Experiencing The Infamous Eager Beavers & Their Custom B17 Bomber: Old 666

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Get ready for an epic tale of two anti-heroes, a B7 pilot, and a Bombardier, who defied the odds and assembled a crew of Misfits to fly the heavily armed bomber, Lucy AKA Old 666. Subscribe to uncover how this crew completed the most decorated mission in US history, all while flying their custom-built aircraft!

[@James_randomleters]

I'm sure the "leave the pilot for last, he's already dead" had more to do with having to decide who can still be saved and who needs immediate attention. I think the medical term for having to make that decision is "triage".

[@NoCodeLive]

I mean I get it but still it’s sad …

[@joeclaridy]

​@@NoCodeLivelook at it like this. Every second spent on someone thats dying could be spent on someone that could be saved.

[@chrisdodds9049]

If the plane is downed all footage is lost and they have to send another plane to do it again

[@NoCodeLive]

@@joeclaridy I get that too a I understand it because if not for him completing that mission they wouldn’t have known about everything that was in the water before the shoreline so he saved a lot of lives. It’s just hard to put it into play in my head but I get it .

[@NoCodeLive]

@@chrisdodds9049 man that’s a tuff spot to be in .

[@aviator2252]

Grumman uses a naming convention of cats, f4f - wildcat, f6f - hellcat, f7f tigercat, f14 tomcat.

[@damonbryan7232]

Mail cat

[@aviator2252]

@@damonbryan7232 still sad about that LLV what a dumb name

[@Slenderriffic]

Don’t forget about the mail cat 😂

[@SBQDawn]

back then there were no age restrictions on driving , in fact all you needed to do is fill out basically a registration card with your personal description and residence information and sent it in to the earliest version of what we know as DMV today. In fact for decades you even made your own license plate once you heard back from DMV they included a number you were to put on your home made place . some were rubber some were carved on wood whatever you had handy to put the number on you used. until DMV became what they are now you didn't even have a recurring plate registration fee some time after WWII things changed. IF you ever come across any of those old hand made plates hang on to them Collectors pay good money to acquire them

[@NoCodeLive]

Wow yea that couldn’t do that in todays times

[@scottc6639]

you gotta check out TFE: The Last War Chief! it’s such a cool story.

[@NoCodeLive]

I’ll add it to the list 🤞🏽❤️

[@notsomadscientist9602]

I, too< wanted to be fighter pilot when I was growing up. 9/11 happened and I straight joined the Army Infantry as soon as I turned 17! I don't regret it one bit! Some of the best people I have ever met! Homies flew planes into the towers, and I was down to meet them at their families at their front doors!

[@NoCodeLive]

I am thankful for your service. ❤️🤞🏽

[@artdollist]

Great story!! Love the Fat Electrician. I really enjoy learning about all these unsung heroes. Love your reactions!

[@NoCodeLive]

Thank you for watching ❤️🤞🏽

[@artdollist]

@@NoCodeLive My pleasure.

[@joeclaridy]

36:10 back then the camera systems were still analog and had film that had to be taken out the camera at their base and processed. Wireless transmission was still decades away, even the first satellites would jetison their film over the ocean and be retrieved by the Navy and processed.

[@NoCodeLive]

Wow technology sure has come along way am I right ? 🤣🤣🤣 cuz if I were to die to get that footage you better get it an see everything you needed before I got shot down for nothing. Cuz he made that a successful mission with that footage. If not for him an his crew following through a making it back we might have won that fight.

[@bookman7409]

@@NoCodeLive Maybe not, but more likely we'd still do it, but the cost in lives would have been much higher.

[@WEHenry]

It would be considered a lost mission, it's just being recorded.

[@NoCodeLive]

Dang so he really went out there and had to make it back!

[@nadjasunflower1387]

@@NoCodeLive yup. it was all just film, that then had to be developed into pictures for study, once the bomber / recon plane comes back...

[@NoCodeLive]

@@nadjasunflower1387 I understand the reasoning behind sending him to do it but it just blows my mind a little because they knew it was a unalive mission and it seemed that they kept trying to put them in those positions to ultimately die an not have him an his guys apart of the military anymore because of his disobedience towards them which was very inspiring to me because he is really the definition of No Code - no going by the book in order to succeed an going off course to find what makes you happy and feel fulfilled in life 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@nadjasunflower1387]

@@NoCodeLive it's a bit ironic. by the time this mission comes around, they're not really on the unalive mission list parameters anymore. Which might get lost in translation because how fast TFE has to speak to get through all the material and keep the video as short as possible. That was only a small part, shortly before they were grounded for disobeying orders. Once they'd rebuilt ole 666, they were then volunteering for the dangerous missions list again. That thing that they were made to stop because they were too valuable. Which got them the nickname " eager beavers ". Basically they went just back to doing their thing with the dangerous missions like they'd been doing previously to them having a falling out with upper leadership, because upper leadership wanted to protect them by sending them on the ' normal ' missions in a protected spot. The last mission they volunteered for as well. So they weren't being ' sent out ' to actively try and kill them like it might seem. The upper command has an incredibly dangerous mission to get done, and these guys were already doing them. So, you ask the guy who's already doing them (has the most experience doing them) if he'd fly it. Then his crew volunteers to go with him, because as they said, they'd have followed him anywhere he wanted to go. So the actual time frame of the upper command not giving a crap whether these guys lived or died is a small part of the video. Not throughout the entirety of it. It just so happens they were complete bad asses that kept doing stupidly impossible missions, and got the boss fight at the end. -sorry for the book just a lot to try and explain -

[@Zer0t0lerance93]

One of my favorite stories from TFE, thanks for the reaction man!!!

[@NoCodeLive]

Glad you enjoyed

[@robertkramer41]

Karry Bird was cold. And funny.

[@DarkKatzy013]

One you should watch if you haven't yet is America's concrete battleship. Good video as always man.

[@NoCodeLive]

Thank you for watching an taking the time to comment 🤞🏽❤️ also I’ll have to add it to my must watch videos list.

[@billmalone9949]

40:18 That's just triage. It's not a slight against Jay. He was so far gone it made sense for the medical crew to worry about the ones they could save. They weren't just going to leave him there.

[@rg20322]

Seriously - sorry but are you asking if this footage is being transferred back to base real time in the 40's, where they are using a cumbersome 3 tier system where they cannot move the bomber for 22 minutes, that is recorded in the plane itself. The plane at that point is the biggest diamond and prize ever and everything on it.

[@NoCodeLive]

In the moment I forget the time period I’m speaking from a modern perspective. 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@rtbkbulliesandpitbulls1714]

Long time coming! Thank you!!! Thank you.

[@NoCodeLive]

You are so welcome!🤞🏽❤️

[@noahstuart606]

2:20 nick has also done martial arts for years I want to say ju jitsu but can’t say for sure

[@NoCodeLive]

Yea I’m good on a brawl with him … what a beast 🙆🏽‍♂️

[@chrismiller8269]

Great video

[@NoCodeLive]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Slenderriffic]

The get the pilot last is part of the level of care for casualties if doc thinks you’re dead he will not waist resources on a corpse that could be used to save another medical supplies were limited and the only way they got resupplied was by ships which took time

[@PAT8888-is2pd]

It was a medic that said to get him last, not a member of the crew.

[@NoCodeLive]

I get the flow they went through now to save people it’s sucks but understandable

[@jasonlengyel1104]

All that and they landed safely with minimal controls

[@NoCodeLive]

W pilot 🐐

[@notsomadscientist9602]

Having been in the military, nowadays it's their MO to go after good soldiers! They want people they can control

[@NoCodeLive]

That’s how I feel too they were mad he was making his own moves and was making it work without their conceit

[@rtbkbulliesandpitbulls1714]

The military put hell cat engines on those planes , the same hellcat manufactures the dodge engine. Similar how the black hawk and apache helicopters have rolls Royse engines.

[@NoCodeLive]

That makes sense

[@NoCodeLive]

I knew there was some correlation

[@nadjasunflower1387]

lol...complete and utter...NOPE !!! the engines of the B-17 were Cyclone engines (radial engines NOT V-8's). TFE says this during the rebuilding of Lucy. Grumman has always used a cat naming scheme. f4f wildcat, f6f hellcat, f7f tigercat, and the modern though retired F-14 Tomcat. has nothing to do with Dodge Hellcat, what so ever...considering Hellcat was only made, ida know....80 years later ??

[@NoCodeLive]

@@nadjasunflower1387 So does that mean they down host the same type of engines as the cars even though it’s been 80+ years and in cars now instead of planes ? Or the names are just similar and they have no correlation to each other rather than just coincidence ?

[@nadjasunflower1387]

@@NoCodeLive different engines, and yes no correlation. Just a naming coincidence. Radial engines are air cooled, a car engine is liquid cooled. in a radial engine the firing chambers with pistons are on the edges of the engine. in a car engine they're internal. just two of the differences. The closest thing a production car has ever had to a plane engine, is the Mazda RX series with ...a radial engine, though still engineered to be internally operated. (that I can think of off the top of my head) Then going back to his statement, those Rolls Royce engines are completely different too. Again, they were aircraft engines that just happened to be made by Rolls Royce, their not sticking Rolls Royce car engines in planes or Apache attack helos.

[@Tar-Numendil]

The Fat Electrician is also a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu instructor. Definitely not a dude i'd want to fight.

[@NoCodeLive]

At all 🤣🤣

[@Yeraveragemoron]

12:11 I spend my life trying to be that way - thanks for highlighting that. We all could learn from these dudes.

[@NoCodeLive]

I have learned from my own experiences that life has a lot of obstacles thrown at you to prepare you for your end goal so be open to learning more then what your focused on because what you learn along the way could help you when you finally get to the big show

[@Yeraveragemoron]

@@NoCodeLive let’s grab a beer sometime and discuss the world, Craig. 🫡 you sound like a very chill dude. 🙏🏾

[@NoCodeLive]

@@Yeraveragemoron I’m all for it my guy!

[@SBQDawn]

nope that tech ability not available in the 40's you filmed it and prayed to get it back to HQ to be developed / copied and flown out to the mission command.

[@NoCodeLive]

Salute to those who didnt make it back... man that sounded like a horrific job.

[@keithcharboneau3331]

NO, it was NOT transmitted back to the base, the technology for that would not exist for another 50 years, it was FILM, that had to not only make it back to the base, but all 3 reels had to SURVIVE UNDAMAGED, and then be developed and put together for it to be useful. so IF they did not make it back to the base, the film would also be lost and the mission would be a failure.

[@NoCodeLive]

@@keithcharboneau3331 that’s so much pressure!

[@rtbkbulliesandpitbulls1714]

❤❤❤

[@jamesgrambihler1760]

Bro you really could of waited to eat. If you're treating this like a job earning off of other peoples content you might as well be respectful and eat afterwards. That got you a dislike.

[@NoCodeLive]

If eatting bothered you I can’t help that but even at a white collared job you can snack. An keep in mind this is a fun enjoyable space where I’m free to make my videos how I feel fit and not a typical “job”. So with that being said it sucks that me eatting bothered you while I enjoyed watching a video I wish you the best my guy ! An that for dislike ayeee you can’t please everyone . Have a great day man ❤️🤞🏽

[@rileytruax766]

bro hes a human being have you never seen someone eat before wtf lol do you make everyone eat in a different room at your house?

[@rileytruax766]

@@NoCodeLive dont listen to these people who cant see another person do what every other human being does.

[@rileytruax766]

have you never seen another person eat before what the fuck is wrong with you dude do you make your family eat in a different room than you? what a wild thing to say hes a human being we all eat. and "earning of other peoples content" reaction content is transformative hes adding commentary with his own input to the story and sharing life experience of his own. go touch grass or better yet go watch someone eat