Jack Hitt
speaker
849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And if those shots had connected, the war would have ended.
Oh, my God.
In fact, the gas bag was so successful that the South tried to copy it.
The South had to respond.
You know, it was an arms race of sorts, right?
Now, of course, they didn't have, you know, trade with the South.
There was no more foreign trade, right?
So they couldn't get materials easily.
And so rather scandalously, they appropriated or was donated all of the petticoat material by the ladies of the South.
So all the foundation garments and other bits would have to be sacrificed for the greater good.
It was the underwear balloon.
You know, the Southerners claim, they got angry about this, by the way, later.
And of course, these were bolts of dress material before they were made into actual clothes.
But this petticoat balloon finally gets launched.
The arms race is on.
They bring the balloon up to Richmond in 1862, and they put it in action.
And Lowe's balloon was also in that fight.
So they had two observation balloons at the same time.
Your official military historians will say this is the first air-to-air combat.
And they cut him up into little squares and every congressman in the North was given one of these little squares of the petticoat, you know, as another stunt to sort of like increase the funding for the balloon corps.
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