Best of the History Guy: The Cold War. Five classic The History Guy episodes on the defining conflict of the latter half of the Twentieth Century. Almost a full hour of The History Guy!
00:00 – The 3 a.m. call and the 1979 NORAD Alert
11:03:04 -The Distant Early Warning Line and Forgotten History
22:03:21 – US Air Force Tragedy at Texas Tower 4
32:11:12 – The Cold War and the Santa Susana Field Laboratory
42:13:11 – The Other October Crisis: The Sino-Indian War of 1962
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Good Monday morning History Guy and everyone watching. Happy holidays to everyone. I'm a veteran of the Cold War, Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm), Global War on Terrorism, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. USN 1982-2003.
Bask in the Saddle Again
Hey Playboy,👋 someone asked me to ask a question of you. Where you a Boy Scout and how high was your rank? Thank You
it was very cold the winter 1975/76 Korea
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I was on Alert duty at that time. All our aircraft were manned and ready to start engines. We waited, not knowing if this was the day or not.
Served in Germany along the Czechoslovakian and East German Borders, out of Camp Pitman and OP Alpha (with one gnarly tour up at Romeo in 84). Happier than duck in water when that damned Wall came down, and I could walk across the former Grenz into Thurigan from Hessen at Alpha without some BT putting an AKS upside my nostril.
my lifestyle has changed since I earned over $45,000 in fifteen days. I'm so happy
The 1979 "super goof" was the THG episode that had me first subscribe to this channel. I was in the USAF in missile communications at F. E. Warren in Nov 1979. I think we all were still shook days afterward.
This incident was what War games was based on. 🤔
Nice use of "the end of history" as a double entendre.
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47th, 11 December 2023
My dad worked on the assemblage of the D.E.W. line. Goose Bay AFB and Labradore. The later two was to make them compatible with their SAC mission.
Morning Cup Of Coffee and Sneezing Spree.. 9am ist onwards.
Left Jaw , Drill Shark Attacks..
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We have a new Cold war 2.0 starting now.
Military industrial complex drooling over a new one after Iraq Afgan 30 years of wars ended .
Now Russia " bad" again.
But Ccp China "good" since Almost everything we buy is made in Ccp China slave labor prisons admitted except Chinese take out food in America..
"Operation Able Archer" 1983 was what calmed down this insanity…
Almost ended mankind.
Thanks!
A gentleman I worked with was stationed on Tower 4 and he was one of the crew evacuated.
These episodes dovetail together nicely! Good opportunity to reinforce the learning!
Hit 60k weekly, I'm really grateful for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last months. Started with 14k in June 2022
I wonder why we still have land based and air based strategic weapon systems. Submarine based systems can still assure mutual destruction, but without the urgency and allowing time to determine what happened and what safes should be opened. "Boomers" already operate in utter secrecy; they may be anywhere in the world and very few people know just where.
I noticed that you’ve got a 1957 Corvette model sitting on your shelf. Do you own one or is it something you dream to own?
I served in the Army stationed at an isolated missile battery in West Germany in the Cold War.
Algorithm feeding
Texas Tower is one of the saddest and Most Fascinating stories
It's hilarious that the top comment is a bot, & a couple of score of the likes and comments appear to be from other Bots! 😹
I remember this & was a part of it too….Scary….
I was assigned to FE Warren AFB as a missile systems electro-mechanical team member during that time.
Thanks THG!!!! As a Cold War vet myself (on the fence on 9 Nov. 1989) and seeing the very beginnings of the fall of the Warsaw Pact first hand, these episodes mean a lot. Good job!!!
To all veterans here, thank you for your service! There was never a more dire time for us who slept through it. Thank you for protecting the world.
May the Blessings Be.
There exists a Single Point Failure to the U.S. Nuclear Response… that being the President of the United States refusing to act.
But it's not like Russia or China has been caught funneling millions of dollars in bribes to anyone in that office, is it?
Mrs Elizabeth Ann Larson killed my family
The Soviets had their share of false alarms. One occurred in September 1983, when their own computers "reported" that the U.S. had launched a limited nuclear strike against Russia.
I was stationed on a SAC base in 1979. Jimmy Carter killed SAC’s B-1 bomber and MX missile programs. You still think those were computer glitches?
That November 1979 snafu came days after the Iranian embassy takeover and hostage crisis..
Btw History Guy: "Spur Ride" might be an interesting episode in this day and age. 😎
Wow a 5 story feature with no Big Bangs -We Win!
Story 1. 7:30 THG speaks right but the view is of F-102 Daggers. They have pointy tails & intake beside cockpit, F-106 Darts have flat tails & intakes behind cockpits. Deuces went to Nam '63-68, but most went ANG by 70s. Most likely Sixers were "on alert" on 11/09/79. LAFB & most of ADTAC replaced with F-15 in '83. Just my grain of SALTII.
Story2 11:05: Pinetree line. 13:34 That dar mitten has its thumb on wrong side, eh? Grand Travers Bay out do'n Saggy naw! 16:19 Still a Deuce back behind the RCAF Avro CF-100 Canuck. Couldn't record off FM radio up here as got that every 20sec bip from SAGE radar stations. Missed out on trip to Moose Jaw like half the squad did in 80s, red flannel days.
S3 22:18 Texas Tower#4 23:02 TU-95 Bear, then 23:03 ?? straight winged ole Gloster Meteors F.8?
23:27 A tandem cockpit XB-52 from 1952. Nice to see just a rounder, no lightning bolts airman's service cap.
S4 32:21 NAA Rocketdyne Meltdown See ya got a NAA silvery drop-tank full range P-51. next to one of the 13 Aztec skulls?
Then for
S5 takes an Eastern Airline 'er shoot up over his head, near a radioactive sign & a Rockman's helmet without the sodium salt-water blast off.
S5 42:19 Oct 1962 Cuban Missiles while also Sino-Indian War
Let's see for Our side cold war you got Corvair, Boeing, Arvo, NAA-Rockwell/Rocketdyne, & Lockheed U2 & F-104. Red Star USSR only got Tupolev Tu-95 Bear & Tu-114 Cleat/passenger. 50:46. That's ok, can't type full MIG, Il ,Yak, Polikarpov,, Su or whatever backward letter names they HAD. Now It's China making their own fighters, Chengdu & Shenyangs.
Both China & India do most repairs on them old Soviet planes.
When he talks about something important he talks loudly and with urgency. It shows he's very passionate about whatever subject he's talking about
2 ideas for future shows. History of chemical leavening and the baking revelution that followed and the 1609 voyage of the sea venture
But didn't Germany test 2 small Nukes long before the US ???
They had the delivery ability to the USA…
Look up milk cow subs and Diesel Engine Flying Boats !!!
I often wonder why they never used it ???
The deeper you dig the weirder it gets !!!
Well, for one thing, 9th of November 1979 was one day after my birthday. I'm not saying it has anything to do with the development of the Cold War, but I assure you there were some sleepless nights in my family.