Motorcycles & Nazi Loot on Route 66!!! | History Traveler Episode 368

[@umpmod28]

Thank you for going to the 45th museum, my grandfather was in the 45th as a medic and lost a leg and other stuff at Anzio.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

@@umpmod28 👍🏻

[@4rdF1Hunny]

My grandfather was 45th Infantry artillery. They may have known each other.

[@ryanrobertson8951]

I'm in Tulsa, OK. I haven't been to that gun museum since I was a kid, but it's crazy how many guns are there.

[@Oksoonerpt]

You will literally get tired of looking at Guns at the museum. It seems impossible . They renovated it s couple years ago and it is even more amazing.

[@umpmod28]

I've only seen my grandfather without a shirt on one time, it was life changing the amount of scar tissue on his was incredible.

[@fs357mag]

I hope you had Nat King Cole’s “Get Your Kicks on Route 66” in your soundtrack.

[@lilorbielilorbie2496]

fs357mag And that song was written by Bobby Troupe. Who later in life played the part of Dr. Joe Early on one of the best tv shows ever Emergency.

[@Route66BothLanes]

No matter where we stop, there's always something historical we learn about the Route. The museums are so important for keeping folks aware of how far we've come.

[@terryeustice5399]

Well. JD hit a museum that was right up your alley. Thanks for sharing this! 💯👊👍

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

👍🏻

[@TheOperationsRoom]

I was in OKC in 2022 and also did the 45th Museum. Small world!

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

@@TheOperationsRoom - Nice! I got a message from their curator today that they’ve got a new facility that they’re moving into in 2026.

[@4rdF1Hunny]

@@TheHistoryUndergroundyes they are!

[@martinbruce6651]

I was stationed in Germany attached to 3rd ID .reenlisted with the 45th in OKC. Been to that museum. Awesome!!

[@pbs550tt9]

Perfect timing while I sit in my hotel with covid... while on vacation.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

Nice!

[@JMCAragorn]

No one has to know 😉

[@wjshelton]

This is long been my favorite museum in the world... and I've been around. I was born and raised in Oklahoma and growing up, met many men who fought in WWII and Korea as members of the 45th. (These gentlemen have all obviously since passed on.) I have visited this museum many, many times. I cannot recommend it enough. If you pass through Oklahoma City, stop and visit it. I plan to go again the next time I am back through there.

[@SpaceAce.3]

I visited the 45th museum back in Dec 2023 and I was amazed with the artifacts and the history of the 45th.

[@jeffe9842]

My dad was antiaircraft in WW2 and was briefly attached to the 45th. I briefly lived in the OKC area and, when he and my mother came to visit me, we went to this museum; brought back some of my dad's memories. On another note, JD, you need to share your playlists with your subscribers. Don't keep Led Zep, Hendrix, Eagles, and others for yourself. 😉

[@curtvona4891]

Looks like you are having a whale of a time. Really enjoying this trip.👍

[@stevecockrell8639]

To answer your question on Iver Johnson yep 1871-1993 they manufactured bicycles, motorcycles and firearms.

[@oxbowbender]

Glad you got a chance to.visit the 45th/Oklahoma National Guard Museum. It's a gem! There's good coffee and a Pearl Harbor artifact downtown on Broadway near Automobile Alley! The Lake Overholser Bridge, Fort El Reno, the Bridgeport Pony Ridge, and the Stafford Air and Space Museum make for a solid stretch of Route 66 west of OKC. Enjoy!

[@PastorTitus52]

Loved both museums. Especially the Thunderbird 45th museum.

[@CliftonSimon4924]

Loved the short story on the soilder who is a cartoonist. General Patton wants him to stop with the comics, but the boss General Ike told him to let him be. By far, the best series on Route 66. Keep up the amazing videos. God Bless from 🇳🇷 .

[@thomasrasmuson1470]

My dad carried a Reising submachine gunn during WWII. Was his weapon of choice.

[@user-vg3yc6gk5f]

If he actually chose a Reising, he probably was not much of a gun guy. Arguably the worst issued weapon of the US military during World War II. The Marines bought those because there weren't enough Thompson's to go around for them. Many were ordered thrown into the rivers in the Pacific when the Marine Corps received better replacements. Many were used with a 12-round magazine since the 20 round magazine made an unreliable gun even more unreliable. But I'm still sure in the short range engagements in the Pacific, it was sometimes better than the 1903 Springfield's many Marines were carrying, since there also wasn't enough M1 Garands for them.

[@brucefrytz8611]

I've got one of Bill Maldin's books featuring his Willie and Joe cartoons, love his work. I remember when he worked in my hometown at the Chicago Sun Times. His most famous cartoon is probably the one he did after JFK was assassinated, showing Abraham Lincoln with his head in his hands, grieving.

[@billharshaw4739]

IT'S BACK!!

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

It's back!!! (and hopefully better)

[@Oksoonerpt]

Love going to the Seaba station motorcycle museum! Its fantastic.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

👍🏻

[@tonyplank]

Great video as usual. As a native Tulsan, I went to Claremore and the JM Davis many times. I was really expecting to enjoy your tour of it. Definitely one of the most under-rated museums in the US. Looking forward to your eventual trip back!

[@krisdrinkwine6045]

Thank you for taking me places I can't go. It would be wonderful to see it in person. But it is what it is. Thanks again.

[@4rdF1Hunny]

I think I mentioned the 45th to you a couple years ago. I’m glad you were able to make it. My grandfather was in the 45th, and we’ve been there many times with my boys. They’re in HS now and still love going out there.

[@Realstuffadventures]

Great video and coverage ! Very interesting to see the 45th Inf museum, did not know about that. Familiar with Bill Mauldin, but you did a great job of highlighting him.

[@jlbadventures9792]

My wife's grandfather was in the 36th Infantry Division. He was born in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and did his basic at Camp Bowie. She was very excited to see that section of the museum.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

Wow! Very cool.

[@MrWhitelightning73]

I’ve been on two wheels for nearly four decades. I would definitely be “geeking out” in that museum ❤

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

@@MrWhitelightning73 I’m not a motorcycle guy but really found that museum interesting.

[@liamlad1]

Your production value has leveled up! Nice job!

[@dankorolyk5917]

Wow! These episodes are getting better,thanks.

[@americanschweitzer45]

JD you spooked me when you started saying the first oil well in Tulsa, because the actual first oil well in the world was in my hometown Titusville PA! If you ever want to see it message me and I’ll show you! Love you videos!!

[@mikedenney6628]

I was hoping you would stop at 45 infantry museum. Great work

[@dnldcow]

What a awesome museum JD it's on my bucket list.

[@fishintime4715]

I love the channel and love the content. One day you should visit Weston Missouri.

[@Elder_C]

That arms museum in Clarmore is such a treat.. I hope you get to make it back thru at some point.

[@JamesJohnson-rh5qw]

I like your taste in music!

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

Thanks!

[@oneofmanyte3321]

Battle of Honey Springs would be a good trip. Saw a re-enactment there in the mid 90's.

[@turtle19dad]

Definitely a must see.

[@brucefrytz8611]

JD, you have great taste in music. Your playlist mirrors a lot of mine.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

@@brucefrytz8611 👊🏻

[@matthewjohnson-hk2fr]

Thomas p Stafford museum in weatherford is amazing one to visit

[@NDB469]

Garand thumb has a video on the Johnson Rifle I believe, I also saw a recent video about that Reising submachine gun. Pretty neat stuff. I acquired an old pacific war book when I was a kid and there were tons of photos of those weapons.

[@nicholasmurray5747]

Great video! I love the 45th museum, and am proud to see you traveling through my great state. The Honey Springs Battlefield recently renovated their visitors center, and it’s really well done. They have a re-enactment in the Fall that is worth the visit. For future future videos in the area, Stand Watie is pronounced Wait-E . At least, back when I was a teenager and retraced the trail of tears with the Cherokee Nation, that’s how I heard it. I love the channel. I’ve dragged my wife and son to many a museum you’ve pointed me to.

[@oneofmanyte3321]

Nice the Blue Whale of Catoosa! I was raised in Broken Arrow, OK and I remember going there. Later I rode my Harley on Route 66! I miss Tulsa and the area so much! Thanks for the video.

[@Rockerman053]

Yeah.. Im down to road tripping with you ! Great soundtrack to get from there to here and all the places in between.

[@camdodge9891]

Hi JD wow outstanding video thank you and what a wonderful museum great place and I am looking forward to the next episode i can’t wait & keep up the great work JD

[@JoeRitchie-e5l]

Love your music choices for your road trip

[@lorisasser3219]

Love the playlist!Playlist!!.. and the video too😊

[@Spitnchicklets]

Hey there JD, Love all your work and videos. I have been watching you for a while and it’s great to see your channel growing. I am a history, buff myself and always enjoy your videos. I have two more years until my retirement and I’ve been planning buying a camper and traveling across country and route 66 is on the top of my list. I’ll be visiting a lot of these sites myself again thank you for all your work.

[@JRP9306]

Very impressed with the museum in OKC

[@philipcollins5440]

I could watch you all day long. Your videos are fantastic and so informative😊 thanks😊

[@मीमहाराष्ट्रसैनिक]

Thanks for shared this unknown information

[@ozziecozzie274]

Love your play lists JD!! Great tunes there!

[@normsweet1710]

I know cars & bikes, you know guns & artifacts …. I recognize the ACP 1911 & the BAR only cause I’ve shot them both. What a thourough tour on today’s leg of the trip on the mother road. Clinton OK has a lot of Rt 66 memorabilia also. Had I mentioned I’m really enjoying myself watching your videos …. 😃👍🙏

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

Thanks!

[@robertvirtue]

Thoroughly enjoyable. Thank-you.

[@Chris-Nico]

Very cool! Loved both museums…. Motorcycles and military artifacts … life is good and you do outstanding work JD 👍🇺🇸 And thanks for sharing some of your Spotify playlists… I liked that! I gotta do this roadtrip 💪

[@Locustandhoney]

Another amazing project!

[@bethgiesey9405]

JD I love this series

[@gideoncampbell8335]

I had an Iver Johnson M1 carbine at one time.

[@BarryRyan-n7c]

Outstanding episode!

[@CrescentCottageHomestead]

Great museum, when my son was stationed at Fort Sill, I went to visit and we went to go see it.

[@JMCAragorn]

I can't wait to see you in NM. You must stay at the Blue Swallow!!!! 💙🩵💙🩵💙

[@mrAThiker08]

great play list

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

👊🏻

[@kennethreese4659]

That 45th museum looks awesome. I would love to go there. Thanks for the tour.

[@frenchfan3368]

It is worth going to if you get a chance. It's also worth mentioning that admission is free.

[@kennethreese4659]

@@frenchfan3368 thanks, it's on my bucket list.

[@frenchfan3368]

@@kennethreese4659 The episode did not show it, but in addition to Hitler's mirror from his Munich apt., there is also one of his cape's in the museum you can see.

[@jeffr7275]

If you ever go to Montana there is a unbelievable museum called The Miracle of America in Polson. It's definitely worth a visit.

[@Gitarzan66]

My uncle took me to see Star Wars when I was 10 in the theater. I found out years later he was a war hero. He wrote book about his time in the 45th. He was a forward artillery' observer. He made all the beach landings with them including Anzio. Purple Heart, Silver Star, Bronze Star ect. He was captured near the German border before they made it to Dachau and spent the duration in a POW camp. He even had the helmet he was wearing when he got hit by shrapnel from a German tank. Wish I had known all that when he was alive.

[@cavecookie1]

Those are some very cool museums. I noticed on your road trip playlist you have "Midnight Rider"...I wholeheartedly approve! It's just not a road trip if the Allman Bros aren't along, too! But, since you're getting your kicks on Rt. 66, you still have to listen to "The Song"!

[@rallyzamora8356]

Love it,very educational 👍

[@PathfinderHistoryTravel]

Adding the museum to the “Want To Go” Google Map list. Thanks you.

[@forcesmuggler7667]

That would be an amazing museum to see.

[@Hobbitma]

Great series and also great playlist.

[@jimmyhorton8297]

That 45th museum is amazing, haven’t made it there yet, but I will. What I will say, is if you didn’t make it to the OKC bombing memorial and museum, I would highly recommend a return trip to see it. It is a fitting memorial to the 168 men, women, and children who were murdered. I’ve been there years ago, but they have acquired some new artifacts over the years and I’m sure it’s been remodeled. Definitely worth a visit.

[@frenchfan3368]

I went to that museum a few years ago and yes, it is well done but yes, it is a very dark museum in an emotional sense.

[@jameshersheymusic]

Hey man! I'm so glad you went to the 45th. I've probably spammed that comment too many times, so I'm sorry for that haha. I live not too far from it, and when I discovered your channel years ago I knew you had to go! Cheers man! Hope you enjoyed it here in OKC.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

@@jameshersheymusic 👍🏻

[@thewacokid6459]

Skipped right over that Merwin & Hulbert pistol 😢😢 lol I geek out on old guns. Thanks for the video 👍

[@twistedyogert]

Those people who rode around the oval tracks without any brakes must've had a death wish. I wonder what the fatality rate was.

[@peteloomis8456]

Very high & that why it was stopped . If you either go to the Harley Davidson museum in Milwaukee WI or to Wheels through time motorcycle museum in Maggie Valley N.C they both have rare board track race bikes on display as well as old hill climbing bikes . The museum in Maggie Valley every old motorcycle they have in the museum which is huge they all run & drive & every year the owner May Waxler he gets them started up and rides them on the property just to run them one by one & every year they build a raffle bike to sell tickets to try and win the bike to people that helps fund the next raffle bike build & the museum. Flat track racing on dirt is very dangerous as well because those bike have no brakes either & the speeds they go are around 130+ mph on a mile dirt oval track . Speedway racing is also dangerous because they have no brakes either but the bikes are very small and lightweight but use engines that run on nitro methane or alcohol fuels depending on which class your racing in & these bikes turn only left at high speeds with the front tire off the ground at times even going through a corner and being the tracks are small the racing is very tight at high speeds so it's very dangerous. Some guys even use these speedway bikes to ice race with that use ice picks in both tires for traction on the ice but use special fenders that close off the spikes on the tires as much as possible so the rider that possibly gets caught up with another bike doesn't get his leathers and body chewed up like a meat grinder from the ice picks lol .

[@TeutonicNordwind]

JD, Are you going to the "Barbie Museum" like Jon Lovitz and his family? 😂

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

Ha! I didn't even know that existed.

[@TeutonicNordwind]

@@TheHistoryUnderground Hahaha, you'd have to know the comedy movie "Rat Race". Jon Lovitz' character and his family are going west on a Route 66 type road and after seeing signs for "The Barbie Museum", his daughter incessantly begs him to take them. So he does but it turns out to be the "Klaus Barbie" Museum full of Neo Nazis...and the zaniness ensues! 😂

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

@@TeutonicNordwind ahhhh. Gotcha.

[@GlasgowCeltic88]

​@@TeutonicNordwind *having just nicked Hitler's Touring car from the museum: "Eh, they're always pissed, Honey. They're Nazis. It's like it's their job!"

[@TeutonicNordwind]

@@GlasgowCeltic88 😂 Hilarious for sure

[@labrd41]

39:11 I find it cool that a home address was on the flag allowing me to drop in the old neighborhood of Ernest Beaumier via street views on Google Maps. I love maps.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

Pretty dang cool.

[@cracklecracklebaybay5612]

Your playlist looks like my work playlist 😆👍🏻

[@MrBradleyDavid]

Way cool JD. My Granddad had a 1912 Indian he bought in Nebraska and tooled around Gettysburg on when He was in seminary there in the 1920's. You didn't talk about the Trench Shotgun, but interesting about the M1941 Johnson Semi-Auto. Loved the museum, and I'll have to add it to my bucket list.

[@anthonycalbillo9376]

Cleaning up my 2As. Great Video!!!

[@TribeTaz]

Guns Guns Guns You always seem to find Guns. Great video, JD

[@DavidsExecutiveTouch17]

Were you talking of the J.M. Davis gun museum in Claremore when you said you missed going to one. If so, went there as a teen with my Dad, even then it was a must see, need to go back down and show my grandkids now. Good Job on this video as well as the others on Rt. 66, born & raised on that road, you got fairly close at 1 point, in Missouri & Kansas. Wish I would have known you were coming through. Keep them coming my Friend. Stay Safe and Be Blessed 🙏🇺🇸

[@skimmer8774]

I don't comment much but I've seen every episode you have and enjoy learning from them. Somewhere along 66 there is a motel with rooms in a big cave I hope you get a chance to see it. 😊

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

Appreciate that! Do you know which town it's in?

[@skimmer8774]

@@TheHistoryUnderground No and I've had no luck with Google

[@ncwoodworker]

Incredible collection.

[@geoffthiessen646]

Thanks for the great video I look forward to every one

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

Outstanding.

[@michaelguy1125]

My dream is to take the Oregon trail all way to Portland, then down the Pacific Coast from Portland to Santa Monica, then head home on old 66 back to Chicago, all in a classic hot rod.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

@@michaelguy1125 oh dang. That would be a heck of a trip.

[@michaelguy1125]

@TheHistoryUnderground I'm a huge american history buff, so it right up my alley. I'm also a big railroads nut.

[@glennwhittaker197]

Cool stuff along the way 👍🏻🇺🇸

[@donaldperson948]

My grandma took that route to Tucson in 1950.

[@donaldperson948]

Patton just ran the army like a well oiled machine!

[@boomerfnsooner4090]

If you’re a fan of The Outsiders movie, the Curtis house in Tulsa is now a museum. Lots of extras from the movie volunteer there. C Thomas Howell and Rob Lowe are there all the time along with Darren Dalton.

[@donaldperson948]

Awesome museums!

[@Stoney_AKA_James]

J.D you really missed out by not going to the J.M. Davis firearms museum! But I'm glad to see you visit the 45th ID museum!

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

Oh, I'll be going back down there for sure.

[@MrEaglesfan40]

Fantastic video JD love the museums, shame you couldn’t see the gun collection you would probably spend the whole day there

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

Weird. The steam train was only used for 5 years. Must have been the economics of diesel powered trains.

[@davewoodmancy5124]

Great music choices

[@leonceboudreauxwolf]

Iver Johnson also made pistols. I had a Iver Johnson .38 snub nose revolver, at one time, some used to call them Saturday Night Specials. They were affordable and easily concealed, dependable (mine was), and a weapon used for close proximity.

[@Easternoregon1]

My dad was in the 45th and saw combat in the Korean war. I have his uniform with the Thunderbird on it. Maybe you could do some Korean war history in the future?

[@ameyring]

I wonder if the 45th ever wondered if they should've kept the thunderbird logo since it looks so much like the N___ eagle with wings folded.

[@Moredread25]

41:19 I think that's Van Barfoot in the first photo to the left. Famously won both the Medal of Honor and a fight with his homeowner's association. They named a base after him recently.

[@ls1dylan385]

I can’t wait to see what you did here in Albuquerque! National Museum of Nuclear Science and History I bet…

[@drewrobertson1462]

You need to make it back to the Davis Gun Museum... It's worth the trip...