Bartender Reacts! Biggest Logistical Flex of All Time-Berlin Airlift by The Fat Electrician 

"...Bitch-slap their entire country _with the sun."_ What an awesome line.

The CANDY BOMBER 🍬 is my favorite part of this story. Just a random act of kindness that just spiraled into becoming one of the most memorable parts of the biggest humanitarian effort in history ... just ... legendary.

My late father was part of the airlift, God love him. RIP, Pop...

The Fat Electrician is always entertaining, two of my favourites of his are, "The RAFs Legless Anti-Hero", and "Wreaking and Trolling the Germans With a Wooden Plane".

No no, you said it right the first time. "The Berlin Airflex."

The next time you hear someone say, "When was American ever great"... point them to this video.

I remember General Colin Powell reiterating the old military axiom, "Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics." Once again recommending The Fat Electrician's video on the USS O'Bannon.

Just a personal note, there's a LOT of good in humanity, but the bad stuff gets more views, so you'll generally just be more aware of the bad. But it's not as one-sided as our media would lead people to believe

Vittles is a legitimate version of the older Latin victuals and pronounced exactly the same way. Means "provisions" especially food.

There is a story I read about how bad the inflation was that two women were walking home from working in a factory. Carrying their daily pay in laundry baskets, they set the baskets down to get a break and to look at something in a store window and when they turned around to pick up their baskets and finish the journey home someone had stolen the baskets. Left the money and ran off with the baskets.

“We just start smaller wars, that we don’t finish.” LOL

Necessity is the mother of invention. But spite is it's crazy uncle who keeps edging it on!

Here in the US schools entire classes were making small parachutes to use for the candy drops. Women donated VERY expensive and perfumed, in some cases silk, handkerchiefs to use. Some probably tring to get the attention of pilots. ALL went out the windows of the planes.

Oh by the way, General Tunner is the father of the "air corridor" and having specific air corridors at specific altitudes allowing even more planes to occupy the same airspace at the same time - that was his solution to this whole issue, and it's been used ever since at every single airfield and airport in the entire world to make them efficient and allow aircraft to land and take off every few minutes. It was also adopted by the shipping industry for cargo and tanker vessels. So he basically pioneered the system that allows global transport on such a scale as today to even work and be a thing. Dude definitely became the main character, if he wasn't already one before that point.

It's a beautiful moment of nations coming together to do what is right even when it seems impossible. Wish we had a bit more of that today.

My father's first assignment after joining the Army was West Berlin during the airlift in 1949 at 19 years old.

17:20, a real cherry on top when the Soviets tried sending fighters up to to try and intimidate the pilots, and a real life example of how unfazed the pilots actually were, there was one cargo pilot who was en-route to Berlin and saw a Soviet fighter approaching. By now I'm pretty sure he'd already been harassed by them on previous flights, but this time he'd finally had enough. He straight up took his plane and flew right at the Soviet fighter essentially saying "do it bi***, I f***ing dare you," and naturally, the Soviet fighter veered off at the last minute and he continued on to Berlin unharmed.

Spite can ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY be the reason necessity happens.

Every time you paused you hit the nail on the head with your responses, well freaking done!

My dad did a missionary trip to Germany and he said literally you needed a wheel barrel of money to buy a pencil, they had people walk hundreds of miles to where they were stationed because they were giving out bibles, basketballs, and food and it was like gold to the people

Struggle is the mother of inventions. Spite is the father.

I remember learning about the Berlin Airlift in school. As I recall, when The Candy Bomber was about to start dropping his packages, he would rock his plane from side to side so the kids on the ground would know it was him. The kids started calling him Uncle Wiggle Wings.

Logistics win wars. You gotta make sure the war fighter has plenty of beans and bullets.

It's called political promises, that most politicians have no intention of keeping, and the ones who do plan on keeping them get blocked by the others.

Its the Indiana Jones font

Ehhhhhh.... the Nazis were pretty up front with what they were about, Hitler even outlined his plans in Mein Kampf, which was written before he was elected. There absolutely were people who didn't agree with the Nazis and some of those people did everything that they could to save people and they should never be forgotten but the vast majority of people in Germany goosestepped right alongside the Nazis. Rinse and repeat that with Imperial Japan as well. When Nanking was being savaged Japanese newspapers were gleefully reporting on decapitation and baby skewering competitions like they were baseball games and the civilian response to that was to cheer it on. Rinse and repeat that with Hamas in the Gaza Strip as well. Hamas was (and still is) a terrorist organization whose openly stated main goal is the extermination of Israel. Gaza voted them in, celebrated the 7 October attacks, had no problems whatsoever with the decapitation of babies or women being cut in half or people burned alive. Again, they celebrated terrorists attacking civilians. That makes them complicit.

Most governments aren't worth the air they waste, in my opinion, but humanity in general is actually pretty cool when you get out of the way and let us work together.

If you like two enemies banding together for the greater good you should look into the battle for castle itter

The Russians tried to build a huge radio tower right in the flight path. The locals blew it up and the Russians didn't try that again.

More on safety razors. I only shave legs and under arms, 5 cent blades are usually adequate but Ive splurged in 12 cent blades and still saved so much. Best way to escape the pink tax Safety Razors. A kind of expensive handle, but absolutely affordable blades. The younger you are, the more savings you can enjoy over your life.

The Berlin airlift campaign took a year. If done today, six USAF C-5 transport aircraft could do it in one day.

at 25:30 he misspoke. It wasnt 92,000 miles it was actually 92,000,000 miles.

Im so happy for this reaction i was having a bad night at work and you are in my top 3 favorite youtubers of all time and all your videos make .y night at work so much better tha ks for all the great content❤

24:30 Necessity covers spite, the willingness to defeat your enemies, do something really cool, or attempt to win awards for the nicest human act.

Communism does attain equality. Yup, equally poor.

The different ways that the west said fuck you to the Soviets is astounding hilarious and downright amazing

6:15 it wasn’t rhetorically said, there’re stories of fathers going with suitcases full of money to buy a load a bread just to find out the price had doubled in a few hours. It was genuinely THAT bad

USMC vet here, not that my 2 cents matter. But the last video you do that I watched. The Barbary wars, I don’t always agree with our foreign policy, or how we do it. But generally is for the overall good, yes always ulterior motives. And made to benefit us. But even with that. We are historically among the nicest and chill/honest. As a whole to try to enforce what we want. And have brought the longest period of peace between major powers since the height of the Roman republic and empire. And this. This just shows how and why. Though lend lease in WWII makes this look like nothing, at least in total scale and time we supplied and built ourselves up and the rest of the free world willing and capable to fight. which is impressive. Along with fighting a two front world war. Well major two theater, but really a 4 front war. For those who don’t know among many things. We gave the Soviets so much canned meat, they were still eating the last of it in the 1980’s, and was still safe to eat, if not the best food, over 40 years after they got the last shipments. That’s what we (US) can do. Will do, and has done. Along with being the major player in the Berlin airlift, and a lot of things, whether good or bad, we will do it, and fully dedicate to it, even if it turns out badly, that’s alarmist always cause of politics, not cause of effort, capability or intention. And yes I know the road to hell is paved with good intentions. But we’re the only ones who try. And actually can make a difference. Like that can physically make a world and history changing difference, from minor decisions, anytime we choose to intervene or meddle in/change things.

9:28 as AL Murray would put it "gotta keep match fit somehow. "

Lmfao @ stick figure making it say OMMUNISM. You been single too long too, eh? 😉😂 Good vid reaction. Enjoyed my first trip to AL.

The Globemaster was approved for development soon after Japan hit Pearl Harbor, but it takes years to create an aircraft, especially since planes in the 1940s were designed using slide rules, hand drawn blueprints, and machinists hand machined the jigs and molds for everything. No computer aided design. Then you tested it, and made adjustments. First flight was a month after Japan surrendered and production was halted after only 14 were made. They were intended for the Pacific theater of war where they would fly very long distances. The bread and butter cargo place was the C47 Sky Train, also known as the Dakota to the Brits. The civil version was the DC-3. Built just before the war for passengers, they weren't sure how strong of an airframe it truly was until they kept adding weight and it kept flying just fine. They were extremely rugged, perfect for those diving approaches into Berlin.

During that time, the German currency was worth more as wallpaper than as currency.

WC and the Maad Circle “West Up” (ft. I’ve Cube and Mac 10). We don’t call it 5-O we call it One Time.

Watched someone else react to this and he did a horrible job. You did great!

Gail Halvorsen, the Candy Bomber, passed away in February of 2022...at the age of 101.

That's not Air Bud font. That's Indiana Jones.

16:26 The world at large didn't get to see what the war actually did to the people it affected, the people flying those planes did. So did the people on the ground. Sometimes all it takes is experience to change a perspective.

The really impressive part is the U.S was supplying Japan and the Philippines during this time also

It just occured to me. I was born at the height of the Berlin Airlift. I can also remember standing in front of my TV in 1989, weeping with joy, as I watched the citizens of Berlin rip that disgusting wall down. The great communist society was supposed to be built in East Germany. Try and find that country on a modern map today.....

Thanks for sharing. You have a lovely voice.

20:15 I like your style 😂😂😂

The brits had the Rainbow code system after the war to assign project names for weapons. This could get real silly like the Green Cheese anti ship missile

Bluffing someone doesn't work when the person you are trying to bluff has the world's largest ace in the hole and it is the only one in the deck.

You're amazing, I love this channel and story ❤️

We are all equal comrad. Some of us are just more equal

After seeing your heart melt for the candy bomber, i thought I'd be seeing a reaction to that story. If your still interested? There's a full length documentary on him. (Yes, it will melt your heart more)

I love my little safety razor.

I think it can't be overstated how much the Berlin Airlift consolidated for the german public in the late 40s and early 50s that the only way forward would be the western alliance. It seems obvious now but at the time there were many plans and ideas for germany to stay neutral or become demilitarized, not gaining back it's independence at all, disbanding the entire country or leaving it under constant occupation. The Soviets went as far as promising Germany all of it's former eastern territories, Prussia etc., in exchange for not joing the west, but their actions spoke louder than their words and their complete disregard and willingness to sacrifice millions of civilians in order to force western Berlin into giving up was a major point in convincing west germans that there was no future with the Soviets.

Just a little factoid: British food and rations during this period of time were so bad that the French and Americans refused to use them, and the Germans intentionally surrendered to the Americans because their food was edible. Germans under POW status under the British complained of being tortured with rotten and inedible food rations as prisoners, to which the British notified them that those were the same rations their troops were eating. The British rations were TERRIBLE.

That is very much Indiana Jones font being employed.

People who were owed money were hiding so people who owed them couldn't find them and pay their loans in useless money.

That proxy war joke was great lol soooooo true

The Queen of Monday morning quarterbacking.

Don't forget the C-54 Skymaster. British Lanks Dropping food in the outlying areas like my Father's B-25 Squadron did. Yes, but the Oil Company's fueled America's recovery from the expense of the war. Look up the Candy Bombers of this airlift Sweetheart.

1:21 Looks like the Indiana Jones font to me.

Americans learn?!?!? This woman comes across as priority case #1 when it comes to who needs to be educated.

We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.

I think it was the prospective of the allied countries toward the citizens Thus ,the Berlin air lift. Plus you can’t have people dying for preventable health issues while watching people die

My grandfather survived the camps because the local Germans smuggled them food. He would fight anyone badmouthing the people

Way back in the 70s it was kinda expected to be robbed of candy. I was frosty never happened to me but friend with me just la de da and see ya.

To be fair assuming Plain Fare is accurate given its food from Britain 😂 those who have eaten British food use the term plain frequently 😂

I understand you are young and im old and crotchety. Its cool. You do good reactions.

Costly? Fuel, spark plug, brake rotors and pads, avionics, control wires…

Hey patton, eisenhower, truman, more than 90percent of people know nowadays.

Goddamn ninjas cutting onions.

Remember the candy lift

(1:19) I believe it is the Indiana Jones font.🤔

24:26 I'd argue that laziness is also in contention for being the mother of invention. If not 'the mother' at least a great aunt or something.

If necessity is the mother of invention; spite is her busty, tattooed, sociopath younger sister.

That's not air buds font, it's Indiana Jones font, tho I can't say I recall air buds font to say for certain it's not

12:46 To be fair this was after ww2 so maybe that's why you did not hear about tonner.

Still have about 56 Billion Reichsmark at home from my grandpa 😅

There's some context as to why the world was so harsh on the German people after WWII. Just 21 years prior to the war kicking off with the invasion of Poland in 1939, the world had tried to be lenient with Germany who had initiated WWI by invading France by first invading neutral Belgium and the British Empire had previously said that anyone who attacked Belgium would answer to them (the British Empire had also warned Germany that an invasion of Poland would be grounds for a declaration of war so that's twice in two generations that the Germans knowingly started a large scale war). During the interwar years, the German people thought that they hadn't actually lost WWI (they had, their entire military was either collapsing or in mutiny) and instead were "stabbed in the back" by their government. A big part of this belief was that WWI never actually touched Germany itself with all the fighting occurring in Belgium, France, Russia, the Balkans, etc. So when Germany started WWII after the rest of the world was still coming to grips with the horrors of WWI, they pretty much pissed everyone off and so the decision was made to utterly crush Germany to make sure they didn't try it a third time.

4:00 minute mark, to be fair, the Nazis were incredibly popular in the eyes of the German people. Source; my in laws who were young children at the time in Munich.

"Sometimes we dont suck so bad" man thats some real talk.

Thats the same font and coloring as Indiana Jones movie titles

That is the Indiana Jones font.

Im old german and polish and i will blame the government

Hey there, wonderful reaction. If I may make a suggestion, give the original creator's video a week or two from its publishing to allow their video time in the algorithm before it gets hidden by all the reaction creators. Just a courtesy given TFE puts a lot of time in research to share the information in their video and for it to be overshadowed by reaction youtubers is a bit of a dick move. Other than that, you made some great points of discourse and I really enjoyed your perspective in your reaction to his content!

Yay a happy one.

They weren't Russians back then, they were Soviets.

The citizens of Germany were feeling great in 1941 but not so much in 1946. Perspective, I guess. I do understand that not all were for this NZ effort but I'm sure that probably half were during 1941 and in the 30's.

Please forgive my ignorance, but wat small battles did America start but not finish?? And yes this entire situation was phenomenal lol

I understand your frustration that the people of Germany were blamed for the actions of their government. Here's some context that might explain some of the sentiments being expressed. A good portion of the population was still angry and resentful at the rest of Europe who kept their country hamstrung and boxed in after WW I. All it took was a crazed Dictator with a silver tongue to sway the angry masses into a hyperstate of nationalism and pride. Many Germans were complicit, at least at the start of the war, and turned a blind eye to what their government was doing. Times were different and folks back in the 30s and 40s had different world views and priorities than us in the modern era.

I have a question for people. Where is East Germany? East Berlin? What happened to them?

It's the Indiana Jones font. He doesn't really explain the underlying reason why communism and socialism do not work. It's because the incentives are inverted. If everyone merely gets what they need, but have to produce at their highest ability, there's no incentive to learn any trade because the master carpenter gets paid the same as the day laborer and the cleaning lady. It takes a couple of generations after socialism gets seriously ingrained before the craftsmen and skilled workers die off and then you're left with nothing but the less skilled labor and the complex systems start to collapse.

You're dead-on about people blaming them for "voting in the Nazis" - thing is the Nazis didn't start out immediately doing evil crap. In fact for the first year or so after they won the election the majority of what they did and changed HELPED Germany immensely. To the point the German economy (which was in tatters after WW1 and the sanctions that followed) was showing signs of a major recovery. If they'd kept doing that they might have gone down in history as one of the best and most successful political parties in the history of Germany. But what the public didn't know because it was never publicised was what was going on behind closed doors, with law and policy changes that gradually over the period of a year or two made it harder and harder for the Nazis to be removed from office, and they also got rid of the term limits the Chancellor (Germany's President, essentially) had to abide by. It was only once the Nazis had secured their hold on power and had taken absolute dictatorial control over the country did they then reveal their true faces and truly turn evil, and this is when they invaded Poland. So no, the regular German people aren't responsible for everything that happened afterwards, simply because they "voted the Nazis in". Also most Germans - including soldiers and officers of their military - didn't even have a clue about the concentration camps because those were State secrets for most of the war. To the point when German prisoners of war that were being kept in the UK were told and shown footage of the camps, many were so horrified they refused to go back to Germany after the war ended, and many others even sadly committed suicide over it, despite no blame being on their shoulders.

If we did that with the world today we could be proud American s instead of ( 8:59 is this americia i thought this was americia)..but this we do suck that bad ...i would just like to see it..really yeah...🌍🏴‍☠️💪💖🇺🇲💕✌️

You should look at the video showing the dead of WWII. At the end of the video the author shows what the war frequency and intensity worldwide before WWII and after. The main difference shown is that after WWII the US established freedom of the seas and encouraging worldwide trade. The period following WWII has been the longest period of peace and prosperity in the history of civilization. We might do questionable things, but we have kept everyone in their own lane and forced them to play nice.

Evidently the razor doesn't work. Look at his beard. 🤣🤣