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I hope he wrote about his experiences.

What a treat to be able to hear those tales. RIP

Macnutz420 you're correct about the head wound issue. Lindybeige has a video on his YT channel about this.

Re the parachutes: the 'cowardly pilots' attitude might have existed, but in any case there were no reliable models in production at the time and no room for them in the cockpits. Pilots themselves were mostly against.

I will have an episode out on the Brodie helmet eventually.

Ah the infamous British Air Ministry letter. But was that the only reason or even the real reason? Nope. There was no practical way of getting a parachute into the cockpit of a WWI aircraft. You’re talking about a space smaller than most office chairs. The modern soft packable parachute wasn’t invented until after the war. The military certainly used parachute when practical. Almost all artillery sighting blimps and dirigibles were equipped with parachute.

r w - Yet the Captain of a sea faring ship, goes down with his ship.

They just put a jar on it and call him a Marine!

@@patrickbutler4894 he aint wrong

Hahaha that was funny! If it say the proper and right words then the liberals will put over a10000 dislikes.

Let's Talk About Prepping the artillery had to land their shells in the enemy trench or have them explode above them, otherwise the shell fire was next to useless in dealing with the dug in enemy in their deep trenches.

@@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 It was done by a simple fuse setting but I don't know when that was developed.

They had simple black powder and percussion Artillery fuses in the Civil War.

The WWII and later fuse for artillery. Is a mechanical fuse that works on revolution of the projectile. Is still fairly expensive (as far as a projectile is concerned) to manufacture taking a lot machined parts. I do not know when it was developed or by whom. But, your intended target was important. So as to set for impact, air burst, or below the surface.

Not to mention all the rocks and debris thrown up into the air by exploding artillery rounds that impact the ground. All that stuff has to come down so best to have a good cover over your head.

Amateurs talk tactics, professional talk logistics.

Supply guy = everyone's best friend

An army marches on its stomach.

As you said, an army fights on its stomach and rolls on petrol.

It helps that he was a smart general, as opposed to some of the blithering idiots commanding the troops.

I sometimes wonder if these epithets are the result of wishful thinking, good for propaganda purposes, "Our guys are so good at their job and feared by their opponents that they've been given this respectful name". It's much easier for me to imagine being in the trenches and preparing to repel another assault by "those motherfuckers". But the headlines just don't have the same ring. MOTHERFUCKERS STRIKE AGAIN! Heroic attackers mown down in waves. Strike fear into the enemies hearts.

@@vitabricksnailslime8273 It just doesn't have the same ring in German...

Michael Walton - Yeah Buddy!! Nicknames laid on soldier important. At 1st Army 9th Infantry Div reunion '56, Dad called Buddy, Geist, & Ace. Only 11 so asked why 3 names. Told tagged him Buddy at Basic, Geist (meaning ghost) by Germans, & Ace after downing 5 of his 6 planes w/BAR. Best friend sitting next to us added on last one, he ran up to crash landed Me-262 shooting pilot 20 times in chest to make sure as 3 GIs killed in his squad. All cheered, clapped, banged on their tables, and forever after called him ACE!!! Also found out he was the gunner who had taken the bridge over the Rhine at Remagen with his ammo carrier by themselves. Ace liquidated Germans on bridge, their combat engineers mining the bridge, and shot hell out of their set-ups corralling stragglers in RR tunnel at far end, using grenades after BAR melted. Rest of 1st Army also decided to violate their orders as well showing up 25 mins later to relieve him, having taken bridge costing us zero dead! I basically did whatever Dad, Buddy, Geist, or Ace said for the rest of his life...and still do just in case.........

@Rob Osborne Because this, like "devil dogs" for the USMC in WW1 and "fork-tailed devil" for the P-38 Lightning, is almost certainly the product of American propaganda. None of these sound like things a native speaker of German (of which I am one) would come up with, and documented coinages for enemy troops and weapons tend more often toward the humorous or familiar ("moaning minnies", "Jack Johnsons", "bouncing Betties", "Anzio Annie", "Stalin's organ", "doodlebugs", "Charlie", etc.)

mebsrea u forgot "der wienerschnitzels"

AGREED!!!!!!

Now,,,, can someone do something about our FUKING TV PROGRAMMING...MY FUKIN GOD ALREADY

@@bradl.2599 Yes, pronto ! Its already starting to affect your spelling.

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@@JL-cn1qi let it be! The grammar issues are very common, the web has no punishment for grammar errors. Like me, is not my first language but I try to do my best. Kind regards from BC.

Frank Nolan Same here (car crash + illness)... 😔

Same here degenerative espondilosis, I can bearly walk and the prescription pills got me numb! But every video of the HG makes my day! Like today with the toilet paper video! Corn in the cub to whip your rear end? That must to be painful and nasty!

@Charles Yuditsky Ummmm, it wasn't them ones. Do you think they would be the only prototypes?

I notice a fairly steady number of down votes, probably mostly (or entirely) trolls. I doubt there are many people who are actually interested in videos by somebody called The History Guy who do not like what they see. That is borne out in the comments - many or most viewers are serious fans.

johnnyp pi ah you mean 11 people

@@Mgl1206 I raise you 2!

@@1953Johnnyp We apparently are getting two to five brain damaged viewers per hour. Up to 20 as of this moment.

@@dobypilgrim6160 Make that 21 head injuries.

Awww, shucks.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel haha history guy! I often put ur playlists on "play all" and cast to.my tv....dude ur an ICREDIBLE story teller...modern day orator of Greek times....Shakespeare of our day...seriously dude...u are badass...I find myself at work where I am surrounded by 20 somethings that are 10 years younger than me and they love hearing me repeat your epic retellings. Thank you from a true fan! -Mike from CT

Dude, I didn't know the French nicknamed there unit "the men of bronze"! That's pretty cool...

That's another movie waiting to be made

read the book about them...most of them woulda won the cmoh if they were in any other us.unit.....thats a whole different episode...ask the history guy maybe he will do a show about them ? Im sure he could tell you lotts cool facts about them..

After watching this, here's my question/request. When ARE you going to do a piece about the Harlem Hell Fighters?

You did a story about the Harlem Hellfighters before, did you not? I know I have seen and heard of them. I believe Ken Burns mentions them in his jazz docu-series, and I must have seen bits about them in at least one or two of the many WWI documentaries I’ve watched. They’re a fascinating story unto themselves, which is why I’m certain you’ve covered them.

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John Chancellor was one of the best.

I second that - I had not heard of the incident.

I got taught about it in school but I don't guess many outside of germany do know about it

@Arjen Zwamborn It's really amazing because the protest actually worked! The Jewish men were protected under a legal oddity that stated that German Jews married to non-Jewish Germans were not subject to the same discrimination as most others. I don't know how long this protection lasted, but I have read that the women were not punished for their protest.

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More like; if you write your letter in time it will be home for Christmas.

See www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-46596066/harlem-hellfighters-the-black-soldiers-who-brought-jazz-to-europe

That is a fair comment. It is a challenge every time you say "first" or "most." The issue with Cannae is that casualty numbers from ancient times are difficult to determine, as period accounts tended towards hyperbole. Some modern estimates place Roman casualties at Cannae in the 10- 16,000 range.

The Roman victory over Boudicca also caused a similar number of casualties, but as stated, the actual number of casualties is very difficult to establish.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel- Large numbers seem to be problematic in the earlier years of civilization. Susan Wise Bauer, in The History of the Ancient World, quotes from an ancient "king list" of the Sumerians: "After kingship had descended from heaven, Alulim reigned 28,000 years as king; [his heir] Alalgar reigned 36,000 years." Since multiplication is only known to have been around for about 4000 years (around the time the king list was memorialized in clay) and multiplication was probably as abstruse as calculating pi is today, large numbers were probably guesses.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I've always taken the 80k number with a grain of salt, but so too 10-16k, as they are both the extreme estimates. Most of the modern historians seem to estimate it at 45-55k, but of course, we'll never know. At least at the Battle of the Frontiers, we know how many died.

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That is a cap for the Naval Aviation cadet program. I may have an episode on the program sometime.

Thank you! I'll wait for that episode with great anticipation.

Same here. Dad loved war documentaries and John Wayne films.

bud knowitall - It's largely about the presentation. THG is a fine story teller. He doesn't just give dates and places, he gives the story behind the dates and places and he cares deeply about passing on understanding.

@@bradyelich2745 i forgot to add grade school, so sue me asswipe

@@bradyelich2745 reported and blocked for harassment

@@budknowitall7140 "Harrassment"? You're joking, right?

@@bradyelich2745 How did *you* do in math? Junior and High school is six grades 😆

I started out in the Marine Corps with the M1 steel pot. I can tell you, I was one happy camper when I got the new helmet. It has gone through a few upgrades since then. From the M1, What a upgrade, You can't use it for bathing..... A Hell of a lot less headaches.

@@knutdergroe9757 Yes indeed I suspect so because they aren't likely as heavy as the M1 steel pots were. And I doubt you can use it to shave like we often did as well. I also like the design of the new modern helmets albeit upon their initial appearance seemed somewhat similar to the helmets worn by the Wehrmacht during WW II.

The much lighter weigh of the current tech helmets allows them to be better restrained with ergonomic chin straps...allows for security of the pot while dodging about in a hurry!

Both the Brordie and the M1 were dreadful helmets - running about and diving for cover a grunt would spend 90% of his concentration and effort keeping the helmet on his head and out of his line of sight. Ditto a lot of the other webbing/kit. Half the battle to survive a campaign was with their own issued kit.

@@roymerritt6992 The design was indeed based on the German stahlhelm that replaced the pickelhaube. (Ironically, while it's most famously associated with the Wehrmacht, the stahlhelm pattern was actually introduced in WW1, around 1917.) The US Army selected it because the Germans, being Germans, did much engineering study and determined the design that provided the optimum protection to the head. One change that has happened to the design since being adopted for US service is that the back of the helmet has been shaved down about a half-inch, as it was found that while it was optimally shaped for a standing soldier, it dug uncomfortably into the neck of a prone soldier and/or limited his ability to raise his head to look for (and shoot) enemies; the decision was made that the slight reduction in protection when standing was worth the improved utility when prone.

Kepis were commonly used throughout Europe during the nineteenth century. American equipment very often reflected European armies.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel This is true. I was just pointing out the American origins of its use in order to clarify the situation. As Algeria was under French control that is where they copied the style from.

And if you have a chance to go there, you'll be glad you did. Cuz everyone who goes to Lidsville really flips their lid!

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I too would like to use PayPal to contribute to this great channel.

Why are people pulling out of Patreon?

Google Patreon issues, or put it into the search engine here and there is a LOT of information, which is very alarming and worth becoming informed about

I agree. I won’t sign up with patreon. Too many horror stories from shady practices.

They have been randomly ejecting people for supposed "Violations of the Terms of Service" on new things they invent. They are caving to some liberal nut jobs who value THEIR free speech but not those they disagree with...so a handful of various Patrons have lost their funding thanks to Patreon caving to these nutjobs. I'm not into these crazy political correctness/overreactions...and if a funding site is going to play that sort of selective banning, I won't line their wallets.

jammer3618 you mean depressing.

The term used was segregation, which is not the same as denying basic rights.

@@Jude74 yes but amasing in the sense that men would continue to fight when treated so badly. I do take your point however.

@@george_364 thats a novel and absurd distinction. Did you learn that in troll school or the "south will rise again" segregated academy?

Not trying to be a smartarse jammer but its amazing not amasing

I will likely do an episode eventually in the stahlhelm.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Good deal. In terms of military history, there aren't many things that have been as influential for the foot soldier as the stahlhelm.

@@sarjim4381 Hmmmm, Swiss Army Knifes? That's a interesting story and company.

@@WALTERBROADDUS Walter, the Swiss Army knife would be another interesting story for the History Guy to delve into.

That is a very interesting bit of history- shocking that it could occur as late as 1951. I will research more. Thanks!

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Sir, I had thought there was a connection with this and the Salem Witch Trials where Ergo poisoning from bad wheat flour that had the afla toxin in it that caused people to act strangely. Think PBS had a show on it many moons ago. As the story goes, then this incident in France was followed by the CIA creating LSD from this discovery. So, I guess it was put to work for the Devil in the end...

And their chin straps were made of.."rich Corinthian leather"?

Every helmet design has pros and cons. In the case of the Corinthian helmet the downside is that its wearers probably got laughed at... *A LOT*

@@StuSaville if you can hear them laugh, you're still alive

@Dave A. Oh he was on my mind. As was the CORDOBA!

@Dave A. Thanks for the link. I watched the interview, and concur with your opinion of Montalban. The interview also reminded me of how annoying Letterman is.

@justin leckey I gave it to him; years later I asked him about it. ("you're")

Must be frustrating. I have my great grandfathers WW2 helmet even still has his captain insignia. During his last years i asked what he was going to do with his things from the war after he passed. Said he wanted me to have it as he knows how much i appreciate history and that I'd appreciate it the most. He passed 2-3 years ago and i still have it on display in my bedroom. Was a VERY peaceful man and the war gave him extremely bad PTSD all his life so he spoke very little about the war until his 80s-90s

Ida B. Wells- yes, she will likely be the focus of an episode.

Did you have terse words with the fellow who nearly melted your brain?

why yes I did .

Compared to inanity of comments I find on other sites, the civility of the comments here are a delight. What a breath of fresh air for us all.

@@cdjhyoung These are the only comments I routinely read anymore. Not only the civility, but there are usually tidbits of information that might lead me to further explorations of a historical topic.

oh wow I never realized that but they are this exact style.

Likely at some point. I am handicapped, in that I haven't managed to acquire a good stahlhelm for my collection.

Dennis Hough it certainly took longer to produce than either the French or British equivalents.

One of the best general resources for German stahlhelms is www.german-helmets.com/index.html A very useful article and provides some very good information on specific helmets is “The stahlhelm in Latin America after WWII”. wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/the-stahlhelm-in-latin-america-after-wwii/

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel www.ima-usa.com/collections/helmets#listpage

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Consider looking for WWI German Gear outside of Germany, as they melted down much of their history during WWII. Former Colonies or Former Colonies of Germanies Enemies would be more likely to have battered examples ...

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It is hard to blame France for the first overt act: the German incursion into Belgium. Even the French had backed away from the border. I doubt we can really know what led to the war. Certainly the web of tensions drove the preparations and the expectations of using them. One thing is clear, though: none of the nations expected the sort of horror it became and then none of them could afford to withdraw.

I think some of the British would have expected a slightly longer engagement. They had been fighting a long drawn out battle with the Boers just a few years before.

@@flagmichael If you are up to reading a few hundred pages, well almost 700 (but extremely well written!) pages, Robert Massey's "Dreadnought" does a decent job of laying out the political twists and turns that led up to the war.

Well the reason the French lost was because all the mass movement of men in trains and movements of encirclement were done by the germans and not the technically capable

I was born into a country that lost both World Wars. (And started the second one). It is not a nice heritage, but it shows how important it is to overcome nationalism, chauvinism etc. I never liked this "we" in all those documentaries and videos, it is too subjective, too one-sided. No german documentary maker would ever say "WE defeated the French in 1940.", rather the sentence would be "The Wehrmacht/Germany defeated the French in 1940." This "we" creates a emotional continuity that doesn't really exist. Instead of saying "The German state and military at that time, under those conditions did this and that..." it blurrs the image with this emotionally loaded "WE did this!" (= our side = the right side).

@@untruelie2640 No country has disowned its own war dead as Germany has. War cemeteries in Germany with burials from both wars are neat and tidy but beyond that there is no emotional connection. A country that disregards its dead defenders won't defend itself today, from anything. The big 'we' you mentioned is only often used by the victors.

wp r The powers that be put "the cost of war'" in dollars and cents. Sadly rarely are the wounded or those that lost their lives taken into account..or for that matter the survivors or those left widowed, orphaned, parents that lost children.

@wp r Two of my Great-Great-Grandfathers died in WW1, one short after the beginning, one short before the end. My Great-Grandfather was at the Eastern Front in WW2 and got PTSD. This is not something I take lightely nor something I can forget. I have an emotional connection to them and so do many other Germans. But this is exactly why we (all humans) need to stand up against nationalism and chauvinism. This emotions were the reason for so many Germans to support Hitler and his warmongering, his inhumane treatment of the Jews and other minorities. THIS is the guilt of the german people. Not the guilt of people like me who weren't born yet, but we today have at least, AT LEAST the responsibility to make sure that something like the Holocaust or the horrible Second World War never happens again. We owe it to all the innocent people who were tortured and murdered ("exterminated" like the Nazis called it), to all the dead soldiers and raped women, to all who lost their lives in fire bombings and nuclear explosions, to all veterans who were traumatised for live, to all families which were ripped apart forever. Wars are never a good thing and war deaths have never a positive meaning, but at least we, humanity, should make sure that we don't forget the millions of individual human persons who perished and suffered. We should make sure that this never happens again. We OWE it to them.

It's 85 f heremost days where I am in Australia... But that's just summer.... Be jealous?

The weather is always comfy in Northern Thailand, so it's too much effort to get jealous of anywhere else, sorry folks.

I live on St Croix where it's 84. 72 seems a little cool.

@Thomase Synek Ahh...old, familiar names: Mayport NAS & Cecil Field...When I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1971, I was sent to N.A.S. Jacksonville, Fla., to Aviation Electrician's Mate classes, 22 weeks of 8 hrs. a day, 5 days a week electrician classes. For those who don't know...Cecil Field is the name of the airfield at N.A.S. Jacksonville, but today the airfield is a civilian-military airport and spaceport that is owned by the city of Jacksonville. The area where I stayed that had the many barracks and the schools had a really weird odor in the air all the time. I never found out what caused that sweet but not very pleasant odor. I think that I heard somewhere that it was Ozone, but just don't know.

@Thomase Synek So...the pulp mills...after all these years I finally know what it was...thanks...!!

Had to like a comment with Martha's picture.😉