It was 10,000 troops (not 20k) who trained at Camp Bouse between 1943 and 1944. The 'Gizmo' secret weapon was one the British came up with but requested Patton test. Clearing the distant hills of miners & homesteaders probably made sense given they were testing a light system that could be seen for many miles. The Army needed 35,500 square miles to keep the system secret! Although the gizmo system was never used in battle for the original purpose of blinding the enemy, it was used to facilitate efficient river crossings in the theatre of war.
My grandfather trained there, with the 526th armored infantry bn. As far as I know, they never actually used them in combat. They had them in England before D-day, but did not take them across the channel. It was the terrain that negated their usefulness. The idea was to blind the enemy, while the infantry moved in the “cloak of darkness” between the lights. It was not well suited to the close range assaults of the hedgerow country. That was according to my grandfather. The units had an interesting service, especially after the CDL tanks were withdrawn. Due to the security clearances required for their work at Bouse, The 526th wound up attached to 12th army group hq as an intelligence unit (TF-T) while C co was detached to serve as the guards for the SHAEF HQ. They were primarily tasked with seizing high value targets and intelligence. But, found themselves right in the middle of the German advance during the Battle of the Bulge. In the movie Battle of the Bulge, the scene where Henry Fonda destroys the fuel dump in front of Peiper’s panzer group was based on actions taken by the 526th.
@@rossmacintosh5652 I’d never seen one of his videos before. Hadn’t searched for anything Camp Bouse related in a few years. But, this video popped up right at the top of my recommendations. That’s a hell of an algorithm they’re tracking us with. But yes, cool video.
Hey Chigg, You forgot to mention the table that the sign-in box was on. It’s a WWII military truck grill. Not sure if it’s from a deuce and a half. As always stay safe and healthy. Ron
Thanks for taking us along. My grandmother's 2nd husband was in the tank corps. All I know is that he fought in Africa. No doubt he trained out there somewhere. He passed before I developed an interest in WWII. Uncle Lloyd was a big man who was gentle, kind, and very quiet. Take the time to talk to any old timers you might know. Most of the time they'll take real pleasure in sharing their knowledge and experience with you. Do it while you can.
You would think someone would have clued into the fact that a strobe light is still light in the darkness. I felt that chill as well, thinking about all those soul out there in isolation, thinking about what's coming. So many never came home.
The metal grill on top of the barbed wire pigtails is a radiator / light guard off a 1940s Dodge or GMC truck. When you said "beatniks in the 60s" made the PEACE signs, first thing popped in my mind was Maynard Krebs, ha,haaa.
Hirohito's war plans was to destroy the Pacific Fleet then negotiate a Empire Deal. Your FreeDoms have only been ever threatened by the Confederacy, and tRumpF.
i think that wire sheathing is modern ,some toerag stole a bunch of cable ,and went somewhere quiet to strip it out. cable in the 40s was woven cloth or rubber coated and that looked like plastic. happy hunting.
Weird place to go to strip some cable, but tweakers will be tweakers I guess. The rubber coated stuff would have crumbled away to nothing out in that sun. It rots away just sitting in your house walls, let alone out in the desert.
Hi chigg I just got done Detecting I found some Civil War bullet's and a few things that are junk. I hope everything is going well with you. I'm having a blast looking at your videos and then going metal detective Have fun
I always love when you go out to the desert and bring us along. I live in New Jersey right on the edge of the pine barons, so you can tell we have sand but you can’t see anything because of the trees. The desert is a beautiful place and its own right. Again, thank you for taking us along.
Very nice, I find all of your videos fascinating. But I especially love the videos you do out west. Lessons in history, hunts for the missing, and overall a different yet beautiful area. Keep it up Chigg! Happy hunting!
I wish they would let you look through the 29 palms training area. There is ordinance all over the ground. Still find m1 garand clips. Lots of native artifacts out there as well. I didn't see any desert tortoise for years, then in one year I saw 4.
I love these adventure videos. I always wanted to just go off and have adventures like these but just haven't ever done it. I should make it a bucket list item and get it done!! Thanks for taking us along Chigg!
General Patton left the Desert Training Center in July 1942 to help plan the North African invasion. Camp Bouse was constructed a year later so Patton had nothing to do with Bouse. The 'table' supporting the register box is a grille brush guard off a military truck. DTC camps were salvaged and demolished in 1944-45. At 26:46, the hole may have been an underground pantry. At least one Calif camp has a row of them and one is intact. At 28:50, that triangular rock used to be painted with an Army unit insignia.
Thanks for sharing your adventure with us. Have you ever explored modoc County in northeastern California, Beautiful high desert country rich history. Last Indian war was fought in the lava beds.thanks again for sharing your videos with us .
Yes, is fascinating - always enjoy your trips out West. I think the Gizmo is hilarious! Poor buggers!! (when you think they were there for no good real reason!!) Keep safe.
Thanks so much for all the hard work you put into your videos.. I have recently gotten into detecting and searching for artifacts here in the UK and know you from river hunters.. your enthusiasm is infectious and love every bit of what you share with us.. I am a recovering addict and learning about history and people's lives in the past is helping me one day at a time.. anyway, once again many thanks from a new fan👍😊
5:03 That backhoe sitting out there in the middle of nowhere. Thats about 10k just sitting there doing nothing but dry-rotting. Did they forget where they parked it? 😅
Some soldiers became hippies and went on to become the biggest hippies of all. Hippies who knew how to shoot, use heavy machinary, electrical engineering and sundry other strategic/highly practical skills. The forests and mountains out here are still crawling with them. Much respect. Peace out!
My Dad PVT Ray Holderman 426th served there in 1943 till shipped out to Germany. Top secret weapon was search lights on tanks but it was never used. My father's ashes are also spread there.
Chigg, The wire gate is a Texas gate at least that was what I was told. Really enjoy the desert shows, you should try the Sonoran desert it is so much more pretty that the Mojave desert. It looked like Camp Bouse was at the very end of the Sonoran desert. Keep up the good work.
You are very close to quartzite I have a friend with a placer gold claim over there so if you want to grab a gold nugget before you leave that area let me know. That place is huge looking at it from google earth never knew it existed so thanks for sharing the tour and adventure see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼
So I thought I would look and see how many ground troops did not come home from the war in Europe/WW2. Google says 141,000. With an additional 42,500 in the skies and at sea. Did not include pacific theater. So Chigg your chills are certainly for real.
Were you between gila bend and Ajo I worked on target area one and two I was stationed in gila bend for almost 4 years Also if you were there ajo have a prisoner of warcamp just north of the town like your video very
Someone just commented that the British came up with the idea and I guess the testing happened in Arizona. Apparently it was used at River crossings to blind the Germans
CHIGG I WISH I KNEW WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO BE THIS WEEKEND I WOULD LOVE TO MEET UP WITH YOU AND EXPLORE WITH YOU. I GREW UP NEAR BOISE IN PARKER AND LOVED GOING OUT THERE.
Woodrow, who lives in the trailer next door, comes over to watch Chigg on my plasma tv and borrow a few adult beverages. He said he’s beginning to think this is aquachigger’s twin brother, sandchigger. IDK.
I hope you guys like today's little adventure. If so, please let me know. Thanks for watching.
The 11m on that wooden plaque is an infantry mos. Mine was 95B. If I'm not mistaken, you were 12 something, right?
I liked 😁✌
Hey chigg just to let you know they were three ring mini balls
We loved this adventure
11M = mobile infantry MOS
It was 10,000 troops (not 20k) who trained at Camp Bouse between 1943 and 1944. The 'Gizmo' secret weapon was one the British came up with but requested Patton test. Clearing the distant hills of miners & homesteaders probably made sense given they were testing a light system that could be seen for many miles. The Army needed 35,500 square miles to keep the system secret! Although the gizmo system was never used in battle for the original purpose of blinding the enemy, it was used to facilitate efficient river crossings in the theatre of war.
Thank you for that articulate detail. I love studying history.
My grandfather trained there, with the 526th armored infantry bn. As far as I know, they never actually used them in combat. They had them in England before D-day, but did not take them across the channel. It was the terrain that negated their usefulness. The idea was to blind the enemy, while the infantry moved in the “cloak of darkness” between the lights. It was not well suited to the close range assaults of the hedgerow country. That was according to my grandfather.
The units had an interesting service, especially after the CDL tanks were withdrawn. Due to the security clearances required for their work at Bouse, The 526th wound up attached to 12th army group hq as an intelligence unit (TF-T) while C co was detached to serve as the guards for the SHAEF HQ.
They were primarily tasked with seizing high value targets and intelligence. But, found themselves right in the middle of the German advance during the Battle of the Bulge. In the movie Battle of the Bulge, the scene where Henry Fonda destroys the fuel dump in front of Peiper’s panzer group was based on actions taken by the 526th.
@@chdnorm Thanks for the information! Must be cool watching the Chigg when you have a family connection to the place.
That's interesting, thank you. I had no idea it ever actually got used for anything.
@@rossmacintosh5652
I’d never seen one of his videos before. Hadn’t searched for anything Camp Bouse related in a few years. But, this video popped up right at the top of my recommendations. That’s a hell of an algorithm they’re tracking us with.
But yes, cool video.
Hey Chigg,
You forgot to mention the table that the sign-in box was on.
It’s a WWII military truck grill. Not sure if it’s from a deuce and a half.
As always stay safe and healthy.
Ron
Thanks for taking us along. My grandmother's 2nd husband was in the tank corps. All I know is that he fought in Africa. No doubt he trained out there somewhere. He passed before I developed an interest in WWII. Uncle Lloyd was a big man who was gentle, kind, and very quiet. Take the time to talk to any old timers you might know. Most of the time they'll take real pleasure in sharing their knowledge and experience with you. Do it while you can.
You would think someone would have clued into the fact that a strobe light is still light in the darkness. I felt that chill as well, thinking about all those soul out there in isolation, thinking about what's coming. So many never came home.
The metal grill on top of the barbed wire pigtails is a radiator / light guard off a 1940s Dodge or GMC truck. When you said "beatniks in the 60s" made the PEACE signs, first thing popped in my mind was Maynard Krebs, ha,haaa.
Another great desert adventure. Thanks for the history and the tour!
Chigg, could you do some camp videos? Setup of your truck, what you cook on ect..
Thanks!
Thanks Chigg, for honoring the men who kept us free. And I'll wave at you if you pass through Albuquerque!
Hirohito's war plans was to destroy the Pacific Fleet then negotiate a Empire Deal.
Your FreeDoms have only been ever threatened by the Confederacy, and tRumpF.
i think that wire sheathing is modern ,some toerag stole a bunch of cable ,and went somewhere quiet to strip it out. cable in the 40s was woven cloth or rubber coated and that looked like plastic. happy hunting.
Weird place to go to strip some cable, but tweakers will be tweakers I guess. The rubber coated stuff would have crumbled away to nothing out in that sun. It rots away just sitting in your house walls, let alone out in the desert.
Thanks for the awesome ride Chigg, I could never get enough of the desert
Hi chigg I just got done Detecting
I found some Civil War bullet's and a few things that are junk. I hope everything is going well with you. I'm having a blast looking at your videos and then going metal detective Have fun
I wish you luck out there.
Look up these patents on chem trails
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I always love when you go out to the desert and bring us along. I live in New Jersey right on the edge of the pine barons, so you can tell we have sand but you can’t see anything because of the trees. The desert is a beautiful place and its own right. Again, thank you for taking us along.
You were featured briefly in TheWhyFiles YT channels recent video about the M cave haha. Cool to see your name
I just saw that WF episode pop up, gotta check it out, Hecklefish, AJ, AND Chigg ? HOLY COWOLA !!!
Hi Chig, are you going todo a follow-up on the Kenny case?
Very nice, I find all of your videos fascinating. But I especially love the videos you do out west. Lessons in history, hunts for the missing, and overall a different yet beautiful area. Keep it up Chigg! Happy hunting!
Chig, I really look forward to your adventures. Thank you for all of your knowledge of everywhere you go!!!
Thanks for the walk back in time...had to be tough out there in the desert heat...brave souls.
Beautiful cactus
Thanks for the visual history lesson. My grandfather's generation were some tough SOB's.
Awesome video, very interesting!!!! I love the beauty of that spot and the history.
such another fine adventure Beau!! Thanks for letting me join ya!!
This is awesome
Yes it is always interesting to learn about history
Chigg this is very exciting. Love these adventure videos. Take care n God Bless.👍😘
Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota
Interesting US history. Thank you for sharing. I learned something new.
Great video brother thank you so much for sharing 👍👍❤️
I wish they would let you look through the 29 palms training area. There is ordinance all over the ground. Still find m1 garand clips. Lots of native artifacts out there as well. I didn't see any desert tortoise for years, then in one year I saw 4.
I love these adventure videos. I always wanted to just go off and have adventures like these but just haven't ever done it. I should make it a bucket list item and get it done!! Thanks for taking us along Chigg!
I enjoy your trips on the history of the army trining areas during world war ll
I wondered if you ever saw strange things in the sky out there. Thank you.
Thank you for your Service...for our Country Chigg❤
General Patton left the Desert Training Center in July 1942 to help plan the North African invasion. Camp Bouse was constructed a year later so Patton had nothing to do with Bouse. The 'table' supporting the register box is a grille brush guard off a military truck. DTC camps were salvaged and demolished in 1944-45. At 26:46, the hole may have been an underground pantry. At least one Calif camp has a row of them and one is intact. At 28:50, that triangular rock used to be painted with an Army unit insignia.
Thanks for sharing another great adventure 👍
Close to home will have to check it out. I love the history of the area. Stay safe on your adventures, my friend
Wow. Very interesting.
Thanks for sharing your adventure with us. Have you ever explored modoc County in northeastern California, Beautiful high desert country rich history. Last Indian war was fought in the lava beds.thanks again for sharing your videos with us .
Yes, is fascinating - always enjoy your trips out West. I think the Gizmo is hilarious! Poor buggers!! (when you think they were there for no good real reason!!) Keep safe.
Thanks for another adventure Chigg!
I drive through bouse often always wondered what was out there thanks for the adventure without the effort.
always enjoy seeing the ww2 sights chig! thanks for taking us along.
Sweet visit my friend.
Yay! I'll need an extra large bowl of popcorn and a very large beverage to watch this one!
Thanks for the adventure Chigg!
Gotta love that Arizona pinstripping
The most exploring i'll prob ever enjoy love it Chigg cant wait see more
Interesting little journey!
Thanks so much for all the hard work you put into your videos.. I have recently gotten into detecting and searching for artifacts here in the UK and know you from river hunters.. your enthusiasm is infectious and love every bit of what you share with us.. I am a recovering addict and learning about history and people's lives in the past is helping me one day at a time.. anyway, once again many thanks from a new fan👍😊
Love the video!
Can't wait to see more!
6th like, i love WW2, and the history and how they fought.
Very cool history, something from a kid in Michigan would never get to see. Thanks, Chigg.
really enjoyed this,currently camped in Quartzsite
Reminds me of the huge IR lights on the Corps m-60 tanks they used in the Zimbales, Philippines training area when I was there.
Thanks Chigg.
Love it! I'm on your vacation keep it coming
Kool camp👍🏻
Fascinating! Thank you.
The top of that sign-in desk on Barbed wire rods was a Brush Guard for a Old Army Truck.
5:03 That backhoe sitting out there in the middle of nowhere. Thats about 10k just sitting there doing nothing but dry-rotting. Did they forget where they parked it? 😅
With all those cans laying around I'd say that beans was the top secret weapon.
the british tank museum has one of those gizmo tanks that they jointly developed.
Some soldiers became hippies and went on to become the biggest hippies of all. Hippies who knew how to shoot, use heavy machinary, electrical engineering and sundry other strategic/highly practical skills. The forests and mountains out here are still crawling with them. Much respect. Peace out!
ENJOYED, THANKS !
My Dad PVT Ray Holderman 426th served there in 1943 till shipped out to Germany. Top secret weapon was search lights on tanks but it was never used. My father's ashes are also spread there.
I still think you missed your vocation as a history teacher .
Amazing story telling
You had a cameo on Why Files, Chigg!
a Kenny Veach episode...
Just started watching, hope you found some old coins, wow that spike is dangerous
That burro path was interesting . I didn't know burros did that
Dude please make some videos of your camps with stories by the fire
When I go to the desert , i like to carry a icè chest full of ice . That makes it more bearable, and helps to keep you hydrated !!!
Chigg!!! Im down the road in vicksburg, come on by!? Old mining town of Winchester...
*BROTHER I can watch you while the family is yelling ,Fighting. YOU take me away Brother...AWESOME VIDEO AGAIN *CATER*
The table for the sign in book looks like a WWII dodge grill guard
I like these Arizona ones
Chigg, The wire gate is a Texas gate at least that was what I was told. Really enjoy the desert shows, you should try the Sonoran desert it is so much more pretty that the Mojave desert. It looked like Camp Bouse was at the very end of the Sonoran desert. Keep up the good work.
I've seen that type of gate in South Dakota, Colorado and Wyoming as well.
Cheap and effective.
Chig always thinks of the animals. ❤
I love the Chigg!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family Chigg
You are very close to quartzite I have a friend with a placer gold claim over there so if you want to grab a gold nugget before you leave that area let me know. That place is huge looking at it from google earth never knew it existed so thanks for sharing the tour and adventure see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼
Thanks, but I have already headed out of that area. Maybe next time?
@@aquachigger 👍🏼👊🏼 you bet just say when
Can't believe how fast that half-hour disappeared! Never enough. Didn't they use those stone walkways around some of the Civil War camps?
My oldest bro. long time dead now was sent to that area for training before being sent to Germany.
I think he was 20 at that time,
That is a front brush guard of dodge wc series (table top).
My great uncle was there. He fought with Patton at the Bulge and lost his leg. Tough bastards!
So I thought I would look and see how many ground troops did not come home from the war in Europe/WW2. Google says 141,000. With an additional 42,500 in the skies and at sea. Did not include pacific theater. So Chigg your chills are certainly for real.
Were you between gila bend and Ajo I worked on target area one and two I was stationed in gila bend for almost 4 years
Also if you were there ajo have a prisoner of warcamp just north of the town like your video very
We Brits used a similar idea and called it the Canal Defence Light mounted on a LEE/Grant tank .
Someone just commented that the British came up with the idea and I guess the testing happened in Arizona. Apparently it was used at River crossings to blind the Germans
I like your comment "one day comes the mother. One day comes the wolf. Ain't that the truth
Interesting
Afternoon sir 😊 12:10 AM here .. Egypt
Shade?
The rocks in a triangle are in the shape of an Armor division patch. I suspect that what what they were for.
CHIGG I WISH I KNEW WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO BE THIS WEEKEND I WOULD LOVE TO MEET UP WITH YOU AND EXPLORE WITH YOU. I GREW UP NEAR BOISE IN PARKER AND LOVED GOING OUT THERE.
The Gizmo. Such a bad idea. LOL!
That was a BBQ Grill for the front of a Military Truck!😂
I cannot imagine anyone using that giant water pit in the summer... the water would evaporate as fast as it was being pumped from the wells
Woodrow, who lives in the trailer next door, comes over to watch Chigg on my plasma tv and borrow a few adult beverages. He said he’s beginning to think this is aquachigger’s twin brother, sandchigger. IDK.
that thing mounted on the post looks like a brush guard for a jeep
Be careful out there!
Did you find Kenny out there.
Who could have imagined that a giant light would be a soft target.