WOW! Check Out This Crashed WWII Era B-26 "Marauder" Medium Bomber!

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  • Опубликовано: 3 фев 2025

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  • @gogetter8866
    @gogetter8866 7 лет назад +6

    Aquachigger, I'm just loving these vlogs! Thank you so much! So informative, so educational!

  • @57Skippy1
    @57Skippy1 7 лет назад

    God Bless our Military Pilots, and I thank them for their service. My parents had a friend, Hardy Marvin Smith, who served in WWII then flew the "DEWLine" in the 1950s. He became enamored with Alaska and moved there...had a hunting flying business for many years.
    Thank You, Chigg, for your wonderful videos!

  • @albionhustler9836
    @albionhustler9836 7 лет назад

    Thanks for sharing Beau. My grandfather was in the Pacific Theater in WW2. Before he was sent overseas he told me during his training his was stationed somewhere in California where he witnessed a B-24 Bomber crash in training. He ran over to see if there were any survivors, of which there were none. He did find an old hand crank drill that must have been used on the air craft for various purposes. He kept it for some reason. And when he passed away it was one of the only items that I took from his household. I keep it on my living room mantle now. Its a subject of discussion every now and again for visitors.

  • @laurimccullar503
    @laurimccullar503 7 лет назад +2

    Wow! What a find!

  • @shellythom7248
    @shellythom7248 4 года назад

    It is always good to remember what our families went threw. Both grandfathers fought in that war. Thankfully they both came home. One was there for Normandy. I was blessed to have them growing up. Not everyone was as lucky. This is something we should never forget. But it is nice to see how well we get along with Japan. It’s hard to see we fought like that based off the relationship we have now. Times change. But we should never forget.

  • @DeathValleyLumberCompany
    @DeathValleyLumberCompany 7 лет назад +2

    now that your in Alaska
    might I recommend checking out the abandoned trains near Nome

  • @ninaru.
    @ninaru. 7 лет назад +1

    The motor was really cool!

  • @bestatnba2k
    @bestatnba2k 7 лет назад +8

    Hey aqua October is coming pretty quickly and I was hoping you could explore creepy areas

  • @57buickcentury
    @57buickcentury 7 лет назад +7

    The small ventral fin visible under the tail at 1:37 IDs this wreck as a Douglas A-20. I can see what looks like the last two digits of the serial "90" on the fin; it doesn't match any losses on Joe Baugher's serial number site, but it may have been enroute to Russia at the time it crashed and wasn't listed as a U.S. loss. Hope this helps.

    • @fordx4n
      @fordx4n 7 лет назад +1

      and Martin B-26 Marauder had a tail gunner

    • @SearTrip
      @SearTrip 7 лет назад

      57buickcentury You can also count space for seven cylinders around the ring we can see of the engine, which fits with the R-2600 of the A-20, but not the R-2800 of the B-26.

    • @85Ranger4x4
      @85Ranger4x4 7 лет назад

      I thought it was odd we were doing the lend-lease thing with B-26's, I know we did with the A-20 though so that kind of supports it too.

    • @Pancreaticdefect
      @Pancreaticdefect 7 лет назад

      I found a comment on a website somewhere where a guy mentioned exploring what sounds like is this very wreck (it was an A-20b) and he said you could see the US Army star had been painted over with the Soviet star due to the lend-lease. Too bad we couldnt see that in this video.

    • @BoreGrv
      @BoreGrv 7 лет назад

      57buickcentury it looks like to me that its possible the plane broke up in mid air....the peices look too scattered out in a broad area. it also looks like you can see 50cal bullet holes in the tail section of the horizontal stab....although I agree it would have broke up after a attempted landing on that uneven ground. What do you think?

  • @LordofTreasure
    @LordofTreasure 7 лет назад

    Wow what a awesome Find👍👍👍

  • @seabasstian_5.119
    @seabasstian_5.119 7 лет назад

    Another great video!

  • @tommyvinson6
    @tommyvinson6 7 лет назад

    Interesting video. Thank you Beau.

  • @farter4203
    @farter4203 7 лет назад +1

    Thats pretty cool!

  • @DebOxy
    @DebOxy 7 лет назад

    Thanks Beau, have been enjoying you vids for a long while now, found this one extra interesting as I work in rebuilding, restoring of old aircraft, been lucky to fly in some of these restored aircraft...to date the best was barrel rolls in a Mustang :-)

  • @digging6068
    @digging6068 7 лет назад +2

    Makes you wonder how the pilot faired after the crash....
    Sorry to hear about your uncle. WW2 really sparked my interest is history when I was in middle school, years ago.

  • @jessriseley1532
    @jessriseley1532 7 лет назад

    Love it!!! Great video awesome info thanks

  • @scienceking2260
    @scienceking2260 7 лет назад

    Sweet another video keep up the great work

  • @downtonviewer
    @downtonviewer 7 лет назад

    Showing the cultural differences is one of things I've enjoyed the most about these travel videos you've done. Russians, Italians, Alaskans. They're very different. Not bad, just different. And it's interesting, too.

  • @justintohlen2064
    @justintohlen2064 7 лет назад

    Love you videos and keep up the good work keep searching because your big break is near

  • @mikesquatch
    @mikesquatch 7 лет назад

    Enjoyed!

  • @jthreeb
    @jthreeb 7 лет назад

    wow that was pretty cool!

  • @gregkerr725
    @gregkerr725 7 лет назад

    I worked on a salmon seiner out of Kodiak Island in the mid 70's. Once while beach combing off the Alaskan peninsula we came across what looked to be the plastic and aluminum dash off an aircraft. It had a long id number plate. We turned it in a few weeks later in town and found out later from the authorities that the numbers matched a plane that had been missing for about 6 or 7 years. Must have crashed off shore and the dash piece floated on shore and got piled up with all the driftwood.

  • @candysantillo3325
    @candysantillo3325 7 лет назад

    Wow That was really something to see! Got to me

  • @Tryinglittleleg
    @Tryinglittleleg 7 лет назад

    Nice video!

  • @Karim-il5df
    @Karim-il5df 7 лет назад

    Very interesting video

  • @s.jeffreybolton1750
    @s.jeffreybolton1750 7 лет назад

    My Grandfather flew the B26, along other things. One of the really nasty birds in history to earn the title "widomaker". There was an article in Smithsonian Air & Space years ago that claimed GIs on furlough would refuse to fly in the things. Grandad said they had a very high wing loading which made their handling characteristics on takeoff and landing quite unforgiving.

  • @shanecody1737
    @shanecody1737 7 лет назад

    Do we get to see the final gold clean up?

  • @mrbakerskatz
    @mrbakerskatz 7 лет назад +10

    A lot of people felt that way about the Japanese .They were so brutal ,I hated them too but you sometimes have to let things go .

    • @jimkey920
      @jimkey920 7 лет назад +2

      Sorry those Women, (Wasps) were courageous and were ferrying aircraft without a lengthy history of flight. Among them was Jaquelain Cochrane!

    • @mrbakerskatz
      @mrbakerskatz 7 лет назад

      ???

  • @robindenniston251
    @robindenniston251 7 лет назад +4

    My grandfather was in WWll. He never taked about it much

    • @jamie91995
      @jamie91995 7 лет назад +1

      Same, he served aboard the USS Helm throughout the war

    • @cabooseabs6864
      @cabooseabs6864 7 лет назад +1

      Robin Denniston my grandfather saw combat as a tail gunner in alaska in the Aleutians.

    • @PaulaXism
      @PaulaXism 7 лет назад +2

      my father was in WW2 .. bomber command aircrew.. burned but not killed bombing Dresden 1944

  • @ExploringAlabama
    @ExploringAlabama 7 лет назад

    I REALLY need you advice on Civil War Caltrops. I have recently found about 5 in a spot in Alabama that trained Civil War soldiers. I want to send you pics but it will go to spam I think. Let me know if you can assist me. It has become a debate on my channel now. The bottom line is are they caltrops or not? Thank you for your time.

  • @RuSeK195
    @RuSeK195 7 лет назад

    You should try and get some footage of the less accesible crash sites, maybe they'll be in better shape

  • @40belowful
    @40belowful 7 лет назад

    I live in fairbanks. a lot of these crashed planes like that came from Ladd army base (ft wainwright now) during ww2 under the lend /lease and being flown to Russia and china as they were are allies then and to help them fight the Germans and Japanese. There is a cool air museum at Alaskaland in fairbanks telling about this.

  • @silverwheelspatriot1764
    @silverwheelspatriot1764 7 лет назад

    I shared this with my cousin he's big plane buff

  • @wg1408
    @wg1408 5 лет назад

    Where at near Nome?

  • @69waveydavey
    @69waveydavey 7 лет назад

    My Grandad was the same, went crazy when my uncle bought a Nissan!

  • @Inferalanding
    @Inferalanding 7 лет назад +2

    The twin-engined bombers we supplied to Russia were the B-25 and the A-20. No B-26's that I know of, but I don't know much.

    • @Inferalanding
      @Inferalanding 7 лет назад +1

      Over on the Warbird Information Exchange somebody said the tail section matched the Douglas A-20 and not a Martin B-26.

  • @delukxy
    @delukxy 7 лет назад

    No obvious signs of burning on any of the pieces shown. Maybe just got lost and ran out of gas if being delivered up there. Would guess that there wasn't much spare in the tanks at the end of the journey. Range was about 1200 miles. I suspect that someone has looked around and found serial numbers here and there that have identified it, so there is a history out there somewhere.
    Thanks for the upload. This trip is a bit special.

  • @FirstNameLastName-th1fh
    @FirstNameLastName-th1fh 7 лет назад

    Awsome!

  • @roberthypes6149
    @roberthypes6149 7 лет назад

    my dad was a tail gunner on a martin merauder b26.

  • @EggyBoi
    @EggyBoi 7 лет назад +2

    Would it be stealing to take a piece?

  • @didtheyexpectustotreatthem574
    @didtheyexpectustotreatthem574 7 лет назад

    THAT ROSWELL ...

  • @Norm-wf1cz
    @Norm-wf1cz 7 лет назад

    i wonder if you could get that engine running

  • @zachk5384
    @zachk5384 7 лет назад

    is there still the a bomb on the airafter

  • @claytonsmith1063
    @claytonsmith1063 7 лет назад

    bizarre that they leave the wreckage there strewn across the land

  • @blakespics
    @blakespics 4 года назад

    There is a strong likelihood that this wreckage is that of a Lend-Lease Douglas A-20. The date is searchable if you have a serial number.

  • @Kwkeaton
    @Kwkeaton 7 лет назад

    This is probably said somewhere in the comments, but why has that not been cleaned up?

  • @karimmortada9204
    @karimmortada9204 7 лет назад

    Hey aquachigger can I buy a GoPro from you pls reply

  • @Mrfreezeee1
    @Mrfreezeee1 7 лет назад +1

    They say they lost nukes in a lot of plane crashes up that way never to be found because some spots are too thick in foliage to find anything

  • @Hafloutt
    @Hafloutt 7 лет назад

    the first vue ❤❤

  • @fireonhigh2294
    @fireonhigh2294 7 лет назад

    Wow. sad story.

  • @muhammadal-qadir5157
    @muhammadal-qadir5157 7 лет назад

    Amazing. looks timeless and frozen in time. Also my grandmother disliked Germans a fair bit as her father was killed in WWII... ironically my brother married a German woman, but after she (granny) had died...

    • @muhammadal-qadir5157
      @muhammadal-qadir5157 7 лет назад

      Possibly born out of mistrust. As for the Germans, many Brits and Americans seemed to have a certain level of respect for their old foes - case point being Erwin Rommel.

  • @Gracie_02
    @Gracie_02 7 лет назад +1

    Nice hat ; )

  • @ericliscom9561
    @ericliscom9561 7 лет назад

    Another item that says this is an A-20, to me, is the lack of a tail gunner position, which a B-26 would have...

  • @tarstakars
    @tarstakars 7 лет назад +1

    b-26 the widow maker....

  • @QuestForDetails
    @QuestForDetails 7 лет назад

    A reason to all go out for ourselves and travel .see what and who is out there.to live in a modern world where we can share our discoveries, and watch others explore, and all learn so much more from it, we now have so many more facts to base our ideals on, we are all learning and growing wiser , this world is too cool not to all share and love. also. I think that our divisions our differences are what makes the world so beautiful and fascinating , the variety of everything, may it be ever free of a universal grey conformity, so.... we get to all be ambassadors , to document, film, explore, to capture and share our experiences, and show so many different views and angles on the world, as we travel we grow, we let others experience us, we meet and get to know others and so, without filters and red tape we have this now, to show all the shades of truth and see we are all different and worth getting to know. simple vids that can reveal a thousand different facets of our world, keep going, thank you auqachigger and those like you, for expanding the details.

  • @giganigga4347
    @giganigga4347 7 лет назад

    Nice

  • @clark6667
    @clark6667 7 лет назад

    I like them shades. Oakley?

  • @drock1717
    @drock1717 7 лет назад

    I once found a 5 dollar bill scuba diving in a lazy river a Wisconsin dells

  • @Dinkledorpher
    @Dinkledorpher 2 года назад

    Kicking tin.

  • @uhfnutbar1
    @uhfnutbar1 7 лет назад

    B-26 bomber was not a easy plan to fly :)

  • @miguelouellet7347
    @miguelouellet7347 7 лет назад

    i wss the first to like and the first comment and viewer

  • @ziggy8190
    @ziggy8190 7 лет назад

    Gotta be very respectful when dealing with War crashes and incidents as it might involve someones family members and scavenging is often seen as very lowly and disrespectful

  • @randlerichardson5826
    @randlerichardson5826 6 лет назад

    That’s bad who was the pilot or do they know???????

  • @frostythesnowdragon3170
    @frostythesnowdragon3170 7 лет назад

    cool

  • @randlerichardson5826
    @randlerichardson5826 6 лет назад

    Wow

  • @tyupk7350
    @tyupk7350 7 лет назад

    I believe motoart is selling part of this plane as planetags.

  • @AdventuresLife
    @AdventuresLife 7 лет назад

    when is your next river treasure hunt?

  • @ta5tytreat5
    @ta5tytreat5 7 лет назад

    Pretty barren land up there...

  • @MandoDando
    @MandoDando 7 лет назад

    War, what is it good for?

  • @alexpolicastro2804
    @alexpolicastro2804 7 лет назад

    Captain America crash site found!

  • @AdamosDad
    @AdamosDad 7 лет назад +7

    I'm glad we are friends with the Japanese now but it was a different situation in WWII and even in the 1960's when I was in Japan, I had some friends there but in general they were very racist toward us or any other race, much more than your mom could have been.

    • @Luftangreifer
      @Luftangreifer 7 лет назад +2

      Lots of war veterans and war generations still were alive in 1960s. Its understandable to hate someone who bombed cities, and killed relatives. And of course, this goes vice versa.

    • @AdamosDad
      @AdamosDad 7 лет назад +1

      You are correct of course about hatred during and after war but what I saw in Japan went much deeper its the deep almost religious pride in any thing Japanese not just racially but small things like produce, to them Japanese rice is the best rice and the same with any produce or product, every one and every thing that is not Japanese is inferior and therefore should not be allowed to come into the country. That kind of racism takes more than a generation to dissipate. With a connected world now things may speed up.

  • @MrMattrix2
    @MrMattrix2 7 лет назад

    Bob sounds like Johny cash

  • @greamespens1460
    @greamespens1460 Год назад

    I assume it was not painted to allow the Russians to paint it?
    All the best.

  • @LelandERay
    @LelandERay 7 лет назад +20

    That crash doesn't look survivable. I thank them for their service and sacrifice.

    • @85Ranger4x4
      @85Ranger4x4 7 лет назад +3

      The military used to use explosives to destroy crashed planes after they stripped what they could out of them if they were not easily recoverable. I don't know if that happened in this case but it did happen to many aircraft.

    • @85Ranger4x4
      @85Ranger4x4 7 лет назад

      I think it was more so they didn't fall into the hands of the enemy, things were kind of tense in Alaska for awhile with the Japanese.

  • @64puma64
    @64puma64 7 лет назад

    Didn't even use your metal detector to find it.

  • @Tryinglittleleg
    @Tryinglittleleg 7 лет назад

    I wouldn’t think that was a landing by the radius that was scattered in, Looks like it was shot down by enemy scouts

  • @1jtolvey
    @1jtolvey 7 лет назад

    SHE HAD A GOOOOD REASON TO BE PREJUDISTED .

  • @iaagg
    @iaagg 7 лет назад

    Here is a tidbit. The B26 Marauder was nicknamed the "flying prostitute", because the Marauder, with its short stubby wings, had no visible means of support.

  • @madison1207
    @madison1207 7 лет назад +1

    I'm guessing the pilot didn't make it......

  • @skiptracer8703
    @skiptracer8703 7 лет назад

    Lots of pull tabs sitting there to screw up metal detecting for you

  • @thepokerking99
    @thepokerking99 7 лет назад +2

    Sorry about your uncle Beau. Your mother would be proud of the man you are, and the 750 K people you have reached with your personality :]

  • @mr.brickhead4955
    @mr.brickhead4955 7 лет назад

    Shoutout please

  • @lesahanners5057
    @lesahanners5057 7 лет назад

    That's a sad commentary on war. How many brave young men died to stop evil?!

  • @graemeanderson2044
    @graemeanderson2044 7 лет назад +5

    Generation lost . Lest we forget

  • @livewithnick
    @livewithnick 7 лет назад +1

    I can't say I can blame your mom.

  • @darianroscoe1017
    @darianroscoe1017 7 лет назад +28

    I want you to understand something. If your mom disliked the Japanese because of her brother being killed, it wasn't racism unless she felt that way beforehand. It was an unfortunate aftermath of your uncle's death and her pain. I'm sure it carried with her all her life, but perhaps she would not have felt that way otherwise. I don't believe racism has a reason. It just is, and people confuse it with the hate that comes from unfortunate events like war and crime. Give her a little slack and understanding and know what while the world is not perfect, it is better. Perhaps her brother gave her a good talking to on the other side. She must have loved him a lot to mourn to the end of her life.

    • @Caniacforever
      @Caniacforever 7 лет назад +4

      this is faulty logic, with all due respect. I don't mean to start a big time debate on the matter, but I think it's worth saying. being racist doesn't mean you dislike a group of people without a reason. it can, and usually does, mean that you take the worst example of what a specific person (or even several people) are like based on your personal experience and apply it to all people of that race. if you get robbed at gunpoint by a white man and for the rest of your life put the face of that gunman on every white man you see and use it as an excuse to hate all white people, that's racism. because the color of the man that performed the act didn't matter, but it mattered enough to you to make the distinction from that point forward. there are certain people that have every bit of justification in the world to hate a certain race of people because they were wronged by one person of that race. that doesn't mean their racism is in any way justified. it just means they have a better excuse than most. in my experience, bad people are bad people no matter what color or creed. to say one race has more than another is wrong however you choose to say it. people can get done wrong by people of their own race every day of the week, but if someone of another race does it to them they are quick to rely on stereotypes.
      and like Beau says, you can understand it but not support it. sometimes in life you've got to let people feel what they feel as long as they're not out trying to hurt anybody. people grieve in different ways.

    • @whotheysaid
      @whotheysaid 7 лет назад

      You've traveled the earth and witnessed history tie in to itself. Seeing WWII connections on two continents and meeting the modern day locals shows time heals and the pain some carry can find peace. I'd love to see you visit Japan Chig, Your understanding of your moms feelings is graceful regardless of title and that is what is important.

    • @ReclusiveMountainMan
      @ReclusiveMountainMan 7 лет назад +5

      Racism is disliking/hating someone because of their race. You forget that each person is an individual with a different personality and different set of values/ethics. When we lump people together into groups based off what we perceive to be shared attributes, that can become a problem. An example of this was what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, homosexuals, academics back during their rein. It's one thing to hate an enemy during war because of the loss of a loved one. Normal feeling, IMO. But to hate everyone who happens to be Japanese of happens to be of Japanese decent is a defective thinking.

    • @85Ranger4x4
      @85Ranger4x4 7 лет назад +4

      Remember the times too, look at the war posters, watch the movies they played. The govt had control of what the media could report and they played it up as much as they could. The Japanese (and Germans) were very much painted as villains, and they did the same thing about the allies. And it really added fuel to the fire when a loved one was lost. It may not be "right" but it is understandable IMO.

  • @jimnorthland2903
    @jimnorthland2903 7 лет назад

    They were walking around the crash site in what is to me the "Real Alaska". The 99% of Alaska where the wanna-be, shot gun totting, six pack swilling, jacked up truck with a pitbull in the back types HAVE NOT shot the wreckage to rags.

  • @hubifornia
    @hubifornia 7 лет назад

    My grandad never forgave or trusted the Germans either, part of that generation I guess.Whenever you questioned him on the topic he always said "the sombitches tried to kill me"

  • @KWatson1984
    @KWatson1984 7 лет назад

    Here's a very exhaustive list of USAAF planes from 1943... maybe this wreck is on it.
    www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1943_2.html
    All years...
    www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/

  • @branchdangler1st
    @branchdangler1st 7 лет назад

    Really don't know why you have 18 thumbs down at this point Ac?

  • @uhfnutbar1
    @uhfnutbar1 7 лет назад +1

    ones again a good video .sir
    i think i would call your moms dislike of the japanese for someone who live throw them times; Nationalism more then racism , in a time when whole nation`s of the World (the fkin world pardin my french), were at war with each other, it was important to fight a common enemy, not just at the front but at home and a patriotic act also meant hating your enemy ,, as a older guy i would cut her some slack if you know what i mean,,,,, now lets see the younger PC crowded reap there head around that :)

  • @jimkey920
    @jimkey920 7 лет назад

    A pity they did not land wheels up. Or perhaps they could have landed in the sea headed toward the beach. Looks like it was a fatal moment. I was a boy during WW II. I had acardboard spinner target with Mussolini , Hitler and hirohito. He had thick glasses and buck teeth. I took great delight in shooting him. My 3 uncles fought in N.Africa and Europe. two were wounded one was unscathd, even though he was a paratrooper. I have no animosity to Germans whatsoever. However, to this day I have no come to therms with the Japanese.So very brutal and recalcitrant. Officialy no such thing as , Comfort Women". thinking of them now and my hair bristles! They had the Kempetai, the japanese equivalent of the Soviet NKVD. Also known as the, "Thought Police". "Hate Crimes", are "Thought Crimes". Your uncle and my Unckles fought against the very thought of it! No longer the America I was brought up in Excuse the rant.....!

  • @davem5308
    @davem5308 7 лет назад

    Scrap that metal and turn into something new and useful. Looks obnoxious scattered all over the place. Why leave the mess? I don't get it?

  • @thurin84
    @thurin84 7 лет назад

    hey chig, could you grab me a small piece lol?

    • @thurin84
      @thurin84 7 лет назад

      sorry about the loss of your uncle!

  • @ArtificialMisery
    @ArtificialMisery 7 лет назад +33

    So why'd it crash *reads description* 'women military pilots' ah i see

  • @angelphelis7221
    @angelphelis7221 7 лет назад +3

    🅱-26 Marauder Medium 🅱om🅱er

  • @powerb8
    @powerb8 7 лет назад

    14th

  • @garycoinmaster9826
    @garycoinmaster9826 7 лет назад

    100th

  • @jakemacri3777
    @jakemacri3777 7 лет назад

    First