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When The Japanese Navy Safeguarded The Med in WWI...
Looking back through history, it’s often difficult to see passed events that have so shaped our modern world. The story of Japan in World War II for example has often left those in the west with an impression that prior to 1945, Japan was always an enemy of freedom, when in fact while we associate Imperial Japan as Hitler’s ally, just twenty years earlier, Japan fought against the Kaiser and that particular tyrant’s quest for power.
In this episode, we are going to explore Japan’s entry into the First World War and examine its navy’s intriguing if often forgotten role in safeguarding the Mediterranean Sea from the Kaiser’s fleet of U-boats. Welcome to Wars of the World.
00:00 Introduction
01:13 Land of the Rising Sun
07:44 The 2nd Special Squadron
18:18 Short Changed
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Written & Researched by: Tony Wilkins
Edited by: James Wade
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Komentáře

  • @kevins4936
    @kevins4936 Před hodinou

    The Nazis killed 25000000 Russians. Here in this video, the guy is upset about a few stupid soldiers who killed women in Berlin 😮, maybe the creator of the documentary believes that Russians are sub humans 🙄 😮. If it wasn't because of Russians the german army would have invaded entire europe, France, UK and Scandinavian countries and all these countries without a doubt would have spoken in german language today, so the world should respect Russian sacrifices against nazi regime. Russians didn't commit ethnic cleansing of german puppolation as a form of revenge for the mass killing of Russian civilians. Sad for all the lives lost in that bloody war,especially civilians, women, and children.

  • @AWMulholland99
    @AWMulholland99 Před 2 hodinami

    Some sad old Napoleon wannabe !

  • @johndenton362
    @johndenton362 Před 3 hodinami

    Managed to listen fir 3 minutes then his voice did my head in. Terrible

  • @johndenton362
    @johndenton362 Před 3 hodinami

    Nothing we havent seen before hundreds of times. Boring droning voice. Yawn

  • @angloaust1575
    @angloaust1575 Před 4 hodinami

    Read the long walk siberia to india by an american and several poles in ww2 That was a walk!

  • @Ibby.M.I.786
    @Ibby.M.I.786 Před 6 hodinami

    12:22 - it's this filthy "I'm a pale skinned European and better than you" thinking that always gets Britain into a mess every time. This is why I will ALWAYS hate the British in this sense. Because they will never learn that they are NOTHING if it wasn't for the rest of the world. Japan was clever because they straight up asked the question "If I help you, what's in it for me?" Another reason why they changed sides in the next world war because they also got played by 'allied' powers

  • @adamlunn3071
    @adamlunn3071 Před 9 hodinami

    Another US military snafu.

  • @shaundavenport621
    @shaundavenport621 Před 14 hodinami

    Walking 180 miles with limited food and water,practically none is a story enough, there was no need for embellishment!

  • @shaundavenport621
    @shaundavenport621 Před 14 hodinami

    Im looking at the thumbnail pic taken on the chopper tailgate,and ive just realised that the only one to escape(Chris Ryan) was the only one without a mustache, Obviously SAS mustaches can be seen at such a distance they were a dead giveaway! The Iraqis are well awware that only SAS soldiers can grow mustaches in a matter of hours.The timing of mustache growth are now part of the selection process!😊.

  • @paulflak2823
    @paulflak2823 Před 15 hodinami

    A very basic understanding of history, I give this amateur give seconds before I would drive my combat boot out of my museum!!!!

  • @paulflak2823
    @paulflak2823 Před 15 hodinami

    You forgot France in south Asia!

  • @gagamba9198
    @gagamba9198 Před 17 hodinami

    Several mistakes and omissions in this video. 1) Japan's modernisation, the 'major social and technological change' you mention @1:51, did not begin the18th century but the 19th. 2) Omission of Qing-Japan War of 1894 - 95. 3) The first global Asian power was not Japan but the Mongols under Genghis Khan and his descendants. 4) _'Being an island nation the Japanese inevitably _*_built_*_ a powerful navy.'_ No, the Japanese _bought_ a powerful navy. In the Russo-Japanese War the only warships built by Japan were its torpedo boats. Of all the principal units in Togo's battle line on 25 May 1905, when he met the Russian Baltic Fleet at Tsushima, not one had been built in Japan. _Mikasa_ the Admiral's flagship, _Asahi_ , _Fuji_ , and _Shikishima_ were all British built, while _Nisshin_ and _Kasuga_ had only recently come from Ansaldo's yard (Italy). Of Kamimura's armored cruiser division, _Idzumo_ , _Iwate_ , _Asama_ , _Tokiwa_ had been built at Elswick's (UK); _Adzuma_ at St. Nazaire (France); and _Yakumo_ , a German design, at Stettin. Japan began building large warships after the war. 5) The Russians were not alarmed by Japan. It was the opposite. Russia's leasing Port Arthur on the Liaodong peninsula from the Qing dynasty after the Qing-Japanese War outraged Tokyo. In 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion, Russia launched a separate invasion of Manchuria sending 100,000 troops there. Withdrawal after the rebellion was only partial. Further, Russia's obtaining concessions to build railways in Manchuria (Chinese Eastern Railway) caused Japan great upset. 6) Japan did _not_ decisively defeat Russia in the 1904 - 05 Russo-Japanese War. Japan decisively defeated the Russian navy, but the ground war in Manchuria was not a walkover for Japan. It was a bloodbath characterised by repeated IJA frontal assaults into Russian machine guns and artillery in fortified and well-entrenched positions. Western military observers were aghast by how many casualties Japan was taking in these assaults _and_ that they kept doing so. By the time the IJA pushed the Russians north of Mukden the IJA was a spent force that could not longer sustain offensive operations in Manchuria. Further, the war was bankrupting Japan. It was Tokyo that secretly approached Teddy Roosevelt and asked him to organise a peace talks so that Japan could get out of the stalemate and stop the financial bleeding. Everyone, including Japan after the Russo-Japan War, forgot the ground campaign and fixated on the Battle of Tsushima. Yes, a great naval victory, but only part of the picture. 7) Re the Washington Naval Conference, prior to leaving Japan Marshall Admiral Kato Tomosaburo, the architect of the proposed 8-8 Fleet (to be completed in 1928) and Minister of the Navy, realised Japan couldn't afford it. And it certainly couldn't afford an arms race if the US was not limited by treaty. Kato was appointed Japan's lead negotiator because the Government believed he was capable of resisting pressure from the IJA's militants, many of whom wanted an 8-8-8 Fleet. Moreover, the IJA was demanding expansion to 50 divisions (25 active and 25 reserve) that had been repeatedly delayed due to finances. And it wan't just personnel but costly equipment modernisation as well and industrial expansion. 'If the IJN gets the 8-8 Fleet, we get our expansion too.' The Government faced a crippling one-two punch to the nation's finances. Japan was in the midst of its post-WWI depression. The Government's civilian leaders and Kato realised that an arms race would be economically ruinous, and if the US continued to expand its fleet Japan's 8-8 Fleet would be greatly surpassed. Japan's chief goal was to avoid discussions about Japan's expansion into Korea, Taiwan, Manchuria, and the Caroline, Mariana and Marshall Islands groups (this was part of the Conference as well). A second goal was 70% of US and UK fleets, but if Japan could not attain that Kato was to propose the banning of fortification construction east of Singapore and west of Hawaii. Japan was very concerned about the Philippines and Guam becoming fortresses with large aerodromes for bombers that could reach Japan as well as locations for large US naval bases. Though there were talks about Japan's expansion in Asia and the Pacific, Japan was successful in its first goal that nothing came of it. Kato's proposal of banning fortifications was accepted by UK and US and Japan accepted 60%. Kato was given a hero's welcome upon his return to Japan and rewarded by being appointed Prime Minister. He intended to reduce the institutional power of the IJN's militants who where upset by the loss of the 8-8 Fleet, but in 1923 Kato died of cancer. His faction in the IJA was purged over time by the militants. Japan's military was like a 15-year-old boy who expects his working-class parents to buy him a Ferrari for his 16th birthday.The difference was the military did more than pout; it started assassinating civilian and military leaders who opposed expansion or, even worse, approved reductions. Japan was fortunate it signed the treaty because the 1920s would prove to be economically tough with a costly incursion into Siberia by 70,000 IJA troops, the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake, the collapse of raw silk prices in 1925 upon the commercialisation of rayon (raw silk was the nation's most important export, and this hit the rural economy hard), the financial crisis of 1927, and, with the US stock market crash in '29 Japan's raw silk earnings decreased further. For Japan, the 1920s was one of deflation, financial instability, and economic stagnation. An arms race, especially one run by the IJN's 'gunners' who greatly favoured battleships and battle cruisers over other ships like aircraft carriers, would have seen Japan make poor investments.

  • @lauriemayne7436
    @lauriemayne7436 Před 19 hodinami

    There are better jokes than this to be found elsewhere on CZcams.

  • @user-xj6xp9gl1g
    @user-xj6xp9gl1g Před 21 hodinou

    Pictures of 1991 Gulf War. Quite misleading pictures

  • @MrKawaltd750
    @MrKawaltd750 Před 22 hodinami

    Vert good condensation of Japan contribution in WWI. Great vidéo research !

  • @Harpo77
    @Harpo77 Před 23 hodinami

    Look how many over dose in America. Now think of over 10 years in a war and how many of the 59,000 may have overdosed. Kinda like the Covid data. That’s how the federal government keeps America in support of any war. They lie and steal and lie. Let God judge them. He who is first will be last he who is last will be first.

  • @CLAVATORR5624
    @CLAVATORR5624 Před 23 hodinami

    GOD PLEASE I PRAY TO ALL OURS GOOD HEART MANS SOLDIERS SOULS STAY SAFE UNDER YOUR GUARD AMEN TK FOR EVERTHING SPECIAL THE BAD ONE FROM WHAT YOU LEARN ALLELUYA

  • @brucewood1827
    @brucewood1827 Před dnem

    Back then the Japanese military had not become radicalized yet so their mindset was more or less guided by the rules of warfare. Their sphere of operations during WW1 was mainly confned to the Pacific areas, mainly invading German military held island possessions as well as German ports in China. During this conflict the Japanese treated prisoners with dignity and respect. It was totally opposite to the way prisoners were treated during WW2.

  • @lexington476
    @lexington476 Před dnem

    Great tidbit. I have never heard of this before.

  • @dannychambers8076
    @dannychambers8076 Před dnem

    HITLER WENT TO SOUTH AMERICA ! THE BODIES THAT WERE FOUND NOT HITLER !

  • @TheCosmicGuy0111
    @TheCosmicGuy0111 Před dnem

    Woah

  • @martincook318
    @martincook318 Před dnem

    I'm 68 on December 22nd and I lost a Uncle in World War two and he left a Widow and a young son and I would call World War two the People's War and had I lived in those days and despite My disabilities I would have fought for this County

  • @johnjephcote7636
    @johnjephcote7636 Před dnem

    The Dark Peak is a reference to the Millstone Grit of the North Peak (as opposed to the White Peak of the southern Carboniferous limestone).

  • @israel_started_it_ALL_in_1948

    Japan. ok

  • @zaphoddog3878
    @zaphoddog3878 Před dnem

    So this is about something the Russians fantasized about but never actually accomplished???

  • @anemarie2984
    @anemarie2984 Před dnem

    If she would not Killing them the russians would have donc it don t forget they were the children of Gobbel

  • @jeanknapper3746
    @jeanknapper3746 Před dnem

    I worked with Virginia in the CIA in the sixties. She was a wonderful, cultured, humorous woman. She married Paul Goillot who also was in the Resistance.

  • @patriciapayne1274
    @patriciapayne1274 Před dnem

    She actually killed five of her children. The oldest, by her first marriage, was a prisoner of war by then. What a foolish, selfish misguided woman she was. Unbelievable.

  • @angel_machariel
    @angel_machariel Před dnem

    Ah I remember this. Somalia, surrounded entirely by single type of Special Forces and Special Operation entities possible - for humanitarian aid of course.

  • @MarkHarrison733
    @MarkHarrison733 Před dnem

    Montgomery was a bad general. He also abused children, as did William Slim.

  • @laurahemenway4608
    @laurahemenway4608 Před dnem

    OK, please, please, please, check the pronunciation of key names before recording. It's puh-TOE-mac (Potomac), SHY-lo (Shiloh), HAT-ter-us (Hatteras), there are more, but you get the point.

  • @brianrobertson1211

    We owe every one of these men an enormous debt of gratitude for their sacrifices and service so that we can live as free Americans.

  • @philldag9212
    @philldag9212 Před dnem

    The rape of Berlin

  • @MH-rb7lp
    @MH-rb7lp Před dnem

    Good thing they are so secretive that a video can be made about them.... BS.

  • @MarkHarrison733
    @MarkHarrison733 Před dnem

    Churchill certainly changed the UK, as the election of Hamas supporters in May 2024 showed.

  • @bold810
    @bold810 Před dnem

    War should never be welcome.

  • @Gerhardium
    @Gerhardium Před dnem

    LMAO the Soviets/Russians were decent at submarines but their surface fleet was poorly maintained and in shoddy condition even during the Cold War. Their "aircraft carriers" are only slightly less pathetic than those of Nazi Germany.

  • @bobdadnaila7708
    @bobdadnaila7708 Před 2 dny

    Motherfuckers, we got 18 of those.

  • @bobdadnaila7708
    @bobdadnaila7708 Před 2 dny

    4 tugs permanently assigned to her flotilla ...😂

  • @SuperGreatSphinx
    @SuperGreatSphinx Před 2 dny

    OUR LADY OF PEACE The Blessed Virgin Mary

  • @anthonylowder6687
    @anthonylowder6687 Před 2 dny

    The Lusitania’s funnels were painted black not gray

  • @mikewinkelman7015
    @mikewinkelman7015 Před 2 dny

    No winners in war.

  • @Welsh2505
    @Welsh2505 Před 2 dny

    Glory to the Motherland. Russia will never be defeated.

  • @toddfallon179
    @toddfallon179 Před 2 dny

    The Admiral Flaming Kuznetsov, you mean... thing is a floating crematorium! 😆😅🤣😂

  • @Mreye45
    @Mreye45 Před 2 dny

    Seems like AI generated BS. Worthless.

  • @SR71ABCD
    @SR71ABCD Před 2 dny

    Russia doesn't even have the funding, if they did build one they' can't use it in the Black sea nor the Baltics sea because it will be watched closely.

  • @ryanhaase1271
    @ryanhaase1271 Před 2 dny

    This video is speckled with BS. The grunts didn’t lose the war; it was never meant to be won.

  • @gringodoce5788
    @gringodoce5788 Před 2 dny

    Unfortunately the narrator seems to be incapable taking a single breath. Or leave the audience any another chance to digest words and pictures for a moment. Pitty.🤔

  • @topranking7346
    @topranking7346 Před 2 dny

    American soldiers win the war in a place where by they have no cooperation or they don't stand by each other....but that was not in Somalia the entire city wanted to kill the Americans so how can they win the war...no way you cannot win war in Somalia...Somalian have been fighting for the last 50 years they don't give fuck real thing

  • @topranking7346
    @topranking7346 Před 2 dny

    Mallbatt are not heroes why they running away along side with peacekeepers from Pakistan and Americans soldier...although both Malaysian and Pakistan troops save Americans but heroes never run heroes stand and fight to death but they all run 😅away