The Weapons of WWII

[@TodayIFoundOut]

Another in our "Sleep with me" (or "Work with me" if you want to be less fun ;-)) series. Hope you enjoy! :-) 0:00 The Terrifyingly Effective Nazi De-Bollocker 9:30 How Close Did the Nazis Actually Come to Building an Atomic Bomb? 27:52 The Ugly Little Boat That Won WWII 48:18 The Jet the Nazis Designed to Be Flown By Children 59:46 The Nazi Super Cannon 1:07:31 Winning the Battle of Britain with “Miss Shilling’s Orifice” 1:19:17 The Great V2 Rocket Heist 1:29:35 The Hilarious WWII Attempt to Replace Parachutes with Rockets 1:40:11 The German Rocket Fighter that Dissolved its Pilots Alive 1:55:17 The World War II Warship that Disguised Itself as a Tropical Island to Try to Escape the Enemy 2:01:51 The Steampunk Flight Simulator That Helped Win World War II 2:15:35 The Girl With the War-Winning Hair 2:23:51 WWII Files - Pigeon Guided Missiles and Literal Bat Bombs 2:30:27 Target Nagasaki: The Forgotten Story of Charles W. Sweeney and Bockscar

[@adambane1719]

This guy is a total SHILL !!

[@gennystout8952]

So watching to absorb knowledge while sleeping 😂😂😂 I don't know why but I always fall asleep during long episodes in the Whistlerverse.....

[@peaceleader7315]

​@gennystout8952 I always fallen a sleep in parent guardian 😴 lecturing.

[@cjlloyd5332]

What happened to Simon's beard?😂

[@mingfanzhang8927]

❤😊❤😊

[@matthawkins3584]

The difference between both Simon's appearance and audio quality in the past compared to the present is insane. I've been watching his videos way too long.

[@Chuck-PK]

A Brief History of Simon Whistler's Beard: Abridged, with unrelated commentary regarding weapons of WW2

[@callistamccracken3744]

Bald faced Simon is unsettling

[@dapuman]

I had to look up if I accidentally pulled up a super old video by mistake

[@mrshinebox1803]

"Brief" History? Are we both watching the same 3 hour video?

[@mwolkove]

Weird, as a WWII KZbin video 3hrs is long. As a video chronicling the history of Simon's beard, 3hrs is the abridged, brief version.

[@Be-Es---___]

😂

[@posslord1221]

No beard Simon isn't real. No beard Simon can't hurt you

[@marcbeebee6969]

😂😂

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

Have you seen him Bald?

[@keryeeastin4022]

Have you seen him with hair? My God what must his poor children think?!😂

[@evelynvslife]

Simon was given a beard and no hair because otherwise he would’ve been too powerful.

[@everyday4play401]

I’m fully convinced that somewhere around starting his 73rd channel he became too busy to actually shave. The length of his beard is his way of keeping track of when the last time he saw his home was.

[@zachsmith8633]

Weird seeing young vs current Simon. Been watching for a decade and the changes are wild

[@alibong00]

Is that a lisp I hear or a crappy mic

[@zachsmith8633]

@@alibong00 the mics have improved over the years

[@NRUTOKINGDOM4143]

I'm not an og but it's interesting to see how young he looks and how the show changed

[@hutchjoppie5602]

I came here to comment in all caps about Simon not having a beard, but i found your comment and resisted lol

[@dyslexicboogaloo]

It’s crazy watching Simon over the years. Especially the last story, now I know he has a time machine because it was filmed in the future when he has hair again so it looks like that Keeps sponsorship finally paid off.

[@nivision]

In the first 30 minutes and wanted to applaud Simon's conquering of the word "effortlessly".

[@ls1gt611]

I'm enjoying the long compilation style videos, thanks!

[@nipsirc9686]

“German forces mined the region so heavily that a French offensive apparently that’s a thing into German territory was halted in its tracks. Shocker” gave me a hoot

[@callistamccracken3744]

Comment just for engagement to bump Simon's greatness in the algorithm

[@Faymysticreations]

so we go from completely bald Simon to majestic bearded Simon! with the bonus of seeing his SW sign lighted up. Nice! I also understand why he decided to grow a beard out lol

[@mrshinebox1803]

Is it weird that I noticed the sign before the beard?

[@charliehunter9257]

I've been watching Simon for a long while, but seeing his beard evolution in this video is just amazing. Glad to have such an amazing infotainment host that I know I can rely on for facts and laughs.

[@WolfsbaneGL]

I clicked on this video because I absolutely needed to know if it was a De-Bollocker of Nazi origin or if it specialized in De-Bollocking Nazis.

[@mikeysrose]

Same!😅

[@bladewind0verlord]

I clicked on it because for a second there I thought simon had gone and done a three hour long video specifically on nazi de-bollocking.

[@Hillbilly001]

My goodness Daven. Did you ever go into the library for this one. Simon barely has a beard. Reminds me of a Top10z from about 8 years ago when he didn't have one. Well done. Cheers from Tennessee

[@QueenAlexzandra]

I didn't know Simon had a brother. It's so nice to see a family working together ❤

[@HandyMan657]

Whoa! I had to look at my watch for the date. Happy April 1st

[@ianshaver8954]

I think that radio, and it’s derived technologies, such as radar, was the most important weapon in WW2.

[@kuznickic1]

To me it’s a tie between radio and the UNIVAC

[@SunBear69420]

For me, its boner pills. Hitler was notorious for having certain performance issues, and he tried various remedies to help increase his abilities in the bedroom. Many of these remedies containted mercury, amphetamines, even cyanide. There is a lot of evidence that suggests his continued mental decline was due, in large part, to his "remedies" or as i called them, "boner pills".

[@wjm154]

Seeing Simon without a beard at 1:00:00 was a bit of a shock! 😅🤣🤘 i didnt even recognize him

[@stephenlane9168]

Fantastically enjoyable long-form video Simon and production team and writers. 🙏👌👏

[@jacksonbauer5199]

I always thought D-Day stood for “Disembarkation Day”… You know how allied planners LOVED their particular style of language when it came to literally anything that might be written down or even spoken aloud. I also thought it was fitting in that the definition of disembarkation is: “The act of leaving a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft and at the end of a journey”. Maybe I’m just reading too much into it, but it’s nice to think about the possible intent behind the choice of words being “The end of the journey, the last boat you’re going to be on until you’re heading home, the final push…”. Disembarkation

[@justindenison5614]

Damn simon we are not as young as we we were. Where i first found your no nonsense explanation of all things an people interesting to me.

[@planetX15]

Awesome channel you have Simon, I really enjoy watching your videos, keep up the great work!

[@Hillbilly001]

I think it's jointly owned by Daven and Simon.

[@gpgt1]

As soon as I saw Simon I checked when the video was released. He even looks younger.

[@jlindsey79]

That's one of the reasons I clicked.. I saw the thumb nail looked at the date of the video a d was like..wtf.. clicked on the video and discovered its a compilation video and everything made sense... it's a good video so far... I'm only 20ish min in and I'm reading comments about beardless simon and idk if I can handle that

[@michaelpipkin9942]

Blown Away (Bouncing Betty makes a cameo) Good movie, bad accents, Great actors!!!!

[@RobertRedland]

Great movie 👏

[@wingerding]

Like when they shoot the bomb off the wall? Just a ricochet no?

[@GIBBO4182]

Ahh…the “Bouncing Betty” a particularly devastating, and game winning part of my COD World at War arsenal! Particularly rage inducing in hardcore search & destroy! 😂😂😂

[@smnkm4ehfer]

All about getting under the castle map, then setting bouncing bettys under the glitch so enemies couldn't get in, then shooting them under objective B on Search and Destroy

[@AndyMcLendon]

Good job with “effortlessly”!

[@vandal1764]

"The dawn will take you all!" Simon Whistler

[@LightCloud-zs7of]

Wow, what a blast from the past, and present

[@hughjass545]

Goodmorning whistle man! I hope watch time is still relevant. I been listening all night.

[@xJRxinated]

Big fan of the neon Fact Boy! Well done Sir

[@PitboyHarmony1]

Great to watch Simons beard grow.

[@SymptomoftheTimes]

Thanks!

[@string_fellow_hawk]

Enjoy the work . ❤❤

[@MisterRorschach90]

I think that the prototype mixed engine piston/jet or piston/rocket planes made by different countries at the end of ww2 are probably some of the coolest looking planes ever made. I wish it was still a thing. Imagine a super advanced modern version of those things.

[@MGB-learning]

Great video and presentation.

[@UKFisherman27]

It's like being in 2012....

[@mar71n32n0v1lLL0]

"Shortly after Adolf Hitler *managed to take out* Hitler." Whoever wrote that line, kudos to you my friend.

[@LynxStatic]

I wasnt ready for beardless Simon. I was having diner while watching this video when beardless Simon appeared. There was diner on my plate, in my mouth, on the table, on the monitor, on the floor... I. Wasnt. Ready.

[@tinaann3323]

In 1983, I was trained in our version of the bouncing Betty, M60 anti tank mines and Claymores. I was then a member of the USMC Engineer school. In doing so, we also trained in removing mines. Our Bettie’s had the “kicker” charge in them as a training aid. We wore face shield as we did so. I witnessed a fellow Marine removing an anti tank mine. As he did, his right foot set off a Betty surrounding the big one. We all heard a “pop”. He spun around only to be hit in the face as the Betty emerged. It lifted him off his feet and he landed on another. The second bruised his kidney. We later had to dig a grave, and partially bury him and mock cry (Marine Corps engineer instructors are a little sick). Later, we all laughed our asses off at the poor idiot!!!

[@beagleuk3233]

I'd forgotten about the neon sign

[@CraftyVegan]

The “V Sauce” sign lmao I know it’s supposed to be *S*imon *W*histler, but that neon certainly doesn’t make it clear 😅

[@24934637]

Regarding land mines: There is an excellent Danish film called (English version) 'Land of Mine', which is loosly based on true historic events after the Second World War, where German Prisoners Of War, many just teenagers, were used by Danish authorities for mine clearance duties (Clearing German mines from Denmark). 1.3 million mines were cleared by 2000 German POWs, resulting in 149 of them losing their lives during the five months of mine clearing, 165 were severely wounded and 167 lightly wounded. In retrospect this has been classed as a war crime. Land mines really are a horribly unethical weapon since they'll kill ANYONE, man, woman, child, or animal who steps on them, often many years after the conflict is over. Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam are still full of landmines left over from the Vietnam War.

[@seanbrennan5469]

The way he said lake Pontchartrain lol I love to see him try to do tchoupitoulas

[@jimmccauley9099]

Not proud of the fact that I dropped some serious vitamin A back in the 70s/early 80s. First thought seeing this was "flashback" and haven't had one of those since the late 80s. Neon's lit, Simon's mic, Simon's lack of beard and other tid bits. Just a smash up. Well played Simon, well played.

[@bearnunnemaker5453]

Vitamin A. LOLOL. Yes I’ve taken vitamin A before. Vitamin H and vitamin M. Now I’m on vitamin D only. As in Dad Jimmy won’t quit saying he’s not touching me and holding his finger close to me!!! I told them to go play in the middle of the freeway. My wife slapped in the back of the head. I called my Mommy!! She hung up!!

[@wingerding]

​@@bearnunnemaker5453 what on earth are you going on about? You lost me after vitamin d.

[@bearnunnemaker5453]

@@wingerding vitamin D as in being a dad.

[@randallparker8477]

Were you bald in secondary school Simon? Great flash back... thanks for what you do!

[@MisterPlanePilot]

Simon mispronouncing Volksjäger kills my soul, but then no beard Simon makes it all better

[@jrmckim]

Someone mispronouncing a word kills your soul?? This generation is screwed... What I find interesting is non-native english speakers can mispronounce English words and no one gives them a hard time. But if a native english speaker mispronounces a non english word, it kills souls. Do you see the hypocrisy?

[@danielstokoe6564]

Cool mate, w h smith's imitation sign is fixed 😂

[@jlindsey79]

Simon isn't that old.. I don't think he even 40 yet... but hes sooooo young in the first 10min of this.. holy crap

[@colt6515]

Beardless simon doesnt exist. Beardless simon can't hurt you .

[@Makem12]

The s mine sounds like some sort of futuristic device. I wonder how it was produced and designed over 80 years ago to do that

[@marksusskind1260]

Oh! The Daven Takes to Flight

[@travisfoster8683]

Miss Shillings Orfice.. haha nice

[@MudSluggerBP]

That Higgins was a badass of a Human Being 🤟🏻

[@detritus10001]

Simon, how are you and your fortunate large-wooded partner doing? Keep up the good work man!

[@MisterRorschach90]

Had the scientists simply told hitler that the atomic research was basically magic, the power of the gods, he would’ve been more interested. Lol

[@evilfingers4302]

Holy Crap, didn't realize this is a 3 hour movie!

[@screensoft]

Found many of these, they are pretty common in some rivers in Luxemburg

[@grimace4257]

The Whistler 👍👍

[@ClarkKent_13]

Heddy's frequency hop technique is the cornerstone of modern US cryptographic communication and we still use it today. Lol

[@wayloncapps9480]

Simon’s beard is the fastest growing beard on planet earth!!

[@celter.45acp98]

Great v2 rocket heist 😂 thats what we call strategically transfering equipment to an alternate location.

[@mindfortress105]

The french were fighting nazis at their full strength. USA was fighting nazis after they got their best soldiers and gear tied up in the east against russia

[@internetuser9432]

The D in D-Day referes to the D point. It was the day the allies began to attack the D point after it had finaly been found.

[@erickinnaman5405]

In high school, we were taught that the 'd' in "d day' stands for David: Dwight Eisenhauer's middle name. I like your explanation better.

[@micahfoley9572]

One hears these stories about pilots perishing in horrific ways, and reflexively experiences an empathic response to the agony of another human being...and then moments later one remembers these were not men, they they were nazis, and the grin slowly spreads across one's face, secure in the knowledge that it was the best possible end for such a miserable creature.

[@csonracsonra9962]

The French called it the "hell to the no! " mine

[@FedericoDownescobar]

One of the very few benefits of having been raised in Louisiana is that I get to correct pronunciations. Lake Pontchartrain (pon-cha-train).

[@undercover1968ru]

As aan army 12b1p in 1987 we called it the bouncing betty and were taught it was designed to injury soldiers so that it would remove 3 soldiers from the battle ( 1 injured and 2 to carry injured soldier back to medical) i rember during advance training in disarming these 3 prong mines that it blew up and didnt kill the 2 soldiers laying next to it instead it blew ear drums and blew the 2nd lieutenant thumb and little finger off and but neither were injured from the shrapnel because it blew out like an upside down cone and since they were both under 5ft 7 their feet were just missed from the shrapnel

[@Que-Lindo]

Lil antidote, i’m friends with a Shrapnel. Her great grand dad invented Shrapnel. Wild family legacy.

[@9169enjoi]

French offensive... apparently thats a thing 😂🤣 Lmfao!! You get a thumbs up for that one Simon, that was hilarious 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@marksusskind1260]

Ol' Greenbeard Is Back

[@ScottMelville-w4g]

How old is this episode

[@rowanshole]

It is now fact that Simon is an early iteration of A.I.

[@alvinrichover9682]

That's Headley!....Harvey Korman says.😃

[@plunder1956]

It's interesting that General Groves was always DEEPLY worried about his huge and complicated teams of scientists sharing project information between them and cooperating. But they did. Thus inspiration and brilliance was able to fill in the gaps - Far more progress was made. The vast Manhattan project teams worked on solving hundreds of crucial interlinked technical problems IN PARALLEL! If Robert Oppenheimer hadn't managed to convince Groves to allow this - they would probably have failed to build and test even one of the atomic bomb designs in 1945. As a result the war would have lasted even longer and killed millions more. Just imagine if the Manhattan project HAD totally failed! Mainly due to military security fears. Hundreds of brilliant scientists, bottled up into small isolated teams across America, so they couldn't find the brilliant solutions they DID find. A practical Atomic Bomb might not have been built until the mid 60s or later. Our entire Atomic history would have been different. Possibly focused on Power generation - NOT on a stunningly expensive 40 year long Cold War.

[@jeffdroog]

Woot woot!

[@JamesKuffner-cg2pv]

I wish I could reverse age ......just like that. Cheers 🍻

[@ryugrieger7244]

ancient simon

[@Stonebagmcgee]

Wasted opportunity to call it the "nut buster"

[@mp6814]

1:20:18 -- 3,000 km/h is not "nearly twice the speed of sound" but rather 2.43 times ... Ooops.

[@olivier7593]

Depends...

[@philjameson292]

Clearly Hitler had tried testing this weapon himself

[@Daniel-x6h3c]

Sorry but I couldn't get past the part where you said the mine would bounce up into the air and explode violently.

[@bobbowie5334]

The problem with mines is that they're always used for evil.

[@skeptik212]

Lolol, "at testicle height" that got me 2:10

[@ye-old-baxter5816]

I thought the no beard Simon was a reault of the Mandella effect lol

[@jmanj3917]

7:46 ...and T-Time to have reached/completed your objective, too; But, I'm just happy to see a YTer finally getting this right...lol Seriously, there were a Lot of wrong answers you stated, that had been given by people, and I hadn't even Heard of a couple of them...lol...And; That's saying something, because I consider myself to be fairly in touch with the general stupidity of most types, but especially so when it's regarding the military... 😎

[@trevdagg]

59:53 holy shit and Jesus christ I havnt seen Simon that beardless for so long I hadn't realised just how much more distinguished and glorious his marvelously bearded face has become in my mind

[@Hidfhjccbxcbhc]

How many Simon are you? Surprised too much 😂😂

[@jckluckhohn]

Me 163 idea was incorporated into the nf104

[@BlitzFingers]

I had work in Haigerloch and saw the nuclear cellar. It’s in a mountain under a beautiful old church. That’s the only reason the allies didn’t destroy it.

[@hallcrash]

This isn't April Fools content is it?

[@gennystout8952]

I am hoping to see that on Brain Blaze or Casual Criminalist 😅😅😅 Too much that can be done on those channels for April fools....

[@davidwass8366]

No, its not a April fool. These things are real. Modern militaries still use mines like this. They work very well..

[@michaelwarlick4328]

Sadly no. Bouncing Betty was serious, and may not be entirely gone.

[@bloviatormaximus1766]

lack of spare gigawatts to enrich enough fissile material

[@D_Chess]

Knew this, but I always like to think of it as Doomsday (for the Axis).

[@markopolo1271]

So you're telling me the COD tactic of hitting the deck after tripping the mine actually worked thats unexpected

[@philiplubduck6107]

Its been standard traing for a long time. Aim your body to face away from the mine and drop. You might get shrapnel in your feet or even legs if very close. Which is better than in your chest or head.

[@markopolo1271]

@@philiplubduck6107 i meant specifically for the bouncing Betty I'm aware you want to reduce the surface area exposed to the shrapnel of explosives. But It's just kinda wild to me that flopping to the deck actually worked to prevent getting completely mangled by this specific mine like is shown in games i thought it was pretty much just a bug in the game that lead to it not doing damage than an actual method of surviving one of these bad boys

[@nomdeplume5446]

This is so old the SW sign is still working.

[@eragonunderhill5545]

How does Simon look younger than ever?

[@FredrikJigfelt]

Hey! Who's this guy? Where is Beard guy that i usually fall asleep to? ❤

[@t5ruxlee210]

One of key assets of the USA uranium bomb program was the Tennessee Valley Authority, a "Great Depression political boondoggle", which built numerous unneeded, often unequipped, power dams in the 1930s. This system was quickly and completely built out with all its needed generating equipment and transmission lines during WW2 and provided the huge amounts of electric power required to separate the rare fissile uranium bomb isotope from its much less active, much more common uranium, close relative.

[@mattgraham879]

Am I the only one seeing Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder?

[@camo576]

Australia still has M14, M16 and anti tank mines.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

This beard is much superior to the current one.

[@terrystowers6085]

The American military saw all that atom bomby research and decided that the Americans ought to be the first to spank atoms into a critical rage….