Olympic Sniper Turned Battleship Commander - Willis "Ching" Lee by The Fat Electrician - Reaction 

The amount of things that you can do/get away with when you're the main character is astonishing

The lookouts just saw two massive blobs moving through the dark, illuminated the first, saw a massive battleship, and just thought "Oh... SHIT" and just forgot there were two contacts. Truly a moment of luck spawned from panic

stealth battleship... thats horrifying. watching a super BB materialise out of thin air must give u the same facial expression as seeing the indominous rex materialise infornt of u.

The Captain of the ship was Glenn Davis, a very capable sailor. Whether it was Lee's orders or Davis's, the USS Washington slid behind the burning destroyers as they approached. The IJN only had optical resources for locating other ships....it was some totally ninja stuff. Firing the star shells to blind them in the aftermath was the chef's kiss.

So...instead of surprise baneblades it was a surprise battleship...so Lee is Ursaker Creed?

There's a *reason* why Drachinifel titled his video on Admiral King "Semper Iratus."

Game recognize game. Lee had a reputation as a warrior even before he entered the Pacific. King was just acknowledging Lee's effectiveness.

Mexican-American war was the same. And funnier now thinking back because they were at Veracruz as well. You had two future Presidents (Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S Grant), Longstreet, Robert E Lee, Winfield Scott, and a ton of others that were later higher ups in both the confederacy and Union armies. But Grant was most definitely the main character. Despite being assigned to the quartermaster, when one side got pinned down on the other side of town and had run out of supplies/ammo he volunteered to take it to them. Despite the fact that he would be directly in the line of fire for most of it.. he got on his horse and then slide over to the complete opposite side so he was shielded by his horse. The Mexicans didn’t know what to do. But he successfully got there AND back in a rather innovative way, saving half the force. He later said it was an illegal war to land grab a weaker nation (which it was). But he developed friendships with some Mexicans who later became the leaders of the revolution while he was President. Even petitioning to send aid to help overthrow the government/monarchy Emperor Maximilian. Think Phil Sheridan was sent IIRC.

IDK, Johnson, Buchanan, Other Johnson...

And on the battle that includes the Washington vs Kirishima fight.

and one on Ernest King. whos only friend was Willis Lee because Lee was the only one who could get results expediently and not care whose feathers got ruffled in the process.

Probably the work you put into aiming true before getting the glasses.

Probably had a bit of both to do with it since it’s more difficult to see your target you need to work extra hard on your accuracy and because you’re heavily focused on that one thing you can get extremely good at it.

Yep. It's because starting out you have to figure out where the center of the blur is to hit it, so when distance shooting comes into play, instead of being a tougher target, it's just a slightly larger blur.

The Army found that colorblind guys were actually better at spotting camouflaged German equipment because they focused more on shape and motion rather than the colors they couldn't see.

Very quickly got downgraded to coral reef lol

@@theminerwithin9316 a line of US battlewagons performing the role of a firing squad. XD

Please no, think of the poor old man blood pressure,,,

That is a joyfully sad story.

Jackson was bad, but he was no where near the worst, that extreme dishonor goes to Woodrow Wilson...

​@@JonathanH1253 how so? Honest question I don't know why people say he's so bad

@@ismaeljimenez6562 well first, he was racist as fuck, like REALLY fucking racist. He also created income tax and the federal reserve... He used WWI as an excuse to curtail civil liberties such as freedom of speech. He was the cause of the great depression. There are many MANY more reasons why he is considered to be the worst president in American history by pretty much all credible historians. So many that I really don't feel like typing them all out.

The natives didn’t exactly beckon fair treatment considering all the women children and babies they abducted and killed. From other tribes and settlers

You've got a few mistakes, but I'm just pointing them out; not trying to attack you or anything. 1. "Fast Battleships aka Iowa's" - While certainly the fastest, the Iowa-Class were not the "Only" US class of Fast Battleships; in fact there were 3. In order there were the preceding 2 North Carolina-Class (28kts), 4 South Dakota-Class (27.5kts), and as you mentioned the 4 Iowa-Class (33kts) BB's; ALL of which were considered "Fast BB's" by the US and foreign governments. "Fast Battleships" really just means any BB faster than the usual WWI Era Super-Dreadnoughts, while retaining the full firepower and protection of a true BB, and not having to make the sacrifices used by Battlecruisers to make their speeds possible. There's also a line in the sand for US BB's as all previous Battleships were "Standard-Type" meaning while 5 different "Standard" classes existed they all kept key standard performance characteristics so they'd all seamlessly integrate with eachother into a "Line of Battle" as they were designed for and when when BB's were still the centerpiece fleet units for Naval warfare, these were a top speed of 21kts and a tactical turning radius of 700yds. It wasn't until Admiral Lee concluded that Aircraft Carriers were the new centerpieces of the fleet that USN BB's were designed to be faster so they could keep up and better escort the new Fleet Carriers which had a speed of 33kts. A most excellent history fact highlighting this is the fact that Lee's own ship mentioned in the Video, USS Washington, was in fact a North Carolina-Class BB; and the USS South Dakota was as might be implied, a South Dakota-Class BB. 2. US 14" and 16" "Super Heavy" AP shells are special and don't directly translate to how "Powerfull" they are versus another shell, in fact they almost always suffer in comparison to "Standard" AP shells of other navies because in exchange for launching a significantly heavier shell they sacrifice the potential for a higher muzzle velocity, which worsens their belt armor penetration by being slower and they have a smaller amount of explosive filler in exchange for more steel so they can make the shell heavier; "Super Heavy" if you will. The idea behind it is simple, penetration requires ass over mass; a pound of copper is essentially insignificantlly useless when it comes to penetrating Heavily armored Tanks, but have another pound of High Explosive detonate behind it upon impact in a HEAT shell and plasticize that copper to be yeeted in a stream at multiple KILOMETERS per second and suddenly that handful of soft copper punches straight through FEET of Armor grade steel. *HOWEVER* you need mass to "Retain" energy meaning a heavier round , Yeet an Iron and a styrofoam baseball both at 2,000fps and the Iron will not only travel significantly farther but impact with significantly more force than the styrofoam. Same with "Super Heavy" AP shells. Their WHOLE purpose is to attack as "Diving Shells" completely avoiding and negating belt armor to instead steeply "dive" at the end of their Ballistic arc right through the far weaker Deck armor of all ships, which signifies their purpose and reasoning for their design features. By being "Super Heavy" they'll have a greater Ballistic arc increasing the chance they'll have shells punching through weaker deck armor in any engagement, and with their significantly heavier weight, not only have a higher speed in a dive but impact with MUCH more energy/force resulting in significantly more penetration as well. In this regard the Iowa's are actually technically *Worse* due to the fact their 16"/50's have a higher velocity and thus shallower ballistic arc than the 16"/45's, resulting in them hitting at a much steeper angle reducing not only their deck penetration, but increasing the likelihood of hitting the belt armor, ricocheting off the deck, or over-shooting the ship entirely instead. However, yes, the Iowa's 16" guns are better than the Yamato or Musashi's 18.1". Not only do the Iowa's 406mm guns actually have more penetration than the IJN's "Amazing" 460mm due to the 18.1" having a lower velocity because of its larger size and weight, but the Iowa can sit right in the dark or a rain squall and rain a fusilade of radar guided "Super Heavy" shells from the heavens straight through the deck armor of any Yamato-Class BB without ever even being seen and completely bypassing all of their belt armor; all while having a much better rate of fire (One of the key reasons the US never adopted an 18" gun despite having numerous BB/CB design proposals for them and multiple experimental/prototype guns for testing, was 16" was the largest gun size viable before you got diminishing returns and significant drawbacks for relatively little gain. As the US proved, you got better performance by improving the guns and ammunition of the 16" than up-gunning to 18-18.1". Meanwhile the 18.1" took a noticeable hit to reload speed due to weight, lower ammunition capacity due to larger shells and powder bags, a larger and heavier ship due to larger heavier guns which also nessecicate larger heavier turrets, etc). 3. Nick does get things wrong and even he admits he does, I don't consider him giving the wrong shell weight in this video to be a big one; especially since he never claimed they were shooting High Capacity (HE for the layperson). My guess is he looked up or googled "weight of US 16" shells" or "how much do US 16" shells weigh?" and got 1,700lbs without the answer disclaiming that was for HC shells only, or that AP shells were SIGNIFICANTLY heavier at 2,700lbs. Considering most people would be asking in reference to shore Bombardment wondering how destructive broadsides of BB HE would be as artillery like when commonly used for friendlies and engaging hostile targets/fortifications/troop formations ashore, which is where most people would be wondering with more people interested in the land battles as opposed to those of us interested in Naval/ship-to-ship warfare as well; increasing the likelihood the result he'd get from the search algorithms would be defaulted to an answer for the HC shells.