Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1.  @wendychavez5348  Wait, what's the spray bottle of water for?
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  2. Good to have as an ally. As with the US Marines, "no greater friend, no worse enemy".
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  3.  Tucsoncoyote 2019  Can't let it go, can you?
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  4. One riot, one Ranger.
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  5. Good timing on this video; I just started binge-watching Boardwalk Empire on Prime and 1920s bootlegging is a major subject.
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  6.  @robertdurham7039  USS Nassau LHA-4 in a wild winter storm above the Arctic Circle. Waves over the flight deck 70 ft above the waterline, airplanes and vehicles straining at their tiedown chains, weather decks secured to keep idiots from washing overboard, ship rolling to scary angles, propellers cavitating and shaking the ship every time the ship pitched. Watching destroyers dive almost completely underwater and then bob up so you can see their keel. Crazy times. Can't imagine being on one of those destroyers.
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  7. A toilet specialist? What was his navy rating, Toilet's Mate Third Class?
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  8.  @LuvBorderCollies  How would you know? Were you on the Mount Hood when she blew up? Fact is, whatever happened, it happened because of something someone on the ship did.
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  9. Don't forget the epic Baba Booey prank played on Peter Jennings live on national TV.
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  10. This actually makes me a bit nostalgic for the cars of that era. My mom drove a 79 Chevy Impala and that car was nice and comfortable, her dad drove a 78, almost identical. Both were decent cars. The weird thing about remembering cars from years ago is that I can still vividly remember the smell of the upholstery in every vehicle me or my parents ever owned, odd.
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  11. We can track you from your brainwaves as long as you don't wear your tinfoil hat. We NWO types are smart like that.
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  12. "Buffers? Yeah, buffers, Senator, we got lots of buffers."
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  13.  @laserkitty3820  And Fort Mercer across the river from Philly, where the Hessians got to eat a loser sandwich good and hard with ketchup and hot sauce.
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  14.  @joeo.4546  If he was crossing the other way he would've been able to afford the toll.
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  15.  @markfryer9880  If they were smart Boeing (who owns Douglas now) would restart production.
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  16. Every Polish joke I ever heard came from the Polish half of my family. My grandfather knew a million of them, my uncle still does.
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  17. 2:00 an ad for an electric car. Take that, Tesla.
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  18.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Get ready for the flood of junk you're gonna get sent now that you've posted that address lol!
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  19. Mr. Ed. Who she ate.
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  20. For anyone who wants to see a B-47 on screen, look up the movie Strategic Air Command starring Jimmy Stewart.
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  21. Or Amtrak.
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  22. There are no gloves. They strut around with their knuckles and fangs visible to all, fearless.
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  23. 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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  24. That's a good question, would have to look that up. I know the Navy removed whatever human remains they found inside and repatriated them to Germany, and after removing as many munitions as they could access, cleared it for sport diving. Like I said before, I'm sure about the legal stuff, and I have no interest in going inside a dark, tiny space at such a depth anyway, so I've never worried about it. You can swim along the entire length of the boat outside, it's a pretty neat thing to see.
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  25.  @Marcg-b4n  I am former Marine. My dad was Navy. Out of respect for my dad and my Navy buddies I say ship.
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  26. The plus side of being in his position is that the assassins who killed three presidents never bothered targeting Hay.
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  27. They were stealing bandwidth. Using communications service without paying for it. Similar to phone phreaking in recent decades, where people figured out how to go to a pay phone booth and get free long distance calls in the 1970s.
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  28. Thanks. It's a great photo, considering the photographer is in front of the advancing troops. There is a painting, possibly by Charles Waterhouse, of US Marines making a rare modern bayonet assault to retake a position outside of Khe Sanh in 1968 which looks very similar, even the viewpoint is from approximately the same angle.
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  29. Why not? No Mexican War means Mexico isn't resentful, and no secession means no Civil War, no dead 750,000 Americans, and slavery ends peacefully like in every other Western nation.
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  30. I remember reading Ambrose's history of the Normandy invasion. He said the biggest fear of Piper Cub pilots flying over the beech on spotter missions was that they'd get shot in the testicles since the aircraft has zero armor protection. German troops were taking pot shots at them with rifles and machine guns and sooner or later they'd get a lucky hit, the aircrews reasoned. The solution was to put a small steel plate under the seat cushion, not enough to really protect the crew from anything, but just enough to get the pilot over his fear, however irrational, of getting his balls blown off.
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  31. A little bit of fallout from a low-yield high-altitude air burst, probably over sparsely populated areas, vs. megaton sized bombs going off over your population centers, it's no contest. The study of nuclear war strategy is the study of extremes.
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  32. As his mom was giving birth, the doctor was like, "It's a....it's a.....it's a.....it's a boy!" But seriously, it's a sad story and another great video, complete with bonus cat cameo!
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  33. In the American deep south the revolution was often used as a way to justify settling scores in family feuds and got pretty ugly.
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  34. I thought he was a lance corporal at the time? He was a major sea story in the Air Wing for years.
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  35. That posed photo of Marines at11:25 is pretty cool.
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  36. Was going to say something about how tough the times and people were in Kit's day, but now just sad about the History Cat.
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  37. Now if you don't vote the way the mob wants you get defriended from facebook or banned on twitter and labeled a racist.
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  38.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Ask anyone who travels along the Northeast Corridor. Trains make a lot of sense there. A train ride from DC to NY takes less time than a plane ride, once you factor in the time to get through security, travel to and from the airports, etc. And being dropped off in downtown instead of an airport 30 miles away means a short taxi ride to your meeting.
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  39. 1:55 random blimp sighting!
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  40.  @johnnypopper-pc3ss  "Blockbuster bombs...ya gotta hit 'em juuust right."
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  41. I was in the Corps in the early 90s and I remember hearing some sea stories about a Lance Corporal who stole an A-4, I always assumed it was BS like most sea stories and there was no internet to look it up on. Kind of shocked to find out it's actually true.
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  42. It's been a while but I think I was there, once.
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  43. Please tell me the sailor who threw that knife carried it in his teeth while swinging down on a rope from the yard arm. Maybe he even had an eyepatch and a pet parrot.
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  44.  @silentotto5099  They would demolish the tree the sniper was hiding in, and the sniper along with it.
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  45. Never piss into the wind.
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  46.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  You need to surreptitiously introduce some cat purring in the background. Some stealth ASMR.
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  47. My family didn't have a wagon but our friends down the street had a 70s Country Squire with the fake wood paneling. The whole lot of us would pile in and head out to the movies or to cross the river to see a Phillies game at the Vet. The rear-facing back seat with the tailgate window rolled down was a blast going over the Ben Franklin Bridge.
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  48.  @hshs5756  But even with that threat, it's tough to stay on the edge for an entire shift without getting fatigued.
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  49. @orionh3000 He'll still kick your ass into next week.
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  50. 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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