Best of the History Guy: The Cold War

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The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered

6 ай бұрын

Best of the History Guy: The Cold War. Five classic The History Guy episodes on the defining conflict of the latter half of the Twentieth Century. Almost a full hour of The History Guy!
00:00 - The 3 a.m. call and the 1979 NORAD Alert
11:03:04 -The Distant Early Warning Line and Forgotten History
22:03:21 - US Air Force Tragedy at Texas Tower 4
32:11:12 - The Cold War and the Santa Susana Field Laboratory
42:13:11 - The Other October Crisis: The Sino-Indian War of 1962
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@ginnyjollykidd 6 ай бұрын

To all veterans here, thank you for your service! There was never a more dire time for us who slept through it. Thank you for protecting the world. May the Blessings Be.

@williamharris9525 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@RetiredSailor60 6 ай бұрын

Good Monday morning History Guy and everyone watching. Happy holidays to everyone. I'm a veteran of the Cold War, Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm), Global War on Terrorism, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. USN 1982-2003.

@karenlong4817 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service and sacrifice. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@RetiredSailor60 6 ай бұрын

@@karenlong4817 You're welcome ma'am. Proud to have served.

@grumpyolman405 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service. It's appreciated a lot more than you know.

@andreperrault5393 6 ай бұрын

Right there with you, in different places, working with all the services

@jimsharp5044 5 ай бұрын

US Marine Veteran. 81-88

@robertheinkel6225 6 ай бұрын

I was on Alert duty at that time. All our aircraft were manned and ready to start engines. We waited, not knowing if this was the day or not.

@-jeff- 6 ай бұрын

I was in missile com at F. E. Warren and remember getting that early morning recall and told to "hurry."

@-jeff- 6 ай бұрын

The 1979 "super goof" was the THG episode that had me first subscribe to this channel. I was in the USAF in missile communications at F. E. Warren in Nov 1979. I think we all were still shook days afterward.

@clintwirth 6 ай бұрын

When he talks about something important he talks loudly and with urgency. It shows he's very passionate about whatever subject he's talking about

@williamharris9525 6 ай бұрын

Thanks THG!!!! As a Cold War vet myself (on the fence on 9 Nov. 1989) and seeing the very beginnings of the fall of the Warsaw Pact first hand, these episodes mean a lot. Good job!!!

@doughboybellmore2347 6 ай бұрын

it was very cold the winter 1975/76 Korea

@bruce5579 6 ай бұрын

I was stationed on a SAC base in 1979. Jimmy Carter killed SAC’s B-1 bomber and MX missile programs. You still think those were computer glitches?

@makeracistsafraidagain 6 ай бұрын

I served in the Army stationed at an isolated missile battery in West Germany in the Cold War.

@itsmatt2105 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic "rest of the story" pieces of history!

@HM2SGT 6 ай бұрын

Texas Tower is one of the saddest and Most Fascinating stories

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer 6 ай бұрын

My dad worked on the assemblage of the D.E.W. line. Goose Bay AFB and Labradore. The later two was to make them compatible with their SAC mission.

@avnrulz8587 6 ай бұрын

A gentleman I worked with was stationed on Tower 4 and he was one of the crew evacuated.

@schlirf 6 ай бұрын

Served in Germany along the Czechoslovakian and East German Borders, out of Camp Pitman and OP Alpha (with one gnarly tour up at Romeo in 84). Happier than duck in water when that damned Wall came down, and I could walk across the former Grenz into Thurigan from Hessen at Alpha without some BT putting an AKS upside my nostril.

@williamharris9525 6 ай бұрын

You too? I was at Pitman as an augmentee from the 70 armor out of Erlangen. Was at Pitman in 1989. Thanks for your service border rat!

@schlirf 6 ай бұрын

@@williamharris9525 out of Schwabach with the Blackhawk between 81-83, then shanghaied to Fulda with the 11th.

@williamharris9525 6 ай бұрын

@@schlirf Hoorah! Was in I troop in Bad Hersfeld, in 1992

@schlirf 6 ай бұрын

@@williamharris9525 ALLONS! (C troop 83-86)

@williamharris9525 6 ай бұрын

@@schlirf Allons, Allons, the pride of the cavalry, the best dam regiment that you will ever see!!! Spurholder 93

@amplify1802 Ай бұрын

I just found this! I love the obscure global history of the mid to late 20th century thanks for doing the research and presentation of this very relevant notes in history.

@-jeff- 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@davidcarroll8735 6 ай бұрын

These episodes dovetail together nicely! Good opportunity to reinforce the learning!

@MausMasher54 6 ай бұрын

I remember this & was a part of it too....Scary....

@BushNavigator-wq4qo 6 ай бұрын

2 ideas for future shows. History of chemical leavening and the baking revelution that followed and the 1609 voyage of the sea venture

@richardcleary9107 6 ай бұрын

I was assigned to FE Warren AFB as a missile systems electro-mechanical team member during that time.

@violagentsch 5 ай бұрын

I graduated high-school in Berlin in 1979.

@schlirf 6 ай бұрын

Btw History Guy: "Spur Ride" might be an interesting episode in this day and age. 😎

@charlesdavenport2543 6 ай бұрын

I'll never part with mine.

@kevinvilmont6061 Ай бұрын

The dysentery early warning line sounds least desirable to be stationed at.

@7rich79 6 ай бұрын

Well, for one thing, 9th of November 1979 was one day after my birthday. I'm not saying it has anything to do with the development of the Cold War, but I assure you there were some sleepless nights in my family.

@constipatedinsincity4424 6 ай бұрын

Bask in the Saddle Again

@HM2SGT 6 ай бұрын

Been wondering where you been at

@constipatedinsincity4424 6 ай бұрын

@@HM2SGT Living La Vida Loca

@HM2SGT 6 ай бұрын

@@constipatedinsincity4424 😹👍🪅🥳🪩

@Sandy.J.Lloyd.Sr. 6 ай бұрын

I noticed that you’ve got a 1957 Corvette model sitting on your shelf. Do you own one or is it something you dream to own?

@constipatedinsincity4424 6 ай бұрын

Hey Playboy,👋 someone asked me to ask a question of you. Where you a Boy Scout and how high was your rank? Thank You

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 6 ай бұрын

I was. I reached the rank of Life Scout.

@danm936 6 ай бұрын

@TheHistoryGuyChannel same. My twin brother went through with the eagle scout rank. But we happened to be at that age when friends and goofing around became more important to me. Looking back do wish I finished the requirements for eagle.

@constipatedinsincity4424 6 ай бұрын

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@kevinvilmont6061 Ай бұрын

David Lightman was involved in the false alarm.

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@kevinvilmont6061 Ай бұрын

Me and tower 4 have the same nickname.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel Ай бұрын

LOL. I am Old Shakey sometimes myself.

@allendyer5359 6 ай бұрын

Wow a 5 story feature with no Big Bangs -We Win! Story 1. 7:30 THG speaks right but the view is of F-102 Daggers. They have pointy tails & intake beside cockpit, F-106 Darts have flat tails & intakes behind cockpits. Deuces went to Nam '63-68, but most went ANG by 70s. Most likely Sixers were "on alert" on 11/09/79. LAFB & most of ADTAC replaced with F-15 in '83. Just my grain of SALTII. Story2 11:05: Pinetree line. 13:34 That dar mitten has its thumb on wrong side, eh? Grand Travers Bay out do'n Saggy naw! 16:19 Still a Deuce back behind the RCAF Avro CF-100 Canuck. Couldn't record off FM radio up here as got that every 20sec bip from SAGE radar stations. Missed out on trip to Moose Jaw like half the squad did in 80s, red flannel days. S3 22:18 Texas Tower#4 23:02 TU-95 Bear, then 23:03 ?? straight winged ole Gloster Meteors F.8? 23:27 A tandem cockpit XB-52 from 1952. Nice to see just a rounder, no lightning bolts airman's service cap. S4 32:21 NAA Rocketdyne Meltdown See ya got a NAA silvery drop-tank full range P-51. next to one of the 13 Aztec skulls? Then for S5 takes an Eastern Airline 'er shoot up over his head, near a radioactive sign & a Rockman's helmet without the sodium salt-water blast off. S5 42:19 Oct 1962 Cuban Missiles while also Sino-Indian War Let's see for Our side cold war you got Corvair, Boeing, Arvo, NAA-Rockwell/Rocketdyne, & Lockheed U2 & F-104. Red Star USSR only got Tupolev Tu-95 Bear & Tu-114 Cleat/passenger. 50:46. That's ok, can't type full MIG, Il ,Yak, Polikarpov,, Su or whatever backward letter names they HAD. Now It's China making their own fighters, Chengdu & Shenyangs. Both China & India do most repairs on them old Soviet planes.

@bartsanders1553 6 ай бұрын

Nice use of "the end of history" as a double entendre.

@stevenlitvintchouk3131 6 ай бұрын

The Soviets had their share of false alarms. One occurred in September 1983, when their own computers "reported" that the U.S. had launched a limited nuclear strike against Russia.

@ponyote 3 ай бұрын

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@hellbilly6532 6 ай бұрын

Idk, the world seemed a simpler place when we knew who the bad guys were and where they were

@justicesomeday 5 ай бұрын

HENRI GRUART COMMANDER OFFICER DGC1 AT DUNKIRK MAY JUNE 1940 FOR THE FFF AND THE FREE WORLD. HE WAS MY GRANDFATHER.

@preshisify 6 ай бұрын

🎄😷

@nancywhitehead219 6 ай бұрын

This incident was what War games was based on. 🤔

@h.h.6171 6 ай бұрын

I remember seeing that news report live. (Originally from Western Washington)

@dangreene3895 4 ай бұрын

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@idolhanz9842 6 ай бұрын

That November 1979 snafu came days after the Iranian embassy takeover and hostage crisis..

@merlinwizard1000 6 ай бұрын

47th, 11 December 2023

@WilliamCollins-sh6lm 6 ай бұрын

But didn't Germany test 2 small Nukes long before the US ??? They had the delivery ability to the USA... Look up milk cow subs and Diesel Engine Flying Boats !!! I often wonder why they never used it ??? The deeper you dig the weirder it gets !!!