At 1:47, there are a lot of urban myths associated with Executive Order 9066, which did not name any race or group for the temporary relocation out of the West Coast Defense Zone. You have to get the whole story from original WWII source material: WWII Japanese Relocation Camps & the WRA: A Prudent, Emergency, War-time Measure.

Fantastically crafted and researched video!! Not a long video, but one certainly pact with the detail of this Man's life and battlefield exploit!!! Epic video!!

So it wasn't a land grab by Russia

Any other member of the service would have been kicked out of the military with dishonorable discharge.

you explain it in compact and easy to understand, overall great video keep up the work🔥

They are called AM Tracks, AMTRAC because they have tracks isntead of being a boat or wheeled.

Nice.

I’ve had the distinct honor to have piloted PT-658, from the Union Pacific Railroad bridge, under the St. John’s bridge, back to the Vigor dock. One criteria for acceptance of the design, can it reach top speed in its length.

Beautiful little boats but they look like Scott Payne’s design fun fact the tubes were the problem ie the flash of the tubes being fired but this was fixed but my favorite little boat of the navy is the PBR

Thanks, good vid --- & now want to search for McHale's Navy shows to relive my youth!

How _very_ refreshing to view a video in which someone actually has the story right! If there was one detail (O.K., _two;..._ John North Willys pronounced his name _Will-iss._ ) that I would adjust, it would be that Ford was not so much 'asked' to participate in the project that became _Truck, 1/4 Ton. 4X4, G503._ It is my understanding that Ordnance applied considerable pressure to Ford Motor Company 'informing' them that they would provide a prototype and prepare for production as there was concern about Bantam's and / or Willys Overland's ability to provide for projected demand. For any who do not know; Ford's _GP_ designation did _not_ indicate 'general purpose' or anything of the sort (as is somewhat commonly assumed). Per period FoMoCo documents, G was 'government', P was Ford's internal code for vehicles of 80 inch wheelbase. Vehicles built by Ford as subcontractor to Willys' G503 contract were GPW, or government, 80", Willys pattern. Addendum: 07:27 - Both Bantam and Willys 'built' 1/4 ton trailers of the same pattern during WW2, the Bantam T-3 and Willys MB-T. Both firms assembled their trailers from components provided by American Central Manufacturing (ACM), a firm which also produced 'body tubs' for both Willys MB and Ford GPW. ACM had previously built bodies for the Cord 810 and several other automobiles. The T-3 and MB-T were watertight and could be used as boats or even as pontoon bridges if required. 08:30 - Kudos for including the 'Rotarbuggy', an autogyro 'Flying Jeep' of sorts (gliding, actually). The rotor was not powered, it provided lift when towed by an aircraft. 08:36 - Kit, Deep Fording. 08:40 - _"Successful?"_ They were called 'Seep' for a reason. The VW Schwimmwagen was a true amphibian. Your 'name of Jeep origin story' _is_ accurate, though I would add that the first published reference to a prototype of what would become G503 being referred to as "Jeep" was the result of Katherine Hillyer, a magazine photographer, having been sent to a public relations stunt wherein a Willys 1/4 ton 4X4 prototype was being driven up the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Hillyard called out to W/O test driver Red Hausmann, "What is that thing?" "It's a Jeep!" he replied. On February 20, 1941, her readers were greeted with the photo of a Willys quad climbing the steps with the caption; _Lawmakers take a ride - With Senator Meade, of New York, at the wheel, and Representative Thomas, of New Jersey, sitting beside him, one of the Army’s new scout cars, known as “jeeps” or “quads”, climbs up the Capitol steps in a demonstration yesterday. Soldiers in the rear seat for gunners were unperturbed._ It does seem that I've 'picked at' your video more than I had intended, but it's all for the right reasons. Please do understand that my recently restored 'late war standard' Willys MB appreciates your accurate and well researched presentation.

The B-36 pusher prop engines were notorious for catching fire after a carburetor iced up

The XC-99 was sitting in San Antonio. Circa 2000.

As you can see in the photos Ford is the company that designed the grill with headlights in it the army had Willis built it that way

The name Jeep came from the designation GP which stood for general purpose.

Greetings: The Jeep name came from it's designation, General Purpose vehicle. GP.

Great history lesson. My research on this topic, the government basically passed the Bantan's blueprints onto Ford and Willis...saying there was a war time need. That is all well and good but keep them out of the government contract on a machine Bantam invented was rude. I believe thay got a small contract to build some trailers.

Good video over all. You left out the story of the Tornado that clobber Carswell AFB in September of 1952. One aircraft was completely shattered and would have to be written off while 72 bombers on the flight line and adjoining aprons were damaged and unflyable. Tell true I always thought it was the most Butt ugly machine ever created and it was a maintenance nightmare to keep in the sky.

Gen Cardenas spoke highly of this plane. He remarked at it's handling, and in fact he also spoke of a time he got it to "depart" and got it in a flat spin. He eventually got it into an INVERTED flat spin, that he could actually get out of, and was able to recover before losing the aircraft. He was SUCH a great pilot, contemporary of Bob Hoover, Yaeger, and that entire generation of heroic and competent aviators.

Going back to the Dolittle Raid, when you say (as most do) that it had little strategic value - there is a school of thought which claims that in the well known rivalry between the japanese army and navy the raid alarmed the nation enough that the navy got the upper hand and so initiated the Midway attack (believing the aircraft came from there). And we all know what that led to!

Remove the word "actually" from your narration. Otherwise, it was a good presentation.

they use a B25 as a camera platform filming the Air footage in the film Battle Of Britain

Was quickly put on carriers after the kamikaze attacks began . Being faster in speed and climb rate than F-6F ,Also carried more ammunition. The job the Bearcat was designed for. But came into service too late .

I've seen it referred to as "The Bent-Wing Bastard from Connecticut."

It was the British that figured out how to land a Corsair on an aircraft carrier. That made the US Navy want it again.

Its my favourite fighter of world war 2, such a beautiful plane especially the later f4u-4's. Its brilliant in war thunder too, fly them in simulator a fair bit

Love the Corsair. Flown by my grandfather with VMF-216

Amazing! great content and so much coolness!

Old "Hose-Nose" ......

Good video, I wonder how well the Corsair would have done against the Germans?

The early British Mustangs were not all that great as the Allison engine was useless at higher altitudes, so they were religated to ground attack and low level reconnaissance. But when the Rolls Royce Merlin engine was installed to the Mustang, it boosted the top speed by over 50 mph and gave it great high altitude performance. It enterd service as the Mustang MkIII with the RAF and P-51B with the USAAF.

So you are telling us that the Mustang was PLANEgerized by the USA from Great Britain?

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Great content

I think right now would be feasible because just like back in the 80s we needed a ship that was just a big of a match or more to fight against the soviets kirov class battle cruisers and because of the war in Ukraine we are at the brink of war with russia and they still have some of their kirov class battle cruisers.

Tennessee was a Pearl Harbor survivo.

In WW2 the Majority of the Island bombardment was done by the Older Cruisers and Older Battleships and The New Cruisers and Newer Battleships screened the Aircraft carriers. Currently, (1) main 8 inch gun turret off of USS Louisville in Nevada Desert used for atomic bomb testing. My dad served on the heavy cruiser USS Louisville CA 28 from 1943-46 and witnessed (52) sailors and Rear Admiral Theodore Chandler buried at sea due to (3) kamikaze hits in the Pacific.

in the movie Battleship, when she fired her 16in guns, was actual footage from the conflict back in 90/91

I want a nuclear battleship class to accompany the FMF forces

Script needs proof reading. Apparently the British weren't as much of a victim of the Washington naval treaty as the British were. Hmmmmm.

A very good precis of the history of AT weapons. Bravo!

The Bismarck completed 0 missions, as it was sunk before it completed it's initial mission. It raided 0 convoys as it was detected and followed before it had a chance to find any convoys.

The Tallboy was not called "the earthquake bomb". That descriptor belongs to Tallboys big brother, the 22,000lb Grand Slam.

HMS Prince of Wales three hits on Bismarck damaged Bismarck to such an extent that the Bismarck's mission had to be abandoned. The damage caused by HMS Prince of Wales also slowed Bismarck down. HMS Prince of Wales had to disengage due to gun system malfunctions. The gunnery systems were still being completed as she was a brand new ship and still had the shipyard workers onboard. The Swordfish attack by HMS Ark Royal did not prevent Bismarck from attempting to return to a French Port. It REDUCED Bismarck's speed still further and and her ability to steer. During the final battle Bismarck was manoeuvring as can be seen from the battle plot. HMS Rodney's excellent gunnery hit Bismarck with the second salvo and that was the end of it for Bismarck.

a few points the Deutschland class were ordered by the Weimar Republic long before Hitler came to power the UK didn't force Germany to agree to the UK / German naval treaty Germany gladly adopted it as it gave them 35% of the RN,s tonnage and this agreement upset the French. the French fast battleship Richelieu was designed to take on the Italian navy that was to French navy's job the Royal Navy had 4 R class battleships equipped with 8 15in gun,s , 4 QE class battleships fitted with 8 15in each , 2 repulse class Battlecruisers fitted with 6 15in guns each , Hood the original fast Battleship fitted with 8 15in guns, the under construction KGV,s fitted with 19 14in guns and finally the 2 Nelrod,s each fitted with 9 16in guns. for the German navy to attempt to take on the French then they would have to pass the UK either past the North of Scotland or through the Channel. The UK and France were allied to each other do you think for one moment that the UK who operated the largest navy in the world with 140 destroyers 50 cruisers 7 carriers and the afore mentioned battle wagons would allow Germany to sally down the channel or that a UK government wouldn't agree to support France. I am not a historian but i know more than you so please do some research its very easy to do read a book there are plenty of them about the subject. Also the Bismark was not scuttled it was sunk by the RN after it had been battered to pieces by the main armament of the KGV and Rodney for a hr and was finally sunk by 21in torpedo,s from the county class heavy cruiser Dorsetshire .

My dad was an aircraft engineer with the RAAF during WW2 working on Catalinas out of Bowen Qld. Australia. The RAAF operated a total of 168 Catalinas during the war. Was recently at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney where they have one on display.

USS West Virginia and her friends would like a word about the Battle of the Surigao Strait. As a "battleship on battleship" battle, it would have been more fair if WeeVee and Company hadn't had such powerful radars... The Pearl Harbor Salvage Fleet got their revenge.

I find interesting that early on heavy machine guns where the de facto anti tank weapons, like the M1919 or the German 13.2 MG that was supposed to use the tankgewer round.

Might wanna change the title my guy.

We have ma aged to come very close to the present but drones wuth steapped on explosives should also be listed here, shouldn't they?