Скачать или смотреть They Mocked His "Cooking Knife" — Until He Killed 28 Enemy Soldiers in 15 Minutes

October 24th, 1944. Leyte Island, Philippines. Private First Class Anthony Russo sits alone in a foxhole that was supposed to hold twelve men. Disease and casualties have taken the others. Now forty Japanese soldiers are moving through the jungle toward his position—and he has exactly 32 bullets.
The math is simple. He can't win. But if he abandons the position, an entire American battalion behind him will be slaughtered in a surprise attack.
Russo checks his rifle. Attached to it with wire and parachute cord is a kitchen knife—an eight-inch cleaver he took from a destroyed house. Everyone mocked it. Called it his "cooking knife." Asked if he was making dinner.
They stopped laughing after that night.
This is the untold story of how a Bronx restaurant worker held off forty enemy soldiers with a kitchen knife—and why the military buried what he did.
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🎖️ THE LAST MAN STANDING
Russo's outpost overlooked the only road Japanese forces could use to flank American positions. Intelligence knew they were coming. Promised reinforcements. The reinforcements never arrived.
At 0340 hours, forty Japanese soldiers attacked. Russo had 32 rounds of ammunition. Standard tactics said abandon the position. But three wounded men in his unit couldn't jump. And an entire battalion was sleeping down that road, unaware of what was coming.
Russo made a choice: hold the position or die trying.
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🔪 THE WEAPON THEY MOCKED
Russo's standard bayonet had broken months earlier. Replacements were "backordered." So he improvised—took a kitchen cleaver from a destroyed Filipino house, wrapped the handle in parachute cord, sharpened it until it could split hair, and lashed it to his rifle with wire.
Soldiers laughed. Called it ridiculous. Said it violated regulations.
But Russo had grown up working in his father's Bronx restaurant. By age sixteen, he could break down a chicken in under a minute. Could sharpen a knife perfectly. Understood angles, force, and where to cut for maximum effect.
Those skills were about to save his life.
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⚔️ WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT
Russo's 32 bullets dropped maybe ten to twelve attackers. Then his ammunition ran out. The Japanese prepared for their final assault—grenades, coordinated charge, overwhelming numbers.
They expected surrender. They found something else.
Russo came up out of that foxhole with a kitchen knife and fought in a style no military manual taught. He used the blade like he'd use it in a kitchen—quick, precise cuts targeting vulnerable areas. Economy of motion. Understanding where to strike.
The kitchen knife punched through sternum like paper. Opened arteries. Found throats and soft tissue. The blade stayed sharp. The attachment held. Russo kept fighting.
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📜 THE AFTERMATH THEY BURIED
When an American patrol found Russo at dawn, they counted twenty-eight dead Japanese soldiers scattered around his position. The remaining attackers had retreated—too depleted to complete their mission.
Russo had a bullet through his shoulder. His uniform was soaked in blood. His kitchen knife was still attached to his rifle.
The sergeant asked where he'd learned to fight like that. Russo said: "My father's restaurant in the Bronx."
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Alone Against Forty
3:40 - The Bronx Restaurant Kitchen
7:10 - October 24, 1944: The Setup
11:25 - The Kitchen Knife Everyone Mocked
15:50 - 32 Bullets, Then Nothing
20:15 - Close Combat: Kitchen Skills vs Military Training
25:40 - Dawn: 28 Bodies and No Recognition
29:20 - Why History Forgot the Cooking Knife
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