Explosion of USS Mount Hood, November 10, 1944

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The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood was responsible for supplying ammunition to hundreds of ships from the United States Third Fleet in Seeadler Harbor. On November 10, 1944, something went terribly wrong. The History Guy tells a forgotten story that reminds us even the sailors on support vessels risked their lives in the World War II effort.
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@raydewley9796 2 года назад

My uncle, Arthur, died on the USS Mount Hood that fateful morning. He had just turned 18 and this was likely his first assignment. Thank you for presenting your research on this event in our nation's history!

@AndreiTupolev 3 года назад

I must say, deliberately NOT finding scapegoats among those who could no longer defend themselves was a radically different approach to the one authorities usually take.

@tmr3513 3 года назад

My Uncle was serving on a supply ship in the harbor that had the ice cream making machine on it. He had just returned from delivering ice cream to the Mount Hood and had just stepped back on the deck of his ship when the Mount Hood exploded! It tossed him 10 feet across the deck, wrenched his back and blew out his ear drums. He always talked about how God had protected him and never missed Mass after that day. Sorry don't remember the name of his ship. I just remember him telling me the story. After I told him I was joining the Navy. He always thought of those men he had joked with on the ship not knowing they were all doomed less than a half hour later.

@jebsails2837 4 года назад

Lt. Collie was a close family friend of my late parents. He had survived the Pearl Harbor attack, being aboard the repair ship Vestal next to the Arizona and was blown into the flaming water. He survived, completed rehab, and was promoted from storekeeper to supply officer. After my parents passed I found a memento from him and returned to his surviving son. Thank you. Narragansett Bay.

@noahcount7132 4 года назад

When you consider the monumental amount of ordnance produced and transported during the way, it's miraculous that there were so few accidents of similar magnitude.

@olliefoxx7165 4 года назад

History Guy should come out with a calender posting forgotten history or maybe an app where we could get daily reminders of forgotten history on that day.

@tomat6362 4 года назад

My grandfather, Chester A. Gile, was a naval officer in Seeadler at the time, (and uniquely, an officer in WWI as well) and his eyewitness account of the Mount Hood explosion was published in Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute. "It sounded like someone had struck a bass drum--a drum a mile in diameter!" was his statement that has stuck with me since childhood.

@steven2212 3 года назад

24 year Navy career and first time hearing of this. You Sir, embody everything good regarding history and our treatment of it. Very well done.

@garristhemont1586

An Al Capone name drop was the biggest twist i never expected from this

@anthonyburzynski9647 2 года назад

My father was a Sea Bee stationed on Manus Island when the Hood blew up. He too was knocked off his feet by the concussion from the blast. RIP Dad your boy Tony.

@lynnwood7205 4 года назад

I met one of the survivors of the USS

@PopsP51 4 года назад

Thanks for this bit of history. My Dad was there, on the USS Piedmont, AD-17. He was climbing a ladder topside when the shockwave hit him. The force threw him off the ladder and on to the deck. He watched the watch he was wearing, a gift from my Mom, get torn off his wrist and slide across the deck and over the side into the water. One of the aerial bombs that penetrated the deck landed in a bunk. It sat there smoldering, it was so hot. A 250# bomb then had a 250# net explosive force, but weighed much less than 250

@conradinhawaii7856 4 года назад

Thank you, Lance, for this superb report of a tragedy that I grew up hearing about many times in the 1950s... but not, of course, in such detail. My dad witnessed the explosion and was part of the rescue effort. He was a gunner's mate on the Yard Minesweeper YMS-48, which was at anchor about three miles from the Mount Hood that day. He was on deck working on his bow gun, a 3"x48 breech-loaded type.Not long after the first flash, he saw the vapor wall from the immense explosion coming towards his ship, and knew what was coming. He lay down flat and held onto something solid, but the concussion was powerful enough, even at that distance, to rock his ship pretty dramatically.

@mrkeiths48 2 года назад

My uncle Leo was attached to Boat Pool #15, working on the Mount Hood that day. RIP. Thank you for remembering these brave sailors serving our country that day.

@stephenwilson7641 4 года назад

Thanks for an excellent story on the loss of the Mt. Hood.

@susiebloom3240 4 года назад

Many thanks for highlighting the Mt. Hood. My uncle was lost on board that day. My other Aunts and Uncles never spoke about this other than it had happened. Although I've read other articles, your episode made it so much more vivid to me. Thank you. May God bless all of the Sailors on the Mt. Hood.

@masterwrench4252 3 года назад

I live in the shadow of Mt. Hood. This was truly history to be remembered. Thank you for telling our stories...lest we forget!

@joemackey1950 4 года назад

Thank you History Guy. My brother, in the Coast Guard, died in a similar explosion in the Solomons in January, 1945 on the USS Serpens. A supply ship, carrying everything from TP to ammo on various trips, throughout the war. I was named after him, five years later.

@Claytone-Records 4 года назад

I painted LCM’s and LCU’s at the US Army Marine Maintainance Division at Naha port in Okinawa for a couple of summers in the early 70’s. Yes, I worked for the army starting at age 14 and didn’t even have a badge or security clearance. $1.65 an hour, hard work and high heat and humidity. I would wonder about the men who served on those boats. Another insightful video.

@michaelm1789 3 года назад

This is the best account of the Mt Hood explosion I have seen. My uncle was on a wooden 110ft subchaser, the USS SC-750 in Manus harbor when the Mt Hood exploded. He said they were almost a mile away and were digging metal out of the wooden hull. He said you could not ever imagine the size of this explosion unless you saw it.