Olympic Sniper Turned Battleship Commander - Willis "Ching" Lee (

[@ianjardine7324]

The navy knew the only thing big enough to carry this man and his big brass balls into battle was a battleship.

[@SolLunaris]

That or a strato fortress (Huge bomber plane) but the extra fuel consumption was to detrimental so battleship it was.

[@MrBendylaw]

Sailors of the USS Washington, when asked about the battle off of Guadalcanal, allegedly characterized it as just another day. No panic, no stress, just a smooth operation. Which was also the greatest drive-by in American naval history. Ching Lee was a genius.

[@ianjardine7324]

That just proves the old saying train hard fight easy. Or the more you sweat now the less you bleed later. He'd obviously trained the whole crew to such an extent that even a full on naval battle felt like just another battle drill.

[@mgreene1409]

Willis "Ching" Lee was such a bad ass his own heart couldn't keep up. May he rest in peace. 🫡

[@theshig9618]

The Glass Balls he mentions Lee using for target practice are an old method of keeping fishing lines and nets afloat. You still see them wash up on the shore in Hawaii sometimes.

[@gk5891]

Pre-plastic floats

[@IvIidnight]

Eli doesn't have a channel of his own but is one of Nick's Co-Hosts on The Unsubscribe Podcast.

[@IvIidnight]

There's 4 hosts total and they rotate. Nick wasn't in today's.

[@usdutchkitty]

@@IvIidnight Well Nick being all the way in Iowa, that's understandable, even though he wants to move to Texas, Austin might've spooked him.

[@IvIidnight]

@@usdutchkitty True story!

[@noodlelynoodle.]

Eli is such a wholesome dude, I'm so glad I found out about him through the podcast

[@TheArkyCrew]

This has turned into one of my favorite stories by TFE.

[@marquisdelafayette1929]

The mascot for #MaliciousCompliance is Ching Lee.😂😆

[@sirboomsalot4902]

One of my favorite stories about Lee is how he would typically the only one to tell other admirals (cough cough Halsey) when they were being an idiot and was right almost every time (cough cough Typhoon Cobra and Leyte Gulf). He also disassembled the highly classified proximity fuze shells in his office just because he was curious and was perhaps the only serviceman to underreport is successes. He claimed he only hit Kirishima six times total; the number Nick said comes from the survey of Kirisima’s wreck a few years ago, and half of her was blown apart by a magazine explosion so it was likely more times than that.

[@illinoiscentralrailroadfan6015]

The battleship in question that won the accuracy award three years in a row was the Colorado class battleship West Virginia

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Which now holds the second place record for longest direct hit from one ship to another when she hit Yamashiro at 22,800 yards at the Battle of Surigao Straight (first place for a direct hit is tied between Scharnhorst and HMS Warspite at 26,000 yards, and Yamato holds the record for longest damaging hit when she straddled White Plains at 30,000 yards off Samar)

[@illinoiscentralrailroadfan6015]

USN 16" Super Heavy AP 2,700 lbs not 1,700 lbs. The 1,700 lbs shell was the 16" HE round (HE stands for high explosive)

[@distracting_games]

Actually the US didn't use "HE" shells, we used HC (high capacity) shells. Functionally the same thing, but we had to be different because 'Merica.

[@judyhausler7057]

Eli has the podcast " UNSUBSCRIBE" w/ AK guy( Brandon Herrera), Nic the fat electrician and Donut Operator

[@gladyswashington5171]

Hey have you watched his video "World War Tree"??

[@luisg5474]

Eli has a channel but doesnt really upload. Does some twitch stuff but mostly Unsubscribe right now.

[@wayneperkins7605]

shut up dude! damn!

[@PalleRasmussen]

Lee was a badarse. This video is not the best on him though. There are two better; one by Naval Historiographer Drachinifel, the other by former chief historian at the WW2 museum Seth Paridon and his buddy former Skipper of the fast attack submarine Indianapolis and commander of Submarine Squadron 3; Bill Toti. On the video of this, they are joined by Jon Parshall (one of the leading experts on the naval war in the Pacific). All these three are experts in their field, though not as "pop" appealing as this one.