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

Are sure that was an LVT? A Landing Craft, Vehicle is a tracked vehicle that kind of looks like a tank. There's,a picture of one at https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-P4fxJxLl2KM/Tz50tPJC_uI/AAAAAAAABLI/m5H-mXSX28Q/s640/IMGP0424.JPG. The one you show in your picture, and the one listed as carried by Glacier, was an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), and looks like this - https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/015/715/834/large/janus-buch-render06.jpg?1549372742. An LVT is not a very stable vessel in open water and seems like an unlikely craft to send off in search of a missing helicopter, even if Glacier actually had one on board.
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Excellent video as usual. One small correction. The F4U had a maximum bomb load of 4,000 pounds, and that only at the expense of useful range. Most F4U flew off carriers with about 2,500 pounds of bombs, three napalm containers, or eight 5" rockets. The Corsair, originally designed as a fighter, so it didn't have the lifting capacity to carry even two of the three typical underwing loads at once. I see some viewers have already made the correction about the type of gun armament carried. Nevertheless, these are small details in a much larger and more important story of trying to save a friend and fellow pilot. Lt. (Later Captain) Hudner continued to serve in the Navy until retiring in 1973. He worked with various veterans service organizations until the time of his civilian retirement in 1999. He was one of the few living persons to have a major warship named after him. He passed away quietly at his home in Concord, Massachusetts in 2017, living to the ripe old age of 93, especially for a combat pilot.
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@TheHistoryGuyChannel I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who does things like that. :-)
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@davidharris6581 I wouldn't do too well as the Accounting Guy either. I can't even get my checkbook right without Quicken.
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The Army still has some seagoing vessels left under its command. The largest are the General Frank S. Besson class Logistic Support vessels. They can transport and beach land everything from 82 standard 20 foot equivalent unit containers to 15 Abrams tanks. They are used for fill-in shipping and landing when the Navy's main landings are over, and are able to change loadings with less hassle than a comparable Navy ship. At 273 feet, 4200 tons, and a range of 6500 nmi loaded, they have a true global reach. There are 8 in service and another 8 on order. Just these Army landing and logistics ships have a greater capacity than most of the world's navies.
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@bigblue6917 The 1948 Key West Agreement and the Johnson-McConnell agreement of 1966 limited the Army to non-combat and unarmed fixed wing aircraft. The Army started crossing that line with the armed OV-1 Mohawk, and the Air Force and DOD put their foot down on further expansion in that direction. The last OV-1 was retired in 1996 and all the fixed wing aircraft in service now are VIP transports and small transport aircraft designed to move parts and equipment around the various bases worldwide. The vast majority of Army aircraft now are helicopters and UAVs.
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I would note, however, that the present British height requirement is because they recruit women, not to allow bantam men to serve.
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Oh my. My best friend, Rick, just lost his best friend of 15 years, Gizmo. Rick is a big guy, 6'3" and 220 pounds of muscle. Gizmo was a tiny guy, maybe seven pounds soaking wet, but he was as big a guy as Rick in so many ways. I loved Gizmo too, and Rick and I both shared a good cry as Gizmo breathed his last. If there's a heaven, I have no doubt that, before I see God, I'll see Gizmo, barking his friendly greeting, and waiting for his usual treat.
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What happened to any mention of Major James P.S. Devereux, the Marine commander of Wake? Cunningham only showed up 10 days before the invasion and had almost nothing to do with the defense plans. Devereux had drilled and exercised his men constantly since he and his detachment arrived on Wake in January, 1941. It was Cunningham that ordered the surrender against the advice of Devereux. The Marines were still fighting successfully on Wilkes Island and had almost ejected the Japanese from the island when the word came down of the surrender. Even though the final outcome was never in doubt, Marines do not surrender, and the order to do so came as a bitter blow to them. Later interviews with surviving Marines did not paint a picture of Cunningham as a respected commander.
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There was no parade to rain on. Cunningham was the officer in charge, and Devereux did as he was commanded to do. What neither could know, because all the phone lines has been cut and radio transmissions were being jammed, was that Marines and civilian workers that had become infantry on Wilkes Island were doing much better than the apparent situation on Wake and Peale Islands. Cunningham had assumed that Wilkes had fallen since nothing had been heard from the island in almost 12 hours. Contrary to that assumption, Second Lieutenant Arthur A. Poindexter's men had not only stopped the Japanese advances, they were counterattacking toward the airfield. The Japanese were falling back in front of the counterattack when the word came of the surrender. That's why the Marines on Wilkes considered it a bitter blow. No Marine questioned Cunningham's order. They just didn't like it.
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What a great story. It was more than just pride for a fire company to be first on the scene, it was a matter of financial incentive. Fire insurance companies would pay for the service of the fire company that first put water on the fire. Brawls between fire companies weren't uncommon in many places in North America. Volunteer fire departments until quite recently didn't have to meet any standards and were always more a social club than professional firefighters. Some even had bars in the back of the stations, and weekend barbeques and drunken parties were part of why men joined the fire company. Changes in how fire insurance companies reimbursed fire departments for putting out fires and the implementation of national fire codes transformed most volunteer fire departments into unpaid professionals. I'm old enough to know some volunteer firefighters who still lament the passing of the social aspects of being a fireman.
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Jim Allen Very few firefighting companies had the equipment and technology in 1855 to put out a fire. Most fires burned the structure to the foundation. What was insured was mostly the contents, so many fire companies concentrated on salvage and overhaul techniques rather than firefighting, since that's how they got paid by insurance companies. It wasn't until municipal hydrant systems and steam fire pumpers came into widespread usage that firefighters were actually be able to stop structure fires from burning buildings to the ground.
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@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 Yes, I'm very familiar with the history of the PT boat, but I have no idea how they are connected to NASCAR
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Myoko was a lucky ship in general. She participated in almost all the major naval engagements of the war. She sank or damaged several Allied warships while escaping any serious damage until the Battle of Leyte Gulf, when she was hit in the stern by a torpedo fired for an American destroyer. She had survived multiple attacks from US subs, none of them managing to hit Myoko . After breaking off from the battle, she was able to make it Singapore for temporary repairs. She was enroute to Cam Ranh Bay in what was then French Indochina for more repairs and fuel, which was in short supply at Singapore. When a portion of her already weakened stern was blown off by a torpedo from Bergall her stern bulkhead held, as the weakened portion of the stern happened to be after of strongest stern bulkhead. All Japanese heavy cruisers converted from light cruisers were dangerously overloaded, and some cruisers, including Myoko , were refit with stronger stern and bow bulkheads as well as antitorpedo bulges. Myoko was one of the last cruisers to undergo such an extensive refit, completed in April, 1941, as the course of the war interfered with most further refits of that class. In a postwar examination of the remaining stern of Myoko , it was found that three of her four propeller shafts were blown away or broken by Bergall's torpedo. It was only by the shearest of luck the one shaft held long enough to make it to Singapore for repairs to that shaft. As the video said, there were insufficient materials at Singapore to repair all the ships needing repairs after Leyte Gulf. The IJN had decided first priority for repairs would go to destroyers. Cruisers were no longer needed for the set piece battles the Japanese had assumed would decide the war since submarines and aircraft had sunk most of her major surface units. Even if she could have been repaired, there was insufficient fuel at Singapore for a large vessel like Myoko to make it back to Japan. Myoko was one of the few major surface ships that survived repeated attacks by British midget subs and air attacks at Singapore. She was damaged by still afloat at the time of the Japanese surrender, a testament to the damage control skills of her crew.
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At least one book, "Mrs Sherlock Holmes", was written about her and is available at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Sherlock-Holmes-Detective-Captivated/dp/1250072247). She really revolutionized the investigation into how immigrants were treated and how the cases of missing persons, especially women and girls, were treated. For example, it turned out Coochi had been paying off the beat officers in his block to leave him alone since he apparently was involved in some underworld crime. It was these payoffs that made sure his shop was never properly searched. No one is quite sure why she came forward with what are now regarded as some pretty fanciful stories about girls being kidnapped to various WWI Army bases to be sexually abused. She never provided any corroborating evidence to support her claims, and the Army pushed back hard on the accusations, allowing the Department of Justice and state police to search bases where the abuse was supposedly taking place. No evidence was ever found to support her claims, and Grace rapidly fell from public favor. There was a war on, and Grace was suspected of harboring more sentiments for her immigrant clients than the United States Army. Was Grace right and the whole thing had been yet another cover up, or had Grace really gone off the deep end this time? At this late date, it's impossible to tell, but Grace closed the People's Law firm and retired from public life by 1920. We'll never know the true story, but Grace, regardless of the Army accusations, had certainly showed that women attorneys and crime investigators were as good as any men at a time when the concept was rarely even thought of.
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No one should be depending on tornado sirens today. We have weather radio warning receivers available for less than $50 that will wake you up in the middle of the night and warn you with details of the tornado and its path. Not all warned storms will actually be headed toward your location. Smartphones all have weather apps that also warn you of tornadoes by relaying the same information that comes from a weather radio. While having your phone give you warnings when you're out of the house or business is much better than relying on sirens, you should have a weather radio while you're indoors. The worst tornadoes will also take down cell towers so your phone won't give warnings. Except in the most extreme cases, the weather radio will continue to function.
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Andrew Ongais There are, but my experience is the really cheap radios don't have the sensitivity to receive some stations unless you live close to a transmitter. Generally, the name brand radios like Midland and Sangean perform better and hold up better, given that the radios have to be designed and built to stay on 24 hours a day. There are some areas that do weather radio giveaways to people who meet certain income criteria so it's worth checking into if you qualify for food stamps.
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@Jivolt Well, yeah, that's what I said in the third sentence of my comment.
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@paulroberts8946 Paul, no need for apology, No offense taken. Thanks for your story about the British military Christmas traditions.
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@knutdergroe9757 Yes, that's exactly what I said.
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Great video. It's one of those events we look back on now and say "That just couldn't happen" ...but it did. This was a combination of incompetence, malfeasance, and just general bad luck. It left a hole in the middle decade of the country which still hasn't been filled. To make things even worse, some of the 1880 records were also lost or inadvertently destroyed. I've been doing my family history for decades. I'm now up to over 900 people in 14 different countries. The lack of records causes me to have about 75 relatives who have lost records of their lives from 1881 to 1900. It was a disaster still being felt to this day.
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The first extensive use of the CRT was for the oscilloscope, a way to visualize electrons being transmitted over the air or excited in a piece of electronic gear. US amateur radio operators developed the panoramic adaptor in the late 1920's, using an oscilloscope to show a series of peaks and valleys representing radio signals within a couple hundred KHz of the center signal. It was this panoramic, or panadapter, that first gave the idea for using the CRT for television and, in the late 30"s, to show the same peaks and valleys representing the return radio signals of what became radar.
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What happened in Poland also emboldened the White russians and the allies to think the Red Army wasn't really capable of fighting and winning. Even though the White Russians were the ones who eventually lost, the performance of the Red Army helped convince Hitler that the Red Army was weak and disorganized. He also believed the anti-Bolshevik left over the Russian Civil War would come over to side of the Germans when he invaded the USSR.
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It wasn't just the machine guns with which the Pigeon was armed. Hawes scrounged every gun he could get, including a pair of 3" antiaircraft guns removed from a damaged submarine and minesweeper, along with the fire control equipment to make the guns effective against high flying Japanese bombers. His men fashioned mounts for the larger guns, added four more machine guns to the original two, and used boiler plate salvaged from the damaged shipyard to construct splinter shields for the guns and armor the bridge. Even though his men as no experience with 3" guns, they obtained a manual for one and, after only a few days of study by those who volunteered to man the guns, put them into action on the very next air raid. They shot down at least three bombers and perhaps as many as six over the following days and damaged at least two more, while the machine gun crews shot down at least two planes foolish enough to fly within range of what had been assumed to be a fairly inoffensive ship.
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Excellent dramatic reading from "The Raven", one of Poe's greatest works. We had pick a passage for the elocution part of my speech class, and it was the first four stanzas of that poem that I picked.
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The Indians may not have had much of a baseball team but they did have a lot of beer stands. I lived in Cleveland until 1967 and had season tickets. A lot of fans were noted for getting drunk when beer sold at its regular price of a quarter. When I heard about the ten cent beer night,after the Rangers brawl, my first reaction was this was going to be a big mistake. As it turned out, "big mistake" was an understatement.
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There's some evidence that these massive flocks of passenger pigeons didn't just provide food for humans and animals. One of the favorite foods of pigeon was white oak acorns. The massive overfeeding on these acorns are one of the reasons for the decline of white oak numbers in the 19th century. Another side effect was the decrease in the numbers of deer mice, whose favorite food was also the white oak acorn. With the numbers of passenger pigeons in rapid decline. the supply of acorns available increased. So did the number of deer mice, and deer mice are the main reservoir of Lyme Disease. A particular variety of tick feeds on both deer mice and deer, but it doesn't generally feed on humans. Another variety feeds on deer and humans, thereby transferring Lyme Disease from deer to humans when the human is bitten by the tick. Lyme disease was almost unknown as a medical condition before the turn of the century, and the disease was only poorly understood until 1981, when the bacteria that causes the disease was first isolated. The increasing numbers of baby boomers hiking and backpacking in the woods was responsible for the massive increases in reports of a disease first recognized as a collection of otherwise vague symptoms among a group of patients in the early 70's in Lyme, Connecticut. We now see that the decline of the passenger pigeon led to an increase of acorns that finally ended up with the outbreaks of Lyme Disease we see today. On the plus side, the white oak is making a comeback as more of their acorns sprout and grow.
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@Duckless23 Indeed, and it showed once again the dangers of letting politicians plan military campaigns. Churchill did learn somewhat from his mistakes in Gallipoli, yet he still sent the Revenge and Renown to Singapore right after Pearl Harbor with no air cover, and several thousand sailors paid the price with their lives. He was a great leader in terms of rallying the people to fight the war but was a lousy tactician.
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There's a video of RA-8568 taking off on a snow covered runway on Mar 24th 2011 on the return ferry flight to Samara at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=9-fgoH3TBzw. Pretty amazing aircraft, and pretty amazing repair job for being done more or less in the woods.
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I don't buy the idea that this was the closest we ever came to nuclear armageddon. I can think of at least five incidents when both Russia and the US were preparing to launch and came within minutes of doing so. I also don't what evidence we have except for some murky CIA reports that Yeltsin was prepared to authorize a launch, and Yeltsin denies it. Global tensions were low in 1995 compared to the previous decades, and neither the Russians nor the US were seriously thinking a nuclear strike by either side was possible. A single rocket, even if were to contain an EMP weapon, would not be enough to blind all of the Russian's defense radars. By 1995, satellite detection systems were becoming more important that radars ass exemplified by the closing of the DEW Line in 1993. The Russians were able to see the launch from Norway by satellite, and they know it wasn't coming from a ballistic missile sub within the first minute. They also knew we or the Norwegians didn't maintain even short range missiles in Norway let alone anything long range. There are reports that the main Russian computers used to analyze missile tracks were offline for software updates. That meant it took longer to analyze the launch longer than usual. I've the accounts of this before, and it appears the main problem was the operators of Russia's radar system were never notified of the Black Brant launch. That was the core of the crisis, and these kinds of lajunches now can't be done without return messages confirming that everyone down the line knows about.
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Do you have a link to something showing Yeltsin had the briefcase open with a key inserted? Yeltsin denies that ever happened. An aide bought the briefcase to his office, but I haven't seen any reliable evidence it went further than that. Yeltsin has even said he was willing to see one rocket impact Russia rather than launch an all out retaliation, assuming a single rocket was a mistake, or a scientific rocket like this one, rather than risk armageddon. The Russians were well aware of Black Brent rockets and their radar and satellite signatures. I'm not saying your assessment is wrong. It's hard to get at the truth when both the Russians and some in the US are doing their best to play it down or play it up. Russian General Vladimir Dvorkin is part of the former group while guys like Bruce Blair are part of the latter. After reading and listening to multiple accounts, mostly from people with axes to grind, my own assessment was it was one of the many small crises we've had throughout the nuclear age. I come from the duck and cover age, and how we made it this far seems like a miracle to me.
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I had read that article previously, and it contains the same ambiguous wording about what "activated" meant. Yeltsin was in the runup to the 1996 election, and he made the statement during a press conference to show he was the guy in charge. Yeltsin was prone to being a little hyperbolic at times. I agree that the biggest risk during that period was the deterioration of the old Soviet systems as result of the general decline of the economy. People were no longer joining the army, because civilian pay was so much higher, and there weren't sufficient replacements to fill in as other ranks retired. Soldiers working the radar systems sometimes had to stand 24 to 36 hour shifts and were dead on their feet. It was a system ready for trouble in 1995. Putin, like him or not, has improved the situation with the army, and the dire times of the economic collapse have turned around. I don't know if you've heard about a guy named Stanislav Petrov. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Army in 1983 and was the duty officer for the Oko early warning system on September 26, 1983. His actions truly saved the world from all-out nuclear war, and he's largely forgotten today.
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David Single No, you never mentioned any slaves and a Samoan politician until your last post. You only asked about if Auckland was the capital of American Samoa and if is was part of NZ. I have no idea how my answer was rude or insulting. I just gave you the facts. If you have information anything I wrote was wrong, I'm all ears.
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@lizj5740 The population of Samoa is 202,000. The number of Samoans living in NZ is 65,000. There are obviously more So moans living in Samoa than NZ.
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Ken Hudson Ken, Meniere's Disease and Syndrome are just variant names of the same thing. I have had all the symptoms you've had. Surgery is almost never effective. I lost 90% of the hearing in my left ear in the first week after my first symptoms, vertigo and vomiting. I had returned from a diving trip and my doctor thought I had a case of barotrauma of the inner ear. That usually clears up in about ten days, and this didn't. The hearing loss sent me to an ENT doctor who thankfully was also an Meniere's expert. He did a few tests, listen to my symptoms, and declared it to be Meniere's in the space of an hour. I really had all the classic symptoms. My really bad attacks have been controlled with valium, and I take a diuretic every day to get rid of excess fluid. I've been in a burnout phase for the past five years and haven't had a serious attack. Like you, my main hearing loss has been in the human voice ranges, and a hearing aid only amplifies sound in my one more or less good ear. I have constant tinnitus, sometimes so bad I can't use a hearing aid. Still, I'm able to drive, and my work as a consultant before I retired allowed me to catch up with tasks in between attacks. I've been retired for about ten years so I at least no longer have to worry about Meniere's making me unable to work. It's a terrible condition with no known cause or cure, and every few have even heard about it. It's a tough life, but at least it hasn't killed us.
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Great stuff. I must say Cicero's life was little hazy to me. Since I last took Ancient History almost 50 years ago, it's not the kind of thing that remains in memory long. Your episode brought it all back again though. When's the exam? :-)
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Great story, and one I hadn't heard before. The aircraft shown at 3:25 preparing for takeoff is an SR-71B. It was a trainer used to prepare and evaluate pilots for what was a grueling task, and can be recognized by the second cockpit in the bulge over the lower cockpit. Flying the SR-71 required men who could essentially not move for 12 hours while sitting in a confining pressure suit, and could feed themselves using toothpaste like tubes of food-[like material through holes in their visors using a mirror to see if the tube nozzle was going to the right place. .The only survivor of the two SR-71B's built is on display at the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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The meteorological characteristics of a blizzard are either large amounts of falling snow or blowing snow, winds greater than 35 mph, and, most importantly, visibilities of less than 1/4 mile for at least three hours. Many of the things called blizzards in the popular press are actually just heavy snow since they don't meet the technical qualifications of a blizzard. The public also has the idea that blizzards have large amounts of falling snow. You can have a blizzard, commonly called a ground blizzard, when there's no falling snow at all. Those winds pick up snow already on the ground and blow it around to reduce the visibility to that 1/4 mile or less, and generally pile up the moving snow into huge drifts. Some of the worst blizzards we've had in terms of their effects on human and animal life have been ground blizzards. Since no or very little snow falls with these blizzards, they don't tend to make it into the record books that only look at total snowfall.
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Correct. The 2011 event was the largest and most deadly outbreak in modern times. While the deadliest tornadoes generally occurred in the Southeast, the storm system set off tornadoes all the way up into New York and Ontario. Although the storm system lasted three days, the most intense part of the storm happned on April 27, when a record 217 tornadoes occurred from midnight to midnight, of which four were rated EF-5. The 317 deaths on April 27 were the most in a single day since the devastating Tri-State tornado outbreak of March, 18, 1925, when 747 people lost their lives. It's hard to compare these super outbreaks since the records, even from 1974, are not as complete as 2011. While the 1925 outbreak killed more people, it appears the 2011 outbreak had more long track intense tornadoes, but there are a lot of guesses in anything before the satellite and radar eras.
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Yahir Fernando More friggen spam! At least update your algo so it's not posting on two year old comments, ya giant dope!
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