Kings and Generals. I’m currently in college studying to become a History teacher and I truly hope when I do become one, I can make History as exciting and fascinating as you guys can. Thanks as always.
In my first history class at senior school, the most boring history teacher in history had us endlessly drawing medieval field strip systems and totally uninteresting crap guaranteed to stifle any spark of imagination in an eleven year old. So I gave it up as a subject. How different things might have been if such enjoyable teaching aids as K&G had been available.
Expanded History. When you do, just present the facts. Please be objective. No revisionism, spin, personal bias etc. The most effective educators teach not indoctrinate. Thank you.
Hey, I'm in Cebu city as well and was thinking exactly the same thing. Unfortunately, our side didn't put up much of a fight. No epic Battle of Cebu or Lapu-Lapu to get thrilled about here.
Very true! Almost all documentaries about the invasion of the Philippines only focus on Bataan and never about the rest of the islands. It was refreshing to see more pieces of the invasion covered.
@@jkasiron2275 I lived in China for a year in my 20s, many of them still hold a grudge against Japan; especially since there was never any official acceptance of guilt - the murderers got off scot-free as far as the Chinese are concerned.
One way journey for the raiders One landed in russia Others crashed in china Some captured three executed Others made it back to usa Chinese civilians massacred For helping flyers!
My grandmother only once told me what the air raids were like in Kobe. When the alarm sounded off in her little village neighbourhood, her mother would yell at her to gather all the blankets and futon in the house and throw it over every light source so they wont be seen and possibly targeted.
16:20 The pilots later "escaped" and managed to get back to the US and by "escaped" I mean the Soviet's basically letting them go, no reasons to hold them after all.
@@jasondouglas6755 the thing is Japan knew that. They knew the US could outproduce them 10 to one. They knew this was a desperate gamble. I don't think Japan could have done any better then they did.
Without a doubt the best Pacific War documentary ever produced! The details are amazing! So often you see the Philippines as if once Bataan and Corregidor fell, it was all over. Seeing the further battles is so enlightening! Keep up the great work!
Can’t wait to see the Battle of Midway and the Battle off Samar, the literal David vs Goliath type battle and one of the largest Naval battles in History.
Also, get ready to hear about one of the biggest, greatest, most fortunate serendipitous events the American military would probably ever experience while the Japanese would experience the exact opposite (A chance meeting all the same yet one neither of them would attempt again)
Ever since a cyclone destroyed the Mongol fleet in the 13th Century the Japanese thought a kamikaze (divine wind) made their home island invulnerable. I am not surprised they didn't devote much to defense. In one fell swoop we destroyed that centuries old belief. As they said, while the damage was minor, the morale impact was huge.
It was actually 2 different cyclones at two different times. Can’t blame them for thanking divinity really lol. Never really thought of the Doolittle raid in that historical sense though :)
I had always associated the kamikaze belief with the Japanese nation's hopes for last-minute salvation at the end of the war. I'd never thought to connect it to the Doolittle Raid before seeing your comment. Very interesting idea!
This video helps me to understand the battle in the Philippines beyond the Bataan and Corrigredor before the battle of Leyte in the World War 2. Why? Often, the Luzon was showed compared to the Visayas and Mindanao.
My God, can you imagine being briefed on your mission to bomb Tokyo, hearing nothing but the problems and issues involved, that your odds of success were almost non-existent, and even if you flew the greatest mission you possibly could, you would still be taking off under the full knowledge you wouldn't be returning to that carrier? Doolittle when asked how he felt as they promoted him: "damn....it feels good to be a gangsta" (As for the upcoming midway battle? For those of us who already know the details of it, if I can explain it to those who don't in just one sentence? "Get ready Japan, cause here comes the pain baby! Here comes the pain!")
"You know, at Pearl they hit us with a sledgehammer. This raid,... even if we make it through. It would only be pin prick, but it would be straight through their hearts" Alec Baldwin, posing as Doolittle in 2001 movie Pearl Harbor.
Very good video. The Doolittle Raid and the US/Filipino defense of the Philippines played major roles in the defense of New Guinee . New Guinee had been a major target of the Japanese but first the defense of the Philippines delayed the invasion of New Guinee and later the continued defense of the Philippines at Bataan caused Japanese reinforcements to be sent to the Philippines. Those forces in the Philippines and the reinforcements sent to help take out the American and Filipino defenders at Bataan were meant to be sent to New Guinee to take that island. Had those Japanese forces been sent on time it would have resulted in New Guinee falling as they would have gotten there prior to the Australian reinforcements arriving on the island since the vast majority of Australia's front line fighting force was in North Africa at the time of the Japanese attacks on December 7/8th. And then the Doolittle raid changed the Japanese Navies next goal from wanting to take New Guinee to being the destruction of the US Navies aircraft carriers. After Midway the Japanese went back to trying to take the island of New Guinee and the Solomon islands but by that time the Allies had Naval superiority which caused the Japanese to lose the battles at both New Guinee and the Solomon Islands. Had the Japanese taken New Guinee according to their time table it would have resulted in the Japanese being able to launch repeated bombing runs against Australia and even a Sea-born invasion of Australia if they really wanted to get risky. Such a invasion would have failed but the Japanese control of New Guinee would have caused massive morale issues to Australia. It basically would have put Australia in the same situation as Britain was after the fall of France but worse. The Australians would be in a worse situation after the fall of New Guinee because Australia would not have the land defense force that Britain had defending their island and the Japanese would have had a much greater Naval threat then the Germans had to Britain making the threat of a invasion of Australia much greater then the threat of a invasion of Britain ever was. If the Japanese tried to take over and occupy Australia that would have failed under any conditions since the US Navy still existed and US Army and Marines forces were arriving quickly to Australia. But after the Japanese took New Guinee they could have launched repeated raiding attacks against Australian cities and towns along their North coast without issue for awhile until new Australian forces were trained or American forces arrived. This is why the Australians really wanted their main divisions in North Africa back fighting against the Japanese even before the Japanese invaded New Guinee. Even then the Australian were worried about possible Japanese attacks against them. So the fall of New Guinee would have been a major morale and tactical issue for the Australians and Allied forces.
@@TricksterPoi Yeah, the longer the Allies held in the Philippines the more damage it did to the Japanese war goals by ruining their timeframe. As stated the Japanese planned for the Philippines to fall in under a month with a 2 month maximum time frame given to General Honda. The US felt the Philippines would fall in under a month if not rescued by the US Navy, which was the initial plan for defending the Philippines prior to the change MacArthur made (and was agreed on by US high command, including General George Marshal and US President FDR). But because of Pearl Harbor no rescue was ever going to make it to the Philippines so they were in the same situation as the modern day defenders of Mariupol in Ukraine against the invading Russian army. Every day those to garrisons hold out for hurts their enemy and helps their allies and the cost of the live and health of the defenders of those locations. The people of the Philippines are never given enough credit for the defense of their islands in the initial stages of the war where all of the other Asian colonies surrendered all most all to a "T" without a fight. And from there the Filipino people lead the most effective guerilla campaign of WW2. Much more so then the French resistance and the only other nation that could compare to the Filipino's defense was the Serbian people. The Philippines continued to fight on until MacArthur led his liberation force of a nation he considered his second home in the Philippines.
Great series, if I could just make one recommendation...keep the "info boxes" onscreen just a bit longer...there's not really enough time to read them without pausing the video.
also how vulnerable japan is to mainland china where the doolittle crew fled to. After the raid, the Japanese Imperial Army began the Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign (also known as Operation Sei-go) to prevent these eastern coastal provinces of China from being used again for an attack on Japan and to take revenge on the Chinese people. An area of some 20,000 sq mi (50,000 km2) was laid waste. "Like a swarm of locusts, they left behind nothing but destruction and chaos," eyewitness Father Wendelin Dunker wrote.[2] The Japanese killed an estimated 10,000 Chinese civilians during their search for Doolittle's men.[50] People who aided the airmen were tortured before they were killed. Father Dunker wrote of the destruction of the town of Ihwang: "They shot any man, woman, child, cow, hog, or just about anything that moved, They raped any woman from the ages of 10-65, and before burning the town they thoroughly looted it ... None of the humans shot were buried either ..."[2] The Japanese entered Nancheng (Jiangxi), population 50,000 on June 11, "beginning a reign of terror so horrendous that missionaries would later dub it 'the Rape of Nancheng.' " evoking memories of the infamous Rape of Nanjing five years before. Less than a month later, the Japanese forces put what remained of the city to the torch. "This planned burning was carried on for three days," one Chinese newspaper reported, "and the city of Nancheng became charred earth."[2] When Japanese troops moved out of the Zhejiang and Jiangxi areas in mid-August, they left behind a trail of devastation. Chinese estimates put the civilian death toll at 250,000. The Imperial Japanese Army had also spread cholera, typhoid, plague infected fleas and dysentery pathogens. The Japanese biological warfare Unit 731 brought almost 300 pounds of paratyphoid and anthrax to be left in contaminated food and contaminated wells with the withdrawal of the army from areas around Yushan, Kinhwa and Futsin. Around 1,700 Japanese troops died out of a total 10,000 Japanese soldiers who fell ill with disease when their biological weapons attack rebounded on their own forces.[51][52]
It's worth mentioning that few of the pilots who landed in China were hid by the Chinese villagers and were able to escape the Japanese searches for them. But in retribution for aiding those pilots, the Japanese might have massacred as many as 200k Chinese civilians in those villages. It's a commonly overlooked/forgotten part of the Doolittle Raid.
Just starting the video so I’m assuming this wasn’t mentioned. A little disappointed in that. The reprisals suffered by the Chinese might be the biggest impact of the Doolittle Raid. I love this series and podcast so far but it falls short just like many others in that once the US enters the war, the Chinese drop off as a point of discussion even though they tied down the bulk of the IJA for the entire war and suffered the most casualties.
@@jamestonbellajo They devoted an entire episode to operation Sei Go, the operation where the massacre happened, plus the mentioned it here It's ridiculous to jump to conclusion when the series has not been finished
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11:30 General Chiang Kai-shek was right. It was a success for American morale at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians. The movie "Midway" actually showed it even for a bit, what the Japanese did to the Chinese (bombing and strafing of civilian population).
Do keep in mind that Chiang Kai-shek had every reason to inflate the numbers, to get more supplies from the Allies. He was known to be very loose with the facts. Having said that, there were definitely brutal reprisals - and the bodycount might have well been that high.
Its backwards to say hey yeah lets focus blame on the police for hedious crimes done by criminals. Police can do better but they arent the perpetrators
@@Martijn_Steinpatz "to get more supplies from the Allies" - i doubt that. beggars cant be choosers, and US is no fool. inflating the numbers is a propaganda but not to get more supplies
As a 20yr USAF guy, let me tell you.. the Doolittle raid remains to this day one of our proudest stories.. even though we were still just the Army Air Corps at that point. James Doolittle's plane had to carry one less bomb b/c the weight of his balls 😜
My cousin recently joined the US navy and I asked her why she preferred the navy over the army. She claimed that in WWII, the navy never lost a battle and that was all the motivation she needed.
yes, but adding in the guerrillas in Burma, Borneo, and New Guinea and elsewhere would also be good. There are lots of really interesting stories of how local people/ tribes there started to resist the Japanese.
You know the Doolittle raiders were good soldiers because though they knew the raid was a one way trip, none of them pretended to be sick before the raid.
It’s great to see some positive action for the Allies but, they have a very big mountain to climb to just get to even in this war much less win. I really hope they can pull it out but I have my doubts.
"Key cooperation between the US Army and Navy in the future..." eeeeeehhh 🤣 Although at least they could work together, unlike the Imperial Army and Navy. It's also worth noting that Yamamoto was planning to destroy the US Carriers almost as soon as the Pearl Harbor strike concluded without seeing them, and had managed to bend his immediate superiors in the Navy to his will by February. The Doolittle Raid just banished any remaining hesitancy from the rest of the Japanese high command.
I have the book about this mission called, “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.” A thrilling 250 pages of a revenge mission, that this successful, but then turns into a survival mission when some of the planes read out of gas and landed in occupied China.
This is a great summary of the movements, even if some of the pronunciation of the Philippine names throw me off sometimes. Not that I mind too much, of course. It's the info that's important.
Those "perfect" 6 month campaign pass really fast for the japanese. But after that they lost momentum as fast as ideas 🤷🤷. Incredible work you are doing my friend
I think it’s important for everyone to know that although the Doolittle Raid of April 18, 1942, caused only minor damage, it forced the Japanese to recall combat forces for home defense, raised fears among the Japanese civilians, and boosted morale among Americans and our Allies abroad.
I look forward on the video for the Battle of Corregidor Island on May, the fortress island on Manila bay, & the resistance of the Moro warriors in Mindanao.
the Japanese were absolutely ferocious fighters and they would have been fighting for their homeland. it would have been smarter to just wipe out their navy and air force and blockade them into surrender.
Excellent video as always. I have a suggestion for a future video on WW2 series. There was a video on the road that lead Japan to WW2, but what was happening in higher ranks, elite and government during the war? Was there different factions that proposed different actions during the war? What was the opinion of the population on what was happening at the time, and is there people who would be known to the world if the outcome of the war was any different? This video might not include military actions, but it would make the picture more clear.
Hi, Kings and Generals. I'm a big fan of your work. Keep it up! Also, I'm Filipino, so if you guys would like help with the pronunciation of place-names, I'd love to be of service. (Just gonna do a little pre-empting here: I'm not a troll, and this really is the first time I'm commenting outside my personal channel.)
Asked by the reporters who were wondering where the bombers were launched, President Roosevelt answered that they took off from Shangri-La, a fictional place in the novel Lost Horizon. In honor of the Doolittle Raid, the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La (CV-38) would be commissioned a few years later and would soon join the Pacific Fleet to fight the Japanese on the later stages of the war.
The Doolittle Raid deserves it's own movie. But instead we see it attached to other movies. Such as Pearl Harbor and Midway. Oh well. Great video. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
My grandfather was the navigator on the second bomber to take off from the USS Hornet. After the crash landing, he and his crew were sequestered from the Japanese by the local Chinese for something like 6 months! I am grateful for that. My family has a photo of my grandfather receiving a medal from Madame Chiang Kai-shek and a photo of the crew with the Chinese locals who hid them!
Thank you Im from cebu and we've never heard of our defense against the IJA thank you for the detailed historical events that took place on my homeland
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The crews of the B-25s had tuned the aircraft engines to run lean to extend their range and the mechanics on the carrier undid all their work because the mission was 'need to know' and they thought the engines were tuned improperly.
RIP William J. Dieter (1912-1942) Donald E. Fitzmaurice (1919-1942) Leland D. Faktor (1921-1942) and The 50 Imperial Japanese civilians who were killed in the Doolittle Raid
I was 9 yrs old @ an Bob Hope OUS Tour State side.General J.J., Dolittle, Lt. Audie Murphy, Corniel Jimmy Steward, Froster Brookes, Ronald Reagon. President of the USA. All had words...
The Doolittle Raid raised morale but the Royce Raid a few days earlier did far more real damage and set the stage for devastating attacks all over the Pacific starting in the New Guinea area with specially modified B-25s.
Ah yes, the US Navy launching and launching borderline insane raids on island nations on the other side of the ocean, a tradition as old as the country itself.
@@terryv The movie Pearl Harbor was not about the Doolittle raid. They put it in there to end the movie on a positive note. What’s great is, it showcased this historic event to the newer generations; and that is what makes the movie Pearl Harbor a great one in my eyes. Both of these events were shown to the newer generations who were not around when the movies 30 Seconds over Tokyo or Tora Tora Tora were made.
::citizens of tokyo going about their day:: "hey you guys hear something...sounds like a brass band... like an national anthem?" Jimmy Doolittle: "OH SAY, CAN YOU FUCKIN SEE?!"
The story of the 5 pilots who landed in the USSR is amazing! They had to “arrest” them because at that point Japan and Germany were kicking everyone’s ass and Stalin couldn’t afford to break a neutrality pack with Japan by allowing them to return to America so Stalin ordered them to be moved from the Far East across the Soviet Union while under guard. They were treated very well and were under the personal protection of Stalin himself while telling Japan they were being sent to work camps for their crimes. Then after spending 8 months in a village east of Iran the NKVD set up a way for them to escape and make it look like it was their idea. They sent sent a spy to pretend to be a sympathizer and smuggle them across the heavily guarded border of Iran! We’re talking guard towers, Dogs, barbed wire it had it all! Of course it wasn’t the real border and it was all staged a good 25 miles away to make it look like they crossed the border, but then they were able to be smuggled out into the British controlled areas of Iran and after 18 months they were home again!
Great timing Hornet came out a week ago on world of warships. It’s been really fun, she’s not great, enti is better but as for funnies, nothing really beats dev striking dds with b25sz
People be ranting about the pronunciation but as long as the idea is conveyed, I think it is justified. If the way he pronounces it makes it impossible to comprehend, then that should be the time you kick in and correct. Nonetheless, another great video but the purpose (morale booster) clearly overshadowed the risks and subsequent effects (reinforcement of mainland Japan, possible victory in Midway and Hawaii, hence, cutting off Australia, etc.) of this operation.
Just remember, Hornet is the one launching the Mitchells which is her only compliment meaning she ain't got no Wildcats or Dauntlesses to protect her hence why her sister E is tagging along to watch her back...
Can you upload the soundtrack you use when you start talking before the sponsor mention? It is really cool and would love to hear it when playing hearts of iron 4
The Doolittle raid was a huge boost in morale for the Americans, but it was also a bad strategic choice because those two carriers could not be present during the battle of Coral Sea, and the subsequent loss of USS Lexington. Was the boost in morale a good trade-off? I don't think so, but it is debated. Furthermore, Yamamoto was already planning his operation on Midway before the Doolittle raid and was also already obsessed with the destruction of the American carrier fleet. The Doolittle raid was an argument going for him, because the IJA was against the Midway operation, and I think rightfully so.
In the aftermath of the Doolittle Raid, the Japanese were so freaked out and flustered that their communications security was completely forgotten at times. US codebreakers made huge progress with reading Japanese traffic in the wake of the raid, to the point where they were able to predict BOTH the Coral Sea operation and the Japanese attack focused on Midway. 🖖✌
@@baronvonslambert Honestly, I don't think that the Americans expected much regarding a potential strategic shift by the IJN or IJA. The Japanese didn't transfer that much back to the home island but as you say, it was still that. Even the Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign was already planned and nearly ready to launch. I think it was not worth it because they don't just lose a carrier (and one heavily damaged), they missed a golden opportunity to outnumber the Japanese 5th carrier division. It is stretching quite far but without the Doolittle raid, the USN might have had a big tactical victory at Coral Sea at a time when the japanese had an important advantage carriers.
@@Pure_Havoc There does not appear to have been any plan by the Japanese to use Zuikaku or Shokaku at Midway. It looks like they committed Carrier Division 5 to the Coral Sea operation, and were never even thinking to use those 2 carriers at Midway no matter what happened at Coral Sea.✌
@@iKvetch558 They were planning to use the 5th carrier division at Midway but Shokaku was damaged and Zuikaku's air group was too badly reduced to take part in the Midway operation.
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signed up, Thanks, see ya on the battlefield Losers!! 😁
Hope you soon can do a series on the American Revolution and American Civil War.
the raid was a waste.... over 250,000 Chinese People were killed because of it...
@@ricardolorrio8228 Japan was already wasting hundreds of thousands Chinese for no reason at all.
Kings and Generals. I’m currently in college studying to become a History teacher and I truly hope when I do become one, I can make History as exciting and fascinating as you guys can. Thanks as always.
KINGS AND GENERAL. Please make some FILIPINO GUERILLAS DURINV WW2. THANKS ALOT
In my first history class at senior school, the most boring history teacher in history had us endlessly drawing medieval field strip systems and totally uninteresting crap guaranteed to stifle any spark of imagination in an eleven year old. So I gave it up as a subject. How different things might have been if such enjoyable teaching aids as K&G had been available.
History is exciting & fascinating in itself. Kings and Generals don't make it they just tell it.
Expanded History. When you do, just present the facts. Please be objective. No revisionism, spin, personal bias etc. The most effective educators teach not indoctrinate. Thank you.
@@mik823 For someone that hates this channel, you're still here.
I live in Cebu City, and never has been any documentary about its Japanese invasion had been as detailed as this one. Thank you Kings and Generals!
Hey, I'm in Cebu city as well and was thinking exactly the same thing. Unfortunately, our side didn't put up much of a fight. No epic Battle of Cebu or Lapu-Lapu to get thrilled about here.
Very true! Almost all documentaries about the invasion of the Philippines only focus on Bataan and never about the rest of the islands. It was refreshing to see more pieces of the invasion covered.
I love how K&G brings people out in the comments section that are actually from the locations in the video! 😎👍
I’ve been to Cebu city and Naga city me too I’ve never seen such detail on the fighting in the Philippines 🇵🇭
Watching the Allies suffer defeat after defeat since Pearl Harbor, I can see why the Doolittle Raid had such an effect on morale.
@@halyup What Japan did to the Chinese for helping the US pilots definitely was.
@@halyup so is beheading POWs at wake island
@@halyup Japans attack on Pearl Harbor was a war crime. What the fuck are you on about?
@@jkasiron2275 I lived in China for a year in my 20s, many of them still hold a grudge against Japan; especially since there was never any official acceptance of guilt - the murderers got off scot-free as far as the Chinese are concerned.
One way journey for the raiders
One landed in russia
Others crashed in china
Some captured three executed
Others made it back to usa
Chinese civilians massacred
For helping flyers!
This is, bar non, the best pacific war documentary series ever.
Right! Can't wait to see general Stilwell in action!
My grandmother only once told me what the air raids were like in Kobe. When the alarm sounded off in her little village neighbourhood, her mother would yell at her to gather all the blankets and futon in the house and throw it over every light source so they wont be seen and possibly targeted.
I'm very sorry for all the children who had to go through that during the war
16:20 The pilots later "escaped" and managed to get back to the US and by "escaped" I mean the Soviet's basically letting them go, no reasons to hold them after all.
"oh no, they got away somehow"
Japan: “You underestimate my power!”
US: “Don’t try it!”
US: "It’s over Japan, I have the industry"
Britain: "I've got a bad feeling about this..."
@@theawesomeman9821 US "You always have a bad feeling"
@@jasondouglas6755 the thing is Japan knew that. They knew the US could outproduce them 10 to one. They knew this was a desperate gamble. I don't think Japan could have done any better then they did.
@@TricksterPoi I can't say about the admirals, but that was Tokyo's very accurate estimate.
Without a doubt the best Pacific War documentary ever produced! The details are amazing! So often you see the Philippines as if once Bataan and Corregidor fell, it was all over. Seeing the further battles is so enlightening! Keep up the great work!
Can’t wait to see the Battle of Midway and the Battle off Samar, the literal David vs Goliath type battle and one of the largest Naval battles in History.
Bruh David vs Goliath was a literal battle too
You'll have to wait for June 2022 for Midway, and October 2024 for the Samar battle.
Also, get ready to hear about one of the biggest, greatest, most fortunate serendipitous events the American military would probably ever experience while the Japanese would experience the exact opposite
(A chance meeting all the same yet one neither of them would attempt again)
“Where is Taffey 3 the world wonders”
@@enixbluerain7213 excuse me
Ever since a cyclone destroyed the Mongol fleet in the 13th Century the Japanese thought a kamikaze (divine wind) made their home island invulnerable. I am not surprised they didn't devote much to defense. In one fell swoop we destroyed that centuries old belief. As they said, while the damage was minor, the morale impact was huge.
It was actually 2 different cyclones at two different times. Can’t blame them for thanking divinity really lol. Never really thought of the Doolittle raid in that historical sense though :)
I had always associated the kamikaze belief with the Japanese nation's hopes for last-minute salvation at the end of the war. I'd never thought to connect it to the Doolittle Raid before seeing your comment. Very interesting idea!
This video helps me to understand the battle in the Philippines beyond the Bataan and Corrigredor before the battle of Leyte in the World War 2. Why? Often, the Luzon was showed compared to the Visayas and Mindanao.
Exactly! This is why PH history should be taught again in our high school.
I am from Panay and it warms my heart that K and G still took the time to portray this theater, one often times overlooked.
My God, can you imagine being briefed on your mission to bomb Tokyo, hearing nothing but the problems and issues involved, that your odds of success were almost non-existent, and even if you flew the greatest mission you possibly could, you would still be taking off under the full knowledge you wouldn't be returning to that carrier?
Doolittle when asked how he felt as they promoted him: "damn....it feels good to be a gangsta"
(As for the upcoming midway battle? For those of us who already know the details of it, if I can explain it to those who don't in just one sentence? "Get ready Japan, cause here comes the pain baby! Here comes the pain!")
"If you wanna see The You Ess of Ayy open a can o' whoop-ass on the Eye Jay Enn, gimme a 'Hell Yeah!'"
I wouldn't say that their "odds of success were almost nonexistent." They planned to succeed and executed on it.
they didnt call them "the greatest generation" for no reason
In one short sentence for the Japanese at Midway - "Beware the Dauntless!"
pain train has crashed into japan station
"You know, at Pearl they hit us with a sledgehammer. This raid,... even if we make it through. It would only be pin prick, but it would be straight through their hearts"
Alec Baldwin, posing as Doolittle in 2001 movie Pearl Harbor.
I learnt about the Doolittle Raid through that film. From there I started to learn more about WW2 (I was 12 at the time and I liked planes).
and then Alec takes the illuminati assignment and kills a woman and tries to get away with it..
That movie was my first introduction to the Doolittle Raid outside of a textbook
Very good video. The Doolittle Raid and the US/Filipino defense of the Philippines played major roles in the defense of New Guinee . New Guinee had been a major target of the Japanese but first the defense of the Philippines delayed the invasion of New Guinee and later the continued defense of the Philippines at Bataan caused Japanese reinforcements to be sent to the Philippines. Those forces in the Philippines and the reinforcements sent to help take out the American and Filipino defenders at Bataan were meant to be sent to New Guinee to take that island. Had those Japanese forces been sent on time it would have resulted in New Guinee falling as they would have gotten there prior to the Australian reinforcements arriving on the island since the vast majority of Australia's front line fighting force was in North Africa at the time of the Japanese attacks on December 7/8th.
And then the Doolittle raid changed the Japanese Navies next goal from wanting to take New Guinee to being the destruction of the US Navies aircraft carriers. After Midway the Japanese went back to trying to take the island of New Guinee and the Solomon islands but by that time the Allies had Naval superiority which caused the Japanese to lose the battles at both New Guinee and the Solomon Islands. Had the Japanese taken New Guinee according to their time table it would have resulted in the Japanese being able to launch repeated bombing runs against Australia and even a Sea-born invasion of Australia if they really wanted to get risky. Such a invasion would have failed but the Japanese control of New Guinee would have caused massive morale issues to Australia. It basically would have put Australia in the same situation as Britain was after the fall of France but worse. The Australians would be in a worse situation after the fall of New Guinee because Australia would not have the land defense force that Britain had defending their island and the Japanese would have had a much greater Naval threat then the Germans had to Britain making the threat of a invasion of Australia much greater then the threat of a invasion of Britain ever was. If the Japanese tried to take over and occupy Australia that would have failed under any conditions since the US Navy still existed and US Army and Marines forces were arriving quickly to Australia. But after the Japanese took New Guinee they could have launched repeated raiding attacks against Australian cities and towns along their North coast without issue for awhile until new Australian forces were trained or American forces arrived. This is why the Australians really wanted their main divisions in North Africa back fighting against the Japanese even before the Japanese invaded New Guinee. Even then the Australian were worried about possible Japanese attacks against them. So the fall of New Guinee would have been a major morale and tactical issue for the Australians and Allied forces.
The Japanese submarine raid on Sydney Harbour certainly put the fear up many an Aussie backside during this time.
They have redeemed themselves lol
@@TricksterPoi Yeah, the longer the Allies held in the Philippines the more damage it did to the Japanese war goals by ruining their timeframe. As stated the Japanese planned for the Philippines to fall in under a month with a 2 month maximum time frame given to General Honda. The US felt the Philippines would fall in under a month if not rescued by the US Navy, which was the initial plan for defending the Philippines prior to the change MacArthur made (and was agreed on by US high command, including General George Marshal and US President FDR). But because of Pearl Harbor no rescue was ever going to make it to the Philippines so they were in the same situation as the modern day defenders of Mariupol in Ukraine against the invading Russian army. Every day those to garrisons hold out for hurts their enemy and helps their allies and the cost of the live and health of the defenders of those locations. The people of the Philippines are never given enough credit for the defense of their islands in the initial stages of the war where all of the other Asian colonies surrendered all most all to a "T" without a fight. And from there the Filipino people lead the most effective guerilla campaign of WW2. Much more so then the French resistance and the only other nation that could compare to the Filipino's defense was the Serbian people. The Philippines continued to fight on until MacArthur led his liberation force of a nation he considered his second home in the Philippines.
So mac arthur was right to not retreat early and defence philippines
Great series, if I could just make one recommendation...keep the "info boxes" onscreen just a bit longer...there's not really enough time to read them without pausing the video.
Gotta agree. Nice to meet someone else pausing at every single one. 😂😁👍
Yes - extremely frustrating. I get barely halfway through them and they disappear.
This topic is literally one of my favourite to teach on!
KINGS AND GENERAL. Please make some FILIPINO GUERILLAS DURINV WW2. THANKS ALOT
Terrific series! It was probably the Doolittle Raid that opened Japan's eyes to just how seriously they misjudged American resolve and capabilities.
also how vulnerable japan is to mainland china where the doolittle crew fled to.
After the raid, the Japanese Imperial Army began the Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign (also known as Operation Sei-go) to prevent these eastern coastal provinces of China from being used again for an attack on Japan and to take revenge on the Chinese people. An area of some 20,000 sq mi (50,000 km2) was laid waste. "Like a swarm of locusts, they left behind nothing but destruction and chaos," eyewitness Father Wendelin Dunker wrote.[2] The Japanese killed an estimated 10,000 Chinese civilians during their search for Doolittle's men.[50] People who aided the airmen were tortured before they were killed. Father Dunker wrote of the destruction of the town of Ihwang: "They shot any man, woman, child, cow, hog, or just about anything that moved, They raped any woman from the ages of 10-65, and before burning the town they thoroughly looted it ... None of the humans shot were buried either ..."[2] The Japanese entered Nancheng (Jiangxi), population 50,000 on June 11, "beginning a reign of terror so horrendous that missionaries would later dub it 'the Rape of Nancheng.' " evoking memories of the infamous Rape of Nanjing five years before. Less than a month later, the Japanese forces put what remained of the city to the torch. "This planned burning was carried on for three days," one Chinese newspaper reported, "and the city of Nancheng became charred earth."[2]
When Japanese troops moved out of the Zhejiang and Jiangxi areas in mid-August, they left behind a trail of devastation. Chinese estimates put the civilian death toll at 250,000. The Imperial Japanese Army had also spread cholera, typhoid, plague infected fleas and dysentery pathogens. The Japanese biological warfare Unit 731 brought almost 300 pounds of paratyphoid and anthrax to be left in contaminated food and contaminated wells with the withdrawal of the army from areas around Yushan, Kinhwa and Futsin. Around 1,700 Japanese troops died out of a total 10,000 Japanese soldiers who fell ill with disease when their biological weapons attack rebounded on their own forces.[51][52]
That raid was the opening American strike back. God Bless all those men under Doolittle.
It's worth mentioning that few of the pilots who landed in China were hid by the Chinese villagers and were able to escape the Japanese searches for them. But in retribution for aiding those pilots, the Japanese might have massacred as many as 200k Chinese civilians in those villages.
It's a commonly overlooked/forgotten part of the Doolittle Raid.
Just starting the video so I’m assuming this wasn’t mentioned. A little disappointed in that. The reprisals suffered by the Chinese might be the biggest impact of the Doolittle Raid. I love this series and podcast so far but it falls short just like many others in that once the US enters the war, the Chinese drop off as a point of discussion even though they tied down the bulk of the IJA for the entire war and suffered the most casualties.
@@jamestonbellajo They devoted an entire episode to operation Sei Go, the operation where the massacre happened, plus the mentioned it here It's ridiculous to jump to conclusion when the series has not been finished
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KINGS AND GENERAL. Please make some FILIPINO GUERILLAS DURINV WW2. THANKS ALOT
I think this video's subtitle should be "America Strikes Back" 😉
11:30 General Chiang Kai-shek was right. It was a success for American morale at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians. The movie "Midway" actually showed it even for a bit, what the Japanese did to the Chinese (bombing and strafing of civilian population).
Do keep in mind that Chiang Kai-shek had every reason to inflate the numbers, to get more supplies from the Allies. He was known to be very loose with the facts. Having said that, there were definitely brutal reprisals - and the bodycount might have well been that high.
Sit down, the US heavily aided China (KMT) and defeated Japan
I'm not trying to argue though. I'm just stating the aftermath of the raid and I'm actually glad that it is mentioned nowadays... 😁
Its backwards to say hey yeah lets focus blame on the police for hedious crimes done by criminals. Police can do better but they arent the perpetrators
@@Martijn_Steinpatz "to get more supplies from the Allies" - i doubt that. beggars cant be choosers, and US is no fool. inflating the numbers is a propaganda but not to get more supplies
As a 20yr USAF guy, let me tell you.. the Doolittle raid remains to this day one of our proudest stories.. even though we were still just the Army Air Corps at that point. James Doolittle's plane had to carry one less bomb b/c the weight of his balls 😜
Army Air Forces, actually. (To which my father belonged.)
My cousin recently joined the US navy and I asked her why she preferred the navy over the army. She claimed that in WWII, the navy never lost a battle and that was all the motivation she needed.
I'm assuming she has never heard of 1st Savo Island then?
Your cousin needs to study the war. To say that the Navy never lost a battle is absurd.
@@terryv She's just going off what the recruiter claimed.
@@theawesomeman9821oh yeah thats a good idea to trust him😂
KINGS AND GENERAL. Please make some FILIPINO GUERILLAS DURING WW2. THANKS ALOT
We surely are gonna have it my man, whenever they can dish one out at this time early this decade
yes, but adding in the guerrillas in Burma, Borneo, and New Guinea and elsewhere would also be good. There are lots of really interesting stories of how local people/ tribes there started to resist the Japanese.
You know the Doolittle raiders were good soldiers because though they knew the raid was a one way trip, none of them pretended to be sick before the raid.
It’s great to see some positive action for the Allies but, they have a very big mountain to climb to just get to even in this war much less win. I really hope they can pull it out but I have my doubts.
"Key cooperation between the US Army and Navy in the future..." eeeeeehhh 🤣 Although at least they could work together, unlike the Imperial Army and Navy.
It's also worth noting that Yamamoto was planning to destroy the US Carriers almost as soon as the Pearl Harbor strike concluded without seeing them, and had managed to bend his immediate superiors in the Navy to his will by February. The Doolittle Raid just banished any remaining hesitancy from the rest of the Japanese high command.
Japan: Well well well. If it isn’t the consequences of my actions.
I have the book about this mission called, “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.” A thrilling 250 pages of a revenge mission, that this successful, but then turns into a survival mission when some of the planes read out of gas and landed in occupied China.
This is a great summary of the movements, even if some of the pronunciation of the Philippine names throw me off sometimes.
Not that I mind too much, of course. It's the info that's important.
Thanks!
Those "perfect" 6 month campaign pass really fast for the japanese. But after that they lost momentum as fast as ideas 🤷🤷. Incredible work you are doing my friend
Excellent work as always. Thank you gentlemen for your outstanding service to history and its presentation to the world.
I think it’s important for everyone to know that although the Doolittle Raid of April 18, 1942, caused only minor damage, it forced the Japanese to recall combat forces for home defense, raised fears among the Japanese civilians, and boosted morale among Americans and our Allies abroad.
Thank you for featuring a detailed view of invasion of philippines 💯
I subscribed for the ancient history stuff but this has been an amazing series so far, thank you!
I look forward on the video for the Battle of Corregidor Island on May, the fortress island on Manila bay, & the resistance of the Moro warriors in Mindanao.
I wonder how an invasion of Japan to end WWII would’ve gone. Definitely would’ve been a truly epic and terrible battle.
putting into perspective: every Purple Heart issued since WWII was made for casualties expected during an invasion of Japan
the Japanese were absolutely ferocious fighters and they would have been fighting for their homeland. it would have been smarter to just wipe out their navy and air force and blockade them into surrender.
Excellent video as always. I have a suggestion for a future video on WW2 series. There was a video on the road that lead Japan to WW2, but what was happening in higher ranks, elite and government during the war? Was there different factions that proposed different actions during the war? What was the opinion of the population on what was happening at the time, and is there people who would be known to the world if the outcome of the war was any different?
This video might not include military actions, but it would make the picture more clear.
learned about this a week ago in my ww2 class its amazing how much a small raid could do
Hi, Kings and Generals. I'm a big fan of your work. Keep it up! Also, I'm Filipino, so if you guys would like help with the pronunciation of place-names, I'd love to be of service.
(Just gonna do a little pre-empting here: I'm not a troll, and this really is the first time I'm commenting outside my personal channel.)
Did kings and generals called the Dolittle raid a devastating raid😂😂. The effect of this raid is in the name.
it was devastating, emotionally devastating 😂
Asked by the reporters who were wondering where the bombers were launched, President Roosevelt answered that they took off from Shangri-La, a fictional place in the novel Lost Horizon.
In honor of the Doolittle Raid, the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La (CV-38) would be commissioned a few years later and would soon join the Pacific Fleet to fight the Japanese on the later stages of the war.
The Doolittle Raid deserves it's own movie. But instead we see it attached to other movies. Such as Pearl Harbor and Midway. Oh well. Great video. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
@@tek87---Never heard of it.
@@brokenbridge6316 - Good Lord, download it, so that you never have to embarrass yourself with such a comment again.
Actually there is a movie called "30 seconds over Tokyo"
If only these countries work together again imagine how much peace the world can enjoy
Hearing Sharp and instantly think about the 95th Rifles. Now that's soldiering.
Can't wait for Guadalcanal. That's the part I'm most looking forward to.
The Great South Pacific Clusterfuck.
My grandfather was the navigator on the second bomber to take off from the USS Hornet. After the crash landing, he and his crew were sequestered from the Japanese by the local Chinese for something like 6 months! I am grateful for that. My family has a photo of my grandfather receiving a medal from Madame Chiang Kai-shek and a photo of the crew with the Chinese locals who hid them!
Thank you Im from cebu and we've never heard of our defense against the IJA thank you for the detailed historical events that took place on my homeland
Filipino-American and i love these closer looks at the action the Philippines
love this series! so glad i found this channel
As someone who considers CZcams an art form, with a massively wide range of topics, formats and personalities I just wanna say this channel is up there above even the likes of RLM and Contrapoints in terms of how clear it is that my patreon money is being poured back into the videoes you love to see it folks.
Another Great Video about the Pacific War. Thank You Kings And Generals.
I work at the airport where Doolittle’s Raiders were stationed before going on the raid. It’s called KPDT.
That's cool. I live near where they trained for the raid, we recently had an air show for the anniversary
Easily best series so far. Love it!
This was a huge "f you" towards the Japanese
Gotta counter 'em back
Hell Yeah!!!
The crews of the B-25s had tuned the aircraft engines to run lean to extend their range and the mechanics on the carrier undid all their work because the mission was 'need to know' and they thought the engines were tuned improperly.
I'm glad someone clarified because the way it was worded in the infobox, it made it sound like the mechanics messed with the engines as a prank.
Excellent video once again! Truly inspirational on the effort that is put in every time.
RIP
William J. Dieter
(1912-1942)
Donald E. Fitzmaurice
(1919-1942)
Leland D. Faktor
(1921-1942)
and
The 50 Imperial Japanese civilians who were killed in the Doolittle Raid
In 1973 General J.J. Dolittle spoke @ an Bob Hope State Side OUS Tour. And ,Audie Murphy 🎉
I was 9 yrs old @ an Bob Hope OUS Tour State side.General J.J., Dolittle, Lt. Audie Murphy, Corniel Jimmy Steward, Froster Brookes, Ronald Reagon. President of the USA. All had words...
The Doolittle Raid raised morale but the Royce Raid a few days earlier did far more real damage and set the stage for devastating attacks all over the Pacific starting in the New Guinea area with specially modified B-25s.
The reprisals against the Chinese were some of the most brutal ever...
*Japan after Peal Harbor*: "Ha! We can hit your territory and there's nothing you can do about it!"
Doolittle: "allow me to introduce myself"
Doolittle certainly did not do little.
I love the personnel visuals on this!
Thanks for this video
Christmas has come early 👍🏻
The dates leaving san Fran and meeting Halsey had me rewinding a couple of times
Ah yes, the US Navy launching and launching borderline insane raids on island nations on the other side of the ocean, a tradition as old as the country itself.
its insane how the US lost only 500,000 soldiers while the soviets lost 20 million. Shows how weak the soviet military was
@@diollinebranderson6553 That's because the USA is protected by two Oceans, dummy.
I hope you guys would later on tackle the resistance movements all over Southeast Asia.
Looks like Doolittle did big
Maan I can't wait for battle of midway and leyte gulf also Okinawa very great series I've been following this since the beginning of the series.
loving this series
Another good video thanks for the information
Was the issue that the B25 couldn't return to the carriers?
I always thought B25s in general are incapable of landing on such a short runway
I like what Albert Christie did 5:42 Let them come
Thank you , K&G .
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*gets popcorn* man this series of humanity is gonna be good in the next episode of humanity. 🍿🥤:D
The Doolittle raid was the one featured in the movie Pearl Harbour right?
Absolutely!
For a far better movie, see "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo", with Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson.
@@terryv The movie Pearl Harbor was not about the Doolittle raid.
They put it in there to end the movie on a positive note.
What’s great is, it showcased this historic event to the newer generations; and that is what makes the movie Pearl Harbor a great one in my eyes.
Both of these events were shown to the newer generations who were not around when the movies 30 Seconds over Tokyo or Tora Tora Tora were made.
@@areynoso5660 - They’re all still available for viewing today.
::citizens of tokyo going about their day:: "hey you guys hear something...sounds like a brass band... like an national anthem?"
Jimmy Doolittle: "OH SAY, CAN YOU FUCKIN SEE?!"
The story of the 5 pilots who landed in the USSR is amazing! They had to “arrest” them because at that point Japan and Germany were kicking everyone’s ass and Stalin couldn’t afford to break a neutrality pack with Japan by allowing them to return to America so Stalin ordered them to be moved from the Far East across the Soviet Union while under guard. They were treated very well and were under the personal protection of Stalin himself while telling Japan they were being sent to work camps for their crimes. Then after spending 8 months in a village east of Iran the NKVD set up a way for them to escape and make it look like it was their idea. They sent sent a spy to pretend to be a sympathizer and smuggle them across the heavily guarded border of Iran! We’re talking guard towers, Dogs, barbed wire it had it all! Of course it wasn’t the real border and it was all staged a good 25 miles away to make it look like they crossed the border, but then they were able to be smuggled out into the British controlled areas of Iran and after 18 months they were home again!
Great timing Hornet came out a week ago on world of warships.
It’s been really fun, she’s not great, enti is better but as for funnies, nothing really beats dev striking dds with b25sz
Superb video.
People be ranting about the pronunciation but as long as the idea is conveyed, I think it is justified. If the way he pronounces it makes it impossible to comprehend, then that should be the time you kick in and correct. Nonetheless, another great video but the purpose (morale booster) clearly overshadowed the risks and subsequent effects (reinforcement of mainland Japan, possible victory in Midway and Hawaii, hence, cutting off Australia, etc.) of this operation.
Just remember, Hornet is the one launching the Mitchells which is her only compliment meaning she ain't got no Wildcats or Dauntlesses to protect her hence why her sister E is tagging along to watch her back...
Can you upload the soundtrack you use when you start talking before the sponsor mention? It is really cool and would love to hear it when playing hearts of iron 4
13:32 : continuing WEST, and not "east"
Awesome 👏
What's the soundtrack of the last 4 minutes?
Fascinating stuff, but I do wish you would include details on Australian forces
Hi can u pls make a series on Andalus
Danny was killed in action here
I thought Jon Snow killed her.
Well done
Hi! can u feature famous naval battle in history like battle of the nile (aboukir bay) and battle of Lepanto?..thanks!!
The Doolittle raid was a huge boost in morale for the Americans, but it was also a bad strategic choice because those two carriers could not be present during the battle of Coral Sea, and the subsequent loss of USS Lexington. Was the boost in morale a good trade-off? I don't think so, but it is debated. Furthermore, Yamamoto was already planning his operation on Midway before the Doolittle raid and was also already obsessed with the destruction of the American carrier fleet. The Doolittle raid was an argument going for him, because the IJA was against the Midway operation, and I think rightfully so.
In the aftermath of the Doolittle Raid, the Japanese were so freaked out and flustered that their communications security was completely forgotten at times. US codebreakers made huge progress with reading Japanese traffic in the wake of the raid, to the point where they were able to predict BOTH the Coral Sea operation and the Japanese attack focused on Midway. 🖖✌
but Shokaku and Zuikaku were also damage which is why they werent at Midway either
@@baronvonslambert Honestly, I don't think that the Americans expected much regarding a potential strategic shift by the IJN or IJA. The Japanese didn't transfer that much back to the home island but as you say, it was still that. Even the Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign was already planned and nearly ready to launch. I think it was not worth it because they don't just lose a carrier (and one heavily damaged), they missed a golden opportunity to outnumber the Japanese 5th carrier division. It is stretching quite far but without the Doolittle raid, the USN might have had a big tactical victory at Coral Sea at a time when the japanese had an important advantage carriers.
@@Pure_Havoc There does not appear to have been any plan by the Japanese to use Zuikaku or Shokaku at Midway. It looks like they committed Carrier Division 5 to the Coral Sea operation, and were never even thinking to use those 2 carriers at Midway no matter what happened at Coral Sea.✌
@@iKvetch558 They were planning to use the 5th carrier division at Midway but Shokaku was damaged and Zuikaku's air group was too badly reduced to take part in the Midway operation.
3:30 well at least MacArthur is learning a little bit from his fuck ups
Morale-saving raid
Jolo is pronounced "Holo", by the way. More power, Kings and Generals!