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"I dont want to set the world on fire" was popularized by The Ink Spots, a black pop group who were most famous during the '30's and '40's. They predated the doo wop genra, which eventually gave way to the popularity of rythm and blues among white communities. They made way for a lot of of amazing black musicians to make their mark on the music world. Modern audiences have been reintroduced to them by the Fallout games.
Thats actually a good idea; a lot of channels use a different person to do the ad reads. Easier on the main host, easier to schedule and delegate the ad read recording ... good idea over all. Simon should consider this for all his channels.
A number of Canadian Hawker Hurricane's were fitted with wires running body to wing in order to knock the Japanese balloons out of the air by literally flying into them. I don't know how effective they actually were at that job, but we Canadians are by and large, crazy enough to do it.
This, and many other things, really shows why the electrical infrastructure should be underground. Yes it comes with its own challenges but it would likely be considerably more stable. Unfortunately retrofitting this would required digging around and under existing structures so probably won’t happen any time soon.
'Up, up and away in my beautiful balloon', you have to be quite old for this one, just like me. Well done to all those brave women that were part of this programme, that I had never heard of until I watched this video, keep them coming, Simon.
My grandma operated barrage balloons for the WAF in London in WW2 - she always said the most nerve wracking bit was when winching the balloon back down when it got windy and it was black out conditions as some had explosive charges attached that you didn't want to pull into the winch you were operating.
I've really been enjoying the content lately regarding WW2. History was never a good subject for me during my high school years, but if they had talked about what I've seen on the channel lately, I definitely would've paid attention. And learned more too! Thanks for making it so interesting.
Yeah, there's always the classic "between 0 and 100" or "Not-0% chance" or "somewhere between 1% and 99%", but I've never heard those used in a serious situation like a war plan. 🤣 Yet... If I was planning an operation like this, I would demand an explanation about the wide range. Like, "did you come up with 10% as an arbitrary baseline if we release the balloons at any time of day 24/7, and then you only did the calculations for a 75% at a specific time? Or did you also pick 75% just because it represents a 2/3 chance and wanted to make it sound like there was a greater than 50% chance of hitting those targets without math?"
An interesting tidbit about the Japanese incendiary balloons: The first unit of smoke jumpers was created to deal with that threat as well as the fires caused by other sources in the Pacific Northwest. Timber was a critical war resource and the US gov felt that they couldn’t afford to lose any of it. The US Army had trained a battalion of black paratroopers, the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion. They never reached full battalion strength and thus were never deployed to the combat zone, although late in the war, officials considered attaching them to one of the existing airborne units as a “reinforced rifle company.” They were given training in firefighting and deployed to the west coast where they proved invaluable in fighting fires that would otherwise have been inaccessible. They proved so successful that following the war, many former paratroopers found employment as “smoke jumpers” which are still widely used today. Following the war, the men of the 555th were distributed to other units of the 82nd Airborne Division making it the first integrated division of the US Army.
I wonder how many people in an attempt to stop one of these balloons became a casualty of said balloons. Via dragged to death, carried to high altitude and fell etc...
Did you not see the size of those things? You'd have to be crazy to think you could stop it yourself with just your own body weight... Also, metal cables were not dangling all the way to the ground, so how would you even grab one? Even if you could, it's a heavy duty metal cable, that would tear up your hand pretty fast, and as soon as you grabbed it, realized your body wouldn't stop it, and started getting lifted off the ground, why wouldn't you just let go ASAP? I highly doubt they killed anyone in those ways...
One poor family lost their lives due to the balloon campaign by Japan. Unfortunately unlucky considering most of them failed. It did however prove that Japan discovered the headwind that circled the pacific. I forget what this high altitude Windstream is called but it was proven Japan discovered it due to this balloon campaign. Gulfstream maybe?
I'm amazed this is the first time I've heard of this! As a kid I read a LOT about WWII, but nowhere was this mentioned. Thanks.... as always incredibly detailed and entertaining. Also - Hollywood? This would make a great movie! Especially given the womens roles, in-house fighting between military, Nazi failed projects to counter, accidents at production.... this would be a great film.....
I'm just imagining what it'd be like to be in the German countryside minding your own business and just seeing the sun blotted out by a herd of tentacle monsters telling you to fuck yourself 😂😂😂
Real credit has to be given to the Brits. They were all alone until 7 Dec 1941 & long before that, they were bracing for an invasion. While I never got to vist Great Britain, I've been honored to meet a bunch of their sailors while I was in the Navy & then got to have my neighbor's wife being a Brit. They're totally awesome people. 🫡 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
@@giselematthews7949 The Chinese balloon turned out to be harmless, though didn't it have telemetry on board to broadcast where it had gone? All the social media talk about it seemed to be about spying. Nobody seemed to say anything about a threat of anything that could be carried on such a balloon.
17:59 This is like saying "the British island of Great Britain". Wikipedia says "from sites on coastal Honshu" because Wikipedia can use wikilinks, but if you don't think the audience for this video would accept "from Honshu" without "the Japanese island of", then you can just say "from the Japanese mainland".
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"I dont want to set the world on fire" was popularized by The Ink Spots, a black pop group who were most famous during the '30's and '40's. They predated the doo wop genra, which eventually gave way to the popularity of rythm and blues among white communities. They made way for a lot of of amazing black musicians to make their mark on the music world. Modern audiences have been reintroduced to them by the Fallout games.
I love that song. Heard it in Fallout 3 and fell in love.
"it could have been prevented, had the government not governmented."
So true on many, many occassions !
Not this time though.
Thats actually a good idea; a lot of channels use a different person to do the ad reads. Easier on the main host, easier to schedule and delegate the ad read recording ... good idea over all. Simon should consider this for all his channels.
Would not happen now due to inflation
Buh-dum-tss
Lol
☠️
HA!
😂
A number of Canadian Hawker Hurricane's were fitted with wires running body to wing in order to knock the Japanese balloons out of the air by literally flying into them. I don't know how effective they actually were at that job, but we Canadians are by and large, crazy enough to do it.
This, and many other things, really shows why the electrical infrastructure should be underground. Yes it comes with its own challenges but it would likely be considerably more stable. Unfortunately retrofitting this would required digging around and under existing structures so probably won’t happen any time soon.
@6:07 "...had between a 10 to 75 percent chance..."
Sort of a lot of play there...right?
Balloons are really cheap and effective they can carry big payloads at cheapest prices.
'Up, up and away in my beautiful balloon', you have to be quite old for this one, just like me.
Well done to all those brave women that were part of this programme, that I had never heard of until I watched this video, keep them coming, Simon.
I learned in school about the Japanese balloon bombs that set fires here in Washington state.
I swear I saw a video with Simon in Oregon talking about one of them. I want to say it was in Klamath Falls.
My grandma operated barrage balloons for the WAF in London in WW2 - she always said the most nerve wracking bit was when winching the balloon back down when it got windy and it was black out conditions as some had explosive charges attached that you didn't want to pull into the winch you were operating.
I've really been enjoying the content lately regarding WW2. History was never a good subject for me during my high school years, but if they had talked about what I've seen on the channel lately, I definitely would've paid attention. And learned more too! Thanks for making it so interesting.
"a 10 to 75% chance" is the most vague statement I've heard in an otherwise serious evaluation of chance. 😂
Dammit! I should have read the comments first; at least it wasn't only me 😂
Right? Could have just said 42% chance, or something like that.😂
@@ripn929707 I had to rewind it & make sure...imagine if you told someone there's a 10 to 75 percent chance of something and being taken seriously 🤣
Yeah, there's always the classic "between 0 and 100" or "Not-0% chance" or "somewhere between 1% and 99%", but I've never heard those used in a serious situation like a war plan. 🤣 Yet...
If I was planning an operation like this, I would demand an explanation about the wide range. Like, "did you come up with 10% as an arbitrary baseline if we release the balloons at any time of day 24/7, and then you only did the calculations for a 75% at a specific time? Or did you also pick 75% just because it represents a 2/3 chance and wanted to make it sound like there was a greater than 50% chance of hitting those targets without math?"
@@NnH_Kairyu "Yes." 🤣
Thanks for the laughs my friend 👊
That last story was horrific.
An interesting tidbit about the Japanese incendiary balloons: The first unit of smoke jumpers was created to deal with that threat as well as the fires caused by other sources in the Pacific Northwest. Timber was a critical war resource and the US gov felt that they couldn’t afford to lose any of it. The US Army had trained a battalion of black paratroopers, the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion. They never reached full battalion strength and thus were never deployed to the combat zone, although late in the war, officials considered attaching them to one of the existing airborne units as a “reinforced rifle company.” They were given training in firefighting and deployed to the west coast where they proved invaluable in fighting fires that would otherwise have been inaccessible. They proved so successful that following the war, many former paratroopers found employment as “smoke jumpers” which are still widely used today. Following the war, the men of the 555th were distributed to other units of the 82nd Airborne Division making it the first integrated division of the US Army.
Always get a laugh when I hear of a tactic being referred to as "ungentlemanly". Amazing how attitudes change the moment things start going to hell.
I wonder how many people in an attempt to stop one of these balloons became a casualty of said balloons. Via dragged to death, carried to high altitude and fell etc...
Once they began to become a regular thing, I would have thought that they'd have been shot at.
Did you not see the size of those things? You'd have to be crazy to think you could stop it yourself with just your own body weight... Also, metal cables were not dangling all the way to the ground, so how would you even grab one? Even if you could, it's a heavy duty metal cable, that would tear up your hand pretty fast, and as soon as you grabbed it, realized your body wouldn't stop it, and started getting lifted off the ground, why wouldn't you just let go ASAP? I highly doubt they killed anyone in those ways...
99 luftballoons... 😂😂
99 Red Balloons Go By
Captain Darling was right, There’s nothing cushy about life in the Women’s Auxiliary Balloon Corps.
One poor family lost their lives due to the balloon campaign by Japan.
Unfortunately unlucky considering most of them failed.
It did however prove that Japan discovered the headwind that circled the pacific. I forget what this high altitude Windstream is called but it was proven Japan discovered it due to this balloon campaign. Gulfstream maybe?
Definitely need some fiber in that diet. 12:28
Bruh... 😂😂
I'm amazed this is the first time I've heard of this! As a kid I read a LOT about WWII, but nowhere was this mentioned. Thanks.... as always incredibly detailed and entertaining. Also - Hollywood? This would make a great movie! Especially given the womens roles, in-house fighting between military, Nazi failed projects to counter, accidents at production.... this would be a great film.....
Lol i have gone to school in Fleurus, the city on the painting at the beginning of the video. Little city in Belgium
One source from the 1970s reports that it all started when a man in the back said “everyone attack!”
Omg it’s 99 thousand Luf Ballon’s
The grandpappy of the Drone wars going on now
I dont think ive ever seen a video uploaded less than a minute ago. Wild.
You rock for not saying, "first" . You're my new hero.
@rememberingminnesota it had 5 views when i saw it lmao
Why aren't kids allowed to see pirate movies? They're all rated arrrrr.
I'm just imagining what it'd be like to be in the German countryside minding your own business and just seeing the sun blotted out by a herd of tentacle monsters telling you to fuck yourself 😂😂😂
Looking dapper simon
Hi Simon have you ever done a program on contrails?
The original drone.
not even remotely close, my guy. Try again 😂😂
This was well worth my time to watch.
I was wondering what those things in battlefield were!
Real credit has to be given to the Brits. They were all alone until 7 Dec 1941 & long before that, they were bracing for an invasion. While I never got to vist Great Britain, I've been honored to meet a bunch of their sailors while I was in the Navy & then got to have my neighbor's wife being a Brit. They're totally awesome people. 🫡 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
I didn't know that the balloon defense games where based on real events
I don't want to set the World on fire by the Ink Spots in case anyone hasn't heard it 😅
No mention of the Fire Kingdom using balloons to attack the air temples?
This is another great video.
did they think of tying a camera to balloon?
Fascinating stuff.
Archie later went to South Vietnam, the Viet Cong kidnapped him and he was never released.
So they were big fans of fallout 3 also? Lol “ I don’t wanna set the world on fire”
I think I suggested this idea a while back
seems like it wasn't going to work, but it did
Didn't that balloon thing happen a few years ago? I thought that was china
China didn't use explosives, just surveillance
Was that your friendly reminder that China launched spy balloons?
The china balloon thing happened last year. That was a spy balloon. Different situation. But yes, you are right. What Simon is talking about is wwii
@@giselematthews7949 The Chinese balloon turned out to be harmless, though didn't it have telemetry on board to broadcast where it had gone? All the social media talk about it seemed to be about spying. Nobody seemed to say anything about a threat of anything that could be carried on such a balloon.
17:59 This is like saying "the British island of Great Britain". Wikipedia says "from sites on coastal Honshu" because Wikipedia can use wikilinks, but if you don't think the audience for this video would accept "from Honshu" without "the Japanese island of", then you can just say "from the Japanese mainland".
Hey Simon, where could a person send you some snail mail?
Because “of course they did.”
I SEE THAT TOLKIEN BOOK
All i can think about is sukuna
simon 2.0 you shocked me with your add
Balloon attack to take out the North Korean power grid? 😂😂😂
The weird added twinkling effects around the edges of the video frame are pretty annoying. Maybe don't do that?
What?
87th
always remember your vaccination advertising video and feel disgusted