Royal Marine Reacts To 450 Marines Vs The Imperial Japanese Navy - Wake Island 

My great Grandad was one of the construction workers on Wake Island! Was captured and moved to Shanghai (after moving a few other times prior) to work in a labor camp. We have letters from when the US bombed the facilities he was working in trying to knock out enemy infrastructure. Luckily he survived and when the war was over and he was submitted to the hospital he was 6'2" and 135lbs. After a week in the hospital he was released and lived a long life afterwards. The letters we have go from him being happy, asking about my grandad's school, and describing the pig they had on wake island as a pet. To being captured and all the communication changed to, "I am alive. I hope you are well. Goodbye." -- the letters appeared to be screened and transcribed by someone other than my great grandad. The spelling was different, handwriting was slightly different, and postmarked from multiple areas. Anyway, great reaction!

He doesn’t only do US vids. He has a couple about Brit’s. There’s one about Percy Hobart and another about Sir Douglas Bader.

Bro he told you 😂😂 Percy "Hobo" Hobart... He was enlglish 😅

Nick has several videos about UK military. Sir Percy Hobart, Sir Douglas Bader, and I can't remember the guy's name but the title is about trolling the Germans with wooden planes. They are all great stories!

Absolutely is the best story teller on RU-vid. Your gonna have to think of a distinct story to ask him for. Otherwise it will only another video of us throwing tea in the sea

He doesn’t say it but both pilots were eventually shot down. Hank was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.

Mr. Ballen has a wild short story about a British Soldier in WWI (ended up being Britain’s most highly decorated Soldier of WWI). You’d really get a kick out of it.

He has a few British military videos

I'd love to hear your storytelling about the British Royal Marines! Nic is passionate about American stories; he's told some British tales, but I imagine you have a bit more of the local flavor for the British side of things. 👍

I retired after 20yrs in the USAF, but my Dad was a Marine so I loved this story, & your reaction is always on point. God bless the USMC & our Royal Marine allies.

He did one for Royal Air Force about making a wooden fighter jet and trolling the Nazis in WW2

My grandfather fought in world war II his name was John Elmer Shegogue. He was in the Navy. He died before I was born from all the chemicals and just all the bad things that they use during that war however from the stories and the diary / journal he kept while he was there the stories he told were absolutely just utter insanity. To be clear he did not die during the war he died from complications due to the war. But like always the US military said his injuries weren't war related or military-related😂😂. Isn't that the famous align the VA likes to use.

I'd love to hear stories about our royal British brothers. In USMC boot camp we are taught Marine Corps history. I had always found it incredible that the Corps was in play before the U.S. declared it's independence

One of my absolute favorite stories from the USMC in World War II, among many others

I would love to see you on the Unsubscribe Podcast with TheFatElectrician, I would love yall to compare y’all’s experiences to eachother!

There is a rock on Wake Island where it reads, 98 US PW 5-10-43. The story behind it is sad. An American prisoner escaped from the Japanese massacre and wrote the message on the rock. He was later found and beheaded. Nobody knows his name.

The situation at Wake made the Navy realize it needed its own construction corps and led to the formation of the SeaBees. This is another group you'd like looking into; amazing in their own right.

You should watch either “the angels” or the 77th division by him! Or both! They are longer but they are so good

Love your videos❤ been going through a lot for the past few months, and having your videos to watch brings a smile every day.

Remember that the carriers were coming back from Pearl. All of their pilots were combat experienced. So those two Buffaloes shot down 21 experienced pilots.

Hope you're feeling better! I agree, TheFatElectrician should definitely make some Royal Marines videos, as well as other branches of the British military.

Find a good story where the royal marines fought alongside Americans and then talk shit about it and nick will pop up and set the record straight. You just have to make him mad enough to do an entire video rant.

Tell your stories! Share them, don't let them be forgotten. People deserve to know history

I think the Royal Marines who rode on the side of Apaches to assault a Taliban fortress would make a pretty great video for Fat Electrician. It's called Operation Glacier Two and is pretty undercovered by military RU-vidrs.

Ah yes good old wake island. Oh hey when are you going to react to spooky stuff? it's October after all. Maybe you could react to some Mr ballen?

BTW -- He doesn't just do American stuff (although that is the majority). He's done several on British including Sir Percy Hobart and Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (for his Mosquito) just to name a couple.

**US Navy's Unluckiest Ship With An Untouchable Crew - USS William D. Porter, by The Fat Electrician** This is probably the craziest story I have ever heard from Nick or anybody else actually. It will 10000000% surprise you haha. You should give it a watch sometime!! Love your videos btw!

I was praying for a new Fat Electrician reaction video today, and we got one boys. Love these man. Hope the family is doing well brotha!

"It's not about the size of the dog in the fight, rather the size of the fight in the dog" - Mark Twain. Marines especially those of the United States have earned the moniker "Devil Dogs" for a reason, they are the embodiment of aggression and efficiency despite being one of the most poorly funded branches in the U.S. military they are one of the highest performers when it comes to low cost high body count solutions.

If you haven’t seen any TFE videos on British ppl, that’s just bc you haven’t seen the episodes he’s done on ppl like Percy hobo Hobart. That’s a name for example? That I’ll never forget & is as British as Winston Churchill, in fact Churchill spoke up in support of Hobart. You should react to that one for example

I would love for you to do stories on the British Royal Marines. That would be awesome! Please seriously consider it. Thank you! Love this video, btw. I am a huge fan of the fat electrician, and i really love your reactions to his videos. Thank you for doing these. You are much appreciated. ❤

as retired air force, if a situation was getting sticky, you always held a little comfort if you knew a marine or two was also tagging along.

Reacting and story telling are different, maybe ask F/E for advice on how to story tell, but would love to hear some R/M story. (coming from a USA: USA: USA)

Never be overly confident against an enemy that has nowhere to retreat.

US Marine combat veteran (Afghanistan x 3) good content brother. Love from the other side of the pond

He has a story that he did about a british tank commander from ww2 it’s titled “The real tank genius of ww2, Percy “hobo” Hobart”

21 Planes?! Yes. It was the very definition of "a target rich environment".

There’s a quote from some UN peacekeeper (I think French but not sure) that when soldiers lose their officer they usually lose initiative and withdraw but when Americans lose their officer they go on the attack. American officers aren’t there to prod their guys to fight, they’re there to hold them back. So no communications means keep on fighting.

I loved that he said "play possum" because im pretty sure they play dead when under attack from my knowledge of animals (not much)

The Fat Electrician, "Old 666" , definetly worth watching.

I would love to hear him talk about a joint operation between the Royal Marines and the USMC

Gotta do the percy Hobart video it's so good!

I’d like to hear some stories about Royal Marines, though did serve along side some in Afghanistan, Camp Bastion. I think best option would be a collab with you and Nick.

You should check the Battle of Yultong By (The Front)it’s about 900 Filipino soldiers against 40,000 Chinese and North Korean troops

He did a video for a British DH 98 Mosquito and the British pilot Sir Douglas Badger

I think going through the rigors of Marine boot-camp (both US & UK) is what endows them with their lasting sense of humor.😉

2 Grumman Hellcats vs 50 enemy planes, I'm sure those pilots called it a "Target rich environment"

If you thought Wake Island was nuts, check out the Battle of Guadalcanal. Roughly the same number of U.S. Marines had to take, and hold the airfield there, for months, when the navy was forced to flee. Yet they stuck it out and held the airfield. Day and night, until Enterprise and other battleships returned.

Definitely tease us about the badasses of the British military

Would live to see a collaboration between you two! 💪🏽🤩

As US Marines we train for that ‘going rouge’ but we call it small unit leadership.

You need to watch one of his earlier short videos about his favorite marine Christmas story.

He does stories on other countries craziest heroes, best snipers or all around badasses. I think he does have a video on a Brit, pretty sure

Hello mate, first of love Your reaction to the crazy things we Americans did in WW2. Love to see how our buddies on the side of the pond think about our actions. I do wanna clarify something, that a lot of people who see this particular video always make when they hear, 'the US government has left you all to die'. Fatelectrician says this in the beginning, this event happens right after Pearl Harbor. America's fleet is decimated, we didn't have the capital ships to make any kind of counterattack. Our only capital ships we're 2 aircraft carriers with little support vessels and the Japanese greatly outnumbered the US in the pacific to the point any kind conventional attack will lead to a loss to the US. It was simply better to lose a small island we couldn't defend for long and 450 Marines than what was left of the pacific fleet and let the Japanese steam roll the whole pacific.

He should do an episode on Operation Frankton. Royal Marines deploying in canoes.

Would love to hear you tell British Marine stories!

Once the UK puts a man on the moon, I’m sure TFE will consider making a video about the US-B (that’s you weirdos). 😉 So far, no nation who uses the metric system has done so. I don’t have confidence in the UK 🤷🏻‍♂️

Those two Wildcats probably just had the advantage of enemy density so they got that many kills

He needs to do one about “Mad Jack”!

Wake island as collateral damage? Just shows that 10 humans aren’t as valuable as a Jeep… we should NEVER seek war.

if you did military history i would defintly watch it

The decision to abandon Wake Island was sound military doctrine, although painful to carry out. The projected cost was too high. The possibility of long-term success was too slim. With the fall of other U.S. Pacific possessions, Wake Island was ultimately indefensible.

All you need to do is reach out to him. He’d love to hear from you.

Bro you gotta do Fat Electricians USS Texas video. Seriously. It's pretty good.

man i love these reaction to TFE. keep them up!

I think if you want him to do a Royal Marine story, you'll have to give him the research. Maybe a script but I think the research would be best. Then he'll write the script in his trademark style.

@OriginalHuman you should check out his video on Hobart's "Funnies"

There are still many Texans that have this resolve. I'm one.

From what I know they also Accept The largest surrender in British history Singapore, 1942 and Malaysia too and not kill them

Nice hair cut you got ❤

When he gets through telling all our stories, he will probably tell our Colony's stories, like the northern European islands of Briton we take care of and defend constantly.

You should definitely do WW2 British history

Hell yes, do it.

Checkout his video on RAFs Legless AntiHero. Its a good video if you havent seen it yet. Keep up the great work.

Worst part the long awaited 3rd installment is on its way. (Accuracy by volume Americas tried and true method.)

He will just tell you why inches are better than centimeters

OOHRAH is our war call What is it for you chaps?

he'll see this and love the love

Insane story, love the fat electrician😂

You've got a communication connection with Nic, don't you? Just do a thorough amount of research on whatever you want him to do and send it all to him. He doesn't tell a story that can't be researched to a point for validity. He might add a little embellishment here and there for fun, but he's never going to tell an outright lie. Honestly, I think one of the better British-side WWII stories that would be fun for him to cover would be about Juan Pujol Garcia, the Spaniard who decided to become a spy for the allies, "coincidentally" got on the British side even though they were a bit stubborn on acknowledging him and his efforts, and then he did a double agent thing where he fed essentially British propaganda and news radio as "info" to the Germans. He'd actually also take real military intel and feed it to Germany, just something like hours before it'd actually happen. Like he sent intel on the actual D-Day landing plans AS the landings were happening and acted like his info and messages were being held or ignored and "he told them so." Like he was so over the top he received the German Iron Cross and the British CBE. He was agent named "Garbo" but his escapades are only something I learned from Tom Scott's Technical Difficulties: Citation Needed show. It just sounds really.....it sounds too goofy to of ever of been true, but then again the UK pulled off operation MinceMeat successfully, so I can't be absolutely surprised.

He’s done videos on the RAF, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility he don’t one about the royal marines

21 planes but how many were bombers which are easier to down than fighters

Brother you need to watch his video on Hobart, and his funnies...He was the greatest tank modification designer and tactician of world war II he was a Brit. The entire video is about a British tactician and why America fucked up by not listening to him....

He's done British war stories ;)

I think you should watch this video to understand better Of this battle . The Battle of Wake Island 1941 - Animated 🙂

I wish you were on one of the unsubscribePodcast. Be amazing!

He's done a few about you guys, and included you guys into a few american ones. Think about it. Both red white and blue.

“Cool right?”

He did British military too

He did the legless RAF pilot, the Norwegian meth story, the tanks from Britain the crazies. Plus the Berlin Airlift. Find a good story And send it to him.

The Japanese were the ones that were lucky. If their commander hadn’t forced them to surrender, there’s a good chance the Marines would’ve forced the Japanese soldiers off the island.

Guy waffling on in the corner, Nic has done videos about non American war stories and soldiers. A colab with his research and your experience would be fucking epic. Y'all have talked before so make this shit happen!

Please Find a good story about the fighting Sullivans.

Thats why the US Marines are the best in the world.

Do old 666 by him

Still no cheese cave video.......I am big sad

React to GDF kashmir. Tells a story about the atrocities the indians did to the innocents in kashmir. Honestly changed my perspective. Now i prefer pakistan over india.

You have to be one the unsubscribe podcast dude it would be dope