He was President when I was born and I will always have a deep respect for him. I remember some of his funeral being shown on tv. That was a long time ago but I have always watched the presidential funerals. So glad to have you back!
Been watchin for a while now, but never shared an opinion before! I really enjoy your enthusiasm for every topic ya cover. Always learn something here, I only wish sometimes the videos were longer. Always waitin for the next 1, great job!
@WalkwithHistory completely understand! Its a compliment to your content! Id listen forever to an entertaining teacher. Its a pity i never had any in school!
@@jerryhurley1068 We appreciate the compliment for sure. If you are curious...we have a podcast that goes with a lot of these videos...Talk With History. 😊
I’m not going to get into the argument of who was the greatest General in American history. That’s more of a matter of opinion. What I do believe is that regardless he has to be at the top of every list of the greatest American Generals. TY Jenn. Cheers y’all
Victory at the Battle of the Bulge saved countless lives. Had Germany won the battle the war in Europe would not have ended in May 1945. By the time enough atomic bombs were available to secure an Allied victory it would have been the middle of 1946 at the earliest, meaning the concentration camps would have been running for another year.
By the scheduled invasion of a Japan in November 1945, Los Alamos projection was a total of 10 - 12 A-Bombs would be ready for use. Number three was being Assembled at Los Alamos when word came of the surrender, and Truman had given release orders for it's use, after a week long transport to Siapan via fast cruiser, to the B-29 bomber base. In Washington DC, General Marshall and the War Department were considering whether to continue use or to stockpile the weapons for use in front of our invasion forces to clean out the opposition. We had already firebombed 66 Japanese cities and had plans to extend the attacks to 1,250 Japanese home Island targets down to the level of 10,000 persons. We firebombed five German cities before we stopped after developing the technology.
@@ablewindsor1459 The core of the third, never assembled atomic bomb was called the Demon Core because it fried two Los Alamos scientists in separate accidents.
@@ablewindsor1459 Harry Daghlian on August 21, 1945 and Louis Slotin on May 21, 1946. Slotin was luckier because he took nine days to die, Daghlian took 25.
Thank You --- I met Ike when I was four years old, 1956, during his Reelection Campaign, at Roanoke College Campaign Event my Grand Mother was very enamored of Illinois Senator, 'The Fog Horn' Himself -Everett McKinley Dirksen. Grand and myself were taken backstage during the event to meet the Senator After his introduction of "Ike" Speach, my Grandmother provided child care for me, and mom was working. This was the old a style Political Meeting - a dozen or MORE persons giving speeches with two more between Dirksen's Keynote and the President. Five persons Waiting Ike, Dirksen, Grand, the Sixth District GOP Chairman and I. The Senator was taken with Grandmother and every one else watched, I am sure that Ike gave the Senator a Good ribbing later. I was a kid that did bot get along with strangers well... But I was the same age as the President's grandson David whose name replaced ShangriLa as the Maryland Presidential Retreat designator. The President reached Over and patted my head and pulled me to his leg, where i happily watched the Proceedingsll
@@WalkwithHistory I will have to Post about my Dad In WW2.... Your grandad may have met him at the Bulge. Dad was in the Fourth armored and fought with his left ankle in a cast, as a tank driver. . . .
Wasn't his library robbed ? And some jeweld swords stolen ? Or am i thinking of another president ?. Anyways great video ! Much respect for your grandpa! Did he serve under General Patton !
Dear Lady.... Since your grandfather served at the Bulge he may have met my father who was also a Tank driver for 4th Armored under Patton. Here is My Dad's Story: Dad in World War Two: penguinsix loves your comment Dec 15, 2021 US Navy Yard.. Washington DC tour. Able Windsor Since many of us here had parents who served in WW2, i will tell a little story...... My dad served on B-17s out of England early in WW2, before the 25 mission limit was imposed. He flew 52 missions. After return to the States, he spent his time training new crews. One day, he drew the worst Hanger Queen on the Base, He was the only one of the twelve aboard that day with combat experience. Everything went wrong, down to two engines plus bad control problems, he lead a mutiny... Six jumped with him, they all lived, Dad broke his ankle on landing. The Capitan, the command pilot, survived with bad burns ending his flight career.....the six who stayed all burned to death: he pushed hard to Court Martial dad. Thirty days later after dad led a breakout of the stockade with the other mutineers, the MP's arrested him in Baltimore, MD, at his uncle's house. He still had the cast on his left foot. When we tried to get Dad's service cover in the Eighties, DoD refused, period, total end of discussion, don't apply again . We had pictures of him in Army Air Force uniform in a Brit (London) South Seas club. Also insignias and other trinkets. His discharge Papers from Fort Meade Maryland. And another set of papers in a different name. We also had pictures of him in front of his 4th armored division tank with his ankle still in a cast. After the Battle of the Bulge. I was active in the GoP In Virginia, so on one election night, I asked my Congressman, M. Caldwell Butler, who was at the time on the Armed Services Committee to retrieve a copy of the Service Record. Several months later my representative who you may have seen on the Judicial Committee during the Nixon Administration Impeachment, -- Caldwell said he had been refused Access to the file, Quote" he did not have a high enough Security Clearance" to see the file, no doubt that tucked him off, rightly! About six months later, I got a phone call at work from Washington DC. A recently discharged veteran, a lawyer who had started on the Armed Services Committee Staff, said that he had copies of Two service records, his Clearance was high enough to see the file BUT he could not copy any of the files or send them to me; but he would talk and answer any questions about my dad's service. Two hours later, for the first time I had the full picture! When Pearl Harbor attack happened, my dad had gone to enlist but when he presented himself at the Courthouse, he was refused because they said that at sixteen he could not sign up and to go back and take care of the Farm for his widowed mother and three older sisters. After the new year dad and a friend created fake paperwork, Hitch-Hiked to Raleigh North Carolina, and signed up... very few at that point we're volunteering...easy get. He was picked out of Basic and sent to train as a Bomber Navigator, at this point the US Army did not think they would get enough College men to fill the crews so they were going to do the Brits way and raise up Warrent Officers, enlisted. Just before he was ready to graduate, they came through and gathered up crews to full fill the extra bombers going to Europe since they were not going to be sent to MacArthur. The files when combined made one complete record. After dad was picked up in Maryland he was sent to a tank course for Officers being transferred into armor from infrantry. He picked up a tank driver cert to add to his heavy equipment Papers picked up on return to the States. Next he was sent to France where he was a replacement tank driver in the 4th armored division, went on to the rescue of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne. Later he would be in one of the units that first over ran the westernmost Concentration Camp. That was the one that when Eisenhower first Saw it just two days after it was freed, he ordered all Allied Officers (field grade and above) to tour the camps; and afterwards the Germans in the surrounding areas were by his orders forced to march Through and see the Truth, in each camp freed. After the war, dad managed to be Posted to Paris for occupation duty but soon received new orders to return to the USA for the Planned of invasion of Japan. Oops. A week before he was to shipout to Norfolk the Emperor Surrendered. He stayed in France for Another year, as his service jacket under his real name did not have enough points to muster out. The Committee Lawyer said in his twenty plus year Army career he had never seen two files for the same person that joined so perfectly. How many and how high did this have to go to get him out of a Court-martial .... took many many stars on collars for that too happen, lol. Later that year at a campaign dinner, the Congressman came and set down, he wanted to know what was in the file, you see as a condition of getting the file open HE could not see any of it or ask the staff lawyer for a verbal briefing, I was very glad to tell him the WHOLE REST of the Story. In the late ninties after President Clinton declassified whole Plantations worth of World War Two records; I again tried the get a copy of both service files and was again refused; I still wonder under what Names and classification levels they are being held. My father past in 1963, he was very closed mouthed about his whole WW2.....? Adventures ? Thank s to ALL who have Served ........... EXCEPT for One Capitan! VIEW HEARTED COMMENT Dr
He was President when I was born and I will always have a deep respect for him. I remember some of his funeral being shown on tv. That was a long time ago but I have always watched the presidential funerals. So glad to have you back!
Super happy to be getting these out again…and he was an amazing man and president.
Great job, Jenn. I did have the honor of visiting there. Had my picture taken in front of the statue. The museum was amazing.
He’s one of my favorite historical figures!
He's one of the greats!
Airborne Sir! Eternal R & R...
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Great job Jenn! Thanks for the ride!
Thanks so much!
Awesome job!
Thank you!!!
Been watchin for a while now, but never shared an opinion before! I really enjoy your enthusiasm for every topic ya cover. Always learn something here, I only wish sometimes the videos were longer. Always waitin for the next 1, great job!
Glad you like them! It's always a balance on video length...but we love the feedback! Thank you so much 😊
@WalkwithHistory completely understand! Its a compliment to your content! Id listen forever to an entertaining teacher. Its a pity i never had any in school!
@@jerryhurley1068 We appreciate the compliment for sure. If you are curious...we have a podcast that goes with a lot of these videos...Talk With History. 😊
Great content. I didn't know you were Army. What was your MOS?
Navy 😉 I was a helicopter pilot (the SH-60B)
I’m not going to get into the argument of who was the greatest General in American history. That’s more of a matter of opinion. What I do believe is that regardless he has to be at the top of every list of the greatest American Generals.
TY Jenn. Cheers y’all
Cheers!
Victory at the Battle of the Bulge saved countless lives. Had Germany won the battle the war in Europe would not have ended in May 1945. By the time enough atomic bombs were available to secure an Allied victory it would have been the middle of 1946 at the earliest, meaning the concentration camps would have been running for another year.
By the scheduled invasion of a Japan in November 1945, Los Alamos projection was a total of 10 - 12 A-Bombs would be ready for use. Number three was being Assembled at Los Alamos when word came of the surrender, and Truman had given release orders for it's use, after a week long transport to Siapan via fast cruiser, to the B-29 bomber base. In Washington DC, General Marshall and the War Department were considering whether to continue use or to stockpile the weapons for use in front of our invasion forces to clean out the opposition.
We had already firebombed 66 Japanese cities and had plans to extend the attacks to 1,250 Japanese home Island targets down to the level of 10,000 persons. We firebombed five German cities before we stopped after developing the technology.
@@ablewindsor1459 The core of the third, never assembled atomic bomb was called the Demon Core because it fried two Los Alamos scientists in separate accidents.
@@R32R38 interesting 🤔 never heard that One.....
@@ablewindsor1459 Harry Daghlian on August 21, 1945 and Louis Slotin on May 21, 1946. Slotin was luckier because he took nine days to die, Daghlian took 25.
@@R32R38 Thanks I had heard of Slotin....RIP
He was only one of two Presidents to have graduated from West Point. That surprised me.
I don’t think I realized that either.
President US Grant earned a BS from the United States Military Academy in 1843.
You do a great job with your videos! JD and you are ones I don't miss.....thank you.
Awww, thank you so much! That means a lot…and party because JD is so good! 😁
Thank You --- I met Ike when I was four years old, 1956, during his Reelection Campaign, at Roanoke College Campaign Event my Grand Mother was very enamored of Illinois Senator, 'The Fog Horn' Himself -Everett McKinley Dirksen. Grand and myself were taken backstage during the event to meet the Senator After his introduction of "Ike" Speach, my Grandmother provided child care for me, and mom was working. This was the old a style Political Meeting - a dozen or MORE persons giving speeches with two more between Dirksen's Keynote and the President. Five persons Waiting Ike, Dirksen, Grand, the Sixth District GOP Chairman and I.
The Senator was taken with Grandmother and every one else watched, I am sure that Ike gave the Senator a Good ribbing later. I was a kid that did bot get along with strangers well...
But I was the same age as the President's grandson David whose name replaced ShangriLa as the Maryland Presidential Retreat designator.
The President reached Over and patted my head and pulled me to his leg, where i happily watched the Proceedingsll
🤯 Oh my goodness! What an amazing experience. Thank you so much for sharing that. SUCH a cool story to have.
@@WalkwithHistory I will have to Post about my Dad In WW2.... Your grandad may have met him at the Bulge. Dad was in the Fourth armored and fought with his left ankle in a cast, as a tank driver. . . .
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Wasn't his library robbed ? And some jeweld swords stolen ? Or am i thinking of another president ?. Anyways great video ! Much respect for your grandpa! Did he serve under General Patton !
He owned Patton!
@@mattaugust4813lol !!!
It was President Truman's Library that was robbed of the swords.
Thank you! I believe that Patton served under Eisenhower (although they were very close in rank)
I was asking about your grandfather . Patton was a 3 star Eisenhower was a 5 star.
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Dear Lady....
Since your grandfather served at the Bulge he may have met my father who was also a Tank driver for 4th Armored under Patton.
Here is My Dad's Story:
Dad in World War Two:
penguinsix loves your comment
Dec 15, 2021
US Navy Yard.. Washington DC tour.
Able Windsor
Since many of us here had parents who served in WW2, i will tell a little story...... My dad served on B-17s out of England early in WW2, before the 25 mission limit was imposed. He flew 52 missions. After return to the States, he spent his time training new crews. One day, he drew the worst Hanger Queen on the Base, He was the only one of the twelve aboard that day with combat experience. Everything went wrong, down to two engines plus bad control problems, he lead a mutiny... Six jumped with him, they all lived, Dad broke his ankle on landing. The Capitan, the command pilot, survived with bad burns ending his flight career.....the six who stayed all burned to death: he pushed hard to Court Martial dad. Thirty days later after dad led a breakout of the stockade with the other mutineers, the MP's arrested him in Baltimore, MD, at his uncle's house. He still had the cast on his left foot. When we tried to get Dad's service cover in the Eighties, DoD refused, period, total end of discussion, don't apply again . We had pictures of him in Army Air Force uniform in a Brit (London) South Seas club. Also insignias and other trinkets. His discharge Papers from Fort Meade Maryland. And another set of papers in a different name. We also had pictures of him in front of his 4th armored division tank with his ankle still in a cast. After the Battle of the Bulge. I was active in the GoP In Virginia, so on one election night, I asked my Congressman, M. Caldwell Butler, who was at the time on the Armed Services Committee to retrieve a copy of the Service Record. Several months later my representative who you may have seen on the Judicial Committee during the Nixon Administration Impeachment, -- Caldwell said he had been refused Access to the file, Quote" he did not have a high enough Security Clearance" to see the file, no doubt that tucked him off, rightly! About six months later, I got a phone call at work from Washington DC. A recently discharged veteran, a lawyer who had started on the Armed Services Committee Staff, said that he had copies of Two service records, his Clearance was high enough to see the file BUT he could not copy any of the files or send them to me; but he would talk and answer any questions about my dad's service. Two hours later, for the first time I had the full picture! When Pearl Harbor attack happened, my dad had gone to enlist but when he presented himself at the Courthouse, he was refused because they said that at sixteen he could not sign up and to go back and take care of the Farm for his widowed mother and three older sisters. After the new year dad and a friend created fake paperwork, Hitch-Hiked to Raleigh North Carolina, and signed up... very few at that point we're volunteering...easy get. He was picked out of Basic and sent to train as a Bomber Navigator, at this point the US Army did not think they would get enough College men to fill the crews so they were going to do the Brits way and raise up Warrent Officers, enlisted. Just before he was ready to graduate, they came through and gathered up crews to full fill the extra bombers going to Europe since they were not going to be sent to MacArthur. The files when combined made one complete record. After dad was picked up in Maryland he was sent to a tank course for Officers being transferred into armor from infrantry. He picked up a tank driver cert to add to his heavy equipment Papers picked up on return to the States. Next he was sent to France where he was a replacement tank driver in the 4th armored division, went on to the rescue of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne. Later he would be in one of the units that first over ran the westernmost Concentration Camp. That was the one that when Eisenhower first Saw it just two days after it was freed, he ordered all Allied Officers (field grade and above) to tour the camps; and afterwards the Germans in the surrounding areas were by his orders forced to march Through and see the Truth, in each camp freed. After the war, dad managed to be Posted to Paris for occupation duty but soon received new orders to return to the USA for the Planned of invasion of Japan. Oops. A week before he was to shipout to Norfolk the Emperor Surrendered. He stayed in France for Another year, as his service jacket under his real name did not have enough points to muster out. The Committee Lawyer said in his twenty plus year Army career he had never seen two files for the same person that joined so perfectly. How many and how high did this have to go to get him out of a Court-martial .... took many many stars on collars for that too happen, lol. Later that year at a campaign dinner, the Congressman came and set down, he wanted to know what was in the file, you see as a condition of getting the file open HE could not see any of it or ask the staff lawyer for a verbal briefing, I was very glad to tell him the WHOLE REST of the Story. In the late ninties after President Clinton declassified whole Plantations worth of World War Two records; I again tried the get a copy of both service files and was again refused; I still wonder under what Names and classification levels they are being held. My father past in 1963, he was very closed mouthed about his whole WW2.....? Adventures ? Thank s to ALL who have Served ...........
EXCEPT for One Capitan!
VIEW HEARTED COMMENT Dr
Wow!
@@WalkwithHistory Dad says Thanks .....
I can hardly imagine how disappointed Dwight Eisenhower would be to see Donald Trump as a former President and current Republican candidate.
I am sure he would be disappointed in all the Political Leadership right now.