The Rejected 'Bad Eyesight Heroes' Of WW2 ft. The Fat Electrician

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@bain69 4 ай бұрын

The best part is he doesn't even mention the dude that achieved the highest rank out of all the guys known to have done this. A captain from Missouri named Truman snuck into military service by memorizing the eye exam.

@brad15015 4 ай бұрын

Wait like the president Truman? Wtf he needs to do a video on Truman next he’s had fucking Roosevelt let’s get a king next

@janehrahan5116 4 ай бұрын

Yes. Truman is unfathomably based. He also is the only president to win an election with th vote split against him. And it was split twice by left and right. He also during that same cycle unilaterally ended government segregation on the federal level. Virgin Roosevelt "but my 90% public opinion might go to 85" Chad Truman "it's already 20. Let's plucking grow."

@kushnastay 3 ай бұрын

@@janehrahan5116 as a Canadian I didn’t know any of that, so thank you for Sharing , and allowing me to learn something new ,I didn’t understand the last part though. I wasn’t picking up what you where putting down in the last paragraph. Would you be able to clarify? Sorry

@michaelnash9970 3 ай бұрын

Ironic that Truman was from my State... Missouri. The 'Show-Me' State.... 😎👍

@levicarroll7748 2 ай бұрын

“BUH” (nick rn 💀)

@dallasallad335 4 ай бұрын

Nick should start a series called borderline blind badasses

@Zociety6477 3 ай бұрын

The stevie wonder squadron

@MegaKat 3 ай бұрын

I'm blind, a former shooting champ locally (before I woke up blind), and can still pin all 3 of my sons when we wrestle. I would love to hear about my fellow blind/VI badasses!

@ab5olut3zero95 Ай бұрын

I’m nearsighted as hell and a Tanker. Hell yes. I’ll watch em all!

@ErrolFOFoor 4 ай бұрын

Heard a story of a kid in WW2 who memorized the Marine Corp eye exam. He joined the Marines before finishing high school. He was all set to go, the family threw him party and everything. He got there, and the examiners gave him a different exam. He got yeeted from USMC. He immediately joined the Army. They gave him glasses and told him he was now a sharpshooter.

@Somedumbdudeontheinternet 4 ай бұрын

At this point if a dude cheats on the eye exam they should just let him in. He’s gonna do gangster shit.

@zacherypierce1174 3 ай бұрын

main character energy

@f.wallace8969 Ай бұрын

I remember a WW2 documentary some years back. It was a ranger talking about being in the landing craft on Dday. He said he lied on his eye exam to get into the Rangers. He was worried about people finding out, but was like “shit, I’m going into combat… I need to be able to see.” So while their in boat going to the beach he takes his glasses out of his pocket and puts them on. Then half the people in the boat proceed to do the same thing. lol.

@captin3149 Ай бұрын

@@f.wallace8969 In the movie 'The Longest Day' there was a character that had to put his glasses on to shoot a German

@rungunninja1289 12 күн бұрын

Honestly if someone is mildly disabled but was willing to go through the effort of cheating on the eye exam by memorizing it I rather have the motivated person who is willing to fight vs a perfectly in shape drafted kid who doesn’t want to be there.

@f.wallace8969 12 күн бұрын

@@rungunninja1289 for real. I’d take a volunteer over a draftee any day. The standards back then were pretty ridiculous anyway. It’s one thing to deny people who don’t have correctable vision. It’s a whole other thing to deny people when they can simply wear glasses and have 20/20 vision. That’s why the military has changed the standard. Now they actually give their troops glasses.

@twistedlimb4053 4 ай бұрын

Bad Eyesight War Heroes. Didn't see that coming.'

@jed-henrywitkowski6470 3 ай бұрын

Literally lol.

@trevanminnig3499 19 күн бұрын

Booo 😂 I feel like I shouldn’t have laughed at this lol

@Belkan_Ace 4 ай бұрын

They didn't mention that Adm. Lee stacked fucking bodies even before he was a battleship commander. In 1914 he was onboard the New Hampshire and landed in Veracruz. Apparently he drew the fire of three separate enemy snipers before pulling an Uno reverse card and shooting them at long range once they had exposed their positions. God had to nerf his eyesight, otherwise he'd be too overpowered.

@quinnhasse9170 3 ай бұрын

he's eyesight was nerfed before 1914 and he got two gold medals, i this i saw this comment at the section where they do mention that fact

@sirboomsalot4902 2 ай бұрын

His eyesight was already screwed up. He blew himself up with a homemade bomb as a kid which caused it to

@quinnhasse9170 2 ай бұрын

@@sirboomsalot4902 correction: he literally a coffee pot of black powder and it was a hang-fire, opened the lid and it exploded in his face

@KarlPHorse 29 күн бұрын

Can someone remind me what those ad hoc navy infantry units were called? They did this a lot in the Banana wars to augment and reinforce Marines. Used normal sailors as infantry to capture ports and coastal towns and stuff, but I can’t remember what they were called.

@user-sc6sr2zz5z 4 ай бұрын

On the subject of the "Bad Eyesight Heroes of WW2" One of the main founders the UDTs (and today's Navy SEALs) was Draper Kaufman, he graduated from the naval academy got rejected for poor eyesight. He worked in commercial shipping and sold everything in order to become an ambulance driver in France (I dont know why, it was a French requirement because you know...the French) during the outbreak of fighting in 1939. After a series of misadventures ended up being captured by the Germans, releasing him since he was an American and not a combatant at that time. Under the condition he will not take up arms against the Germans again. He promptly broke his promise and joined the Royal Navy as an officer, defusing multiple bombs during the blitz. When America finally entered the war, he resumes his service as an American Naval Officer but not before going to Pearl Harbor to defuse unexploded Japanese bombs in which he earned the Naval Cross. Later he with the assistance of another founding figure Phil Bucklew form the Underwater Demolition Teams, Draper asks Phil to condense what was already an elite fitness program into one week. This would end up being the origins of the Navy Seal Hell week. Being significantly older than the hand picked candidates for the high requirements he set (in which he too would have failed the perfect eyesight requirement), he still went through the same Hell week. I am doing a bad paraphrase of the book "By Water Beneath the walls: the Rise of the Navy Seals" by Benjamin H Milligan, who himself was a former Navy Seal. He also talked about Draper and other insane things (like how the US navy was leading a large guerilla army in China) on the Jocko and Team house podcasts .

@sir_spam-alot 4 ай бұрын

7:40 Your hernia is not service related. 11:10 Your concussion is not service related. 15:05 You cut off your own leg? No disability since your injury was self-inflicted.

@captin3149 4 ай бұрын

Sad but true

@brianandmarcicrawford6671 4 ай бұрын

TRUTH

@MasterChiefFloyd 3 ай бұрын

Lmao accurate

@dariuswilliams7509 2 ай бұрын

Yep sounds about right

@ShadowStrike28 4 ай бұрын

11:00 Gives new meaning to "Beatings will continue until morale improves"

@GlideYNRG 4 ай бұрын

Criminal what the submarine service put up with dealing with the faulty Mk14 torpedoes. Deepest respects to the crews that took the fight to the Japanese regardless.

@Harrier42861 Ай бұрын

Read up on the development process for the Mark 14. They never fired one with a warhead installed during testing and acceptance.

@jmebig3044 4 ай бұрын

Fat electrician is such a great story teller.

@goose9648 2 ай бұрын

the other guys gotta stop interrupting him tho

@chrisofthehoovers4055 4 ай бұрын

Pool looking at his leg "Well I don't need this anymore".

@justanobadi6655 4 ай бұрын

don't forget rodger young. To the everlasting glory of the infantry, shines the name, shines the name of rodger young!

@corybuckpitt2994 4 ай бұрын

I love this guy story telling ability

@matthewcollins6466 4 ай бұрын

You guys are awesome! Nick’s historical rants are always gut busting! Legend has it Nick is actually a communist!

@Raz0rking 4 ай бұрын

That would be a damn plot twist

@mikechampion1614 2 ай бұрын

I have always loved history. Nick takes what I love .and makes it even cooler.

@rex8255 4 ай бұрын

My opinion after seeing TFE's videos: "His eyesite is crap, send him to SOCOM STAT!"

@amywright2243 4 ай бұрын

I'm a no swimming, fat, middle aged woman and I'm about ready to sign up after FE's stories! 😂

@braydencespuglio1104 4 ай бұрын

Vito Bertoldo is another WW2 soldier who had terrible eye sight finally got into the army and got the medal of honor for holding off multiple German attacks single handily

@awakened9796 4 ай бұрын

Its not just the ones with bad eyesight, its really common that its the people the military initially reject.

@johnnydollar579 4 ай бұрын

Weird fact Joe Louis was born in a small town called Lafayette Alabama.

@zephypyre8711 4 ай бұрын

I would recommend that you do a show entirely on the USS Parche. The history of that sub is batshit crazy, and I think it's mostly unclassified now.

@zephypyre8711 4 ай бұрын

I was on the shore side that decomm'd it in '04. Most decorated ship in USN history.

@zephypyre8711 4 ай бұрын

Dig deeper than Wikipedia to find out how they cut it in half and added a SEAL delivery system

@masterlordclaw 4 ай бұрын

I would like to hear a Fat Electrician story about the USS Washington 360 no-scope on the IJN Kirishima.

@darylmorning 4 ай бұрын

Nick should read the MoH citation for Ben Salomon, a glasses wearing dentist that opened a can of whoop@$$ on Saipan.

@f.wallace8969 12 күн бұрын

If I remember correctly, he started as an infantryman and was the “all around best soldier in the unit”. Then the army found out he was an actual dentist before he was drafted. The army tells him he’s going to get a commission, and he is going to be an army dentist. Salomon declines, and says he wants to be an infantryman. The army says “…no” and he becomes an army dentist anyways. Homie just wanted to do hood rat shit with his grunt friends.

@michaelnieman6218 4 ай бұрын

My Father tried to enlist into the US Navy in 1944 but was rejected because he was color blind so he tried to enlist into the US Army but they only were taking drafted people so he volunteered to be drafted in 1948 he tried to volunteer for the 101st Air borne but was once again rejected because he wore glasses yet he served during WW2 and the Korean War

@chazzbarone375 3 ай бұрын

“The gang goes SF” was so under appreciated🤣🤣🤣🤣

@SternLX 4 ай бұрын

In The Mood - Glenn Miller ... such a good name for a Tank named after a boogy woogy big band tune.

@steeljawX 4 ай бұрын

Moral of the story, the soldiers with bad eyesight are the ones who you want leading the way. They're doing everything they can to focus on the goal and they're literally incapable of seeing the bureaucratic bulls*it around them. Also what a politician strategy. Let's take our best guys and not have them fight anymore and instead put them on display because there's still a war going on and it's more important to look good than it is to actually win the war. It's about as solid as their one recently of, "That whole daylight savings rigamarole. We're going to end it. We're going to figure out how to just stick to one comprehensive time and- Oh hey look! UFO's!!!!! Make sure to 'Spring Ahead.'"

@dangermouse9494 4 ай бұрын

Being a member of the last Parche, we know our history.

@curtishicks7813 4 ай бұрын

We need a Nick video on Maynard Harrison Smith

@MissTaelus 4 ай бұрын

The shit men did to try to get enlisted during WW2 is crazy. My great uncle got turned away from one branch for being underage, went home and stole his dead brother's birth certificate and went and enlisted with a different branch as his older brother that had died years ago from Spanish flu or some such.

@JDM054 Ай бұрын

The bad eyesight reminded me of my uncle. He lost his left eye due to gas stove explosion. Cheated on his vision test, eventually involved in Battle of Bulge. He wound up with issue if touched while sleeping would wake up violently. In Hospital, there was a note above his bed to not touch if asleep, a Nurse ignored it and got knocked across room. She complained to Dr and admin. Doctor pointed to note explained it was her fault not my uncles. Except for that he was ok, and this was still issue until he passed away. He

@lionofitaly9990 4 ай бұрын

didn't lee pass his eye exam by having everyone in his squad in a certain line that told him which letters where on the test by using their last names?

@cal03pats 4 ай бұрын

Subbing to the fat electrician right now !

@KelticTim 4 ай бұрын

I mean they used to forever sleep themselves for getting rejected back in the day, try and picture that happening today

@krabman22 4 ай бұрын

Don't forget Bob Hoover, arguably the best pilot to ever live!

@f.wallace8969 12 күн бұрын

Vito Bertoldo is another one. He was denied service because of his poor eyesight. Eventually he was allowed to enlist, but only in a limited role as an MP. Eventually he was granted approval to receive infantry training, and he served in an infantry regiment as a cook. The Germans attacked his units command post. Bertoldo held them off(sometimes solo) for 2 days straight. He volunteered to be the rearguard and defend the CP as others evacuated. He fought off tanks, APCs, and a shit ton of German infantry. Wounded several times, but still continued to fight. He survived and was awarded the MOH.

@brianandmarcicrawford6671 4 ай бұрын

I never served because I was born legally blind. Took natters into my own hamds (declimed big pharma), and recently went to the eye doc. 20/30 eyesight. My doc: "Ummm....you shouldn't be able to see this well." Me: "Well, I wamt it." Doc: "I have patients who CAN see and choose to pretend they can't. I guess they have a 20/40 brain!" 😂😂😂😂 Def goin back! Hubby = Navy, Dad = Army, FiL = Air Force, and my son = US Marine. Not too shabby!

@didboy74 4 ай бұрын

Mk 14 were never adequately tested as it too expensive 😂

@elitemook4234 Ай бұрын

11:11 'the beatings will continue untill morale improves'

@jclinthicum3058 4 ай бұрын

You Dudes!

@dmitrikrosikio2684 2 ай бұрын

my grandfather was a sailor aboard the uss washington and served under admiral lee directly. he participated in combat action for all recorded battles while the uss washington was in the pacific

@hondolane3125 2 ай бұрын

On two occasions I met a WWII hero named John Meijer and got to hear his stories. Wanting to fly for the Army Air Corps, he was rejected for his eyesight, so he went to Canada and flew for their air force. He flew bombers and fighters, including the P-39 Airacobra and British Spitfires. He wrecked a Spitfire after a scramble, when he did a diving pass over the field at max power/pitch and broke the sound barrier (yes, it's possible). The plane was so tweaked it had to be scrapped for parts. He was once written off as crashed in the mountains on a bomber run when a freak snow storm hit them, and he had to find his way back through a pass with only instruments. He identified the field by the light from the open door on a shack at the end of the runway. Nobody came out when they landed, as they were never expected to make it. "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated".

@Backdaft94 4 ай бұрын

Nick makes Unsub sooooo much better.

@lespaul36 3 ай бұрын

I remember in HS in the mid 90's an ex student came in and told stories of what he dealt with in the middle east. F'n Marine and cursed like a MoFo. I got more out of that than my college talking about it. I would love to see history lovers like Nick in my kids class. Even unfiltered, they heard these "bad" words. Dudes like this are what is teaching me history. I was a f'n math dude and went to accounting and programming. I hated history unless you make it real for me, Fat Electrician does, dude knows how to make it catch you, kids would dig this shit.

@Clee323 4 ай бұрын

This is why Nick is our historian.

@martinbruce6651 3 ай бұрын

Man the banter among brothers 😅

@mikesheehan4470 4 ай бұрын

1:51 "man, old America was on"

@dennysphantom4714 4 ай бұрын

Nick carries the podcast forsure

@BMK500 4 ай бұрын

Careful, that sub life is some hardcore shit -signed a Chop that ain’t doing that shit again.

@tonymerkclelive1023 4 ай бұрын

Looks like someone went skiing before the pod...

@blairdreisbach4775 4 ай бұрын

Deep breaths....deep breaths

@harrisonoldham 4 ай бұрын

Y’all are idiots. I love it. Feels like I’m having beers with my buddies. Good stuff.

@patkinch35 2 ай бұрын

I was told I have bad eyesight. I always knew I was a badass

@scapgoat 4 ай бұрын

Nick is right, the moment you hear the song you'll recognize it

@martinbruce6651 3 ай бұрын

You realize i drive 80 miles listening to you 😂 from Wyoming

@grantforester1864 4 ай бұрын

Meanwhile my Grandfather couldn't go to Vietnam because he was colorblind. He was stuck in Hawaii for a year I think because the military kept shifting him around to prevent him from fighting.

@jenniferhunter6945 4 ай бұрын

Another good one is Vito Bertoldo.

@Exocartonic 4 ай бұрын

I would just like to point out that these ww2 vets were listening to big band music. And they were tougher than then guys listening to Downing pool, 5 finger death punch, etc.😅

@alaneskew2664 4 ай бұрын

The biggest crime is that they never nicknamed him Rampage Ramage

@SharpenOneAnother Ай бұрын

My grandpa did the eyesight thing too.

@lylewalters909 3 ай бұрын

ROTFLMAO you guys are a hoot!! fucking love it!!

@javabean215 4 ай бұрын

Nick-ipedia, for all of those little known war facts!

@michaelhowell2326 Ай бұрын

Damn, Eli, shut up and let him tell his own story. Haha

@heavenlytacoslayer8202 17 күн бұрын

The Unseein’ Hero’s

@3-2-1-. 3 ай бұрын

College, for the most part, is unnecessary. The net has everything you need to learn on almost any subject, and become proficient, possibly excellent in it. This is History, and anybody can now learn it, thanks to you! I love using the enemy's tools against them! I am speaking of the interwebs. The cluster frick that is occurring everywhere right now, is infuriating. You guys help take the edge off. Appreciate it. The down range area is no longer clear...

@marygoround1292 4 ай бұрын

I can't wait for FE to do a video on Augustus Willis

@VortexTheGreat69 3 ай бұрын

I wear glasses that’s funny 😂

@jasonhare8540 Ай бұрын

You don't need good eyesight to see freedom ... 🤣

@sonnyjs15 3 ай бұрын

I thought id be rejected so i also cheated 😊. Semper Fi!

@genericscottishchannel1603 Ай бұрын

man got his own facts wrong

@yaboimax6356 3 ай бұрын

Bro I just finished watching fury literally 5 minutes ago.

@diltzm 26 күн бұрын

Admiral Lee wasn't of Asian descent. It was his last name of Lee and his interest in East Asian culture that earned him the nickname "Ching" Lee at the Naval Academy.

@DurableTomb 4 ай бұрын

Why does the guy next to Electrician act like he's wearing a wire? He should calm himself. He did fine on the show.

@HAMlLTON 4 ай бұрын

Dude on the right is not autistic with his facts and it bothers me

@railrodemike 3 ай бұрын

President Harry Truman had bad eyesight. He frankly excepted into the Army trained here at Ft Sill as nlan artillery officer and later fought in France. Info on movie, You Tube. "Truman 1995". HBO movie.

@WormGeod Ай бұрын

God, this makes me want to reenlist and go back to submarines. DCFROGS

@jakeplager1 4 ай бұрын

We need a uss Washington video. Please

@gabrielpowell9449 2 ай бұрын

Nick can you talk about the Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident please

@GiveMeYoSammich 4 ай бұрын

I wanna hear Nick's take on american military equipment vs communist equipmemt

@johnmcmickle5685 Ай бұрын

Admiral lee got the nickname somehow some3 claim it was because of his last name or service in China but he was not Asian American.

@diltzm 26 күн бұрын

He got it at the Naval Academy because of his interest in East Asian culture compounded with his last name.

@freya002YT 4 ай бұрын

❤

@joshuakirchoff3789 4 ай бұрын

Idk who he is and I’m sure it’s not true but dude to the left of nick looks like he’s off those adderall beginning of the video when nicks talking 🤣🤣

@IronReece13 4 ай бұрын

Flucky cheated his too

@KORTOKtheSTRONG 3 ай бұрын

neat

@joeb1125 26 күн бұрын

Bush Light really? Get real beer

@Matthew-mk6wh 4 ай бұрын

Nick only no top ice Berg history

@mcinteer19 2 ай бұрын

When are you guys going to drink real beer? 🥴🤢🤮

@jasonweaver918 4 ай бұрын

Try letting the interesting people talk. Problem with hosts is that they are podcast hosts.

@alancranford3398 3 ай бұрын

I learned about Medal of Honor winner Rodger Young from Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" Rodger Young joined the National Guard prior to WW2 to get a paycheck but when he deployed overseas he resigned as squad leader because his hearing and sight were bad. Rodger Young was both blind and deaf? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodger_Young

@KarlPHorse 29 күн бұрын

When you have the poor eye sight of a war hero, but have none of the martial skill, mental toughness, or physical ability. 🥲 this is fine… I’m not salty. Whose mad? I’m not mad. ITS FINE, IM FINE!!!! FUCK!!!!