise when I served. We had to improvise the stretcher with some sturdy branches and our field shirts (super durable and 3 are enough for a stretcher). But carrying an 80kg soldier is not easy, we used four of our bandage packs as padding to spread the weight and switched all the time as we ran the 400m.

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my father was a ww2 combat vet and fought with Audy Murphy. After he was wounded the second time he thought he would go home but instead they made him a medic. After losing his left bicep at Anzio and almost his arm he was sent back to USA. It's a miracle i am here.

Fascinating . Thanks. I just figured it was simply a different style for heavier loads. Stretcher bearer never came to mind. I appreciate you explaining this kit to us. I'm 57 and always happy to learn.

Thank You! Great Content! 👍🏻

Best one yet. I like this channel very much, and this may be the most intriguing thing you've revealed about WWII.

I was an Army Medic from 1993-1997. I didn’t know this information. Very informative. Thanks

Thanks for this. I wish we had more medic focused histories. My grandpa was a WWII army medic in the Pacific Theatre. He didn't like to talk about it.

Hacksaw ridge is one of my favorite WWll movies

That's actually brilliant. Wartime innovation is and has always been so fascinating

Awesome 😊 thank you for educating us all

Picking up and carrying dead weight is very hard no matter how strong you are.

I'm loving these shorts. I wish my Dad was still alive because he was a WW2 historian and would have loved your channel.

Can we all appreciate the aesthetics of WW2 soldier uniforms? They are much more aesthetically pleasing than even todays uniforms. They sure got style back in the 40's.

My dad was a medic in world war 2 Normandy invasion. His shoulders were totally trashed in his adult life from carrying stretchers.

Thanks for carrying forward histories stories to today’s young generations

You know, this actually makes a ton more sense. I kinda always thought that medics were able to carry dudes just from the sheer amount of balls they had.

I’ve gotten sucked into some incredible historical fiction books & your content is helping me learn so much more about that time period. Thanks for sharing!

And that's how it helped Sir Desmond Dos saved 75 men who were amputated/injured. God bless all our medics!

Great piece. Love you enthusiasm. I’ve studied WW2 for 40 years (I’m 51). New sub 👍🏼

This guy has the iconic look of someone from the 40s. Can't describe it, but he looks like someone from that era.

Well done dissertation of historical events of combat across the military of that WWII era.

As a current army medic: yes, it is quite tiring.

Good vid dude. Good job.

LOVE THE INFO AND THE DELIVERY! THANKS!

I was a combat engineer and a military policeman in the Australian Army but the toughest thing I ever did was the medics final challenge activity. Basically carrying a wounded guy on a stretcher... for 5km through a creek, under a road via a culvert and across a lake. We were lucky; nobody was shelling or shooting at us...

Cool! No extra editing fluff just good info. Thanks man

...So if a stretcher's a litter, an ambulance must be a litterbox

Clear explanation of an interesting piece of equipment. Very well done.

That is FASCINATING! Thanks.

As a paramedic in 2023 I wish we had these.

You're absolutely right son I'm glad you're enjoying your reenacting and was interested in doing World War II reenacting as well but decided to do Civil War reenacting and did it for 14 years I am so thankful for the Hobbies I've met some long life friends because of it godspeed ✝️to you young man and keep your powder dry🇺🇲 I do enjoy your videos👍

The greatest generation that ever lived! Thank You!❤

When I was in Infantry , we loved our" Docs." he was a rifleman , team member, and healer. We treated our medics well as long as they passed our test. Once a doc makes it in the Infantry we protected him. After we earned our CIB in Iraq 03, our medic wasn't eligible we pulled him aside, and all of us including our 1st Sgt blood pinned a CIB to his chest. He stayed with us through 05 He earned it. Van-valkenberg was his name. He was a nerdy bad ass. He couldn't wear it officially but as a company we awarded it . He wore a CIB and a combat patch on his aid bag forever after. No one fkd with him after that. They knew what that meant. We fought like hell. He saved lives.. I remember in training, I was a 220lb machine gunner, with 40 lbs of battle rattle he once through me over his shoulders ( fireman carry) and ran 200 yards . I said "Hes coming with us" ! If the machine gun team likes you ( a company asset) likes you, you're in.

Quick, Interesting, Informative. I love this dudes shorts

They need to bring that type of ingenuity gear back to the current Army.

I bet this saved more lives than expected.

Awesome presentation. I was taught, ages ago, in the Army to have my own Load Bearing Equipment (LBE) harness to carry all my gear because of just the reason in your presentation. Years later when I served as a doctor in Iraq War 2003-2004, I used my own harness over my body armor and could do this while the newer LCE vest could not.

Im currently a corpsman, and it boggles my mind that GWOT gear and dogma doesn't really have this innovation. Carrying a litter is fucking heavy, especially now that we wear so much gear compared to WWII. But now the old heads basically say, "Just get stronger" Lile bro, you have to carry a litter further than a football field in an actual evac. Ain't nobody farmers carrying that without a break. The stokes liters have these and so do SAR litters. Supposedly the talons do as well, but we're never issued them, or they're lost. I guess our egos are more valuable than the patients life.

Uncle was a medic, much decorated, rescued someone from a burning ambulance. Suffered bad PTSD. Son followed in his footsteps during Vietnam

unending love and support for our veterans