Every American Gun in WW2

Played with some American weapons the other day, and the fact that everything's called an M1 only just struck me. Thus, this video was created. Now, if you haven’t already scanned the QR code, head over to bit.ly/Squire2 to get one of MyHeritage’s DNA kits for only $29 during their biggest Black Friday sale ever! Use the coupon code SquireBF at checkout for free shipping.
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[@SquireComedy]

We brought in several experienced vocal couches to get these accents SPOT ON. I think you'll agree they all earned their keep. Now, if you haven’t already scanned the QR code, head over to bit.ly/Squire2 to get one of MyHeritage’s DNA kits for only $29 during their biggest Black Friday sale ever! Use the coupon code SquireBF at checkout for free shipping.

[@robinderoos1166]

Your murican impresses me, it really sounds like : urken durken duuurrhhh... An appropriate display of lacking intelligence!

[@pfridjonsson7021]

Vocal couches? English is not my first language. What is a vocal couch? I feel that there is a skit in there somewhere, maybe.

[@arnijulian6241]

Yes: We British were sensible enough make nicknames of of the pre-existing names unlike the USA such as ''Vickee” for the Vickers machine gun, “Boysy” for the Boys anti-tank material rifle, “Red Cap” for the no.69 grenade based of the red Bakelite casing & so on. Pigsticker = No.4 Enfield spike bayonet is one of my favourites. Even in the Enfield's you had jungle carbine/jungle Enfield, long Enfield etcetera which is all pretty self explanatory. Bren, Sten & Lewis gun's is pretty stright forward & so don't nee nicknames. Mills bomb is pretty stright forward for a No. 5, No. 23 or No. 36 all defensive fragmentation grenades. Imagine calling everything a number like the Germans let alone everything as M1 like the yankee's. Logistics must have been a strung ball in bottle?

[@kovacsj7823]

While playing Fallout London, i had to stop to think where did i heard Corporal Nux's voice previously. I thought first that it was the voice actor of Giles from Red Alert 3. A quick search revealed it was you ! Job well done ! 💯

[@THERINGUS]

As an American I can confirm they were extremely accurate

[@Aredel]

I love the implication that the captain is fighting the majority of the division by himself, and the entire squad is just there to hand him different guns to fight with.

[@SquireComedy]

@@Aredel Is that not exactly how gentlemen do battle, sir?

[@Jackspladt]

⁠@@SquireComedyif the Germans were also gentlemen they would have sent their captain over so the two could engage in hand-to-hand combat

[@unsuisseegare1291]

yeah, main character and the supporting cast, literally

[@kermitthorson9719]

i want this gameplay, solves the logistics of infinite pockets

[@Aredel]

@@SquireComedy Not the Germans, according to the video. But then again, they aren't the gentlemanly type.

[@Canadian_sheep]

When you're a grunt in the back of a M3 halftrack cleaning your M3 grease gun while the grunt next to you sharpens his M3 knife while you're in a convoy behind a M3 medium tank, a M3 light tank, and a M3 scout car towing a 37mm M3 gun and the guy across from you talks about how much he loves the M1 and you can't figure out if he means the carbine, the garand, the flamethrower, the Thompson, or the helmet. (Thought of this meme after seeing the title)

[@SquireComedy]

Make it a proper meme.

[@stsk7]

brilliant!!!

[@CalgarGTX]

Plot twist you are at a reenactment show and he means the M1 Abrams

[@youtubesnamingpolicysucks]

It's probably the bayonet or the frag grenade.

[@wbertie2604]

@@Canadian_sheep in WW1 the M1918 (BAR) and the air cooled machine gun were both adopted in 1918, but they had the sense to call the MG the M1919. This cunning idea hadn't occurred in 1917 - machine gun, rifle, and two different revolvers. "Get me my M1917" "Could you be more specific?" " the revolver" "Could you be more specific?"

[@Progection]

America: All weapons are M1/M2?M3 Germany: All weapons are named like Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant or longer.

[@Lonovavir]

GI #1 to GI #2: Who's going to tell him?

[@yamatokurusaki5790]

They have short name... Just like the Americans... But i get the joke just so ppl know

[@Private_jin]

China and Japan: Type. Just Type.

[@DucaCremisi]

Germans always had a love for compound words

[@wbertie2604]

But the Germans loved to shorten things so it would be Plankoko or something.

[@thedungeondelver]

"Call in a P38 for support!" - hands him a can opener.

[@Nathan-jh1ho]

Oh, you mean a captured Walther P38?

[@wbertie2604]

​@@Nathan-jh1ho Walther made can openers too? Was that after WW2 like Messerschmitt and Heinkel bubble cars?

[@michaelporzio7384]

you sir, win the comment section!

[@larry648]

I still have one on my key chain…….and one in the gun cabinet 😅

[@fan9775]

one is for small cans, the other is for treaded cans

[@tplays6688]

„Give me the M1!" "Which one? The Carbine, the Helmet, the Main Battle Tank, the Navy Vessel, the self-loading Rifle, the Bazooka, the Machine-Pistol, the 155m Fieldgun, the chemical Anti-personnel Mine or the 90mm Anti-Aircraft Gun, Sir?" „Neither".

[@libertycowboy2495]

Maybe the one that would actually make sense in the situation

[@Kar4ever3]

@@libertycowboy2495 I see you're not familiar with US Battle Doctrine. You never have what you need, until 2 weeks after.

[@wbertie2604]

@@tplays6688 they didn't have the Abrams in WW2. You might be able to rustle up the M1 "combat car".

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

​@@Kar4ever3 "make it work, soldier."

[@afrog2666]

Nah son, the BIG one!

[@michaelporzio7384]

Americans invented the rifle M1 (the first rifle therefore the "1"). The first tank, the M1 Abrams, came later.

[@thurin84]

[angry .30-06 noises]

[@lordbaysel3135]

American engineers where so good, that after developing M1 Abrams, they made M3 Lee and M4 Sherman just give poor germans a chance.

[@Cythil]

@@lordbaysel3135 And here I thought the British were sportsmanlike.

[@Otterdisappointment]

As an American, this is 100% historically accurate

[@SquireComedy]

Also, really wanted a Cpt Sobel fit for my character. Just such a good look. Special shout-out to our friend Sam, who played my American sidekick in this. You may be shocked to hear he's not actually American, despite that top-notch accent. He's a Norfolk boy, obviously. Still, he's been in a few of these videos now, and he's a talent.

[@dabootvv]

well done Sam!

[@Divenity]

There's a Norfolk in Virginia, so, we'll make him an honorary Virginian.

[@JayM409]

Are you sure he's American? He pronounces Hatch Que like a Newfoundlander.

[@Bettermadness_YT]

As a colt-blooded (see what I did there?) American who can do a pretty half decent British impression, how does one do a American accent?

[@SM-zs3bl]

Sam's accent is sooooo good

[@larryalvares1369]

The Garand immediately let out a PING as a stamp of approval for this video

[@PitchBlackYeti]

I feel there was a missed opportunity to make a Monty Python reference here: "Which M1 sir?" "The one that goes PING!!"

[@AnimarchyHistory]

I don't know whats more concerning. The fact that the Americans have so many conflicting equipment designations, or the fact that I understood precisely what the Feldwebel at the end said.

[@SquireComedy]

Nerd

[@AnimarchyHistory]

@@SquireComedy I didn't choose the StuG life. The StuG life chose me.

[@malachiomeletoe4320]

​@@SquireComedy😂😂

[@Cheeseye1590]

I see you Mr Animarchy...

[@jffry890]

​@@SquireComedy Gottem.

[@samgreig6947]

To all the Americans who feel the need to call out my New York accent, I feel it is safe to say that it is as authentic and true as the meatball sauce that mama used to make. 😂

[@GrantWW2Museum]

It thought it was great Sam 👌👌

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

With a touch of Gabagoo, a blintz, a donut, a cream puff for dessert and Arabic coffee for desert. Sometimes, rarely the cosmopolis succeeds in an area.

[@ryanmarc1853]

My favorite part is how it gets more authentic as it goes on lol.

[@noco7243]

It's the best accent here. 😂

[@adamhauskins6407]

It's actually pretty good

[@tickticktickBOOOOM]

As soon as I heard, "Get me a M1," I knew where this was going. Bureaucrats gonna bureaucrat.

[@udasai]

Better than the M90210 Clip, Paper, Metal.

[@BeesechurgerProductions]

Sorry lads, but you very clearly included an M3 Submachine Gun in your pile of assorted M1s. Gonna have to deduct 15 freedom points for that blunder. Good video though!

[@SquireComedy]

You just wait for the M3 bit!

[@Batchall_Accepted]

I hope someone got fired for that blunder

[@kaziiqbal7257]

Is that now the American version of Chinese social credit points?

[@TheiTzCynical]

"Give me the M1!" "Can you be more specific!" "The M1 chambered in 30.06!" "That doesn't narrow it down at all!"

[@lcpltpow5870]

5:12 That is the look of a manwho didn't know how much an M2 weighs before he agreed to carry it (wait till he has to get more ammo). Also, the German MG operator's scream was oscar worthy

[@SquireComedy]

I think Sam cacked his trousers doing that.

[@pigmanobvious]

I always thought a M-2 was just a M-1 carbine converted to full auto and given a 30 rd magazine?

[@wbertie2604]

@@SquireComedy M2 bodily extrusion

[@wbertie2604]

@@pigmanobvious there's also an M3 - one with an infra red sight the weight of a baby hippo with a range so short you could probably detect the enemy from the sound of their breathing before you could see them through the sight.

[@pigmanobvious]

@@wbertie2604 lol yea I forgot about that one! I did see it when I was a kid in world book encyclopedia!

[@TheOperationsRoom]

Sam ❤

[@SquireComedy]

Our man Sam is far more talented than us.

[@samgreig6947]

A fan! 😂

[@Harminder1]

One thing I'd like to think about is that because some Germans have similar faces, they must be brothers. In this skit, Germany had its own version of the Pal's battalion, but it's the relatives' Battalion-all family members in one Battalion.

[@cattledog901]

As an American these accents are surprisingly on point lol I love it.

[@RandomPerson_Original]

Especially the captain’s

[@coreybenson3122]

0:13 love the Kelly’s Heroes reference.

[@cobblerama]

And I think there was a little Dr. Strangelove when describing the airplane.

[@popuptarget7386]

This is why we Americans are so unpredictable. The enemy gets a report that a squad of troops with M1s are holding a ridge, you still have no idea what is there.

[@Darth_Conans]

"We have sighted multiple American M3's in a convoy escorted by M3's and M3's. The infantry with them are carrying M3's and also M3's, and the unit may be towing at least two M3's."

[@Hopmeister96]

As an American, one of my favorite things about this channel is their impressions of Americans. It cracks me up every time, pure gold!

[@aceofspadesguy4913]

2:58 “the sandbag emplacement offers no place to hide for the enemy, not when he’s hiding from the bazooka”

[@foggyh1425]

Sounds like Die Hard 3’s version of ‘When Johnny Comes Marching Home’. And that’s a good thing 👍

[@SquireComedy]

What a film!

[@HYJINXz]

wait till you hear what its from

[@kayellee7202]

It was also used in Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb

[@cougars_3471]

I think it's When Johnny Comes Marching Home version from Girls Und Panzer

[@artgatherer3477]

​@@cougars_3471I agree!

[@Woinger]

Sam had a good New York accent the only thing that gave away that he drinks tea is the pronunciation of H

[@Claqkzy]

close but no cigar

[@Fireman_Epic]

Weird AI mentioned

[@FACE_TAC]

0:13 "Go get me an M1"🗿 Sentence can be used in every war the US has been involved in over the past 100 years😂

[@wbertie2604]

British "get me the no. 3 mk. I, gun, enemy, for shooting at" "will the no. 3 mk. I**#$¥π/3 do sir?"

[@ddunfuh9239]

God squire absolutely suits that mustache

[@SquireComedy]

Right? I know what look I'm going for now.

[@Colbato.]

i don't need a dna test. i know that i am descended from a small rodent. trapped at the feet of dinosaurs in the daily struggle for survival.

[@AManNamedHawk]

The round ricocheting off his helmet without him flinching sent me 🤣

[@Rua-Bnuuy_the_Possessed]

American weaponry was definitely impressive for the time of WWII, but yeah, when you point it out, their designations are a bit confusing indeed, lol. Great post as usual, and I love that y'all are tuning your vocal acting with the accents and being coached. The Squire never ceases to amaze.

[@misterpotato427]

not compared to Chinese tho

[@ericolsen5592]

That's why most people in the field referred to stuff by nicknames

[@MrMinuteman]

I’ll always remember the cardboard weapons, so cool how far y’all have come.

[@R4002]

This is like Kelly’s Heroes’ fever dream.

[@justingroats9963]

Kudos to the scriptwriter, this brings a smile to my American face

[@NotPCMKitsune]

0:13 “get me the M1” “WHICH M1”?!

[@autistic_m4a3_76w_hvss]

The Girls und Panzer version of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" just hits different

[@doomguyfroomhell4577]

true lmfao

[@FFlaque22]

Agree

[@Erwin_Von_Heidenheim]

So glad I wasn't the only one who instantaneously recognised it in the intro

[@Khornecussion]

Lore accurate American officers that served in WW1, then WW2.

[@classicallyimportant]

Legendary videos

[@SquireComedy]

Thanks, awfully kind.

[@danielthompson6207]

I'm glad someone found the footage of Lorax during his WWII service.

[@SnazzyDuckling]

I worked too long at Periscope to not notice the use of our weapon sounds from Post Scriptum (now Squad 44). So thank you! I will have to share with our old sound designer.

[@CaptainTOTO]

I noticed exactly the same the second I heard that mp40 sound :D

[@jacksonlarson6099]

Obviously the best system is naming your weapon "Type [Number of years the current emperor has been reigning]*

[@WilburTrapRepository]

This is standout work gentlemen. The funniest I can remember. Making the captain an old man somehow made it even funnier. Keep up the good work gents.

[@R451Ns]

poor Thompson, never even got a gun.

[@LegoBob4123]

If this was made a couple years ago, it would've taken a forest's worth of cardboard

[@driferdark4339]

This makes me proud to be an American where at least I know I can designate all military weapons rather confusingly.

[@KayoMichiels]

You guys should recreate the intro of Cannon Fodder!

[@ilsagutrune2372]

I love the M1 🙂 Of interest, the captain used the M1 in the same fashion that of Leonard DeWitt on New Guinea, on 28 July 1943. Hell of a story to read.

[@JNorthernSG]

American: M1/M2/M3 German:Waffeumfeindedesdrittendeutschenreichszuvernichten British: Bartholomew Cambridgeshire no.3 Soviet: What’s a gun

[@Erwin_Von_Heidenheim]

Holy crap they used the Girls und panzer rendition of When Johnny comes marching home in the intro.

[@TellYouHwaet]

This is accurate, both my grandfathers carries M1s. One was a squad leader the other was a truck driver.

[@GuntherRommel]

I never thought anyone could make Spielberg look half-assed, yet here we are.

[@donovanchau3483]

I was waiting for a future American weapon to get pulled out like an M4A1

[@AndrewMitchell123]

Wait, its all M1? Always have been 😂😅🤣

[@Ryan-ed1lq]

1:42 Now you cut that goddamn fence and get this GODDAMN PLATOON ON THE MOVE

[@reeyuh526]

"Get me an M1 to shoot at them" *Brings M1 Field Gun*

[@SquireComedy]

What a great country.

[@kurtco.397]

I half expected you to break the space time continuum and ask for a Sig Sauer M18 pistol when describing the M18 as mobile / portable. Also appreciated the Strangelove reference before our good Captain was taken from this world.

[@strikerdelta]

But has he got a chance???

[@khurramwadiwalla4922]

This channel is criminally undersubbed for its top-notch content.

[@egocyclic]

"The Haych-Cue's overrun, Captain!" For all the stick that the American actors get for mangling the various British accents/dialects, the first line of dialogue bodges Americans' accent & diction twice...though maybe it was intentional. And much as Americans imitating Brits cannot adhere to a consistent regional accent, to me the funniest part of this video is trying to guess what classic American movies served as the inspiration for each phrase, often with accent changes within the same dialogue line.

[@Meirstein]

Squire is able to go from the most British person alive to the most American person alive with the addition of a simple mustache and army helmet.

[@tejano1]

6:42 “GI wished” lol

[@VanBourner]

Emman must have been a very popular name back then, since everything in American arsenal was named after him. Save for Thompson.

[@jackhames3874]

“The ‘Haitch Queue’ is overrun Captain”. Gotta love Brits doing American accents 😂

[@wbertie2604]

Then there are uniforms. People refer to the M1941 jacket, but it didn't receive an M designation, it was just "jacket, field, olive drab". Uniforms, where designated, were M plus year. Except for Air force and navy stuff - there was a B10 bomber and a B10 jacket which was for bomber crew. Army: we need a zip up jacket with knit cufffs. Air force: us too. Navy: and us. Let's all make slightly different ones so that the army has not enough and the air force has more than it needs but not let the army have any! Britain: they shall wear battledress whether it is suitable or not.

[@fazole]

And neckties. Must go into battle on land and in the air dressed to impress!

[@justingroats9963]

Babe wake up, a new squire sketch has dropped

[@joshuahunt8911]

one of your best videos for acting and its extra funny!!

[@SquireComedy]

Cheers for that, Josh.

[@joshuahunt8911]

@@SquireComedy I am hooked on this channel! It's a perfect combo of military history and comedy! Keep it up!

[@TheRedBaron2010]

Thank you so much, Squire. I tried MyHeritage and found out that my great great grandfather served in the U.S. Army during World War I but caught the Spanish Flu so wasn’t able to serve, and my great great uncle served in the German Army in World War I. My great great grandfather later died in 1952. His name was Berny Rosemait.

[@LeverActionBoi]

The Captain walking out of the smoke with a paper cut: "So you have chose... Death."

[@PrinceKael14]

Funny story, my Grandfather who served at the Battle of the Bulge had nothing nice to say about the M1911 - said it was an inaccurate pos. Told me a story once about being at the range one day watching a sergeant try to qualify with the piece who ended up throwing it downrange because "it was the only way to hit anything with it".

[@samuelzuleger5134]

Alternate timeline: "Fetch me an M-1 I can shoot." An M1 Abrams main battle tank comes flying around the bend at 40 mph, M2 and M240 blazing, its M256 120mm smoothbore punching holes in every panzer.

[@EdRepublic-xt8dh]

Im actually Welsh as well so well done!

[@alpha103a]

Sometimes you get the M1 sometimes you get the Flugabwehrraketensystem Roland auf Radkraftfahrzeug

[@fazole]

Sehr präzise! But the German instruction manuals are 2x thick as the English ones.

[@BattleShenanigans]

The captain is every grandpa explaining his service to the grandkids lol.

[@Black_Watch101st]

The game Squad 44's sound effects sound great!

[@jimmylong1238]

The captain reminds me of the general in Kelly’s heroes . Love these videos . Should do more of war thunder

[@fazole]

Yeah. He should have thrown in some American football references to sell it a bit better😅

[@pigmanobvious]

I like your Captain Sobel impression!!

[@AlexisDelloso123]

What is Alberto Fernandez doing there?

[@trevorgould9978]

One of the only youtubers whos ads i dont skip lol

[@kermitthorson9719]

i particularly LOVE this Capitan character, f-ing ruthless.

[@ChillMajor]

This is so true, I can barely tell the difference between when it’s just M1

[@miskatonicu0978]

"Now that dog just ain't gonna hunt!" Gotta be a Band of Brothers reference, lol

[@angryginger791]

"The haitch-Q is being over-run, Captain!" -British guy who can't stop being British. LOL! But seriously, great job on the old school New Yorker accent.

[@Fortnutters6OF9]

I remember hearing a story about how during the very start of the war alot of army personal especially the older veterans from ww1 didn't like how they had adopted the m1 garand over the m1903 but after the battles in Italy like anzio it was well favored upon but on the marines side they hated having the m1903 because they claimed it was "grandpa's gun" and I believe there's even a scene in the pacific where they say something along those lines but after the marines got the m1 garand it was also well received

[@TedBronson1918]

Even when I was in back in the 80's I had pieces of equipment tagged M-1 and saw even more. I wondered who did the naming and if they could count without a hand.

[@randyhavard6084]

Excellent video, I'm sure it was an exact portrail of events that really helped sometime in the early 1940s

[@okan931]

Hahaha this cracked me up. The private sounds just like Christopher from the Sopranos.

[@nathanielcowan3971]

They all also have a numerical designation for logistical purposes. Kinda like a stock code that stores and warehouses use. The name and number must match, or you'll get a tank turret delivered to an aircraft carrier because the numerical designation was written or read one digit off.

[@order66pizzas]

The GuP variant of Johnny Comes Marching Home is so good

[@lonurad1259]

I'm gonna assume the captain here is an ancestor of General Brasch. riveting tales of heroism like taking out two german platoons, a heavy machine gun team, two snipers and cleared a bunker with nothing but a rocket launcher. Then he fired it at a tank.

[@IloveBaguette]

6:02 - Is this the Girls und Panzer version of Johnny comes marching home? I've seen the movie so much that I could hear those xylophones during the "And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home"

[@SlamdalfTheGrey]

4:55 caught me off guard 😂

[@KevinSmith-qi5yn]

The amount of weapons accessible to a single small squad seems about accurate.

[@Aodyri]

Almost like people said things like "get me a knife/mg/rifle/carbine/grenade/tank/tank destroyer/field gun". Main people who had problems with the American naming system were, ironically, the Brits. Mostly because they had their own line of equipment, plus the American stuff. So they started coining nicknames, with most of them sticking. Most, because we still call a M3/M5 light tank a Stuart, not a Honey.

[@DemianX6x6x6X]

thanks for the laugh gents, needed that today

[@SquireComedy]

Our pleasure mate. Hang in there, sending our best.

[@dahshendrick2566]

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THISS! i’m hypeee

[@WolfHeart98]

That dog just ain’t gunna hunt BoB reference lol

[@8bitmclaren]

Clicked on this video at 5 minutes with 396 views. Feels like that awkward moment when you're the first kid at a birthday party. Anyways, it’s always a good day when Squire uploads.

[@SquireComedy]

Isn't being the first kid at a birthday party a bad thing? Did I just have really shit birthdays as a kid?

[@8bitmclaren]

@@SquireComedy It is, I realize I didn't really make that clear...

[@pfdrtom]

Absolutely love these guys!!!

[@emilmlodnicki3835]

Oh no!! The Murican Haych Cue is overrun!

[@thelastyoutubers2697]

Just another day of the Squire crew accidentally traveling back in time, creating clones of themselves with different nationalities and then fighting each other. Yep. XD

[@parinkiratimaythakorn9246]

2:50 that mg42 gunner probably unlucky soldiers in ww2 because he got shot by bazooka