Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1.  @DavidSmith-ss1cg  They were part of the number of Americans who dabbled in Communism because it opposed racism Yeah, you did argue they weren't really spies, just communist dabblers because the Rosenbergs were anti racists and all, even though there's zero evidence of that. The Rosenbergs, Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, Harry Gold, and Klaus Fuchs were part of spy ring that passed on secrets that allowed the Soviet Union to develop their first atomic bomb at least five years ahead of schedule. They gave away secrets about the performance of the F-86 that made it easier for MiG-15 pilots to shoot them down. The Rosenbergs were the recruiters and organizers of the spy ring. You are now using the communist story that, while they might have been spies, their execution was just too brutal. That argument, also used by their communist children, was modified from the decades lone "they were totally innocent" when the secrets of Soviet spying were revealed by Soviet documents in 1995. Now the line has switched to Ethel's reputed smoke from the top of her head. Maybe Stalin's favorite form of execution would have been better - a bullet to the back of the head. I don;t know if you're actually a Soviet communist sympathizer or just a useful idiot. It's one or the other. People like you are really good at playing the reasonable humanitarian when your goal is a new communist state, but this time "doing it right". You are as transparent as cellophane.
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  2.  @andon_RT  The fact the gun disappeared behind the parapet was not mostly for camouflage but ease loading, especially with muzzle loaders. Gunners could reload the guns without being exposed to direct fire, and parapets could be made higher to give better protection to the gun and crew. Once a gun fired, the enemy knew where it was located, so the disappearing advantage rapidly disappeared. The gun pits offered no protection from plunging fire and, later on, aircraft bombs. Most modern shore batteries had their breech loading guns in armored casemates or turrets to give better protection that just a parapet.
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  3.  @dleland71  I agree. I mostly collected Morgans and some Peace dollars. The peace dollars are beautiful in their own way but were too "modern" for my taste. Morgans are a classic and timeless example of coin design.
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  4. Great story. I was the search and rescue coordinator for my sheriff's department for 20 years. We used scent dogs like Bloodhounds and area dogs like German Shepards. Bloodhounds were great as long as they had a scent article to work with. Area dogs would alert on any human in the area while Bloodhounds ignored everyone once they were on scent unless they matched the scent from an article of clothing or something similar. The best picture I have from all those years is me giving a briefing to search teams while one of our Bloodhounds was behind me happily slobbering on my pant leg. I have never seen a mean Bloodhound, let alone a vicious one. I'm retired now, but those dogs were some of the best search assets we had and made many amazing finds.
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  5.  @brucesmith54  What, you go to a special VA with nurses and doctors licensed in the Tennessee? If not, where do they come from? Don't have Bruce play games with me. I mentioned "diversity and inclusion" because it was mentioned in one of the best countries to live in lists. My point was that's impossible to measure for an entire country. It obviously means something different in Tennessee than in NYC. Classy of you to try the smear thing without any understanding of why it was written.
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  6. This is the second time in the past two weeks I didn't get a notification of a new video. Yes, I have that stupid bell rung. Is anyone else having this problem?
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  7.  @johnanon6938  Has nothing to do with radiation? There are two types of radiation, ionizing and non-ionizing, sometimes called high energy and low energy respectively. Ionizing radiation is the type produced in x-rays and nuclear bombs. Non-ionizing is the kind produced by the sun and radio wave radiation. Radio had been in use for over 20 years by 1942. The dangers of radio wave radiation were well understood, especially as we went up the spectrum. Radios and antennas had a lot of shielding to prevent stray radiation from escaping. It was understood that would reduce range and cause human effects like burns. The microwave oven's idea came from a Raytheon engineer who was working on an improperly shielded cavity magnetron radar in early 1945. He noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket, put two and two together, and Raytheon ended up filing one of the most valuable patents ever for a microwave oven in October, 1945.
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  8.  @jameshickok2349  He was indeed, Very few pilots have had the accomplishments of Bob Hoover. I'm just a not that great GA pilot, but watching him fly his Shrike at airshows was absolutely amazing.
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  9. Indeed, although I would have needed at least two years in the hospital to get over that. Some guys are just natural pilots, and Holden seems to have been one of them.
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  10. Michael Free  I was just thinking about Holden's feat again today, trying to decide how many times I would have been hollering "Oh Shit !!!" during that twelve minute flight.
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  11. James, the only thing I'm close to is an Army helicopter base. Hearing them all day is not the same as some big turbojets hanging from "real" aircraft.
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  12. It was a little of both. Not putting in hydraulics for the door was the big money saver. Once some people inside MD were asking for a door redesign, it was going to delay the introduction of the plane against the Lockheed L-1011. Adding the little window to the door helped those that could read and follow instructions, but it's the kind of fix you know will ultimately fail. The DC-10 was one of those airplanes rushed into production. By 1979, most of the initial problems had been fixed. There hasn't been a crash since attributable to problems with the airframe or systems, and it went on to a successful career with the Air Force as a tanker. If it had been properly engineered and built from the beginning it may have been one of the most successful airliners. Instead, it almost dragged McDonnell Douglas to bankruptcy and caused the deaths of hundreds of people.
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  13.  @Jay-vr9ir  Yes, all modern ships have devoted more space to cabin sizes, one of the reasons they grown to such monstrous proportions. A sink in the room in 1950 was considered a pretty good perk, and many people lived in apartments with toilets down the hall. I did, and that was in 1966. Things change.
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  14. Another great and interesting video. Even the pigeons are in your debt now. :-)
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  15.  @steveshoemaker6347  Thanks, Steve and same to you. I like to think that whatever smarts I've gained I pass it along to other before I kick the bucket. Maybe we are only meant to get so smart or so wise before we drive everyone else nuts! :-)
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  16. @Richard J Roberts The Russians didn't have an atomic bomb until 1949. This was in 1946. How exactly would leveling Russia have started WWIII? It's a lot more likely that Stalin would have been less imperialistic if he knew Truman might use the bomb on him. Oh, yeah. They wouldn't have developed the bomb for at least five more years beyond 1949 if not for US and British communist and communist sympathizer spy rings passing atomic bomb information back to the Soviets.
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  17.  @Nathan_Whaley-g8m  I'm quite certain that not having eastern Europe endure 43 years of communist bondage would have been well worth throwing our atomic bomb weight around.
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  18.  @BrianSmith-yn2zg  Just quit while you're ahead. You have no understanding of the import of the Yalta Conference or history in general.
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  19. My dad gave me my first shortwave radio for Christmas when I was ten years old. Once I put up a crude antenna, the first station I heard was BBC with an identifier using the Westminster chimes. It took me about 40 years but I was finally able to see and hear the chimes in person.
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  20. Please put up a page on SubscribeStar. I'd like to support you, but I refuse to support Patreon, a platform that censors creators rather than simply acting as a payment platform. Accurate history can't exist without hearing from all sides of an issue.
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  22.  @stuartpaul9995  Sounds like you know a couple not very pleasant gamblers. I have no ulcers, no stomach trouble, and I enjoy spicy Korean and Mexican food. The only time I get ill-tempered is when someone bluffs me out of a pot. Other than that, I think I'm pretty calm, and not snappy.
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  23. Seems like Josh has some work to do so the audio gets properly synced up to the podcast. Just dead air until 4:31.
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  24. I was flying from Los Angeles to Fiji in December 31, 1999. We hit the Dateline just before midnight and we were already at January 2, 2000 after we crossed. The captain announced it as we crossed and everyone onboard was relieved we had escaped Y2K. :-)
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  25. Lordsummerisle87, I thought I had already replied but now I don't see my comment. I know some plainclothes types were using S&W and Colt snub nose .38 special in the 60's and 70's. I think a fair number of uniformed armed police were still using Webley 38/200 revolvers, and some had started adopting the Browning Hi-Power 9mm by 1970. Colin, I think these were the same as the Browning Hi-Power, and I think the armed police started using them right after the military got them. Almost anything was better than a .7.65mm PPK.
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  26. "Ripping yarn!". I haven't heard that one for awhile. :-)
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  27. The other issue with a non-retention toilet was the risk of detection using the toilet in an area with known enemy patrols. Waste and the paper products associated with it would float to the surface and alert patrolling enemy vessel to a sub's presence. Using even a properly functioning high pressure toilet was often not possible because of this issue so the use of buckets continued right up until the end of the war.
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  28.  David Single  I can't tell if you're trolling, but New Zealand has nothing official to do with American Samoa. Auckland is the capital of New Zealand while Pago Pago is the capital of American Samoa.
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  29. His leadership dragged Congress into funding the interwar navy we'd later need to defeat Japan. His leadership dragged Congress into maintaining funding for the navy after the war instead of letting the fleet run down as we had done after WWI. is leadership dragged Congress into funding the nuclear navy we have today. He was a major supporter of many of FDR's New Deal programs. He was also a staunch segregationist, something I'm sure you're really getting at.
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  30.  @peterstickney7608  As I remember, the pilot had gotten out the chocks, but the call of nature had gotten...well, extreme by then. He threw down the chocks and yelled to one of the tarmac lads to chock the gear while he ran off. He apparently never heard him, and he emerged from the restroom to see his beautiful plane becoming a bird.
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  31. I wonder if you were quartered in the JS Cain house? Last time I was there it was being used for seasonal rangers. I wish I could have gone this summer. There were three nights the town was open until 10:00 pm, and the staff did walking tours of the Standard Mill and the town. I was stranded there overnight after a big monsoon storm in 2001 that washed out a couple of bridges. They let me unroll my sleeping bag in the stable that's now used as a vehicle shop. It was perfectly clear by midnight, and the stars were just amazing. Best night sky I have seen anywhere
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  32.  @charlesharper2357  Um, sure, okay, but I never mentioned healthcare in Australia. Maybe you meant to respond to Bruce Smith's current post about his problem.
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  33.  @brucesmith54 No, I don't use them, but I do have I have a friend who spent 25 years in the Navy and now has Parkinson's and can't drive. I've taken him to appointments in four VA facilities in three states. I have no difficulty in reading name tags and listening to accents and making a good guess about where someone is from. Maybe you get confused by that. I don't. We've now gotten to a place all leftists seem to end up - ad hominem attacks. I'm done. I know you will need to have the last word so go right ahead. You can't make yourself look worse than you've already done.
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  34.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Walter, the Swiss Army knife would be another interesting story for the History Guy to delve into.
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  35.  @AFO1  No, Nevada was indeed sunk. She was initially beached to prevent her immediate sinking, but the ebb tide displaced the hull enough she slid off the beach and settled on the shallow floor if the harbor. Because the crew had corrected her list by counter flooding before that happened, she appeared to still be upright in the water .If this had happned in deeper water, she would have sunk out of sight. She was allowed to remain in her position until refloated on February 12 to both act as a stationary antiaircraft battery and fool any Japanese reconnaissance flights that Nevada was still in service and not sunk. Remember also that Nevada and her sister Oklahoma had two twin upper turrets. It was these two barrels in her twin #3 turret that were relined and replaced by the twin barrels from Oklahoma , not Arizona . It was much easier to replace the relined barrels and cradle from the same type of turret than it would have been to try to refit them with from one of Arizona's triples.
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  36.  @studinthemaking  Well, yes, but that was after surviving two atomic bomb explosions at Bikini and a pounding by gunfire from three battleships for six hours two years later when used as a target again.. That's when the torpedo bomber was called in to try to finish her off, which it succeeded in doing. Given the massive damage she had already received, it's hardly surprising it only took one torpedo.
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  37. I'm sorry for the loss of your father. No matter how old he or you are, it's always a shock. I spent a lot ot time studying these rat and mice experiments when I was a biological psych major in the 70's. I always thought the 1:1 idea of how these rodents behaved and how humans behaved was a big mistake, and Erlich made that worse with his book. He, of course, has been proven wrong, because he never gave any weight to the human's ability to adapt and overcome. It's something to keep in mind when each new supposed crisis comes along in the popular press.
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  38.  @aaronanderson7619  Indeed. My dad was a mechanical engineer that worked on the landing gear design and construction of the B-52 and 747 during his career. The B-52 was mostly build in the pre-computer age, so they'd come up with their load factors and then add 10% for safety. I think the longevity of the aircraft is a testimony to the job all the engineers did that most of the aircraft will be 90 years old at retirement (assuming that really happens in 2050). There are still 78 B-52s left in service today By comparison, only 21 B-2 bombers were ordered due to spiraling cost and only 20 are left after one crashed on landing in Guam. The B-21 Raider, the supposed replacement of the B-52, is now projected to cost $550 million per airframe. Since the B-21 is expected fulfill many more roles than B-2, which wound up costing $1.2 billion per airframe. The probability one will really cost $550 million and the Pentagon will really be able to get the 100 aircraft it wants are both near zero. The B-52H, even with all the many upgrades done in its lifetime, only cost $60.1 million in 2018 dollars. Anyway, Merry Christmas to you as well.
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  39. Indeed, although this one was pretty major, and pointed out by the chief engineer of their subcontractor. Just penny wise and pound foolish.
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  40. Mike, the fixes put in after the Turkish crash was pretty much a complete redesign and replacement of the door, so it really wan't an issue after that. Another AD required placing a vent in the rear cabin floor to prevent a collapse after an explosive decompression. A further AD requiring more changes so the aircraft could sustain flight and hull integrity in the event of losing up to 20 square feet of fuselage was pretty much the end of the door fiasco.
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  41.  @P_RO_  You're right about us being self loading freight. I just returned for a flight from RVO to ATL via SLC. The first leg was on a Canadair Regional Jet. I used to like CRJs when they had 2+2 one class seating and those comfortable leather seats. Now Skywest has a CRJ700s with 2+3 seating with six "first" class" seats, which are just the old 2+2 layout. The aisle has to be the narrowest on any commercial jet and you have to make a big curve coming out of "first class". I'm 72 with some range of motion problems, and that plane was a challenge. It was nothing compared to the SLC to ATL leg though. I was stuck in a middle seat of an Airbus A321. Horrible. It was so tight you couldn't move your arms enough to turn the pages of a book. The distance between rows was so small that the woman next to me dropped a water bottle and it just disappeared into a black hole. I was never so glad to get off an airplane. I had ordered a wheelchair in ATL because I knew what that was going to be like. I had rented a car for my last leg home the SE Alabama. It took 45 minutes to finally get to the rental car place and then another five minutes to actually get to the cars. There's no way I could have made it walking, not to mention getting hopelessly lost. Once I finally got my car and negotiated two gates with big steel barriers and spikes, I was finally able to spend two hours driving back home through rain and fog. It was not my best trip ever.
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  42.  @tarnishedknight730  I've been a weather nerd for over 50 years and part of a volunteer Skywarn amateur radio network for about 20 years. I have my own weather station and use some fairly sophisticated radar and model tracking tools. I bring all this up just to say I'm pretty familiar with how the NWS does things. It's exceedingly rare for them to track a storm all the way across the country and not update the forecast for a storm. It's also exceedingly rare for the NWS to sensationalize a storm. If anything, their forecasts tend to be too conservative, e.g, they predict 3 inches and we get 6 inches. What I have seen over and over again is networks like The Weather Channel and local "forecasters" constantly harping on the worst case scenarios. The NWS might forecast 3-5 inches with isolated amounts of 12 inches, but the public sometimes just hears the "12 inches part". That's the kind of thing that sets off the bread and milk panics. Forecasting snow totals for any one place is still not easy, and sometimes the NWS will get it wrong. Still, the models and computers have improved so much over the past 15 years that a complete bust one way or the other is getting to be a rare thing.
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  43.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  True, but the Mexicans still want to have some jet fighters for the 201st. Like I wrote, it's as much for a ceremonial role as any operational need.
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  44. Of all the history courses I took in college, Russian history was the most baffling. It was near impossible to tell who was in charge when, and which pretender to the throne was the one who really won in the end. My only hope was rote memorization and hoping I'd pass the tests.
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  45.  @texasyojimbo  Yes, I read that study. The results are questionable though. When you remove the 2011 super outbreak, that shift is within the margin of error for location and frequency. The outlier events like 2011 tend to disrupt averages and show things happening that may just be a statistical anomaly. It will take at least another 50 years of data to say with any confidence that the shift is really happening.
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  46. The Dahlonega GA and Charlotte NC mints, operated from 1838 to 1861, only minted gold coins, and generally using gold mined from the SE United States. The first gold in the country was mined in Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina. Both were taken over the Confederate states and operated as mints for the CSA until it became clear there just wasn't enough gold being mined to keep the mints operating. Neither mint was reopened after the war, but Charlotte was operated as an assay office from 1867 to 1913, when the supply of gold from the SE US slowed to a trickle, and the assay office was no longer needed. Both mints, along with Manila, are the least remembered of the many mints that operated at one time.
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  47.  @pmvaldez1  And how do you "know" this? What does being a truck driver have to do with gathering statistic on drinking and auto accidents? It's pretty clear you have your feet in cement when it comes to your ideas about the government so I won't pester you any longer. Enjoy your world of conspiracy.
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  48.  @BrianSmith-yn2zg  Wow. It's not often I meet an actual moron on here, yet here you are. The Yalta Conference, when we gave away eastern Europe to Stalin, happened from 4 to 11 February 1945, two months before Roosevelt died. Pro tip - if you have no idea what you're talking about, Wikipedia won't help.
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  49.  @Nathan_Whaley-g8m  The utter lack of historical understanding and narcissism of your comment is breathtaking. Most breathtaking is your tradeoff of abandoning the 83 million people of the Eastern Bloc to two generations of tyranny and millions of deaths against some theoretical future threat of nuclear war that didn't even exist in 1945. Truman had the Big Stick of atomic weapons for four years that no one, not even our allies possesed. Rather than use at least the treat of our atomic power, the communist operatives in the State Department convinced him that we should just trust Stalin to do the right thing, knowing all the while that communist spy rings were busily passing our secrets to the Soviets, and we'd soon be at real risk of nuclear war. We lost a four year window when we could have forced Stalin to back out of eastern Europe and could have made the world a safer place. Instead, we did nothing, and thus began 40 years of the Cold War and MAD.
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  50. It wasn't exactly song about Henry VIII as much as a Cockney music hall song that used Henry and his wives as the foil for the lyrics. It was composed in 1910 but was later made famous by Herman's Hermits in 1965. This is the song heard in "Ghost".
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