Pacific Series Pt 3: Guadalcanal and Beyond
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In this most recent update of the Pacific series we take a look at America's first move on the offensive.
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“You can follow this series by playing the ships featured!”
*takes 10 years to unlock the Yamato*
Shawn Moses same here, still haven’t unlocked it
Chongbou Cheng I’m still on the Fuso myself
Amateurs >_>
Actually I just keep on forgetting to get new ships so I just get like a million xp before buying 1 ship lol
i myself have only just gotten the Lexington
"The battle of Midway was reported to the Japanese people as a crushing victory." Well, to be fair, it was a crushing victory...
what do you mean
@@patrickgiangiordano2197It was a crushing victory. Just no for Japan...
@@TomFynn ah
It was crushing alright.
USA: Japan, what have you got there
Japan:*slightly hides forces* a smoothie
Was the smoothie good?
Declaring war on a country in order to secure oil so that you can defeat another country that you are fighting only for that second country to become an even bigger threat than your original enemy... Sounds familiar.
It's like emperor many chins have put himself in a similar situation as square mustachio boy
To be fair the original idea was to trade for oil but the US had a lot of leverage on Dutch and British oil fields.
@Mr. [Bones] the Japanese thought it's gonna be a copy of the First Sino-Japanese war, but that didn't really happen.
Birds of the feather
Second Sino-Japanese War. Stalemated because a small island nation was trying to conquer the majority of a continent with a population in the hundreds of millions, even back then.
But what is often forgotten is that Nazi Germany sent military advisors to help train and equip Nationalist China's forces, before they signed their alliance with Japan.
Fun fact. One of the bays just down from Henderson airfield is called iron bottom sound from all the sink ships and material.
I just had a brain hemhorrage reading that
Yep America's worst naval defeat of all time
@@audacityHD All the sink ships from bottom material
@@Xpwnxage sink ships. Sunken ships
Grammar, I beg.
MFW the American fleet sails just close enough to my heavily fortified island to say "LOL See you at the peace conference", and then sails for Okinawa.
"Enterprise vs Japan"
That sign deserved a mention. It's meme material.
I missed it, when did that show?
@@loganb7059 In the video, it wasn't mentioned or shown (I actually don't know if any pictures of it exist). In reality, the crew posted it on the flight deck after the battle where Hornet was sunk, leaving Enterprise as the only operational US carrier in the pacific.
Enterprise vsJapan was a good episode on the History channel show "Battle 360" afew years ago
Russell Miller LOVE THAT SHOW!
I don't remember this episode of star trek
Royal attendant: Say, Hirohito, do you remember those USN CVs we sunk on our victory at Midway some years ago?
Hirohito: Yeah, what of it?
Royal attendant: well , uh, they might be at our doorstep...
Imperial Navy Chief: *visibly sweating*
To be fair, only the Enterprise survived to that late in the war. The Yorktown was sunk at Midway and the Hornet was sunk during Guadalcanal.
America: *Wins Midway*
Japan: "Unfortunately we won't see it that way."
The Japanese called Guadalcanal
"The Island of Death"
Mostly from starvation but American bullets did alot of damage too
Yeah
bullets hurt
USA: Japan, you will never attack us right?
Japan: *hides attack forces* yes yes, we will never do that.
USA: *suspicious looks*
Sounds like something out from oversimplified
cody durham true
Systymshocked *USA:* Joint Board Plan 355 in progress, signed by FDR.
*USA:* "I'm about to end this mans whole career"
"yes yes"? Japanese are Skaven!
When the Japanese mess with a few of your boats so you mess with a few of their major cities
_Looks like they couldn’t handle the Neutron style_
Underrated
The fortnite gang Carter said a the underrated reply themselves
Quite literally
LOL!!!!
Those little cities are big gay
This post was made by the fat and little gang
Tbf Japan listing Midway as a “crushing victory” isn’t a lie, just an omission of who won
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I dont need sleep, i need answers
THAT WAS LITERLY ME JUST NOW
God damnit atomi, you beat me to the punch.
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*Explosion*
It bears mentioning that the reason the battle of Savo island was such a disaster was because of chain of command issue stemming from putting an Australian admiral in charge, who left a day before the battle without appointing a new commander in his absence. This is a large part of the reason the US so vehemently refused to be anything but in overall command from then on, something that pissed off the Australians and British to no end.
Xbz
America made the right call. The British top brass were incompetent and inept throughout the war.
Geralt of rivia,
ot completely incompetent there were some commanders like slim which did an impact in the war at Burma and a lot more officers. USA mostly aided UK to the war and the British Raj, Australia and Bob Semple did most of the hard work for UK. If your talking about the UK itself then you might be right but it's colonies your probably wrong since they fought back even though Britain was -stealing- taking their resources.
Trust the americans to blame others for their own mistakes, and in fact are still happily doing that to this day
He was a drugga
When you mentioned about the universal training of the USN actually not just on planes but everything, even on today's standards the USN still train their crews universaly on how to run everyhting on their ships and multiple things. For example ground crew shooter(the guys that wave their hand to launch the plane) are trained to be pilots too.
So every man on a USN ship is a nugget?
Phoenix Wyvern35 when you say “trained to be pilots too”, do you mean they fan dogfight well? Or ‘just’ launch the plane and fly elsewhere?
Can they land on a carrier?
The LSOs (Landing Signal Officers) are all trained pilots as well. A better example is that all US Navy enlisted sailors are trained as firefighters, and can pitch in on a gun crew if needed. Any officer can assume command if during battle they are left as the senior surviving officer afloat.
@@johndunkelburg5143 very true! My buddy in the navy is a mineman rate but right now he is doing firefighting training and of course some small arms stuff.
If all this stuff is true then what's with all these rumors I keep hearing that the navy doesn't teach their guys how to swim? Isn't that something they should all be required to know? What with how they operate on water and all.
Enterprise MVP of the pacific theatre. It’s silly how much value that one carrier got compared to every other ship.
The USS Enterprise eventually then curb stomped so many Japanese forces that it's like clubbing seals.
They couldn't beat The Big
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Me: is about to go to sleep
Potential history: another video
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Got to love CZcams. This showed up in my recommended vids but not my sub box.
Adam Davis same here
Me too!
Same, also looking at his channels front page it isn’t showing up in the uploads but on the front page only if you go to the videos page
it just showed up in my recommended vids today too
@@GenJackOneill same for me
Neptune's Inferno by James D Hornfischer is a fantastic book about the whole Guadalcanal campaign and the metal and meat grinder that was later named Ironbottom Sound. If you want to read the Japanese side of the story, there's a one-of-a-kind book aptly named Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameiichi Hara.
That was a good book.
I love the Tokyo Express under Admiral Tanaka. They loaded up a bunch of destroyers with as much crap as they could dump onto them and ran them down to Guadalcanal nightly.
Every night, they beached an entire squadron of Destroyers, unloaded them, desperately got them back off the beaches and then ran all the way back to base before sunrise.
The USS enterprise eh? Lets see those big transformer killing railguns in action for once
Firstly, the Battle of Savo Island was a joint USN/Royal Australian Navy operation with the force engaged by Adm. Mikawa under the command of Australian VAdm Victor Crutchley, VC. One of the heavy cruisers sunk that night was the RANS Canberra, as VAdm Crutchley’s flagship RANS Australia was detached from the force for VAdm Crutchley to attend a meeting with Adm Turner, who was in charge of the entire operation.
The thing to keep in mind as a general principle regarding the naval battles around Guadalcanal was their reliance on cruisers and destroyers fighting night battles at essentially point-blank range, pitting Japanese training against American RADAR. As one sailor put it, it was like a bar brawl with the lights off. So many ships were sunk in the waters between Guadalcanal and Savo Island that even today it is known as Iron-Bottom Sound.
One very small correction is that the Aussie ships were known with the prefix HMAS, as in Her Majesty's Australian Ship. The same as HMCS in Canada meaning Her Majesty's Canadian Ship
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One 'US Ship' was HMAS Canberra, she didnt go down during the night. She survived the night having been possible disabled due to 'Friendly fire'. She was still afloat somehow but losing power and flooding, she was scuttled later the day. She was replaced by HMAS Shropshire the next year
And on April 13, 1943, a ship called USS Canberra was launched. It was named in honour of His Majesty's Australian Ship (HMAS) Canberra, which was named after Australia's capital city.
@@fishofgold6553One of the new Littoral Combat Ships has also been named USS _Canberra._ Given how bad the LCS is, I’d honestly call that an insult.
The victory at Guadalcanal cannot be over stated..... It was an incredibly bold move. It was a tactical nightmare to pull off....at incredible risk to the US forces. Lest we forget, this was the very first offensive battle for the Americans. Which means every GI .. was 100% green. No combat experience. The Japanese had almost every advantage.... pretty much surrounded Guadalcanal on three sides with airfields at their disposal. Their troops weren't green at all .... crack troops. The US could not be pushed off the island ... that had a big impact to both countries. Guadalcanal shocked the Japanese military as well..... totally caught off guard. In hindsight.... Japan lost the war ... right there.
The air fields were too far away. Have you read Neptunes Inferno yet fantastic book.
The legends have always said he would return when we need him most
*laughs in filipino*
"what are those noise over there?"
"Oh, that? its just some fireworks"
The grammar says it all
@@joevenespineli6389 I know right? :^)
japan: how are our ships?
also japan: yes.
The battles of Guadalcanal were pretty intense, like when the San Francisco lit up the Atlanta so hard you’d think they were really the USS Sherman
Me: *wakes up*
Potential History: *post pacific theater part 3 excesses*
Me: oh finally!
Some of your references really catch me off guard. End of Ze World this time.
And yet I still manage to learn.
I'm happy I'm not the only person that got that.
Not mentioning the chad USS Atlanta which blew away a IJN destroyer at point blank range but was killed by friendly fire from the San Francisco
Really, the entire series of naval battles in late 1942-early 1943 is meme-worthy. These were either epic carrier duels, or chaotic, close-quarter affairs, with every battle being a race against a clock (at least for the Japanese) before daylight allowed aircraft to dominate the field.
Both sides lost dozens of warships in these battles, for Japan this became intractable. It was also during this time that Japanese pilot attrition first became a serious problem.
6:16 really cool blink and you miss it moment of a marine drinking out of a rare black enamel coated steel canteen not many were made in the end as they didn't substitute the aluminum canteens well enough
5:40 The Japanese also have radical design differences on pretty much all of their carriers. This makes it much more difficult to adapt to flying off a new ship. Compare, for example the motley assortment of sizes, capabilities and features of the Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu, etc, to the US classes of the Lexingtons, Yorktowns, and later the mass produced classes of carriers
2 of the Japanese carriers even had the conning tower on the opposite side too.
Its because the Japanese had more different classes of carriers (many with just one ship for various reasons) more than anything else. Classes with more than one carrier in them had similar characteristics within the class.
A lot of that had to do with circumstances outside the Japanese control and the experimental nature of Carriers in the 20s and 30s. Kaga was a carrier by accident replacing the wreck of Amagi after the Kanto earthquake and was a battleship hull not a clone of Akagi's battlecruiser hull. Hiryu and Soryu were built under arms limitations treaties that afforded the Japanese less tonnage and thus fewer ships. Conversely Lexington and Saratoga were constructed from the same design and America could construct 3 ships from one class later rather than 2 half sisters.
My great uncle died defending the Airfield on Guadalcanal, only 19 years old.
Greg Bugatti Sorry for your loss
Big F to a great men
God bless him o7
I really wish you talked about the complete insanity that were the stories of Mitchell Paige and John Basilone.
Insanity is putting it mildly.
Admiral Yàmamoto predicted he would run wild door 6 months maybe a year. After that he had no guarantees. That is why he pressed for a big naval battle at Midway to cancel the remnants of the United States Pacific fleet
Finally some great historical videos. Potential History coming through again. Also 0:51 RIP my waifu aircraft carrier Hornet
The _Yorktown_ might as well be the Cadia of Earth's Naval Warfare History, I mean it really stood its ground.
@Jonathan Stiles Shit, that's what I meant.
Hornet could have been saved, but poor judgement did her in.
@Jonathan Stiles let the world know of the ship that broke before it's crew did!
@@kabob0077 Irisviel, i mean, Yorktown, will be missed.
Long training cycle and high standards reduces Japanese Naval aviation pilot pool. Guadalcanal campaign significantly attritts the existing quantity of pilots, and exhausts the survivors to the point that the USA starts to face low quality pilots in all future combat engagements. the meat grinder of Guadalcanal consumes major Japanese Army units, depletes the Japanese cruiser and destroyer fleet, and ends Japanese air dominance. Midway is advertised as the decisive turning point of the pacific campaign, but the Guadalcanal campaign is the true beginning of the end for Imperial Japan.
2 videos in one day, you are a very good man
Oh, gosh, there are two aircraft carriers named the USS Hornet in WWII... makes research a nightmare...
Also, by the time the second Hornet was around the first Hornet was at the bottom of the Pacific.
Happy to see you’re posting more again. Really missed your content.
A good book on the battle of Guadacanal is Neptune's Inferno. It does a great job giving a play-by-play description of all the major battles fought there from start to finish of operations.
Enterprise: I HUNGER FOR MORE BLOOD
Always love seeing your videos dude, you make great content and I'm always checking and hoping you'll release them ASAP. Keep up the great work and can't wait for the next one!
If the Japanese Navy told the public sooner, those two kids at Grave of the Fireflies Movie would have a bit of different ending
If y’all want to learn about the Guadalcanal naval campaign in excruciating detail and extremely dry wit and humour, I would suggest checking out Drachinifel’s series of videos on the battles.
Woah! Back to back potential History, Nice!
I just found your channel a few days ago and I’m running out of videos :( I love your videos so much hahah I can’t stop watching
Yay your finally back. Love your videos
Finally it might be 8:14 in the afternoon but l must watch
You mean evening
Whenever you videos come out it's always satisfying to be early
Congrats on 300K subs!
I just started watching the pacific series a few hours ago
Great stuff as always, love that outro :3
Love your channel and hAve liked most of your videos
I'm so happy I was about to fall asleep and then I got the notification this is totally worth
My man you got a good voice. I appreciate you.
I'm going to have to step in and make some major corrections on your summary of the battle of savo island. First off the actual in field commander of the Allied cruiser squadron was not Richmond K. Turner. Note I said Allied squadron not American. Two of the 3 cruisers of the southern group were Royal Australian Navy ships, HMAS Australia and HMAS Canbarra the former of which was the flagship of the Rear Admiral Victor Crutchley VC who was the one in command of the screening force. The failure to mention the Australians and the men they lost in this battle particularly irks me. Oddly enough Crutchley was not present at the battle either, he had been called away to a conference to discuss the withdrawal of the American carriers. Command then fell to the senior captain of the taskforce Captain Howard D. Bode commanding USS Chicago. Also you got your New Orleans class cruisers mixed up. The one cruiser that was left crippled and later sunk on its own was Astoria not Vincennes. Also Canbarra was so badly damaged during the battle that she had to be scuttled the next morning. On a more somber note the disaster proved too much for Captain Bode who later committed suicide in a hotel room in Panama following a naval inquiry into the disaster.
Somebody mentioned that this disaster was so bad for the Americans in particular that they demanded to be in charge at all times from then on much to the chagrin of the brits and aussies.
Since the number 1 rule of battle fleets is to preserve yours, caution is wise
I am liking these more serous more documentary style videos. It is cool to see that you can do both. Come for the memes stay for the historical discussion and information.
Just in time for the Azur Lane Anime
I wonder if we'll get a "The History Behind Better Than Kantai Collection".
We're at least sure that the Japanese navy isn't gonna win Midway lol
Wonder if they will let Laffey meet her historcal fate. That could be a really powerful moment. She will be a part of the main cast after all.
Jasza676 Prepare your Fs
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My grandfather had a coconut plantation on talage and was flown to Washington D C prior to pure landing on Guadalcanal Canal with his chart's had the soundings of the harbour
Oh cool, this just didn't show up at all in my subscription feed. I happened upon it on the home page. Really happy about that, definitely not confusing or frustrating at all
Something's wrong with this video being delivered. Hasn't shown up at all in my subscriptions or on your channel but your other new video about Operation Barbarossa is fine. CZcams screwing over military channels again?
IT'S HERE
Gonna watch the first 2 episodes of The Pacific
Damned youtube didn't put this in my sub feed!
I'm glad I found it though! Great video!
Always great watching videos from you :D
But I got to ask what is that rocking music at the credits?
Just to let you know, it's now 10h since uploading, this video IS NOT in my sub feed, i found it randomly on the home page. I've been subbed continuously for a long time
Your videos are literally crack and I need more.
Oh hell ya brother, it’s here
The video we needed not the one we deserved
Jap' Emperor; "today we utterly destroyed the US fleet at Midway, but then out of nowhere... GODZILLA!!!"
Jap' Media;"Goojiiirrraaa!!!
Japanese Media;".........
This channel has the best intros.
Japanese soldiers called Guadalcanal "green hell" because of something even more important - the IJN's inability to keep troops there supplied. The retreat was only called after troops had been reduced to boiling grass for food - and even then, only after they couldn't even find enough remaining ROOTS to boil.
We need a video about the story behind Kantai Collection: The Movie. It is a really good movie with metric tons of references to the naval battles of guadalcanal and the solomon sea ^^
Rhodesia vid? It's totally unrelated but I'd like to see your analysis of the bush war
He probably thinks Mugabe was a hero, don't bet on it
@@nonautemrexchristus5637 better than slavers.
@@pladderisawesome if you're comparing the Rhodesian government to slavers, I don't want to call you an idiot but you are definitely fucking stupid
Good job
Thanks for the video. I thought that midway happened AFTER guadalcanal. Thank you for correcting me.
That intro was so good XD
Am simple man
I see potential history
I click
And I just seat here and wait for part 4
Battle 360 footage, nice
Omg CZcams wtf, I was waiting for this masterpiece but you didn't put it in the sub box
The commander of the 'American' fleet was Rear Adm. Victor A. C. Crutchley, RN, VC
from the Royal Navy, and one of those 'American' cruisers lost was Australian...the HMAS Canberra. The HMAS Australia and Hobart survived.
I’m a simple man. I see a Potential History video, I hit like.
Thank you for the "End of Ze World" quote. I miss its relevance
damn you johnny I wanted to go to bed after watching a quick video but here I am.
and get better
This video wasn’t in my subscriptions feed... did this happen to anyone else?
Apparently yes, though not to me, someone else in the comments section said they had this issue
Daniel Shiao yes
Aren't a lot of history channels being demonetized by CZcams? Iirc, Armchair Historian's video was demonetized because it contained the word "War". If this video was demonetized right off the bat, would a notification even be forwarded to all subscribers?
Glad to see he’s back
Same
I thought he was spending time with his mail order girlfriend
did you use footage from battle 360? i loved that show
ITS BEEN SO LONG
commenting to support
really hope you do a video on new guinea or borneo
7:25 Unrelated to the topic but rather the video, it’s cool seeing a M1928 being used with its drum in the pacific.
Two vids in one day it must be my birthday