Boat Touching Remembrance Day

[@Somedumbdudeontheinternet]

America: today is a day of remembrance. Japan: today is a day of remembrance… to not touch the boats.

[@JohnSmith-bv8sz]

today is a day of remembrance… to not touch the boats that don't belong to you

[@madogthefirst]

We so sorry. We no touch boats no more.

[@Vasher-The-Destroyer]

By not even teaching it lol.

[@omega40k]

Japan: "What's the worst the USA could do? Drop a sun (or two) on us?........"

[@FPFAJTK]

Admiral William Halsey (paraphrased) When this is over, the only place the Japanese language will be spoken is in hell"

[@MarkoMihok]

japan hitting himself and cursing is the equivalent of remembering a very cringe memory when you are trying to fall asleep

[@Lunar137]

I HATE how accurate this is!

[@thomasfoster7387]

that me fr, except it's every waking moment

[@RiseofNick]

Exactly. Preach it, brother.

[@Kaiden-9226]

This happens to me 3 times a week

[@nottheprotagonist7019]

Remembering how cringe he was he's like nah man I really thought I was him bro poor Japan

[@willythemailboy2]

The worst part about Washington ignoring the warnings about an attack on Pearl Harbor is that every Pacific Fleet war game the US Navy did throughout the 1930s started with a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

[@FrauWilhelmKlink]

I didn't know that, but it's pretty ironic America's entry into WW2 would start like that then.

[@williamparker2922]

@@FrauWilhelmKlink almost to ironic... almost if they were just looking for an excuse to join the already going current world war... against most Americans citizens wishes, since most Americans, at the time, weren't keen on being involved in another global conflict.

[@KarlH1980]

I don't think it was ignored. What makes more sense is that FDR was dealing with 2 opposing matters. 75% of voters did not want the US to get involved in Europe or Asia. FDR believed that it was necessary for the US' survival to get involved in these wars. What makes more sense is argument that FDR was not aware of the scale of the attack and let it happen in order to be able to convince Americans to be involved.

[@willythemailboy2]

@@KarlH1980 I see you're part of the Pearl Harbor conspiracy community. The thing is that there were things that the Army and Navy could have done to allow the attack but still mitigate the worst effects of it. The war game sneak attacks weren't just "sneak attacks" but specifically attacks at dawn on a Sunday because the participating officers knew damn well that readiness was consistently at a low at that point. SOP could have changed to address that the very least. A standing CAP and actually training the officers overseeing the radar would be a good place to start.

[@dawnfallon6812]

If I remember correctly, the fleet had an exercise where our carriers executed an attack on Pearl _in the same exact way_ and was successful a year or so before. The whole history of Pearl is one of twists and turns. Yamamoto was against fighting America, yet he was the principle force behind the plan. He advocated for it as their best shot at taking America out of the fight long enough for them to secure their war aims and fortify them all against the inevitable backlash. They believed too much in Kantai Kessen. Imperial Japan made three mistakes: They touched the boats. They underestimated just how mad we would be about the boat touching. They seriously overestimated their strength to weather the furious storm that resulted from the aforementioned boat touching.

[@shart_with_force6686]

Holy shit. More history lessons with this format PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

[@anyaoberkirsch7015]

Yes please!

[@skittles3310]

All day. Every day. I will never get tired of this. 😂❤

[@masamune..]

Agreed 💯 love this

[@AceHufflepuff]

I want an entire video on unit 731

[@DesertFernweh]

Yes yes yes!

[@darrenrogers6430]

Don't forget the original don"t touch our boats moment when Jefferson told the Barbary pirates to stop and they didn't so Jefferson had the navy make them stop

[@kemarisite]

@@darrenrogers6430 "To the shores of Tripoli!"

[@MH-jn1iq]

He didnt HAVE the Navy MAKE them stop... He MADE the Navy to HAVE them stopped... Sole purpose of the founding of the U. S. Navy. Gotta love it lol

[@dylandepetro4187]

Um… I do believe that the navy was made specifically because someone touched our boats. They were merchant ships, but they were still our boats.

[@nattybumpo7156]

Incorrect. The original "dont touch our boats" was the war of 1812. The Royal Navy kept stopping American merchant ships on the high seas and taking what they wanted, including the crew. Obviously this was straight piracy.

[@denisekoltys3019]

Don’t forget the US Marines were on the boats with our Sailors. Tripoli is in the Marines song in honor of “Don’t Touch Our Boats”

[@karlstenske1934]

"That's how Dad did it." Thanks Tony Stark

[@shaunpatterson9148]

I always loved that quote

[@Nemecard]

"That's how America does it, and it's worked out well so far... " Love that he included this

[@jaws1628]

My other favorite quote is “Buy it. Store it.”

[@craigwoodburn1189]

I took this to be the UK. British Empire did this for centuries.

[@HubiKoshi]

One of the more bizarre things I read about WW2 was that there were these two men. One was a Japanese diplomat in German-controlled Lithuania, one Chiune Sugihara and the other was a member of the Nazi party living in Nanking, one John Rabe. Both men are credited with saving thousands of lives, Sugihara was issuing visas for the Jewish people so they could escape Nazi persecution, Rabe saw the atrocities the Japanese were committing and was horrified so he started trying to save as many Chinese people as he could, using his status as a German representative and thus an ally of Japan, to hide away as many people as he could. It's just a wholesome but bizarre story about two men trying to save the victims of their allies.

[@shadowspirit93]

The good in the bad

[@smoxthybweh]

At the end of the day, they are human. Not every single person on the bad guy side was bad, just victims of circumstance. Obviously. But considering everything that happened, it's easy to write everyone off as bad, which makes stories like these sound bizarre.

[@michaelbenjmitchell1]

Technically China was a client state of Germany. The Chinese Nationalist government was buying tons of weapons and equipment from Germany before the war. Yes you heard me right the Chinese were wearing German made uniforms and helmets using German made equipment and weapons.

[@LoloD1833]

Rabe was also a member of the Nazi party and Gestapo. When a hardcore Nazi tells you that you’re getting “to wild” then it’s bad!!!

[@joshcarter-com]

John Rabe is fairly well known (there was even a movie) but I was unaware of Sugihara. Thank you! I’ve been enjoying reading about him.

[@JoelJames2]

Don’t get me wrong, Pearl Harbor is the primary example of don’t touch the boats, and USS Maine is another good example. But I don’t think most people understand how far back this goes. In the first 25 years of America as a country, we fought both an undeclared naval war with France, and sent our first overseas expedition to North Africa to fight pirates. The “to the shores of Tripoli” part of the Marine anthem? That’s what it’s referring to. That being said, for anyone interested, the history of Japan from the Meiji Restoration onward is one wild ride and I would strongly recommend looking into it. In less than 100 years, the Japanese Emperor fought the samurai, the Japanese fought the Chinese, the Japanese fought the Russians, the Japanese fought the Germans, and then the big smack down where the Japanese fought the Dutch, British, Chinese, French, and Americans. And in the middle of all that, some junior army officers assassinated the sitting Prime Minister.

[@SoloRenegade]

Maine blew up from the inside. magazine cook off. used though as justification for war by the few politicians that desired the US to be an empire.

[@lukeash7087]

Yeah I learned about that on the fat electricians channel.

[@Gander319]

He caught me off guard with the mention of "only the second time in history someone has touched my boats". I was confused. 1. Quasi War with France 2. Barbary pirates 3. War of 1812 Great Britain and the Chesapeake affair 4. The Spanish-American War

[@maxedout1046]

oh please, everyone knows the uss maine thing was an accident that you lot used as an excuse to go to war with spain.

[@Shortfuse39]

@@Gander319 Also Germany sinking the Lusitania, even though it wasn't our boat, it had American's on it and that helped bring us into WWI.

[@pcblues]

I cannot put into words much I love how you walked the line on that one. So let the money talk.

[@pcblues]

Drop a word, sound asian.

[@habitual_linecrosser]

Thank you kindly

[@ryanwight9116]

Japan has to be getting insanely tired of telling people “don’t touch the boats”

[@WgCdrLuddite]

As a Brit, I am proud we helped the Japs to build a modern navy.

[@Mr.PerfectCell-M]

I mean they have warned basically everyone so I would also be pretty tired of it to

[@SK_2521]

@@Mr.PerfectCell-Mthey even warned themselves. Civil authorities of Japan were against of what military were doing

[@zephodb]

Japan should get one of those hand-held noise-sound-players, put 'don't touch the boats' in to it, then just press the button. :) Then he can play with it, make it sound a bit like a rap as he presses the button a few times, restarting in various points. :>

[@dannyjaspersen7889]

Ok probably but I think it's more like philanthropy at this point

[@USArmy31]

I actually really love this version of HLC. Giving history lessons and making them super funny and entertaining. Please do more

[@cooterwallace]

Damn skippy! Keep it up HLC!💋

[@IGrocker]

We could have Grandpa Buff’s story time!

[@Tango352]

I need Fat Electrician and HLC to do drunk history.

[@SamLizziesmom]

This is why I watch him! Hell, I get half my news from him too! 😅

[@elf150hz]

This was epic. My uncle (Navy) was there and would never talk about it. Even when Pearl Harbor the movie came out, he would never watch it. Later in his years before he passed, he was talking to my father (Marine) and other uncle (Marine) and blurted out, “Have you ever seen a buddy burn in water?”. Thank you for letting the millions of young people that have no idea of the past (before the internet) what happened for them. ✌

[@Nutmeg142]

A better movie to watch is Tora! Tora! Tora! It is a joint American-Japanese producing very historically accurate in general.

[@jeannepocock6997]

I'm very sorry.

[@kelleyprice3450]

made me tear up.... what those men (and women) went through....

[@DustyGamma]

American public on: December 6th, 1941 "We don't want anything to do with this war, we'll sell stuff, let Europe deal with it." December 7th, 1941 "...You know what, maybe we will have something to do with this war!" December 11th, 1941 "Oh, you want some too??"

[@joekellyou]

This sentiment was best echoed by Robot Chicken’s “lil Hitler” skits! 😂 Teacher: “Lil Adolf where is lil Kowalaski?” 🤷‍♂️ 🇺🇸: “not my problem.” {🇯🇵 runs in hitting 🇺🇸 milkshake} 🇺🇸: “OKAY NOW ITS MY PROBLEM.”

[@Andrew-ep4kw]

June 7, 1942 "Do you hear that Mr. Emperor? That is the sound....of inevitability"

[@kevinimperati8644]

"You didn't touch the boats but i guess you could get some too."

[@panzerwolf494]

Germany steps in "Fuck you bro, eat it!"

[@A_Hylian_Not_An_Elf]

That’s why FDR let Japan attack. To get American people to want to fight.

[@Despondent-]

"Things don't end when we join, things end cuz we joined" another hard nonchalant quote from Grandpa buff.

[@KageRyuu6]

How can you fuck up the quote you just heard? E and A are like 2 letters away, so there's no way you just fat fingered that shit.

[@spudgamer6049]

WW1 was going to end even if the US didn't enter. The US did speed the end along though, and that may have been a mistake. It didn't give the German population quite enough time to absorb the fact they were losing, despite the war not being fault on their land.

[@krulerwest-oz7364]

@@spudgamer6049 It was the very fact the Germans fought not in their land, and lost WW1 not in their land that led to WW2, a people have to know deep deep down that they have lost otherwise blame is given to some sub group within that country and the people then are ok to have a second go......Blaming sub groups for a nation failures has been playbook 101 since Mr Caveman blamed the ginger haired cavemen about their loss of hunting grounds..that shit is still goping on to this day...Well Ginger people are just evil thats just science.

[@TheDark4light]

Britain is kind of right though. America does like to wait and then clean up and claim they were the most important in the battle. Still goes hard though.

[@Gaara1019]

​@TheDark4light If you jump in a fight and save your best friend from 2 guys kicking his a**, you are going to be seen as the savior. Js...

[@specopbookie]

Just got back from Oahu. The Arizona Memorial was tragic, heavy, AND beautiful. 6 hours wasn’t enough to take everything in. It’s one “tourist attraction” I’d pay for 10x over. Thank you, vets, for sharing it all with the public.

[@maryblankenship5925]

It's on my list to see. Probably during the winter months for the tropics.

[@5roundsrapid263]

I just went there a couple months ago. I’ve been wanting to all my life. It sounds cliche, but it was very moving.

[@ictpilot]

It's back open and you can go on the memorial again?

[@ZingaraFit]

Have you any idea how much people need history lessons? This is such a great way to teach and entertain. As long as the teaching is factual, yes we have some ugly history just like everyone else. Do more of these is possible.😊

[@2128jrandall]

I really enjoyed that he went back and told how it was America that showed Japan essentially how industry was a key to growth, thus turning them into a powerhouse. It was something I didn't know. Thanks to HLC. I hope he makes more of these.

[@carstekoch]

​@@2128jrandall A lot of the industry knowledge and training also came from Germany.

[@ericepperson8409]

My grandpa didn't talk too much about his own experience in WW2. He just turned 100 this year, which means he was still in high school when the war started. He took a couple farm deferments, before enlisting since all his brothers and most friends had already. Went to boot camp in Texas. Was assigned as an infantry man and shipped to the Philippines. Only heard this part of the story this summer when we were all together to celebrate him reaching the century mark - his unit was brought to the front lines fighting the last of the Japanese resistance. He could hear the machine guns and mortars. Then they were all told to go back to camp. The war was over. He spent the rest of his enlistment working as a cook in the Philippines and made Sargent. He'll be 101 soon. We've already lost so many of the men AND women who served at that time. I think we've already forgotten what they served for.

[@RJhobbs99]

True Americans never forget. Your grandfather is a good and honorable man, I wish one day Americans citizens can become as honorable as his generation again.

[@seanburke997]

My grandfather was an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers. Never saw any combat, but he spent most of his time overseas in the Philippines rebuilding and establishing bases and airfields etc. He had nothing but good things to say about the men he worked with and the Filipino people. Maybe our grand dads knew each other? My other grandad never came back from France. Died in a Jeep accident about 36 hours after VE Day. War weird like that.

[@ericepperson8409]

@@seanburke997 My grandpa always said he enjoyed his time over there too. I think it was the first time he saw real mountains and Mom talks about how much time they spent in the Rockies as kids growing up. It would be really cool if they knew each other. Maybe yours built the kitchen mine served him meals out of. My dad's dad was in the Coast Guard in the North Atlantic. Kept a journal that I now have. Most of it is pretty boring and then just stops about half way through his tour. He died of lung cancer before I was born.

[@drfarrin]

My grandfather was a radio operator for one of the Marine Air Group units at Guadalcanal. He almost made it to 100. Spend more time with him while you can.

[@CadetCaptainSigmund]

My Grandfather turned 99 this year. He served in the Army Medical Corps in India and eventually the Pacific. He was to be assigned as part of the first wave on the Japanese mainland, which would have likely gotten him killed. That attack was called off in favor of using the atom bombs. I likely wouldn't be here writing this comment had the bombs not been used. The brave sacrifice of all the men of that generation is what is inspiring me to join the military myself after college.

[@LinJen2]

HLC, I'm going to go off script and not get funny and sarcastic as I usually would. I just want to thank you. We all remember Dec 7, 1941. Most of us through history. I hope no one forgets. It really isn't taught in schools anymore. I remember my son being his history book home, and there was maybe a page and a half on WW2. This is what shaped many things. As they did back then, and what you do now is beyond some people's comprehension. I just want to say thank you for remembering, and especially thank you for your service. My freedom comes from you and all service members from then to now. I'm deeply grateful.

[@zacsmallwood7738]

I'll never forget my grandma telling me why her generation will never forget 12-7-41. She had a brother in the Navy at Pearl Harbor and my grandpa who I never met, was in Army basic training on one of the off shore island's. I'll always give a moment to pray and remember this day. Thank you to those who lost there lives that day, and thank you to all the men and women still serving, God Bless America! ❤️🇺🇸🦅

[@bobbilly-ok9fm]

I opened this video, than immediately opened my calendar to check to see holidays and such, and didn't see any notice of pearl harbor remembrance day, and it honestly kinda hurts to know that even on electric calendars its not notified or recognized (you have to add it yourself or get a non standard calendar to auto mark such) it started alot for the U.S. becoming the super power it is today, while also being one of the greatest tragedies in our history (obviously there are other tragedies, but this one speaks the loudest to the masses)

[@the13inquisitor59]

6:52 Admiral Yamamoto was actually against the attack as well. He went so far as to say he could guarantee two years unopposed in the Pacific before America retaliated, since he'd actually been to America on a diplomatic mission and seen America's industrial capability for himself. 10:22 Oh, neat. You did mention that.

[@MrEcoho]

it was 6 months actually

[@ednowlin1125]

The quote I believe you are referencing is: "In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success."

[@Stampedrope]

I could be wrong here but im sure that admiral after seeing the industrial capability of the Americans knew if they didnt hit the Americans hard and take out their carriers like he mentioned in the video then he knew they would loss if the American carriers at pearl harbour didn't set of to sea when they did which i think was a day or two before the attack (again could be wrong) then it could of gone very differently

[@perennem_equitem_57]

​@@ednowlin1125 which roughly a year after pearl harbor, the battle of midway occurred and that broke the Japanese navy. And then guadalcanal was after that and it broke the Japanese army and navy.

[@TheMagusOfTheMagnaCarta]

Alright you guys, all joking aside, stand up straight and show some fuckin respect! There's still 1100 dead American boys laying to rest on that boat in Pearl. 1100 lives not lived. Be at peace sons of America. And Uncle Sam .... keep talking like that and those 40,000 we lost in the summer of 1940 will be visiting you in your dreams... no it wasn't in one day but that was women, kids old folk, all sorts! 40,000 lives not lived! Stand up straight and show a little respect! Now about this transatlantic rivalry we got going on... let's just keep it fun and cut the bitch out of it eh? We're all SUPPOSED to be friends here... except slavic special Ed... he's right off the Christmas card list. And linecrosser... well done on the history lesson. I learned a thing or two. BTW you call us beans on toast ... you should be callin us BAE ... bacon and eggs... and when you do an English accent, you sound like Alexander Siddiq... wiki him.

[@IAmTheRealBill]

No kidding. Japan’s actions in WWII are almost unbelievable. I’ve been telling people that part of history and they have a really hard time accepting even the idea of how bad it was, let alone the things we know of. Absolutely beyond words. Glad to see someone else pointing people at it.

[@kevyn4016]

"That's how Dad did it. That's how We do it. Aand it's worked out pretty good so far." I finished the quote with you halfway through, before I could even remember why I knew the quote... What an awesome way to reach right into a whole generation's mind! 😂 Love your content, and especially the impromptu history lessons and wisdom you drop on us. You're doing awesome work! @HLC

[@gaaraofthedesert71]

It tickles my brain to hear that quote from RDJ. Thanks HLC 🥰

[@therogueblade915]

4:51 Love the Iron Man reference. Thanks for the history lesson HLC!

[@Echo-bp7oc]

Caught that too

[@kelleyprice3450]

Thank you for keeping the FACTS in your presentations. If we won't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. Maybe your videos will reach and teach folks!! Love them!!

[@Jayhawk226]

Grandpa served in the Pacific mechanic to Liberators, island hopped with them as we jumped islands on our way to Japan. Grandma was a welder in Wichita KS. Married when grandpa came back, married for over 50 years until he died from complications from Cancer (2nd bout) and she passed about 5 years ago. The greatest generation.

[@m2hmghb]

My grandfather was a Marine Raider in WW2. Was in the Philippines, Okinawa, Guam and some other places. When Dad joined the Air Force in the 70s, when he came back, he and grandpa were talking about the different places dad was at. It was basically dad was stationed here or visited here and it turns out grandpa had been there to capture it from the Japanese. When grandpa came back from the war it took him a year to make it from california to New Jersey. He walked home. He never talked about the war with anyone, the only way we knew he was a Raider was from them putting his obituary up.

[@davidgoodnow269]

That was a good walk . . . see the place you and yours fought for.

[@haineko1101]

Similar story in my family. Grandpa was a sailor in the US Navy before and during WW2. He'd occasionally talk about some of the cleaner parts of his military life - the parts that he thought were safe to tell to kids and wouldn't give them nightmares - but the real stuff he kept a tight lid on. It wasn't until he was hospitalized near the very end of his life and opened up to his male nurse, who was a Navy man as well, that we learned second-hand what he'd actually gone through. He'd been an eyewitness to the bombing of Pearl Harbor from the shoreline, saw a bomb go right down the Arizona's smokestack and blow its guts out. He had to stand on deck and salute as they scuttled the USS Lexington. etc. He had been all across the Pacific theater and had spoken about nearly none of it. The ones who know that life don't share it with the ones who didn't sign up for it. They don't want to weigh anyone else down.

[@Totally_Not_The_ATF]

A true quiet professional.

[@SamlSchulze1104]

My 'Lanta! Talk about "walk it off to clear your head". Chingau!

[@patrickpalmer4691]

Both my grandfathers served in WW2. One in the Pacific island hopping, the other in Africa, Italy, France, and Germany. They only talked about their wars after a lot of moonshine. They cried a lot. They marched every Veteran's Day. Chests full of medals. We haven't seen a generation of men like my grandfathers since then. The world owes that generation of men and women everything. Both are long gone from this earth, yet they live on in our heart.

[@jessicakrios9382]

Part of the reason we were able to recover so well was that a lot of the Japanese pilots were young with the thoughts of "Bigger ship equals more desirable targets" so a good amount of support ships and shipyards were left with minor damages or unneeded attacks on the larger ships were carried out. Meaning once all was said and done of the 21 ships heavily damaged only 7 were sunk and only 2 weren't recovered and returned to service. The ships that weren't recovered were the USS Arizona, and the USS Oklahoma. During the recovery and repair in pearl harbor we then launched an attack on the Japanese homeland (known as the Doolittle raid) to show we could reach out and touch them with 16 B-25 bombers. While the attack did little damage and the pilots were forced to land in China it forced the Japanese to have to consider homeland defensives meaning resources for the war for a quick victory became split. Supposedly, I say this because I have been told this but never checked it, the Japanese weren't planning on the long drawn out war. They were hoping for a quick disabling strike and for America to be forced to accept the lost of it's Pacific Territories, such as Guam, Wake Island, and the Philippines. If you want take a look at how many ships were undamaged at pearl harbor most of them are going to "smaller" ships. Then a large number only had minor damage impressively 3 of them are battleships.

[@AnimarchyHistory]

I have a video planned called “Every time someone touched America’s boats”. I’m on page 35. Over 20,000 words. Also. On that note, Boat Touching goes WAY before December 7th.

[@Mr.X2188]

I can think of the Spanish American war as another case of boat touching, what are some of the other ones?

[@NuclearFalcon146]

Just ask the Spanish.

[@chrisvinicombe9947]

Look forward to it.

[@26th_Primarch]

​@Mr.X2188 the Barbery pirates, the British leading up to the War of 1812...

[@jejeakle]

@@Mr.X2188Barbary wars

[@iangwaltney2316]

Spain and Tripoli over here going "we also touched the boats and found out just how dumb it was"

[@cavalierliberty6838]

Mexico did as well, they kidnapped a gunboat crew and had Texas sicced on them.

[@mindsight9732]

Spanish Cuba? false flag opperation, we ran over our own mine in harbor as pretext.

[@madogthefirst]

They are also going: Thank God we did it when we did or it would have been worse.

[@SonicSlicer]

Refresh my memory, but was Tripoli the "Line of Death" threat in which F-14s got to show off, or am I thinking about something else?

[@unofonseca2862]

​@@SonicSlicer no, pirates of the barbary states

[@MariaTex3]

On the bright side, now Japan and the US are bros who enjoy anime and videogames together.

[@squgieman]

To be fair it takes a lot for a small nation to go toe-to-toe with the United States and bloody our nose, have to give them a certain level of respect for that

[@Soulblighter116]

​@@squgieman It's kind of the same reason that Britian and the US are friends.

[@categoricamente1753]

@@squgieman when did japan ever go toe to toe with america? lol

[@jobanh7ify]

“So, does anyone know what day today is?” The beginning of the countdown to splitting an atom twice cuz somebody decided to touch a bunch of our boats?

[@Exaldear]

1932 was the splitting of the aom. Lead by Rutherford (New Zealand).

[@kendrickstreetman3328]

@@Exaldear thats why he said "the beginning of the countdown."

[@Exaldear]

@kendrickstreetman3328 the beginning of the countdown started 1932, 1933 to 1934 was when uranium was seen to give of cascading reactions, by 1939 a patent had been filed and that's what lead to Einstein writing a letter to Roosevelt that the Germans might be working on a nuclear bomb. All of this happened prior to 1941. 2941 was the catalyst to the bombs being deployed but fission had happened several times before then.

[@spamcan9208]

​@kendrickstreetman3328 That doesn't make sense. You'd be counting backwards in time from 1941 to 1932. There's a city-sized difference between splitting the atom and initiating an uncontrolled fission reaction.

[@tonywhite8162]

The first drop in a huge bucket of whupass that is gonna be dumped on two little spots on the globe?

[@RaptorJesus]

"That's how dad did it. That's how we do it. And it's worked out pretty good so far." *Britain in the corner, trying to discreetly wipe a tear of pride from his eye.*

[@mattryan7124]

Well it’s more an Iron Man quote with Tony referencing his dad. It would be funnier UK did start shedding a tear and thennn realize it’s a movie reference.

[@daviddragonheart6798]

@@mattryan7124 Doesnt make it any LESS accurate

[@mcky-zw4wn]

😊

[@WhiteIkiryo-yt2it]

As a Brit, yeah this is accurate. Glad to see a unhealthy love of the Navy is one thing you lot decided to upkeep.

[@NikkiTheOtter]

@WhiteIkiryo-yt2it It's not unhealthy...We only have like...6 of the 7 largest navies in the world...and 4 of the largest 5 air forces...you may have a point...

[@agoodmeme4823]

The history lesson tied in with the comedy is absolutely perfect. It gets the emotions down, with a funny side. It just works.

[@orionthedefender985]

Just some facts. There are few than 120,000 WW2 service members left. There are less than 20 Pearl Harbor survivors left, and as of April of 2024 there are no survivors left from the USS Arizona. They're all gone.

[@dustybunny6716]

That is depressing to find out but at least they are all finally at rest.

[@ericepperson8409]

My grandpa will turn 101 this January. He was too young to enlist when the war started and then took a couple of farm deferments. He enlisted, had boot in Texas, was assigned to infantry, and then shipped to the Philippines. His unit was transported to the front lines and he could hear the machine guns and mortars fighting the Japanese resistance. Then they were told to go back to camp. The war was over. Almost any veteran left these days is over a century old now. This war is passing from living memory rapidly.

[@metalram69]

Love this video more than most, which is saying a LOT, you are my favorite content creator hands down. I was raised on Oahu in base housing. My father was a Marine. I'll never forget those days visiting the memorial or the stories he would tell me about the attack. I miss him terribly now, There isnt much I wouldnt give up to have just one more day in that paradise with him.😔

[@America1776.]

The alternation between modern day and old WWII History is beyond genius! Love the video

[@Sigurdazie]

Thats why some ppl say „humanity is doomed, As we dont learn from our pastvand make the same mistakes again“

[@athena3016]

When I was in school, we didn’t really learn about the atrocities Japan committed in WW2. We’d cover Pearl Harbor, obviously, and then we’d go through the key battles America fought with them, maybe talk about the internment camps we had, and end with the two nuclear bombs. Meanwhile, we always went into great detail about the Holocaust, me especially since I had been taking German since middle school, and Germans (IN GENERAL) are VERY big on not censoring or denying the Holocaust (It was my German teacher who took us on a field trip to the National Holocaust museum in high school). But in college, I finally got to start learning Japanese and take some East Asian studies classes, which was when I finally learned more about the awful things Japan did. One of my classes was a comparative history of how Japan, Korea, and the US memorialized the events of WW2. It was really fascinating to learn how each country approached remembering and teaching those events (or avoiding them in some cases). So yeah, essentially what I’m trying to say that it’s kind of a shame we don’t really talk about what Japan did during WW2 aside from Pearl Harbor. Now I’m not saying we shouldn’t talk about Pearl Harbor at all (we absolutely should), but rather I wish we didn’t always teach that part of WW2 as Pearl Harbor->lots of battles->2 bombs->America won. It always felt very one dimensional, so thanks HLC for reminding us to look at the whole picture.

[@davidgoodnow269]

In my day, in our textbooks, we covered the Japanese campaigns in China in some detail, as well as the Death March of U.S. prisoners of war, but nothing about the reasons for either. They also taught the invasion of Okinawa and its significance to the projections for the invasion of Japan, best-case through worst-case, and _why_ that resulted in the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan; and both _why_ Nagasaki and Hiroshima were selected, and why those were valid military targets -- all things I have found significantly lacking in current history textbooks, even at the college level!

[@ΣτελιοςΠεππας]

Don't feel so bad. The sequence of Pearl Harbor -> Hiroshima/Nagasaki is all the Japanese know. To illustrate my point, there's a Japanese dude in my country who is basically the top translator/teacher around. One time, a guy I knew asked him about Japan's war crimes, and he straight up said that they didn't happen, that it was all a hoax. As someone once said, "The Germans regret fighting the war. The Japanese only regret losing it."

[@haineko1101]

@@ΣτελιοςΠεππας There's a war museum in Japan in which a plaque, commemorating the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, states that the bombings were "unprovoked". The level of denial rises to absolute lies with zero resistance in Japan.

[@EchelonBlue]

I've come across some research on how the public after the war was sold this idea about nuking Japan was to reduce casualties by preventing the US invasion of the Japanese mainland. Nah. Russia was moving troops to the Japanese theater so fast, that the Allied leadership agreed that since the U.S. and Britain had carried all the fighting in the Pacific, it would be the two of them that negotiated the treaty after the war. But the Japanese wouldn't give up, and we used the nukes to break that little bit of spirit in them and get them to the negotiating table before the Russians could get enough forces in theater and make the claim that they should be included. In short, we nuked Japan to stop it from being divided the same way Germany was after the war. It is thought by keeping Japan whole it prevented World War III by ensuring no direct line of conflict between forces could exist in the Pacific, and made Korea defensible during the Korean War. Three different biographies of MacArthur, one of Adm. Nimitz, and a book by Gar Alperovitz all support each other in this thought and none of the authors ever met each other and Alperovitz never quoted the others in his book. So.. what do you want to believe: that America which had just spent 4 years throwing soldiers at every theater it could suddenly wanted to reduce casualties, or that politicians realized anywhere Russians went they stayed and we had to make sure Japan didn't go the same way.

[@S1LVERflyin]

Why do we go so deep into the holocaust but not the Japanese atrocities?

[@SebastianWirth-w5f]

So to be honest, after the hardships I've encountered this year, losing my job struggling to find employment barely keeping my home over my head. This guy HLC has brought a smile to my face everyday that I watch one of his videos. I can happily and comfortably say I feel distracted and enjoy the content. It's the one thing that makes me happy. I am a US ARMY 11 BRAVO Wash out. But at least I can proudly say I tried, even though my I falsely reported my last knee cause I just wanted to complete my dream I can say I tried. HLC your videos bring laughter and comedy to my days, I may never know the experience of our soldiers but I stand by them regardless. Keep making these videos cause truthfully I look forward to these and that's what gets me through my hard times. Thank you, brother. I salute you.

[@nomore8042]

U.S. Navy Veteran here. The America that I Love will never forget !!!! Go Navy beat Army !!!

[@usonumabeach300]

I was an Air Force brat growing up. We were stationed at Hickam AFB from '87-'91. I went to Hickam elementary, and from one of the playgrounds you could see P.H. (P.H. and Hickam are now a joint base). My mother's MSGT (E-7) promotion ceremony was held on the Arizona's memorial. When I watch Pearl Harbor and the newer Midway, I see the buildings and houses I grew up seeing. I was born in May '83, and when I learned about the history of P.H. it might as well have been a million years before. Now I'm 41. My lifespan the other direction from my birth is damn near Dec '41, and suddenly it doesn't seem that far away in the past. I lived in West Berlin, I graduated high school a couple months before 9/11 and swore in for the Marine Corps a week after (9/18/2001 on my dd214). Man I feel old all of a sudden.

[@carltaylor334]

Holy shit you created several more lines and crossed each one. This should be shown in high school history class! Your best one yet!

[@nosauce3039]

another reason why they thought they could take on the US Pacific Fleet is because they've taken on a giant and WON, so they thought they could do it again. That giant being the Russians. They attacked Vladivostok in 1905, which was, if I'm not mistaken, the Russian's only port in the Pacific Ocean. The russian fleet that sank in the Tsushima Strait was the Russian Baltic Fleet, as their pacific port in Vladivostok was usually inaccessible during the winter months. The Russo-Japanese war not only saw a Japanese victory, but also showed the world that this small island nation could take on a giant and win. This war also gave them the southern portion of Sakhalin Island while the Russians maintained the Northern portion., but after world war 2, the russians reclaimed the whole island and japan has since made no claim for the island. However, they still do hold the southern Kuril Islands.

[@kingdomcome180]

Japan was indeed far worse than Germany. I am so happy you acknowledged that. Also Japan going down memory lane cringing at past mistakes(touching the boats)was funny

[@ZaPirate]

so glad I came across your channel. Content is pure gold.

[@jasoncarr551]

The flag of Imperial Japan was the greatest foreshadowing the world has ever witnessed.

[@IHateYoutubeHandles615]

That made me LOL :)

[@ComotoseOnAnime]

The land of the rising suns, plural.

[@dalemorgan8263]

Omfg, this is now my favorite historical pun.

[@rifleman2c997]

Unit 731 is the stuff of nightmares.

[@ZeroHourProductions407]

It is... Incredibly frustrating, that the Japanese public of today, are not educated on this facet. We know plenty of Angry Moustache man's plots because Germans took really good notes. What we know of 731 is just what those clowns bothered to record. It's very analogous to alice cooper and keith richards. People say they know 💯 of what Cooper would do and only 10% is true. People talk about 10% of what keith has done, and all of it is true.

[@RR-bh8vd]

They got their comeuppance on judgement day for all the evil they did. I assuming their payback for that is in the magnitude of infinity. True evil was done there. Prayers to all their victims.

[@WEKM]

The first time I heard about Unit 731, was in an alternative history book series by Larry Correia, called "The Grimnoir Chronicles" starting with "Hard Magic". Then, I heard him at a writing panel talk about how the stuff he put in the books wasn't even nearly as bad as what the real one actually did, because he was told that nobody would believe it. It was TOO fantastical. That's how horrible they actually were.

[@markpukey8]

@@WEKM That's amazing. I loved the Grimnoir Chronicles and yeah, for me too, that was the first time I got much info on Unit 731. Up to then it was "The Japanese did terrible things in China", which is true. But no one ever bothered to lay out that they had their own Josef Mengele group of evil sonsabitches. I did some reading on them after reading Correia's books and yup, they were absolutely as evil and demonic as anything Mengele and the Nazi's did to people.

[@CeltKnight]

Today is also my birthday. Growing up with two uncles and 3 aunts that were WWII vets, I was always interested in this day in history. It seems like every year I learn more and more.

[@dennischavez7503]

My grandfather was on the USS Kalinin Bay CVE-68. Hand salute to Captain Evans, and the crew of the USS Johnston DD-557 for making sure hundreds of US sailors made it home from Taffy 3’s convoy in Battle Off Samar. Semper Fortis!

[@wickedninja04]

"That's how Dad did it....." 😂😂😂 Love the Iron Man reference.

[@nedmac4451]

I was just about to comment something

[@justforfunsies5000]

HLC has made so many Marvel references that we now know how big of a geek he truly is. 😂

[@Real28]

Man, Iron Man is such a masterpiece of a comic book movie. RDJ crushed that movie.

[@anon3312]

Came looking to see if anyone else caught that.

[@KriegMarshal94]

Oh sweet others caught that too XD

[@tassyrawr]

Thank you for the video. I learned some new things and laughed while learning. It's a great video man. ❤❤❤

[@aaronstevens2171]

I’ve seen plenty of comments saying thank you for mentioning the atrocities the Japanese did to the Chinese and Korean civilians. So I’ll instead point to the mention of firebombing. I wasn’t expecting a quick history lesson about Pearl Harbor to include that the US firebombed major Japanese cities. Kinda surprised that Russia didn’t mention Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle of WWII, after the UK brought up the Blitz, but that wouldn’t have fit into the video very well. Thank you for helping to teach people about Pearl Harbor. I think it’s sad that so many Americans don’t remember Pearl Harbor Day. And an even greater thanks to the WWII veterans (including my grandfather).

[@Chef_Law]

You should've elaborated on the firebombing. HLC did mention that the Japanese basically lived in paper homes, since they have a very strong adherence to their traditional culture, infrastructure was built the old way; with wood. When the bombing raids commenced, it was absolutely devastating and gruesome to have whole cities burned to the ground, along with the citizens. But the Japanese would not surrender. It was seen as a more humane course of action when we dropped the bombs. That and we just wanted the war to end already.

[@aaronstevens2171]

​@@Chef_Law I didn't get more specific because I didn't have the numbers in front of me at the time, but yes, the firebombing of Tokyo (Operation Meetinghouse) was the most destructive single air raid in human history, with an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians killed. When precision bombing Japan was ineffective, the USAAF switched to firebombing. Densely populated urban areas, buildings made from highly flammable materials, few air-raid shelters, and other factors made firebombing highly effective.

[@kaih_the_viewer]

USA: remembering Pearl Harbor Japan: *hiding in the corner, remembering the sun bomb* I’ve never been this early before

[@DustyGamma]

Land of the rising suns. Plural.

[@christianramirez1449]

*remembering BOTH sun bombs

[@matthewcox7985]

@@christianramirez1449 Tsutomu Yamaguchi left Hiroshima after the bombing, went to the industry head office in Nagasaki... nobody believed him until...

[@jeremiahbennett1979]

Awesome work HLC, started with your shorts, but this long format is great! Nice to see a service man with a great grasp of history and comedy. Wish my old man could have heard some of this, he was a CPO on Enterprise for many years and has some great stories. He'd appreciate your humor.

[@tx_dingo]

RIP to all of our WW2 veterans. Thank you for showing us the greatest generation ever. Much respect to those still alive, I hope you get to enjoy the peace you fought for. For all of us.

[@MichaelJohnson-gi3qo]

As a squid, I say thank you kindly good sir. You consistently bring a smile to this sailor. Keep up the fine work soldier.

[@taylorowen9833]

You had me really confused for a second there.

[@Hannah-wt7ww]

So well done! Please do more like this! Wish I could like the video more than once.

[@Chris-ok4zo]

Japan is in the back corner of the classroom weeping their eyes out watching back the tapes of the attack. Meanwhile, the US is sitting there with a bucket of popcorn thinking "and this is the part where it starts to get good".

[@jasonwinder2478]

This is great work HLC. Sincerely, A high school history teacher that teaches my students Dec 7 didn’t happen in a vacuum.

[@IAmTheRealBill]

Please tell me you teach them Boston Tea Party wasn’t a response to taxes, too! That whole story is so powerful everyone should know it. 😊

[@grimwheeler]

I have to agree.. Great format for History lessons!!!

[@jok3r906]

HLC before work, and a tism trip because of extreme explosives... I love this channel

[@MegaFloridakid]

hell yea, don't touch our boats

[@josephsczech2421]

HLC, I love the videos, but the last line on this? Perfection! Keep up the good work!

[@FrankConforti]

Between Habitual Linecrosser and the Fat Electrician, I have filled in a lot of the details in wars past. I’m not a scholar but I’ve always been interested in modern history. These two guys are my goto KZbin channels. I kinda hope the two of them can collaborate on a future project. It would be awesome!

[@NuclearFalcon146]

As much as the video focuses on Japan, this warning is directed at Iran and the Houthis more than anyone.

[@KataPhoenyx]

That would be amazing. I wished i had both for history teachers, I might have cared more as a kid. 😂

[@danielbeard2656]

Thanks HLC. Hope you have an excellent day.

[@vampseven]

More gold. This one is one of your best HLC!! 💪🏼😅 (& Glad u mentioned Nanking too!)

[@ryanwight9116]

Japan touched some boats and got to meet the sun . . . twice

[@Mrwednesday84]

Here comes the sun do do do...

[@RaziIllusar]

@@Mrwednesday84 "Here comes the sun! Doo doo doo DO NOT TOUCH THE FUCKING BOATS!"

[@christianramirez1449]

Little.. boy do do do do do, little boy do do do do do, dropped the sun.

[@Sorain1]

Meet? Oh no, we brought them a pair of new (fun sized) suns, fresh from the lab.

[@lornbaker1083]

In japanese mythology their god is the sun. So japan just simply got to meet their god twice and he was not a happy god

[@TheWaldicorn]

You're actually telling everything in this. It's excellent!

[@SamLizziesmom]

Well done HLC. And yes, I watch "Tora, Tora, Tora" every year as a remembrance. 😢 I would also recommend"The World Wars" from the History Channel (it is on DVD and Blu-ray) as well as Battlefield 360, which tells the tale about why you don't touch America's boats in WWII. It was wild to watch the episode on the "Big E" with my grandpa's scrapbook in my lap, and a follow along with the program. A surreal, and proud moment. Miss him a lot.

[@indianaboy3166]

Thanks!

[@adilsongoliveira]

I think this deserves a part 2 or even a series: history lessons with HLC and crew.

[@Nurichiri]

I'm enough of a history buff to know that the 1st time American boats were touched was when Britain kept conscripting men off of them to fight against France, since they hadn't gotten it in their heads yet that losing the American revolution meant that the people of the American colonies were no longer subjects of the crown. And thus was part of the reason for the War of 1812.

[@americathecountryball8358]

That “Things don’t end when we join, things end because we joined” line goes so hard 5:24

[@ai-aniverse]

Shoutout to the Worlds Greatest Canoe Club.

[@SegaRihdan]

It's my birthday today. I learned what this day was to our nation when I turned 8. I didn't understand it at the time, but it launched a need to understand warfare. Remember the people, Remember the people who made victory possible, Remember the people who didn't get to see it, Remember the world they might've made. And remember to try to tell their stories however and whenever you can. I didn't learn about the RAF 617th operation chastise until I saw star wars and had to ask questions about why the photon torpedoes went straight down.

[@trapjohnson]

6:16 Holy aquatic horror movie Batman!

[@Strigon008]

Thanks for mentioning this. Because there was a LOT going on back then that people never really think about from both sides. Friends didn't believe me when I told them this years back.

[@tsarfox3462]

December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy. Always remember the brave people who died to snap America out of its isolation.

[@eskimo05w]

Great history lesson HLC. Keep up the good work!

[@stevemeeks3826]

My great uncle,soon as he graduated from high school he joined the navy,first stop was pearl harbor.....18 yrs old he talked about it later in life and he was on the deck when the sun was released released.....I'll always remember his words "I seen the beginning and the end of that war!"........God bless uncle Bynum and thank you!!!!

[@theevilhermit231]

On behalf of my Grandfathers and uncles who fought in WW2 thank you.

[@juanescareno9848]

Omg!!! Please make a part 2. Also I think this can be a good segment to have on your channel. It's military history but funny, both informational and educational.

[@Justin-LaFleur]

4:04 had coffee coming out of my nose, thanks HLC! Also loved the Iron Man reference.

[@jackcaldwell485]

😅😅😅

[@shrederatershan]

I was deadass aboutta say the same thing my brain immediately went "wait... Tony?"

[@Halfstep2024]

You really dropped the ball not playing “Here comes the sun” as the outro 😂

[@dx-ek4vr]

Probably cause of YT's stupid copyright system. Unfortunately, can't be helped

[@tysmith4065]

Thank you for real history lessons!

[@drgonzo305]

A infamous day, plus if you’re feeling sorry for imperial Japan just investigate unit 731 and what they would do to “logs” 🎉

[@-Hesco]

yes this is very important

[@anhfjdzbxjxisk1929]

Not enough people know or talk about this unit, or the fact that shirro ishi was pardoned and never faced justice.

[@Globerdad]

And our government at the time, let those criminals off.

[@drgonzo305]

@ well, to be fair they needed that information like how much of the human body is made of water and how to weaponize bubonic plague with clay pots and fleas

[@timblack6422]

Truth

[@bcobrien87]

I went to hear a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing tell his story. He believes the US acting as they did actually saved more people than it took. Apparently, there were soldiers stationed in many places who were running out of rations and supplies, but because of their honor, they wouldn’t have given up and likely would have died had the war continued. He also said (Not sure where he got the info) that the US picked the targets they did to allow Japan to keep their history and culture in tact. Apparently, Tokyo and Kyoto would have been more strategic military targets, but the US knows that where they house so many of their cultural artifacts and they would have been more devastated by losing those pieces of history.

[@davidgoodnow269]

The invasion plan for the main Japanese islands was finalized after the U.S. took Okinawa from the Japanese. The U.S. planned three waves of landings of a half-million men each. On the low end, the U.S. anticipated 300,000 casualties, at the upper end one million casualties, with a best-guess of a half-million U.S. dead, but even at worst estimate, the first two waves would hold long enough for the third wave to finish the deal. The _civilian_ Japanese casualties were estimated at _ten times_ however many soldiers the U.S. lost, based on the events at Okinawa. I know that because the women who did the calculations necessary to manufacture those original atomic bombs were shown those projections, as motivation to do their job correctly. It was a rare person in that region who had not lost a father, brother, son, or beau already, and had more at risk if an invasion happened. They (almost all) were taught the necessary maths for their calculations at Amarillo College, near where the bombs were assembled. Fifty years afterward, their involvement was declassified, and there is a small plaque in the Math Building for them.

[@Fitzwalrus06]

Kyoto was removed from the atomic target list because of it's cultural significance and the amount of historical artifacts that were there. Tokyo was also given an initial reprieve, but if a third bomb had been necessary Tokyo was the planned target.

[@stevenlandbo6039]

​@@Fitzwalrus06not sure if I have heard this right but they avoided using it on Tokyo because that where most of the government was and it would be kind of hard to see if the Japanese would surrender after the fact it all the government officials where well dead.

[@internetzenmaster8952]

@@Fitzwalrus06 It's worth noting the US had already firebombed Tokyo before (and by all accounts the results were more terrifying than Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Higher death toll too) with the Doolittle raids. Tokyo was likely given a reprieve because the Japanese would have AA to going nuts and stop such a bombing run from a single B-29 plane. (the Japanese AA guns were absolute shite, but that's another topic)

[@bub2169]

I thoroughly enjoyed that video. You should do more history stuff like that 👍

[@rffromusa8319]

HLC I cannot express my gratitude enough for the history lesson. It is sorely needed now more than ever. I hope you're healing well. 🤝🇺🇸

[@jasongoodman3495]

To all those poor Sailors that were lost

[@Mr.Massenko]

Loved this format and certainly would love to see more !

[@andiamocclash397]

Started my morning watching Midway, Great Uncle was a USS Indianapolis survivor, so touch the boats and I take it personal!

[@J.Young808]

My Grandpa (step) on my mother’s side was a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy and was stationed at Pearl Harbor in December 1941. The ship he was on set sail December 5, 1941, I never asked him about that time before he passed since I was in 6-7th grades when I last got to talk to him (1989-90).

[@m2003h]

HLC Thank you for this episode

[@USS_UtahBB-31]

Never forget USS Utah AG-16, the forgotten ship sunk on the other side of Ford Island

[@glenchapman3899]

I have never been there, but I am told the Utah memorial is a bit hard to get too.

[@LoloD1833]

USS UTAH BB-31/AG-16 She Was demilitarized in 1931 turned into a target ship and had anti aircraft guns installed to train sailors for anti-aircraft gunnery.

[@Mage_2]

I think another note that makes Pearl Harbor sting even more is the fact that most of the battleships "sunk" went on to be completely restored and put back into service. Out of the 8 battleships there that day (Yes, I'm aware of the Utah, but at this point, she was only a target ship) only two were completely sunk beyond repair: The Arizona and the Oklahoma. (Side note, thank you for pointing out how sailors banged on the hulls of sunken ships that day, Oklahoma is infamous for that fact). All the others underwent repairs and refits that made them even better than before Pearl Harbor, most notably, the Nevada, West Virginia, and the California, all ships that were recorded sunk that day. (What makes West Virginia even more impressive is the fact she was marked in worse condition than the Arizona.)

[@Sishqabob]

I really enjoyed history story time with HLC. I would absolutely watch more of that!

[@kemarisite]

(Edited) It's the annual day to rewatch "Tora Tora, Tora". Also, the failed Austrian Painter used a Walther PPK in 7.65 mm. Sorry to be pedantic, Grandpa Buff.

[@nananamamana3591]

Charley Chaplain Mustache Impersonator *really* used James Bond's peashooter lmao 😆

[@kemarisite]

@nananamamana3591 if you read the novels, the original James Bond peashooter was a Beretta 418 lady's gun in .25 ACP.

[@GranTruismo4head]

I gotta watch Tora Tora Tora and Team America and end that movie when I hear the song about Ben Affleck… 😅

[@RyanBrown2K5]

*rewatch

[@kemarisite]

@RyanBrown2K5 you pointed that out and I found like three more typos. Freaking phone keyboard.

[@fennicfox4600]

Pearl Harbor happens: USS Enterprise enters chat Proceeds to not die wins war US commits naval history's greatest sin, scraps her

[@shura0107]

You'd think that scrapping USS Enterprise CV-6 means it's gone forever, but the Navy recycles the metal into newer ships. It's possible some of the metal of CV-6 went into the construction of USS Enterprise CVN-65, and I know they recycled the portholes from CV-6 into CVN-65, not to mention those same portholes are now going to USS Enterprise CVN-80. Up to 30,000 tons of metal from CVN-65 is going into CVN-80, and with a displacement of 100,000 tons, that means 30% of CVN-80 is from CVN-65, and who knows how much of that is from CV-6. The Enterprise lives on in each of its iterations. Perhaps when we build the Starship Enterprise, it'll have metal from old CVN-80.

[@harveyhams1572]

I still see it as a shame. The Big E should have been a museum ship.

[@fennicfox4600]

@@shura0107 That's cool! I didn't know the US navy recycled ships into each other. They at least preserved parts of Enterprise but its a shame we can't visit her as a whole like we can USS Texas.

[@randomusernameCallin]

@@shura0107 Better that than a show piece.

[@VolcanixAquatix]

​@@shura0107 😂 starship enterprise 🖖 😙👌

[@michaelbailey4774]

My Ham club here in Arizona Just had the largest Hamfest in the Southwest - where part of the event we had a special event call sign sort - of celebrating - remembering the Battleship Arizona. From the Early 50s to the Early 60's my father flew Buff - 2 10 megatonish Suns as cargo - 10X larger than what we dropped on Japan. The Airforce issues pretty certificates when you get "certified" to deploy these devices - I never saw my fathers certificates till after he passed away in 2014. Please keep up the humor - I have friends children working on planes that my father flew 20 years before I was born - for reference I am 54 - Go BUFF! :)

[@zekeiyf2003]

The Empire of Japan pride itself as the Empire of the Rising Sun, we obliged them two-fold.