American Carriers Were Highly Successful In Pacific War (Ep.13)
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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 13 of battle of midway from Japanese Perspective , Image used in this video depicts U.S. Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers of VS-8 from USS Hornet about to attack the burning Japanese cruiser Mikuma .
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When I was in the US Navy in the early 80's every person on a ship was expected to have graduated from fire-fighting and damage control schools, so everyone at least *should* have been familiar with breaking out and manning a fire hose, handling basic damage control tasks like patching pipes and sealing bulkhead ruptures, and escaping from a flooding compartment. I never had to put those skills to use in the fleet, but it was good to know what to do and to have some exposure to it.
Even today, shipboard fire fighting is included in navy OCS. Every officer from day 1 is expected to know how to suppress a shipboard fire.
@@andrewtaylor940Yes good onservation
Losing the 4 carriers was catastrophic but equally as serious was the loss of the carriers' pilots and aircrews and aircraft handling and maintenance crews. The loss of these experienced men was huge for the Japanese Navy.
War propoganda made citizens on all sides join up in a patriotic fervor but Japan's had been ongoing for a decade, and the attack on Pearl electrified univ professors, teachers and most of the aircraft and parts manufacturing. There were hundreds of teacher-experts onboard the carriers, who took on aircraft maint, elevator maint and fueling system maint in the name of 'experience' for the next wave of New Construction. These were lost or, perhaps worst, they were rescued and then suffered the 'disperse all personnel from homeland' orders so no witness to the debacle could have homeland contact. That meant "island bases". And there, Japan's senior aeronautics engineers were now corporals and sgts, dust and mud-encrusted, who starved and died of disease like thousands of others. Or presenting some ''entitlement' to young men caught up in a samurai spirit, were executed as Mere Teachers in Japan's caste system. HP Willmott covers these sickening details - small in the overall scope, but hugely important for training replacements.
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HP WIllmott's books and Richard B. Frank's DOWNFALL enumerate the stupidity of Japan's propoganda. Marine mechanics would discover dozens of ill-fitting and mismatched engine parts to the Japanese planes and trucks all because Japan's "cottage industry" was indeed dispersed but without methods of ensuring standardized manufacturing. So Islands would receive umpteen boxes of parts - but many would not fit any plane in their airfields. And the low education level of maint workers ensured brute-force repairs - "Use this sledge - that screw will fit that way!"
What's even worse was there was no comprehensive program to replace their losses.
As always doing my part for the algorithm.
I'll say one thing, our damage control protocols and training in WW2 were second to none, and it paid off in dividends.
5 minutes can make a huge difference.
Excellent series
This is an excellent story told very well. A lot of Brave men died that day on both sides. Always remember and honor them.
@535tony Absolutely, we couldn't agree more. It's essential to honor the bravery and sacrifice of those who fought, regardless of the side they were on. We're grateful for your recognition of their courage and for appreciating the storytelling. Thank you for your thoughtful comment.
japanese war criminals "heroes"?
Pretty astounding. It makes me think of an old adage, the best defense is a good offense. Buying to heavily into that idea as a philosophy could explain why these ships were so vulnerable and also why they were also so good at attacking. They could dish it out much better than they could take it.
really enjoyed the detail and insight
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for a fantastic episode. Well done Sir.
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Japanese damage control command was centralized and depended on specialized personnel and orders from the damage control center. Once that was lost, so was the ship, whereas US damage control was (and is) all-hands and all hands are trained in DC. During combat, US carriers flushed all refueling equipment with carbon dioxide so that there is nothing to burn in the refueling system.
The details are truly horrific... I felt sorry for all the young men killed or maimed... War is hell
From MASH:
"Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?
Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.
Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander."
I find it very interesting hearing from the Japanese point of view. F. Caruso
The way they tell it you would think they won the battle.
RN Carries were designed to operate in the North Atlantic, Mediterranean areas, where they were often in range of and subject to consistent attacks from Land Based Bombers, so durability and Toughness were more important than a Large Air Wing.
Many revelations - as usual. Thanks.
@tonyduncan9852 Sir, Thanks for watching!
So a question to ponder, if Akagi had managed to get the fire under control, (and it was a close thing unlike with Kaga and Soryu) would they still have had to scuttle the ship? Trying to tow a ship with the rudder jammed hard over in the middle of a battle zone was not going to be possible.
If Akagi's CO2 system had ruptured when the bomb went off that would explain the slow start to the fire. But as the man said if you can't get it cooled down it will reflash.
No, too far to tow, especially with US subs and carrier superiority. They scuttled all their carriers for a reason.
This magnificent, thank you
Glad you like it!
Design flaws aside, the lack of basic damage control procedures for ALL HANDS are what killed Kito Butai. Whereas every single man on US Navy ships new how to operate DC gear, had numerous drills with all kinds of situations to prepare them how to save the ship when it's damaged in battles, and had assignments for every man for what he was supposed to provide and where to provide it during DC drills until it was down cold. Take the USS Franklin- she took more damage than most of these 4 IJN carriers did and STILL made it back home to fight another day. The difference: every man on board knew what to do for damage control and did so splendidly, whereas the IJN, only a handful of the entire crew knew how to put out a fire, where all DC gear was kept, practiced drills using this DC gear, etc.
The Japanese seemed to have great confidence that it would be unlikely that their defenses would be breached.
Thanks
Great video!
Thanks!
I have never heard such a detailed description of Japanese Carriers, their status when hit and then reporting the hits/damage. WOW
The crazy design flaws is reminiscent of Fukushima backup generators placed in the reactor basements.
Aside from a better damage control philosophy that trained every man in damage control the US carriers had a brilliant system for draining the fuel lines of aviation gas and filling them with nitrogen before a battle to lessen the severity of fire. It was superior damage control that saved Yorktown twice. And although the second 'save' was short lived, it was enough that Yorktown absorbed the second Japanese counter attack because the Japanese thought it was another carrier, believing her already sunk by the first attack. That left both the Enterprise and Hornet to finish off Hiryu.
The Nimitz battle strategy with carriers: Hit first.
Best part around 30:00
I believe that early war Japanese ships didn't have gasoline powered pumps like the Americans did. This omission was huge. Hand powered pumps were useless in a huge fire.
"Shon it around" The AI voice was pretty good on this video but occasionally it goes bonkers.
The mess up don't seem to be as frequent in the last few videos. A couple of videos where really annoying to listen to because of the bad pronunciation. I'm glad for the improvement.
Not just bad pronunciation but uniquely bad pronunciation. Especially bad was treating ed at the end of a word as a stand alone syllable.
@@steveschlackman4503 Sometimes it is, but not usually.
The text says the Lt Best trio achieved one hit. Best’s own bomb hit the hangar deck. However that’s does not account for the boiler steam pipes bursting. They scalded everyone to death and stopped the turbines dead.
That was not a near miss.
It was common for shock damage to rupture steam lines.
Present day warships made of aluminium are similarly flammable !
Tin foil... I think that was those billion dollar lo-quality coast guard cutters, the ones that had pier bumbers smash and deform the halls, bulkheads and needing keel-line inspections. The Chinese admiral said, "No longer a .45 pistol puts them out - .22 rabbit guns will."
What a gruesome story!
Kanko=B5N Kate torpedo bombers?
We skipped from the first attack on Kaga and this picks up at Soryu. Huh?
@Bob.W. Sir Bob we have not missed any part of story , covering it in the logical sequence as shared , kind regards
Yeah the transition was kind of confusing as chapters changed in mid catastrophe. Imho
The sequence number typed at the end - instead of the far better start of title line - makes look-ups and sequence listening so difficult.
Steam turbines are incredibly powerful but they have incredibly fine internal clearances. The shock of near misses will cause intricate moving parts to hit intricate static parts. Soon enough, blades separate and output power tumbles. Lose the low pressure end and you effectively lose 70% of the turbine along with the condenser.
What are they talking about when they keep saying (spot). Cant tell if it's launching plane's recovery of plane's. I don't think it's just seeing plane's.
I take it to mean placing aircraft on the flight deck prior to launch
IIRC those aircraft radials take 15 minutes to warm up after getting on deck.
@@superted6960 Quite so. Carrier flight decks were mapped out with specific locations for specific tasks. The recovering Combat Air Patrol aircraft would be placed in locations where flight crews would refuel and rearm them. Once done they would have been moved, respotted, further forward to enter the queue to be relaunched.
@@harryfuller3881 As this episode says, the Japanese could not warm up their aircraft below in the hangar, as the US could with their open hangars.
It may have to do with an account from a Japanese officer that has a different flight deck situation than reported by American pilots. The accounts vary in exact details but I respect these men who fought the battle and their efforts to relay the details correctly.
Note how vulnerable the carriers were to primative dive bombing of the day. Today, there are anti-ship ballistic missiles-one hit would send a carrier to the bottim in less than 30 minutes
Wonder what these Japanese sailors thought when they launched planes at zero dark thirty on Sunday, 7 December against sleeping American sailors? Were they happy? Laughing? Proud?
Payback. With interest.
It is hard to listen to this recounting, however, bear in mind that this destruction was wrought in Tokyo with the decision to fiendishly attack another country that was a peace. The evil that warped around these young men infested their minds with arrogant bellicosity.
Japan's attack the US with the benefit of hindsight was obviously a huge miscalculation, but a bit of a stretch to attach moral blame without the risk of hypocrisy. For instance the US has often attacked another country that was at peace to advance its own interests.
Name one. @@claverton
Here for Al Gore’s Rhythm.
TO CALL THE FLIGHT DECK CHAOS AKIN TO THE HOLOCAUST* ..... is an insult to 11 million people who knew the PURPOSEFUL GENOCIDE SO WELL .... and this was a matter of timing, arrogance and D.C. Crew inadequacies under duress .... I had to give this protracted and over-stated personalized by name for Japanese efforts a very regrettable falsehood story.