The Fat Electrician: The Infamous Eager Beavers & Their Custom B17 Bomber - Old 666 Reaction

[@dulmater]

My man is out here drifting a plane.

[@Shiftinggers]

Not just a plane. A bomber

[@HistoryNerd808]

I'm honestly amazed that this hasn't been made into a movie, considering the craziness of their story and Hollywood's infatuation with WWII.

[@billywillhite7682]

Nobody believes it happened is why

[@Dr.Mcstaby]

Hollywood would find a way to ruin it be either trying to make one of the crewman a different race, a woman or a LGBTQ or do all 3 cause they can't make a movie with a whole white cast even if its based on an event of a white male crew. they don't make good movies anymore they just make narrative pushing crap. You'd be better off having some youtuber's animate it than have Hollywood butcher it.

[@michaelevans3904]

It has, they changed the plane's number was changed to pander to the religious right.

[@michaelevans3904]

GPA.

[@riverlady982]

​@@michaelevans3904Do you know the name of the movie?

[@stupidbossman4389]

Military is a real life adventurer guild confirmed

[@iKvetch558]

It's a great video...although Fat Electrician made a couple of small errors...the only one really worth mentioning is that F.E. says that the first bomber that Zeamer flew when he got to Australia was the B-17B, but it was actually the E model. F.E. talks about Zeamer learning to operate the ball turret, and the B-17 did not get the ball turret until the E-model. Great reaction to a great video 💯

[@theroachden6195]

I'm pretty sure Zeamer talked about operating the ball turret.

[@iKvetch558]

@@theroachden6195 Yes...that is what I said...Zeamer was flying the B-17E when he got to Australia, and not the B-17B as F.E. said, since the E model was the first one that had the ball turret.

[@joedioguardi9989]

The nose gunner was awarded the Purple Heart for staying at the nose gunner

[@klpecoraro4]

Its sad after all the work old 666 put in she was scrapped in the end

[@justsoicanfingcomment5814]

:(

[@riverlady982]

It really is because that's something I would go out of my way just to get to see in a museum. It's also the kind of thing that I would like to see left just the way it was when it was decommissioned from flying because I think seeing it the way it was patched up in the service in order to get it back out in working order would help a lot of people connect better with what those men went through to accomplish their tasks and often help other soldiers with theirs.

[@glenn4412]

The bombs.

[@grimalkin6676]

One of my most favorite stories, up there with Swede Vejtasa winning a 3v1 fight against zero's in a dive bomber. Also it wasn't just called old 666 because of ONLY its tail number. It also received that name because every time it went out, it got shot the hell up and this was before the beavers took it.

[@BigGator5]

"Remember kid, there's Heroes and there's Legends. Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."

[@KaoretheHalfDemon]

So true.

[@iKvetch558]

"Bends" is not a thing going down in altitude, AFAIK...only going up is an issue, with the increasing hypoxia. 👍 And you were right, in large part...the things the crew came up with to reduce weight included "stripping out unnecessary structure, cartridge belts, and ammunition feed equipment."💯

[@PAT8888-is2pd]

Actually, the bends doesn't have anything to do with hypoxia (which comes from a lack of oxygen). The bends is a release of nitrogen from solution in your blood. As you increase the pressure, your body will absorb nitrogen, as you decrease pressure that nitrogen will come out of solution. It can be very painful and even crippling. It's called the bends because that's what it does to you.

[@johngillespie3409]

We used old school gps and a map to figure out where we were in 95. Nothing like what they have now. My phone is more advanced than what I had in the army 🤣

[@The_Stoned_One]

Hold up hold up. Didnt they say that the crew pioneered gun camera footage. You know the crew would want strutting rights. So they would have them. So.....easily verified

[@maarek71]

The pre-CIA agency was called the OSS.

[@nicholaspawelski1031]

Office of Strategic Services

[@bretkaiser7355]

Good review. Hope you are still making videos! All the best! Bret

[@janihensley5306]

Soldiers are amazing the line of command useless

[@PAT8888-is2pd]

The bends come from a release of pressure not an increase of pressure.

[@davegray3049]

So the reason why that it states they shedded all those pounds is because the reality of it is bombs are way heavier than guns and after they were technically grounded they no longer have access to explosive ordnance like that but then being soldiers always have access to the ammo for 50 cals and most of the missions they went on anyway where recon

[@justsoicanfingcomment5814]

You're not entirely wrong however they lost the two thousand pounds of weight. Because they removed they bomb racks and some armor plating. So shels would go throgh the plane rather than blow up and pepper them with shrapnel.

[@applesauceisgood32]

Never heard of them either until Fat Electricians video either.

[@redactedredacted4080]

9:00 the precursor to the CIA is the OSS. Or the office of strategic services. The OSS was a wartime agency with a focus on unconventional warfare and special operations during World War II, whereas the CIA is a long-term intelligence agency that primarily focuses on intelligence gathering, analysis, and providing intelligence support to policymakers. The missions and functions of these agencies reflect the specific historical contexts in which they were created and operate.

[@davegray3049]

You got to remember he's volunteering and there's a lot of missions that are volunteer basis only so it's just a matter of what the person who was actually given the mission want because think of it as you have the person who is given the quest then you have the bulletin board where you find your party

[@bhight100]

Id ride with Jay Zeimer through literal hell. I have mad respect for crazy.

[@johngillespie3409]

First

[@THErealOGse]

Ivy League grad here and they care about literally every little thing academically and personally.

[@mrlizardtx]

I know you don't normally do music reactions, but a good follow up to this is the animated story video for Sabaton - No Bullets Fly.

[@brandonmercer499]

Or even 'Sabaton History - No Bullets Fly' if you don't much care for music videos but still want the story. However they are both very good

[@dulmater]

I'll check out the video but not the music. Too much risk of copy right strike with the music.

[@brandonmercer499]

@@dulmater so you know, the history video still has clips of the music in it, but the clips don't last for very long

[@JohnReedy07163]

​@dulmater I've watched other reactors do the song and the band is pretty supportive of content creators. Indy Neidell from WW1 TV is who presents their history Channel stuff. They are great