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Were these tree carvings in Pentico Wood, where they trained? I'm visiting Albourne in early November and would like to see as much as possible. Thanks.
Born, raised and watching from S.C. Crazy looking around at that area and that SC carving thinking, If I would have been born in that time...That could have been me. Leaving everything I've ever known with a very good chance of never seeing it again. I can't imagine how lost and scared they must have been. Was another breed of men back then it seems. RIP for all those we lost on all sides in a war I hope the world never sees the like of again. The world forever owes y'all a debt of gratitude that we can never repay.
@@xCLUNKx Thanks! paused on the SC carving for awhile just thinking about the guy that carved it and if he ever made it back home. Thought it was the least I could do to say thanks for what they did for us all. Good luck and hope all is well for ya!
The phrase of “it doesn’t mean anything what side our grandfathers fought on in the civil war. It doesn’t mean anything now.” Is something many modern Americans would stand well to be reminded of.
@@samholdsworth420 No, surely you're joking. Just what about my comment made you think I believed otherwise? Seemed pretty straightforward to me. Are you, perchance, mentally challenged?
Loving this series. So much so I've started watching Band of Brothers again. Been at least a year since I last watched it all :-) Looking forward to the next episode
Carwood Lipton was born and raised in Huntington West Virginia and attended Marshall University for one year before leaving school due to financial hardships, he was not from South Carolina. He read an article in Life Magazine about he paratroopers and enlisted in 1942.
To think that the relatives of these soldiers could find something so personal as their name carved in the side of a tree 80 years later. It is very touching to see how the British handle and care for the simple relics that American soldiers left behind. The special relationship of our two nations is deeper than the pragmatics of national policy.
Just an FYI for what it's worth, there was a Tony Garcia with easy company. He was interviewed in 2001 in the band of brothers documentary "We Stand Alone - Band of Brothers Documentary". I'm sure they can find something from that.
11:30 It's unfortunate to say that it is not Carwood Lipton, as he was not from South Carolina. He was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, where he eventually attended the local Marshall University for a year before enlisting.
Great work as always! Loving this look at this facet of the war. And to think that man would take his lessons and use them to create a criminal empire in Gotham city. A tragedy really...
To think Oswald Copperpot went from being a good lad showing the US troops how to behave, to being that delightfully quirky and nasty little nemesis of, the future, Mayor Adam West :)
I wonder if the hard lessons learned from American troop deployments in Australia influenced the creation of this rulebook? They certainly wouldn't have wanted to see a repeat of the Battle of Brisbane in the UK.
I think a lot of it is that US & Oz cultures (& wide arrays of subcultures) developed in Very different directions from the British base cultures (also the changes to that base in the time between US origin & Au). Especially in the indefinable social underpinnings. Just our (Au) opinions on tall poppy synrome are bad enough, add all the rest that make our societies different, it just gets worse. Add that most English speakers just assume that their cultural expectations work anywhere you can get by with English... You end up with a lot of avoidable problems that come across as arrogance & willful ignorance, but are conflicts of culture & social expectation.
@@vr112 Most of these incidents aren't well known because information about them was suppressed during the war. One of the worst cases was the Townville Mutiny when 600 African American servicemen assigned to a labor battalion building an airbase in North Queensland mutinied and opened fire upon their white officers, killing one and badly wounding several more. The future US president Lyndon Johnson was sent in to investigate and subsequently buried the entire thing.
Dear History Hit. Love your series. I'm Australian but one of our ancestral residences, Askerswell House in Askerswell Dorset was used as a POW camp for captured German servicemen during WW2. Apparently there is swastika carved in a beam in one of the outbuilding lofts. Would that be of interest to you as a subject to investigate?
Years ago - 1983 - I went to England on holiday and met up with people that mum and dad knew growing up in the town where they lived. I don't remember how the topic came up now but I remember more than one comment about how the US servicemen seemed to target women whose husbands were away fighting overseas (think it might have been because one of the women targeted was friends with my grandparents (my grandfather was in the ARP, medically unfit for service) and there were some very very harsh words for them even after all that time. It really wasn't appreciated when married women with husbands who'd been serving overseas for the past 3 years or more were deliberately targeted by the ''yanks'' because they were seen as easy prey. And I often heard comments growing up in NZ about how the ''yanks'' treated the Maori soldiers they met in the war, and the comments weren't very polite either. We even covered it in a topic when we learned about the war in history, we were also told that they allegedly treated many of the commonwealth soldiers from Africa and the pacific islands in the same way though I don't know how true this is. Would be interested in finding out if anyone knows the answer.
@Phil Failla Not necessarily. I know one of the women targeted, known for decades what happened mainly because my mother told me 40-50 years ago, and she wasn't considered totally blameless either if only because she, allegedly, didn't exactly say no. It is, was, one of those areas where many of the families are those who grew up in the same streets/houses during the war, and kids see and hear much more than you might think which is why so many knew what was happening and who was involved. Unfortunately as they all age and die off, and in most cases the kids are selling the houses - which are worth an awful lot of money now and are on good size gardens which can't be built on - the history will slowly be lost. If my daughter walked down the road now there won't be anyone there who can say with certainly that she is my daughter, and my parent's granddaughter or my aunt's niece because they are all new people who never knew the original families. Yet as far back as the late 80s/early 90s I could walk down the street and be recognised, even if I had never met the people themselves they knew me because they knew my parents and could see the likeness. And when you know everyone - and have done for close on a century - it is known who did what and with whom and that knowledge is passed down through the families. With a surprising amount of consistency as well. What I was told tallied with what my mother told me, and they hadn't spoken/been in contact via post for 3 decades or more.
On the cliffs of Tourcross in Devon the USA servicemen serving there leading up to the D_Day landings have their names carved on the walls of the cliff by the hotel
That archaeologist, Kieran, sounds like a fellow Aussie to me. If he is, and my ears aren't deceiving me, I wouldn't be surprised if his grandparents and mum (who he says both lived in Aldbourne) would have come to Australia under the "10 pound pom" program, which was the colloquial term given to the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme, which the Australian govt set up in 1945 to aid British people to migrate to Australia post WW2.
I remember my nan telling me about that, she said it was grim in England after the war and my grandad was desperate to go because everyone thought Australia was paradise. When they got selected grandad turned it down because he didn't want to leave his mum on her own. When she died he said to nan "we can go to Australia now" but nan wouldn't have it because their kids were at school. I have been to Australia and it is indeed paradise, he would have loved it.
What is this RUclips channel, what is HistoryHit? Are you just a bunch of lads and lasses enjoying making videos, are you a studio that makes documentaries for tv (this is the production quality)? I am honstly baffled about what you are
Started off as a podcast by a English historian that regularly did stuff for the BBC, he started history hit a few years ago and it’s become an on demand history channel online
@@kkpenney444 Interesting. Not relevant to the point being made, and in no way changes the fact and wisdom of his observation, but interesting. Another interesting medical fact about an American figure: Barack Obama married a biological male. 😁
@@mattmagee180 Very fucking based and truth pilled. Women's suffrage and its consequences have been a disaster for the have been a disaster for the human race.
Honestly. And now look at the UK. You need ID to buy cutlery and the police will arrest you for reporting crimes committed by non-whites. The Americans had it right. But even they've strayed.
The Brits were more concerned with the Irish which must have confused the Americans who thought the British and Irish were nearly the same thing. Every nation's racism seems obviously ridiculous to outsiders.
Videos lately have been lacking subtitles so I'm unsubscribing. Hopefully if yt recommends this channel in the future, they'll be considerate of those who can't hear every word.
Matelot friend of mine told me US Navy personnel on Shore Leave were/are issued with a card saying: Do not drink with The British. Do not gamble with The British. Do not fight with The British. They will win!!
@@beneficent2557 I know but in our current political climate you may want to avoid trying to look like a fucking Nazi. Especially when you’re doing videos about World War II.
@@jayeautocorrectstohate5054 the current political climate has more FBI agents larping as "Patriot Front" than bonafide fascists. UK has even less fascists. The economy is a better predictor of extremism imho.
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Were these tree carvings in Pentico Wood, where they trained? I'm visiting Albourne in early November and would like to see as much as possible. Thanks.
Born, raised and watching from S.C. Crazy looking around at that area and that SC carving thinking, If I would have been born in that time...That could have been me. Leaving everything I've ever known with a very good chance of never seeing it again. I can't imagine how lost and scared they must have been. Was another breed of men back then it seems. RIP for all those we lost on all sides in a war I hope the world never sees the like of again. The world forever owes y'all a debt of gratitude that we can never repay.
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@@xCLUNKx Thanks! paused on the SC carving for awhile just thinking about the guy that carved it and if he ever made it back home. Thought it was the least I could do to say thanks for what they did for us all. Good luck and hope all is well for ya!
@@Slywulf86 same to you brother, from Manchester, England
The phrase of “it doesn’t mean anything what side our grandfathers fought on in the civil war. It doesn’t mean anything now.” Is something many modern Americans would stand well to be reminded of.
Amen
That lept out at me as well. Having grown up in East Texas, I was exposed to all manner of ridiculous crap on that score.
Interestingly, I fully believed we all felt that until I moved from Boston to the South. Oof, this place knows how to hold grudges.
@@thomasbell7033 racism isn't cool my man
@@samholdsworth420 No, surely you're joking. Just what about my comment made you think I believed otherwise? Seemed pretty straightforward to me. Are you, perchance, mentally challenged?
Band of Brothers is my favourite WW2 series. Nice to see the placed the stayed before D Day.
Loving this series. So much so I've started watching Band of Brothers again. Been at least a year since I last watched it all :-) Looking forward to the next episode
Carwood Lipton was born and raised in Huntington West Virginia and attended Marshall University for one year before leaving school due to financial hardships, he was not from South Carolina. He read an article in Life Magazine about he paratroopers and enlisted in 1942.
To think that the relatives of these soldiers could find something so personal as their name carved in the side of a tree 80 years later.
It is very touching to see how the British handle and care for the simple relics that American soldiers left behind.
The special relationship of our two nations is deeper than the pragmatics of national policy.
My dad fought in WW Two and brought back a dozen or so of these little booklets covering all the countries he was in from Burma to Iraq.
That Burgess Meredith video is on RUclips. I just watched it a few months ago!
Same
Me too!
I'm a forestry consultant, there's quite a few of these on an estate I manage in Berkshire, interestingly also on beech trees
So basically Burgess Meredith was 80-years-old his entire life. Interesting.
13:00, The ones who carved into the trees were the GIs from NYC, who were forced to deploy without their cans of spray paint...
Uh, all of the spray paint is in Portland, Oregon. Pretty sure the locals aren’t responsible. It’s fucking hideous.
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Okay let's go watching now fantastic channel pure information
My local pub it’s a heap of history !
Just an FYI for what it's worth, there was a Tony Garcia with easy company. He was interviewed in 2001 in the band of brothers documentary "We Stand Alone - Band of Brothers Documentary". I'm sure they can find something from that.
Used to live about 5 miles from here 😊
Warm beer. I will never understand that. 😄 Great stuff!
Very poinigant those tree carvings.
poignant auto spell grrr
Luke Tomes. That is all. ❤️
Wonderful video: this was well made! Cheers 🍻
Wow, a 70 year old excavation site, can't wait for the next digs of a 1980's roller disco, then a 1999 CD store.
CD stores are now flea markets and thrift stores lol
@@megancrager4397 that will make for slow digging only every third Sunday of the month. 🚙⛏️
You should visit Bamber Bridge... That highlights the differences between British and Americans
In Band of Brothers, Carwood Lipton tells Lt. Dyke he is from Huntingdon, West Virginia, not South Carolina as you say.
11:30 It's unfortunate to say that it is not Carwood Lipton, as he was not from South Carolina. He was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, where he eventually attended the local Marshall University for a year before enlisting.
just behind the military houses in tidworth there are dozens of trees with similar engravings, about 3 miles down the road.
2:57 I would recognise that face anywhere - its the trainer from Rocky! "No, he'd hurt ya permanent".
Hell, we like to do tree carvings where we live too lol
Great work as always! Loving this look at this facet of the war.
And to think that man would take his lessons and use them to create a criminal empire in Gotham city. A tragedy really...
To think Oswald Copperpot went from being a good lad showing the US troops how to behave, to being that delightfully quirky and nasty little nemesis of, the future, Mayor Adam West :)
Well he was rehabilitated and became a boxer coach
I wonder if the hard lessons learned from American troop deployments in Australia influenced the creation of this rulebook? They certainly wouldn't have wanted to see a repeat of the Battle of Brisbane in the UK.
I forgot about hearing that.. thx for the reminder. I'll have to look into that.
I think a lot of it is that US & Oz cultures (& wide arrays of subcultures) developed in Very different directions from the British base cultures (also the changes to that base in the time between US origin & Au).
Especially in the indefinable social underpinnings. Just our (Au) opinions on tall poppy synrome are bad enough, add all the rest that make our societies different, it just gets worse.
Add that most English speakers just assume that their cultural expectations work anywhere you can get by with English...
You end up with a lot of avoidable problems that come across as arrogance & willful ignorance, but are conflicts of culture & social expectation.
Look up the battle of Bamber Bridge. Or what happened in New Zealand when they encountered Maori soldiers.
I’ve never heard of any of this.
@@vr112 Most of these incidents aren't well known because information about them was suppressed during the war. One of the worst cases was the Townville Mutiny when 600 African American servicemen assigned to a labor battalion building an airbase in North Queensland mutinied and opened fire upon their white officers, killing one and badly wounding several more. The future US president Lyndon Johnson was sent in to investigate and subsequently buried the entire thing.
Dear History Hit. Love your series. I'm Australian but one of our ancestral residences, Askerswell House in Askerswell Dorset was used as a POW camp for captured German servicemen during WW2. Apparently there is swastika carved in a beam in one of the outbuilding lofts. Would that be of interest to you as a subject to investigate?
There's one for Australia though it's light blue, I found it so hilarious I bought a copy.
I read the American version years ago. One part read, "No, they can't make a decent cup of coffee. You can't make a decent cup of tea."
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That's Burgess Meredith (the penguin from 1960s Batman TV series).
I wonder if you could xray these to get the details out. There should be a resistance differential.
No doubt interesting channel
Anyone else notice the odd acoustic in the woods sequence towards the end?
Years ago - 1983 - I went to England on holiday and met up with people that mum and dad knew growing up in the town where they lived. I don't remember how the topic came up now but I remember more than one comment about how the US servicemen seemed to target women whose husbands were away fighting overseas (think it might have been because one of the women targeted was friends with my grandparents (my grandfather was in the ARP, medically unfit for service) and there were some very very harsh words for them even after all that time. It really wasn't appreciated when married women with husbands who'd been serving overseas for the past 3 years or more were deliberately targeted by the ''yanks'' because they were seen as easy prey.
And I often heard comments growing up in NZ about how the ''yanks'' treated the Maori soldiers they met in the war, and the comments weren't very polite either. We even covered it in a topic when we learned about the war in history, we were also told that they allegedly treated many of the commonwealth soldiers from Africa and the pacific islands in the same way though I don't know how true this is. Would be interested in finding out if anyone knows the answer.
@Phil Failla Not necessarily. I know one of the women targeted, known for decades what happened mainly because my mother told me 40-50 years ago, and she wasn't considered totally blameless either if only because she, allegedly, didn't exactly say no. It is, was, one of those areas where many of the families are those who grew up in the same streets/houses during the war, and kids see and hear much more than you might think which is why so many knew what was happening and who was involved.
Unfortunately as they all age and die off, and in most cases the kids are selling the houses - which are worth an awful lot of money now and are on good size gardens which can't be built on - the history will slowly be lost. If my daughter walked down the road now there won't be anyone there who can say with certainly that she is my daughter, and my parent's granddaughter or my aunt's niece because they are all new people who never knew the original families. Yet as far back as the late 80s/early 90s I could walk down the street and be recognised, even if I had never met the people themselves they knew me because they knew my parents and could see the likeness. And when you know everyone - and have done for close on a century - it is known who did what and with whom and that knowledge is passed down through the families. With a surprising amount of consistency as well. What I was told tallied with what my mother told me, and they hadn't spoken/been in contact via post for 3 decades or more.
My great grandpa always talked about the hot beer, totally blew his mind.
Surely they could find a 'period' Jeep..it's a post war one. The UK has masses of wartime Willys/GPW Jeeps.
My neighbour has one and has rented it out to production companies. Maybe even BoB's itself.
Nothing says significant and lasting cultural influence quite like a British Archeologist in a faded NY Yankees baseball hat.
I thougth Lipton was from West Virginia? Later years moving to North Carolina.
True. Huntington, West Virginia.
God Bless America And Her Great Allies That Will Always Stand Tall And Defend This Great World 🌍 Of Ours
HELL YEAH I'D GO DRINKIN WITH BURGESS MEREDITH!
On the cliffs of Tourcross in Devon the USA servicemen serving there leading up to the D_Day landings have their names carved on the walls of the cliff by the hotel
That’s Mickey from Rocky!!!!
The guy in the video played “Mick” in rocky
Carlwood Lipton was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, not South Carolina. He did not live in NORTH Carolina until he retired in the 1980s.
Carwood Lipton was from West Virginia, no?
I helped make that book mostly by hand. It didn't go far as was made in wiltshire too
11:00 They recognize individuals' names on the beech trees - extradite and charge them. Zero tolerance.
Carwood was from West Virginia!
More permanent than tree carvings are rock carvings. Like the J TIPTON carved into a boulder in Devils Den, Gettysburg.
That archaeologist, Kieran, sounds like a fellow Aussie to me. If he is, and my ears aren't deceiving me, I wouldn't be surprised if his grandparents and mum (who he says both lived in Aldbourne) would have come to Australia under the "10 pound pom" program, which was the colloquial term given to the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme, which the Australian govt set up in 1945 to aid British people to migrate to Australia post WW2.
I remember my nan telling me about that, she said it was grim in England after the war and my grandad was desperate to go because everyone thought Australia was paradise. When they got selected grandad turned it down because he didn't want to leave his mum on her own. When she died he said to nan "we can go to Australia now" but nan wouldn't have it because their kids were at school. I have been to Australia and it is indeed paradise, he would have loved it.
What is this RUclips channel, what is HistoryHit? Are you just a bunch of lads and lasses enjoying making videos, are you a studio that makes documentaries for tv (this is the production quality)? I am honstly baffled about what you are
Started off as a podcast by a English historian that regularly did stuff for the BBC, he started history hit a few years ago and it’s become an on demand history channel online
"you may meet a man called Giles Brandreth . Whatever you do ask him no follow-up questions." 🤔🤣
If there was any doubt those carvings were American, Tony G. put them to rest. Not many British guys named Tony walking around back then.
3:26 here's a US American surrounded by a bunch of Germans
Or as American hero General Patton called the Germans: "the wrong enemy" to have been defeated.
@@NotSure109 Well, Patton was a sociopath, so there's that.
@@kkpenney444 Interesting. Not relevant to the point being made, and in no way changes the fact and wisdom of his observation, but interesting. Another interesting medical fact about an American figure: Barack Obama married a biological male. 😁
@@NotSure109 What a surprise: a Nazi sympathizer is also a despicable human being.
Americans contributed generously to the gene pool in these villages.
For real? Is there any surviving evidence of that?
@@danielvaldez9946 Eric Clapton is a war baby from a Canadian serviceman.
I have the guidebook for Northern Ireland
"Chapter One: Religion - 'Don't Mention It!'"
@@NotSure109 not sure if chapter one but it's definitely in there. It also says that a woman's place is in the kitchen
@@mattmagee180 Very fucking based and truth pilled. Women's suffrage and its consequences have been a disaster for the have been a disaster for the human race.
4 minutes of repetition before we actually got some detail. Some being the operative word.
Completely new environment? Rural farm village in the Northern hemisphere where everyone speaks English
More different than you think. We walk barefoot in the grass.
Good old English pub….no such thing anymore.
Came across the full training video last year, the part where they have to explain that Britain wasn't as racist as America is mental
Honestly. And now look at the UK. You need ID to buy cutlery and the police will arrest you for reporting crimes committed by non-whites. The Americans had it right. But even they've strayed.
Yesssss. I was gobsmacked when the narrator gave a weird look at the lady for inviting the black man to dinner. Just insane to think about.
The Brits were more concerned with the Irish which must have confused the Americans who thought the British and Irish were nearly the same thing. Every nation's racism seems obviously ridiculous to outsiders.
@@kindnessfirst9670 that would be xenophobia but yeah
Videos lately have been lacking subtitles so I'm unsubscribing. Hopefully if yt recommends this channel in the future, they'll be considerate of those who can't hear every word.
A Brit wearing a New York Yankee's hat
"killroy was here.' "overpaid. oversexed. and over here!"
i bet if you did an xray of the tree, you could read the letters.
Overpaid, Oversexed, and over here!
And they would respond your under sexed, under paid, and under Eisenhower
Wasn't the American's retort something like "Brits: Underpaid. Undersexed. And under Ike" (i.e., Eisenhower)?
Matelot friend of mine told me US Navy personnel on Shore Leave were/are issued with a card saying: Do not drink with The British. Do not gamble with The British. Do not fight with The British. They will win!!
Walking around in that uniform in the US would get you popped with a Stolen Valor charge quicker than you can say "it's a costume"
Great episode but the Richard Spencer WN haircut is off putting. JS
They don't own that haircut bro
@@beneficent2557 I know but in our current political climate you may want to avoid trying to look like a fucking Nazi. Especially when you’re doing videos about World War II.
@@jayeautocorrectstohate5054 the current political climate has more FBI agents larping as "Patriot Front" than bonafide fascists. UK has even less fascists.
The economy is a better predictor of extremism imho.
@@beneficent2557 I agree with that also.
That’s mother fuckin Burrgess Meredith in that 1943 US Army film, he played Rocky’s trainer!
“Chase the chicken Rock!”