I was on this tour. Ian is a real gentleman. We spent Memorial Day at Belleau Wood. A tiny berg in the middle of no where. The rural French roads look like bike paths to us in the US. The keynote speaker was the Commandant of the Marine Corp. Also speaking were high ranking Generals of the French and German army.
Wow, as the son of a Korean war vet this information is awesome. I was lucky enough to accompany him on a honor flight to D.C. in 2014. I will ask if he is interested in this. Thank you.
Told my friend and former boss about Military Historical Tours. He's looking them up today and he's subscribing to Forgotten Weapons. He's a Korean war vet who was in "Bloody Ridge"(?) and Heartbreak RIdge. Some of the stories and how he'd describe them gave me the chills. I've heard stories from WW2 vets and from my uncle who served in Vietnam but none of those gave me the chills as those about the Korean war.
Some of those beautiful tillage fields are still killing fields. A Belgian farmer was blown to pieces while ploughing his land last year. His young son who was riding on the tractor was also killed. History is not confined to books just yet.
Not even close. I found a mortar round the hard way by hearing a hissing sound. Thought I'd stepped on what I thought was a corroded sprinkler head until I dug around it. Found out it I was hiking in an near some training ground dating back to WW2.
Wow the South Korean Government treats our Veterans Better than ours does. I wish Ernie was still alive he was a submachine gunner during the war he lost both of his legs on some hill. He wanted to be a train conductor never got too. But he was always making train sets for charity when I met him in Parkwood Hospital in London Ontario Canada. Thanks for making me think about him again. He was a really great guy.
I have visited several battlefields from the War Between the States, and Antietam in particular was a hoot. My great-great grandfather was in the 13th New Jersey and the commander of the regiment, Ezra Carmen, basically created the national battlefield. Thanks to his participation, there are several markers for the 13th and where it fought. I lined up at the Dunker Church and I am pretty sure I figured out, based on research, where the drummer boy would have stood in the regimental deployment. It was eerie. A couple from South Carolina saw me weirding out a bit and asked about and I told them what was happening. Their ancestor was in the 2nd (Palmetto) Regiment of Kershaw's Brigade and also fought around the Dunker Church. Quite a day.
I would absolutely LOVE a job giving tours of battlefields! Thanks so much for showing me/everyone this video and this info. I am going to try and find out more and try and get on a tour if there are no prerequisites
Great description of the tour! My son and I took this tour based on Ian’s recommendation and he did not steer us wrong. The WW1 battlefields tour was awesome as was getting to meet Ian.
100% agree with what is being said here, i have read numerous books on Franco Prussian war, Napoleonic wars, Ww1 and Ww2, and in the last 6yrs have been a regular traveller to some of the locations of battles mentioned above, and it has given me a whole new perspective once i have viewed the land/ terrain in which these battles took place.
I have a 3x Great Uncle who is buried in the Meuse Argonne American cemetery, It was really eye opening to go and see the graves making you realize how much was sacrificed.
Thats pretty cool! I'm in Reims today visting WW1 sites with a tour company called Essential History Expiditions. Very cool to get to visit a bunch of sites on the centenary of the US's involvment in the war.
If you get time can you check out the French town of Villers-Bretonneux, saved by units from the Australian Imperial Force. They have such a great bond to Australia that they still celebrate and remember Australia 100 years later this year. Also if you get time can you check on some WW2 sites like Normandy and also the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne where on 10 June 1944 the 2nd SS Panzer Division , massacred the villagers and raised the village. And president Charles de Gaulle declared the remains a historical museum / memorial . Also Schoenenbourg Maginot Line Fort
The M is actually 100% mute in "Reims", while the S, for once, isn't mute. The group formed by the 3 "eim" letters make a sound that is absent in english, but sometimes transcribed as "huh". So Reims could be said in english as "R-huh-s". =)
This is a dream job, if I were able to be a guide I would do it in a minute. Would love to take vets and other interested people on tours in Eastern and Western Europe.
Hey Ian, you might want to specify specifically (even in the description or stickied comment or something) that you weren't sponsored to say this, because I know you are responsible like that, but people will question if any endorsement is an advertisement since the whole FCC rolling out new rules about ADs. I love the channel keep up the good work :D
I was really confused when I saw the thumbnail. When I saw it I had an almost identical view of Ieper cathedral except mirrored. Though the whole enterprise is pretty cool. Think I have seen them around belgium. Very very cool.
And if it's not to late America should arrange a Armistice Day parade on November 11 in Washington DC. It would be cool if they could get WW 1 re enactors as well as regular troops wearing vintage uniforms along with as much original equipment as can be made available. Then following up the rear could be a some modern equipment.
Google 'Revisit Korea Program ministry' to find the official intro page of the program on South Korean's govt's website. I believe first step is to contact your local Veterans Administration office to get the ball rolling. S. Korean govt only pays for the subsidies as they have no way to verify individual ID of the veterans (obviously). Was surprised this program has been in existence since 1975.
South Korean Government will fully pay the airfare of Veterans and family members coming from Ethiopia, India, Colombia and Turkey. That's pretty awesome.
On est là, On est là. J'aurai vraiment aimé rencontrer Ian et discuter avec lui. Hey Ian, thx for sharing this and loving our comon nations history ! Cheers from france !
Round up! Round up for the history tour! Round up! You'll get an edu-cation Round up for the history tour! Round up! 'bout a historical sit-uation This radical history tour is waiting to take you away waiting to take you away, take you today.
I get the Gun Jesus reference. I remember the vid you posted a few years ago with you dressed as JC. I thought it was funny, but I'm glad you don't beat it into the ground. Are you as tired as I am of these commenters hailing you as Gun Jesus?
Hello Ian. Don't know when you're going to be in France again, but have you heard or maybe already visited the military museum of Château de l'Empéri ? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_l%27Empéri I don't know if you'd be allowed to film videos in it. But the collection could be interesting to you. :)
To us maybe, but for nations war yields the acquisition of new territories and resources. Also WW1 was a war of Alliances, if you didn't honor your alliance you put things things such as trade deals and defensive treaties at risk. Especially if are allied to country which offers many of the resources needed for your nation's economy. Another thing too was that minor powers joined in to try and acquire land off their surrounding neighbors which forced neutral countries into choosing between the central powers and the allies. That said being the on the receiving end of a conquest can also suck and for countries it might be worth while to stand up to an aggressor where your way of life is better maintained under the current nation than under the one that is about to roll into your country.
or not! having someone try to pronounce your language is mostly appreciated, mistakes are a given, telling the right way is the only way to help them learning it!
I have a family member who died in France 28Jul1918. How would I go about finding out if there is a tour of where he fell. Our family paid to bring his body home so he is not buried there.
Not really something I have detailed knowledge of, but I would start with his service file, which you ought to be able to get from whichever military branch he was in. That should tell where he was killed.
hey gun jesus, pelase bless Israel with your presense and vids, i will assit in giving acsess to the IDF colecction and IWI factory and the resistence area underground gun factory
It applies to veterans of ALL 21 UN allied nations who assisted South Korea during the Korean War. Google 'Revisit Korea Program ministry' to see the official page. I believe you should first contact your own nation's Ministry of Defense or Veterans Administration to get the process rolling. Or contact MilTours I think?
You bet. I hope the folks you mentioned do indeed get to visit S Korea soon. Since you are British, I'd like to recommend this book for you: "To the Last Round: The Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951" by Andrew Salmon. "the British 29th Infantry Brigade, and above all the Glorious Glosters of the Gloster Regiment, fought an epic last stand against the largest communist offensive of the war. It lasted just three days, by the end of it a battalion of 750 men had been reduced to just 50 survivors." I read in the book that an Aussie driver of a Centurion tank who participated in the battle got to visit S Korea years later. He was so impressed by what he saw that when he got back home, he started buying only Hyundai cars. :)
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I was on this tour. Ian is a real gentleman. We spent Memorial Day at Belleau Wood. A tiny berg in the middle of no where. The rural French roads look like bike paths to us in the US. The keynote speaker was the Commandant of the Marine Corp. Also speaking were high ranking Generals of the French and German army.
Wow, as the son of a Korean war vet this information is awesome. I was lucky enough to accompany him on a honor flight to D.C. in 2014. I will ask if he is interested in this. Thank you.
WOW! The ROK stepped up to thank veterans in a huge way. Thanks to them, and thanks for getting the word out about the program.
Told my friend and former boss about Military Historical Tours. He's looking them up today and he's subscribing to Forgotten Weapons. He's a Korean war vet who was in "Bloody Ridge"(?) and Heartbreak RIdge. Some of the stories and how he'd describe them gave me the chills. I've heard stories from WW2 vets and from my uncle who served in Vietnam but none of those gave me the chills as those about the Korean war.
Some of those beautiful tillage fields are still killing fields.
A Belgian farmer was blown to pieces while ploughing his land last year. His young son who was riding on the tractor was also killed.
History is not confined to books just yet.
Not even close. I found a mortar round the hard way by hearing a hissing sound. Thought I'd stepped on what I thought was a corroded sprinkler head until I dug around it. Found out it I was hiking in an near some training ground dating back to WW2.
Next time an Englishman laughs at my French accent, I will just get a piece of paper, write "Reims" on it and ask him to pronounce it.
'Ronce' ? :)
P.s. I'm English ;)
Next time a French man asks me to say Reims, ill ask him to pronounce 'squirrel'
the thumbnail looks like you're gonna ask a history quiz or else the guy gets 20 push-ups
Wow the South Korean Government treats our Veterans Better than ours does. I wish Ernie was still alive he was a submachine gunner during the war he lost both of his legs on some hill. He wanted to be a train conductor never got too. But he was always making train sets for charity when I met him in Parkwood Hospital in London Ontario Canada. Thanks for making me think about him again. He was a really great guy.
How does anyone dislike this??? It's a history video!!! Keep up the good work Ian and company.
Reims!
Oh so that's what he said , i live in like 1hour of Reims :D
haha ok!
Could've been Raismes, but I doubt it
In English the closest pronunciation is ... Ronce.
I have visited several battlefields from the War Between the States, and Antietam in particular was a hoot. My great-great grandfather was in the 13th New Jersey and the commander of the regiment, Ezra Carmen, basically created the national battlefield. Thanks to his participation, there are several markers for the 13th and where it fought. I lined up at the Dunker Church and I am pretty sure I figured out, based on research, where the drummer boy would have stood in the regimental deployment. It was eerie. A couple from South Carolina saw me weirding out a bit and asked about and I told them what was happening. Their ancestor was in the 2nd (Palmetto) Regiment of Kershaw's Brigade and also fought around the Dunker Church. Quite a day.
Reims has a lovely old racing circuit!
I like how you have chosen to shoot this video next to mighty Reims Cathedral.
I would absolutely LOVE a job giving tours of battlefields! Thanks so much for showing me/everyone this video and this info. I am going to try and find out more and try and get on a tour if there are no prerequisites
It's a sad day Ian. Scotland just had an illegal arms amnesty. Guns from ww1 & 2 just getting destroyed. It's a cryin shame.....
A sad day for McCullum's the world over.
Great description of the tour! My son and I took this tour based on Ian’s recommendation and he did not steer us wrong. The WW1 battlefields tour was awesome as was getting to meet Ian.
Glad you enjoyed it!
100% agree with what is being said here, i have read numerous books on Franco Prussian war, Napoleonic wars, Ww1 and Ww2, and in the last 6yrs have been a regular traveller to some of the locations of battles mentioned above, and it has given me a whole new perspective once i have viewed the land/ terrain in which these battles took place.
I have a 3x Great Uncle who is buried in the Meuse Argonne American cemetery, It was really eye opening to go and see the graves making you realize how much was sacrificed.
It always hits home when you see the WW1 memorials dedicated to the fallen of *the* World War.
Thats pretty cool! I'm in Reims today visting WW1 sites with a tour company called Essential History Expiditions. Very cool to get to visit a bunch of sites on the centenary of the US's involvment in the war.
Thanks Ian for your content. Very happy you're still here and making awesome videos.
If you get time can you check out the French town of Villers-Bretonneux, saved by units from the Australian Imperial Force. They have such a great bond to Australia that they still celebrate and remember Australia 100 years later this year.
Also if you get time can you check on some WW2 sites like Normandy and also the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne where on 10 June 1944 the 2nd SS Panzer Division , massacred the villagers and raised the village. And president Charles de Gaulle declared the remains a historical museum / memorial .
Also Schoenenbourg Maginot Line Fort
I emailed miltours today, and mentioned you!
Awesome! :)
The M is actually 100% mute in "Reims", while the S, for once, isn't mute. The group formed by the 3 "eim" letters make a sound that is absent in english, but sometimes transcribed as "huh". So Reims could be said in english as "R-huh-s". =)
"Reims" simply rhymes with "France" without pronouncing the "n' in France. I agree; the letter group "eim" does not exist in English.
This is incredible.
This is a dream job, if I were able to be a guide I would do it in a minute. Would love to take vets and other interested people on tours in Eastern and Western Europe.
Mont-de-huisnes (near Mont St.Michael) is a German war grave, and well worth visiting.
Hey Ian, you might want to specify specifically (even in the description or stickied comment or something) that you weren't sponsored to say this, because I know you are responsible like that, but people will question if any endorsement is an advertisement since the whole FCC rolling out new rules about ADs. I love the channel keep up the good work :D
Very nice! Thanks for sharing them with us - I never knew....
What a great service!
I'd love to go on their Iwo Jima tour some day.
Much respect to south Korea for that
Thank you
Premier ! Welcome to Reims in Marne dept
This is amazing. I thought Iwo Jima island was closed. It would be fascinating to visit.
Don't know why but Jamey seems like a really cool guy
He is!
Hey gun Jesus, please bless us with more videos about ammunitions as well.
"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition"
Lock and load!
Very cool. Thank you for sharing.
I was really confused when I saw the thumbnail.
When I saw it I had an almost identical view of Ieper cathedral except mirrored.
Though the whole enterprise is pretty cool. Think I have seen them around belgium. Very very cool.
Great video. I too had no idea about a company like that. Awesome.
I've been there once. Oradour sur glane as well which was worth making a detour on my way to the Netherlands.
Marlene Dietrich is in Riems? I'm going to Riems.
Next time your in Leeds mate give me shout. absolutely love your video's. I ll even buy you a pint mate :)
I said it before, I says it again, if you come again in France, please organize something to meet viewers of the channel !
I announce all meet ups on Patreon.
It's worth the donation Vincent. Trust me :)
2$ to meet up, and yep, totally worth it ;)
And if it's not to late America should arrange a Armistice Day parade on November 11 in Washington DC. It would be cool if they could get WW 1 re enactors as well as regular troops wearing vintage uniforms along with as much original equipment as can be made available. Then following up the rear could be a some modern equipment.
It always amazes the amount of censorship required to keep us safe and free
Very cool, I hope to get to use them someday.
Google 'Revisit Korea Program ministry' to find the official intro page of the program on South Korean's govt's website. I believe first step is to contact your local Veterans Administration office to get the ball rolling. S. Korean govt only pays for the subsidies as they have no way to verify individual ID of the veterans (obviously).
Was surprised this program has been in existence since 1975.
Welcome here. How long will you stay by us? Have a drink one coming day?
Good on South Korea!
Fooking Powerful.
Nice video. Thanks.
South Korean Government will fully pay the airfare of Veterans and family members coming from Ethiopia, India, Colombia and Turkey. That's pretty awesome.
Wonderful info.
Lol the struggle of trying to pronounce a French name thanks for the laugh you gave me by not editing this out :)
Do you know in France there is actually a city the size of Reims called "Tours" ?
Les français où êtes-vous ?
Ici!
En train de deposer nos armes aux sols avant de nous rendre.
To drop our weapons before to surrender
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On est là, On est là. J'aurai vraiment aimé rencontrer Ian et discuter avec lui. Hey Ian, thx for sharing this and loving our comon nations history ! Cheers from france !
Any catch Ian's videos on Amazon Prime released by Gold Harbor Media?
oh hey I walk by this place like 3 times a week, that's funny
Round up! Round up for the history tour! Round up!
You'll get an edu-cation
Round up for the history tour! Round up!
'bout a historical sit-uation
This radical history tour is waiting to take you away
waiting to take you away, take you today.
I get the Gun Jesus reference. I remember the vid you posted a few years ago with you dressed as JC. I thought it was funny, but I'm glad you don't beat it into the ground. Are you as tired as I am of these commenters hailing you as Gun Jesus?
While on your tours, visit Tours!
Fantastic
Had no idea this was a thing
Hey CMP spread the word please
Hello Ian. Don't know when you're going to be in France again, but have you heard or maybe already visited the military museum of Château de l'Empéri ?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_l%27Empéri
I don't know if you'd be allowed to film videos in it. But the collection could be interesting to you. :)
I just watched the movie "Paths of Glory" starring Kirk Douglas. It one of those movies that makes you think of the uselessness of war.
To us maybe, but for nations war yields the acquisition of new territories and resources. Also WW1 was a war of Alliances, if you didn't honor your alliance you put things things such as trade deals and defensive treaties at risk. Especially if are allied to country which offers many of the resources needed for your nation's economy. Another thing too was that minor powers joined in to try and acquire land off their surrounding neighbors which forced neutral countries into choosing between the central powers and the allies.
That said being the on the receiving end of a conquest can also suck and for countries it might be worth while to stand up to an aggressor where your way of life is better maintained under the current nation than under the one that is about to roll into your country.
*frenchie triggered by the pronounciation intensifies*
or not! having someone try to pronounce your language is mostly appreciated, mistakes are a given, telling the right way is the only way to help them learning it!
floflo I was joking
This city has such a weird name that even french people mess it up sometimes
Ronce ;)
You go south korea.
Nice sweater Ian. Varstuleka?
I have a family member who died in France 28Jul1918. How would I go about finding out if there is a tour of where he fell. Our family paid to bring his body home so he is not buried there.
Not really something I have detailed knowledge of, but I would start with his service file, which you ought to be able to get from whichever military branch he was in. That should tell where he was killed.
That guy looks like a cross between Scott Bakula and Ted Raimi
Ian, Classic Firearms is selling left-handed M-14s.
The M14 was ideal for left-handers in the first place...
Did I see Ian get emotional? I honestly have always believe he was very one dimensional and didn't have emotions.
Karl said you were in Narnia!
What's with that thumbnail? It looks like Ian is going to lay the beatdown. lol
-Gun- History Jesus...?
I believe that your there obviously, but it kinda looks like your on a green screen, I guess because of the lighting lol
You are in Reims ? I was suppose to go to Reims tomorow ! Will you still be there tomorrow ?
Sorry, I filmed this a couple weeks ago.
Unlucky, i hope you enjoy your journey in France.
hey gun jesus, pelase bless Israel with your presense and vids, i will assit in giving acsess to the IDF colecction and IWI factory and the resistence area underground gun factory
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Wow, does that South Korean tour subsidy also apply to British veterans? I know a few.
and Belgians and Turks?
It applies to veterans of ALL 21 UN allied nations who assisted South Korea during the Korean War. Google 'Revisit Korea Program ministry' to see the official page. I believe you should first contact your own nation's Ministry of Defense or Veterans Administration to get the process rolling. Or contact MilTours I think?
@Pi C...Thank you.
You bet. I hope the folks you mentioned do indeed get to visit S Korea soon. Since you are British, I'd like to recommend this book for you:
"To the Last Round: The Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951" by Andrew Salmon.
"the British 29th Infantry Brigade, and above all the Glorious Glosters of the Gloster Regiment, fought an epic last stand against the largest communist offensive of the war. It lasted just three days, by the end of it a battalion of 750 men had been reduced to just 50 survivors."
I read in the book that an Aussie driver of a Centurion tank who participated in the battle got to visit S Korea years later. He was so impressed by what he saw that when he got back home, he started buying only Hyundai cars. :)
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Is this the new Karl?
Reims is pronounced more lire Reince.
Hail Gun Jesus
Reims
Rems.
Look at me bro