"America's Ace Of Aces - Richard Bong" | Kip Reacts to The Fat Electrician

Remember everyone: "There is no Liveaction Mulan in Ba Sing Se"

I could be wrong but I think the modern equivalent would be the f16

hey, Kip Reacts if you want another great long-form video are Tex Talks Battletech videos from the Black Pants Legion. it is about the Science fiction universe of battletech. The best way to describe it is Game of Thrones, which features giant stompy murder robots. the game is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. He has a Battletech 101 video. (also all his video profits besides Patrion go to charities)

With a name like Dick Bong, you know you’re in for a wild time

The P-38 can get near the sound barrier in a dive, and the way it is structured, it would be difficult to pull out of.

On the topic of Bong getting upset about not being believed about the kill he made above the water, we have to keep in mind historical context. On that particular time of history culturally men valued their word far more than what we do now. If a straightforward man with a track record of being true to his word said something to you and you doubt him it's wildly more offensive than we can probably understand. It probably felt like he was treated like a worthless dirtbag and none of the stuff he stood for meant anything.

This was a good reaction Kip. I don't watch many people do reactions but I enjoy your perspective on these.👊

Also I think the P38 is now my favorite WW2 Plane and I haven't heard of it until I watched this.

I feel like the F-15 is the modern spiritual successor to this plane. Two engines and more heavily armed than just about anything else in the sky.

F22: "Would you intercept me?"
F22: "I'd intercept me."

Japan did not recognize most international laws until after WWII.

General kenny on that airstrip as Dick Bong steps out of his aircraft is a scene I can see so perfectly in my head that it’s unfair it’s never been out to film or TV, I can practically HEAR the pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack that plays in their sillier moments as Bong walks casually into the gathering group of Aces and the look on Kenny’s face just falling to a mixture of disapproval and frustration as he has to pull Bong off to the side and be like “Hey Dick… why the fuck are you here?”

"He's gonna plaster her in the Plane." Ayo Kip.

Not even a day after you cover the ace of aces video, the fat electrician drops one of the most anticipated videos I've been dreaming about. America's deadliest sniper, Carlos "White Feather" Hathcock.

There wasn't enough time for the Fat Electrician to cover it in the video, but there was a competition between Bong and Tommy McGuire to see who would be the Ace of Aces. When Bong went home after reaching 40 kills McGuire was only a few behind at 38, but on January 7, 1945 he went up on a fighter sweep and he got into a low altitude dogfight with one of Japan's top aces. For some reason he didn't release his drop tanks at the start of the fight and ended up stalling while only a few hundred feet off the ground. He was killed in the ensuing crash, with local Filipinos recovering and hiding his remains so the Japanese could not desecrate them. When Bong heard about McGuire's death, he sighed and stated, "I was afraid of that."

TFE missed an important opportunity to make a clarification that has confused a lot of people. He mentioned a pilot named Yeager, but he didn't specify that this was NOT Chuck Yeager, who flew P-51's in Europe. He never flew the P-38 in combat. It was not Chuck Yeager, but just another Yeager who liked to fly.

MacArthur left the Phillipines when he did under direct orders from Roosevelt, so he didn't flee. He also made every effort to support the guerillas there. If it seemed like the invasion of Luzon was rushed it was because 1: yes, he wanted to go and 2: the various staffs under him agreed that you didn't have to take every podunk island on the way. Many enemy strongholds were bypassed and just hammered every time the US looked at it on their way past, as the Japanese were not being resupplied in any meaningful way, if at all, and they held no tactical capability to speak of after being beaten down. The focus was on moving forward and dedicating massive resources to the offensive.

The nature of test piloting is risk. Some of the best planes through history had a number of fatalities in development. When you're pushing the edge of convention you run massive risks and you take some of the best in order to reduce the risks of pilot errors in the process. The P-80 killed a lot of pilots. The number of losses in the ever-evolving high-speed aircraft game is what spurred the development of ejection seats (which is a great read of history itself) over the following decades. Even today with the zero-zero seats there are still fatalities, but fewer than back in the day from what would be the same basic problems of combat flying.

"Does nepo hiring happen in the military?" Kip. You said yourself in Louis Millet video that you almost got nepo hired to the military

Yeaaahhh japan didnt really care about the geneva conventions or rules of engagement. They shot at parachuting pilots with impunity

Safe in a warzone but dies in a peace time

Watching this makes me wanna see you react to animarchy's documentaires about hans Jochem Marseille

We don’t have current interceptors but our 5th gen fighters (22 & 35) are still leagues above other fighters. You have to admit, for a country that has everything for sale, but we won’t sell the 22 to anyone says a lot. Yes Ik we just sold some 22s to Australia or Poland but this was recent, the 22 has been around for so long. Also rumors are we’re already developing 6th gen fighters or the idea was scrapped and were massively upgrading the 22 and selling off the old ones.

Japan just straight up did not give a singular fuck about the Geneva convention

Dick Bong is easily the best name i have ever heard.

imagine sitting in a high school class and you hear a P-38 fly over super low and the kid next to you is just like "oh yeah, thats just my brother screwing around"

Answer your question they still do parade their military around, just more subtly now.

There’s a reason you always see those army strong commercials, and yes, of course there’s Nepo hires, It’s bureaucracy after all

So, if you want a good comparison for how good Lockheed is, compare their stock price with Boeing's. Yes, Boeing was known more for commercial aviation excellence and innovation before the recent shitstorm, but they are also defense contractors, and they used to be pretty good. They actually got worse when another previously good company, Mcdonald Douglass who made the original F-15, los enough contract bids they needed to be absorbed to continue employing people, and they were absorbed by Boeing. But Lockheed has maintain for like 80 years now, continual excellence. P-38, U-2, SR-71, F-117, F-22, F-35, Patriot, and Himars. After events in Ukraine, Lockheed has essentially pre-sold every weapon and weapon system/platform they make from now until the heat death of the Universe.

As an AF vet, pilots (especially fighter pilots) are still the golden child of the modern Air Force. Obviously, with the massive advances in technology, we don’t see numbers like this but they are still very much the spoiled ones.

You can become an officer as an enlisted, but the process is littered with double standards and nepotism. I tried when I was in the Navy, and what I saw was the sons or daughters of officers that weren't good enough for Annapolis to get these spots with little to almost no time served. On the other hand, you have enlisted from poor backgrounds who do their duties, get all of their qualifications, and attend university on the off-time get shafted.

Bong: "Sir, I gave them the D and you can't spell defense without the D."

MacArthur was a great general, but he gets a lot of shade because he was a bit too by the book for a lot of people. If he was ordered to do something, he did it. Example: He was ordered to evacuate to Australia to keep the fight in the Pacific alive, so he did, which left a lot of his men behind. People dislike him not fighting the morality of his orders

That's like me work on days of train people even store managers and just racking hours pissing off higher ups by coming in unfazed and overworking scoring ten to thirty hours of ot Idaho falls people are built differently built like hard working bosses

Today’s military does work to ensure vehicles do not really stand out. I was tanker in the army and when we deployed to we had to remove the the names from our tanks to ensure no specific vehicle could be targeted.

In regard to Imperial Japan and the geneva convestions is that they did SIGN it, but they didn't RATTIFY it or something along those lines. They commited horrendious atrocities. During the Rape of Nanking(?) they not only did horrible things to the civilans (they forced fathers to do horrible things to their daughters for example) and easily one of the worst ones, an officer had any Chinese soldiers who surrendered lined up and rode his horse along side them, katana in hand, to see how many he could decapitate in one ride. They would also execute prisoners of war and the people they put in internment camps, in the Los Baños interment camp, had the 11th Airborn not svaed them, everyone would've been killed and put in a mass grave because they were already getting ready to do it before the attack. They would also kill medics and corpsmen, fake a surrender while a love grenade cooked in their hands, did horrendous things to the people of Okinaowa, and would convnice civilians to kill themsleves rather than be taken in the the Americans on Iwo Jima and Okinowa. There's also a lot Unit 731 did to civilians and POWs.

What I have learned is that you never get into Dick Bong's plane because anyone that used his plane that wasn't him instantly crashes.

I really love your takes :)

What I find tragic, is that pair had no children together. Clearly the plot armor ran out. The kids of these two would have been far too epic for the world to handle.

That said, it's unfortunate how they did everything right, he made it through the war, she waited and they didn't even get to start their family before his tragic crash.

From what i found, she later had kids with her third husband, but like her second marriage, the third ended in divorce as well.

Adults today cry about an 8 hour shift as a barista.

A hero till the end, kupo.

"You can only Defensively shoot down enemies now"

"Oh good, a difficulty modifyer~"

I'm actually related to Richard, I believe how it works is he's my great great uncle? My cousin is actually quite the spitting image of Richard.
Hell, even the road I live on is named after the man and I can't tell you how many times that damn sign has been stolen.

At the time the airforce didn’t exist it was the army air-core

Also the clan was the one that pushed proabition originally because “alcohol is a po* on the whi** ra**”
That’s why it was controversial the military was mostly a bunch of young people who were …

Also also McArthur seeing that his men were going to lose “retreated” with just his staff while his men were fighting there’s a lot of people who have opinions on that

I'd say the F15 is probably the closest thing we have to an Interceptor today. Yeah, it's an old plane, but it's still faster than any more modern plane, and it has a fuckload of guns

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About the bad ethics of ww2 Japan. thay didn't abide by the red cross and other things for war.

Those Japanese pilots shouldn't have put Dick Bong in a self-defense situation.