SHORT: RCAF Survival Bandolier

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Introduced in 1943, the Kit, Emergency, Personnel Mk.1A allowed airmen to carry essential survival gear on their person in case they were unable to access separately-stored gear before bailing out or ditching. This remarkably well-preserved example once belonged to Flying Officer George Cohoe (1912-1973), who flew antisubmarine patrols off Canada's west coast during the Second World War.
0:00 Introduction
0:52 NordVPN Promo
2:25 Survival Kit Contents
4:13 Biography of F/O George Cohoe
5:17 Outro
SOURCES:
Bechthold, Mike, 100 Objects for 100 Years: a History for the Royal Canadian Air Force Centennial, RCAF Aerospace Warfare Centre Production Section, 2024
mbnwo.ca/forms/msrb_vol4.pdf

[@CanadianMacGyver]

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[@misterhat5823]

Good lord. Half the video is shill. Thumbs down.

[@spartan117ak]

i seriously doubt you were in any danger looking at Royal archives. i am so sick of every KZbinr lying about internet security to shill VPNs but this was somehow just a little over the line, maybe it's because I love this channel, I don't know... just feeling miserable now

[@ericm381]

The mice didn't eat the biscuits, and yet they ate the morphine? Riiiiiiiiiight

[@gorgonm3208]

The morphine is an officer's treat

[@petersage5157]

I was gonna say the same thing. There's actually a storytelling trope for this: "Even the rats won't touch it." Note they didn't touch the chocolate or gum either.

[@deltavee2]

Well they DID take over a corner of the yard for 3 days defying all comers. Then the supplies ran out and they scarpered.

[@alltat]

@@petersage5157 Most people wouldn't touch emergency chocolate either. It's very much an acquired taste, of the kind you hope never to have to acquire.

[@chattonlad9382]

@@alltat 😂

[@deltavee2]

An R.C.A.F. brat, I remember playing briefly with the heliograph. Simple but effective bit of kit, literally that pop brought back after 33 missions in Halifax III B "Clueless" in which as a mid-upper gunner he had the communication control on the front of his oxygen mask shot off by an overzealous German. Goes to show you location is everything. If he'd leaned a little further I wouldn't be here writing about it. Gilles, thanks as always. Your material is endlessly fascinating and you are one of a very very few You Tubers that gets an instant click when I see something new regardless of whatever else I might be caught up in. There's always time for Gilles!

[@ukar69]

That’s one ration Steve1989 didn’t get his hands on.

[@smugly6793]

*Yet*

[@MichaelJohnson-tw7dq]

That could explain the missing items.

[@cybergothiche2]

nice

[@bassett_green]

At risk of being a corporate shill, I always enjoy a smooth segue to the sponsor message

[@cbhlde]

Although that whole VPN stick is really stupid, if you think about it - I support OOD getting money from those guys! :p

[@paulneem3288]

Nah. Love me some product placement!

[@roberts1938]

I have been interested in militaria for many years, but I didn't know that something like this existed. Great presentation! Thanks a lot!

[@donmear6654]

Theres only two channels that i click on videos before even reading the description, and youre one of them. Excellent, as always

[@thisissoeasy]

So interesting to also have learned a bit about the man who owned and wore this kit whilst defending his country!!! Thank you!

[@verysurvival]

1:30 on NordVPN in a 5:30 video. classy

[@catalhuyuk7]

It would have been nice to get a better look at the actual pouches, but great info. Thank you 🇨🇦

[@MichaelJohnson-tw7dq]

I love the survival kit episodes.

[@maxpayne2574]

Interesting as always

[@internationalparam]

damn ya beat me by half a minute

[@jarettrobak]

Great video. I like the connection to Dauphin. That’s where I did my flight training during covid.

[@cbhlde]

Although that whole VPN stick is really stupid, if you think about it - I support you getting money! The more funds, the more stuff you can show us in the future - right?! ;)

[@tomhenry897]

No smokes

[@hoilst265]

That's what Corey & Trevor are for.

[@jusportel]

That’s really cool, 7BR Squadron operated in my area.

[@MichaelJohnson-tw7dq]

How about a closer look at the vest itself? Do you have a list of the items that are missing? Love your work, thank you.

[@ibrahimkocaalioglu]

Nice information. Thank you 👍

[@WaffleSteak-kd6th]

This video is gonna be good

[@basto1d]

I must admit, the pun in the thumb did indeed get me to click on the video

[@therealchriscunningham]

Incredibly tiny nitpick but Stranraer is pronounced "stranRAR", being named after the Scottish town of the same.

[@cybergothiche2]

Why is the heliostat covered in chocolate?

[@CathodeRayNipplez]

Madonna has one of these in her wardrobe.

[@arjovenzia]

I wonder why the knife had a marlin-spike? arnt they used for rope splicing? sure, worth the effort for serious rope lines and rigging, but I'd have thought in a survival situation a knot would suffice in most cases. surely there must have been more useful things to put in a survival kit knife. does anyone know the logic there?

[@robertl6196]

Probably amounts to: "Need a utility knife. We have crates of these."

[@richiehoyt8487]

No personal weapon?!

[@old_guard2431]

No bow tie? Standards are slipping. . .

[@eekpie]

wow. I need say nothing

[@oscar_charlie]

Sorry, but you can't have a two minute ad in a 5-minute video. Sure way to convince people to unsubscribe.

[@rkinder6335]

Enjoy your vids but half of it was an ad. Sorry, but too much.😑

[@dansv1]

The nord promotion was more than 25% of the video. That is abusive to your subscribers.

[@VEC7ORlt]

Wow, almost half of the video is sponsored trash. Sponsor block my dudes.

[@kcgunesq]

I can't understand why people complain when the solution is so easy.

[@VEC7ORlt]

@@kcgunesq and what would that be? VPN is useless, except for a few specific cases. If op will promote trashy gacha games - I'll call him out as well. Wanna see stupid? - STFU!

[@graealex]

C'mon, stop pushing VPNs with this kind of explanation.

[@V3RTIGO222]

We live in capitalist dystopia, he (like many other creators) has to make money to provide this content to you for free.

[@graealex]

@@V3RTIGO222 That's fine and wasn't the argument. But VPNs already got into legal trouble for claims like "protects your data". Just be honest about the product that you're pushing, and if you can't, find a better sponsor that doesn't require you to lie about them.

[@V3RTIGO222]

@@graealex I mean... it helps avoid online tracking/logging by your ISP, so it reduces the data recorded by them. Using a sufficiently secure VPN can re-route IP traces long enough for you to leave or disconnect from a service that legitimately wants your actual IP address. It doesn't "protect" you from everything, and doesn't necessarily gurantee the safety of the data it can actually help "protect" or rather always prevent it being collected. You can use onion routing if you want to seriously be anonymous online, and products like nord actually do allow for that.

[@graealex]

@@V3RTIGO222 This has all been debunked. It might help you circumvent some geo blocking, and that's about it. Maybe help against legal repercussions when you Torrent. But that's not what gets presented here.

[@V3RTIGO222]

@@graealex I honestly have no idea if you read my comment entirely or not, but I clearly explained that in it. How much do you actually know about data security? I'm legitimately curious if you are in that field or watched an abridged explanation that "debunks" VPNs.

[@womble321]

Don't forget the UK monitors your Internet at the first connection. In other words at the fibre or copper cable leaving your home. So they have access to what ever leaves your home and obviously they know your address. There is no right to privacy regarding electronic communication here.

[@SianaGearz]

So? All sites and services that matter are end to end encrypted. Use DNS over HTTPS please, see how to enable.

[@deltavee2]

Sounds more like China, doesn't it? They've also granted themselves, via Parliament, permission to install a back door in basically whatever they want; your ISP; your phone etc. without saying a word about it to anyone. The UK is turning into one of the most surveilled countries on the planet which is why my VPN never goes into any of the countries of the UK. They're _all_ permanently written off as untrustworthy. Sorry Wales, Ireland, Scotland...you lie down with dogs, as the saying goes. I absolutely would not do business with them nor order *anything* from anyplace in the UK on the Internet. The UK is now an electronic no-go zone in any and all ways. Did you know there's over 1,000 government and private surveillance cameras per square mile in central London? That's an old stat, there's probably more now. Britain used to be "the lads" but now...? Those days are gone.

[@User_Un_Friendly]

Honestly I'm much more impressed by the Luftwaffe Rescue Buoys. They're a floating, habitable container, full of supplies, and emergency equipment for downed Luftwaffe pilots running into trouble after...bombing England. 😮 Somewhat controversial, but they were well designed, brilliantly simple, and it was impressive that the Nazi high command thought well enough of their pilots to have the political will to deploy them by the dozens in the English Channel. Hate to admit it, but they were far more effective and on point for that particular period in WW2 when they were deployed, than a mere general issue survival vest.🫡

[@richiehoyt8487]

The Brits _did_ actually have them as well, although I think they may have come late in the war and that they didn't really go 'all in' on them... but I'm half - guessing. Not my area. I'm nearly certain Gilles did a video on the German version. I'm somewhat less certain but I think he may have done a follow up on the British ones? Possibly I'm mixing him up in this instance with another creator... Simon Whistler, perhaps - it's usually at least an even bet that he's covered any given topic! Anyway, good hunting, I'll leave you to it..!🧐😀

[@everest9707]

I don't think that "the Nazi high command thought well enough of their pilots". Like today, it takes a lot of time and money to train pilots, so they are some of the few people that the military, still to this day, goes the extra mile to recover.