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Hiking Palen Pass: A World War Two Desert Battlefield Training Area 

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Today we take a hike at the Palen Pass, World War Two era, desert warfare training area located in the harsh and desolate Mojave Desert. This part of the Mojave desert was used by over a million U.S. soldiers during 1942 and 1943 to train for their upcoming deployment to the battlefields of North Africa. During our exploration, we find remnants of the desert warfare training. Not only are there many foxholes and gun emplacement dugouts remaining, but there are also artifacts strewn about the valley between the mountains of Palen Pass left by our soldiers over 80 years ago.
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I enjoy metal detecting for historical items like gold coins, relics, silver coins, and other buried treasures. I also metal detect for gold and silver nuggets and even meteorites. I like to make videos that promote my choice of lifestyle that includes outdoor adventure,
metal detecting, yapping, searching for river treasure, SCUBA diving, exploring abandoned places, hiking, caving, caring for animals and pets, and observing the things outdoors that often go unnoticed by most people who are not familiar with outdoor adventures and nature. I keep my RU-vid "Aquachigger" channel family-friendly and hope you subscribe if you like my style.
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@aquachigger
@aquachigger 10 месяцев назад
A return to Palen Pass. I hope you enjoy this hike and history.
@raynin
@raynin 10 месяцев назад
You weren't lying about videos every day!
@ryanhoward9048
@ryanhoward9048 10 месяцев назад
Happy Thanksgiving chigg
@nopelindoputraperkasa5869
@nopelindoputraperkasa5869 10 месяцев назад
Nice sharing Vidio 🇮🇩⚒️⛏️👍👍
@jamescrabtree4358
@jamescrabtree4358 10 месяцев назад
Do you think the chicken wire was used fir foliage for camo
@twowingsblackhawk8954
@twowingsblackhawk8954 10 месяцев назад
Thanks for the video. We been there several times. Can't go anymore due to old age & health problems. But, thanks to you , we can still enjoy the desert! Thank you, Mr Chigg!
@selfretired3025
@selfretired3025 10 месяцев назад
You really have THE BEST theme song. I find myself singing it sometimes. They really did a great job with it.
@-O-_-0-
@-O-_-0- 10 месяцев назад
Maybe the chicken wire was to hold what ever they used to camoufage the positioms. You know, grass or what was available.. Edit: apparently Mr. Chigg figured the same. Never should comment mid video🙃
@AndrexT
@AndrexT 10 месяцев назад
I thought the same, to hold brush and vegetation. And then Beau solved it.
@GDavid1955
@GDavid1955 10 месяцев назад
Thanks, Beau. I appreciate your sharing your walk through the desert and educating us at the same time.
@aquachigger
@aquachigger 10 месяцев назад
Thanks so much. I'm happy to know you enjoy my videos!
@RobbieRayner-tb7ey
@RobbieRayner-tb7ey 10 месяцев назад
Thank you for taking us along! Enjoy every minute!! Happy Thanksgiving to you and Lindsey and all the fur babies!! Love you guys ❤
@ExploringCabinsandMines
@ExploringCabinsandMines 10 месяцев назад
I love your desert content !!
@johngennari2899
@johngennari2899 10 месяцев назад
I helped open Camp Irwin to Fort Irwin in 1981 as an infantryman. We road marched tanks from railhead in Barstow 40 miles to the camp. We also trained down to 29 palms and in that area. Patton did training at Irwin too. Great desert moments.
@jaydeshaw3394
@jaydeshaw3394 10 месяцев назад
Wow! Chemtrails turning into full clouds during your video!
@paulwise6722
@paulwise6722 10 месяцев назад
Chigg good day from England ,the chicken wire was probably used to place the rocks together as they put chicken wire similar on river banks to stop the banks falling in the river like they also use heavy wire to keep cliffs from falling, my father was in North Africa in bomber command Lancashire quadron posted Alexander Bay Egypt to fight rommel German tank command
@stevebroadway3713
@stevebroadway3713 10 месяцев назад
Enjoyed watching. Thanks for the videos.Happy Thanksgiving!
@JustPlainSteve5372
@JustPlainSteve5372 10 месяцев назад
Thank You for the Adventure Chigg!
@richardwarnock2789
@richardwarnock2789 10 месяцев назад
Thanks!
@aquachigger
@aquachigger 10 месяцев назад
I really appreciate the donation. It all goes into my video fund to help pay for gas and supplies. You have been so very generous.
@richardwarnock2789
@richardwarnock2789 10 месяцев назад
Happy Thanksgiving Beau !!!; )
@charlieschemmel122
@charlieschemmel122 9 месяцев назад
Thanks for sharing!!!!!
@ericcartrette6118
@ericcartrette6118 10 месяцев назад
It looks like the mine fuse was near the little divots in the pavement? I was a combat engineer in the Army (long ago). I would say those divots were most likely made by buried mines. Those fuses were long obsolete by the time I joined in 1989. Great video!
@trudyhodson7669
@trudyhodson7669 10 месяцев назад
Very interesting. So cool to see all that!
@aserta
@aserta 10 месяцев назад
2:10 considering it's an exercise area, they were probably lax with what's actually done on account of it being difficult to dig in that terrain. There's a few pictures online with training camps in different areas where they have ration boxes as fortifications (tho, caveat, it's unclear if that's an actual training ground or just some soldiers fooling around for a picture).
@IVN357
@IVN357 10 месяцев назад
The chicken wire was used for keeping the rocks collapsing on soldiers. They would lay out wire flat then stack rocks on top for barrier then tightly fold and wrap wire then tie wire together.
@DERISNER
@DERISNER 10 месяцев назад
Hey Chig, the chicken wire was used to help camouflage equipment and positions, especially from the air
@Sausage-3-ways
@Sausage-3-ways 10 месяцев назад
Love your videos ❤❤❤
@earlt.7573
@earlt.7573 10 месяцев назад
Not uncommon to cover the front of your fighting hole with a section of chicken wire and weave bits of brush / weeds and sometimes bits of burlap sandbag into the wire to create a "camo screen " to help hide your position. Really neat that the wire is still there after all this time.
@blkjckgtr3075
@blkjckgtr3075 10 месяцев назад
Hey,Chigg thanks again for the History lesson and adventure,Happy Thanksgiving to you hope you catch a big snake to eat,Cheers!lol
@jeller4313
@jeller4313 10 месяцев назад
My military daughter says she thinks the cans with the multiple holes in them were coffee stoves. She said they couldn’t have open flames so they used those.
@SmallWonda
@SmallWonda 10 месяцев назад
Very interesting - I'd have thought the chicken wire was for cammo,,, Keep safe!
@speakfreely.1776
@speakfreely.1776 10 месяцев назад
Great video chig
@cyndybutler7330
@cyndybutler7330 10 месяцев назад
Happy thanksgiving everyone
@barbaradeath3807
@barbaradeath3807 10 месяцев назад
Well my previous post said exactly what you just said!
@infigrins
@infigrins 10 месяцев назад
Good stuff chigg
@joeylandry4933
@joeylandry4933 10 месяцев назад
I think one reason for the shallow fighting positions was that they were in a training mindset of “playing” war and not under the danger of actually being in war. I’m sure those fighting positions got a lot better after their baptism of fire by German artillery in North Africa.
@artsimpson3670
@artsimpson3670 10 месяцев назад
Aloha Chigg, De-pop never stops, 13:40;16:50; 22 big time. Remember training and barb wire at night. Just can't push through it. Thanks for the companionship!
@kevincurrier4719
@kevincurrier4719 10 месяцев назад
I live near where you are exploring, there are many other things out there that I've found from Pattons time there. Would be a hoot to run into you 😊
@marthafenimore4279
@marthafenimore4279 10 месяцев назад
Very interesting. Thanks for the tour.
@jamescrabtree4358
@jamescrabtree4358 10 месяцев назад
When i was a kid we would cook on the bottom of cans and put several hole for ventilation
@the1spen
@the1spen 10 месяцев назад
Happy Thanksgiving Chigg! I was thinking maybe the chicken wire enabled them to break off sage branches and stick them into it to better conceal their positions? Just a guess.
@carlgruver695
@carlgruver695 10 месяцев назад
Happy Thanksgiving
@peterlauter3505
@peterlauter3505 10 месяцев назад
Chigg that chicken wire could have been used to hold camouflage in place.. cool video
@peterlauter3505
@peterlauter3505 10 месяцев назад
Well after watching I see you figured it out too.
@DERISNER
@DERISNER 10 месяцев назад
That's exactly what is was for
@MrKmoconne
@MrKmoconne 10 месяцев назад
I imagine the chicken wire is where they would cut brush and stick it through the wire to provide concealment. The brush would have not lived long but the position would not have been occupied for long either.
@realquiet-
@realquiet- 10 месяцев назад
The potholes in the desert pavement is from nugget hunters or when they buried those training mines. Looks exactly like the gold fields.
@shropshirehistory908
@shropshirehistory908 10 месяцев назад
@Aquachigger the four cans in the ground, I can’t tell why there in the ground like that but I can tell why there’s so many holes in the top…..the front 3,4 an 5 was how many cups it was being poured into so 3,4 an 5 men, the back one as you know being for air while pouring.
@smoovefishing
@smoovefishing 10 месяцев назад
Never forget the first time I wore snake proof boots that came up to my knee, I was walking and jumped a ditch and landing right beside a big rattle snake and he went right for my leg and bite right into my boot! I had to shoot it but I never went without them again and that’s been over 20 years ago!
@JOHNEVANS-wi4md
@JOHNEVANS-wi4md 10 месяцев назад
The chicken wire was used weave brush and grass into it to help the concealment of the fireing position for the troops.
@stuartb9194
@stuartb9194 10 месяцев назад
Nice to see you back at Pallen Pass. There's a lot of WW2 stuff out there in the surrounding desert, also old mining gear. It's harsh, but a beautiful place. Did you drive in and out on the East side? The road out to the West gets pretty gnarly.
@slimwantedman6694
@slimwantedman6694 10 месяцев назад
Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota
@donniehodge2548
@donniehodge2548 10 месяцев назад
Happy Thanksgiving 🇺🇲👍
@janblake9468
@janblake9468 10 месяцев назад
South of where you were are several sets of WWI type fighting trenches. Yes, the mine fuse has been pushed in causing smoke to be discharged. I donated 8 whole Coca-Cola bottles found there to the desert history museum at Goffs. They were all 1940's dated.
@susanmarkleyschmitt1314
@susanmarkleyschmitt1314 10 месяцев назад
Thanks Chigg - just love these videos. Have you ever been or near Beatty, Nev and gone to the racetrack. Where the rocks go around and around all by themselves? The Mojave Dessert has some really interesting places out there. I’ve seen about 98% of your videos. Love all. Hope you and your wife have a very Happy Thanksgiving.
@thurin84
@thurin84 10 месяцев назад
that set up of ration cans looks like bait to me. btw the barbed wire posts are known as "pigtails". always cool to see these old ww2 training areas.
@richardklapka5147
@richardklapka5147 10 месяцев назад
I enjoyed it Chig. You are good at what you do buddy. (Entertain & Educate us.) Rk.
@sandrarogers1200
@sandrarogers1200 10 месяцев назад
Very interesting! I had an uncle who had been a medic in North Africa during WW2. If I'm remembering right from what my dad told me, his brother later went on up into Italy. I can't ask my dad now if his brother had been where you were in this video now. He passed away this past summer.
@reneebrazeal788
@reneebrazeal788 10 месяцев назад
Happy Thanksgiving!
@Knee-ko
@Knee-ko 10 месяцев назад
12:27 - Lots of weird things out here in the desert........says the Chiggster 🤣🤣
@rubyredlopez4
@rubyredlopez4 10 месяцев назад
About 2 or 3 videos back you showed and talked about the swirly robb/screwed into the ground used to hold up the Bob wire.
@vincenthackett7771
@vincenthackett7771 10 месяцев назад
I think the chicken wire was to put maybe Sagebrush in it for camouflage
@AndrewBowles-p5r
@AndrewBowles-p5r 10 месяцев назад
Really digging the bottom of the barrel
@ChooseFreedom-o1e
@ChooseFreedom-o1e 10 месяцев назад
I wonder how many critters get caught in that abandoned barb wire.
@diggerdoc5022
@diggerdoc5022 10 месяцев назад
Chiggers you have to make video of the night 🦂. If you're still out west.
@rook_wood
@rook_wood 10 месяцев назад
Did you see Kenny? Was he out there?
@paulsouth4794
@paulsouth4794 10 месяцев назад
Howdy chigg, Could you do some metal detecting on the orgian trail . Or other wagon train trails
@Hunter-ym2kk
@Hunter-ym2kk 10 месяцев назад
Chicken wire was to put brush n sticks in for camouflage for their positions..
@playinhooky11
@playinhooky11 10 месяцев назад
Maybe the chicken wire was used for Camo purposes, threaded w sagebrush. Haha watched the video crafter my comment and chugged figured it out. 😮
@stevecray8282
@stevecray8282 10 месяцев назад
Chicken wire possibly to hold the loose rocks in place to form the bunker walls?
@509_drz_rider7
@509_drz_rider7 10 месяцев назад
Is that out in the Bouse, Parker, Quartzite tringle?
@dennyorton2430
@dennyorton2430 10 месяцев назад
I wonder if they used chicken wire to stick brush in it to give them a little more camo.
@jasondavenport9681
@jasondavenport9681 10 месяцев назад
Maybe you should have dug or brushed away the dirt in those clean spots where you suspected the mines were placed and maybe they were still there.
@GULIVERSOFFROAD
@GULIVERSOFFROAD 10 месяцев назад
id love to take my rc rock crawler out there it looks beautiful
@hgghgguk
@hgghgguk 10 месяцев назад
maybe they used the chicken wire to hold the camouflage/foliage over the position ?
@ralphwatten2426
@ralphwatten2426 10 месяцев назад
I think they were defensive positions much like what's done today. Hide until the .50 opens up and move out. Advance until you can't and dig in. Run wire and wait.
@herbambs5925
@herbambs5925 10 месяцев назад
The Germans used wire to divert handgrenades. Not sure how well it worked for them.
@TheGravitywerks
@TheGravitywerks 10 месяцев назад
The Germans feared and respected Patton......scary.
@Thayer2000
@Thayer2000 10 месяцев назад
Maybe they used chicken wire because they ran out of barbed wire. Hope you have a Happy Thangiving Chigg!!
@pastexpiry2013B
@pastexpiry2013B 10 месяцев назад
Does the 50 year rule apply to coins? Nuggets? A $100 bill printed in 1934?
@THEABOODSA
@THEABOODSA 10 месяцев назад
wow
@suesmith9202
@suesmith9202 10 месяцев назад
Would they not have put foliage in the chicken wire to help not being seen? The wall wasn't very high and they would have been seen if they put their heads up to see. Makes sense to use foliage.
@erinklinger143
@erinklinger143 10 месяцев назад
What about the critters getting stuck in the barbed wire?😐
@HankPanky
@HankPanky 10 месяцев назад
Awww video too short!
@randlerichardson5826
@randlerichardson5826 10 месяцев назад
Sams Squinch probably lives there somewhere
@josephtrenda2651
@josephtrenda2651 10 месяцев назад
Could be that they put their ponchos over the chicken wire for shade ?
@500mos
@500mos 10 месяцев назад
My uncle drove a truck in the red ball express Pattons supply line. He said he was 6 trucks from him one day when Patton got on a truck to give a talk to his men. My uncle shot one man in the war. A french man who always stole socks from them. He shot him in the leg with his M-1 carbine. and the army charged him a dollar for the bullet he wasted and he had to give the frenchman a pack of smokes.
@JamesGreenstreet
@JamesGreenstreet 10 месяцев назад
I suspect the chicken wire was used to insert brush for camouflage.
@user-in1rp3ev3x
@user-in1rp3ev3x 10 месяцев назад
Those fortifications look like mortar pits.
@leannkennedy6568
@leannkennedy6568 10 месяцев назад
Were you first, Ray?
@MrRoughknuckles
@MrRoughknuckles 10 месяцев назад
Maybe they put like branches and stuff for camo?
@jamespollock9403
@jamespollock9403 10 месяцев назад
The chicken wire was to block thrown hand grenades
@pmccoy8924
@pmccoy8924 10 месяцев назад
200 American soldiers died of heat related deaths on US soil during WWII training. Bases were Ibis, Clipper, Iron Mountain, Granite, Coxcomb, Young, Bouse, Laguna, Horn, Hyder, and Pilot Knob. Inexcusable. Even in the 1940's they knew better.
@randlerichardson5826
@randlerichardson5826 10 месяцев назад
Chigg hey
@5barkerstreet
@5barkerstreet 10 месяцев назад
wire help keep the snakes out
@chomper7745
@chomper7745 10 месяцев назад
is wire is for some kind roof or cover
@henrybucki7813
@henrybucki7813 10 месяцев назад
7,50 that looked like a kangaroo
@leanette999
@leanette999 10 месяцев назад
Chicken wire might’ve been used to keep the rocks in place
@BlueEyedColonizer
@BlueEyedColonizer 10 месяцев назад
Chicken wire for holding foliage for camo...:Update: I kept watching😂
@MrRoughknuckles
@MrRoughknuckles 10 месяцев назад
I should a waited.
@ronschraut8581
@ronschraut8581 10 месяцев назад
😎👍🏻
@miller8097
@miller8097 10 месяцев назад
the ration cans was probably done by some bored soldier
@ExploringCabinsandMines
@ExploringCabinsandMines 10 месяцев назад
Imagine hitting that barbed wire with a motorcycle!
@cheyennemauritz9911
@cheyennemauritz9911 10 месяцев назад
Think you could of taken the jeep thing no way that is 50 years old
@raynin
@raynin 10 месяцев назад
1st
@leannkennedy6568
@leannkennedy6568 10 месяцев назад
Ahhh, you were!!❣️
@joebrumfield2952
@joebrumfield2952 10 месяцев назад
🥱
@Kaufeetimevideo
@Kaufeetimevideo 10 месяцев назад
No worry about the shower, I can't smell ya ! Is best to call your sweetheart.
@MrRoughknuckles
@MrRoughknuckles 10 месяцев назад
in the chicken wire,sorry.
@dickjohnson1158
@dickjohnson1158 10 месяцев назад
The chicken wire was for the chickens
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