Brit Reacts to Most Comical Invasion Ever - How America Captured Guam Without Landing A Single Shot

[@Qwertky]

This is like a Benny Hill sketch. I can practically hear Yakety Sax playing as the boats pass each other in the harbor.

[@TheRagratus]

And the US still owns Guam to this day. HUGE military post. Naval repair yards ( my Uncle was a Lt Commander there for years). And a huge Air Force base.

[@moon-stars-sun]

Yep. I was born there in a U.S. naval hospital. I'm not sure about the Air Force, but they often work together so I wouldn't be too surprised.

[@shannonmulligan7405]

Yep! I was born in Agana!

[@BryanW-bp3le]

Btw almost 30% of Guam is filled with U.S. military bases. It’s one of the most important military installations in the Pacific theater and would be on the frontline in a fight against China.

[@smegypsiren]

I've never seen this guy before, he is HILARIOUS 😂

[@AdamNisbett]

All his videos are amazing.

[@JS-TexanJeff]

His research and his delivery of stories are AWESOME! Enjoy! and Subscribe to him!

[@greeneyedlady5580]

The Fat Electrician is really awesome. I never miss one of his videos.

[@glorygloryholeallelujah]

For real! I recently found him as well, shortly after he posted his “Doom Turtle” episode. He is the best storyteller on KZbin (I even put him above Mr.Ballen).

[@Cody38Super]

It's the most polite conquest EVER!

[@TheEpicSpire]

i'm actually surprised the Fat Elecron dude hasn't reached out to you and give you merch. other people who react to his videos have gotten merch. He loves it. I know i found his channel because of you.

[@Nerple]

Don’t remember how I found his channel but I agree 💯%

[@davidbryan4732]

Guam is currently a US territorial maintained Island.

[@Jetblacksteel]

Yay finally another Fat Electrician video I love Nick he is the best

[@MizterTonik]

I mean, dude has so many channels reacting to his content all the time. I think it'll take time for him to get to all of them, assuming he doesn't get busy and forget

[@bigbk3278]

@@davidbryan4732wtf does that have to do with the comment?😀

[@erinadams7556]

"No, get your ass in the car, we're going to Manila!"😅 Lmfao!

[@michellearmenta1116]

We live on Guam and I've never heard that story. The focus is always on WWII.

[@gemsaguon1205]

Yeah you're right all the our history on war was all mainly focused on WWII. I guess they didnt want us to know about how America really took over our island

[@suemitricka9031]

I learn more about my country from you than I ever did in school! Thank you!

[@akita21154]

Lol, lol love the fat electrician !! he's so funny. Gotta love his take on our hx. Love this man!! Thanks for sharing this.

[@kimharding2246]

I’m Guamanian by birth… always knew about the horrors of the Japanese invasion and the bloody fighting that ensued for the Americans to get it back. But never knew how crazy the take over from the Spanish was! 😅 I just knew that it happened, but never knew how! But, Lewis, to answer your question, Guam is a gorgeous tropical island, with 5-star hotels and white sandy beaches that put Waikiki to shame. I’ve always wanted to move back there. 🇬🇺

[@Cookie-K]

This was absolutely hilarious 😂

[@JS-TexanJeff]

What a hilarious story. Thanks!

[@marieneu264]

The Fat Electrician is the best story teller ever! I would have paid a lot more attention in history class if he was my professor!

[@yvonneconte3040]

Hmm, i missed all that in history class 😂 This guy should teach history in high school

[@dananorth895]

If Mr. Fat taught history in schools alot more kids would love it! Another fun thing is dig out your family tree and look at the history happening during you ancestors lives!

[@edithroberts8959]

This was great! 😂😂😂😂

[@ClancyWoodard-yw6tg]

I wish he would make a video on George Tweed he was a US Navy radio operator who was a part of the original American Garrison of Guam who went into the jungle when the Japanese invaded and he fought a one-man guerrilla war for 31 months and when the US came back to Guam in 1944 he actually signaled the invasion fleet

[@dawnrichter8126]

Is there an award for KZbinrs? TFE definitely deserves one! 😂❤

[@johntarnowski9086]

His child is the lucky one having a history teacher like him as a dad

[@jasonmcintosh3661]

Yeah... this all happened before we became the most accurate gunners. I'm sure that the embarrassment from this and some other incidents are part of what inspired us to train so hard.

[@rkdungey3]

This sounds like an episode of the TV Show McHale's Navy

[@jburnett8152]

They need to make a movie. 😅

[@yvonneconte3040]

Like movie Thunder😂

[@klycan33]

This guy is hilarious. Loved this.

[@timfeeley714-25]

There were two movies that I know of, one was called Legend and the other was called The Krays. Both were about the brutal Kray Brothers, Ronnie and Reggie.

[@TheEpicSpire]

i love your reaction vids and The Fat Electrician is great. keep it up!

[@merljacksonii7233]

This wasn't an invasion. This was a Monty Python skit. Add in the invasion of Philippines and it's a Black Adder season.

[@BobbiBlack]

Bin Laden in the 80s was called a freedom fighter under president Reagan. We armed them and built their training camps. And we all know how that went.

[@johntarnowski9086]

His child is the lucky one to have a history teacher like him

[@tychay]

Also… Cuba itself. We supported their revolution against Spain (there is even a drink named after it mixing american coke with cuban rum called called a Cuba Libre, "free Cuba") and later won their independence in the Spanish American War, but it was effectively almost a puppet state until Castro in 1859. Ho Chi Minh was trained by the OSS (precursor to the CIA) and his speech is a copy of the Declaration of Independence. How switched sides to the Communist when we gave Vietnam back to the French after WW2. The KMT (rulers of China before the Communists) lived in the United States before returning and overthrowing the empire. (They did not turn against us, but a strong case can be made that we coerced them into fighting the Japanese in WW2 to the point that weakened them to Mao and Soviet supplied tanks who basically sat it out in the mountains and that's why their remnants are in a tiny island called Taiwan now.) Tons of "Banana Republics" were started in South and Central America by us in order to further US business interests. Many of them backfired. At the very least we did it for economic stability and they weren't stable, they were corrupt. There's more that slip the mind. Probably one or two in Western Africa or something. Some aren't as clear cut and were already the established government and/or were inherited (the Shah of Iran for instance). But we have a long tradition of doing this. To be honest I think this is a case where the mythologizing of the USA and what we teach our children in history classes runs head to head with the messiness of geopolitical reality. Idealistically and in our own history we are revolutionaries and root for the little guy, but now we are the world superpower and the opposite of the little guy. So we support and root for the Rebel Alliance and then are surprised when it turns out they don't like us (the country, our buisiness, our military) because we are the Empire.

[@chrisvibz4753]

@@tychaywe dont tell myths about the USA in history class. what do you mean?

[@chrisvibz4753]

@@tychaywe arent an empire. we are a democratic republic. the requirement is that we control lots of land (which we do) and its ruled by a single authority or a single person. which its not. we elect new presidents every 4 years and they can be impeached. emperors cant be impeached.

[@riverlady982]

​@@tychay The sad thing is that other than not training and supplying gorilla groups in countries it would really just help if we stopped teaching Socialism/Marxism in our colleges in America Since there always seems to be somebody from a third world country going to our colleges on a College Grant that then brings it back to their country and starts a revolution that leads to another Socialist/Marxist country and it's just so ironic.

[@gemsaguon1205]

As person born, raised and still living on Guam. That guy summed up our entire war history in nutshell and delivered every piece of history correctly. Only the part about when the American first took over Guam and how they did it, i didn't know about 😅. They must've left that part out in our history lessons. 😂😂😂 By the way we Guamanians and the rest of people on the Marianas Islands are also called CHAMORRO. Its what the Spanish people called us when they first came to Guam. They thought we were trying to steal from them and so that's what we've been called ever since. 😅🤦‍♀️

[@suralos]

Notice the US Flag with 15 Stars AND 15 STRIPES? After the sixteenth state was admitted it was decided that when a another state admitted that only a stat would be added while they 13 stripes, for the original 13 founding states, would remain.

[@BryanW-bp3le]

When those American sailors took the flag back down they prob had lost focus due to the odd events during this attack/invasion. Going from thinking that your about to get into a huge battle, to capturing a island nation without ever being fired upon is going to make most of the crew forget that they are still at war and in real danger at any moment. When odd events like this one occur during a war, it’s important for a commander to maintain discipline and keep his men focused.

[@unknownp1506]

Welcoming party: "we're sorry about not saluting, no guns and whatnot.. umm, we're the Spanish officials here" Americans: "so that's cool, first things first, you *were* the Spanish officials..."

[@juliadesl]

I was stationed on Guam in the Navy for 2 years. It was awesome! Best diving in the WORLD, literally. In fact, almost too good because anywhere I went diving after that pretty much sucked. Guam has a visibility of 200 feet and you don’t have to wear anything but a bathing suit because the temperature is so perfect. On a sadder note, my mom’s fiancée (clearly not my dad) was killed on Guam WWII.

[@vincecramer7950]

😂😂😂😂 turn this down this is the funniest thing I've ever heard our military do this is like slapstick comedy back in the day when The Three stooges were going

[@moon-stars-sun]

Oh what? I was Born in Guam, and grew up partly in Hawaii. On us navy bases. Lol This is kind of obscure info Im surprised to see this on here! Cheers!

[@moon-stars-sun]

It's funny to see this on an English channel, ive met other Americans who have literally never even heard of Guam! Lol

[@noodlelynoodle.]

​@@moon-stars-sunthat's insane, I had a coworker from Guam, though I guess that's probably more likely here in California than most of the other states

[@moon-stars-sun]

@@noodlelynoodle. I don't know. I lived in California too, and I haven't met anyone else from there anywhere, Unless they were, and I just didn't know. I did have a co-worker who's partner was from Guam, and honestly even that was exciting, given how small the island actually is. I'd really like to go back to Guam one day. I lived there for approximately a year, so I don't really remember it.

[@noodlelynoodle.]

@@moon-stars-sun Huh yeah I didn't realize people not knowing about Guam was common. I wanna visit someday, maybe if I ever end up getting over to Japan I can do it in the same trip. I always forget just how small Guam really is I just looked it up and they have 171k population which is like one moderately sized us city

[@moon-stars-sun]

Yeah its only 30 miles long and 9 miles across. I've actually had someone at the DMV here in Colorado ask for immigration papers. Guam is US territory lol and I'm a US citizen. It was cleared up ,but you'd think a government office would know that! 😳

[@DanielDurbin-k2l]

I love your channel brother, I’m 60 years and have shared your channel with everyone including my grandchildren. They love you too.

[@JJ-vt7sh]

Guam is still a US territory. It is beautiful but pretty small.

[@revgurley]

No joke, a Congressman asked the Admiral of the Pacific Fleet if Guam would "tip over" if they made a base there (or made one bigger). What. The.....

[@GotoHere]

Democrat.

[@pielucas439]

I saw that hearing live on C-SPAN. The admiral looked so pissed of that he had to answer to that moron

[@xviper2k]

@@GotoHere Like Republicans have never said or done anything incredibly stupid.

[@kurtsnyder4752]

​@@GotoHereA know nothing MAGA.

[@davidburns5374]

Congressman Hank Johnson(D) Georgia.

[@glorygloryholeallelujah]

Guam is still a part of the United States. It’s not considered one of the “states”, but it IS a territory of the USA (much like American Samoa, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, etc).

[@AprilHughes-h4u]

Speaking of ice and hotels, every Hotel you go to in the US is going to have a bucket and a couple of plastic or paper cups in the room and it will tell you either somewhere in the room or in the hallway where the ice machine is. You will also find in the majority of places I've ever been vending machines. You'll see a Drink Machine and a vending machine with snacks!

[@ouchOnTeamViewr]

This is how I'd imagine a Canadian invasion

[@Tylermaddox1911]

Idk why canda isn't apart of America.

[@greeneyedlady5580]

​@@Tylermaddox1911 I think it's probably that 1) Canada didn't want to, and 2) they were still technically part of Great Britain. If the US had tried to conquer Canada, it would have been a very bloody war against both Canada and the rest of the UK. The last time the US fought them, they burned the White House! As the US grew, our boundary with Canada got longer and longer. We now have a shared border that is thousands of miles long. Can you even imagine the number of troops it would take to protect a border that long plus fight Canada and British forces? It would be devastating, cost billions, result in deaths from hundreds of thousands to millions, and destroy much of the US economy, since Canada is our largest trading partner.

[@xviper2k]

@@greeneyedlady5580 ... the US did try to conquer Canada. That's how the War of 1812 started. Lucky for Canada, they were a British colony for most of their existence, but that is no longer the case. Would the Brits still come to their aid if we invaded (again) for whatever reason? I'm sure they'd like to, or at least say as much. Would they actually do it? Heeeeell no. Trolls are an interesting strategy for border protection though.

[@DTG_LOCKETT]

​@@Tylermaddox1911 when the 13 colonies decided to declare their independence the Canadian colonies were asked to join and said no.

[@DTG_LOCKETT]

​@@greeneyedlady5580if America invaded Canada the war would be over before the UK got there. The Canadian military is basically designed to help America protect their half of the continent from invasion, it's the same for Mexico and Central America. Basically if any country tries to invade a country in North America they have to fight the whole continent.

[@DominicPayne-q2r]

You should watch a video on the scenery. Or life in Guam today. Just an idea if you wanted

[@davidleister302]

Whats up from Bandon Oregon. USA.. Funny😂

[@madtothei965]

"Blame the Maine on Spain" is a very common history saying lol. My AP US History teacher would say it all the time.

[@mindyrolston3915]

That's exactly how we got it and we still have Guam to this day😂😂

[@amberyoung4425]

Cool way to learn history!

[@lindaabbott7120]

Yes that is how it happened 😂😂

[@Arizona_Gezzer]

The Fat Electrician videos are great. I'd be interested in your view towards of the one titled, The Real Tank Genius Of WW2 - Percy "Hobo" Hobart, an English anti-hero.

[@wolflodge]

The Fat Electrician is awesome. I love his videos.

[@nolableslefteldered1231]

They have obviously heard of but misunderstood the concept of the 21 gun salute.

[@djgeminithirdeye1859]

TFE rant on communism is hilarious 😆

[@George-ux6zz]

Savanna Cuba is just 90 miles away from Key West Florida.

[@DarthKilaj85]

The Cuba idea you mentioned wouldn't be a smart idea for them cause if we found out they had blown up our boat which was a good chance of happening we would have gone against Cuba and they were getting our help so it would have been a bad idea on their part to even risk it.

[@Starkogi]

America: “it’s not fun if you give up 👺”

[@Tijuanabill]

In current year, you will be hard pressed to find a more patriotic group of Americans, than the people of Guam.

[@atothej420]

It is all about having the publics support if you want to go to war.

[@thebigguymarv]

That would make a great movie!!!! Lol

[@George-ux6zz]

We have bases on Guam, it's still a territory of the US. We have some B2 Spirit bombers there. You know, the flying wing.

[@dogit1840]

Google says Guam is a slightly more expensive then Continental USA Paradise hot sticky stormy full of nice people low crime I can hop on a plane and go there with my driver's license and copy of birth certificate no passport necessary💥💥🍻🍔🐿️

[@FrogmanAnime]

Why the Japanese ship was there? Basically Guam is what is known as a refuelling station. Basically, these ships are coal powered, and they gotta stop off at certain locations to take on more coal. So either the Japanese merchant ship was there to trade or was taking on coal to continue on its journey

[@rep4063]

To be fair, Spain declared war on April 24th, and the USA didn't declare war until April 25th.

[@0sirus1989]

Merica gotta train it's enemies to be "fair...ish"

[@wascott78]

don't mess with our toys lol

[@KamOBannon]

Did someone say boats? *HLC has entered the chat*

[@carterpritchard5063]

This guy explained how we got Guam better than my history teacher he basically said during the Spanish American war we Guam and the Philippines were part of the Spanish empire we fought in the Philippines a peace treaty was signed Guam was given to us bought the Philippines for $15 million and cuba got its independence. Definitely wish he told us we invaded Guam and captured everyone because of a misunderstanding and Guam not knowing they were at war😂

[@Pamala-qr7cl]

Lol America has come a long way baby

[@TheRagratus]

I see TFE- I click.

[@jimstrickland5842]

Who says America doesn't have history? 😅

[@allensanders5535]

they still don't know for sure what happened to the USS Maine but there 99% sure there was a spark in the powder room that blue up the ship and not by Spain or Cuba.

[@FourFish47]

Spain used to own most of the U.S. so the U.S. going to war with Spain means "get off my continent!!" 😊

[@Cody38Super]

Yea, it's kind of our thing.

[@rebel11201991]

"Get out of my hemisphere"

[@DansBuddhaBodega]

Our reputation proceeds us.

[@BTinSF]

Lewis, have you ever seen the scene in the movie, "The Wind and the Lion" where the US Marines march ashore and take over a little North African country because they have taken an American woman prisoner? Hilarious. It's " based on a historical incident involving the kidnapping of Ion Perdicaris, an American expatriate living in Tangier (changed to a woman for the movie)." I've been to Guam--hot and pretty miserable (it's near the equator). But it is still an American "territory" and will send delegates to the upcoming Presidential nominating conventions.

[@GottesKrieger]

Guam is now run by the great great great great grandson of Tom. His name is Tommy!

[@KahliberZero]

4:30 bros never heard of 9/11 apparently 😅

[@Akuran1973]

Guam here. I can help you know more, if you want.

[@aaroncollins85]

If you ain’t first, you’re last

[@USC_mazie]

Hey everybody. Hope ur having good day

[@DavidHickey-x1j]

They blamed it on a mine. Turns out a coal bunker blew it up.

[@Bartskarts]

Just watch a Mel Brooks movie man..., for real itll change ur life!

[@EliF-ge5bu]

No, the U.S. denied independence from the Philippines, who were fighting the Spanish. Spain was very close to losing the Philippines to the natives. They were already driven out of the Capital. Then Spain goes and sells the country to the U.S. for $20 million - one dollar for every single Filipino alive at the time.

[@AC-ni4gt]

Pearl Harbor anyone? Yeah. I honestly never want to anger a fellow American to the point that they'll want to beat my door down.

[@LillySmith09]

Dude the ship armor could not reach that high up. Or, did you miss that sentence.

[@George-ux6zz]

We gave the Philippines 🇵🇭 their independence and eventually left the Philippines. But due to Chinese aggression the Philippines 🇵🇭 asked us to return to protect them. Now we have 9 bases in the Philippines 🇵🇭.

[@georgemetz7277]

1st! Now I can start my day!

[@danielthrelkeld1929]

lmao bob and tom are morning show on Cincinnati Ohio webn rock station

[@kurtsnyder4752]

REMEMBER THE MAINE!

[@George-ux6zz]

He forgot Venezuela

[@scottbivins4758]

Well it's technically a socialist country although there's really not that much of a difference between socialism and communism. Just a different name.

[@callmefleet]

when you include socialism, a whole lot more countries get added to the list with varying degrees of intensity and therefore varying degrees of success. Norway's economy is nothing like North Korea's so it wouldn't make sense to have a category that broad when the country in question is Cuba, somewhere that fits very neatly into the communism half of communist/socialism.

[@callmefleet]

when you include socialism, a whole lot more countries get added to the list with varying degrees of intensity and therefore varying degrees of success. Norway's economy is nothing like North Korea's so it wouldn't make sense to have a category that broad when the country in question is Cuba, somewhere that fits very neatly into the communism half of communist/socialism.

[@Kison-lp5wg]

Third little npc that joined oh wait third npc that commented I’m the 334th viewer or was it 335th

[@kurtsnyder4752]

4:15 that's what's called a false flag operation.

[@rohan1970b]

You asked about guerilla groups funded by US then fighting the US later. Most recently the Taliban (funded by the CIA to fight the Soviets during their invasion of Afghanistan in 80's) then fought them after 9/11.

[@vernaclevinger5716]

In the communist list he forgot Venezuela.

[@lindae9875]

we are just learning how awful our own govt is and has been lewis

[@djackklingler3]

Frank is still better than and more cognizant than joe and franks probably been dead for over 100 years!

[@greeneyedlady5580]

You've clearly been fed a lot of disinformation.

[@darnellharris6780]

Crazy that he’s literally explained how we made Cuba communist and thens mad about it 🤔

[@truftelar2580]

Funny how he doesn't reference the embargo and how it affects the other countries!

[@TKDragon75]

The Maine was probably blown up by a mechanical failure accident.

[@st47hammer]

try and reaching out to the unsubscribe podcast TFE is a host all of them are good guys

[@CLKagmi23]

It's worth noting that China is only communist in a very loose sense of the world. They are the world's second-largest market for goods and media and I believe the largest manufacturer or goods which are sold on Western markets. Some still consider them communist because the government can still act very authoritarian sometimes and plays a larger role in the ownership and decision-making of businesses than in the US, but I would argue that China has discarded most of the principles of communism and that describing China as communist is actually a challenge to the idea that communist economies fail because China has experienced more economic growth than any other country in the last half-century and its citizens actually have more purchasing power within their own economy on average than Americans do. Note: I AM NOT A FAN OF THE GOVERNMENT OF CHINA. But if you're gonna criticize communism as a crappy economic system and then describe the world's fastest-growing and second-largest economy as communist, you've gotta maybe re-evaluate how you're defining "communist." The worst thing is this isn't even the only time we've gone to war with someone because we wanted to and we used a blown-up boat as an excuse. Something kicked off the Vietnam War in the Gulf of Tonkin, where two boats TOLD the US they'd been fired on by Vietnamese forces on August 4th 1964 but the US military eventually admitted that that attack had probably never actually happened and the commanders of the ships were either confused or just looking for an excuse to start something.

[@GameKillerzCrew]

yeah, that's how we ended up in Iraq

[@killrade4434]

Wait til you hear about what USA did in the middle east.

[@brianlewis5692]

America blew up their own ship, and they still do things like this today

[@scottbivins4758]

Where is your evidence that we blew up our own ship?

[@callmefleet]

America does similar things to that, but the military would never be okay with murdering so many of their own men which is why I'm supremely doubtful that's the case in this instance.