#255 - WW2 Savage Recalls Horrific Nazi Weapons, D-Day & Beating Hitler | Jake Ruser

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(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Jake Ruser is a WW2 Veteran, Medic & living legend. He landed on the beaches of Northern France w/ the Allied Forces in 1944 –– and made his way into Nazi Germany right before it’s fall in May 1945.

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****TIMESTAMPS****

0:00 - Jake’s Nazi Gun; Rishi’s Story

4:49 - Growing up in the Depression

12:25 - Father served in WW1

15:29 - Jake remembers Day of Pearl Harbor Attack

18:19 - Deferment, Draft & Basic Training

27:04 - Set Boobie Traps

31:04 - No understanding of War

35:54 - Nazis & Geneva Convention; Hitler’s Rise

39:34 - Talking w/ Dad; Shipped to Hoboken & England; Outrunning German UBoats

49:24 - Nazi Germany bombs Jake in England

52:24 - D-Day & Preparation Disaster

1:04:09 - Saving Private Ryan D-Day vs Reality

1:06:39 - Insane Jersey Shore UBoat Story

1:09:54 - D-Day goes down; Jake Lands on beach

1:20:14 - Breaking down every D-Day beach landing, Band of Brothers Easy Company

1:25:54 - Jake’s first missions ashore Europe

1:34:24 - Getting hit w/ White Phosphorus Shells

1:42:39 - Cherbourg captured; Vibe on the ground

1:47:24 - Mortar Barrage

1:55:44 - Marching on Nazi-Occupied Paris; Bombers attack; Jake treats Nazi

2:06:09 - Jake’s WW2 Medals

2:08:44 - Saint Lo (July 1944); George Patton; Comfort in Battlefield death

2:15:04 - Nazi Panzer Divisions; Battle of Mortain

2:21:29 - Paris Liberated; Nazi Snipers go rogue

2:29:54 - Orders after Paris fell

2:35:29 - Preparing for Battle of Hurtgen Forest

2:40:54 - The Battle of Hurtgen Forest

2:52:29 - How Hurtgen Ended; Dead STILL being collected from Hurtgen

3:00:29 - Meeting President at D-Day Memorial

3:04:16 - Build up to the Battle of the Bulge

3:06:58 - Germans attack at Battle of the Bulge

3:09:52 - Story of the Nazi Gun & Fighting thru Belgium

3:18:24 - Entering Germany in 1945; Nazi Prisoners

3:26:34 - Jake finds out Hitler’s dead

3:29:49 - German UBoat Scare; Another UBoat surrenders to Jake’s Captain

3:32:34 - Jake takes care of paraplegic patients

3:34:38 - Jakes’ Service

Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 255 - Jake Ruser

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