nah, the USA send aid, mainly to allied nations, because they had more connections to this nation.... but their main intervention reason was money lending and the lending of money to both sides in idiotic high amounts by the USA fuelled heavily the actual ability for these European nations to wage war in Europa for years. The Zimmer telegram or the downing of a single ship didn't had a political effect to join the war for the USA, but was a public narrative to excuse the joining of the war by the political leader at this time. The USA joined the war to secure, that the debts would be paid and not simply downscaled and partly agreed to be forgiven by the winning side. The USA is one of the main driver of the big reparation costs on the main looser (Germany), that created later the great depression in the USA by these delayed and oversized bubble-debt repayments and hyper inflation in Germany, that supported the rise of extreme political parties. WW1 didn't ended by an US intervention, but by a) the use of colonial forces by the Entente in Europa b) the blockade of food imports to Germany c) the idiotic spring offensive of Ludendorff and partly Hindenburg with the end-result of a starving German population and an armed population (sailors and later soldiers kept their service weapons after WW1) making revolts for peace and bread. The good part of the USA joining the war was the supply situation for the French soldiers, who dominated the Western front to any other army on Entente side. The earlier goal of Germany was a revolt of these French soldiers by bad supplies and high mortality on the front for these soldiers. The USA buried any possible hope, that the Entente could run out of food on the front for their soldiers and made the U-boat-war in WW1 a waste of effort.
This channel is definitely the replacement for the old show, Dogfights. Another note: the call signs of the F22's that were involved in shooting down the Chinese spy balloon was Frank01 and Frank02.
4:29 ok, so that's why pilots of Skyraiders wore long scarfs Some day maybe something about those in praire fire or ov-10's? Great material as always o7
WW1 air combat expectations: “Knights and gentlemen warriors of the Sky!” Reality: “OH MEIN GOT DIESER PILOT IST VERRÜCKT!” But I’m ecstatic to hear Falcons next story! Great video as always Falcon and I’ll have to visit the replica of Luke’s Spad next time I find myself in Phoenix.
I commented on your previous video about parachutes, and I'm happy to see how much you've improved in such a short amount of time! The pacing on this video was excellent, and I appreciate how you kept the video topic very focused. And it was a nice touch keeping the comedy primarily in the beginning, and then gradually getting more serious which allowed for the ending to have the emotional impact you were aiming for. Well done!
@fightertales Thanks yourself for making great videos! I absolutely love aviation and it's history, and I'm glad to have found a new UA-camr who covers this niche. Keep up the good work!
suppose that it was accurate in the movie 1917 that the downed pilot kills any enemy without hesitation as retrieving dead pilots in any way was rewarding.
Love the WW1 videos! I know most of it's propaganda and mythology but, those olf Flying circus days of Air combat are so interasting and insane to me. I love it so much.
Amazing vid and love the looks into the more personal stories like this. Tell me if I’m wrong but do I hear a certain Aussie historian doing some voice acting ?
@@fightertales It's a great free rts on steam. I have a few too many hours in it, enough so my friends don't want to play with me anymore. Though was surprised to hear it here as well. Great video as well.
NOTE: Buckingham Rounds were also used Incendiary bullets called "Buckingham" ammunition were supplied to early British night fighters for use against military zeppelins threatening the British Isles. The flammable hydrogen gas of the zeppelins made incendiary bullets much more deadly than standard ones, which would pass through the outer skin without igniting the gas. It is worth noting that you had to have a letter from your squadron leader to have them loaded up because if you were caught by the Germans with them onboard, and did not have the letter, they had the legal right to shoot you for having illegal ammunition in your guns. Despite the use of shells, mines, gas and other horrendous weapons, using incendiary rounds was a war crime. Welcome to the utter insanity of war....... (Source: Wikipedia and Capt. W.E Johns footnotes in the WW1 Biggles books (he actually flew in that war and so knew what he was talking about)
The 'romance' was gone by 1915 and absolutely gone and forgotten by 1916. The aces were stone-cold killers and made no bones about it. The target was the pilot; anything else could result in the pilot returning in the air soon after. The best targets were the inattentive, the new and the distracted: 'fair fight' didn't come into it - if you were in a fair fight, you had cocked up. Its something of a note that squadrons with high kill counts frequently had this down to one or two skilled officers, something that very much led to the British RFC being initially very unwilling to tout individual 'Aces' over the general efforts of the squadron as a whole, something you still see with tank battalions: they don't count individual kills.
If I remember correctly, we were trading rubber with the germans in exchange for binoculars and scopes, as well as to continue paying royalties to Maxim. But I'm probably having an autist moment.
I'm sorry, did you say that a fuel gauge was a 'quality-of-life' addition? Did pilots have to guess how much fuel they had before then or was there some other way of measuring how much longer they could stay in the air?
In case anyone is wondering Americans did fight on Central power side. Also people would self organize to raise support for the central powers. This happened a large number of immigrants were from the countries that would make up Germany.
2:07 You forgot the big ammount of weapons and artillery ammunition. No idea why it was sunk. But props to the british propaganda department who used the shit out of this incident to rally up the yanks to fight in europe.
Sorry to burst your balloon about the Zimmerman Telegram, but it seems to have not really done much. It was notable, but it seemed that for the most it didn't seem to accomplish much. I think that it is telling how little impact it had on the general public that I have never found a single piece of American WWI propaganda that mentions it. The two things it does frequently mention vary in my estimation in reasonability. The first is the famous sinking of the Lusitania. Essentially, cruiser rules kind of started breaking down during World War I as Britain was being constantly harassed by submarines and was desperate to stop it, and what they came-up with was arming civilian vessels so that they could sink U-boats when they surfaced to tell ships to abandon crew, and that lead to the Germans declaring unrestricted submarine warfare against Britain-bound cargo vessels, no longer popping-up to check the crew manifest for target goods and giving them the opportunity to abandon ship since doing so was now a great way to lose the U-boat, so Britain was now back at square-one of how to get cargo ships across the Atlantic without getting destroyed by U-boats, and their new solution was putting military cargo on cruise ships that would at some point dock in Britain, so Britain was now effectively gambling on using thousands of human shields to keep shipping safe, and Germany caught wind of the plan and announced in newspapers throughout the Americas the start of unrestricted submarine warfare, that no Britain-bound vessel was safe and thus people should stay off them. People disregarded these warnings and Germany made an example of the Lusitania, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back since the Americans were already quite pissed due to another event and now were furious, and so avenging the Lusitania is one of the common motifs. The other event that comes-up often in American propaganda and the more reasonable justification for being pissed at Germany in my eyes was was the invasion and occupation of Belgium. The name it was known by at the time is not UA-cam safe. The first thing about this that angered a lot of Americans was that Belgium was neutral and was invaded by Germany purely to outflank established French defensive lines at the border. What else they did resulted in the reputation of the Imperial German Army as being "barbaric." Essentially, the Imperial German Army hyped themselves up into believing in something called the "Francs-Tirereurs", essentially that Belgium and northern France were going to be flushed with stay-behind fighters and the Germans would have to react harshly to destroy them, resulting in German troops proceeding . There were dozens of them during the invasion of Belgium killing more than a thousand people, plus various other questionable acts by Germans including stuff like the use of Belgian civilians as human shields to deter artillery strikes, conscripting thousands of Belgians for conscript labor who came home malnourished, and, well, a number of incidents that made the UA-cam unfriendly-title at times disturbingly literal. This conduct was fairly unusual for the western front and quite offended not just western Allied people but also people in neutral countries including the American population who were quite offended by the reports that not only had Germany invaded an uninvolved country but almost immediately did a bunch of unconscionable actions there. Saving Belgium is thus is a common justification you will see in American WWI propaganda. An interesting aspect of the war that's not an actual casus belli like the Lusitania was but is interesting to note none-the-less is that this seems to have involved a fairly monumental change, as it seems to have been a popular idea among the general public that one of the reasons to fight World War I was to make the world safe for democracy. Though not an official casus belli, it seems to have been quite popular such that we keep finding references to this idea that this was a unifying ideal behind the US's role in the war (I must recommend the lecture Dr. Gary Armstrong hosted by the National WWI Museum and Memorial where he talks about this sort of shift in foreign policy and how they shaped Woodrow Wilson's aims for peace and how and why they failed and the bit about Woodrow Wilson's implicit idea of "the two Germanys" and how democracy was necessary to empower the Germany that we wanted to live with in peace and disempower the Germany that had invaded Belgium). One of the more interesting events that would have been a reasonable justification for entering the war wasn't discovered for the longest time, the surprisingly-large amount of German-sponsored bombings against the United States going as far back as 1914. Germany had sponsored a number of explosive plots in the United States starting with the pencil bombs which were used to attack not just Allied-flagged vessels but also the at this point still officially-neutral neutral American ships such as the SS Phoebus. German intelligence got up to some truly large scale acts of sabotage. The Kingsland explosion in Lyndhurst, NJ, is a weird one in that the official commission to determine the cause decided that a group of suspected German saboteurs the Germans hadn't done it but later the West German government in 1953 disregarded that and paid 50,000,000 USD in compensation for the bombing so it seems that the German government knew something the commission wasn't privy to. That one was wild because it was a fairly large explosion of 500,000 76mm shells in a factory that had about 1,400 people working in it that went from the fire being spotted to the massive explosion in the span of just ten minutes. Learning of the fire, a switchboard operator at Kingsland, Theresa Louise "Tessie" McNamara, elected to stay and punch into every building in Kingsland to give orders to evacuate before she followed her own advice. The biggest explosion sent a bunch of shells into the adjoining community of Lyndhurst and pock-marked the community like a European battlefield. That one miraculously injured and killed nobody thanks to Tessie, but people wouldn't be so lucky with Black Tam. Black Tam was a man-made island in New York Harbor that was an environmental hazard made of refuse that housed some factories and notably a depot run by the Lehigh Valley Railroad which on July 30, 1916 millions of pounds of weapons and munitions stored in train cars and barges. Two German spies, Kurt Jahnke and Lothar Witzke and allegedly Michael Kristoff entered the depot on July 30, 1916. They set-off fires which sent guards fleeing to get firefighters from Jersey City. Black Tam already had a history of explosions, and these fires were occurring at the worst possible place. First responders recognized the hazards and decided to stay and fight the fires rather than let them spread unabated. These fires set of some smaller explosions at first, and then the fires got to Johnson Barge No. 17 which carried 100,000 pounds of TNT. At 2:08 AM, the TNT exploded, sending a shockwave and shrapnel across New York Harbor causing 20,000,000 dollars (today that's more than half a billion of dollars) in damage was done throughout the area from the shockwave and debris, the damage notably affecting heavily lower Manhattan and Jersey City, forcing the evacuation of Ellis Island, and even damaged the Statue of Liberty forcing the torch to be closed until the 1984-6 restoration. The captain of the barge was killed as were the Chiefs of Police of Lehigh Valley Railroad and Jersey City who were on scene to support firefighting operation, and a 10 month old infant who was not on Black Tam but was killed regardless by shrapnel. More than a hundred people were injured including many firefighters and various civilians who were hurt by the blastwave or shrapnelAt the time, we thought it was an accident, but later an investigation looked into Michael Kristoff and he admitted to having been bribed to smuggle material into the site and let in Kurt Jahnke and Lothar Witzke, though he's suspected.
ENTENTE. not allies, not entente/allies. Entente. otherwise theres always a mixup with ww2 and ppl think its the same alliance which is so far from the truth
About the lusitania, it's not just the loss of American lives that made America join the war. Lusitania ALSO carried a shipment of American-made Mosin nagants (Y'Know, that Russian rifle the Russians nicknamed "garbage rod") bound for the Russians as they're not able to equip all their soldiers that time. Courtesy of gun Jesus in forgotten weapons Also the .50 cal gun was nicknamed balloon buster in Ian's vid
Just a little! I'm thinking so too, as far as I know Frank Luke and Wehner never got married in their lives(anyone here correct me if I'm wrong), and the fact Frank Luke just stopped caring about his life and just wanted revenge on the Germans after Wehner died was telling.
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nah, the USA send aid, mainly to allied nations, because they had more connections to this nation.... but their main intervention reason was money lending and the lending of money to both sides in idiotic high amounts by the USA fuelled heavily the actual ability for these European nations to wage war in Europa for years. The Zimmer telegram or the downing of a single ship didn't had a political effect to join the war for the USA, but was a public narrative to excuse the joining of the war by the political leader at this time.
The USA joined the war to secure, that the debts would be paid and not simply downscaled and partly agreed to be forgiven by the winning side. The USA is one of the main driver of the big reparation costs on the main looser (Germany), that created later the great depression in the USA by these delayed and oversized bubble-debt repayments and hyper inflation in Germany, that supported the rise of extreme political parties. WW1 didn't ended by an US intervention, but by a) the use of colonial forces by the Entente in Europa b) the blockade of food imports to Germany c) the idiotic spring offensive of Ludendorff and partly Hindenburg with the end-result of a starving German population and an armed population (sailors and later soldiers kept their service weapons after WW1) making revolts for peace and bread.
The good part of the USA joining the war was the supply situation for the French soldiers, who dominated the Western front to any other army on Entente side. The earlier goal of Germany was a revolt of these French soldiers by bad supplies and high mortality on the front for these soldiers. The USA buried any possible hope, that the Entente could run out of food on the front for their soldiers and made the U-boat-war in WW1 a waste of effort.
You should do a video on that
Frank Luke's legacy endures to this day, as the F-22 that shot down the Chinese spy balloon flew with the callsign FRANK01.
I saw about that while yarnhub explain that as I watched it
This channel is definitely the replacement for the old show, Dogfights. Another note: the call signs of the F22's that were involved in shooting down the Chinese spy balloon was Frank01 and Frank02.
They are also assigned to the 27th Fighter Squadron
@@Metro_Stalkeroh, man, talk about legacy. Thanks for the info.👍
I grew up watching that show
It definitely scratches that itch
@@Metro_Stalker damn, float about and find out.
I'd love to listen to you, Animarchy, and Lazerpig talk about ww1 for idk...a hour?
This was a rollercoaster. 5 stages of grief in under 20 minutes. Goddamn.
War is hell
@@fightertaleswar is also a little gay (just a little)
@@fightertales True enough.
@@calebharris292 Its the uniforms.
Love the WWI era Navy working greens
Thanks! Nice catch!
The ending to Luke’s story reads less like history and more like a Greek tragedy or classic tale of the old west. Absolutely astounding.
I'm surprised a movie never happened from it
@@fightertales it really does sound like the plot to some movie with a hard hitting bittersweet ending doesn’t it?
it make one hell of an anime
i cant believe you got real 1st person footage of frank luke
Literally me moment
The aerial and artillery version of throwing sand into the other guy's eyes.
They can't see
And that means they can't see what's coming.
4:29 ok, so that's why pilots of Skyraiders wore long scarfs
Some day maybe something about those in praire fire or ov-10's? Great material as always o7
WW1 air combat expectations: “Knights and gentlemen warriors of the Sky!”
Reality: “OH MEIN GOT DIESER PILOT IST VERRÜCKT!”
But I’m ecstatic to hear Falcons next story! Great video as always Falcon and I’ll have to visit the replica of Luke’s Spad next time I find myself in Phoenix.
I commented on your previous video about parachutes, and I'm happy to see how much you've improved in such a short amount of time! The pacing on this video was excellent, and I appreciate how you kept the video topic very focused. And it was a nice touch keeping the comedy primarily in the beginning, and then gradually getting more serious which allowed for the ending to have the emotional impact you were aiming for. Well done!
Thanks for the kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@fightertales Thanks yourself for making great videos! I absolutely love aviation and it's history, and I'm glad to have found a new UA-camr who covers this niche. Keep up the good work!
Keep 'em coming Falcon, your vids just get better and better
suppose that it was accurate in the movie 1917 that the downed pilot kills any enemy without hesitation as retrieving dead pilots in any way was rewarding.
I kinda want a video on the nieuport 28 now. So little love for the first American fighter plane. Though the spad 13 justifiable overshadows it
He has never been forgotten.
Animachy coming in as the voice of Eddy Rickenbacher was too good.
I’m not a drinking man but I will tip one out for Frank. 👍
Bless
Criminally underrated channel
I live in Phoenix, Arizona near Luke AFB and just recently learned about this guy.
This was great!! Thank you for creating this and to all the people who helped. Awesome use of the game footage.
Great video, Luke was an absolute bad ass, can't wait for the skoshi Tigers and wild weasel video! Keep up these amazing videos
Love the WW1 videos! I know most of it's propaganda and mythology but, those olf Flying circus days of Air combat are so interasting and insane to me. I love it so much.
I drive past Luke AFB almost every day of the week.
Animarchy putting on a folksy southern gentleman voice, LOL.
This turned out good man!
Thanks for supplying your voice!
Thanks for the like Falcon. But more importantly, fly on Luke. Wherever you are.
ALL HAIL AERO TWINK!!!!
Falcon please come out of the closet, LP would really like that (don't tell LP's bf)
Lp Is too old and ugly for falcon
I believe that that would be beastiality as well, so...
Amazing vid and love the looks into the more personal stories like this. Tell me if I’m wrong but do I hear a certain Aussie historian doing some voice acting ?
7:55
Is that the sound effect for selecting a unit in Zero-k?
(I know the sound effect is in that game, I just forget what it is specifically)
Never heard of it, honestly
@@fightertales It's a great free rts on steam. I have a few too many hours in it, enough so my friends don't want to play with me anymore.
Though was surprised to hear it here as well. Great video as well.
Dope video!
NOTE: Buckingham Rounds were also used
Incendiary bullets called "Buckingham" ammunition were supplied to early British night fighters for use against military zeppelins threatening the British Isles. The flammable hydrogen gas of the zeppelins made incendiary bullets much more deadly than standard ones, which would pass through the outer skin without igniting the gas.
It is worth noting that you had to have a letter from your squadron leader to have them loaded up because if you were caught by the Germans with them onboard, and did not have the letter, they had the legal right to shoot you for having illegal ammunition in your guns. Despite the use of shells, mines, gas and other horrendous weapons, using incendiary rounds was a war crime.
Welcome to the utter insanity of war.......
(Source: Wikipedia and Capt. W.E Johns footnotes in the WW1 Biggles books (he actually flew in that war and so knew what he was talking about)
That's very interesting! I never knew about that!
Another banger as always Falcon! Keep it up!
Hey, just wanted to let you know you've got a new subscriber (me) from the Sacred Cow Shipyards channel!
Awesome! Thank you!
The 'romance' was gone by 1915 and absolutely gone and forgotten by 1916.
The aces were stone-cold killers and made no bones about it.
The target was the pilot; anything else could result in the pilot returning in the air soon after.
The best targets were the inattentive, the new and the distracted: 'fair fight' didn't come into it - if you were in a fair fight, you had cocked up.
Its something of a note that squadrons with high kill counts frequently had this down to one or two skilled officers, something that very much led to the British RFC being initially very unwilling to tout individual 'Aces' over the general efforts of the squadron as a whole, something you still see with tank battalions: they don't count individual kills.
@ 9:57 its total animarchyhistory im sorry but i can hear your aussie accent pacmen
Hans-Joachim Marseille with 27 in 3:
You & Lazer should do a collab with the Fat Electrician
I hope you feel less grumpy soon.
Workin on it
Nice work man
Didnt animarchy do a short on this chad?
Luke just sounds like a typical American.
Yes.
PIG RAID
You were sent by the pig too, I see
quick, bully the plane twink!!
Joseph Frank "Patrocolus" Wehner
Bad ass.
If I remember correctly, we were trading rubber with the germans in exchange for binoculars and scopes, as well as to continue paying royalties to Maxim. But I'm probably having an autist moment.
Can you make a video on Rene fonk? He is the top allied ace in ww1, and his kill ration is one of the highest among the fighter pilots.
Maybe someday
Sacred Cow sent me, subscribed
Thanks, Hoss
I'm sorry, did you say that a fuel gauge was a 'quality-of-life' addition? Did pilots have to guess how much fuel they had before then or was there some other way of measuring how much longer they could stay in the air?
A lot of times, early aircraft didn't have fuel gauges. Surprising, I know!
In case anyone is wondering Americans did fight on Central power side. Also people would self organize to raise support for the central powers. This happened a large number of immigrants were from the countries that would make up Germany.
Forgotten? Never.
Oh early squad, neat
Genuine question
you got a friend like Joseph, Falcon?
Something like that
@@fightertales
excellent
remain befriended
⭐⭐🙏⭐⭐
2:07 You forgot the big ammount of weapons and artillery ammunition. No idea why it was sunk. But props to the british propaganda department who used the shit out of this incident to rally up the yanks to fight in europe.
Go back to bed, Hans
@@fightertales But its 2pm here :(
the problem with suplying germany would have been the british blockade
No doubt
Sorry to burst your balloon about the Zimmerman Telegram, but it seems to have not really done much. It was notable, but it seemed that for the most it didn't seem to accomplish much. I think that it is telling how little impact it had on the general public that I have never found a single piece of American WWI propaganda that mentions it. The two things it does frequently mention vary in my estimation in reasonability. The first is the famous sinking of the Lusitania.
Essentially, cruiser rules kind of started breaking down during World War I as Britain was being constantly harassed by submarines and was desperate to stop it, and what they came-up with was arming civilian vessels so that they could sink U-boats when they surfaced to tell ships to abandon crew, and that lead to the Germans declaring unrestricted submarine warfare against Britain-bound cargo vessels, no longer popping-up to check the crew manifest for target goods and giving them the opportunity to abandon ship since doing so was now a great way to lose the U-boat, so Britain was now back at square-one of how to get cargo ships across the Atlantic without getting destroyed by U-boats, and their new solution was putting military cargo on cruise ships that would at some point dock in Britain, so Britain was now effectively gambling on using thousands of human shields to keep shipping safe, and Germany caught wind of the plan and announced in newspapers throughout the Americas the start of unrestricted submarine warfare, that no Britain-bound vessel was safe and thus people should stay off them. People disregarded these warnings and Germany made an example of the Lusitania, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back since the Americans were already quite pissed due to another event and now were furious, and so avenging the Lusitania is one of the common motifs.
The other event that comes-up often in American propaganda and the more reasonable justification for being pissed at Germany in my eyes was was the invasion and occupation of Belgium. The name it was known by at the time is not UA-cam safe. The first thing about this that angered a lot of Americans was that Belgium was neutral and was invaded by Germany purely to outflank established French defensive lines at the border. What else they did resulted in the reputation of the Imperial German Army as being "barbaric." Essentially, the Imperial German Army hyped themselves up into believing in something called the "Francs-Tirereurs", essentially that Belgium and northern France were going to be flushed with stay-behind fighters and the Germans would have to react harshly to destroy them, resulting in German troops proceeding . There were dozens of them during the invasion of Belgium killing more than a thousand people, plus various other questionable acts by Germans including stuff like the use of Belgian civilians as human shields to deter artillery strikes, conscripting thousands of Belgians for conscript labor who came home malnourished, and, well, a number of incidents that made the UA-cam unfriendly-title at times disturbingly literal. This conduct was fairly unusual for the western front and quite offended not just western Allied people but also people in neutral countries including the American population who were quite offended by the reports that not only had Germany invaded an uninvolved country but almost immediately did a bunch of unconscionable actions there. Saving Belgium is thus is a common justification you will see in American WWI propaganda.
An interesting aspect of the war that's not an actual casus belli like the Lusitania was but is interesting to note none-the-less is that this seems to have involved a fairly monumental change, as it seems to have been a popular idea among the general public that one of the reasons to fight World War I was to make the world safe for democracy. Though not an official casus belli, it seems to have been quite popular such that we keep finding references to this idea that this was a unifying ideal behind the US's role in the war (I must recommend the lecture Dr. Gary Armstrong hosted by the National WWI Museum and Memorial where he talks about this sort of shift in foreign policy and how they shaped Woodrow Wilson's aims for peace and how and why they failed and the bit about Woodrow Wilson's implicit idea of "the two Germanys" and how democracy was necessary to empower the Germany that we wanted to live with in peace and disempower the Germany that had invaded Belgium).
One of the more interesting events that would have been a reasonable justification for entering the war wasn't discovered for the longest time, the surprisingly-large amount of German-sponsored bombings against the United States going as far back as 1914. Germany had sponsored a number of explosive plots in the United States starting with the pencil bombs which were used to attack not just Allied-flagged vessels but also the at this point still officially-neutral neutral American ships such as the SS Phoebus. German intelligence got up to some truly large scale acts of sabotage. The Kingsland explosion in Lyndhurst, NJ, is a weird one in that the official commission to determine the cause decided that a group of suspected German saboteurs the Germans hadn't done it but later the West German government in 1953 disregarded that and paid 50,000,000 USD in compensation for the bombing so it seems that the German government knew something the commission wasn't privy to. That one was wild because it was a fairly large explosion of 500,000 76mm shells in a factory that had about 1,400 people working in it that went from the fire being spotted to the massive explosion in the span of just ten minutes. Learning of the fire, a switchboard operator at Kingsland, Theresa Louise "Tessie" McNamara, elected to stay and punch into every building in Kingsland to give orders to evacuate before she followed her own advice. The biggest explosion sent a bunch of shells into the adjoining community of Lyndhurst and pock-marked the community like a European battlefield. That one miraculously injured and killed nobody thanks to Tessie, but people wouldn't be so lucky with Black Tam. Black Tam was a man-made island in New York Harbor that was an environmental hazard made of refuse that housed some factories and notably a depot run by the Lehigh Valley Railroad which on July 30, 1916 millions of pounds of weapons and munitions stored in train cars and barges. Two German spies, Kurt Jahnke and Lothar Witzke and allegedly Michael Kristoff entered the depot on July 30, 1916. They set-off fires which sent guards fleeing to get firefighters from Jersey City. Black Tam already had a history of explosions, and these fires were occurring at the worst possible place. First responders recognized the hazards and decided to stay and fight the fires rather than let them spread unabated. These fires set of some smaller explosions at first, and then the fires got to Johnson Barge No. 17 which carried 100,000 pounds of TNT. At 2:08 AM, the TNT exploded, sending a shockwave and shrapnel across New York Harbor causing 20,000,000 dollars (today that's more than half a billion of dollars) in damage was done throughout the area from the shockwave and debris, the damage notably affecting heavily lower Manhattan and Jersey City, forcing the evacuation of Ellis Island, and even damaged the Statue of Liberty forcing the torch to be closed until the 1984-6 restoration. The captain of the barge was killed as were the Chiefs of Police of Lehigh Valley Railroad and Jersey City who were on scene to support firefighting operation, and a 10 month old infant who was not on Black Tam but was killed regardless by shrapnel. More than a hundred people were injured including many firefighters and various civilians who were hurt by the blastwave or shrapnelAt the time, we thought it was an accident, but later an investigation looked into Michael Kristoff and he admitted to having been bribed to smuggle material into the site and let in Kurt Jahnke and Lothar Witzke, though he's suspected.
first and great vid!
ENTENTE. not allies, not entente/allies. Entente. otherwise theres always a mixup with ww2 and ppl think its the same alliance which is so far from the truth
About the lusitania, it's not just the loss of American lives that made America join the war. Lusitania ALSO carried a shipment of American-made Mosin nagants (Y'Know, that Russian rifle the Russians nicknamed "garbage rod") bound for the Russians as they're not able to equip all their soldiers that time. Courtesy of gun Jesus in forgotten weapons
Also the .50 cal gun was nicknamed balloon buster in Ian's vid
Does anyone else get a little bit of a gay vibe? Just me?
Just a little! I'm thinking so too, as far as I know Frank Luke and Wehner never got married in their lives(anyone here correct me if I'm wrong), and the fact Frank Luke just stopped caring about his life and just wanted revenge on the Germans after Wehner died was telling.
@@SamiKelbalrai He actually reminded me of Woodhouse's WWI rampage from Archer. ua-cam.com/video/xcTFHCk1yCA/v-deo.html