My great Grandad was one of the construction workers on Wake Island! Was captured and moved to Shanghai (after moving a few other times prior) to work in a labor camp. We have letters from when the US bombed the facilities he was working in trying to knock out enemy infrastructure. Luckily he survived and when the war was over and he was submitted to the hospital he was 6'2" and 135lbs. After a week in the hospital he was released and lived a long life afterwards. The letters we have go from him being happy, asking about my grandad's school, and describing the pig they had on wake island as a pet. To being captured and all the communication changed to, "I am alive. I hope you are well. Goodbye." -- the letters appeared to be screened and transcribed by someone other than my great grandad. The spelling was different, handwriting was slightly different, and postmarked from multiple areas. Anyway, great reaction!
@@Erik-zh7rk Elrod did not survive. The final Wildcat fighters were knocked out in the battle and Elrod formed his unit into a ground force to support the other Marines. Aren’t all Marines riflemen first? He was killed in ground combat while leading his air unit, now turned into infantry.
Absolutely is the best story teller on TH-cam. Your gonna have to think of a distinct story to ask him for. Otherwise it will only another video of us throwing tea in the sea
Eh, tied with Mr. Ballen. Or rather, they're both the best story tellers of their genres. Ballen covers the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious, TFE covers military history while he s*its all over communism. Another fun presenter is Casual Geographics. Gives you those zoology lessons as it is, not as the kids shows or Dave Attenborough weaves them as. He's a fun guy to listen to. And by throwing tea into the sea, are you referring to the US and the Boston Tea Party? I hear that wasn't well received by the Brits. "They threw the tea into the harbor claiming it'd be the biggest brew of tea we'd ever seen, but we couldn't drink any of it. There weren't any scones or sandwiches and they put gravy on their biscuits. 0 out of 10, never going to attend ever again." I think that's the accurate Yelp review of the time. Mean while the south was like, "Not enough sugar and the tea was too warm." 🤣🤣🤣
Nick has several videos about UK military. Sir Percy Hobart, Sir Douglas Bader, and I can't remember the guy's name but the title is about trolling the Germans with wooden planes. They are all great stories!
Mr. Ballen has a wild short story about a British Soldier in WWI (ended up being Britain’s most highly decorated Soldier of WWI). You’d really get a kick out of it.
I'd love to hear your storytelling about the British Royal Marines! Nic is passionate about American stories; he's told some British tales, but I imagine you have a bit more of the local flavor for the British side of things. 👍
Find a good story where the royal marines fought alongside Americans and then talk shit about it and nick will pop up and set the record straight. You just have to make him mad enough to do an entire video rant.
I would love for you to do stories on the British Royal Marines. That would be awesome! Please seriously consider it. Thank you! Love this video, btw. I am a huge fan of the fat electrician, and i really love your reactions to his videos. Thank you for doing these. You are much appreciated. ❤
I retired after 20yrs in the USAF, but my Dad was a Marine so I loved this story, & your reaction is always on point. God bless the USMC & our Royal Marine allies.
Hope you're feeling better! I agree, TheFatElectrician should definitely make some Royal Marines videos, as well as other branches of the British military.
There is a rock on Wake Island where it reads, 98 US PW 5-10-43. The story behind it is sad. An American prisoner escaped from the Japanese massacre and wrote the message on the rock. He was later found and beheaded. Nobody knows his name.
Reacting and story telling are different, maybe ask F/E for advice on how to story tell, but would love to hear some R/M story. (coming from a USA: USA: USA)
"It's not about the size of the dog in the fight, rather the size of the fight in the dog" - Mark Twain. Marines especially those of the United States have earned the moniker "Devil Dogs" for a reason, they are the embodiment of aggression and efficiency despite being one of the most poorly funded branches in the U.S. military they are one of the highest performers when it comes to low cost high body count solutions.
**US Navy's Unluckiest Ship With An Untouchable Crew - USS William D. Porter, by The Fat Electrician** This is probably the craziest story I have ever heard from Nick or anybody else actually. It will 10000000% surprise you haha. You should give it a watch sometime!! Love your videos btw!
If you haven’t seen any TFE videos on British ppl, that’s just bc you haven’t seen the episodes he’s done on ppl like Percy hobo Hobart. That’s a name for example? That I’ll never forget & is as British as Winston Churchill, in fact Churchill spoke up in support of Hobart. You should react to that one for example
I think the Royal Marines who rode on the side of Apaches to assault a Taliban fortress would make a pretty great video for Fat Electrician. It's called Operation Glacier Two and is pretty undercovered by military TH-camrs.
If you thought Wake Island was nuts, check out the Battle of Guadalcanal. Roughly the same number of U.S. Marines had to take, and hold the airfield there, for months, when the navy was forced to flee. Yet they stuck it out and held the airfield. Day and night, until Enterprise and other battleships returned.
Once the UK puts a man on the moon, I’m sure TFE will consider making a video about the US-B (that’s you weirdos). 😉 So far, no nation who uses the metric system has done so. I don’t have confidence in the UK 🤷🏻♂️
Hello mate, first of love Your reaction to the crazy things we Americans did in WW2. Love to see how our buddies on the side of the pond think about our actions. I do wanna clarify something, that a lot of people who see this particular video always make when they hear, 'the US government has left you all to die'. Fatelectrician says this in the beginning, this event happens right after Pearl Harbor. America's fleet is decimated, we didn't have the capital ships to make any kind of counterattack. Our only capital ships we're 2 aircraft carriers with little support vessels and the Japanese greatly outnumbered the US in the pacific to the point any kind conventional attack will lead to a loss to the US. It was simply better to lose a small island we couldn't defend for long and 450 Marines than what was left of the pacific fleet and let the Japanese steam roll the whole pacific.
I think if you want him to do a Royal Marine story, you'll have to give him the research. Maybe a script but I think the research would be best. Then he'll write the script in his trademark style.
You've got a communication connection with Nic, don't you? Just do a thorough amount of research on whatever you want him to do and send it all to him. He doesn't tell a story that can't be researched to a point for validity. He might add a little embellishment here and there for fun, but he's never going to tell an outright lie. Honestly, I think one of the better British-side WWII stories that would be fun for him to cover would be about Juan Pujol Garcia, the Spaniard who decided to become a spy for the allies, "coincidentally" got on the British side even though they were a bit stubborn on acknowledging him and his efforts, and then he did a double agent thing where he fed essentially British propaganda and news radio as "info" to the Germans. He'd actually also take real military intel and feed it to Germany, just something like hours before it'd actually happen. Like he sent intel on the actual D-Day landing plans AS the landings were happening and acted like his info and messages were being held or ignored and "he told them so." Like he was so over the top he received the German Iron Cross and the British CBE. He was agent named "Garbo" but his escapades are only something I learned from Tom Scott's Technical Difficulties: Citation Needed show. It just sounds really.....it sounds too goofy to of ever of been true, but then again the UK pulled off operation MinceMeat successfully, so I can't be absolutely surprised.
Brother you need to watch his video on Hobart, and his funnies...He was the greatest tank modification designer and tactician of world war II he was a Brit. The entire video is about a British tactician and why America fucked up by not listening to him....
He did the legless RAF pilot, the Norwegian meth story, the tanks from Britain the crazies. Plus the Berlin Airlift. Find a good story And send it to him.
My great Grandad was one of the construction workers on Wake Island! Was captured and moved to Shanghai (after moving a few other times prior) to work in a labor camp. We have letters from when the US bombed the facilities he was working in trying to knock out enemy infrastructure. Luckily he survived and when the war was over and he was submitted to the hospital he was 6'2" and 135lbs. After a week in the hospital he was released and lived a long life afterwards. The letters we have go from him being happy, asking about my grandad's school, and describing the pig they had on wake island as a pet. To being captured and all the communication changed to, "I am alive. I hope you are well. Goodbye." -- the letters appeared to be screened and transcribed by someone other than my great grandad. The spelling was different, handwriting was slightly different, and postmarked from multiple areas. Anyway, great reaction!
He doesn’t only do US vids. He has a couple about Brit’s. There’s one about Percy Hobart and another about Sir Douglas Bader.
Bro he told you 😂😂 Percy "Hobo" Hobart... He was enlglish 😅
And Douglas Bader (RAF) 🤘🏼
He doesn’t say it but both pilots were eventually shot down. Hank was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.
Know if either survived?
@@Erik-zh7rk
Elrod did not survive.
The final Wildcat fighters were knocked out in the battle and Elrod formed his unit into a ground force to support the other Marines.
Aren’t all Marines riflemen first?
He was killed in ground combat while leading his air unit, now turned into infantry.
Absolutely is the best story teller on TH-cam. Your gonna have to think of a distinct story to ask him for. Otherwise it will only another video of us throwing tea in the sea
Eh, tied with Mr. Ballen. Or rather, they're both the best story tellers of their genres. Ballen covers the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious, TFE covers military history while he s*its all over communism. Another fun presenter is Casual Geographics. Gives you those zoology lessons as it is, not as the kids shows or Dave Attenborough weaves them as. He's a fun guy to listen to.
And by throwing tea into the sea, are you referring to the US and the Boston Tea Party? I hear that wasn't well received by the Brits. "They threw the tea into the harbor claiming it'd be the biggest brew of tea we'd ever seen, but we couldn't drink any of it. There weren't any scones or sandwiches and they put gravy on their biscuits. 0 out of 10, never going to attend ever again." I think that's the accurate Yelp review of the time. Mean while the south was like, "Not enough sugar and the tea was too warm." 🤣🤣🤣
Nick has several videos about UK military. Sir Percy Hobart, Sir Douglas Bader, and I can't remember the guy's name but the title is about trolling the Germans with wooden planes. They are all great stories!
Mr. Ballen has a wild short story about a British Soldier in WWI (ended up being Britain’s most highly decorated Soldier of WWI). You’d really get a kick out of it.
He has a few British military videos
Yeah “Percy Hobart” and “sir Douglas bader” I think those are the only 2 edit: oh and the wooden plane
I'd love to hear your storytelling about the British Royal Marines! Nic is passionate about American stories; he's told some British tales, but I imagine you have a bit more of the local flavor for the British side of things. 👍
He did one for Royal Air Force about making a wooden fighter jet and trolling the Nazis in WW2
The mosquito 🦟 right? LOL
@@derrickduncanson9253 Yup that one lol
@@ghosti79 that was a good one. I also like the one about the legless fighter pilot, also a brit. Haha
One of my absolute favorite stories from the USMC in World War II, among many others
I would love to see you on the Unsubscribe Podcast with TheFatElectrician, I would love yall to compare y’all’s experiences to eachother!
Ah yes good old wake island. Oh hey when are you going to react to spooky stuff? it's October after all. Maybe you could react to some Mr ballen?
Find a good story where the royal marines fought alongside Americans and then talk shit about it and nick will pop up and set the record straight. You just have to make him mad enough to do an entire video rant.
Make sure to add something about how great communism is...
@scottrule480 came here to say that, the surefire way to summon Nick is to praise communism 😂. In all seriousness, it would be a fantastic collab
Love your videos❤ been going through a lot for the past few months, and having your videos to watch brings a smile every day.
I would love for you to do stories on the British Royal Marines. That would be awesome! Please seriously consider it. Thank you!
Love this video, btw. I am a huge fan of the fat electrician, and i really love your reactions to his videos. Thank you for doing these. You are much appreciated. ❤
I retired after 20yrs in the USAF, but my Dad was a Marine so I loved this story, & your reaction is always on point. God bless the USMC & our Royal Marine allies.
Hope you're feeling better! I agree, TheFatElectrician should definitely make some Royal Marines videos, as well as other branches of the British military.
There is a rock on Wake Island where it reads, 98 US PW 5-10-43.
The story behind it is sad. An American prisoner escaped from the Japanese massacre and wrote the message on the rock. He was later found and beheaded. Nobody knows his name.
Never be overly confident against an enemy that has nowhere to retreat.
Reacting and story telling are different, maybe ask F/E for advice on how to story tell, but would love to hear some R/M story. (coming from a USA: USA: USA)
The Fat Electrician, "Old 666" , definetly worth watching.
"It's not about the size of the dog in the fight, rather the size of the fight in the dog" - Mark Twain. Marines especially those of the United States have earned the moniker "Devil Dogs" for a reason, they are the embodiment of aggression and efficiency despite being one of the most poorly funded branches in the U.S. military they are one of the highest performers when it comes to low cost high body count solutions.
Gotta do the percy Hobart video it's so good!
You should watch either “the angels” or the 77th division by him! Or both! They are longer but they are so good
**US Navy's Unluckiest Ship With An Untouchable Crew - USS William D. Porter, by The Fat Electrician**
This is probably the craziest story I have ever heard from Nick or anybody else actually. It will 10000000% surprise you haha. You should give it a watch sometime!! Love your videos btw!
He did a video for a British DH 98 Mosquito and the British pilot Sir Douglas Badger
2 Grumman Hellcats vs 50 enemy planes, I'm sure those pilots called it a "Target rich environment"
A Grumman Hellcat and a B-29 named "FiFi" flew over my house just a week ago and it was so surreal to see
If you haven’t seen any TFE videos on British ppl, that’s just bc you haven’t seen the episodes he’s done on ppl like Percy hobo Hobart. That’s a name for example? That I’ll never forget & is as British as Winston Churchill, in fact Churchill spoke up in support of Hobart. You should react to that one for example
You need to watch one of his earlier short videos about his favorite marine Christmas story.
I think the Royal Marines who rode on the side of Apaches to assault a Taliban fortress would make a pretty great video for Fat Electrician. It's called Operation Glacier Two and is pretty undercovered by military TH-camrs.
I think going through the rigors of Marine boot-camp (both US & UK) is what endows them with their lasting sense of humor.😉
If you thought Wake Island was nuts, check out the Battle of Guadalcanal. Roughly the same number of U.S. Marines had to take, and hold the airfield there, for months, when the navy was forced to flee. Yet they stuck it out and held the airfield. Day and night, until Enterprise and other battleships returned.
Never EVER underestimate the USMC!
Bro you gotta do Fat Electricians USS Texas video. Seriously. It's pretty good.
I was praying for a new Fat Electrician reaction video today, and we got one boys. Love these man. Hope the family is doing well brotha!
Once the UK puts a man on the moon, I’m sure TFE will consider making a video about the US-B (that’s you weirdos). 😉 So far, no nation who uses the metric system has done so. I don’t have confidence in the UK 🤷🏻♂️
Hello mate, first of love Your reaction to the crazy things we Americans did in WW2. Love to see how our buddies on the side of the pond think about our actions.
I do wanna clarify something, that a lot of people who see this particular video always make when they hear, 'the US government has left you all to die'. Fatelectrician says this in the beginning, this event happens right after Pearl Harbor. America's fleet is decimated, we didn't have the capital ships to make any kind of counterattack. Our only capital ships we're 2 aircraft carriers with little support vessels and the Japanese greatly outnumbered the US in the pacific to the point any kind conventional attack will lead to a loss to the US. It was simply better to lose a small island we couldn't defend for long and 450 Marines than what was left of the pacific fleet and let the Japanese steam roll the whole pacific.
He should do an episode on Operation Frankton. Royal Marines deploying in canoes.
Wake island as collateral damage? Just shows that 10 humans aren’t as valuable as a Jeep… we should NEVER seek war.
Those two Wildcats probably just had the advantage of enemy density so they got that many kills
Would love to hear you tell British Marine stories!
He needs to do one about “Mad Jack”!
All you need to do is reach out to him. He’d love to hear from you.
I think if you want him to do a Royal Marine story, you'll have to give him the research. Maybe a script but I think the research would be best. Then he'll write the script in his trademark style.
Nice hair cut you got ❤
@OriginalHuman you should check out his video on Hobart's "Funnies"
You should definitely do WW2 British history
Worst part the long awaited 3rd installment is on its way.
(Accuracy by volume Americas tried and true method.)
Hell yes, do it.
OOHRAH is our war call
What is it for you chaps?
You've got a communication connection with Nic, don't you? Just do a thorough amount of research on whatever you want him to do and send it all to him. He doesn't tell a story that can't be researched to a point for validity. He might add a little embellishment here and there for fun, but he's never going to tell an outright lie. Honestly, I think one of the better British-side WWII stories that would be fun for him to cover would be about Juan Pujol Garcia, the Spaniard who decided to become a spy for the allies, "coincidentally" got on the British side even though they were a bit stubborn on acknowledging him and his efforts, and then he did a double agent thing where he fed essentially British propaganda and news radio as "info" to the Germans. He'd actually also take real military intel and feed it to Germany, just something like hours before it'd actually happen. Like he sent intel on the actual D-Day landing plans AS the landings were happening and acted like his info and messages were being held or ignored and "he told them so." Like he was so over the top he received the German Iron Cross and the British CBE. He was agent named "Garbo" but his escapades are only something I learned from Tom Scott's Technical Difficulties: Citation Needed show. It just sounds really.....it sounds too goofy to of ever of been true, but then again the UK pulled off operation MinceMeat successfully, so I can't be absolutely surprised.
Insane story, love the fat electrician😂
Brother you need to watch his video on Hobart, and his funnies...He was the greatest tank modification designer and tactician of world war II he was a Brit. The entire video is about a British tactician and why America fucked up by not listening to him....
He's done British war stories ;)
I think you should watch this video to understand better Of this battle . The Battle of Wake Island 1941 - Animated 🙂
He did British military too
He's done a few about you guys, and included you guys into a few american ones. Think about it. Both red white and blue.
“Cool right?”
He did the legless RAF pilot, the Norwegian meth story, the tanks from Britain the crazies. Plus the Berlin Airlift. Find a good story And send it to him.
Please Find a good story about the fighting Sullivans.