Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered"
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Yeah, we've heard that before, it's called the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. Everywhere communism has been tried it's been a disaster, and evil that results in, at best, a stagnant economy and an oppressive regime, and at worst, megadeaths (and an even more repressive regime). There is absolutely no reason to believe that guys like you will finally "get it right" if we just give you another chance, give up all our liberties and property, and hope for the best. Ill take my freedom with all its flaws and imperfections, thank you very much.
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On the differences between the USAF and Navy versions of the A-7, there was a sea story* I heard once. A couple of USAF A-7's landed at a Navy base in California, and in addition to fuel, the pilots asked the Navy guys to recharge the pilot oxygen systems. Apparently, Navy A-7's used a higher pressure O2 system than the USAF version, but nobody told the poor young petty officer who was sent out to the flightline with an oxygen cart. He plugged in the cart, cranked up the pressure and opened the valve. The Corsair promptly exploded! I saw a photo: the engine was sitting there surrounded by airplane parts. They sailor was thought to be dead, but they couldn't find his body. A couple of days later he showed up and explained: After the plane blew up, he took off running and hopped the fence to go hide out in town, thinking that for sure he was going to burn for this. I didn't hear what they actually did to the guy, but I'm guessing he didn't get punished as bad as he was expecting lol.
*In US Navy/Marine parlance, a "sea story" is a story which may be true or may be complete BS or something in between.
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I've heard this story many times and I find the conventional interpretation of it to be a bit dubious. The Arrow was indeed a very advanced aircraft, but it was likely limited due to its pure interceptor design. In its intended role for continental defense it may have done as well as its later American counterpart, the F-106, which stayed in service until the 1990s, but the Arrow would likely lacked the multirole versatility of the F-4 Phantom, which was used for air-to-ground missions extensively as well as air-to-air. Could the Arrow even handle itself in a dogfight against other fighters? The Phantom certainly could, when flown right, and in tests the F-106 even did well.
Then there's the question of how fragile the Canadian aerospace industry was. When one big project cancellation results in the shutdown of your nation's entire industry, it doesn't say much for the resiliency of the business to begin with. A lot of big projects in the US were canceled over the years as well, and while occasionally a company would go out of business or merge, the US aerospace industry was never seriously in trouble. The B-70 comes to mind right off the top of my head.
Finally, the idea of Canada pulling off an Apollo-Saturn style moon landing project is a bit much to believe. Where to even start with that? Sounds a lot like the lost golden age myth fantasy. Canadians have played a large role in the US space program, but to imagine the Canadian government shouldering the financial burden of a NASA type moon landing program, with all the public scrutiny that comes with it, is just too much for me. Public perceptions about government spending is what led to the guy who canceled the Arrow, after all.
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What you said about how the forest has changed so radically in the last 100 years made me think. When we think about what makes our time different from the past we always think about things like technology, clothing fashion, hairstyles, etc., but it's important to remember that even the very land itself was different, something movies never rally seem to convey. I was in Virginia at the Bull Run battlefield and besides the obvious incursion of sprawl in the area, I couldn't understand the sight lines as described in history, and then someone explained to me that in the 1860s there were a lot fewer trees than there are today, because it was all clear cut for farming. Look at a map of Boston today and compare it with a map of the same city in the 1770s; not only are there obviously more buildings, but the landscape itself is completely different, rivers and shorelines all changed.
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I love your channel, History Guy, I find myself clicking on one after the other, and I especially love these ones about significant events that should be remember but have faded in memory for some reason. I have a suggestion for you: The collision, fire, and explosion of the Queeny and Corinthos on the Delaware River near Philadelphia on January 31st, 1975. I was very little at the time living nearby and I remember the explosion and then my dad watching the fire on the local news, it was a huge event, giant column of smoke, the river was on fire, and several sailors were killed, but the weird thing about it is that many people living in the area today, even those old enough to remember it, don't remember it or only dimly remember it. Funny how the internet makes it seem as if things that took place before we could upload video didn't really happen.
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It is, but I doubt any stories from people claiming to bring back pictures of Hitler. For starters, the Navy went through it pretty thoroughly decades ago when the wreck was discovered, mainly to remove as many munitions as possible (some are still there, inaccessible, including at least one live torpedo warhead). Since then, the wreck has been dived on by thousands of people. Getting inside the sub is dangerous and stupid, as the hatch openings are very narrow and the wreck is deep for a sport dive, at 110 feet, so going inside means removing your dive rig and pulling it in behind you, while only having about 8-10 minutes of bottom time. Also, not sure, but I think it may be illegal to remove anything from inside the wreck, could be wrong about that.
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I used to work in a building with a framed photo hanging on the wall of a formation of US Navy destroyers steaming in line ahead, colors flying. These were modern Arleigh Burke class destroyers, not WWI ships, mind you, but destroyers nonetheless, and the photo was amazing. When people think of the US Navy they tend to think of aircraft carriers, planes, and other big ships, but those destroyers just conveyed power and might like no other. The old school Navy, the surface fleet with its guns and missiles and masts and yard arms, radar antennas, and flags flying, plowing through the waves into harm's way. Hats off to the destroyer crews on patrol around the world.
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@HootOwl513 Truman stated that Marines were nothing more than the Navy's police force, and that's all they'd ever be if he had his way. And that was after the Pacific campaign. Truman was old school Army from WWI and the Corps was in a transitional period then, acting as a second land force in Europe and moving away from its maritime roots, while encroaching on the Army's "turf". Thanks to Lejeune, the Corps found its current role the nation's amphibious power projection force, getting back in touch with the sea, and this paid off in the war with Japan, which Lejeune correctly saw coming. After the war, though, guys like Truman and others tried very hard to break up the Corps and divide its assets and troops amongst the other services. Various excuses were made, such as "no amphibious warfare in the atomic age" and so on, but the Corps' proponents lobbied hard and Congress codified the mission and strength of the Corps in law as a result. Even in modern times, there are still people who don't understand why we have a Marine Corps, or why Marines aren't part of the Army instead of the Navy Department. David Hackworth was one of the latter; despite respect for the Corps he thought it should be merged with the Army. I lost a bit of respect for him when I read that. The Corps derives its strength from its partnership with the Navy and its ability to develop and manage itself apart from Army leadership (and importantly, Army budget controls), while being able to operate alongside the Army when called on.
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The Navy and Marine Corps have safety magazines and training films that show gruesome accidents, the results of not following safety rules. There was a magazine article that showed what happened when a Marine didn't duck down as he walked away from a helicopter with drooping blades. The blade swiped the top of his head, scalping him. His cranial helmet probably saved his life, but there was a photo of the scar on his head and what is probably a permanent bald spot.
Another incident was a Marine who improperly disassembled the nose landing gear of an A-4 Skyhawk, resulting in him laying on the hangar floor with the nose of the jet on his chest. Marines came out and lifted the jet off of him by sheer muscle power, but he didn't live long.
A Navy mechanic was trying to get up to the cockpit of an A-6 Intruder, so he thought he would just back his plane tractor up to the side of the jet and stand on top of the tractor. He failed to notice he was approaching the engine intake, which hit his back and forced his body forward onto the steering wheel and jamming his foot on the accelerator. He was crushed to death by his tractor.
There is a famous video on youtube of a sailor on a carrier flight deck being sucked into the engine of an A-6. He was fortunate that his body was jammed against an inlet vane before he reached the spinning engine blades. His cranial helmet got sucked through and damaged the engine, while he had nasty injuries.
Flight decks are particularly dangerous places, because with all these engines running all around you you cannot rely on your hearing to protect you. My dad served on a carrier in the 1960s and witnessed a man walk into a propeller, killed instantly.
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I really think it's rude when people constantly harp on this. Lots of people don't speak English, either, but you don't expect him to translate, too, do you? The strongest economy in the world uses English units, so maybe it's in your best interest to learn a bit about them. They are historical units, used in old literature, so it's worth the time. And for the record, Americans do use metric, maybe more so than even they realize. Beverages are sold in liters, some foods are sold in kilograms, the US military uses kilometers, and any American who receives science or engineering education has to learn metric to the point where it's second nature. Rough conversions in your head are not difficult, if you just take a few minutes to learn and memorize them.
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The modern laws of warfare are an outgrowth of the concept of chivalry. Concepts like treatment of POWs, accepting surrendering enemies, and so on, as well as refraining from using certain weapons deemed to be too uncivilized. There is a practicality to it, in that you don't want your own troops to be abused if they get captured, and maybe more importantly, you don't want to cede the moral high ground representing your own society by stooping to the level of barbarity. As with the old codes of chivalry, modern laws of warfare can be conflicting or irrational, get broken pretty much all the time, and get enforced more often against the losers, but we need them as a ideal to strive for.
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I often pause these vids to look up locations in google maps when THG mentions them. I immediately looked up 129 Spring St. in Manhattan, and looked at the indoor photos. Sure enough, there's that well, right against the wall on the sales floor next to the cash register! It's like 6 feet tall so you can't just walk up and look down into it, and it looks like it has some sort of planks covering the top, but I wonder if the store's owner or employees ever climb up and look down into that creepy hole where that poor woman's body was found. Just being in that shop in broad daylight with people walking around looking at clothes next to that thing seems creepy enough. https://www.google.com/maps/place/COS/@40.7239954,-74.0004869,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipNoBgnokbTM6HwxIuQxFLoNwcNmko9Y6hpJ3pAl!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNoBgnokbTM6HwxIuQxFLoNwcNmko9Y6hpJ3pAl%3Dw203-h114-k-no!7i5312!8i2988!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x89c2598c5e51e2f3:0xce2f3449f490f818!2sSoHo,+New+York,+NY!3b1!8m2!3d40.723301!4d-74.0029883!3m4!1s0x89c2598ea0e79733:0xbf80e2cfade1daaa!8m2!3d40.7239953!4d-74.0004871
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