A hero soldier recalled the horrific moment in battle when he looked down and realised his left arm had been blown off. By the time he reached an American field hospital, paratrooper Jaco van Gass had less than a pint of blood left in his body.
As reported by the Mirror, Jaco was on a mission to capture the head of a Taliban terror cell when he was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. It tore off his left arm and part of his leg but he kept on firing his pistol at the enemy.
“It was when I was trying to hold my rifle in the correct position that I realised something didn’t feel right," he said. "Where my left arm should have been there was just empty space.
