I'm surprised he didn't mention that Dan Daly had a hard time later in life finding a wheelbarrow strong enough to carry his humongous set of balls

During the Boxer Rebellion, Dan Daly would have been using the M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun, chambered in 6mm Lee Navy and fired at 450 rpm. Both the gun and the ammunition was known to be reliable and accurate, with the 6mm Lee Navy being a very high velocity round known to punch through multiple bodies.

Just to clear up a couple of items regarding exaggeration (and a couple points left out). U.S. Marines are taught about Medal of Honor recipients in boot camp, and I enjoyed looking up the verifiable facts on several when I was active duty. During the Boxer Rebellion. That night on the wall, Private Daly wasn't exactly left alone. There were three machine guns placed, each served by a crew of two Marines. In the first hour or so of the attack, one gun went dark. Then Daly's assistant gunner was wounded, so he had to operate it mostly by himself. Then the other gunner was wounded and his assistant killed by concentrated musket fire. Daly managed to get over to the other gun, retrieve the wounded Marine and ammo, and get back to his own gun. His assistant was completely out of the fight, but the other Marine was able to act as assistant until the gun ran out of ammo. Daly then went on to use a bolt action rifle in defense of his position, and then switched to a knife when he ran out of ammo for that weapon, too. The other Marines hadn't intended to leave him there, either. They met up with reinforcements who had become lost en route, but part of the Boxer attack was to delay those exact reinforcements. So the other Marines ended up fight through streets, taking several detours until they became uncertain of their route, and then had to set up a defensive position as the Boxer forces were putting up too much of a fight for a running battle to be tenable. During the Cacos Rebellion. Gunny Daly was verified to have retrieved the machine gun from the bottom of the river by himself. I believe he had a makeshift sled with him built from the dead horse's gear, so he was able to drag the gun most of the way back to his position. The straps eventually broke, but he was close enough to be able to pick it up and carry it in pieces back to his men for use. The WWI stuff is accurate so far as I know. Daly was just that good by then, and did a lot of things that should have been impossible. The entire Battle of Bellaeu Wood is basically like that. Worth a read if you want to see ordinary guys doing impossible shit.

The fat electrician was also a us army combat medic prior to his youtube channel. Also sir thank you for serving your country.from one vet to another

Think about this Dan Daly at Bellow Wood was not put in for 1 MOH but 2. 1st was for taking the machine gun emplacement (which by chance was the same thing Alvin York was given his MOH for in WWI) the 2nd was for the charge he lead. Dan Daly was in fact nominated for 4 MOH's.

I joined the US Army at 17, was fighting in Iraq at 19. The majority of my unit was under 20 in Iraq.

“… do you want to live FOREVER!!” Used in the 1997 movie Starship Troopers. The squad leader rallies his troops in the mobile infantryman (“the Roughnecks”) during the Battle of Klendathu.

In 1900, Daly wielded a Colt-Browning 1895 “Potato Digger” machine gun to hold off Chinese Boxers attempting to seize the fortification he was protecting.

Project Gutenberg has a good book on it, including the fact that these reenforcements were already 14 days late, because rebels had destroyed rail lines along the way. There were other soldiers also left defending, however Daly held one section which had been breached once before. He held alone, overnight, before the team was able to actually rebuild the broken section.

Can you imagine a 1st lieutenant or even a Captain trying to lead a platoon or company when Dan Daly is the highest SNCO?

His video "proportional" is amazing also, highly recommend

Fun fact: the Marine Corps birthday is on November 10th. Man was practically born to be a Marine

Nick aka the fat electrician is famous for researching stories most people don't talk about or go overlooked he does extensive research and as unbelievable as some of these stories sound they are 100% true some videos I would recommend you check out is US destroys half of Iran's Navy in 8 hours, World War tree Operation Paul Bunyan, Sergeant Reckless Marines War Horse, and Winter Soldier ODS on meth and becomes unkillable his stories are hilarious and he is very encouraging of people reacting to his videos so no worries on strikes

Watch to the end. Sometimes he comes back on with some fun stuff for a moment.

There is his video on Wake Island "450 marines vs the Imperial Japanese Navy" Or if you want to, he's done a couple from Britain. "RAF's Legless Antihero - Sir Douglas Bader" and "Wrecking and Trolling the Germans with a wooden plane"

I'm gonna say it...Dan Daly is so badass that Marine recruits are ALL taught his history, as well as that of Smedley Butler, the only OTHER Marine to be awarded 2 Medals of Honor. And I know that first hand, Semper Fi bud, I loved working with the Queen's Finest and hope that tradition continues into perpetuity

Daly was 35 in WW1, not 45. Also, while he didn't remember saying the famous line himself, all the men there that day swore he did say it.

I think during the Boxer Rebellion and earlier, some of the US Marines in China were called Horse Marines, because thats what they used for their operations in the time before cars. They were more or less Dragoons or Mounted Rifles...use the horse to get to the fight, then dismount for combat. From what I've read, I believe it was considered a highly sought after deployment for Marines in the Far East.

you should have kept rolling. next time watch til the very end. his walking off commentary is added value

Dad, my brother and I are all 5'6". I made my brother's Drill Instructors laugh when I paraphrased, "Judge me by my size do you? And well you should not, for I am a Marine." The Fat Electrician's USS O'Bannon video is the best three minutes on KZfaq that doesn't involve cats.

The MG in China was more than likely a Colt M1895 "Potato Digger", so named because. it had a reciprocating operating mechanism that was located on the underside of the receiver.

You should react to his video on Sir Douglas Bader, WW2 RAF fighter ace.

Love the Fat Electrician. Great reaction! You definitely need to react to more of him.

Im currently playing the waiting game on the fat electricians new video because ive already watched all of them all 154 of them

"Potato Digger" M1895 Colt-Browning gas-opereted, air-cooled and belt-fed in 6mm Lee-Navy. 450 rounds per minute. This is unrelated to the 1917/1919 Browning which was recoil operated.

Love The Fat Electrician, so glad he’s gaining some traction in KZfaq Reactions!

The Corps drilled Daly's exploits into our heads, even Puller. In bootcamp i found that some of the guys with the biggest muscles were some as the biggest cry-babies.

His video on how a group of Marines outsmarted an AI combat machine is hilarious. So typical of the Marines. Expect the unexpected.

There are so many badass Medal of Honor stories and men.

Damn good video. Thank you for the reaction.

I also like how he touched on How slow News, traveled back then.Because if you were someone that lived way out on the frontier you may not even find out about About anything major like that for at least five months

He deserved the 3rd medal of honor. Semper Fi and RIP Mr Daly

Ok wow first off. Second this army veteran from New York I says that u sir. And this is a reminder of why u don't mess with N.Y.C.

My assistant high school principal was a former Navy SEAL. He was like 5’5” basically shorter than most students. He never ever talked about being a veteran or wear paraphernalia. Many if not most probably didn’t know. But needless to say height is not qualifier for performance in combat apparently??? I still don’t understand how that small frame hold all that weight without breaking?

The Eager Beavers OLD 666, Most gangster politician are some other great videos by THE FAT ELECTRICIAN. Always play his videos till the end, Most of them have bonus footage.

What makes Dan Dal even more legendary, is no exaggerations only mistakes made by those who retell it, like nick…though he does a great job, I don’t fault him. As he gets it far more accurate that most, the only way you get more accurate is listening to and learning from Marines and really digging into long ago forgotten history for everyone but United States Marines. Is even more impressive, cause othered were there and died and were wounded. And he had to take up their slack. Had to think no no his feet, make a slept transport the gun and tripod and ammo. And did, after diving into the river in the dark in 1915, no lights or scuba gear, until he found it, then haul up, build a sled. And drag it back. When they finally failed. Yes he carried it the last bit like others have said. He’s smart, and a total badass, and no. In the boxer rebellion they didn’t face primarily melee weapons. They faced single shot fire arms, at times out numbered 50 to 1 for many days and skirmishes after the initial part, including heavy hand to hand to combat and held, and won that too. Just like pvt Daly did days before, after he was effectively alone after everyone else was taken out of the fight. The actual truth is more impressive than the sad representation of the story he tells.

Shame you missed the end of his video where he mentioned that is favorite character from Starship Troopers is based off of Dan Daly and even shows the clip of them using that famous line.

In today's U.S. Navy Submarine Service the men that drive the sub are typically 18 year olds just a few months out of high-school. Much of our low ranking combat troops are also 18 year olds with just a few months of training.

Why Is The Battle Of Bellau Wood Very Significant To The Marine Corps? 2 Reasons 1. The Battle Signified The Strength & Bravery Of The Corps Who Held Their Ground To Protect The People Of France & Belgium From German Hands & Showed The World How Deadly They Can Be 2.This Battle Is Where The Nickname "Devil Dog" Comes From

Solid! Top KEK! Peace be with you.

Never heard of any person getting nominated 3 times and getting 2 VC's...... That would be the equivelent.....

Most 18 year old Marines would not run away. 17, 18, 19 year old Marines are Disciplined.

17:00 I love this reaction. I’ve watched so many other people react to this video and they’re all shocked and surprised. The one army man’s reaction: laughter. 😂

At one point he ran out of grenades so he started throwing rocks

Daly was definitely the main character.

You should check out “Americas War Horse Marine” by him

Audie Murphy was another who would have made the ideal pre serum Captain America at 5'5 112, and ended up being the most decorated soldier in ww2.

Please react to more from The Fat Electrician.

to quote Sabton about Marines: 1918, USA intervene 'Til now, they were mainly observing There in the wheat fields and a small piece of land It's a battle that'll write history Five times attacked, and then five times repelled And the sixth time, they managed to break the line Heart of the corps and a part of the lore The deadliest weapon on Earth

my grandfather was in the battle or Bellowood, he said this in his jurnal from after the war: "Selbst die Starken und Eliten sind dieser Entschlossenheit und dem Siegeswillen nicht gewachsen"

You should really check out his video on British Tank genius Percy Hobart

Sometimes at the end of the fat electricians videos he has another fun fact he will tell you but that's usually after he ends the main part of the video. And this one had a fun fact at the end that you missed.

Horse got shot and sunk to the bottom of the river. Home boy went and got it back by him self in the middle of the night. Nothing exaggerated about that? 😂 like he literally did that.

That size of the person doesn't matter is so true. I learned that the hard way. When I was a young adult I got into a little trouble and was in jail for a little bit. I was a young asshole I'm 6'3 and 220 pounds with very little fat on me. I got lit up by a 5'6 fellow probably 160 pounds soak and wet. Tell you I never seen anyone move that fast before. Found out later he was a boxer

As a US Army Infantry Veteran i can say there's a difference my Brithish friend between most Militaries (including yours) and the US Military is in most armies if the officer goes down you are told to dig in {AKA default deffensive}. For both the US Army and US Marine Corp when the officer goes down, we instead are trained to when in lack of orders attack {AKA Default Aggressive}.

None of it is exaggerated truth is often stranger than fiction

Sabaton. Swedish band. Does a song about this. Look it up.

Joined the Corps weighing 119 pounds. Left boot at 153. :D RAH

Daniel daly joined age 25. Born 1873 and joined 1899 before his 26 birth day.

I can’t believe how many times you questioned Dan Daly

Just think of the statement of Daly on Marine officers. If he was an officer he would be "just another officer," but as an NCO he stood out.

Bellau Wood is some of the reason that the Marines were not fighting in Europe. The Army was not happy about the Marines kicking ass in WW1. As far as size goes my Father’s Gunny was about 5’5” was a veteran of Guadlecanal and I think either Okinawa or Iwo Gima. I saw a picture of the Gunny in a picture my Father had of his graduation from Basic. They had the Gunny sitting on several telephone books to raise him up to appear as tall as the rest of the Sergeants.

I came accross Fat Electrician about 2 months ago. I have seen every single video he has done. For he is very enertaining and gives you a lot of history to the stories. That is why I like him. I love history and I would say, watch all of his vids. You will learn a lot about what his stories he is telling. My Grandpa fought in the Pacific and his brother fought in Europe in WWII. So, yeah, keep with history so we can hope fully not have it repeat.

Dan will hv you running through a brick wall.😩😂💪🏾

Elite Operators are usually either bodybuilders or triathletes and 100% pipe swinging badasses.

2:40 I was at a music festival in Washington D.C. one time and saw a 5-foot nothing Hispanic guy that probably weighed 130 pounds jump up and knock out a bulldozer of a man that was about 6'6". I don't know what the big guy was angry at but he charged at the little guy and caught nothing but Ryu's Shoryuken to his jaw and the pavement.

Multiple trips at 80 pounds is doable, just because it unbelievable, doesn't mean it didn't happen

Unflinchingly, I'll point out that many of these heroes have UK (including Irish) DNA. Hope we've done our Union Jack-Old Glory brotherhood proud. We wouldn't be truly American without you. 🇺🇸🇬🇧 🫡

It was not the Browning M1919 30 cal. Had to be a Gatling Gun. Machine Guns in 1914.

Hey hi. Im stupid and i was just born yesterday.. so thanks for explaining the concept of past versus present and how time works. Geez...

For any of those that have not seen any videos on Chesty Puller, you need to find one, but of course, The Fat Electrician makes it great.

Marines to this day still are aggressive!

I believe the machine he had was the M1895 6mm Lee

Lot's of crazy Marines just ask.our enemies

It’s the mindset all of the time. In war( I’m going to destroy). In the bedroom ( I’m going to destroy) same concept

It’s just scary when you’re 6’6 270lbs and have a lot of fight in you lol

As Jedi Grand Master Yoda once said "Size matters not."

15:55 it’s a bit different for the American military. Sure the 1st Sgt. now has the responsibility of taking leadership. But our general response to the Lt. being taken out is “Default Aggresive”. We no longer have the one person keeping us from being creative. That’s not good for the enemy.

Dan might be the inspiration for Master Cheif I feel

I guess the video-maker never heard of Chesty Puller or Smedley Butler... I do not think anyone "outmarines" Chesty.

Rumor has it the axis waited starting WW2 just long enough to make sure Dan Daly was too old to reenlist

Joined 2 weeks before 9/11. I was 21 OIF 3,4 Army

my guess is the height and weight were from when he joined at 16 who knows his size other than he seems to be short of stature by the latter age, likely a whole lot of muscle put on by then most likely a short stocky dude and loads are easier to carry when you have a lower center of gravity.

USMC 18 year old would not run from a fight ,but run towards it. Does america have a machine gun that is not browning made?

My ex-husband was in the Marine Corps in the USA and he was 5 ft 6 and I think that's the minimum height or it might be 5 ft 4.. it's been so long I can't remember because he went in and 1984 and got out in 1994. 6 years followed by 4 years. Now and since 2001 he's been in the National guard in Virginia and then when he moved to Wyoming in late 2011 he was part of the National guard as a Captain then because that's what he was in Virginia.. then he became a major sometime probably 2016.. he's been deployed once and getting ready to get deployed twice being in the National guard and he did not get deployed active duty in the Marines in the 80s and 90s. He was deployed to Afghanistan for 6 months and I guess only 6 months because he was an officer for whatever reason and that was 2018 and he's got orders to be deployed in November this year and God only knows.. I asked my daughter yesterday where he was going and she said she didn't know and he probably doesn't even know. 9 times out of 10 it probably has something to do with Russia & NATO

1:11 He is actually incorrect here by saying “one of only two marines to win the Medal of Honor twice”. There are actually 7 US Maines to have been awarded the US Medal of Honor twice. They are; Smedley D. Butler Daniel J. Daly Louis Cukela Charles F. Hoffman John J. Kelly Matej Kocak and John H. Pruitt With the last awarding of a second Medal of Honor being for actions in World War I. Also, there has never been an awarding of a third Medal of Honor. There is now a law that prohibits the awarding of a second physical Medal of Honor. You can still win multiple Medals of Honor but only one physical medal will be given to the recipient. This one physical medal will represent any multiple awardings.

Too bad you cut it off before the ending- there was more.

Watch the one about Charles Whitmore…….mind blowing history bro🤯

I get what you’re saying about 18 year olds today, but I would tell you look at the 18 year olds in the marine corps and you’d see a different breed

It would have most likely been a Maxim macinegun

5:28 doesn't sound very righteous nor harmonious

Let’s tell that Forsaken half island to pray for aide from anyone else than GSM Daly’s country.

The business about changing the law to allow only one Medal of Honor is a little misleading. All it did was to stop presenting (and the wearing of) more than one actual physical medal, and I don't think it had anything in particular to do with Dan Daly. Instead the very few repeat awards are now indicated by putting a gold star (sea services) or bronze oak leaf cluster (army and air force) on the ribbon, just as for other U.S. decorations. It's the equivalent of the bar for repeat awards of British decorations. It's also worth mentioning that until 1919, the U.S. military had only one decoration for combat valor--the Medal of Honor. It was either that or nothing. In 1919 the Distinguished Service Cross (Army) and Navy Cross were introduced and from that point on, there were any number of guys who received the DSC and the NC for acts that, before 1919 would have rated the Medal of Honor.

You need to watch Cassius Marcellus Clay.

There looking for the gray man ❤

Majority of 18 year olds would have run away back then too. In fact, many did. Thats why we have deserter laws.

I love The Fat Electrician!

Dear Sir We get our gun and fight culture from our British forbears. Our founding fathers were Englishmen. Thank God! The british were smart enough to chase my Irish ancestors out Ireland, no doubt just a jump ahead of a hangmans rooe and they kicked my French ancestors out of Canada. That shows both good taste and intelligence. We got almost all of our values,ideas and laws from Great Britain. By the way, Brits could own guns legally back then. Any gun. Our bill of rights is about all the limits placed on our government. Not on us. From Magna Carta to the Glorious Revolution in Britain, that is what made us what we are. We are far from perfect. But we do try awful hard. Please forgive us for Pres. Biden. I didn't vote for the bastard. Good luck and God bless. From Iowa.....................John

MODERN 18 YO: a different way to look at that, if a MODERN 18 YO is signing up voluntarily to serve, that person is VERY different than the cell-phone-app addict that gets personified in modern media. i actually know a ton of 18-22 year olds through my car club, kids that are getting into building cars, and these kids are only on social media to share pics of their builds. outside of that, they are doing classes, getting great paying jobs (way more than i was able to get with 2 degrees in IT before my military disability took over) and doing very well for themselves. one was even in the navy until he was injured and retired under disability. so, either im really really really really good at meeting non-zombie gen Z or the whole thing is a political and social media farse... considering i live in a very red state in the US and am active on social media..... i find the latter to be the most accurate. political and corporate involvement in dividing the US populace even more than it already is, as proven by history....

Most likely a Browning machine gun