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  @kylecarmichael58905 сағат бұрын

  Can I just say I'm almost crying for the poor Wild Swan. She and her crew did their duty to the highest order. They saved lives.

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  @comentedonakeyboard5 сағат бұрын

  They stole the Japanese ramp design? I demand the cancelation of D Day😂

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  @mattreganowski80925 сағат бұрын

  For some time I have wanted to ask Drach how he might design such a vessel to make it harder for the enemy to concentrate machine gun fire into the craft as soon as the ramp dropped and turn everyone in the vessel into hamburger before they even exited the craft, which I understand happened a good bit. Just trying to get soldiers onto the beach faster than the Germans could kill them does not seem like the best strategy to me. Drach - your thoughts on how this craft could be designed to give more protection to disembarking soldiers??🤔🤔🤔

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  @bradthackston52175 сағат бұрын

  I have a wooden model of her above my fire place

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  @BruceK100326 сағат бұрын

  Great job! I never had any idea the LCVP was inspired by the Daihatsu!

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  @AdamosDad6 сағат бұрын

  Very similar to the LCM-8 ("Mike Boat") a river boat and mechanized landing craft that we used in Vietnam and as liberty boats else were.

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  @Sublette2176 сағат бұрын

  I wish you had mentioned the competition the Navy was forced to conduct pitting the Higgins design against their own ungainly in-house design, which, as we know, the Higgins boat bested easily.

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  @JayRock9077 сағат бұрын

  The original Patent for these Higgin's boats was patened on December 7th, 1941. The same day as Pearl Harbor.

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  @markstott66897 сағат бұрын

  I miss this theme music. 😊❤️😊

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  @kylecarmichael58907 сағат бұрын

  Can I just say 'Convolvulus' is the worst ship name ever.

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  @boboala18 сағат бұрын

  Drach! So glad to hear from you & that you are alive! They told me you were bitten by a skinwalker creature while you were in Texas a while back. You will need to find a shaman to survive so that you won't turn into a hideous demon!

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  @tonyw.32108 сағат бұрын

  I operated LCVP’s with the USCGC Polar Sea in the Artic as late as 1996, not sure if they are still being used

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  @reidweber95608 сағат бұрын

  Grandfather was a coastie and drove Higgins boats from the Joseph Dickman PA 13. The one great side view of a loaded Higgins was from his ship and I wish we knew what the number is of the Higgins behind, as one of those two crewmen could be him. Grandpa never told me much, but he would say he could honestly say he was shot at by the French, Germans, and Japanese as his first action was Casablanca, then Salerno, then Normandy before heading to the Pacific. He also told me that because no one was comfortable crossing the Atlantic on troop ship 13, they added a 1 to make it 131 unofficially. If they would have diagnosed it in the 40's, he would have officially had PTSD from the experience...never gave any details from any landings.

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  @kylecarmichael58908 сағат бұрын

  Hopes and dreams and thoughts and prayers, Drach you are a master.

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  @mgrzx33678 сағат бұрын

  They should have made it the Queens doorstop. Very Impressive.

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  @fredericksorrels9708 сағат бұрын

  The US National WW2 Museum in New Orleans is on the site of Andrew Jackson Higgins factory where they were invented and many built. Highly recommended if in NO.

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  @marklelohe37549 сағат бұрын

  Well done again. Can you to take the wartime history of Capt. Walker to the end please, what a cliff hanger!

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  @Blockio19999 сағат бұрын

  Drachism of the day: "Armor came in two flavors: Thoughts and prayers, or hopes and dreams"

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  @Aethelgeat9 сағат бұрын

  Didn't the French use front-ramp boats when they landed in Dover in 1199? :)

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  @stephenhall56949 сағат бұрын

  5:20 I think you meant EAST coast of South America.

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  @dbcooper43759 сағат бұрын

  I think that's what they call graveful degradation

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  @davepratt99099 сағат бұрын

  In training, we landed from one of these. The coxswain commented that they were good boats as long as you didn't land facing a machine gun. When asked what happened then, his response was "I duck and back out. You die."

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  @su8pack139 сағат бұрын

  My second cousin piloted one on D-Day, and made two beach drops before getting blown out of the water on his return for his 3rd load . He spent 2 days in the water and was in the hospital until 1947.

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  @lewiswestfall26879 сағат бұрын

  Thanks Drach

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  @sakkra9310 сағат бұрын

  Such a pretty ship!

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  @connormclernon2610 сағат бұрын

  I really hope they find Willie Dee.

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  @georgesoros641510 сағат бұрын

  I often think Bull Halsey got away with so much stupid at the invasion of the Philippines, and the typhoon after, because when the navy needed him, he was there, like in Guadalcanal. Like Grant, he would fight! Like a rabid dog! Neither Grant's drinking nor Halsey's senility made him any less a General. And a grateful nation honored him. Like it should be.

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  @tomcatfoolery10 сағат бұрын

  You have a certain humorous flair that is most welcome and incredibly enjoyable.

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  @able34bravo3710 сағат бұрын

  It's cool to see these really old traditions being upheld, with the whole firing of the battery and the other posts in the area marking their day by it as well.

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  @georgesoros641510 сағат бұрын

  Oh, Drach, your sense of humor had my wife rolling on the floor....because even she thought a dynamite gun would swiftly become a dynamite bomb. And she doesn't understand how a toilet works. She is a hospice nurse, and she knows more about dying well than either of us wishes to ever know, but her command of engineering is, at best, tenuous. Still, when she comes home from a night shift guiding gentle people to their last breath with the utmost comfort, she finds your wonder mellifluous voice to get her to sleep quite effectively. She finds your voice soothing and your command of language reassuring. She has taken to watching your Saturday offerings with me, because they soothe her. Usually so she may get to sleep after a difficult night. She says you have missed your calling. You should market your voice as a sleep aid. You needn't stop this, God forbid! but it might generate some additional revenue. Hey. Jordan Peterson does it!

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  @johnfisher969210 сағат бұрын

  Impressive piece of equipment for something done in a hurry. Proves necessity is the mother of invention

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  @richardcutts19610 сағат бұрын

  I've always wondered why Australia and New Zealand Chose to build weaker copies of Invincible class instead of the contemporary Lion class. Sure Lion had a Q turret instead of a more sensible arrangement but at least the other aspects of the design were acceptable. Hell they might have commissioned Vickers to build improved Kongo(s), with 13.5" guns, as long as they were paying for it.

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  @therealuncleowen258811 сағат бұрын

  I'd just like to say thank you to Andrew Higgins for designing and building the first of these boats with his own funds, without a contract, at the request of a single Marine officer. That was, in part, an act of great patriotism typical of the WW2 era. 🇺🇸 Now yes, he won the contract and made money on the deal, but he could just as likely have taken a complete loss on the effort. In the end, his boats were excellent at the task they were built for. Without such a boat, all the Allied amphibious landings would have been much more difficult.

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  @forgetmeshots11 сағат бұрын

  Love the SF trolling. 😏👍🏻

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  @RichardTucker-xu6ic11 сағат бұрын

  Thank you for such an informative and entertaining video. My father was in the US Navy on a destroyer in the south Pacific. The DD664 the Richard P. Leary. His ship was in the battle of Leyte Gulf and was part of the torpedo runs that were made. I don't think there will ever be a generation as brave and heroic as my father's generation. Thank you.

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  @haroldhenderson282411 сағат бұрын

  Bigger than a row boat, smaller than a cargo barge. Shallow draft (Normandy beach was a very low (long) slope. However, just as capable of approaching a cliff. The arrangement of the propeller shaft (protected by the keel and the rudder) allowed the boat to be beached, then reversed off by itself once unloaded.

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  @botondtoth826311 сағат бұрын

  It looks like today the replaceable liners are not always preferred. The newer 5"/127 mm multipurpose guns have "unitary construction" barrels. What happens, if the barrel wears out? They throw it away, or it's somehow repaired with one of the additive manufacturing methods?

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  @briannicholas275712 сағат бұрын

  Don't worry about the jerks who criticize, especially the nitpicking types. If the original question involved a Japanese name, it probably originates from some overgrown manchild who lives in his parent's basement and reads anine and plays video games, and self identifies as a great samurai warrior. No Japanese person I know, would ever criticize someone for making an attempt to pronounce their language. Same holds true for the Spanish speaking world, they are much to civilized to criticize. Although being an American gringo, I was taught Spanish by a Spanish Professor from Barcelona who taught us very formal Castillan Spanish. I even have the lisp and use the vosotros form of the verb, which usually gets a sideways look or a giggle. The world's full of people who have nothing better to do, and don't have the mental capacity to actually do anything, so they criticize others to make themselves feel important.

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  @williamgreen741512 сағат бұрын

  Thanks!

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  @garygreen755212 сағат бұрын

  I was on a LST in the late 60's that had three LCVP's. We referred to them as "Papa" boots, using the radio phonetic word for the letter "P." We used them for carrying personnel from the ship to shore when we were anchored out. Unexciting but useful. Our boats were made of wood. However, I believe that some of the later boats were made of fiber-glass.

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  @briantonkin773713 сағат бұрын

  Have a number of them abandoned in the area, numerous former surplus dumps/ target ranges/ depots nearby

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  @WillowEpp13 сағат бұрын

  For my (non-)money, I think the secular "hopes and dreams" armour is more likely to protect my atheist ass.

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  @scipioafricanus432813 сағат бұрын

  Great video, I’ve always been fascinated by landing craft, keep up the good work!

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  @RogerWillco_88013 сағат бұрын

  We used LCVP's in Beirut and Grenada in the early 80s. How about doing a video of the LSTs. There's a few left for museums and some in other countries. The only Newport Class LSTs that are still operating are the USS NEWPORT LST 1179. She's in the reserve navy. The USS Manitowoc LST 1180 and the USS Sumpter LST 1181 are still in use in the Taiwan Navy. ROCN CHUNG HO lst 232 (The Manitowoc) and ROCN CHUNG KING lst 233 (Sumpter) the 3 oldest of the Newport Class. I think it was because of the EMD(Detroit) 6- 16, 645s, and the 3- 12, 645s. All the other LSTS of the class had ALCO Diesels. They all have been sunk and scraped. Any other older LSTs that are still in operation are DETROIT. There's a lot about the Amphibious Navy( GATOR NAVY). That something people might be interested in.

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  @epiclighthd765513 сағат бұрын

  I think Seydlitz is probably pronounced like sighdlitz only in German, while the other version is the English one (and maybe an alternative in German). Seydlitz comes from Seidlitz (or Zeidlitz) which then makes it pretty clear that the original version was the sighdlitz one :D

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  @christiantroy303413 сағат бұрын

  Im surprised you didn’t use one of your photos from Battleship Cove.

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  @fien11113 сағат бұрын

  I don't know, I don't think I'd want to be on the receiving end of a ship named "The Business"

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  @bebo480713 сағат бұрын

  My grandmother gave birth to me in a Higgins boat. We used the ramp to plant poultry and fend off vermin.

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  @charlie1562713 сағат бұрын

  The really was a great honor

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  @pattheriot396314 сағат бұрын

  Thanks for taking on this topic! My grandfather was a mail man in the US Navy during the war in the Pacific but he was driving these boats delivering troops for the retaking of the Philippines.