The Mechanic Who Fixed a Sherman With a Fence Wire — And Stopped a German Offensive
Автор: Iron Soul WW2
Загружено: 2025-11-07
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December 1944. The Ardennes Forest.
A Sherman tank lay crippled in the snow—surrounded by advancing German Panzers.
Inside, five American soldiers waited to die… until a 22-year-old Iowa farm boy named Robert “Bobby” Hendricks did something insane.
Armed with nothing but a roll of fence wire and pliers, he fixed a broken tank track under enemy fire.
That repair—meant to last ten minutes—saved 127 men and changed the Battle of the Bulge.
What started as one desperate act of improvisation became a revolution in wartime engineering that would spread from Belgium to Iwo Jima, saving thousands of lives across two oceans.
From frozen Europe to volcanic hellscapes in the Pacific, this is the true story of how a farm mechanic’s mind and a few scraps of wire reshaped the course of World War II — and proved that genius doesn’t wear rank.
👉 Watch to the end for the powerful twist history almost forgot — the moment a forgotten mechanic’s ten-minute fix became a legacy that lasted fifty years.
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