1958 Mars Bluff Nuclear Bomb Incident 

I agree. it is really disappointing to hear how the Greggs were treated in the reimbursement process.

Especially back in the 1950s

@@avilacanario you'd think ~5 to 10k would have been enough to fully build a brand new house in the 50s so how badly did they short him!

Probably the same amount it cost to circle that plane for 3 hours before landing.

@@Spencer481 specially when you think that they "build" entire villages to blast them in nuclear tests. and the house was blasted by a "nuclear bomb". the only house needed back,and...

Makes me think of "Undocumented immigrant.

@@maxwellcrazycat9204 or Military Intelligence or Honest Politician

Unacknowledged propaganda stunt. Calling Mars Bluff, calling Mars Bluff! Did you feel your brain getting damaged by the whoosh of hot air between your ears?

@@alantasman8273 jumbo shrimp

like "casualty"

maybe in the russian hallmark isle...

Roses are red Violets are blue So sorry we dropped a bomb on you USAF -pretty lame I must admit! :) -but who can do better! :)

"Secretary Baird : Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon. Giles Prentice : I don't know what's scarier, losing a nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it." From the movie of the same name.

Too funny. Thanks I’ve started my day with a good chuckle 🤭

Hahaha good one 🤣

Rowland, NC? My grandparents lived in Raemon/Midway.

Hiroshima was only heard at 50 miles away

@@jonnyd9351 This makes sense. Hiroshima has mountains, the bomb in this clip landed on the coastal plains, so the land was flat for miles in every direction.

Tell your dad he is a loser. Lost the Vietnam War.... calling losers "heroes"?!? That was the start of the 'everyone gets a trophy for participating' pansy culture that is popular now!

Well, we sure gave him a nice ride.

Thank you for your father's service from a former Royal marine over the pond

@@garethgriffiths8577 Thanks, Gareth. I don't remember specifics, but my dad's unit did some sort of collaboration with the Royal Marines back in the day, which led him to a life long friendship ,with one Leslie Hudson, who I believe retired as a colonel and has since passed, and a lifelong respect for the Royal Marines. Col. Hudson brought me a Wooly Pulley over from the UK when I was in high school and it was a cherished garment. Another good man. Anyway, thanks for your service as well. Cheers !

God Bless your father! I served in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot first in the Infantry and then the US Air Cavalry. When my buddies were scootin' around town in their 68 Mustangs and 57 Chevys I was scootin' around the neighborhood in my Huey and then Kiowa, wishing I was on the ground wishin' I was up here! We were young and invincible, your father and I, brothers from different mothers. History will judge us as trying to do the right thing, and one day soon I will see your father on " Fiddlers Green". HOOOAH!

But gee, I bet he got a pretty neat letter to frame with President Eisenhower's autograph!

It's still a vacant lot.

"Poor form" at best. "Piss-poor treatment of a citizen bombed by their own country" is a bit more like it.

@@mickenzie5863 Got a Google Earth (or some such) image link? I'd like to see that.

@@haplessasshole9615 As if they gave a shit.

Good one..!!!

That Max Headroom?

@@kevintucker3354 The one and only. Usually gets mistaken for Eminem these days.

@@ShootAUT Eminem wishes he was as cool as Max Headroom .

@@pappy451 - I think Eminem would play a great Max Headroom and would love to hear some raps done that way LOL Also they should use Max Headroom for the first AI that becomes sentient LOL That would be really cool :D

Yeah TheHistoryGuy is great at patching out some nonsense creative story about the cat Mitzi.... Mark Felton Productions all the way! Ahem, Dr. Just playing The History Guy is amazing!!!

@@msgstar4933 The story was also told in "Atomic Accidents" by James Mahaffey. I think we accidentally almost nuked ourselves 117 times, and that's just us.

Great humanizing of what could have been a jumble of technology.

this is the first I"m hearing of it despite only living about 110 miles from there

@@msgstar4933 if they are using Florence SC as a landmark that explains a lot. I'm surprised there were a dozen homes around to be damaged.

Your part of history Sir

Amazing story! Thanks for sharing.

no you werent...that was 66years ago, that would make you atleast 84-86yrs old and more like 90.... so youre 85-90yrs old, fucking around on YT? lol please.... what do you people get iut of making this shit up, its like the new "first" post or "whoever reads this..." hoping for likes or something, every video has "that was my grandpa" and some story...like who does that? so pathetic

No fault of yours Arthur, thanks for sharing your experience with us, I hope it doesn't weigh heavy on you at all for it shouldn't. Much love!

Thank you for your service and yes it's crazzy the military will hide stuff and keep info from their own airmen and troops to hide things and not freak out the public. You sir are part of history and should not feel terrible about it not your fault at all. My dad was in the airforce for 27 years and mom did 23 years they both entered the airforce in the mid 80s and dad went to desert storm and the Gulf war and Iraqi freedom. And he went to a bunch other countries for missions and duty and service like Columbia to track drug trafficking planes during Pablo Escobar days in the height of it and he went missing for two weeks mom got through to the head of red cross after a week of not hearing from dad and she finally got the answers she needed apparently the hotel they was in was evacuated of all American military members due to bomb and sure enough Pablo had found out American armed forces was staying there had his guys plant bombs and blew the whole front side of the hotel out every room the had American service members in them was gone and they evacuated them secretly about 30ins before it went off and dad said they got tdonw the road and they looked back and the whole front side of hotel.blew out and was leveled cuse some dumb airmen was running around in bars about two days later telling ppl he is gonna kill Pablo himself drunk and then some females was pretending to flirt with him went back to his hotel which was where my dad was in same hotel but not room and told the two lady's that all the American airforce members that are in Columbia are all staying in this hotel and the one next door and those two chicks was informants for Pablo. My dad was a sergeant for radar operations and they was all given Canadian IDs and was supposed to tell ppl they are Canadians their on vacation and visiting and couldn't wear any military uniform or anything they got dressed on base in the tunnel they worked out of on radars tracking drug planes.

Catch 22.😰 YEE ,HAW !

That's how your hard core commie works..

@@HeaanLasai Looking at nuclear accidents and close calls has you looking at humanity like a child with a lighter in one hand playing with a stick of dynamite in the other. And we're still doing it.

@@richblantin1343 LOL 👍🏻😏👍🏻

No, it was Dr. Strangelove.

Sounds like they were downwinders

Look up the filming location for the 1956 movie "The Conqueror" where John Wayne portrays Genghis Khan (an absolutely horrible movie). It was filmed in Snow Canyon Utah and was directly downwind of some of the continental nuclear tests in the mid 1950's. It is reported that of the cast and crew of 220 people, 91 developed cancer. Running around in a dusty environment that is still laden with radionuclides, breathing that stuff in and living and sleeping in it is definitely bad for your health.

@@TishaHayes Yup- I remember reading about that.

Until you look at the nuclear secret incident currently happening in politics and you realize that it's really just how well we keep the ignorant idiots away from positions of power. Mainly the presidency

Nothing has changed. We still only know what we have been told.

Don't force it. Use a bigger hammer.

WD 40.

Yes!

They could have tried holding the bomb in place with duct tape.

@@Underwatergoat1 I used to work for a guy who said that all the time. If ya think about it, there is some validity to it.

Or, as it likely was put in the official reports, "percussive maintenance methods were used."

The engineering term for that is "percussive maintenance"

Has Ave joined the chat?

This is the approved first response for all military equipment.

... gentle persuasion my_ss!

I lived in Darlington at that time and some of our friends lived in Mars Bluff and were affected.

@@topixfromthetropix1674 Conway.

@@bloodybones63 hey y’all. Pamplico here. I saw Mars Bluff and thought could this be our SC Florence county Mars Bluff?? I literally live 15 miles from there and have never heard of this

12 minutes from there, buddy of mine lives only a couple blocks from there right now

I lived in Mars Bluff briefly during my high school years. I've always gotten a bit of kick out of having lived somewhere that had an 'atomic bomb' dropped on it. :)

Imagine the classified stuff! 👀

How come we are not all dead? All that radiation!

We're allowed to have schools?

Well not lately apearintly

*Apparently. We can tell lol.

Too late History is now canceled for everyone in the United States

@@shawngoldsberry747 not in my family. If they dont learn it at school, I have family the get xtra education when they get home from school. They dont like it but at least they'll be a little smarter then most

My ex's father was a navigator on a B-47 and was killed via rough landing and subsequent fire in the mid 60's. There were few details, as I believe his crew was photographing places that were officially "off-limits" over Europe based on where the crash happened.

Ever heard anyone call it the BUFF-lite?

Nuked a chicken coup...class! Lovely story. Thank you.

Slim Pickens riding the bomb. Yahoo

@@drakefallentine8351 Only one is a movie that makes fun of it and one is reality big difference

@@Mr.Robert1 Truth in the movies and lies on TV

That's how Chic-fil-A was born, and they cook 'em the same way to this day. The "A" is for atomic!

There are some Soviet incidences that have been made public. such as the time somebody accidentally loaded a training program into their early warning system and they nearly launched their entire nuclear stockpile because they thought they were under attack

Probably the same or worse, we'll just never know because instead of compensating the victims they shot them or put them in the Gulag.

Makes you kinda glad the RAF didn't fly around with nukes on board.

@@rogueriderhood1862 What do you think the V bomber force was for?

They were only made public because the public found out.

I'm 'borrowing' this...

"Swaller dollar cauliflower, aligaroo!"

You should watch the film "Strategic Air Command" starring Jimmy Stewart for lots of B-47 footage. Jimmy was a bomber pilot in WWII Europe and stayed in the USAF Reserve throughout much of his acting career.

The B-47 is definitely one handsome aircraft. Not particularly successful, but darn good looking.

The wings used to crack from doing their bug out loop after dropping a device (USAF procedure.) So they left service pretty quickly.

Carlin was right!

Was thinking the same thing. What a beauty!

But she was short one of them afterwards.

Did she still have her skin on?

No, it is not right.

In our time, he'd probably make a fortune off the royalties from the rights to the story.

Correct but you are talking about a country that stood US Army trainees in shallow trenches in front of an atomic bomb to see what the results would be. Different times, different thinking!

@@outdoorfreedom9778 - they did more than just stand there, they actually were ordered to run towards it. Saw that here on RU-vid one time.

From what I heard they paid enough to repair the damages, just not rebuild from the ground up. Also since it's taxpayer money, regulations force them to be as cheap as possible to save taxpayers from more waste.

Lazerpig did a video about all the Broken Arrow incidents he could find.

Kulka very nearly went down like Slim Pickens.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel What is so strange about Dr. Strangelove is that it failed to convince the US & CCCP to dismantle their Nuclear Arsenal...

@@davidhollenshead4892 It is time to stop worrying and learn to love the bomb.

@@GnuReligion But today, the mantra should be: It is time to stop worrying and learn to love the virus.

@@marbleman52 That is clever. It is peculiar, that political alignment can be determined by how pro-mask, or pro-shutdown someone is. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HKsDem1r4_A.html

I understand that Mike Hunt was terribly violated.

@@kingboagart899 not nearly as bad as Buster Hymen

The "Missing Bomb" formation.

@@The_Bermuda_Nonagon 😂😂😂

But without digging the grave until it had passed.

😁

@@PhilJonesIII Lol

Goldsboro- talked about that accident in this episode: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yIrSBmG46n8.html

@@TheHistoryGuyChannelThank you, sir. Love your daily history lessons.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel It actually dropped outside the small town of Faro, NC. Which is not to far from Goldsboro.

They "think" they found some of the wreckage from the nuclear bomb carrying plane that went down in Northern BC near South West Alaska but they aren't positive, nor did they ever find the bomb.

Goldsboro, NC, fly from Seymore Johnson AFB, I worked on the B-52 pad at that time and the security blanket was so tight we never heard about it. The crew never turned to the base. Talk about a lock down.

How so?

@@swillm3ister He never uttered the word "oops" again..

@@darrellsmith4204 LoL sounds about right. That's definitely a memorable mistake.

@@swillm3isterMy wife knew his wife from a "self-help" program. They were much older, of course.

@@harleylawdude I imagine it would have been quite a life changing event. I wonder if he remained in that role after the ordeal.

Dang, Juan, you sure get around. I didn't expect to "see you here!"

Was it an accident or an incident... Accident sounds like it's down to earth and real and being honest... Incidence sounds like it's politically correct,,,, While whitewashing it!

@@davidleethompsoniii8263 🤤⁉️

Probably used-up one of her nine lives though...

"loss incident" is the Air Force term, and I suspect it is intended to make it sound less egregious than "bombed South Carolina."

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Might have been appropriate for the B47 crew to report, " Hunter Control? WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE!

I never realized how many nuclear accidents there have been until I watched the "Plainly Difficult" youtube channel.

It’s pronounced nuckulear.

I think I read somewhere that losing a device has happened something like 32 times. I don't know how many times they lost a " device" before they came up with the term Broken Arrow for such an incident.

No, Homer is a Navy Nuke, the USAF is much worse about losing or breaking nukes.

Grabbed the bomb release lever because he needed something to hold on to. Good Grief!!!

That’s Exactly!👌

Tonya Harding’s favorite song to skate to “If I had a Hammer”

Over 25 years later, and Tonya still gets the hammer jokes.

It actually had a terrible service record that was a result of both aircraft and training issues. 10% of the airframes built were total losses due to accident.

Ten percent?! That's a very unstable platform to be delivering a nuclear bomb on an enemy. Any practice with live bombs poses a significant elevated threat of crashing with a bomb on friendly territory and spreading around its radioactive materials, such as plutonium, uranium, and polonium. I've read that bomber crews were told to crash on land instead of in water, if possible, because uranium is highly reactive with water.

@@oahuhawaii2141 many of those accidents were in landing. Landing a B-47 wasn't really important on a nuclear bombing run as the bomber wasn't expected to make it home, or if it did it was expected that the base would no longer be there.

@@jwenting: Well, I hope they could've landed in East Asia, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Western Europe, ...

@@oahuhawaii2141 Nope, the missions would launch from the US (over the pole) and from the UK and Turkey, then fly over the USSR. Landing fields were designated in places like Pakistan but it was assumed few if any of them would make it that far, that most would either be shot down, be damaged and crash by being caught in their own nuclear blast radius, or simply run out of fuel. This was the era of one way missions. Later when the B-52 which its greater range entered service that changed, obviously, as those did have the range needed to return home. But there too very high combat losses were expected.

Omg. Could you elaborate? Was the a news story on them discovering it?

@@happydays2300 I, along with several hundreds of thousands of others, was had. The story was a fake and went viral. Though It did seem reasonable for mere citizens to find what the government can't find after years of looking. The story was fake and the device is still missing.

Talked about Palomares here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yIrSBmG46n8.html

Dont forget the North Carolina incident or the Greenland incident.

The only problem with that is holding peoples attention. Most humans don’t have long attention spans and I believe the limit is around 10 minutes, according to studies. And that’s even on a subject that they are interested in.

Is that the one with the people pinned to the reactor dome by the control rods or fuel rods? Or something to that effect.

@@Smedley1947 Yup. My uncle was one of the 5 that went in to rescue the single survivor and the last of the 5 to die of cancer (multiple myeloma).

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yIrSBmG46n8.html

YES! If I remember correctly, one of the bombs was never recovered.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel awesome! Thank you. I was born in Goldsboro, so this means a lot.

lol, I have watched em all

So have I.

Plainly Difficult is a most excellent channel.

As Ronald Reagan said the most terrifying nine words said are 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.' ”

US Government is famous for shorting compensation or not paying at all. My favorite is the current "John Q Patriot" home care commercials for former Nuclear Test Site workers. They make it sound like they're giving the workers medical care out of the goodness of their hearts. Actually it took many years and several class action lawsuits by afflicted and in many cases terminally ill Test Site workers to get that medical compensation program and they still got very little in financial compensation. I know several former workers here in Las Vegas who are still bitter about the whole lawsuit thing. They're proud of their service, but not the way they were treated when they got sick.

Homes destroyed by dam building follow a similar path. The goverment will spend billions without a thought, but when it comes to compensation for damages they have done they become Scrooge.

That gold braid is expensive...

Badger... Yeah, fug ronald reagan and republicans. Their aim was to get the people to distrust their government while they moved with defunding Medicare, food assistance and ending Social Security.!! The bad govt, here to help and giving all that money to poor Americans.! Keep the pesky government away from bothering those big corporations with regulations.! Eh.

Wrong numbers (34.2009408, -79.6571180)

Mitzy was luckier than the chickens...

@JZ's Best Friend I for one bow to our feline overlords, and have been doing so for fifty nine years.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel And she got a free chicken dinner.

A few hours later Mitzi was right there wondering where dinner is. Hey, about dinner, where is it?

U feel bad for the chickens but the Baptist church was kinda funny!

Oh man, I loved that movie. Thanks for posting this, seeing as how I had forgotten about it. I'm gonna have to try and find it on a streaming site.👍😀

@@nayrecitsuj7426 "No Time For Sergeants" was first run as a Broadway play, and it is where Andy Griffith and Don Knotts first met, forming a lifelong friendship. Also look for Dub Taylor as the draft board man, Raymond Bailey as the base Colonel, and Jamie Farr as the B-25 co-pilot!

File a TFOA report. Things Falling Off Aircraft

Loss By Inventory

It's only in recent years that hammers came with the all important instructional DVD....

Sealab: 2021 -- love that episode.

Dr. Strangelove. 1964