The Tomb of the Unknown soldier is a memorial for those who have died in major wars and aren't recognizable, but is forever remembered for their involvement. It picks one body from each major war the US got involved in (WW1, WW2, Korean War and the Vietnam War) and the Sential Guard is a symbolic move to have someone stand guard for their bravery. There is a lot more to this so I recommend seeing videos on this.
The sentinel guards have been on duty their for over 70 years now. Which is pretty crazy to think of. 24/7 365. They’ve been through hurricanes, snow storms, everything and there is still always a guard on duty. Awe inspiring.
@@alextjb I actually believe in major storms where it would be life threatening to be out in they are allowed to take cover but generally two rules about the guard, don't fuck with them and obey the rules. They will come beat your ass if you cross the rope or make sounds.
6:36 I just commented this on a poll on your channel a few minutes ago, but you should check out Oversimplified’s video on the American Civil War. It has a lot of information, and it’s also absolutely hilarious.
The Iwo Jima flag raising, marines went with a camera man to put up the US flag but while the photographer was setting up his camera, they started to raise the flag and so he spun around and took the iconic picture. Then, you couldn’t see the photo immediately so he believed he had gotten a bad photo so he had them pose in front of the flag for the photo. He believed the news company would put the posed picture in the paper so when asked if it was set up, he answered yes not knowing they had used the natural one.
I used to live by La Crosse Wisconsin. In the Spring when the ice melts on the Mississippi river you can see dozens and dozens of Bald Eagles waiting on the edges of the ice looking for fish. The most I ever saw was about 100 plus about 15 hawks. A farmer down the road had put a cow that had died in the field for the birds in the winter. They were in all the trees waiting their turn when the larger birds would finish.
The evolution of the American military really reminds me of Halo, where they started off as the underdog, and by the end of it they became a military behemoth.
The United States had SMGs long before the battle of Bastogne. The U.S adopted the Annihilator project in 1919, which eventually became the Thompson submachine gun in 1928. The U.S military also experimented with lots of machine guns. Some of the most famous ones are the B.A.R (browning automatic rifle) which was used in late 1918 during the battle of Belleau wood. The 1919 Browning Machine gun. And, the 1917 Browning Heavy Machine gun.
You should watch alot of stuff from the armchair historian, i recommend watching the entire uniform series and the video that shows the german tank evolution.
THE Civil war Era uniforms were actually heavily diverse. There were Union Troops who wore the grey Uniform, some wore green and blue, red and blue . etc... The CSA were mostly made of people who brought their own muskets/rifles and clothing, as the CSA couldn't provide all of them with the iconic grey uniform.
11:06 That paratrooper was John Steele from 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne. The village is Sainte-Mère-Église, which was the first village to liberated during Operation Overlord. After the end of World War 2, Steele continued to visit the village and became an honorary member of Ste. Mère Église, and there is a tavern called Auberge John Steele. Steele is commemorated in the tavern, and in the Airborne Musesm in Ste. Mère Église. John Steele sadly died May 16, 1969 of throat cancer.
12:15 Note that the Thompson submachine gun was officially adopted by the US Military in 1938...but even before the US got into the war, the British and Commonwealth nations such as India and Australia were using the Tommy gun in World War II. But the Thompson saw service in US military right from the start of US ground forces involvement in Africa in November 1942, and on Guadalcanal with the Marines in August of that year. In fact, it was likely used even earlier by US ground forces in the Philippines and on Wake Island.
The Paratrooper who got caught on the side of the church was named John Steele en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steele_(paratrooper) Apparently, after being captured by the germans and escaping to join up with a second US attack to free the town, he would return to the town regularly throughout his life. Not only is there an airborne infantry museum as well as a tavern named after him, but the church also replaced one of it's stained glass windows to depict the Virgin Mary with paratroopers falling out of the sky around her.
We are creating a video about the Korean war right now on the Armchair historian. So your wish is being fulfilled, it is already looking great. Stay tuned for it.
I’ve shot plenty of guns, including a musket. The technological advancements when it comes to weapons and other things we have made over the gap of 100 years is nuts. The musket was easily the most challenging gun I’ve had to shoot. Very inaccurate and reloading is a pain in the ass.
I've always enjoyed black powder rifles and muskets for how *odd* they are to shoot after a lifetime of using modern firearms. There's either that "foom!" or "pop!" of the frizzen getting sparked or percussion cap going off, then that fraction of a second before the powder charge actually fires off that is so nerve racking! It's literally like a fraction of a second, but you've got to hold that weapon dead on target while the thought of whether or not you've got a hangfire runs through your head. I love it! XD
Please look into some videos on the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier. It’s such an awesome learning experience. Between the tomb and it’s history to the sentinels and their uniforms. It’s all just awesome!
The repeating rifles were usually also of lower power than a musket or single shot rifle, and thus shorter range, and were considered too complicated for standard infantry to operate in many armies. Some armies did use bolt action rifles though, like the Prussians, and their Needle rifle, and the US army bought a bunch of bolt action carbines for the cavalry.
While it was controversial the us did drop pamphlets telling they will drop something very destructive and we're given over 24 hours then the second area was given pamphlets saying they are dropping another if not believed to ask about the first one.
I served in the US Army for 8 years and I highly recommend that when you get a chance to, visit some of the bases and check out the museums on post! Also in regards to civil war history look up the orphan brigade from Kentucky it's pretty unique!
the unknown soldier is one that was killed in ww1 if i recall correctly and was not able to be identified, they are supposed to represent all that was killed in ww1 very similar to the british one
Brightly colored uniforms were not just style- they were neccesary in the black powder era because all weapons on the battlefield, from rifles up to artillery produced an enormous amount of smoke that created a haze which blanketed the battlefield unless it was really windy, the infamous "fog of war". Commanders needed to be able to clearly distinguish friendly forces from the enemy so everyone picked a cool primary color and stayed with it. It is not a coincidence that shortly after smokeless gunpowder was invented in the late 1880s, and machine guns start proliferating, everyone starts transitioning to more neutral colors.
The unknown soldier that wasn't identified yet was a Union soldier in the Civil War that died during The Battle of Gettysburg if my memory serves me right.
fun fact the Thompson smg was invented in the late days of ww1 it has been used by specialist units in the end of the war maybe but seen in the hand of gangsters and cops and they made a military version that remove the drum mag and the forgrip and the singer machine gun is basically a frankinstine weapon made by gun smiths its basically three guns in one the stock of a m1 a machine gun of a dive bomber and the grip of a browning
Oh, forgot to mention: now that you're a U.S. citizen, you're now able to join the Civilian Marksmanship Program. They'll actually let you buy a refurbished surplus M1 Garand for cheap, as part of the program. Most of them are from the Korean War, I believe, as well as the Vietnam War. They made of ton of them for decades, so they have a lot of spares.
The 2005 uniform, ACUs, is commonly referred to as the most hated one. Between being ineffective, costing way too much money, and just looking like utter garbage, we couldn't wait for a new uniform. I actually went out of pocket to buy the new uniform once they were approved.
7:10 Americans muskets haven’t changed much mainly because that they haven’t been in any huge wars (aside from the Civil War) and thus, there was no need to improve the weapon. It wasn’t until the Colonies expanded their territories where you would see a improvement in their weapons.
6:37 If you’re interested in learning about the Civil War and other US involved periods, I suggest watching a channel called Oversimplified. It covers different periods and even different nations with animations and with some mild humor. It’s honestly a really fun watch.
The tall hats during the early 1800s were actually somewhat designed like that so the soldiers could use it as a primitive bipod, as such an idea was unheard of.
12:36 interesting fact about the machine gun this marine is carrying. It's entirely designed from cannibalized bits of various other guns. This gun wasn't officially U.S army or Marine corps issued. The marines knew they needed a faster firing machine gun from their experiences with Dday in Normandy when they landed on Iwo Jima. Or at least 3 very clever marines and their C.O who approved it did. Basically, that has the carrying handle, and bipod of a B.A.R, (browning automatic rifle) while the gun itself, (the bits that fired, the barrel, receiver, all that stuff) was from a browning aircraft machine gun. Likely 30 to 50 caliber. While the buttstock was from a m1a1garand. It is said these machine guns could clear with their rate of fire, an entire german bunker, via ricochets alone. Why wasn't it officially adopted by the U.S military? Who knows? Perhaps some testing was done and they found they didn't work for more than a short while. At least that's what most assume. But in reality, we don't know why the U.S military wouldn't officially adopt the machine gun. Other than barely any surviving examples being left after that battle, and rhe few other battles it got deployed in. In short: it's a mystery gun made by some really smart and innovative U.S Marines. They called it a, "stinger." Cool huh?
Since you don’t know much about the American civil war you can watch ‘Oversimplified the American Civil War’ Also there were shotguns before ww1 but they were never really adopted into the military because they were mostly hunting or farming weapons. till the US army decided to make their own model which was an innovation of one of those shotguns.
You were somewhat right about the flag; instead of the flag being taken down and then the same one being put back up, the first flag was smaller, and then when they wanted a picture, they took that one down and then raised a bigger flag, the one immortalized in the picture you know today.
Not gonna lie, I sorta liked this channel when I first found it, but I can't help but love it now that he's a U.S. citizen. There sort of a brotherly patriotism between Americans. Welcome to the land of the free!
There were 3 flags risen on iwo jima. 1 flag was risen during the battle but afterwards a photo was wanted. Unfortunately the flag was too small. So they went down Suribachi got a bigger flag and went back up and rose that one. This gave birth to that legendary photo on Iwo Jima
The tomb of the unknown soldier I believe holds 3 soldiers from different wars. They do not know the identity of the soldiers but it also stands to be a symbol to any unrecovered soldier or unknown soldier.
That jump started with the trap door, Through the Spencer, the Winchester, The Henry. All before 1900. Other designs to Gatlin, revolvers. Even belt fed started in that time. The focal point was the invention of the brass casing round roughly between 1861 and 1873. Since then it's went nuts.
Should react to The Insane American Plan to Invade Japan in 1945 by RealLifeLore regarding the alternate plan to invade the Japan if they decided to not use the bombs. The bloodshed it would have brought about would have dwarfed what the bombs did.
@@sennin7139 They didn't even have enough bullets and guns to arm all of their soldiers they had ready to defend. Only like 1 in 5 would have been armed with guns, the others with swords or whatever sharp objects they had. They also declared that every man and woman between the ages of like 15-65 would have to take arms in the defense. With Japan's natural defenses with all the mountains and dense forests, it would have made Vietnam and D-Day look like MCU movies. The US estimates for casualties would have been 6-10 million Japanese soldiers and civilians and 1 million US soldiers. US prepared 500k Purple Hearts in preparation for the invasion, but since the invasion never took place, they're still handing out those medals today.
That was such a cool video! Who knew the evolution of the uniform would be so interesting. I always liked watching David Barton on American history on UA-cam. He has a way of presenting American history that is so interesting and never boring. He also brings in little teed-bits of knowledge that most historians never mention and he just has that "nice guy" persona too.
The unknown soldier was a US soldier that fought in the war. When found dead they didn’t have identity of the soldier. And also their were multiple soldiers that were pronounced unknown due to no identification of the soldier thats how they got the name for the unknown soldier 👍
There's actually two Iwo Jima pictures: the famous one with the bigger flag and the initial smaller flag. The famous one was taken for the press, the original was more for military records. Of the group of men who put up the more famous flag, if I remember correctly, only three made it back and one of those came back because they were wounded in battle. I read a book on it, but it's been awhile. I do believe it's mostly accurate.
The change in uniform styles, is a reflection of the technology and tactics used on the battlefield. Prior to the 1860's, brightly colored uniforms made sense because of the weapons being used. Smooth-bore muskets weren't very accurate, so essentially formations of troops (Platoons, companies, battalions, etc.) used them like shotguns when fighting at a distance. You didn't aim at an individual soldier, you aimed at a formation when shooting more than a few dozen yards. This made identifying the formation you were shooing at important. On top of this, black powder firearms generate a heck-of-a-lot of smoke, seriously limiting visibility. As a result, wearing bright colors was a plus. However, as soon as you have riffled muskets in the 1860's, center-fire ammo in the 1870's and smokeless gunpowder in the 1890's, formation fighting and bright uniforms became a liability.
Private John Steele was the man who got caught on the steeple or roof of that church during Operation Overlord. He was literally from a town that's only an hour away from where I was born/raised/live today here in NC, USA.
Actually SMGs weren't new to WW2. In fact the German Empire first used them (the MP18) in 1918 during their last offensive on the western front know as the Kaiserschlacht
If you want an entertaining history podcast to listen to check out Hardcore History, the war in the pacific series is extremely captivating and detailed and you get a great picture of how Japan went from isolationist to committing some of the most horrifically described atrocities I have ever heard. It is at times hard to listen to, but you really get an idea of just how twisted nationalism can get. American soldiers running into former classmate and friends as guards while being death marched in Bataan(punishment for collapsing from exhaustion was execution), sometimes stopping other guards from robbing and executing prisoners only because they recognized them.
Knowing that a US Airborne soldier had a statue made inspired by him becoming stuck on something seems kinda wholesome; making a mistake and people use that as an honorable memory
8:01 breach loading, is basically a "break open" gun. Where the barrel pulls away from the stock and firing pin, in order for you to load a round, then fire it. So this is actually quite the development in technology for the time.
You should look up videos on The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It's a final resting place for one of America's unidentified World War 1 Service members, and Unknowns from later wars were added in 1958 and 1984. The U.S. set up an honorary burial ground for them and ensures that they are guarded 24/365 due to giving their lives and we couldn't even identify them at the time. The guard takes it job EXTREMELY seriously, there have even been guards that have stood through hurricanes to ensure those men are guarded and given the respect they deserve.
In the war of 1812 they used the hats to stabilize the rifle when they were laying down and shooting the enemy it gave them better stability when they took a shot on their stomachs that's why the hats were so big
So the story on the flag-raising at iwo jima: A group of marines rose the flag. Well TIME Magazine didn't like it and had an entire new group of marines raise a bigger flag, the one everyone knows. And when the awards were being given, the ones who rose the flag first were told to sit in back and shut up. My grandpa was friends with one of the original men: Charles Lindberg. The only time the Minneapolis/St. Paul international airport has been closed other than 9/11 was for his funeral.
First organization to wear green was the NH Sharpshooters during the Civil war. They also operated in the manner of Roger's Rangers. These were the first in the US.
They actually put one up and took a picture, but then they wanted a bigger flag so they grabbed other soldiers to put up another flag. Most of the soldiers that put up the first flag died, and many of the people from the famous picture of the flag raising got to go home as "heros" even though they felt that the soldiers that were still on Iwo Jima and the ones that died were the real heroes. A good film about this topic is "Flags of Our Fathers" it's a book as well if you prefer reading. Love your videos, keep it up @OriginalHuman !
Welcome to Maine, my friend, we have a good amount of Bald Eagles up here. Just don’t ever kill one if it isn’t attacking you/your pets as you can be heavily fined for it.
Congratulations on becoming a citizen and also thank you for stepping up when you did to serve your country. It takes a certain type of person to step up and serve in the Military. I just got out of the US Army 4 months ago but still consider it the best thing to happen to my wife and children. Thanks for the great videos!!
9:24 the drastic change in uniform style and colors is correlated to the change in military weapons and tactics. The invention of powderless ammo and greater adoption of semi-automatic weapons meant that standard line formations became outdated. Line formations were popular from pretty much the 16th century until the turn of the 21st century because muskets and musket-rifles were not as accurate and took a long time to reload, so volley and fire by rank was necessity. This meant field armies pretty much faced each other in giant squares. Now with the creation of machine guns, bolt action rifles, shotguns, semi-autos, air planes, and gas weapons then armies had to spread themselves out or face total annihilation. The French learned this lesson the hard way as they still utilized blue uniforms at the start of WWI. This meant they were an easy and bright target for Germans to aim at while they blended in with their gray uniforms. So the need to space out and conceal troops to minimize causalities gave way to more green, brown, and gray uniforms paving the way for the first type of camouflage really
When I was in high school I participated in the Veteran's Day Parade with our Junior ROTC unit. We would all be assigned different uniforms from different eras of American conflict. My friends all got to wear modern day uniforms for things like the Operation Desert Storm float while I wore that 1814 uniform for the War of 1812. Didn't really feel like a badass but I enjoy war history so it was still fun
With the Iwo Jima flag, the ranking officer on scene said the flag they had was too small so they took it down and the picture was of them putting up the larger flag
Congrats on becoming a U.S. Citizen brother!! One thing i wanted to mention is that the Thompson submachine gun was actually used for all of WW2 that we were involved in. It was invented in 1920. I think the grease gun was after that but we had some submachine guns to start the war. You're right. There were so many advancements made. Fun fact. The M1 Garand which was the primary rifle in the Army and Marines back then was actually a Canadian design and they didn't like it for different reasons and we took it and our guys figured out solutions for those problems on the fly with American ingenuity.
The famous Spviet picture of the soldiers holding the flag over Berlin was done up and posed after they had won. There is a movie scene that references it somewhere. You can see that one of the soldiers is wearing multiple watches (looted)
The Thompson was adopted very early on, as America lent the British a lot of them as part of Lend-Lease. They were adopted by the U.S. military as the M1 and later M1A1 revision.
If you want to learn a bit about the Civil war, You can visit Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor SC, the fort is where the first shot’s of the war were fired.
9:00 This has everything to do with the large scale adoption of smokeless powder for firearms. Black powder, the predecessor to modern smokeless powder, produced so much smoke during a battle that it would eventually obscure the entire battlefield, making it important for soldiers to wear bright colors, such that they could see one another. After smokeless powder became widespread, however, it suddenly became less important for soldiers to be able to spot one another, and more important for them to hide from the enemy, especially since, without smoke obscuring the line of fire, both sides could, for the first time in history, sustain accurate fire over a long period of time.
My grandmother was born in the year 1933. She was born under Japanese occupation, witnessed the terrors of world war 2, and the Korean war. During world war 2, she lived a life deprived of Korean culture and lived a life as a "Korean-Japanese" as the Japanese had planned to completely eradicate the Korean culture. As the world war ended, my grandmother began learning to become a nurse. She did, and when the Korean war broke out in 1950, she took part in the war and served as a nurse to aid the injured. Being a nurse at that time was already so difficult, rookies were submitted to doing things "less medical related" and simply doing physical labor. Of course, all of that would change when she was a nurse in the war. I cannot even imagine what a human being can do to another person when it comes to life or death. But, she experienced it first-hand in the schools made into makeshift hospitals. As the Korean war ended, luckly none of the family was hurt or lost in the war as the entire family was able to flee to Busan, which was the last standing region before the UN intervened. There are key moments in the Korean war that are taught in history class in Korea. When the war began, without North Korean declaration, on the morning of June 25th, Seoul collapsed within 3 days as the North Koreans rushed past the border with lightning speed. When the UN troops had arrived at the ports of Busan in September, the allied forces began to plan a counterattack. General MacArthur's plan of attack began with operation chromite. An amphibious landing operation to land troops on the beaches of Inchon. With that successful landing, the UN allied troops pushed the North Koreans back to its former borders and beyond. Taking Pyongyang and forcing North Korean troops to the Yalu River, which was a river stretching across the borders of China and North Korea. Side note before I continue. It is said that Soviet Russia had authorized North Korea's invasion into South Korea. I believe this to be true as North Korea was highly influenced, and in a sense, an autonomous nation under Soviet Russia. Also assisted by China as it had won the long Chinese Civil war with the Comminust taking control. With both Russia and China backing North Korea, they had little to no reason to hesitate to "liberate" the south from American "occupation". This is how they brainwashed their soldiers. As I was saying, as UN troops reached the Yalu river, a victory just at their fingertips was completely lost as China had now joined the war. This time they were directly getting involved. The reason China sacrificed their own people has something to do with history. For decades and centuries China had always feared its rival countries. This can be proven on multiple occasions regarding Chinese intervention during the old Korean Dynasty era, and also why China aided Korea when Japan attacked Korea in 1592. This was all to either: 1. Stop another external country from completely occupying/annexing korea and posing a direct threat to Chinese border 2. Stop Korea from uniting into one nation. Thus, stop Korea from getting stronger. The chinese deployed millions of personnel, they used classic "tactics" used by the Soviets during ww2. Pushing the enemy back with pure numbers. Of course the UN troops had no chance to stop this threat and had to retreat back down below the former borders of north and south. Eventually, pushing the chinese back to the former borders that we see to this day. A seize-fire was signed at the 38th parallel, and the war came to a halt to this day. My grandmother still lives with us to this day. I love her, and I am grateful to have her with us. I just wanted to share an important moment in my country's history since it was brought up in this video. Thank you. Side note, many Koreans were deployed to Vietnam as the military leader that had taken control of the goverment after a successful coup in South Korea felt honor bound to aid Americans, as they had helped us in the past. (This was not mandatory, but many Koreans deployed as payment was high.)
My grandfather had a musket before a fire destroyed all of our stuff, but when I was like 13, on easter he took it out and set up a egg and all day we were shooting until we ran out of ammo
Early 2000's (sometime before I was born, 2005) my mom (USAF communications) was apart of Operation Shock and Horror kinda like Operation Shock and Awe
i would definitely watch changing of the guard and other show about the Tomb of the unknown soldier. it is a very somber reminder of thoes who have given everything for their country. they gave their service, their lives and even their identities.
Part of the reason for the change in uniform color from the 1800s to 1900s, in part, is from a change in battle doctrine. No longer were units marching in formation into battle (American Revolution) or charging into battle (American Civil War, though they did try at the beginning of the WWI and got slaughtered by machine guns), but moving on a smaller scale and not wanting to be seen as easily.
since you have a BUS, maybe a trip to Carlisle, PA to the Army Heritage and Education Center, and then hop down the road to the Battlefields of Gettysburg, PA
For the Iwo Jima question they didn’t take it down for a picture but they actually took it down because they wanted a bigger flag to be up
@Nugget Nuggetyiur WRONG he’s correct..
I saw a picture with the bigger flag and Marines raising their helmets and guns in the hair, badass
Some navy officer wanted the original flag so they took it down and replaced it and the famous picture was the marines putting the replacement up.
@@alamp7640 Actually, it was a Marine officer, Colonel Chandler Johnson who ordered the changing of the flags.
actully they tried to put a flag up but they got pudhed back and they had to do it agin
The Tomb of the Unknown soldier is a memorial for those who have died in major wars and aren't recognizable, but is forever remembered for their involvement. It picks one body from each major war the US got involved in (WW1, WW2, Korean War and the Vietnam War) and the Sential Guard is a symbolic move to have someone stand guard for their bravery. There is a lot more to this so I recommend seeing videos on this.
Please do a video on it
the sentinel guard is also extremely strict
@@Jim-vg3vb that too
The sentinel guards have been on duty their for over 70 years now. Which is pretty crazy to think of. 24/7 365.
They’ve been through hurricanes, snow storms, everything and there is still always a guard on duty. Awe inspiring.
@@alextjb I actually believe in major storms where it would be life threatening to be out in they are allowed to take cover but generally two rules about the guard, don't fuck with them and obey the rules. They will come beat your ass if you cross the rope or make sounds.
You never really realize how big a bald eagle is until you see one in person. They are impressive animals.
What’s crazy is a pigeon can beat the shit out of a eagle. Look it up.
@ElChivo 105 look it up.
@@brayden1055 boy the eagle won
@@hiimafanofeverything2577 I just saw an eagle rip a heart out of a pigeon
@@dandy9492 nice
Congratulations on becoming a official U.S. citizen
It's something to be congratulated on.
It's a wonderful thing. Its the only thing to become an American.
@Tejash Dasgupta depends on where you’ve grown up
Just in time for the riots....
@@ryanvogel9610 just in time to see chauvin rot in prison, yo.
6:36 I just commented this on a poll on your channel a few minutes ago, but you should check out Oversimplified’s video on the American Civil War. It has a lot of information, and it’s also absolutely hilarious.
it does a good job of explaining the whys of the war too, with dives into Lincolns reelection and the draft riots
Also the US Revolutionary War, I’d love to hear his opinion of the U.S. breaking away from England
@@proofostrich9061 yeah interesting, whose side is he gonna take?
@@thinemuther4031 yeah and I’d love to see his opinion on the rag tag militias winning against the fully trained British Empire and stuff too.
@@proofostrich9061 lol that'd be funny
The Iwo Jima flag raising, marines went with a camera man to put up the US flag but while the photographer was setting up his camera, they started to raise the flag and so he spun around and took the iconic picture. Then, you couldn’t see the photo immediately so he believed he had gotten a bad photo so he had them pose in front of the flag for the photo. He believed the news company would put the posed picture in the paper so when asked if it was set up, he answered yes not knowing they had used the natural one.
Wow the posed picture must've been good but the other picture where they're raising the flag is also good
My grandpa did the aerial part of Iwo Jima during the battle
@@tylerhall4322 what branch of the military was he?
@@60sspider-man29 marines
I used to live by La Crosse Wisconsin. In the Spring when the ice melts on the Mississippi river you can see dozens and dozens of Bald Eagles waiting on the edges of the ice looking for fish.
The most I ever saw was about 100 plus about 15 hawks. A farmer down the road had put a cow that had died in the field for the birds in the winter. They were in all the trees waiting their turn when the larger birds would finish.
You should watch a video on the old gaurd or tomb of the unknown! They are truly moving and a reminder of the sacrifices our brave military have made.
Yes please
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Would be also cool to check out Armchair historian's Western Europe of WW2
The evolution of the American military really reminds me of Halo, where they started off as the underdog, and by the end of it they became a military behemoth.
The United States had SMGs long before the battle of Bastogne. The U.S adopted the Annihilator project in 1919, which eventually became the Thompson submachine gun in 1928. The U.S military also experimented with lots of machine guns.
Some of the most famous ones are the B.A.R (browning automatic rifle) which was used in late 1918 during the battle of Belleau wood. The 1919 Browning Machine gun. And, the 1917 Browning Heavy Machine gun.
You should watch alot of stuff from the armchair historian, i recommend watching the entire uniform series and the video that shows the german tank evolution.
THE Civil war Era uniforms were actually heavily diverse. There were Union Troops who wore the grey Uniform, some wore green and blue, red and blue . etc... The CSA were mostly made of people who brought their own muskets/rifles and clothing, as the CSA couldn't provide all of them with the iconic grey uniform.
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Luke at the start of the every video: *T P O S E*
11:06 That paratrooper was John Steele from 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne. The village is Sainte-Mère-Église, which was the first village to liberated during Operation Overlord. After the end of World War 2, Steele continued to visit the village and became an honorary member of Ste. Mère Église, and there is a tavern called Auberge John Steele. Steele is commemorated in the tavern, and in the Airborne Musesm in Ste. Mère Église. John Steele sadly died May 16, 1969 of throat cancer.
12:15 Note that the Thompson submachine gun was officially adopted by the US Military in 1938...but even before the US got into the war, the British and Commonwealth nations such as India and Australia were using the Tommy gun in World War II. But the Thompson saw service in US military right from the start of US ground forces involvement in Africa in November 1942, and on Guadalcanal with the Marines in August of that year. In fact, it was likely used even earlier by US ground forces in the Philippines and on Wake Island.
The Paratrooper who got caught on the side of the church was named John Steele en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steele_(paratrooper)
Apparently, after being captured by the germans and escaping to join up with a second US attack to free the town, he would return to the town regularly throughout his life. Not only is there an airborne infantry museum as well as a tavern named after him, but the church also replaced one of it's stained glass windows to depict the Virgin Mary with paratroopers falling out of the sky around her.
We are creating a video about the Korean war right now on the Armchair historian.
So your wish is being fulfilled, it is already looking great. Stay tuned for it.
Oh yes!!!!!! I've been waiting for a game on the Korean war for a long time .i will definitely check this project out
@@elmuffinmanthecartelguy7296Nobody said anything about a game
"Not a fan of massive hats"
Queen's guard: Am I a joke to you?
Ok, and? How is that relevant..
@@wellifailed392 have you heard of this magical thing known as a joke?
I’ve shot plenty of guns, including a musket. The technological advancements when it comes to weapons and other things we have made over the gap of 100 years is nuts. The musket was easily the most challenging gun I’ve had to shoot. Very inaccurate and reloading is a pain in the ass.
I've always enjoyed black powder rifles and muskets for how *odd* they are to shoot after a lifetime of using modern firearms. There's either that "foom!" or "pop!" of the frizzen getting sparked or percussion cap going off, then that fraction of a second before the powder charge actually fires off that is so nerve racking! It's literally like a fraction of a second, but you've got to hold that weapon dead on target while the thought of whether or not you've got a hangfire runs through your head. I love it! XD
You ever shoot a martini Henry? The British used em at rorkes drift, and they were legit rifles. Apparently they were extremely smooth and precise
Please look into some videos on the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier. It’s such an awesome learning experience. Between the tomb and it’s history to the sentinels and their uniforms. It’s all just awesome!
It’s strange that they used muskets in 1898 when there were bolt action or even lever rifles that were made.
@Nicholas G. that’s true I guess
The repeating rifles were usually also of lower power than a musket or single shot rifle, and thus shorter range, and were considered too complicated for standard infantry to operate in many armies. Some armies did use bolt action rifles though, like the Prussians, and their Needle rifle, and the US army bought a bunch of bolt action carbines for the cavalry.
@Nicholas G. that isn’t a musket that a trapdoor rifle
oversimplified has a good video on the american cival war
Yes that’s a good one
Yes this one is good
When in doubt, Oversimplified.
Yep that is what I would recommend too
While it was controversial the us did drop pamphlets telling they will drop something very destructive and we're given over 24 hours then the second area was given pamphlets saying they are dropping another if not believed to ask about the first one.
I’m loving how your going back to mostly military content
I served in the US Army for 8 years and I highly recommend that when you get a chance to, visit some of the bases and check out the museums on post! Also in regards to civil war history look up the orphan brigade from Kentucky it's pretty unique!
the unknown soldier is one that was killed in ww1 if i recall correctly and was not able to be identified, they are supposed to represent all that was killed in ww1 very similar to the british one
There not just ww1 I forgot witch wars but I believe there’s a few wars thay just exhumed the body
@@steveisthecommissar4013 ah thank you for helping out
Brightly colored uniforms were not just style- they were neccesary in the black powder era because all weapons on the battlefield, from rifles up to artillery produced an enormous amount of smoke that created a haze which blanketed the battlefield unless it was really windy, the infamous "fog of war". Commanders needed to be able to clearly distinguish friendly forces from the enemy so everyone picked a cool primary color and stayed with it.
It is not a coincidence that shortly after smokeless gunpowder was invented in the late 1880s, and machine guns start proliferating, everyone starts transitioning to more neutral colors.
The unknown soldier that wasn't identified yet was a Union soldier in the Civil War that died during The Battle of Gettysburg if my memory serves me right.
Definitely watch a video on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, it's absolutely wicked
fun fact the Thompson smg was invented in the late days of ww1 it has been used by specialist units in the end of the war maybe but seen in the hand of gangsters and cops and they made a military version that remove the drum mag and the forgrip
and the singer machine gun is basically a frankinstine weapon made by gun smiths its basically three guns in one the stock of a m1 a machine gun of a dive bomber and the grip of a browning
Can you also do this with the German army same channel
And also the White Death.
Hope you like mij recommendations: )
The 2005-2015 Army camouflage was worse than having no camouflage, it actually made troops easier to see
Oh, forgot to mention: now that you're a U.S. citizen, you're now able to join the Civilian Marksmanship Program. They'll actually let you buy a refurbished surplus M1 Garand for cheap, as part of the program. Most of them are from the Korean War, I believe, as well as the Vietnam War. They made of ton of them for decades, so they have a lot of spares.
The 2005 uniform, ACUs, is commonly referred to as the most hated one. Between being ineffective, costing way too much money, and just looking like utter garbage, we couldn't wait for a new uniform. I actually went out of pocket to buy the new uniform once they were approved.
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Americans muskets haven’t changed much mainly because that they haven’t been in any huge wars (aside from the Civil War) and thus, there was no need to improve the weapon. It wasn’t until the Colonies expanded their territories where you would see a improvement in their weapons.
6:37 If you’re interested in learning about the Civil War and other US involved periods, I suggest watching a channel called Oversimplified. It covers different periods and even different nations with animations and with some mild humor. It’s honestly a really fun watch.
The tall hats during the early 1800s were actually somewhat designed like that so the soldiers could use it as a primitive bipod, as such an idea was unheard of.
12:36 interesting fact about the machine gun this marine is carrying. It's entirely designed from cannibalized bits of various other guns. This gun wasn't officially U.S army or Marine corps issued. The marines knew they needed a faster firing machine gun from their experiences with Dday in Normandy when they landed on Iwo Jima. Or at least 3 very clever marines and their C.O who approved it did.
Basically, that has the carrying handle, and bipod of a B.A.R, (browning automatic rifle) while the gun itself, (the bits that fired, the barrel, receiver, all that stuff) was from a browning aircraft machine gun. Likely 30 to 50 caliber.
While the buttstock was from a m1a1garand.
It is said these machine guns could clear with their rate of fire, an entire german bunker, via ricochets alone.
Why wasn't it officially adopted by the U.S military? Who knows?
Perhaps some testing was done and they found they didn't work for more than a short while. At least that's what most assume.
But in reality, we don't know why the U.S military wouldn't officially adopt the machine gun. Other than barely any surviving examples being left after that battle, and rhe few other battles it got deployed in.
In short: it's a mystery gun made by some really smart and innovative U.S Marines.
They called it a, "stinger."
Cool huh?
Since you don’t know much about the American civil war you can watch ‘Oversimplified the American Civil War’
Also there were shotguns before ww1 but they were never really adopted into the military because they were mostly hunting or farming weapons. till the US army decided to make their own model which was an innovation of one of those shotguns.
Highly recommend watching more of his content! It’s amazing
You should react to the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
You were somewhat right about the flag; instead of the flag being taken down and then the same one being put back up, the first flag was smaller, and then when they wanted a picture, they took that one down and then raised a bigger flag, the one immortalized in the picture you know today.
Not gonna lie, I sorta liked this channel when I first found it, but I can't help but love it now that he's a U.S. citizen. There sort of a brotherly patriotism between Americans. Welcome to the land of the free!
You can react to the civil war oversimplified and he got more videos on his channel about history and its animated.
There were 3 flags risen on iwo jima. 1 flag was risen during the battle but afterwards a photo was wanted. Unfortunately the flag was too small. So they went down Suribachi got a bigger flag and went back up and rose that one. This gave birth to that legendary photo on Iwo Jima
The tomb of the unknown soldier I believe holds 3 soldiers from different wars. They do not know the identity of the soldiers but it also stands to be a symbol to any unrecovered soldier or unknown soldier.
That jump started with the trap door, Through the Spencer, the Winchester, The Henry. All before 1900. Other designs to Gatlin, revolvers. Even belt fed started in that time. The focal point was the invention of the brass casing round roughly between 1861 and 1873. Since then it's went nuts.
my great grandfather was in the Aircore and i still have his Aircore pin
The Korean War is also known as the Forgotten War because it was so overshadowed by the war before it, WWII, and the war after it, Vietnam.
Should react to The Insane American Plan to Invade Japan in 1945 by RealLifeLore regarding the alternate plan to invade the Japan if they decided to not use the bombs. The bloodshed it would have brought about would have dwarfed what the bombs did.
wasn't one of the worries that the japanese civilians would meet the us army with kitchen knives/bamboo spears once they made landfall.
@@sennin7139 They didn't even have enough bullets and guns to arm all of their soldiers they had ready to defend. Only like 1 in 5 would have been armed with guns, the others with swords or whatever sharp objects they had. They also declared that every man and woman between the ages of like 15-65 would have to take arms in the defense. With Japan's natural defenses with all the mountains and dense forests, it would have made Vietnam and D-Day look like MCU movies.
The US estimates for casualties would have been 6-10 million Japanese soldiers and civilians and 1 million US soldiers. US prepared 500k Purple Hearts in preparation for the invasion, but since the invasion never took place, they're still handing out those medals today.
That was such a cool video! Who knew the evolution of the uniform would be so interesting. I always liked watching David Barton on American history on UA-cam. He has a way of presenting American history that is so interesting and never boring. He also brings in little teed-bits of knowledge that most historians never mention and he just has that "nice guy" persona too.
The unknown soldier was a US soldier that fought in the war. When found dead they didn’t have identity of the soldier. And also their were multiple soldiers that were pronounced unknown due to no identification of the soldier thats how they got the name for the unknown soldier 👍
There's actually two Iwo Jima pictures: the famous one with the bigger flag and the initial smaller flag. The famous one was taken for the press, the original was more for military records. Of the group of men who put up the more famous flag, if I remember correctly, only three made it back and one of those came back because they were wounded in battle. I read a book on it, but it's been awhile. I do believe it's mostly accurate.
The change in uniform styles, is a reflection of the technology and tactics used on the battlefield.
Prior to the 1860's, brightly colored uniforms made sense because of the weapons being used. Smooth-bore muskets weren't very accurate, so essentially formations of troops (Platoons, companies, battalions, etc.) used them like shotguns when fighting at a distance. You didn't aim at an individual soldier, you aimed at a formation when shooting more than a few dozen yards. This made identifying the formation you were shooing at important. On top of this, black powder firearms generate a heck-of-a-lot of smoke, seriously limiting visibility. As a result, wearing bright colors was a plus.
However, as soon as you have riffled muskets in the 1860's, center-fire ammo in the 1870's and smokeless gunpowder in the 1890's, formation fighting and bright uniforms became a liability.
When you get a chance, go to Washington DC and Arlington National cemetery in Arlington, VA. You can also see the tomb of the unknown soldier there.
Private John Steele was the man who got caught on the steeple or roof of that church during Operation Overlord. He was literally from a town that's only an hour away from where I was born/raised/live today here in NC, USA.
Actually SMGs weren't new to WW2. In fact the German Empire first used them (the MP18) in 1918 during their last offensive on the western front know as the Kaiserschlacht
If you want an entertaining history podcast to listen to check out Hardcore History, the war in the pacific series is extremely captivating and detailed and you get a great picture of how Japan went from isolationist to committing some of the most horrifically described atrocities I have ever heard. It is at times hard to listen to, but you really get an idea of just how twisted nationalism can get. American soldiers running into former classmate and friends as guards while being death marched in Bataan(punishment for collapsing from exhaustion was execution), sometimes stopping other guards from robbing and executing prisoners only because they recognized them.
All of the ww2 animations is amazing!
The Korean war is commonly known as the "Forgotten War" as it was surrounded by the much larger WW2 and more significant Veitnam.
Really sad how it’s turned out so much history that got like 3 pages in my school book and I’m American. A good bit of WWII veterans served in Korea
They have a movie based on the flag it’s called Flags of our Fathers
I like how your getting into more history videos.
Knowing that a US Airborne soldier had a statue made inspired by him becoming stuck on something seems kinda wholesome; making a mistake and people use that as an honorable memory
8:01 breach loading, is basically a "break open" gun. Where the barrel pulls away from the stock and firing pin, in order for you to load a round, then fire it.
So this is actually quite the development in technology for the time.
You should look up videos on The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It's a final resting place for one of America's unidentified World War 1 Service members, and Unknowns from later wars were added in 1958 and 1984. The U.S. set up an honorary burial ground for them and ensures that they are guarded 24/365 due to giving their lives and we couldn't even identify them at the time. The guard takes it job EXTREMELY seriously, there have even been guards that have stood through hurricanes to ensure those men are guarded and given the respect they deserve.
In the war of 1812 they used the hats to stabilize the rifle when they were laying down and shooting the enemy it gave them better stability when they took a shot on their stomachs that's why the hats were so big
The only things I know abt the Korean War I learned from MASH
So the story on the flag-raising at iwo jima: A group of marines rose the flag. Well TIME Magazine didn't like it and had an entire new group of marines raise a bigger flag, the one everyone knows. And when the awards were being given, the ones who rose the flag first were told to sit in back and shut up. My grandpa was friends with one of the original men: Charles Lindberg. The only time the Minneapolis/St. Paul international airport has been closed other than 9/11 was for his funeral.
First organization to wear green was the NH Sharpshooters during the Civil war. They also operated in the manner of Roger's Rangers. These were the first in the US.
Just an FYI armchair historian makes some of the best animated history content period
They actually put one up and took a picture, but then they wanted a bigger flag so they grabbed other soldiers to put up another flag. Most of the soldiers that put up the first flag died, and many of the people from the famous picture of the flag raising got to go home as "heros" even though they felt that the soldiers that were still on Iwo Jima and the ones that died were the real heroes. A good film about this topic is "Flags of Our Fathers" it's a book as well if you prefer reading. Love your videos, keep it up @OriginalHuman !
13:11 there is a statue of that in Window Rock AZ, and I pay my respects to soldiers who sacrifice their lives for that. And the Navajo Code Talkers.
Welcome to Maine, my friend, we have a good amount of Bald Eagles up here. Just don’t ever kill one if it isn’t attacking you/your pets as you can be heavily fined for it.
Congratulations on becoming a citizen and also thank you for stepping up when you did to serve your country. It takes a certain type of person to step up and serve in the Military. I just got out of the US Army 4 months ago but still consider it the best thing to happen to my wife and children. Thanks for the great videos!!
The trench gun was so deadly and affective that the Germans said that it was inhumane to use even know that they were using chemical gas at the time
9:24 the drastic change in uniform style and colors is correlated to the change in military weapons and tactics. The invention of powderless ammo and greater adoption of semi-automatic weapons meant that standard line formations became outdated. Line formations were popular from pretty much the 16th century until the turn of the 21st century because muskets and musket-rifles were not as accurate and took a long time to reload, so volley and fire by rank was necessity. This meant field armies pretty much faced each other in giant squares. Now with the creation of machine guns, bolt action rifles, shotguns, semi-autos, air planes, and gas weapons then armies had to spread themselves out or face total annihilation. The French learned this lesson the hard way as they still utilized blue uniforms at the start of WWI. This meant they were an easy and bright target for Germans to aim at while they blended in with their gray uniforms. So the need to space out and conceal troops to minimize causalities gave way to more green, brown, and gray uniforms paving the way for the first type of camouflage really
When I was in high school I participated in the Veteran's Day Parade with our Junior ROTC unit. We would all be assigned different uniforms from different eras of American conflict. My friends all got to wear modern day uniforms for things like the Operation Desert Storm float while I wore that 1814 uniform for the War of 1812. Didn't really feel like a badass but I enjoy war history so it was still fun
Lion heart studios has an amazing video on the tomb of the unknown soldier i HIGHLY recommend
Go to Gettysburg it's a pretty long road trip down from Maine but it's a great historical experience. They'll even let you use a musket
8:34 “They’ve now got a shotgun”
The shotgun: **Model 1897**
Great video btw
The people who were wearing the uniforms all looked like it was just 1 person, imagine going through all the wars over time....
With the Iwo Jima flag, the ranking officer on scene said the flag they had was too small so they took it down and the picture was of them putting up the larger flag
Congrats on becoming a U.S. Citizen brother!! One thing i wanted to mention is that the Thompson submachine gun was actually used for all of WW2 that we were involved in. It was invented in 1920. I think the grease gun was after that but we had some submachine guns to start the war. You're right. There were so many advancements made. Fun fact. The M1 Garand which was the primary rifle in the Army and Marines back then was actually a Canadian design and they didn't like it for different reasons and we took it and our guys figured out solutions for those problems on the fly with American ingenuity.
The famous Spviet picture of the soldiers holding the flag over Berlin was done up and posed after they had won. There is a movie scene that references it somewhere. You can see that one of the soldiers is wearing multiple watches (looted)
The Thompson was adopted very early on, as America lent the British a lot of them as part of Lend-Lease. They were adopted by the U.S. military as the M1 and later M1A1 revision.
If you want to learn a bit about the Civil war, You can visit Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor SC, the fort is where the first shot’s of the war were fired.
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This has everything to do with the large scale adoption of smokeless powder for firearms.
Black powder, the predecessor to modern smokeless powder, produced so much smoke during a battle that it would eventually obscure the entire battlefield, making it important for soldiers to wear bright colors, such that they could see one another.
After smokeless powder became widespread, however, it suddenly became less important for soldiers to be able to spot one another, and more important for them to hide from the enemy, especially since, without smoke obscuring the line of fire, both sides could, for the first time in history, sustain accurate fire over a long period of time.
It's better to lose just 100,000 people than losing half of 70million
And american casualties would be 1-2 million
My grandmother was born in the year 1933. She was born under Japanese occupation, witnessed the terrors of world war 2, and the Korean war.
During world war 2, she lived a life deprived of Korean culture and lived a life as a "Korean-Japanese" as the Japanese had planned to completely eradicate the Korean culture.
As the world war ended, my grandmother began learning to become a nurse. She did, and when the Korean war broke out in 1950, she took part in the war and served as a nurse to aid the injured.
Being a nurse at that time was already so difficult, rookies were submitted to doing things "less medical related" and simply doing physical labor.
Of course, all of that would change when she was a nurse in the war.
I cannot even imagine what a human being can do to another person when it comes to life or death. But, she experienced it first-hand in the schools made into makeshift hospitals.
As the Korean war ended, luckly none of the family was hurt or lost in the war as the entire family was able to flee to Busan, which was the last standing region before the UN intervened.
There are key moments in the Korean war that are taught in history class in Korea.
When the war began, without North Korean declaration, on the morning of June 25th, Seoul collapsed within 3 days as the North Koreans rushed past the border with lightning speed.
When the UN troops had arrived at the ports of Busan in September, the allied forces began to plan a counterattack. General MacArthur's plan of attack began with operation chromite. An amphibious landing operation to land troops on the beaches of Inchon. With that successful landing, the UN allied troops pushed the North Koreans back to its former borders and beyond. Taking Pyongyang and forcing North Korean troops to the Yalu River, which was a river stretching across the borders of China and North Korea.
Side note before I continue.
It is said that Soviet Russia had authorized North Korea's invasion into South Korea. I believe this to be true as North Korea was highly influenced, and in a sense, an autonomous nation under Soviet Russia.
Also assisted by China as it had won the long Chinese Civil war with the Comminust taking control.
With both Russia and China backing North Korea, they had little to no reason to hesitate to "liberate" the south from American "occupation". This is how they brainwashed their soldiers.
As I was saying, as UN troops reached the Yalu river, a victory just at their fingertips was completely lost as China had now joined the war. This time they were directly getting involved.
The reason China sacrificed their own people has something to do with history. For decades and centuries China had always feared its rival countries. This can be proven on multiple occasions regarding Chinese intervention during the old Korean Dynasty era, and also why China aided Korea when Japan attacked Korea in 1592.
This was all to either:
1. Stop another external country from completely occupying/annexing korea and posing a direct threat to Chinese border
2. Stop Korea from uniting into one nation. Thus, stop Korea from getting stronger.
The chinese deployed millions of personnel, they used classic "tactics" used by the Soviets during ww2. Pushing the enemy back with pure numbers. Of course the UN troops had no chance to stop this threat and had to retreat back down below the former borders of north and south.
Eventually, pushing the chinese back to the former borders that we see to this day.
A seize-fire was signed at the 38th parallel, and the war came to a halt to this day.
My grandmother still lives with us to this day. I love her, and I am grateful to have her with us.
I just wanted to share an important moment in my country's history since it was brought up in this video. Thank you.
Side note, many Koreans were deployed to Vietnam as the military leader that had taken control of the goverment after a successful coup in South Korea felt honor bound to aid Americans, as they had helped us in the past.
(This was not mandatory, but many Koreans deployed as payment was high.)
Muzzle-load rifles are really cool to shoot, I’ve only shot one a couple times but it’s really nice
The tomb of unknown soldier is Basically The Brave soldiers that served overseas and we couldn’t identify or bring back home
My grandfather had a musket before a fire destroyed all of our stuff, but when I was like 13, on easter he took it out and set up a egg and all day we were shooting until we ran out of ammo
Early 2000's (sometime before I was born, 2005) my mom (USAF communications) was apart of Operation Shock and Horror kinda like Operation Shock and Awe
i would definitely watch changing of the guard and other show about the Tomb of the unknown soldier. it is a very somber reminder of thoes who have given everything for their country. they gave their service, their lives and even their identities.
Part of the reason for the change in uniform color from the 1800s to 1900s, in part, is from a change in battle doctrine. No longer were units marching in formation into battle (American Revolution) or charging into battle (American Civil War, though they did try at the beginning of the WWI and got slaughtered by machine guns), but moving on a smaller scale and not wanting to be seen as easily.
Oh you should totally watch a video of the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier!!!
since you have a BUS, maybe a trip to Carlisle, PA to the Army Heritage and Education Center, and then hop down the road to the Battlefields of Gettysburg, PA
My NJROTC Instructor was actually in gulf war he’s told me and other JROTC cadets a few stories of the war
1. Have you seen oversimplified civil war?
2. Thank you for reading my comment and you should react to the German army uniform