The Fat Electrician: US Navy's Unluckiest Ship With An Untouchable Crew - William D. Porter Reaction

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  • Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
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  • @dulmater
    @dulmater  8 місяців тому +8

    I'm not sure how much of this was bad luck, and how much was just poor decision making...

  • @north-vegasgift4964
    @north-vegasgift4964 8 місяців тому +28

    Know that Roosevelt pardoning the torpedo dude said about the whole situation "We shouldn't punish them because we failed to train them." Pretty chad move.

  • @usmc1979034
    @usmc1979034 8 місяців тому +15

    Sound actually travels further underwater that above the water. Famous instance of this is when the submarine USS Scorpion imploded on her way home from a deployment the sound of her implosion was picked up by three different US Navy plus a civilian hydrophone stations across the Atlantic.

    • @brennanhearn6342
      @brennanhearn6342 8 місяців тому +1

      I was a sonar technician in the navy, can confirm, sound travels much farther underwater. If you're in front of a sperm whale or a ship using their sonar, you will die, and it will hurt.

  • @gk5891
    @gk5891 8 місяців тому +6

    Congress abolished "With Hard Labor" sentences in 1954 for the Federal Court System. I believe this effected the UCMJ as well.

  • @iKvetch558
    @iKvetch558 8 місяців тому +6

    The thing about transporting VIPs to conferences that the Allies figured out was that it was safer the faster you traveled. So when they sent FDR places on ships, it was always the fastest possible ships...and what better fastest ship than the fastest battleship...the Iowa class were the fastest battleships ever built.
    Subs could only reach a maximum speed of about 20 knots in WW2, and that was on the surface where they were not very sneaky. If they wanted to be sneaky they had to submerge, and then they were limited to 6-8 knots maximum speed...they just could not keep up to ships traveling faster than 20 knots or so. That is why the US also sent most of the troops across the Atlantic to England in very fast troop transports like the Queen Mary and other ocean liners...they were so fast the subs could not catch them.

  • @shockwavegaming5907
    @shockwavegaming5907 8 місяців тому +7

    8:53 Sounds actually travels faster and much better underwater than through air, you can hear sounds from several miles away!

  • @m2hmghb
    @m2hmghb 8 місяців тому +6

    Radio waves can be detected hundreds of miles away. Gunfire from cannons? 5 miles if that.

  • @BigGator5
    @BigGator5 8 місяців тому +4

    The Willie Dee! 😂 We Love The Willie Dee! 😁

  • @Dallen9
    @Dallen9 7 місяців тому +3

    He had polio but he would tell people he was suffering from a water polo injury if they asked and he didn't feel like telling the truth.

  • @brigidtheirish
    @brigidtheirish 8 місяців тому +1

    It was the ship's bad luck to have that crew of young screw ups.

  • @applesauceisgood32
    @applesauceisgood32 8 місяців тому +3

    Bad decisions, not bad luck.

  • @joebright4607
    @joebright4607 8 місяців тому +3

    He wasn’t really elected was he ? Wasn’t he Vice President , then just got thrust into the position ? I quote from the campaign “well, the VP doesn’t really do anything anyway”. We are fortunate that they felt that way.

    • @iKvetch558
      @iKvetch558 8 місяців тому +1

      Even worse...FDR picked Truman for VP, and then did absolutely nothing to prepare Truman to take over the Presidency...and all the while FDR knew he was not going to live much longer even before he was elected to his 4th term in November of 1944.

    • @Dallen9
      @Dallen9 7 місяців тому

      Harry Truman was elected VP. It was a whole shooting match in the DNC for who would be his VP.

  • @benjamies4136
    @benjamies4136 8 місяців тому +1

    He's really got some of the best ad breaks. I wouldn't say they are Mr. Beast quality (which let's be honest, who is?), but along with his tag line, he makes amazing videos.

  • @Dallen9
    @Dallen9 7 місяців тому +1

    nipponboos

  • @iKvetch558
    @iKvetch558 8 місяців тому +4

    There are more and more instances where I see that Fat Electrician is making mistakes with his basic facts of history...he is not a historian, so I want to cut him all the slack, but I gotta speak up about at least one of the errors. Right at the start of this one he says that the US started working on a bunch more naval power after Pearl Harbor, and that is not true. It is true that America going to war sent the naval building program into super overdrive, but the program began well before Pearl Harbor with the passage of the Two Ocean Navy Act of 1940. It authorized over 250 new ships for the US Navy, including the first large batches of the Fletcher Class destroyers...and the ships laid down by the 2 Ocean Navy Act started to join the US fleets in early to mid-1942,

    • @johngillespie3409
      @johngillespie3409 8 місяців тому +5

      Uh oh start your own history channel 😜

    • @dillonpierce7869
      @dillonpierce7869 2 дні тому +1

      It's also fair to say we got started earlier that than with aircraft naval and ground weapon/tools development. Can think of several things we went oh shit those guys r building what now? Time to catch up.