And you could have been having all that fun of shooting people and doing the thumb shit to some dudes eye socket, but instead you chose to stay home, smoke weed, and watch the X-files lol
My father served as a BAR gunner in the Korean War with USMC. I have some good pics of him in country with his BAR, he barely mentioned his fighting with it. But he loved the BAR and his fellow Marines spoke highly of my father and his use of the BAR. RIP dad miss you daily!
My dad served also in Korea in Marine Corps! He was BAR man as well- his unit was Howe- 3- 7! My dad was wounded 2 days before the cease fire,spent 3 months on a hospital ship in the Sea of Japan! We can be thankful for our fathers’ service ! May they RIP! Take care- God bless them!
@ Respect for your Father’s service. My Dad was there during the winter,on the front lines. From Nov to March he was in the mountains. Between the brutal weather and the combat action, his unit suffered 70% casualties during those unbelievably brutal conditions. War is hell on earth. We must remember and show utmost respect for our veterans.
My grandfather carried the BAR in WW2. The ship he was on (SS Leopoldville) was sunk on Christmas Eve crossing the English Channel (on its way to Cherbourg, torpedoed by a Uboat)....760ish soldiers died that night (mostly from drowning). My Grandfather knew not to get in the water, he waited onboard until eventually, another boat pulled alongside the sinking ship. I remember him telling me, he had to time it just right - as the ships were bouncing off each other, and he saw many men miss-time the jump. It was the 2nd largest loss of life of any transport ship in the European theatre, and it was not acknowledged publicly, until after long after the war ended. My grandfather said this tragedy likely ended up saving his life, as they were on the way to reinforce the Battle of the Bulge. Since his Infantry was decimated, (66th), they ended up regrouping and having their assignment changed to mop up the German troops left behind in port cities like Lorient, St. Nazaire, Royan and La Rochelle. After that they were routed to Germany to pull security outside Koblenz, then back to France - and eventually home early 1946. He married my Grandmother right away - I remember him being so Pissed off because he had to ask parental permission to allow them to marry (he was not technically old enough? 20yo). He was a butcher, Elementary Teacher, Principal, who retired in 1988 - Fly fished and hunted until dementia eventually came for him. He was married 68 years, and died in 2016. "They don't make em' like they used to" RIP Pop Pop. Thank you for reading.
Interesting sidenote to your grandfather's story ... my late uncle (d. 2001) was a wire chief in the U.S. Army Signal Corp. He was stationed in Cherbourg in July 1944 - early 1945. He was responsible for leading a team of former linemen who were restoring and maintaining the trans-channel communications cables that came from England. He told the story (on tape to his daughter) of having dinner in Cherbourg on Christmas Eve 1944 with a nurse friend of his when they learned through other diners that the Leopoldville had been hit and this nurse told him to get his things and let's get out there to the docks to help, as they brought survivors ashore. They spent the rest of Christmas Eve helping survivors from your grandfather's ship. Small world. I always wondered what happened to those survivors of that horrible night. Glad to read your grandfather survived and lived a long happy life.
90% of a good war movie is good one liners and insults mixed with a couple of combat scenes. I just rewatched Battleground(1949) it fits this perfectly.
@@Daves_Not_Here_Man_76 yeah but I think Garrand has something special in his intros that could really make some magic if they were strung out for a 45 min gun tuber fire fight.
HO... LEE..... SHIT. That intro had better action, strangely believable comedy, and more character/personality than most movies do! I tip my hat to you, sir. Keep up the excellent work.
@@seguridadcorporativa2419 Ha ha ha! I meant it as a compliment to Garand Thumb, but you're NOT wrong! I'm a VERY amateur writer and stuntman myself. I actually focused on action/adventure films for a short while in college, but I turned away from that pretty quickly after I found out just how bad Hollywood was. I'm not saying there's no talent there. There certainly is. And much, much better than I could ever be. But the ones in charge unfortunately didn't get there because of talent, and now the whole movie industry is on the decline. Still, it's funny to me how a UA-camr with probably less than 2% of the budget can produce better scenes. I sincerely hope that Hollywood lives to see another golden age, but credit where credit is due. Serious props to Garand Thumb. After this and Corridor Digital's "Tiny Guns 3," I'd HAPPILY pay to watch a show produced by Garand Thumb, Donut Operator, and other gun/military history UA-camrs!
@@haveUSPwilltravel AND I LOVE THAT. 🤣 SUCH a great reference! Granted, I'm very biased, but I love to see it. Not sure about other people, but those kinds of references make me look stuff up, learn more, and find out more stories and stuff like that. I'm a really big fan of that, and I'd LOVE to see more of it.
Thanks for making this video! My grandfather was a BAR gunner with the 75th Infantry Division. It's always great seeing breakdowns about the rifle and it's history.
I had an elderly neighbor growing up who had been a BAR man in the pacific with the marines. That man had the most INSANE stories to tell and would talk about his experiences so matter-of-factly. God bless those men for their heroism.
You are a lucky man. My great grandfather was a forward observer for the 87th infantry division's field artillery battalion. He wouldn't talk at all about it, it was far too painful for him up until the last decade of his life. He was racked with PTSD for his entire life afterwards
I have a old buddy he still has his bar he carried in Vietnam and converted it to his hunting rifle! Also has his kbar still and the stories he tells are definitely crazy!
My favorite part on every historical gun video is GT saying "we'll put some pictures up here" like 3 times a video and 95% of the time there's no picture.
My father carried the BAR in WWII. His original MOS was as an MP, but when he got to England he was assigned to the infantry. He told me that the biggest mistake he ever made was volunteering to carry the BAR. It was just so dam heavy, he could convince anyone else to take it over. Plus, since it was the squad automatic weapon every time they made contact with the enemy that is where he ended up. Also he was with Patton which meant he saw lots of combat from Normandy until they were racing to get to Bastogne to relieve the Americans in the battle of the bulge and his squad came under heavy mortar fire. Everyone in his squad was killed except for my Dad. He was in the hospital until after VE Day, then rejoined his unit with Patton for several months, back to MP duty. Overall he was damn lucky and YES the BAR was one hell of an effective machine!!
I worked with an older gentleman years ago who was an army BAR man in the pacific. He told me they stripped it down of all the extraneous parts to better blend in as the BAR was immediately sniper bait . Ralph was 5'6 thin as a wire but tough as hell carrying that big ass rifle . RIP Ralph Basore ... they made men differently back then ..
I disagree. Those were properly heated treated and work hardened men. Today they are just cast aluminum men, or just wrought iron men, with no heat treatment and no work hardening.
My grandpa joined the Marines in 1958 and carried a BAR during the beginning of his time in the Marines, naturally they gave it to the tiniest guy in the unit. I find it really cool he was among the last Americans to field the BAR, as when he was discharged he carried the M-14. I wish I could’ve picked his brain more when I was younger.
We rocked one in Vietnam. Often carried it on patrol. Heavy, but twenty rounds of 30/06 was great for suppressive fire. I got to use it several times. I was a Corpsman with a Marine Combined Action Unit.
Another really cool figure of US gear during Vietnam was that the BAR mag pouches from WW2 were occationally used by MACVSOG and other SF groups because the length of the mag pouch allowed each pouch to hold 4 m16 20 round mags in them, so four pouches on your web gear allowed for up to 320 rounds ready to rock.
The B.A.R was used in RVN also . Some Teams had them , as did we . I saw one being carried by a " Ruff Puff " one time . When he set it on the butt , it was as tall as he .. doc 70-71
A note to the Garand Thumb editing team, there were a few times where Mike would mention "we'll put a picture up of X", and there was no picture provided in the video.
In Sledge's memoir, there's a part when a marine is attacked while relieving himself and the BAR man is careful to open fire just at the right time because he wanted to see if he could cut the enemy in half at the waist with a single magazine from his BAR. He succeeded. Edit: Just for where that reference comes from to anyone who was wondering
Especially around San Antonio, infested with them. Years ago there was an Iwo Jima reenactment in Doss Texas where they even had a half scale version of suribachi, rattlers all over the place.
He referenced San Antonio…a very blue/democrat/progressive city. I live just north of it in Boerne…Just about all businesses in San Antonio have signs on their front doors not allowing concealed or open carry. Texas is not nearly as pro-firearm as people think. My wife’s home state of Wisconsin has a much more ingrained gun culture as just about every family has rifles and shotguns for hunting, they just don’t make a big deal out of it or talk about it much like people do here in TX, which seems to amplify the feeling that TX is so pro-gun when in reality it isn’t as the big cities are democrat-run.
@@90whateverI live in SA. You’re absolutely right about the politics. People just assume Texas is a hardline red state, in reality the major cities have turned this state into a “purple” state.
I remember the first time my old friend Jack told me about a gun that was a fully automatic 30 odd6. My jaw dropped and my heart pumped with pure happiness.
My Dad was a WW2 veteran. He was not a BAR man but he sure loved the BAR. Thanks to your Dad for his service, God Bless the United States’ Misguided Children! My uncle was a Lance Corporal in Vietnam, KIA March, 1967. Magdaleno Tarango, has a middle school named after him in Lordsburg, NM. along with another young man, Jim Dugan, USN.
Please do videos on the following: -Shotgun Mud test -Review the ARAK-21 -Battle of the Belt feds-Which is better, the PKM, M249, MCR FiteLite, RPD, M240B? -Possible Sand Tests for the future? -How good are mini shotgun shells vs 2 3/4? -Invite all the GunTubers you can to Idaho with a rifle that they would take into combat and have them run drills and compete with each other to see which rifle set up would work best.
@romeo_alpha0176 I played that game, too. I still remember the Japanese snipers would hide everywhere in that game. Also, I remember that one mission called Singapore Sling, where you use the Welrod and infiltrate under cover as an SS officer. Can't forget that Pearl Harbor opening too, literally waking up in your boxers to a full-on attack, putting fires out inside the ship and getting on the anti air gun.
@@BlueLightningHawk lol yeah same. I had it on my GameCube. The music that was playing was from the final mission where you’re tail gunning those Zeros on the Supercarrier. Singapore Sling was probably my favorite level because it was the only close quarters mission in the game that was as close to open world. The rest of the missions were very linear. All in all though, it was great fun.
John Moses Browning was the greatest weapons inventor to ever walk this earth imo.I tuned in cause it was a Garand Thumb video, but I was pissed when the intro was over. Make the movie we all want...no, the movie we all need, already! Great intro, fellas! That was killer!
@@logangodofcandy I'm a fan boy of his designs. The 1911, the HiPower, the B.A.R., bulletproof engineering & I need a minimum one of each, since I can't have them all 😂
Wow, that first 2 minute intro was absolute gold. Felt like I was watching a movie - no joke, the production quality is top notch! I'd pay to watch 2 hours of just that. Well Done! ❤🔥
My XO had a family BAR passed down from Generations in PA during the prohibitions. It looked a lot like yours, no by pod in 30--06. Heavy as hell. Fun to shoot.
If you read about About Face by Col. David H. Hackworth, Hackworth writes of his deep admiration for the BAR during his time in the Korean War. It was an excellent weapon for defending elevated positions, as much of the Korean War was a game of "hill-hopping," and could provide accurate fire over distance from one hill to the next.
Oh yeah the intro. Was freaking fantastic. Like a good war move i was ready to pop some popcorn and watch for another hour. Lol great job. Fantastic as always
When my Dad was in basic during WW2 he was qualifying on the range ,when the range master(or whatever they called them at the time) came up behind him and said "Nason one more grouping like that and you will qualify expert." His next group ended up in the target in the lane to his right, not a single hit on his own target. He DID NOT want to be a machine gunner.
My grandfather was ROKMC BAR gunner and participated in korea war he said his gun was so heavy for asian but it was a only automatic gun at his platoon and he and his gun really do the job thanks for american who gave this guns to us 🇰🇷🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇰🇷
Misunderstood is a huge understatement. I learned about the BAR from my father, who was a Korean War vet, and from years of being an amateur student of WWII. I was very surprised and perplexed by how so many guys on UA-cam love to trash talk the BAR. Back in WWII and Korea our soldiers and Marines loved the BAR. As with the M-1 Garand, you would never hear anyone who actually served and was in combat say anything other than positive things about the BAR. In my opinion it’s accurate to say that today the role of the BAR is misunderstood. No, it’s not an MG-42 machine gun. But it wasn’t supposed to be. Yes, the BAR was far from perfect, yet it did it’s job in WWII extremely well.
My grandfather was a BAR gunner in WW2 and he only told me one story that he killed a truck full of German soldiers with the BAR .He loved that BAR and he never had anything bad to say about it. The BAR looked like a rifle in his hands he was 6'5 .
This made me remember a great Saving Private Ryan quote- "Sergeant Horvath: [On Omaha Beach] Reuben! Hey, Reiben! Where's your BAR? Private Reiben: Bottom of the channel sir. The bitch tried to drown me!"
My grandfather told me about a story from Korea. He was issued a BAR and he loved it so much he “acquired” another broke it down and shipped it back to his dad along with some other things.
My mom's dad was the trigger man on a BAR in the Korean war. I wish I could have watched this video with him to hear his input. He wasn't good at volunteering information. Most I got was me and him watching a History Channel show together and him saying "I used that gun" when the show started talking about the BAR
You should seriously consider making a film or series with how good your intros are getting. I'd personally love to see a series with independent episodes telling a different story from a different conflict
My grandfather carried a BAR in the pacific. I’m not super familiar with the details, but He was navy and was a gunner loader on the Fanshaw Bay. He passed when I was very young but my father retells his stories. He didn’t tell stories much but he did love that rifle. They would often get off the boat and do supply sweeps on smaller islands. Once he found a downed zero and when he checked the cockpit the pilot had a smaller katana like sword with a pearl handle on him. When he took it back to the ship his commanding officer unfortunately took it from him. Wish I could have seen that sword, wish he was still around to share more stories, and thankful that BAR kept him safe.
Really raised the bar on intro quality
Yeah. This is the best, BAR none.
Well, he suddenly found himself with a lot more free time on his hands
@@hakonandreasolaussen1949oooo too soon
Oh you went there didn't ya....😅
Fish gun intro: "Do I not exist?!"
God that intro is so fucking good
I agree i just wish u were the real brandon and not some weird fan.
And you could have been having all that fun of shooting people and doing the thumb shit to some dudes eye socket, but instead you chose to stay home, smoke weed, and watch the X-files lol
Fake account 👆
Fuck Hollywood man, this shit slaps
@User71956 it was joke if u watched the unsub podcast brandon has you'd realize that
Admin is fully embracing that larp. I love it.
I mean he started his channel by consistently wearing a balaclava..
Autism mode Engaged. Love that dude.
Tht edi has kicked in hard. lol.
That's not a Larp session Jagoff That's Motion Picture Excellence Worthy of the Silver Screen
He my boyfrien
My father served as a BAR gunner in the Korean War with USMC. I have some good pics of him in country with his BAR, he barely mentioned his fighting with it. But he loved the BAR and his fellow Marines spoke highly of my father and his use of the BAR. RIP dad miss you daily!
Sounds like pops was a badass. Preshate your service. Rest easy.
My Dad served in Korea as a corporal and he was the Bar man in his platoon. Bar men were highly targeted by the enemy. RIP Dad.
My dad served also in Korea in Marine Corps! He was BAR man as well- his unit was Howe- 3- 7! My dad was wounded 2 days before the cease fire,spent 3 months on a hospital ship in the Sea of Japan! We can be thankful for our fathers’ service ! May they RIP! Take care- God bless them!
@ Respect for your Father’s service. My Dad was there during the winter,on the front lines. From Nov to March he was in the mountains. Between the brutal weather and the combat action, his unit suffered 70% casualties during those unbelievably brutal conditions. War is hell on earth. We must remember and show utmost respect for our veterans.
I love how administrative results never broke character 😂
"He's literally me"
He's a professional
He doesn't break character until after the DVD commentary. He's head to toe legitimate.
“Ooo, they’re actin a lot like guys we’s fightin.” 😂
Seeing him patrolling in the background during tip to butt… was the best! Lmao
My grandfather carried the BAR in WW2. The ship he was on (SS Leopoldville) was sunk on Christmas Eve crossing the English Channel (on its way to Cherbourg, torpedoed by a Uboat)....760ish soldiers died that night (mostly from drowning). My Grandfather knew not to get in the water, he waited onboard until eventually, another boat pulled alongside the sinking ship. I remember him telling me, he had to time it just right - as the ships were bouncing off each other, and he saw many men miss-time the jump. It was the 2nd largest loss of life of any transport ship in the European theatre, and it was not acknowledged publicly, until after long after the war ended. My grandfather said this tragedy likely ended up saving his life, as they were on the way to reinforce the Battle of the Bulge. Since his Infantry was decimated, (66th), they ended up regrouping and having their assignment changed to mop up the German troops left behind in port cities like Lorient, St. Nazaire, Royan and La Rochelle. After that they were routed to Germany to pull security outside Koblenz, then back to France - and eventually home early 1946. He married my Grandmother right away - I remember him being so Pissed off because he had to ask parental permission to allow them to marry (he was not technically old enough? 20yo). He was a butcher, Elementary Teacher, Principal, who retired in 1988 - Fly fished and hunted until dementia eventually came for him. He was married 68 years, and died in 2016. "They don't make em' like they used to" RIP Pop Pop.
Thank you for reading.
Thank you for the story you share ❤
You are very fortunate to have family history. As some don’t have any.
Interesting sidenote to your grandfather's story ... my late uncle (d. 2001) was a wire chief in the U.S. Army Signal Corp. He was stationed in Cherbourg in July 1944 - early 1945. He was responsible for leading a team of former linemen who were restoring and maintaining the trans-channel communications cables that came from England. He told the story (on tape to his daughter) of having dinner in Cherbourg on Christmas Eve 1944 with a nurse friend of his when they learned through other diners that the Leopoldville had been hit and this nurse told him to get his things and let's get out there to the docks to help, as they brought survivors ashore. They spent the rest of Christmas Eve helping survivors from your grandfather's ship. Small world. I always wondered what happened to those survivors of that horrible night. Glad to read your grandfather survived and lived a long happy life.
@@KM-oi9ks thanks for sharing your grandfather’s story! That must have been one hell of a harrowing night in the channel!
This was the reason they where called "The Greatest Generation". 🫡
You guys seriously need to make a movie, your intros are better than 99% of war movies
90% of a good war movie is good one liners and insults mixed with a couple of combat scenes.
I just rewatched Battleground(1949) it fits this perfectly.
the 1911 one was mental..... Best WW1 film ive ever seen!
No
Watch Mercenary Fighters its 80s intrnse@@jefferydraper4019
Tinyguns 3 was a masterpiece
The intro is the best so far. No cheesy story. Just believable (in some way) action.
THIS IS WHAT I WANT
Garand may as well just make a full on war movie starring every single guntuber
Tiny Guns is already a thing
@@LeaveMeArone I'd pay good money to see that.
This 🙌🙌🙌🙌
@@Daves_Not_Here_Man_76 yeah but I think Garrand has something special in his intros that could really make some magic if they were strung out for a 45 min gun tuber fire fight.
@@Daves_Not_Here_Man_76 with actual guns
HO... LEE..... SHIT. That intro had better action, strangely believable comedy, and more character/personality than most movies do! I tip my hat to you, sir. Keep up the excellent work.
I wonder if they'd just been watching The Thin Red Line? Although that had lots of Springfields from what I remember.
Imagine who bad is the movie industry , to state what you said.
“Strangely believable comedy”
That last bit about why did he wait so long to shoot him, was strait out of E.B. Sledge’s book “With The Old Breed”
@@seguridadcorporativa2419 Ha ha ha! I meant it as a compliment to Garand Thumb, but you're NOT wrong! I'm a VERY amateur writer and stuntman myself. I actually focused on action/adventure films for a short while in college, but I turned away from that pretty quickly after I found out just how bad Hollywood was. I'm not saying there's no talent there. There certainly is. And much, much better than I could ever be. But the ones in charge unfortunately didn't get there because of talent, and now the whole movie industry is on the decline. Still, it's funny to me how a UA-camr with probably less than 2% of the budget can produce better scenes. I sincerely hope that Hollywood lives to see another golden age, but credit where credit is due. Serious props to Garand Thumb. After this and Corridor Digital's "Tiny Guns 3," I'd HAPPILY pay to watch a show produced by Garand Thumb, Donut Operator, and other gun/military history UA-camrs!
@@haveUSPwilltravel AND I LOVE THAT. 🤣 SUCH a great reference! Granted, I'm very biased, but I love to see it. Not sure about other people, but those kinds of references make me look stuff up, learn more, and find out more stories and stuff like that. I'm a really big fan of that, and I'd LOVE to see more of it.
How did guntubers become better cinematographers than most of Hollywood?
passion
@@GarandThumb hi mr garand
@@40mmea That's Mr. Thumb to you.
Found the guy who doesn't actually know cinematography
@@Studio23Media Which is most of us, really. We just know what we like watching, and most of what Hollywood cranks out today isn't what we like.
Thanks for making this video! My grandfather was a BAR gunner with the 75th Infantry Division. It's always great seeing breakdowns about the rifle and it's history.
3 guys walk into a bar. You figured one of them would see it.
Hahahahahah!!!
😂
2 guys walk into a bar, the 3rd ducks.
Browning auto magic machinegun
So, Steve Irwin walks into a barb...
I had an elderly neighbor growing up who had been a BAR man in the pacific with the marines. That man had the most INSANE stories to tell and would talk about his experiences so matter-of-factly. God bless those men for their heroism.
You are a lucky man. My great grandfather was a forward observer for the 87th infantry division's field artillery battalion. He wouldn't talk at all about it, it was far too painful for him up until the last decade of his life. He was racked with PTSD for his entire life afterwards
Heroes don't wear uniforms.
No… they wear wings….
I have a old buddy he still has his bar he carried in Vietnam and converted it to his hunting rifle! Also has his kbar still and the stories he tells are definitely crazy!
Love the BAR, but the BREN was a superior weapon. Change my mind.
My favorite part on every historical gun video is GT saying "we'll put some pictures up here" like 3 times a video and 95% of the time there's no picture.
Lol so true
I feel like it’s the editor going “we?”
@@rollastudent lol
Im glad I wasnt the only one who noticed lmao
I get that reference!
The Medal of Honor music in the background brings up so many memories, fantastic video guys!
Pretty sure it’s the Bf1 music
Definitely BF1, recognized it instantly
Should be music from the Pacific or COD WAW
The PTSD from the Rising Storm 1 voicelines also hit.
My step dad saved his platoon with his BAR and became a purple heart recipient he was a dorky humble guy. I respected him deeply may he rest in peace.
R.I.P. big guy
What an unfortunate misspelling.
@@colins5142 I pray he rests in peace in one piece. ✝️
@@colins5142 oops 😬
Yaper 🤦♂️
My father carried the BAR in WWII. His original MOS was as an MP, but when he got to England he was assigned to the infantry. He told me that the biggest mistake he ever made was volunteering to carry the BAR. It was just so dam heavy, he could convince anyone else to take it over. Plus, since it was the squad automatic weapon every time they made contact with the enemy that is where he ended up. Also he was with Patton which meant he saw lots of combat from Normandy until they were racing to get to Bastogne to relieve the Americans in the battle of the bulge and his squad came under heavy mortar fire. Everyone in his squad was killed except for my Dad. He was in the hospital until after VE Day, then rejoined his unit with Patton for several months, back to MP duty. Overall he was damn lucky and YES the BAR was one hell of an effective machine!!
'Murica 🇺🇸
A MP with a CIB is badass
Love that generation of heroes.
I miss my Father so much.
Do or die people who just got it done!
"Oh, they're acting like the guys were fighting." That's gotta be the truest statement I've heard all day.
Sad but true
They _are_ the guys we're fighting
Japan is pretty bad about their censorship.
11/10 production quality. I would watch the 2 hour movie.
I worked with an older gentleman years ago who was an army BAR man in the pacific. He told me they stripped it down of all the extraneous parts to better blend in as the BAR was immediately sniper bait .
Ralph was 5'6 thin as a wire but tough as hell carrying that big ass rifle .
RIP Ralph Basore ... they made men differently back then ..
Definitely were built differently.
I disagree. Those were properly heated treated and work hardened men.
Today they are just cast aluminum men, or just wrought iron men, with no heat treatment and no work hardening.
They're called the"Greatest Generation" for a reason!
No they weren't
@@TheNapalmFTW is a big bad man (on his computer).
Mikey, get that BAR up!!
Was that from saving private ryan
"Mike proceeds to throw the BAR up in the air"
It also strangely makes me think of Super Troopers "Get that gun out, Rabbit!!"
I think he got tackled after that first burst of ammo while papa thumb was talking. 😂
Admin aimlessly wandering around in the background is too good
It's clearly not aimless. He's on patrol
@@jongreen5638 true
Filling in for Charlie lol
My grandpa joined the Marines in 1958 and carried a BAR during the beginning of his time in the Marines, naturally they gave it to the tiniest guy in the unit. I find it really cool he was among the last Americans to field the BAR, as when he was discharged he carried the M-14. I wish I could’ve picked his brain more when I was younger.
The medal of honor frontline music :)
Thank u for giving me back those memories of playing ps1 and ps2 moh with my dad
And jap battlecries taken from Rising Storm😅
THIS!!! The nostalgia is real
This was issued to my platoon during WaW back in ‘08.
Thank you for your service
Same but i swapped mine for a pack-a-punch mp40 to keep up with the onslaught of zombies
You mean when we had to take the airfield
Pop's carried the BAR on guadalcanal. He loved it. Just found your channel. Thank you this made my day. 🇺🇸💪
Semper Fi to your Pops...!!!!
He might’ve come across John Basilone 🪖
We rocked one in Vietnam. Often carried it on patrol. Heavy, but twenty rounds of 30/06 was great for suppressive fire.
I got to use it several times.
I was a Corpsman with a Marine Combined Action Unit.
Another really cool figure of US gear during Vietnam was that the BAR mag pouches from WW2 were occationally used by MACVSOG and other SF groups because the length of the mag pouch allowed each pouch to hold 4 m16 20 round mags in them, so four pouches on your web gear allowed for up to 320 rounds ready to rock.
The B.A.R was used in RVN also . Some Teams had them , as did we . I saw one being carried by a " Ruff Puff " one time . When he set it on the butt , it was as tall as he .. doc 70-71
Beautiful work dudes.
You dudes make some amazing stuff as well!
A note to the Garand Thumb editing team, there were a few times where Mike would mention "we'll put a picture up of X", and there was no picture provided in the video.
That’s pretty common here, and I’m 90% sure it’s intentional on the part of the editing fellows
It’s part of the schtick
its aristocratic
They know... Oh, they know.
That’s a common thing in Grand Thumb vids. Maybe it’s now a running joke.
In Sledge's memoir, there's a part when a marine is attacked while relieving himself and the BAR man is careful to open fire just at the right time because he wanted to see if he could cut the enemy in half at the waist with a single magazine from his BAR. He succeeded.
Edit: Just for where that reference comes from to anyone who was wondering
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge.
@@barriolimbas Yes, Sledge's memoir
Admin walking out in that field had me stressin for rattlesnakes...😅
He had me rolling. Just casually patrolling with his Thompson
Yeah ... poor little snakes 😢
end of october, overcast day... they probably move too slow to worry about
Especially around San Antonio, infested with them. Years ago there was an Iwo Jima reenactment in Doss Texas where they even had a half scale version of suribachi, rattlers all over the place.
@@RP-ks6ly : "tastes like chicken to me ..." 🐍🤤
3:17 considering where they're filming, I thought full auto could be shown in an artistic fashion such as a film.
we wish
He referenced San Antonio…a very blue/democrat/progressive city. I live just north of it in Boerne…Just about all businesses in San Antonio have signs on their front doors not allowing concealed or open carry. Texas is not nearly as pro-firearm as people think. My wife’s home state of Wisconsin has a much more ingrained gun culture as just about every family has rifles and shotguns for hunting, they just don’t make a big deal out of it or talk about it much like people do here in TX, which seems to amplify the feeling that TX is so pro-gun when in reality it isn’t as the big cities are democrat-run.
@@90whateverthis isn't a Texas issue, it's a new UA-cam rules issue. This range is in boerne,TX.
@@90whateverI live in SA. You’re absolutely right about the politics. People just assume Texas is a hardline red state, in reality the major cities have turned this state into a “purple” state.
This guy gets it…
BEST INTROS ON UA-cam!! Makes Hollyweird jealous!!
YOU GUYS NEED MAKE A MOVIE
What a strange comment
No pdf files were employed in the making of this intro.
@@matroxman11 No Holly in a Diddy Party
@@matroxman11 I bet you can eat a whole hotdog without chewing
The cinematics keep getting better and better
Holy shit, these intros have become absolutely incredible! And it's great to have Admin back.
Him and Jonesy just got beck from tha pacific.
I may be stepping out here a bit, but I think yall need to make a short war film, thats how good that intro was. So dam good.
thank you for being so respectful with your history retelling
underrated comment
I remember the first time my old friend Jack told me about a gun that was a fully automatic 30 odd6. My jaw dropped and my heart pumped with pure happiness.
Best intro yet bar none
You mean B.A.R. none 😂😂
Solid Dad Joke 😂
Nicely done
@@alexc4115 Makes sense, seeing as GT is a joke of a dad.
You would make The Humble Marksman proud.
I love the Medal of Honor mission music in the background, nice touch.
Yeah and BF1. Both good stuff.
Great music!
I thought I recognized the music!
The bread is delicious 🍞
@@JFlo-ny4bj you know it!
"If you aren't familiar with John Moses Browning, stop whatever you're doing & get familiar with him, then come back."
It’s hard to imagine that anyone who owns guns or knows a little bit about the world wars wouldn’t know Jesus Moses Browning.
We pray to the alter of gun Jesus… amen
Dare I say, yes I must there are heretics in the Society of Guns……
There should absolutely be a gunsmithing award and the recipient gets a golden 1911
@@jackthorton10 Blessed is the ammo can of Antioch, for he makes you see the light, and sometimes the light is muzzle flash.
5:53 that subtle little detail where his buddy walks to his other side. so he puts the barrel in the air. I always like seeing it.
"Why are you looking at me? They ain't paying me." Classic line.
out of all the gun tubers garand thumb actually pulls off the "as in a movie" before "as in a movie" was ever a thing
The intro was insane! You should make a full WW2 movie if you had the budget of one of these Hollywood movies it would be the best war ever made.
Those marine jungle cammies are so cool, that pattern is great
the intros blow hollywood out of the water. and hattori han? best collab
Dude, you have the best cinematic openings of any gun Channel on UA-cam! Matt is a close second but you have taken the lead!
If you're referring to Matt Best, you owe us all a dollar.
You Mean Demo Ranch Matt?
im out of toilet paper
Kentucky Ballistics is up there too
My Dad was a WW2 veteran. He was not a BAR man but he sure loved the BAR.
Thanks to your Dad for his service, God Bless the United States’ Misguided Children!
My uncle was a Lance Corporal in Vietnam, KIA March, 1967. Magdaleno Tarango, has a middle school named after him in Lordsburg, NM. along with another young man, Jim Dugan, USN.
Love the use of the bf1 operations music as the background music ❤2:50
Indeed good choice! Also this was one of my favorite LMG in Battlefield V.
Got me all pumped lol
Thats why I knew it's lol
What’s their main BGM?
Couldn't put a finger on it but it felt oddly nostalgic, the soundtrack from that game is peak
Mike you and your team really put on a good show. Admin just makes such good sense for your intros. He's one class act on the big screen
OMG the music in the background when you're explaining the gun. Plus the random dude walking around. Perfect, down to the last minute detail
"It was 🅱️erfect. 🅱️erfect. Down to the last minute detail."
I think I speak for everyone else when I say... LOVE the new dramatic intros
Please do videos on the following:
-Shotgun Mud test
-Review the ARAK-21
-Battle of the Belt feds-Which is better, the PKM, M249, MCR FiteLite, RPD, M240B?
-Possible Sand Tests for the future?
-How good are mini shotgun shells vs 2 3/4?
-Invite all the GunTubers you can to Idaho with a rifle that they would take into combat and have them run drills and compete with each other to see which rifle set up would work best.
arak is heavy and not that great
These are actually good ideas
@@ace_gamerno they are boring and almost all these topics have been covered by a billion channels already
these are great ideas, hope they write this down
I like the last idea
The bf1 music at the backround gives it such a nice aura!!
Sounds like Medal of Honor Frontline to me...either way, nice vibe!
@@DaMickLNPFirst song I believe is BF1
I loved the intro! Reminds me of the intro from the mission "Hard Landing" in Call Of Duty: World at War.
Reminds me of the end of the Thin Red Line (the 90's one).
SHIT, GRENADES!!
The music is from Medal of Honor: Rising Sun.
@romeo_alpha0176 I played that game, too. I still remember the Japanese snipers would hide everywhere in that game. Also, I remember that one mission called Singapore Sling, where you use the Welrod and infiltrate under cover as an SS officer. Can't forget that Pearl Harbor opening too, literally waking up in your boxers to a full-on attack, putting fires out inside the ship and getting on the anti air gun.
@@BlueLightningHawk lol yeah same. I had it on my GameCube. The music that was playing was from the final mission where you’re tail gunning those Zeros on the Supercarrier.
Singapore Sling was probably my favorite level because it was the only close quarters mission in the game that was as close to open world. The rest of the missions were very linear.
All in all though, it was great fun.
That was an awesome intro....next level, honestly. The BAR is awesome. My grandfather carried it in ww2 and then in Korea for a while.
amazing. hoping for more "becoming deadly" videos in the future though
Me too
Agreed. I'd like to see him do a desert survival video
Insane intro, battlefield music, collaboration with other guntubers = fantastic video
John Moses Browning was the greatest weapons inventor to ever walk this earth imo.I tuned in cause it was a Garand Thumb video, but I was pissed when the intro was over. Make the movie we all want...no, the movie we all need, already! Great intro, fellas! That was killer!
It was his faith as a Mormon that made him so good. Probably the Mormon angels or something lol
@@logangodofcandy I'm a fan boy of his designs. The 1911, the HiPower, the B.A.R., bulletproof engineering & I need a minimum one of each, since I can't have them all 😂
Wow, that first 2 minute intro was absolute gold. Felt like I was watching a movie - no joke, the production quality is top notch! I'd pay to watch 2 hours of just that.
Well Done! ❤🔥
I would love to see Garand and Admin in a gritty WW2 movie or series similar to "Thin red line" or "The pacific" they pull of the look!
My XO had a family BAR passed down from Generations in PA during the prohibitions. It looked a lot like yours, no by pod in 30--06. Heavy as hell. Fun to shoot.
If you read about About Face by Col. David H. Hackworth, Hackworth writes of his deep admiration for the BAR during his time in the Korean War. It was an excellent weapon for defending elevated positions, as much of the Korean War was a game of "hill-hopping," and could provide accurate fire over distance from one hill to the next.
He also loved the M79...a man of discerning tastes
Oh yeah the intro. Was freaking fantastic. Like a good war move i was ready to pop some popcorn and watch for another hour. Lol great job. Fantastic as always
When my Dad was in basic during WW2 he was qualifying on the range ,when the range master(or whatever they called them at the time) came up behind him and said "Nason one more grouping like that and you will qualify expert." His next group ended up in the target in the lane to his right, not a single hit on his own target. He DID NOT want to be a machine gunner.
4:44 MoH: Frontline Sturmgeist's Armored Train OST is one of my all-time favorites! GT killing with the music choices🔥
Lol, took me a minute to get through that level at first. The train on the parallel tracks always lit me up. Good catch on the music
My grandfather was ROKMC BAR gunner and participated in korea war he said his gun was so heavy for asian but it was a only automatic gun at his platoon and he and his gun really do the job thanks for american who gave this guns to us 🇰🇷🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇰🇷
Misunderstood is a huge understatement. I learned about the BAR from my father, who was a Korean War vet, and from years of being an amateur student of WWII. I was very surprised and perplexed by how so many guys on UA-cam love to trash talk the BAR. Back in WWII and Korea our soldiers and Marines loved the BAR. As with the M-1 Garand, you would never hear anyone who actually served and was in combat say anything other than positive things about the BAR.
In my opinion it’s accurate to say that today the role of the BAR is misunderstood. No, it’s not an MG-42 machine gun. But it wasn’t supposed to be. Yes, the BAR was far from perfect, yet it did it’s job in WWII extremely well.
Battlefield menu music @ 2:05🤙 Love it
My grandfather was a BAR gunner in WW2 and he only told me one story that he killed a truck full of German soldiers with the BAR .He loved that BAR and he never had anything bad to say about it. The BAR looked like a rifle in his hands he was 6'5 .
My grandpa was a bar gunner in Korea. He said once during training a rabbit ran across the raage and they vaporized it.
My grandfather had a similar story, but it involved a Panzerfaust and an American halftrack.
@@silkyjohnson4208before or after he headshotted a rattle snake?
That reference to "The Old Breed" was a nice touch 👌
Is that Eugene Sledge? Or did he di helmet for my pillow?
@@PorkChopAChunky That would be Sledge, correct
Ayy, someone else noticed. "Wanted to see if I could cut him in half with my BAR."
The Battlefield 1 music in the background is the cherry on top of this video
The Pacific - Deleted scenes. With BF1 menu music! sick.
Great uncle carried one on Guam, Iwo and Oki. Never ever talked about it, at his funeral his kids thought he was in Korea.
Clyde Barrow’s (Bonnie & Clyde) favorite weapon was the BAR. If possible, they would break into small town armories to get a BAR.
And then chop them down a few inches. My brain went straight to Bonnie and Clyde too
Bonnie Parker used a chopped-down BAR. Imagine a 5' tall lady, 90lbs soaking wet, strapping that thing!
The videos are just getting better and better - not that they were "bad" before - it's just theat the cinematopic quality is Top Rated.
Garand Thumb out here making better cinema than Hollywood. 🔥 When does the full series drop?
His budget for this video was likely as much as a 1943 Hollywood war movie.😂😂😂😂😂😂
I like the idea that admin went off screen to fight the Japanese with his tommy, but died instantly because things went quiet real fast 😂
Nah, He just Decided to go Melee
This made me remember a great Saving Private Ryan quote- "Sergeant Horvath: [On Omaha Beach] Reuben! Hey, Reiben! Where's your BAR?
Private Reiben: Bottom of the channel sir. The bitch tried to drown me!"
Find a replacement.
Reiben looks stressed but runs off to find another.
My grandfather told me about a story from Korea. He was issued a BAR and he loved it so much he “acquired” another broke it down and shipped it back to his dad along with some other things.
Best intro youve ever done. You cant go back now. Keep that shit coming
Hands down one of best gun channels on UA-cam. Tremendous openings and intros Everytime
I was coming home from hunting today and thought of the BAR, wondered if GT had done anything on it. Well, this is fortuitous
That intro is above and beyond, by far the best of all the guns channels that I follow. Maybe Garand thumb should try movie production.
The production value is amazing!
I am just amazed at the production value of these vids gt team.. Bravo..
I'd thumbs this video up twice if I could; 1st for the intro and 2nd for the breakdown of one of the baddest guns to grace the battlefield.
The Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault music is so good, im glad you guy's chose it, i also noticed MOHPA music in the Arisaka video
The Garand Thumb Cinematic Universe goes kinda hard wtf
That intro was like watching "The Pacific", simply stunning !
That intro was brutal. Love it
One of your best intros, Bar none.
the acting is amazing, when we getting a garand thumb movie??
Excellent bit of cinematography there.
My mom's dad was the trigger man on a BAR in the Korean war. I wish I could have watched this video with him to hear his input. He wasn't good at volunteering information. Most I got was me and him watching a History Channel show together and him saying "I used that gun" when the show started talking about the BAR
You should seriously consider making a film or series with how good your intros are getting. I'd personally love to see a series with independent episodes telling a different story from a different conflict
My grandfather carried a BAR in the pacific. I’m not super familiar with the details, but He was navy and was a gunner loader on the Fanshaw Bay. He passed when I was very young but my father retells his stories. He didn’t tell stories much but he did love that rifle. They would often get off the boat and do supply sweeps on smaller islands. Once he found a downed zero and when he checked the cockpit the pilot had a smaller katana like sword with a pearl handle on him. When he took it back to the ship his commanding officer unfortunately took it from him. Wish I could have seen that sword, wish he was still around to share more stories, and thankful that BAR kept him safe.
The commander's kid just has a really dope sword bow lol