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When the doctor refused to amputate his mangled fingers, Adrien Carton de Wiart pulled them off himself.
He felt absolutely no pain in doing it. That wasn't even close to his worst day.
This is the story of the man who was shot in the face, head, stomach, groin, ankle, leg, hip, and ear —
who lost an eye and a hand — who survived two plane crashes and escaped from a POW camp at age 62 — and
who called World War I "an enjoyable war."
■■ THE WOUND LIST:
BOER WAR (1900): Shot in stomach, shot in groin
SOMALILAND (1914): Three bullets to the face, lost left eye and part of ear, threw glass eye out of taxi
window
WWI (1915-1918): Shrapnel destroyed left hand at Ypres, pulled off own dangling fingers, shot across
skull, shot through hip at Passchendaele, shot through leg at Cambrai, shot through ear at Arras. Won
the Victoria Cross at the Somme. Youngest brigadier general in British Army.
WWII (1939-1945): Plane crash in Mediterranean (swam a mile with one arm), POW in Italy, escaped through
tunnel at age 62
■■ TIMESTAMPS:
[Update with actual timestamps]
00:00 - Introduction: The Unkillable Soldier
05:00 - Mysterious Origins (Leopold II?)
12:00 - The Boer War: First Blood
18:00 - India: Pig-Sticking and Pistols
25:00 - Somaliland: Losing the Eye
32:00 - WWI: The Hand
40:00 - The Victoria Cross
48:00 - Poland: 20 Years of Paradise
55:00 - WWII: Watching Civilization Fall
62:00 - POW Escape at 62
68:00 - China: Confronting Mao
75:00 - The Legacy
■ KEY QUOTES:
"I knew once and for all that war was in my blood."
"I pulled them off myself and felt absolutely no pain in doing it."
"Frankly, I enjoyed the war."
■ BY THE NUMBERS: 11+ major wounds | 5 wars | 5 escape attempts | Died peacefully at 83
■ SOURCE: "Happy Odyssey" — his autobiography (never mentions his Victoria Cross)
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