It should have “US” in the title. Not to be ignorant but America (assuming that’s what you mean) insinuates the entire N.A., US, Canada and Mexico. Should he talk about your country next?
Former Vice-President Thomas Marshall about Teddy's passing. "Death had to take him sleeping. For if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight."
Should have included the crash of the USS Akron as a dishonorable mention. Happened during interwar years but it was a Naval failure (fully avoidable) and the airship crash with the highest fatalities, surpassing even the Hindenburg and R101
Guessing they never read the stories about how the Titans were doomed fighting the Greek gods which feels like Titan is a curse name to anyone who uses it.
Not a mention of the Deadliest Fart accident of 1985. Varshaw Pact. Occured after the consumption of dubious cans of beef and beans by an entire company . The horor still lingers since the entire compound is still abandoned ...
Thanks Simple History for this interesting video. It really pains me how these incidents can take place in multiple ways like the Sultana, Operation Cobra, Operation Eagle Claw, the sinking of the USS Thresher and many more. It pains me especially for all the lives that were lost😔.
Can you do an episode on the importance of the Anzac forces because the kind of just were forgotten about and they did a lot and fought a lot and they don’t get a lot of attention
I remember one accidents that occurred at the outbreak of WWII in Yugoslavia. I don't know it can be categorized as either biggest or smallest accidents. Cause there are no smaller or bigger jobs. There is a thing such as job done well done, and job done badly. Anyhow, back to telling accident. During the outbreak of WWII in Yugoslavia, one German plane such as Messerschmidt Bf 110 C was doing a reconnaissance flight during the foggy weather over Yugoslavia on April 1st 1941 (and it's not an April fool's joke). And that day was a bit foggy. What happened was that the German Bf 110 landed somewhere on Yugoslav airfield instead of in friendly German airfield. The navigator made a mistake since Yugoslav air force had in possession Bf 109's E, and Dornier Do-17 Bombers. The crew surrendered, and they landed by accidentally on the Yugoslav airfield, and the Bf 110 was captured, and repainted (markings were changed to be Yugoslav 110). Five days later war begun in Yugoslavia, to other Yugoslav airfields wasn't reported that the Bf 110 was captured. And it was shot down by Yugoslav flak, also by accident. Also when there was a revenge attack of Yugoslav bomber crew. Cause the capital city Belgrade suffered a bombing on April 6th 1941, Yugoslav bomber crew decided to do the revenge bombing for Belgrade. They bombed Vienna, and Graz, and they made a big delays to advancing German army. Believe it or not Yugoslav air force had markings such as white cross with red, and blue insignia. And since the airplanes were moving, the Germans thought that these were their airplanes. This can be probably treated as either accident, or probably as a deception, but maybe even as both things. But I'm not here to judge about that.
3:09 you all know where this, is going, the titan sub got destroyed by a catastrophic implosion and the thresher sank due to some balast tanks or flooding that led it to the crush depth
Depends on the farming style, and where you are. In arable (crop) farming, yup, hedgerows just happen at the edge of fields as you say. In pastoral (animal) farming, farmers definitely plant hedgerows, as a means to keep their animals on the farm. In Normandy, you're talking Bocage hedges, ancient, gnarled things, reinforced by centuries of rocks dragged from the fields by farmers. Nasty stuff to attack, perfect to defend...
I've got to say: I'm very much enjoying the new format of the cartoon-rendered narrator in these videos. Well... new to me if I've not been very observant.
He didn't blow himself up, he died after an exploding cannon severed his leg at the thigh. No true Scotsman would call him a British king, he was James II, King of Scots.
5:40 The B-29's are coming from the opposite direction of the U.S. position, but then right after you state "they dropped too soon and hit the American lines". Unless everything is backwards, you mean "dropped too late". Also, do the nuclear engineer guys have lanyards or magnetic hands for their tools? How is it deemed a freak accident when someone drops something!? Some people drop their phones every 5 minutes!
@@alm5992 don't be sweetheart. I did serve. But maybe a military that measures you for diapers under your uniform is more to your liking. Better luck next time on your gotcha.
Don’t blame Bradley blame the Airforce for not following instructions. Happen in Vietnam with helicopters and planes not wanting to follow instructions from the ground an adrenaline rush .
I remember my first choice when joining the USAF was nuclear maintenance. Read the story of the wrench incident shortly after I chose that job. Failed the background check anyway, and that's probably best. I drop tools all the time.
15:03 I don’t know if they still do it but when I was a kid, they had a steamboat race sometime in the two weeks leading up to the first Saturday in May for the Kentucky Derby. I think one of them was called the Bell of Louisville. It’s been a long time since I’ve been back to America, at the moment, I currently have no desire to return! Go where your best treated!
"The BIGGEST Accidents In War" .... proceeds to ONLY highlight AMERICAN casualties of wars/accidents of the last few decades. Why is this so US-centered
Gallipoli was pearler (f#ck'n pommy basted's .) If yourselves ever do a follow-up video. Check out how many time Australians Navy decided to play dodgem ship (car's) with it's own aircraft carrier's. Some good materials for your next mistakes by a military.
When I was stationed at Little rock AFB in Jacksonville AR 2022 I actually met the guy that was a supervisor of livingston i think he name was jeff Kennedy, I cant remember. But anytime we went to dig somewhere we called him he knew where EVERY line was on the base water, electrical, gas you name it. He told me the story about Airman David P. Powell dropping a SOCKET not the whole wrench and hitting the fuel tank. He is a contractor for the civil engineer squadron (forgot the number might be the 49th or 29th its been a while ok lol) but really cool guy gave me a tour of the memorial near the front gate while we were doing a job together. Cant believe someone actually talked about this on a video and that I met someone there that day. Btw one last thing i think the airforce had changed regulations to use a torque instead of a regular ratchet and it wasnt on fully. Wish I remembered more sorry.
I remember my first choice when joining the USAF was nuclear maintenance. Read the story of the wrench incident shortly after I chose that job. Failed the background check anyway, and that's probably best. I drop tools all the time.
2:42 we don’t really consider how deep the ocean can get: For most of humanity, we’re stuck on the surface. Imagine having 1.3 miles of ocean above one’s head??
The guy didn't have ''butter fingers'' and never dropped his wrench. If you did your research right you would know it was the actually the very large socket he had on a torque wrench that slipped off as he went in to use it. It fell like 60+ feet before it hit one of the hydrazine fuel lines that fed the missile causing the leak. the reason it exploded is they allowed it to leak for too long with no ventilation and when it found a spark it was over. If they had opened the main cap they could have positively forced the hydrazine out to atmosphere.
Have you ever landed on a Carrier flying close to the ground difficult to master?Are you crazy things something like that. The biggest problem with that operation was a total lack of coordination of effort and unit integrity training has in treating the whole operation as a single unit and training the whole operation at the same time, with the same time with the same parameters and objectives. In other words, it was a cluster f***** designed by committee and executed by the sorry sons of God. Does it have to go out and do it.
smart enough to design an atomic bomb but not smart enough to get your workers to put lanyards on their tools. I would say that its not the fault of the guy who dropped it, that sort of thing is bound to eventually happen, its the fault of the Military for not designing safer work.
The tragedy of the Sultan was not unique. Many steamers at the time were used to make that money from the government. But a lot of the steamers were not in good enough condition to be used. Many lives were lost in the name of greed.
"Friendly fire will not be tolerated"-call of duty
Try Again
It also has a message for shooting civillians
@@makhayla4715 1:35
@@Some_random_account4636 huh?
If the Navy lists a lost submarine as "on eternal patrol" the families of those submariners should get a paycheck until the family line ends.
The amount of people that would try to abuse that.. scary
That’s fucking sad… even in death they serve their family and country…
Amen. Carlin: soft language
@@simmons5328how's it abuse.
@@philpants44 what he is saying is some people would claim they are related to collect a check when they really arent.
You should put "American" in the title
América Is not the world.😂😂
@@Tactical_sledge21 that's why i said that
Agreed
It should have “US” in the title. Not to be ignorant but America (assuming that’s what you mean) insinuates the entire N.A., US, Canada and Mexico. Should he talk about your country next?
Only Americans can do war after breakfast lunch dinner or for beacon greece
I couldn't even imagine what that maintenance worker must have felt when he dropped that wrench. It probably still haunts him to this day.
if there is a more literal case of "throwing a wrench in one's plans" i have yet to find it
"... oops"
I watched a documentary on this and he wasn’t even supposed to use that wrench he was supposed to use a different tool that was safer
@@hucecnv7746 I mean, unless the tool was made of dove feathers, then I don't think it's going to really matter when you drop it from that height.
@@Vladpryde the difference was the lock holding the socket to the wrench
Imagine how that one dude who dropped the socket that led to that disaster felt and still feels to this day if he's still alive. 😓
Watch command and control they interview him as well as many others. Great doc but also sad. That guy def thinks about it everyday of his life
That’s why everyone looses a 10mm to this day
@@budwhite9591except the one he dropped was a 3 inch socket or something giant like that
I feel like the Trojan horse was the biggest accident in war, imagine taking in what you think is a victory trophy only for it to let out an army.
Well it is also a myth so…
Master Oogway: Accidents don’t exist.
Theodore Roosevelt: You should be ashamed of your military honor!
The deep level of YouTUbe meme references
Former Vice-President Thomas Marshall about Teddy's passing. "Death had to take him sleeping. For if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight."
@@charlessaint7926 I heard Winston Churchill also had something real dirty to say about Roosevelt.. something about the guy playing bass? idk
I smell an ERB reference
@@OneWithStarswhat does erb stand for?
Should have included the crash of the USS Akron as a dishonorable mention. Happened during interwar years but it was a Naval failure (fully avoidable) and the airship crash with the highest fatalities, surpassing even the Hindenburg and R101
last time I was this early, we had no war
So... Never then.
So like 200 years ago....USA sucks
Are you TH-camr ?
Free Free Palestine🇵🇸
I agree
My guy doing some laps to calm down 🏃 3:01
Bro was trying to escape
He was trying to get one last workout in
@@jackkatz8604 bros getting ready to serve eternaly
Bro tried bro'ing into the comment section. 🤓/😎
Bro bro'd successfully... 🤔👍
Bro. 😅/😆
@@builderofman7057 wha
Simple History can you do a Simple History video on The Most Disloyal and Treacherous Double Agents.
That's anti-semitic
@leignz1962 bro just admitted that only Jews do that 💀
Benedict Arnold?
@@leighz1962hmmm I think that says more about you than your realize
Your honor, my client pleads Oppies Daisy.
Russian badger reference
Any sea vessel with 'Titan' in it's name is doomed to sink.
Guessing they never read the stories about how the Titans were doomed fighting the Greek gods which feels like Titan is a curse name to anyone who uses it.
Even "Titangiggle"? 🤔😁😆😅😂🤣
@@OathTaker3especially titangiggle but in a limited full time capacity almost all the time not really ever. Carry on.
Just like Titaniboa@@byewhobayou8868
Even the submarine. Lol.
War itself is the biggest accident of all.....
War isn't an accident by its very definition it is a deliberate act.
@@B-26354 you know what I mean 🙄
War is politics by more forceful means.
"I'm 14, and this is a deep thought." - You
@@AussiePomI say it’s the other way around
I'd like a video on the 1996 Black Hawke helicopter collision just outside of Townsville Australia
Battle of Karansebes. Only recorded instance of an army defeating itself in battle.
**FRIENDLY FIRE UP TO 11**
lmao
Not a mention of the Deadliest Fart accident of 1985. Varshaw Pact.
Occured after the consumption of dubious cans of beef and beans by an entire company .
The horor still lingers since the entire compound is still abandoned ...
That's sounds like a load of hot air...
Sounds like a load of fart to me.
bryh
Explain. I can’t find anything on Google.
@@ferretyluv
Commie'censorship ...
Thanks Simple History for this interesting video. It really pains me how these incidents can take place in multiple ways like the Sultana, Operation Cobra, Operation Eagle Claw, the sinking of the USS Thresher and many more. It pains me especially for all the lives that were lost😔.
3:56
Who would win?
A 42 ton war machine
*H E D G E*
Here in North America we call them line fences, think 10 foot across of 100 yr old trees with 6 feet high of rock.
H E D G E
The: "It wasn't me and those doesn't qualify for VA until 20 years passed and this act was signed."
Thank you for more history videos!
Keep it stupid simple.
Chechen war Russian friendly fire from artillery forgot that
Can you do an episode on the importance of the Anzac forces because the kind of just were forgotten about and they did a lot and fought a lot and they don’t get a lot of attention
Geez that Tehran mission was a dumpster fire
THE BIGGEST ACCIDENTS IN WAR❌
THE BIGGEST ACCIDENTS IN USA✅
There you go...
US defaultism yet again
Sounds about right
I remember one accidents that occurred at the outbreak of WWII in Yugoslavia.
I don't know it can be categorized as either biggest or smallest accidents. Cause there are no smaller or bigger jobs. There is a thing such as job done well done, and job done badly.
Anyhow, back to telling accident.
During the outbreak of WWII in Yugoslavia, one German plane such as Messerschmidt Bf 110 C was doing a reconnaissance flight during the foggy weather over Yugoslavia on April 1st 1941 (and it's not an April fool's joke). And that day was a bit foggy. What happened was that the German Bf 110 landed somewhere on Yugoslav airfield instead of in friendly German airfield. The navigator made a mistake since Yugoslav air force had in possession Bf 109's E, and Dornier Do-17 Bombers. The crew surrendered, and they landed by accidentally on the Yugoslav airfield, and the Bf 110 was captured, and repainted (markings were changed to be Yugoslav 110). Five days later war begun in Yugoslavia, to other Yugoslav airfields wasn't reported that the Bf 110 was captured. And it was shot down by Yugoslav flak, also by accident.
Also when there was a revenge attack of Yugoslav bomber crew. Cause the capital city Belgrade suffered a bombing on April 6th 1941, Yugoslav bomber crew decided to do the revenge bombing for Belgrade. They bombed Vienna, and Graz, and they made a big delays to advancing German army. Believe it or not Yugoslav air force had markings such as white cross with red, and blue insignia. And since the airplanes were moving, the Germans thought that these were their airplanes. This can be probably treated as either accident, or probably as a deception, but maybe even as both things. But I'm not here to judge about that.
Came here expecting to see the Halifax explosion as number one... idk how they missed that...
If we listed every titanically destructive UXO accident, we'd be here all day. Texas City, Black Tom, etc.
@@MM22966 They missed the largest explosion created in human history until the atomic bomb?
It wasn’t in wartime.
@@ferretyluv It was a mass shipment of WW1 munitions destined for France
Think they went with the stuff that less known rather than the stuff that is well known, like the Halifax explosion
It’s just a prank bro
*The prank:*
💀
3:09 you all know where this, is going, the titan sub got destroyed by a catastrophic implosion and the thresher sank due to some balast tanks or flooding that led it to the crush depth
Uss liberty? I guess it wasn't included because it was not an accident 😅
Don't mess with US boats.. unless you control the US..
Hedge rows are not "planted by farmers". They grow naturally in an ares not plowed every year.
Depends on the farming style, and where you are. In arable (crop) farming, yup, hedgerows just happen at the edge of fields as you say. In pastoral (animal) farming, farmers definitely plant hedgerows, as a means to keep their animals on the farm. In Normandy, you're talking Bocage hedges, ancient, gnarled things, reinforced by centuries of rocks dragged from the fields by farmers. Nasty stuff to attack, perfect to defend...
history nerds unite
I've got to say: I'm very much enjoying the new format of the cartoon-rendered narrator in these videos. Well... new to me if I've not been very observant.
I'm kinda surprised he didn't talk about the crew of the Willy D. Porter the ship that almost sank the Iowa and killed the president
Can You Make A Video About Croatian Homeland War?
So we Americans just suck at planning 😂
It was a learning experience. Modern area Combat commands (CENTCOM, INDO/PACOM, etc) are a direct result of Eagle Claw's failure.
Only US disasters.nothing from other countries.
Duslike
There must be some bigger accidents outside of the USA though , come on
Go look up a list of dreadnought and pre-dreadnought battleships and see how many exploded due to some accident. You'd be amazed...
Also a British King blew himself up with a cannon. Cant remember which one...
He didn't blow himself up, he died after an exploding cannon severed his leg at the thigh.
No true Scotsman would call him a British king, he was James II, King of Scots.
King James II of Scotland, from House of Stewart !!!
James II of Scotland of the Stuarts blew himself up at Roxburgh house
@@aleksandarvil5718 you could say he went out with a bang...
@@loyalpiper he certainly had an explosive career.
5:40 The B-29's are coming from the opposite direction of the U.S. position, but then right after you state "they dropped too soon and hit the American lines". Unless everything is backwards, you mean "dropped too late".
Also, do the nuclear engineer guys have lanyards or magnetic hands for their tools? How is it deemed a freak accident when someone drops something!? Some people drop their phones every 5 minutes!
B-29s in the european theater?
friendlyfire was never friendly
The biggest accident in the war is having the war itself
I'm surprised with how wokely weak the military has gotten that the "KISS" method hasn't changed the "stupid" part so they don't hurt feelings.
I'm sorry to hear that kept you from serving :'(
@@alm5992 don't be sweetheart. I did serve. But maybe a military that measures you for diapers under your uniform is more to your liking. Better luck next time on your gotcha.
@@michaelhowell2326someone is cranky- Love how anyone that complains about others having their feelings hurt are the easiest to offend.
No mentions of the 37 pings from uss thresher? From the de-classified document?
@Simple History please do missions from Sri Lanka Military
Don’t blame Bradley blame the Airforce for not following instructions. Happen in Vietnam with helicopters and planes not wanting to follow instructions from the ground an adrenaline rush .
How about a wind shift the planner the weather man or an act of God
Any mentions on the Black Hawk down incident along with the USS Forrestal fire?
I worked for a company that builds the submarines for the Navy. During orientation we had to listen to the USS Thresher implode. Very scary sound
Its crush depth , not collapse depth
I remember my first choice when joining the USAF was nuclear maintenance. Read the story of the wrench incident shortly after I chose that job.
Failed the background check anyway, and that's probably best. I drop tools all the time.
If that General had been doing his job instead of going to the theatre then maybe he would have survived!!!
15:03 I don’t know if they still do it but when I was a kid, they had a steamboat race sometime in the two weeks leading up to the first Saturday in May for the Kentucky Derby. I think one of them was called the Bell of Louisville. It’s been a long time since I’ve been back to America, at the moment, I currently have no desire to return! Go where your best treated!
Steamboat racing was not a competitive sports. The captains raced each other to reach the port first to get the cargo.
"The BIGGEST Accidents In War" .... proceeds to ONLY highlight AMERICAN casualties of wars/accidents of the last few decades. Why is this so US-centered
:06 nice James Bond Q branch joke with the phone booth. I remember that gag.
Gallipoli was pearler (f#ck'n pommy basted's .)
If yourselves ever do a follow-up video. Check out how many time Australians Navy decided to play dodgem ship (car's) with it's own aircraft carrier's.
Some good materials for your next mistakes by a military.
When I was stationed at Little rock AFB in Jacksonville AR 2022 I actually met the guy that was a supervisor of livingston i think he name was jeff Kennedy, I cant remember. But anytime we went to dig somewhere we called him he knew where EVERY line was on the base water, electrical, gas you name it. He told me the story about Airman David P. Powell dropping a SOCKET not the whole wrench and hitting the fuel tank. He is a contractor for the civil engineer squadron (forgot the number might be the 49th or 29th its been a while ok lol) but really cool guy gave me a tour of the memorial near the front gate while we were doing a job together. Cant believe someone actually talked about this on a video and that I met someone there that day. Btw one last thing i think the airforce had changed regulations to use a torque instead of a regular ratchet and it wasnt on fully. Wish I remembered more sorry.
Make Pizza 🍕 not war!
Scrappy- I’m Neva coming back on the flank
Flank team- no Ben today
Scarppy- shii I’m back bitches!!!
I remember my first choice when joining the USAF was nuclear maintenance. Read the story of the wrench incident shortly after I chose that job.
Failed the background check anyway, and that's probably best. I drop tools all the time.
Mom said i was an accident 😂😂😂
2:42 we don’t really consider how deep the ocean can get: For most of humanity, we’re stuck on the surface. Imagine having 1.3 miles of ocean above one’s head??
Мне было интересно посмотреть, спасибо.
It is strangely poetic isn't it? Humanity's mightiest weapon.... destroyed by a socket wrench.
The guy didn't have ''butter fingers'' and never dropped his wrench. If you did your research right you would know it was the actually the very large socket he had on a torque wrench that slipped off as he went in to use it. It fell like 60+ feet before it hit one of the hydrazine fuel lines that fed the missile causing the leak. the reason it exploded is they allowed it to leak for too long with no ventilation and when it found a spark it was over. If they had opened the main cap they could have positively forced the hydrazine out to atmosphere.
Have you ever landed on a Carrier flying close to the ground difficult to master?Are you crazy things something like that.
The biggest problem with that operation was a total lack of coordination of effort and unit integrity training has in treating the whole operation as a single unit and training the whole operation at the same time, with the same time with the same parameters and objectives. In other words, it was a cluster f***** designed by committee and executed by the sorry sons of God. Does it have to go out and do it.
So to sum up the Titan, its a pringles can with some coke in the bottom and someone dropped their mentos making it explode alllllll over the place
The sub imploded… nothing exploded in the sub so your analogy is terrible.
@@connorriley7511 sir the whole thing is a joke. Even if I did point out the implosion its still terrible mr smarty pants.
it's more like crushing a can with your hands but leave the stove on low ig
The goldeneye inflated phonebox at the start is a beautiful little touch 👌
wait a minute....
are those the helmets of Goose , Hollywood and Iceman @ 08:25 ?
and Vipers Helmet @08:31?
i see what you did there
Almost none of those happened in war. Half weren't even combat. Video was interesting, but the title is not accurate.
Wasn't the Titan explosion caused by a laser firing satellite controlled by Blofeld?
smart enough to design an atomic bomb but not smart enough to get your workers to put lanyards on their tools. I would say that its not the fault of the guy who dropped it, that sort of thing is bound to eventually happen, its the fault of the Military for not designing safer work.
I would like to mention the 15 or so civilian contracts that were part of the lost crew aboard the USS Thresher.
The tragedy of the Sultan was not unique.
Many steamers at the time were used to make that money from the government. But a lot of the steamers were not in good enough condition to be used. Many lives were lost in the name of greed.
Made by matal and still to hit by shot gun shot michen gun or bomb blast off in Achieveas polangoder was this
I'm surprised you didn't talk about the Russia theater hostage situation
Why there wasn’t tool tethering protocols for working on a nuke blows my mind
Why would they test submarines at an area where the depths of the ocean floor is beyond crush depth...
The Missile Silo Accident is Crazy, I’ve never heard of this Story Until Now, it’s a Good thing nobody was Killed😬
What is even funnier is that Vice President Walter Mondale was nearby at the time, giving a speech. The Secret Service must have freaked out.
I thought 2 men said seal us in while they did damage control and everyone else evacuated
Those Americans do seem to have a knack for friendly fire
We admit it. Others lie about it.
Imagine causing dropping your wrench down the death star’s hatchway
All from usa ,yeah sur fake voice behind the screen 🤡
Just so you know, on the first story at the beginning, the sonar sound you used was unrealistic
The threshers ballast tanks valves were frozen that’s why the thresher couldn’t surface
Let’s never forget the war over a bucket used to get water from a well can’t remember who or when but bucket
Bro really make a big accident because a SMALL tool felt off
You didn’t mention the explosion in Halifax during ww1
75 comments Is underrated
Kiss in swedis is urrien 11:08
Friendly Fire Isn't
I know the title screen was inspired my the film scorpion, I know
multi million nuclear missle vs 1 worker with some butterfingers
Maybe some temporary protection is needed for possible falls a wrench
They did not fail they were just rendered inoperable do to freezing
Fun fact KISS is also a simple programming rule!
worst maritime tragedy? the uss arizona seems pretty nasty in comparison in my opinion
USS Arizona was attacked by the Japanese at pearl harbor
@@matthewbrowatzke6024 does that not qualify as a maritime accident because it was attacked?
@justinewing4414 Accident means there's no one to blame. The Japanese dropped a bomb through it's deck, so 100% not an Accident lmao
Indeed@@ALousyRotary
@@justinewing4414I'd say having a bomb dropped by the enemy detonatin in the magazine is pretty intentional
I got 2 words for y'all, "Murphy's Law"
1:56 Nah , he was refering to his superior officer
Lla