During the Boxer Rebellion, Dan Daly would have been using the M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun, chambered in 6mm Lee Navy and fired at 450 rpm. Both the gun and the ammunition was known to be reliable and accurate, with the 6mm Lee Navy being a very high velocity round known to punch through multiple bodies.
@nadjasunflower1387 You got it right. It was called that because it was a lever action gun, which would come out the bottom and if it was deployed too low to the ground it would end up digging into the ground.
Its easy to answer "1 marines with a machine gun vs 200 kung fu rebels" if you're not thinking about an 18 year on his first major a tion NEARLY alone with a machine gun in 1900 vs 200 gung-ho rebels that swarm and bum rush because they dont hev enough sense not to... eventually they could overrun the defense, guns could jam, and Daly was NEW at it all. It qas a grwat machine gun for the era... But how does it comppsre to ww1 machine guns 15 years later?? Pr.to modern assault rifles? Just saying the perspective of time and tech changes things. So one 2nd tour marine with an M60 and unlimited ammo just going at it Rambo? No problem. But 1 fresh 18 year old with a M1895 Colt-Browning? Could have easily gone the other way.
@@GhostWatcher2024 It's funny that you don't realize that you just said that to a 0331. But sure buddy, you know better than an actual Marine who ran machine guns for 7 years.
Just to clear up a couple of items regarding exaggeration (and a couple points left out). U.S. Marines are taught about Medal of Honor recipients in boot camp, and I enjoyed looking up the verifiable facts on several when I was active duty. During the Boxer Rebellion. That night on the wall, Private Daly wasn't exactly left alone. There were three machine guns placed, each served by a crew of two Marines. In the first hour or so of the attack, one gun went dark. Then Daly's assistant gunner was wounded, so he had to operate it mostly by himself. Then the other gunner was wounded and his assistant killed by concentrated musket fire. Daly managed to get over to the other gun, retrieve the wounded Marine and ammo, and get back to his own gun. His assistant was completely out of the fight, but the other Marine was able to act as assistant until the gun ran out of ammo. Daly then went on to use a bolt action rifle in defense of his position, and then switched to a knife when he ran out of ammo for that weapon, too. The other Marines hadn't intended to leave him there, either. They met up with reinforcements who had become lost en route, but part of the Boxer attack was to delay those exact reinforcements. So the other Marines ended up fight through streets, taking several detours until they became uncertain of their route, and then had to set up a defensive position as the Boxer forces were putting up too much of a fight for a running battle to be tenable. During the Cacos Rebellion. Gunny Daly was verified to have retrieved the machine gun from the bottom of the river by himself. I believe he had a makeshift sled with him built from the dead horse's gear, so he was able to drag the gun most of the way back to his position. The straps eventually broke, but he was close enough to be able to pick it up and carry it in pieces back to his men for use. The WWI stuff is accurate so far as I know. Daly was just that good by then, and did a lot of things that should have been impossible. The entire Battle of Bellaeu Wood is basically like that. Worth a read if you want to see ordinary guys doing impossible shit.
Mega, thank you for the comment and information. Very interesting and yes sounds like it would definitely be worth a read so will have to check it all out. Even if it was a little exaggerated it’s one hell of a story and well deserved medals.
In Dan Daly's defense, the Fat Electrician OMITTED one of Daly's "most gangster" acts. During the Battle of Veracruz on April 21, 1914, Daly's group was pinned down in a dry river bed by enemy sniper fire. Daly crawled to the building where the enemy were shooting from and took out 7 men. 5 with his pistol, and the other 2 with his knife... I'd say a little embellishment is allowed, especially considering the massive exaggerations told in the super popular video "The Star Spangled Banner as you've never heard it" (21 million views as of today). Yeah, we never heard it that way because it's full of fabrications.
Yep, I’ve said similar but less detailed things many times on other reactions to this and like one other one before nick that I found and seen years ago. They didn’t have mainly melee weapons, they had plenty of guns, just obsolescent ones/flat out obselete, along with plenty of melee weapons. And the actual main battle after this one is even crazier as it was those 1200 Marines against 55 thousand rebels. Lasted awhile until naval fire helped end it. Took many. Many days of fighting off and on to be settled. But yes some point over exaggerated, and many under exaggerated he (Dan Daly) always went above and beyond the calm of duty to accomplish the mission given, that much his clear, what’s left out is how capable and dangerous his enemies were, and the odds and situations they faced. Which makes it even more insane. And he’s like 26 at the time, as he was older when he enlisted. But still, he was melee fighting kung fu practitioners who thought they were immune to bullets. At times, and he won…along with machine guns and rifle fire. While being shot at by muskets and single Shot rifles. And fighting hand to hand.
Think about this Dan Daly at Bellow Wood was not put in for 1 MOH but 2. 1st was for taking the machine gun emplacement (which by chance was the same thing Alvin York was given his MOH for in WWI) the 2nd was for the charge he lead. Dan Daly was in fact nominated for 4 MOH's.
yes, Nic was one of the most important people in our green uniform. when the rest of us didn't get things done as planned, his people came in to help clean us up and hopefully get us home. any time someone says they were a medic, they are automatically a bronze star in my eyes, even if they never carried a single body to a heli. that is a crazy MS/USFC, and it deserves the ultimate respect. i had the unfortunate experience of spending a short time in a "clink." one of the folks who would come in for the vets locked up was a vietnam era medic, who later went to the USO to help vets. he's one of the greatest veterans i've ever met, and really helped me through my time being a "schmuck." a medic during one of the nastiest conflicts in history. dude was a hero 1000x over. and he went to playing the guitar and singing to injured soldiers at hospitals. how badass can you get? literal legend.
“… do you want to live FOREVER!!” Used in the 1997 movie Starship Troopers. The squad leader rallies his troops in the mobile infantryman (“the Roughnecks”) during the Battle of Klendathu.
and my winged warriors were there to try to protect you guys. i did space command with the USAF first, and then went to combat communications and weather/surveillance afterwards, during the 9-11 era. we might not have been slinging bullets, but we were trying our damnedest to keep an eye on you folks, and make sure you made it home. we took it personally when you didnt... i've attended several funerals of soldiers i never met. but they had my salute. my brother, also USAF, aircraft tech (msgt, he basically runs the planes in his unit) played bugle at many funerals for our fallen brothers and sisters. my family runs on protecting our people. and when we cant, we do our best to show that family that our people care.
In 1900, Daly wielded a Colt-Browning 1895 “Potato Digger” machine gun to hold off Chinese Boxers attempting to seize the fortification he was protecting.
Nick aka the fat electrician is famous for researching stories most people don't talk about or go overlooked he does extensive research and as unbelievable as some of these stories sound they are 100% true some videos I would recommend you check out is US destroys half of Iran's Navy in 8 hours, World War tree Operation Paul Bunyan, Sergeant Reckless Marines War Horse, and Winter Soldier ODS on meth and becomes unkillable his stories are hilarious and he is very encouraging of people reacting to his videos so no worries on strikes
He has great stuff. His shorts on various MOEs are excellent. As far as longer ones, you picked some really good ones. I would also recommend his videos on Private Wojtek and the one on Van Barfoot (forgot the title). The Last War Chief is also good. Operation Paul Bunyan is one of my favorites as is his one on the Gurkhas (the only guys who could bring a knife to a gunfight and win).
His research is lacking. He says that there were only two marines to win the Medal of Honor. There were actually a total of 7 US Marines to win the Medal of Honor.
Project Gutenberg has a good book on it, including the fact that these reenforcements were already 14 days late, because rebels had destroyed rail lines along the way. There were other soldiers also left defending, however Daly held one section which had been breached once before. He held alone, overnight, before the team was able to actually rebuild the broken section.
yeah, they'd be smart if they often referred to his experience and instinct. a good LT or Cap looks at his gunnery or E7+ for their knowledge, because they're going to know more than everyone else on the field.
There is his video on Wake Island "450 marines vs the Imperial Japanese Navy" Or if you want to, he's done a couple from Britain. "RAF's Legless Antihero - Sir Douglas Bader" and "Wrecking and Trolling the Germans with a wooden plane"
I'm gonna say it...Dan Daly is so badass that Marine recruits are ALL taught his history, as well as that of Smedley Butler, the only OTHER Marine to be awarded 2 Medals of Honor. And I know that first hand, Semper Fi bud, I loved working with the Queen's Finest and hope that tradition continues into perpetuity
his longer format stuff has little quips as he's shutting down lights and stuff. all of those are within the last year or so, 2023+. been following him since his super short video days, loving the deeper dives!
Yes this is one of the few videos where TFE got a few things wrong. Outside his age there is absolutely no evidence that the Germans called the marines devil dogs, the first piece of printed information about it was after that battle and was an American printed newspaper
@@coltwest6858 He wasn't. That's 1 of 2 things I know Nick got wrong in his video. He god Daly's birthdate and enlistment date right of 11 November 1873 and 10 January 1899 respectively but got the age wrong as he would have been 25 years old when he enlisted. The other thing he got wrong was making it illegal to earn multiple medals of honor, when what they actually passed a law against are double awards of the medal of honor. You see, the Marines traditionally received the Navy versions of awards through their chain of command due to the close associated they had with the Navy, but during WWI they were working closely with the US Army and this resulted in 5 incidents where a Marine was awarded the medal of honor by both the army and navy for the same action, hence calling it a "Double Award", and this is what was made illegal.
Dad, my brother and I are all 5'6". I made my brother's Drill Instructors laugh when I paraphrased, "Judge me by my size do you? And well you should not, for I am a Marine." The Fat Electrician's USS O'Bannon video is the best three minutes on RU-vid that doesn't involve cats.
The MG in China was more than likely a Colt M1895 "Potato Digger", so named because. it had a reciprocating operating mechanism that was located on the underside of the receiver.
The Corps drilled Daly's exploits into our heads, even Puller. In bootcamp i found that some of the guys with the biggest muscles were some as the biggest cry-babies.
As my gunny at the time said (early 03 if memory serves me right) "there's a reason why those bigger fellas are in the I PICK THINGS UP AND PUT THEM DOWN MOS" (logistics and supply). You don't see many of them in the 0311, Recon, FORECON or the 0372, either. Went through boot on the Island with a body builder type back in 94, complained about everything, couldn't complete the march for the Cruci so don't know what became of him.
@@jericho1-4 FACTS! I see things haven't changed much. You're right about the special ops, too. I was a Ch46 crew chief with 3rdMAW so I saw a lot of these marines who were insanely fir, but not overly big. Surprisingly, most of them were around 5'7" - 5'10"
@@nsudatta-roy8154 During my sixteen plus years in (93-09) the average was 5'5" to about 6'1" with either a swimmers build or a runners frame, not many heavy weight guys. Until.they stood up the 0372 MOS (MARSOC Raiders) and most of them were between 6'& 6'2" with one or two hitting the 6'4" mark or taller. I had just gotte my 0323 & 0326 qualies and with a height requirement and six year contract obligation in 05 the 0372 was out of my reach. Even those guts were lean, you kind of have to be, you go down range for an extensive rip and you start to atrophied after a few days. A muscled body individual will be in a world of hurt, probably why none of them made it through indoc or selection for the tip of the spear shit. On average you'll drop anywhere between 15-30 pounds out there and it's no place to let your mental or physical health breakdown.
"Potato Digger" M1895 Colt-Browning gas-opereted, air-cooled and belt-fed in 6mm Lee-Navy. 450 rounds per minute. This is unrelated to the 1917/1919 Browning which was recoil operated.
@@CombatReadyHQ i have decided that the only way i will ever purchase merch is i have to completely finish all videos that a channel has i have currently gotten the tumbler cup that u can see sitting on his desk and the other being the duck that is on that cup in newer videos
In today's U.S. Navy Submarine Service the men that drive the sub are typically 18 year olds just a few months out of high-school. Much of our low ranking combat troops are also 18 year olds with just a few months of training.
The Eager Beavers OLD 666, Most gangster politician are some other great videos by THE FAT ELECTRICIAN. Always play his videos till the end, Most of them have bonus footage.
I also like how he touched on How slow News, traveled back then.Because if you were someone that lived way out on the frontier you may not even find out about About anything major like that for at least five months
My assistant high school principal was a former Navy SEAL. He was like 5’5” basically shorter than most students. He never ever talked about being a veteran or wear paraphernalia. Many if not most probably didn’t know. But needless to say height is not qualifier for performance in combat apparently??? I still don’t understand how that small frame hold all that weight without breaking?
Shame you missed the end of his video where he mentioned that is favorite character from Starship Troopers is based off of Dan Daly and even shows the clip of them using that famous line.
What makes Dan Dal even more legendary, is no exaggerations only mistakes made by those who retell it, like nick…though he does a great job, I don’t fault him. As he gets it far more accurate that most, the only way you get more accurate is listening to and learning from Marines and really digging into long ago forgotten history for everyone but United States Marines. Is even more impressive, cause othered were there and died and were wounded. And he had to take up their slack. Had to think no no his feet, make a slept transport the gun and tripod and ammo. And did, after diving into the river in the dark in 1915, no lights or scuba gear, until he found it, then haul up, build a sled. And drag it back. When they finally failed. Yes he carried it the last bit like others have said. He’s smart, and a total badass, and no. In the boxer rebellion they didn’t face primarily melee weapons. They faced single shot fire arms, at times out numbered 50 to 1 for many days and skirmishes after the initial part, including heavy hand to hand to combat and held, and won that too. Just like pvt Daly did days before, after he was effectively alone after everyone else was taken out of the fight. The actual truth is more impressive than the sad representation of the story he tells.
Sometimes at the end of the fat electricians videos he has another fun fact he will tell you but that's usually after he ends the main part of the video. And this one had a fun fact at the end that you missed.
17:00 I love this reaction. I’ve watched so many other people react to this video and they’re all shocked and surprised. The one army man’s reaction: laughter. 😂
Why Is The Battle Of Bellau Wood Very Significant To The Marine Corps? 2 Reasons 1. The Battle Signified The Strength & Bravery Of The Corps Who Held Their Ground To Protect The People Of France & Belgium From German Hands & Showed The World How Deadly They Can Be 2.This Battle Is Where The Nickname "Devil Dog" Comes From
Horse got shot and sunk to the bottom of the river. Home boy went and got it back by him self in the middle of the night. Nothing exaggerated about that? 😂 like he literally did that.
That’s the difference between Marines and any other branch. Other branches at we are going to war oh fuck. Marines “we are going to war, how many bullets do you want in one person?”
That size of the person doesn't matter is so true. I learned that the hard way. When I was a young adult I got into a little trouble and was in jail for a little bit. I was a young asshole I'm 6'3 and 220 pounds with very little fat on me. I got lit up by a 5'6 fellow probably 160 pounds soak and wet. Tell you I never seen anyone move that fast before. Found out later he was a boxer
to quote Sabton about Marines: 1918, USA intervene 'Til now, they were mainly observing There in the wheat fields and a small piece of land It's a battle that'll write history Five times attacked, and then five times repelled And the sixth time, they managed to break the line Heart of the corps and a part of the lore The deadliest weapon on Earth
my grandfather was in the battle or Bellowood, he said this in his jurnal from after the war: "Selbst die Starken und Eliten sind dieser Entschlossenheit und dem Siegeswillen nicht gewachsen"
2:40 I was at a music festival in Washington D.C. one time and saw a 5-foot nothing Hispanic guy that probably weighed 130 pounds jump up and knock out a bulldozer of a man that was about 6'6". I don't know what the big guy was angry at but he charged at the little guy and caught nothing but Ryu's Shoryuken to his jaw and the pavement.
@@drcovell im thinking finally getting proper nutrition three meals a day plus 4-6 hours of pt daily made me hit my growth spurt, i grew an inch or two as well.
Bellau Wood is some of the reason that the Marines were not fighting in Europe. The Army was not happy about the Marines kicking ass in WW1. As far as size goes my Father’s Gunny was about 5’5” was a veteran of Guadlecanal and I think either Okinawa or Iwo Gima. I saw a picture of the Gunny in a picture my Father had of his graduation from Basic. They had the Gunny sitting on several telephone books to raise him up to appear as tall as the rest of the Sergeants.
I think during the Boxer Rebellion and earlier, some of the US Marines in China were called Horse Marines, because thats what they used for their operations in the time before cars. They were more or less Dragoons or Mounted Rifles...use the horse to get to the fight, then dismount for combat. From what I've read, I believe it was considered a highly sought after deployment for Marines in the Far East.
As a US Army Infantry Veteran i can say there's a difference my Brithish friend between most Militaries (including yours) and the US Military is in most armies if the officer goes down you are told to dig in {AKA default deffensive}. For both the US Army and US Marine Corp when the officer goes down, we instead are trained to when in lack of orders attack {AKA Default Aggressive}.
I came accross Fat Electrician about 2 months ago. I have seen every single video he has done. For he is very enertaining and gives you a lot of history to the stories. That is why I like him. I love history and I would say, watch all of his vids. You will learn a lot about what his stories he is telling. My Grandpa fought in the Pacific and his brother fought in Europe in WWII. So, yeah, keep with history so we can hope fully not have it repeat.
Unflinchingly, I'll point out that many of these heroes have UK (including Irish) DNA. Hope we've done our Union Jack-Old Glory brotherhood proud. We wouldn't be truly American without you. 🇺🇸🇬🇧 🫡
15:55 it’s a bit different for the American military. Sure the 1st Sgt. now has the responsibility of taking leadership. But our general response to the Lt. being taken out is “Default Aggresive”. We no longer have the one person keeping us from being creative. That’s not good for the enemy.
1:11 He is actually incorrect here by saying “one of only two marines to win the Medal of Honor twice”. There are actually 7 US Maines to have been awarded the US Medal of Honor twice. They are; Smedley D. Butler Daniel J. Daly Louis Cukela Charles F. Hoffman John J. Kelly Matej Kocak and John H. Pruitt With the last awarding of a second Medal of Honor being for actions in World War I. Also, there has never been an awarding of a third Medal of Honor. There is now a law that prohibits the awarding of a second physical Medal of Honor. You can still win multiple Medals of Honor but only one physical medal will be given to the recipient. This one physical medal will represent any multiple awardings.
The "Potato Digger" M1895 was a gas operated Colt-Browning, but was an unrelated design to the recoil operated 1917/1919. It was chambered in 6mm Lee-Navy and had a 450 rpm cyclic rate. It was air cooled and belt fed.
my guess is the height and weight were from when he joined at 16 who knows his size other than he seems to be short of stature by the latter age, likely a whole lot of muscle put on by then most likely a short stocky dude and loads are easier to carry when you have a lower center of gravity.
My ex-husband was in the Marine Corps in the USA and he was 5 ft 6 and I think that's the minimum height or it might be 5 ft 4.. it's been so long I can't remember because he went in and 1984 and got out in 1994. 6 years followed by 4 years. Now and since 2001 he's been in the National guard in Virginia and then when he moved to Wyoming in late 2011 he was part of the National guard as a Captain then because that's what he was in Virginia.. then he became a major sometime probably 2016.. he's been deployed once and getting ready to get deployed twice being in the National guard and he did not get deployed active duty in the Marines in the 80s and 90s. He was deployed to Afghanistan for 6 months and I guess only 6 months because he was an officer for whatever reason and that was 2018 and he's got orders to be deployed in November this year and God only knows.. I asked my daughter yesterday where he was going and she said she didn't know and he probably doesn't even know. 9 times out of 10 it probably has something to do with Russia & NATO
Imagine if Sir Adrian, the unkillable soldier, and Dan Daily would have met and worked together? Second bestt thing to have never happened, maybe? We will never know if tthey mett butt, the odds are fairly high.
The business about changing the law to allow only one Medal of Honor is a little misleading. All it did was to stop presenting (and the wearing of) more than one actual physical medal, and I don't think it had anything in particular to do with Dan Daly. Instead the very few repeat awards are now indicated by putting a gold star (sea services) or bronze oak leaf cluster (army and air force) on the ribbon, just as for other U.S. decorations. It's the equivalent of the bar for repeat awards of British decorations. It's also worth mentioning that until 1919, the U.S. military had only one decoration for combat valor--the Medal of Honor. It was either that or nothing. In 1919 the Distinguished Service Cross (Army) and Navy Cross were introduced and from that point on, there were any number of guys who received the DSC and the NC for acts that, before 1919 would have rated the Medal of Honor.
