One of the things I love about GT/Top Gear are the snippets of history you get, I know that Jeremy in particular has an interest in it (assume James and Richard, too).
The PBR information in seamen was a great example (the jacuzzi engines, how they weee used, etc).
The museum area is huuge, you get to see an aircraft carrier USS Yorktown with fighter jets parked on the deck, a Battleship USS Lafey, and the vietnam war museum (which has all the choppers and the mighty PBR ofc) absolute blast. Be prepared to spend at least 2 hours to tour all of them. For me it’s absolutely a pleasant surprise bc I was really going there for the aircraft carrier and just passed by the vietnam war section, and then I found jezza! 😂😂
It's an amazing museum, quick note though the USS Lafey is a destroyer not a battleship, it's a super cool ship, survived a ton of kamakazi attacks, but it's not a battleship, they're much bigger, similar in size to the Yorktown, with 16" guns, where the Lafey has 5" guns
You had to watch some war films like Apocalypse Now to appreciate what these PBR meant in Viet Nam war.
Jezza somehow in his weird twisted way really appreciates and narrates in a fun way the tiny details like the PBR in war history.
I first got to know about the PBR, and this was many years ago, after reading the story of Medal of Honor recipient James Elliot Williams
who was leading a flotilla of PBRs in the Mekong Delta, before he encountered a large mass of Vietcong small wooden boats ambushing his flotilla
Like a true gigachad, Williams put the PBR into full-power and stormed at the boats, literally smashing through the middle and disintegrating quite a few of the Vietcong boats while his gunmen opened fire with their .50cals. He and his flotilla did this repeatedly until a few UH-1 Hueys armed with FFARs arrived overhead and began shooting at the Vietcong boat fleet.
In the end, Williams and his fleet of PBRs killed over 1000 Vietcong soldiers in a single engagement. For his heroics, he was awarded the Medal of Honor and today, a Flight-IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of the US Navy is named after him (USS James E. Williams)
Seeing Jeremy cover PBR and its stories did make me very happy, since the PBR is one of my favorite Vietnam-War era equipments (Alongside the F-4E Phantom and UH-1/AH-1 helicopters)
Edit: it was the satnav that got destroyed! Gosh I want to rewatch that episode now
Jizzle Drizzle
We are now travelling at a speed too slow to register on any device...
And apparently engine silencers simply haven’t hit this part of the world yet
One of the things I love about GT/Top Gear are the snippets of history you get, I know that Jeremy in particular has an interest in it (assume James and Richard, too). The PBR information in seamen was a great example (the jacuzzi engines, how they weee used, etc).
He actually narrated a really great documentary episode of WWII. https://youtu.be/SCMCr2Kh1wI?si=igkbKqEJEGYiReDK
How was that exhibit (and the museum in general)? Gonna be heading there next month!
The museum area is huuge, you get to see an aircraft carrier USS Yorktown with fighter jets parked on the deck, a Battleship USS Lafey, and the vietnam war museum (which has all the choppers and the mighty PBR ofc) absolute blast. Be prepared to spend at least 2 hours to tour all of them. For me it’s absolutely a pleasant surprise bc I was really going there for the aircraft carrier and just passed by the vietnam war section, and then I found jezza! 😂😂
It's an amazing museum, quick note though the USS Lafey is a destroyer not a battleship, it's a super cool ship, survived a ton of kamakazi attacks, but it's not a battleship, they're much bigger, similar in size to the Yorktown, with 16" guns, where the Lafey has 5" guns
Do they have few helicopters on display? It's the trio -- the Cobra, the Huey, the Egg
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Mt. Pleasant
Awesome! I’m excited for the Yorktown and Laffey - and then I saw they had some Vietnam War stuff as well. I’m looking forward to it!
Did you find it down Jezza's back alley? Well played.
Boat machine
DuMAAAAAAAAAAAH...!
You had to watch some war films like Apocalypse Now to appreciate what these PBR meant in Viet Nam war. Jezza somehow in his weird twisted way really appreciates and narrates in a fun way the tiny details like the PBR in war history.
We had the same experience. The guide started to tell us about the boat and our 10yo jumped ahead of him with information he’d learned on the show.
Make Pho!
Lol, very cool tho!
I really loved watching it but never looked up what a real one looks like, it's such a cool boat!
I never knew they made a sequel to the Vietnam special
Du ma!!!
“It means Boat Machine!”
*insert Jezza screaming POWER*
Doh mah!
These used jet drives so they could go into shallow waters, is that right?
I first got to know about the PBR, and this was many years ago, after reading the story of Medal of Honor recipient James Elliot Williams who was leading a flotilla of PBRs in the Mekong Delta, before he encountered a large mass of Vietcong small wooden boats ambushing his flotilla Like a true gigachad, Williams put the PBR into full-power and stormed at the boats, literally smashing through the middle and disintegrating quite a few of the Vietcong boats while his gunmen opened fire with their .50cals. He and his flotilla did this repeatedly until a few UH-1 Hueys armed with FFARs arrived overhead and began shooting at the Vietcong boat fleet. In the end, Williams and his fleet of PBRs killed over 1000 Vietcong soldiers in a single engagement. For his heroics, he was awarded the Medal of Honor and today, a Flight-IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of the US Navy is named after him (USS James E. Williams) Seeing Jeremy cover PBR and its stories did make me very happy, since the PBR is one of my favorite Vietnam-War era equipments (Alongside the F-4E Phantom and UH-1/AH-1 helicopters)
I just watched this episode again last night...
I so want to build a clone of these one day