Germans Told This American to Surrender — 45 Seconds Later THEY Were His Prisoners

He stood five-foot-five. Weighed 140 pounds. Worked as a shipping clerk in a warehouse outside Pittsburgh. The U.S. Army drafted him six months before Pearl Harbor.

Three years later, a German officer pressed a machine pistol into his stomach and told him to surrender. Behind the officer — 80 armed Germans. On the ground — four American soldiers on their knees.

Leonard Funk didn't speak German. He had no idea what the officer was saying.

So he started laughing.

What happened in the next 45 seconds earned him the highest military decoration the United States can award. But that moment in a Belgian farmyard was only the end of the story. The beginning starts on D-Day, 40 miles behind enemy lines, with a sprained ankle and 18 lost paratroopers.

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