What the? Soviet Surgeon removes his own Appendix! » Cryptoworld. This is truly amazing, I’m sure similar things have and will happen, but this took place in 1961, in the middle of a blizzard!
1961, Soviet surgeon removes his own Appendix In 1961, Rogozov was stationed at a newly constructed Russian base in Antarctica. The 12 men inside were cut off from the outside world by the polar winter by March of that year. In April, the 27-year-old Rogozov began to feel ill, very ill. His symptoms were classic: he had acute appendicitis. He recorded in his journal that there was only one option, he had to operate on myself or he would die! I did not sleep at all last night. Amazingly he operated mostly by feeling around, resting every 5 minuets to recompose himself before continuing.
I worked without gloves. Remarkably, two weeks later he was back at work, and lived until 2000, when he died aged 66. Source: Antarctica, 1961: A Soviet Surgeon Has to Remove His Own Appendix. 5 Real Life Soldiers Who Make Rambo Look Like a Pussy. We all understand that action movies are cheesy escapism.
After all, could one commando really take out a whole compound full of bad guys? Actually, yes. It turns out the history books are full of stories of soldiers doing things so badass they'd hesitate to put them into a film for fear of killing the realism. Like these five, for example. #5. Who Was He? Simo Hayha had a fairly boring life in Finland. Since the majority of fighting took place in the forest, he figured the best way to stop the invasion was to grab his trusty rifle, a couple of cans of food and hide in a tree all day shooting Russians. Can you spot Hayha? Of course when the Russians heard that dozens of their men were going down and that it was all one dude with a rifle, they got fucking scared.
They started by sending out a task force to find Hayha and take him out. Then they tried getting together a team of counter-snipers (which are basically snipers that kill snipers) and sent them in to eliminate Hayha. . #4. Exactly. How to Travel Around the World for $418. The 5 Most Badass Prison Escapes in the History of War. Henri Giraud is a Patient Man The Capture: Henri Giraud was a 63 year-old French General with a bad leg who fought in Both World Wars.
After slowing the German advance in the Netherlands, Giraud went to the Ardennes to stop more Nazis, but got captured instead. He was taken to Konigstein Castle, a fortress that had never been conquered or broken out of during its roughly 800 year-long existence. It was used for officers and other influential prisoners in both world wars, contained a garrison, and had been updated for every technological leap of mankind.
The Escape: The Nazis and Konigstein did not know who they were fucking with. "Let's do it again, I want to try to beat my time. " Giraud's ingenious plan would take two years to put together. First, he addressed the part of prison escape that every other escapee forgets--what you'll do once you're outside the walls. Next, he needed to coordinate with somebody on the outside. Last, he got himself a Tyrolean hat. Somehow crucial in all of this. Douglas Bader.