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Like miami in oklahoma its pronounced miama

Why are people so hyper critical? Nearly every city/state/country has a different (and correct) way of pronouncing its name.

Good to know. I used to live in Boise, ID. Ironically, _Boise, Idaho_ is often labeled _Boise City_ online in things such as drop-down lists.

The History Guy: History Deserves

Matthew Bromwell Sorry, that makes too much sense

Excellent idea!👍

Matthew Bromwell. But that would mean the History Channel would feature... history? That would just be absurd!

Definitely, but then sadly most people wouldn't watch it.

@@1stAmbientGrl True 😞

This comment deserves to be remembered.

He should put that on a tshirt!

What would have made that even funnier would have been if Irene had replied: "Who the heck are "they"?"

Welp, I've got my new notification sound!

@@guyfawkes9951 Upload it to Zedge and share the link! 👍

@@IntrepidFraidyCat Your wish, etc. Hope it works. www.zedge.net/ringtone/f3b3fd4c-6df5-4389-91f1-50d33bdb86e6

Beats a bag of burning dog crap...

That would have been me, before I went into the Air Force. In my youth, I slept through a small grocery store blowing up down the street, Then years later, a large pottery plant blew up even closer to my home, and I slept right through it too. Basic Training solved that for me. Constantly listening for the T.I.'s to walk by your bunk, wearing taps on their shoes.

Well God damn, who's thrown mud on my porch?

There was a vessel implosion at a polyethylene plant near my house. It took the all the windows all across the neighborhood. Neighbors described a great blast and ground shock. I slept through it in the basement. I thought I was a light sleeper before that.

When I was about 5 years old. My family was living in a mobile home park. I had the bedroom facing the street. Well one night the trailer on the other side of the road had a problem with its gas and burnt down. I was sleeping next to the window all night long while the fire department was parked about 12 feet from my bed with there lights and radio blasting.... *shrugs*

it needs to be a drink, 2p Kahlua and 1p wild turkey?........yea thats fitting for the mud and turkeys we have here in Okla.

The things you can learn on this channel are remarkable!

@@BORDEMentertainment2 Here's mud in your eye😉😉😉

When you get them, I'd like one in 2X

Obscure quote from Bugs Bunny, who also said, "Hoboken? I'm dyin'!"

"That all folks!"🎵

Classic.

This ain't Pismo Beach!

@Manley Nelson look it up. They dropped a nuke on Albuquerque but it didn't go off. For real. Look it up.

i know i love how he adds in funny bits while acting very serious

@@maclawson5514 Check out the replies under jorge6207's reply. Someone uploaded a ringtone of THG saying the "God Damn..." phrase. So funny...and it works well. 😉

@@IntrepidFraidyCat lol i love it

I honestly wouldn't have thought the windows alone back then were that cheap.

@@subduedreader5627 They weren't. There just wasn't much that needed to be replaced. You didn't need trained experts to replace the sashes. And it's highly possible that only the glass and muntins needed replacing. Windows we have now have thicker glass, and they're double or triple paned with inert gas between them.

Not in the Bay Area !!

@Robert Pruitt I guess I'm used to that then. At least they weren't stained glass!

It's because we don't calculate inflation accurately.

Early in WW2, 5 MILES from the intended target was considered accurate by the RAF. The USAAF got that accuracy up with the introduction of the Norden bomb sight, (mechanical) "computer"- corrected . The RAF did achieve much better accuracy later on when both 617 and 9 squadron specialised in precision bombing using "Tallboy" (12,000 lb) and later on "Grand Slam" (22,000 lb) bombs against specific targets such as the V-1 and V-2 sites in France and "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord - they had to as these super-heavy bombs were very expensive- almost hand-made. I'll set aside the arguments about the morality of area bombing of civilian targets such as cities.

@Dr. M. H. The intent, obviously, is to keep our military personnel from killing civilians. There are two reasons for this. First is to maintain the veneer of civility and fairness. We can only tell ourselves we are the good guys if we don't napalm babies. The second is to manage PR. If our civilians become distraught over what they are shown they will demand an end to hostilities and, horror of horrors, cut military funding. No general wants that.

That's the problem...live some place that long and you don't know anything about it. Wonder if New Yorkers really never go up the Empire State Building, or if they do then just pretend they don't because it's a tourist thing. That said, I learned about the bombing run when I first took students to visit the beef jerky company in Boise City. Also learned that those meat sticks you can buy are a way to dispose of the left-overs from jerky. Really. Bombs, jerky, and lots of fun in that panhandle.

Indeed. He was a hero, as were all those guys. This is the loss of which I am speaking.

That saying is ignorant and foolish. Tell that to our forefathers who fought the revolutionary war.

So I guess then no one died in the Revolutionary War? No one suffered psychological traumas? To say you can win a war is the ignorant foolish thing, because it makes you more likely to engage in a war. Could the US have won it's independence had everyone involved knew there was no winner in war? Countries have used war to gain what they want, but even if they gain those things, the cost was incredibly high. Possibly too high. Do you think the widows and orphans created by the Revolutionary War felt the cost was worth it? Do you think they care that you enjoy a freedom that they never had? If a time traveler told you that life in the 23rd Century would be like Orwell's 1984, with no hope of freedom for anyone ever but if you sacrificed your life and the lives of your family, you wife and kids, would you willingly make that sacrifice? Remember none of your descendants will be there. Also, no one would know about that sacrifice. Don't cop out with "How do I know the traveler is telling the truth?" Just assume you have a way and that he is telling the truth.

@@erictaylor5462 - tell that to oppressed people who rise up against their oppressors and overthrow them. No one is saying war is some romantic interlude, but to take this "woe is me" attitude as though no one ever wins a war is moronic. The sorrow of the one does not outweigh the benefit to the many. You sound like a bleeding heart leftist.

Did I say it was "woe is me?" No, I simply pointed out the cost of war. No one ever does win a war. Sometimes war is necessary, but war is ALWAYS evil. The world isn't back and white. Sometimes you need to do something bad to counter something worse. It doesn't make that bad thing any better. Personally, I think war should be avoided when possible. This does not mean "Avoid war at any cost." Something like 72 million people died in WWII. That cost was so high because "leftists" wanted peace so much, they ignored all the signs of aggression. What do you think would have happened had Chamberlain declared war in Germany when Hitler militarized the Rhineland? You call me ignorant, but I think I know a shit ton more about this than you do. People like you are a huge problem. You see something you don't agree with and you assume they are a "bleeding heart leftist". You don't understand that both sides have good and bad ideas, and no one is defined by what ever views their side holds. You just hold whatever idea on any given subject the conservatives have and never think about it any deeper than that. You are too lazy to think for yourself. Many liberals are the same way, but hold the opposite political view. People like you are the ones who are destroying this country.

My father was also in the 367th Bombardment Squadron of the 306th, but at a later time from 1953 to 1957 when they had converted to B-47 jet bombers. I thank both my father and your grandfather for their service.

Your grandfather is one brave man!! May he rest in peace!! which is more than i can say for the pilot!! what happened to the captain goes down with his ship???

@@robinrodriguez480 well, he couldn't jump, because he was jewish. The pilot could. So not having him take the controls would have lead the pilot being killed for 0 gain for anyone. In fact, even on an actual ship, the captain is and always has been perfectly allowed to save himself, *IF HE CAN NO LONGER ASSIST IN SAVING ANYBODY ELSE* It's not the case that just because a captain is incapable of saving every other member of his crew, that he thus has to basically commit suicide. He only has a duty to do every last thing he can do to TRY and save every other member of his crew, before he saves himself, untill *there are no more reasonable steps he can take*.

Strongbow he was a brave man

@@robinrodriguez480 the pilot was in no danger just because he was Jewish. The navigator wanted to try to get over occupied France in the hope that the French Resistance would hide him.

Archerfish1977 I live in Louisville and haven't been to that cemetery, yet. I didn't know about the mass graves. That's awful. Thanks for sharing.

I live here in Louisville, thank you for the info. I didn't know.

Dorothy V. - When I saw this video, I thought about you and resolved to send you a link next time you were over at BRT as it seems to have your sense of humor. Then, I read through the comments, and found this one. No need. Great minds and all that . . . This guy is really great! Hope you saw his video on the ICBM exploding outside of Little Rock!

This anecdote reminds me of the sad tale of B-24 Lady Be Good

@Chris Case, yes that was a tragic event but it's just one of many. That's why I'm proud to display my American flag, our country might be messed up but I salute all who have given their lives for us. I'm also a veteran so it's kind of like my duty.

The truth hurts sometimes.

@@chriscase6575 For whatever solace from that tragedy can be had, it was the diary of Lt. Toner that allowed the Air Force to revise desert survival tactics- the crew lived and traveled much further than was previously thought possible.

I must have missed that, I thought he meant accidents not casualties.

Mark Nerren it is in front of the chamber of commerce, which is an old train caboose.

h lynn keith lol

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Not that far from the truth. There is an interesting history to how Boise City came to be. It was a scam akin to modern time hares with artists' renderings of tree lined streets and neat frame houses, NONE OF WHICH EXISTED, and the scammers didn't even own the land, but homes and building lots were pre-sold sight unseen, back east, to a small number of unsuspecting victims. We used to send the homeless people we didn't want in Springfield Colorado down to Boise City OK. I am quite sure they did NOT very much appreciate that practice at all, and I am also sure they sent them off somewhere else too. ONE REALLY NICE THING ABOUT THESE OKIE/TEXAS PANHANDLE TOWNS, WE ALL HAD OUR OWN NATURAL GAS POWER PLANTS. Sink a well hit gas install a separator and a pressure regulator, hook up a prime mover or two, or however many you wanted or needed to use, and start them up. My father and I surveyed to sink tiny tap wells to run Waukesha powered irrigation pumps, all running on natural gas.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel My great grandmother wrote a very nice few pages in her diary about an ammunition train that caught fire somewhere outside of Fruita, Colorado (the other side of the mountains by Utah, not Kansas). The town's people from a few surrounding towns thought the Japanese might be invading, and they all began to muster arms, gathered together, and started to march off towards the river, and thus toward the train tracks, only to find cases of bullets, rockets, mortars artillery shells all on fire and shooting off an all different directions. My Uncle Don had buckets filled with old shells. I want to say some were 105mm. Others looked to be closer to 50mm. There were also Bazooka shells (unexploded). Grenades, (undetonated). If it got hurled off by another exploding shell they flew off in the air and landed undetonated EVERYWHERE! I loved the Soapy Smith story. My cousin worked as a tour guide in a tourist attraction in Leadville. We used to go give her fits, by paying for a guided tour and then asking her ridiculous questions that no one could possibly answer.

You almost made me choke on my chocolate cake..haha..

Money value today would still be about the same.

Yes you would. Probably with a shot of whisky

@Mycel Do not be too hard on Carl. Not everyone understands or appreciates the joys of being a hard core coffee drinker.

@Mycel Sounds good to me. Especially now the colder weather is upon us. It's interesting how many people like a shot of something in their coffee. Hat's off to those fine people.

I respect the attitude of the victims of the bombing. It clearly shows an attitude of support and patriotism that is greatly needed today.

Unknown to this Oklahoma resident, even!

Watch the film Bomber Harris on KZfaq. During the Second World War navigating at night over blackened out cities in Europe was no easy task. There was a reason why the Americans insisted and persisted on day time bombing while the British did night time bombing. This was long before GPS devices from satellites...

Pronunciation is CORRECT!

I grew up in the area and didnt know about it!

I was once awarded a death certificate for getting my Civil Air Patrol Flight crew killed in a mock radiological monitoring exercise way back when..we were near a Nuclear power plant and the Guys in charge of the practice decided to take advantage of having a trained air crew with the proper gear in the area..and had us play the part of a monitoring aircraft...I missed my mark and got the aircraft, I was in, into the plume from a simulated meltdown... I forgot to allow for wind direction and speed making a turn during the grid search and presto I was off course by just enough to get into the plume.

@@wbnc66 Seriously?! I was joking when I posted that comment!

Yep, I am one hundred percent honest...you do NOT want to know how often planes get lost/off course.....just think of that when ya get on an airliner.....now its less common due to GPS... unless you set up the nav -system improperly or thee is a failure...the pilot is depending on the instruments and if it tells him he is on course he may not have any way to know they aren't flying into restricted airspace over a Russian island with a Mig Interceptor coming up behind ya.

@@wbnc66 Oh, God! Do I want to know about the MiG?

It got orders to fire on the intruder...and the pilot fired.....Airliners don't do well against missiles....its known as "Flight 007"

Flour or flower?

Mana from Heaven?

I live in Prince William Sound area of Alaska. It gets so goddamned cold up there in Fairbanks, it more than likely froze SOLID before it hit the cabin so I'll bet it didn't look as cool as it could have in a warmer climate!!

...flour...tale...

Training missions out of what is now Goodfellow AFB routinely dropped flour bombs. Local ranchers permitted the military to place stones in fields to resemble the shape of battleships.

Gaming sentry cool, My uncle has a piece of the titanic in his backyard.

My aunt has the wheel that hit Aryton Senna and killed him; it landed in her lap at the race. True story

I have a piece of a Roman well in my house...

I found a cannonball from the civil war while digging around the dirt at my elementary school. It sat in my backyard for years before I found out what it was.

I have a 9 cylinder aircraft engine stuck in my shed for some reason

No, it was his Dad, but the fruit didn't fall far from the tree! (Not that was gonna, with Pyle Sr. in charge!)

America wasn't populated with snowflakes then.

@@xaenon Not many snowflakes in July.

@@6yjjk The snowflakes I'm referring to exist everywhere and in all climates. They suck the life out of everything they encounter, and the worst part is, they're breeding.

@@xaenon I knew what you meant. :)

Back then, it was "no harm no foul", besides that we were at war, for real, not saber rattling with the Soviets, or some CIA banana war, or a "police action", but a real war, war. Gasoline, coffee and sugar were being rationed. Imagine a snowflake without his Starbuck's Coffee for people who don't know what coffee is, let alone without any gas for his Subaru. Next try to draft him into the army, and see how many excuses he can come up with, while he tries to puncture his ear drums with a safety pin.

I did read about your grandfather- sources seemed to differ as to whether it was the sheriff or the "bomb warden" who contacted Dalhart. I am sorry that I left him out. I also intended to mention the sign in the conclusion and for got that too! Thanks for bringing both up!

Yeah, because back then you wouldn't get a bazillion dollar fine from town inspectors if you tried to fix something yourself instead of calling "professional repair service" which would charge you bazillion dollars to (badly) plug one hole in the wall of which they pay half to inspectors after.

What a great marketing idea!

Excellent idea, I tell my kids little stories from history & geography at dinner. My 16 year old daughter want's to be a History professor as a result. Hi from Brisbane.

Great for teaching kids history! Even the adults would love them!

FANTASTIC idea for placemats !

Yeah, and that’s just Army Air Corps pilots and flight crews. If I understood correctly.

Great film and good memory but wasn’t Savage a one star General in the movie?

I was thinking that same line. And Savage was a One Star General.

... Great movie. He was a one star, not a colonel.

Yes. You mean without the left and the self-serviant damage their polictical agenda creates.

@@workhardism No I guess he means when stupid people didn't politicise everything and just got on with what they had to do - sorta taking responsibility for themselves rather than hiding behind 'rights' or being a political jerk

Bibles were banned from public schools, the Ten Commandments were defaced from public display and then we all got stupid.

There was a war going on ... a war we could still lose ...

Thats because they were more freaked out about the Axis. Then later, the Soviets. People where in a constant state of freaked out for about 40 years.

dav snow Upon what does the moisture condense to form a contrail? Serious question!

@@kpowers74 *Contrails* (condensation trails formed usually at high altitudes and low temperature) can be caused by localised changes in pressure such as when the aerofoil-shape of the propeller blade passes through it at rapid RPM, as seen in the picture I mentioned earlier. The resulting sudden change in pressure causes the water vapor present in the air to rapidly lose temperature, thus condense into water droplets and freeze into tiny ice particles which are visible. Its not necessary for the vapor to condense onto _a surface._ Condensation occurs naturally in the free atmosphere as clouds, and you can also see this similarly happen when a soda bottle is opened and the sudden drop in pressure (as the carbon dioxide escapes) causes a drop in temperature and the water vapor becomes a visible collection of tiny water droplets. See extensive description in Wikipedia.

So the water attracts to water?

I didn't say I was psychic.

Somehow I knew you were going to say that. Strange.

If there was some actual concrete information on the guy, it might make a good story, however, it seems like a lot of hearsay and story telling.

@@aussiemilitant4486agreed but that could be said about alot of peoples 'personal' history. Alot of Alexanders travels before his employment in the Sikh Empire are certainly hard to corroborate but after that time no. His 'memoirs' are certainly an interesting read.

It was a B-25 medium bomber, not a B-17 heavy bomber.

fyi on B-25 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qJqZkth5mZ-mYGw.html

@wargent99 The history guy has done a lot of stories that I knew nothing about and that is why I love this channel.

You want a laugh the B-25 Empire state crash is often cited as to the reason why the twin towers could not have been brought down by a air plane. That is why people know about that...LOL

War game much?

Particularly clever since "Boomer" has special meaning in Oklahoma.

Except for tornadoes.

The only thing between Oklahoma City and Denver is a barbed wire fence that land in the panhandle of both stars and in Colorado, New Mexico too ain’t nothing there to brag about good grief. What’s the difference between Oklahoma and Texas? Somebody’s going to have to show me because my lying eyes don’t see a difference

Preston Flowers, US 287 going through the panhandle is the worst pavement anywhere in America.

@@Matthew_Eitzman There are worse roads around here, but they dont connect any towns that have a population more than 1000. Go drive down Highway 94 in east Colorado...

when traveling that is one of the few places I can't get cell phone service.

The Army assigned him to make a film to recruit aerial gunners. He qualified as an aerial gunner and flew five combat missions.

In WW2, the P-61 record is best summed up as too little, too late.

Much more reason to be remembered..

They were called "Night Witches" and were comprised of 100% female pilots. Supposedly the name came from the German soldiers who claimed the sound they made when making their bomb run reminded them of witches on broomsticks. Not sure if anybody in the world has ever heard a witch on a broomstick before, so I'm pretty sure the original name was Night Bitches, but toned down so it could be printed in the history books.

@@kenarnold9132 Night Witches is a completely different story, they were Russian women pilots fighting the Germans.

That almost started a war. Shit was crazy back then.