The Ship All Axis Powers Were so Afraid Of

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  • čas přidán 4. 04. 2024
  • In the quiet predawn of July 17, 1945, the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean shrouded HMS Implacable in darkness. As the pride of the British Pacific Fleet, she loomed like a ghostly fortress on the water. Below deck, the air buzzed with tension and anticipation.
    Without warning, the silence was shattered. The deck of Implacable burst into a frenzy of activity as pilots rushed to their aircraft, engines roared to life, and the first glimmers of dawn began to outline the formidable shape of the carrier. Eight Fireflies and twelve Seafires, like metallic birds of prey, took to the skies in a relentless assault aimed at the heart of Tokyo. The city below was already bearing the scars of a nation unwilling to yield, its resolve as unbroken as the spirit of those who sought to defend it.
    Renowned for her robust design and heavy armor that practically shielded all of her aircraft, Implacable joined the BPF off the Japanese coasts to avenge the Japanese occupation of the Empire’s colonial territories.
    Day after day, Implacable’s aircraft took off to bomb the Japanese Home Islands while her crew ferociously fought off wave after wave of the surviving Japanese aircraft. Her guns roared without rest, and no aircraft ever got close enough to attack the crew.
    Soon, Implacable’s aircraft surpassed 1,000 sorties in the Pacific, preparing the crew for what was to come with Operation Olympic: the ground invasion of Japan.

Komentáře • 347

  • @RetiredSailor60
    @RetiredSailor60 Před 4 měsíci +54

    Your stories of Naval ships, crew, aircraft, etc tugs at my heart being a retired Navy Sailor. Thanks for your videos.

    • @DavidJones-me7yr
      @DavidJones-me7yr Před 4 měsíci +3

      Thank you for your service! 👍

    • @jarretthuffin
      @jarretthuffin Před 3 měsíci +2

      I gotta give it to you sailor. This was the GOLDEN AGE of naval warfare and basic seamanship. The levels of toughness, dedication, and overall monumental effort put into everything was astounding to see, read, and hear about. Thank YOU, good sir, for braving the sea and her waves and making our world safe.

    • @alaricgoldkuhl155
      @alaricgoldkuhl155 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I salute you good sir. My grandfather served on the HMAS Melbourne, Australia's disaster aircraft carrier. He was chosen as one of the personal bodyguards of Queen Elizabeth ii when she came to Australia.

  • @williamlott7612
    @williamlott7612 Před 3 měsíci +14

    Love my British brothers-in-arms. Darlington, SC, USA

  • @QuakeDragon
    @QuakeDragon Před 4 měsíci +39

    I have no idea how you find all this vintage footage, but I'm here for it!

    • @bulldawg6259
      @bulldawg6259 Před 4 měsíci

      Not all the footage is Accurate

    • @QuakeDragon
      @QuakeDragon Před 4 měsíci +4

      @@bulldawg6259 Thanks. I'm a long time dark skies/seas/docs watcher, so I am well aware of that fact and do see the same footage in some of the other videos, but I like the content and story details. The vintage video footage brings it to life for me, regardless of the incident:footage accuracy disparities. I suppose you could say I'm a fanboy of the content creators format.

    • @bionicgeekgrrl
      @bionicgeekgrrl Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@QuakeDragon A lot of it is archive footage from various sources or war film footage and documentary recreations.

  • @BuddyMcNugget
    @BuddyMcNugget Před 4 měsíci +112

    So sad how few of Britain's many warships were never saved for posterity.

    • @Wolvieonepunch
      @Wolvieonepunch Před 4 měsíci +3

      That is so true

    • @dougaldouglas8842
      @dougaldouglas8842 Před 4 měsíci

      So true, and with so much that our government just destroys, mindless evil, as though intentionally wishing to bury history, whilst making pretence to honour the same

    • @agolftwittler1223
      @agolftwittler1223 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Indeed.

    • @robertx8020
      @robertx8020 Před 4 měsíci +4

      It's very expensive to 'save' ships and in the post-war time other things were more important
      At least 'we' have Belfast, Cavalier and Wellington

    • @dougaldouglas8842
      @dougaldouglas8842 Před 4 měsíci

      @@robertx8020 Except in the U S

  • @gdok6088
    @gdok6088 Před 4 měsíci +38

    The British Royal Navy comes up with some wonderful names for their ships; HMS Implacable being a good example. Thank you for this well researched, illustrated and narrated video.

    • @Mark0003260
      @Mark0003260 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Probably names carried throughout history from the days of wooden ships similar to what the US has done in some cases. There have been more than one USS Enterprise and some carriers sunk at the beginning of WWII passed their names onto Essex class carriers.

    • @jasonhesson1030
      @jasonhesson1030 Před 4 měsíci +2

      More to do with going through the alphabet tbh.
      If the first ship in the class is named with a word beginning with the letter 'I', all the other ships will follow suit.
      Not always a 'gold standard' though!
      The Invincible class Ark Royal was supposed to be named 'Indomitable' but was named Ark Royal instead.
      And the Audacious class ship HMS Eagle was originally supposed to be named HMS Audacious alongside the Ark Royal.

    • @davewolfy2906
      @davewolfy2906 Před 4 měsíci +2

      ​@Mark0003260 the RN had HMS Enterprize, at the same time the USN an Enterprise.

    • @jasonhesson1030
      @jasonhesson1030 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@davewolfy2906
      Correct
      But the USN spelt theirs wrong!😂😂😂

    • @peterblake4837
      @peterblake4837 Před 3 měsíci +1

      There's only one Royal Navy, doesn't need "British" tacked on

  • @simonchandler9601
    @simonchandler9601 Před 3 měsíci +13

    During WW2 a P-class destroyer, HMS Porcupine, was split in two amidships and the two halves were towed to Devonport. They were converted into accommodation hulks, the fore section was informally known as HMS Pork and the aft HMS Pine.

  • @allenhammond7853
    @allenhammond7853 Před 4 měsíci +115

    The Brits knew how to design, refit, and fight! I'm so proud of them! The HMS Implacable seemed to be a battleship disguised as an aircraft carrier! But...what do I know. I never got to serve. Regardless, that generation impresses me greatly!

    • @DavidJones-me7yr
      @DavidJones-me7yr Před 4 měsíci

      That generation was very impressive indeed! But no one should have to worry about today's generation,, we have so many new and improved types!? We have male and female soldiers,, and including new and improved hybrids, such as trans, cisgender, plus many many more, armed with new and improved pronouns!?! So do not worry about our future! Can't you just feel the rainbow?? So there's no confusion, this is sarcasm!😮😂😂😂😂😂😂😊. P. S. If you're not already, it might be a good idea to arm yourself?!😢

    • @blairg378
      @blairg378 Před 4 měsíci

      If the Brit’s knew so much why did they have rely on the US/Canada to come to their rescue or Hitlers Germany would have kicked their ass!

    • @DrivermanO
      @DrivermanO Před 3 měsíci +5

      HMS Implacable, not The HMS ...... This seems to be a common error. The Her Majesty's Ship is nonsensical.

    • @allenhammond7853
      @allenhammond7853 Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@DrivermanOHey, how's it going? Thanks for the correction.

    • @michaelgarrett1959
      @michaelgarrett1959 Před 3 měsíci

      And they would have fallen if America didn't help them with the radar

  • @bobbys4327
    @bobbys4327 Před 4 měsíci +22

    Always cracked me up that the ship builders were strictly adhering to the displacement size as by treaty. Like if one is in war who the hell would give a s*** about treaties?

    • @jasonservary477
      @jasonservary477 Před 4 měsíci +1

      The treaty covered the interwar period between WW1 -WW2

    • @davidgifford8112
      @davidgifford8112 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Almost a century later, it seems ridiculous that the RN and ship designers adhered strictly to navel treaty rules but I think it was a matter of pride to come up with credible naval ship designs within those rules.

    • @moodogco
      @moodogco Před 4 měsíci +4

      The ships were designed b4 the war & was well along when ww2 broke so if they'd started after the war started we'd not given a shit & done woteva but at the time the project started on design of the ships one the things we didn't do was predicting the future so did was we'd signed up to with the treaty

    • @Mark0003260
      @Mark0003260 Před 4 měsíci +5

      They were in an expensive arms race before the treaties. There was even a lot of friction between the US and Britain as the US with its large advantage in manufacturing capacity was likely to pass the British navy. The treaty stayed in place until the Japanese decided they didn't like the fact they had to be in third place forever. Then it was a free-for-all again.

    • @johngjesdahl-xx2gb
      @johngjesdahl-xx2gb Před 4 měsíci

      In the Pacific , one imperial power fighting another.

  • @rattlehead890
    @rattlehead890 Před 4 měsíci +49

    Thanks for not forgetting the Royal Navy and Britain. In this modern age you'd think Britain was not a part of WW2.........

    • @secretagent86
      @secretagent86 Před 4 měsíci +6

      And Canada. We have one of the largest shipping # of ships in the world then

    • @francislutz8027
      @francislutz8027 Před 4 měsíci +2

      US schools are at fault.
      They didn't teach history, they told Our story.
      I am 42 and was taught the Pacific theater was US 99% with a few Canadian and Australian troops. And that the British were in Europe the entire time. But that the US had an equal force in the Pacific as in Europe.
      The truth is much different but that's how they taught it

    • @mathewfullerton8577
      @mathewfullerton8577 Před 3 měsíci +4

      ​@@francislutz8027Making blanket statements is not prudent. I was taught about all of the Allies and their contributions in both theaters including the British involvement. And I attended school in the U.S.

    • @falkeholz1459
      @falkeholz1459 Před 3 měsíci

      @@mathewfullerton8577depends on the school rlly and state ig

    • @jarretthuffin
      @jarretthuffin Před 3 měsíci +3

      Idk bout that. They fought tooth and nail not to get overwhelmed by Germany. Then made every inch of lost ground cost a high price in blood all over the Empire.
      The way modern era views France during the war is downright wrong, though. Made them look like they just gave up at the first sight of a German flag.

  • @chrishelt4389
    @chrishelt4389 Před 3 měsíci +6

    Thank you, the video was entertaining, although the title is a bit overdramatic. I was also wondering about the video clips you selected: while excellent, many don’t match the Implacable. For instance, you show a lot of clips of the the Vought Corsair, but that fighter did not fly from the Implacable, as the 14 foot hangers were to short to accommodate even the clipped-wing version used by the Royal Navy. I also noticed that while talking about her anti-aircraft armament, several clips were of the American 5”/38 twin mounts, not the 4.5”/45 actually mounted.
    Again, I enjoyed the video, I just think that using clips of the correct hardware, even if they were taken aboard different ships, would give the vast majority of viewers a more accurate picture of the Implacable.

    • @akashiseijuro5216
      @akashiseijuro5216 Před 3 měsíci +1

      The answer is simple. Looking for known actual recordings would be hard as is as during this time the clips were to be represented with would be nigh impossible seeing as it was the era of war. Hence, other nearly related clips would be used, acting as the template.

  • @itwoznotme
    @itwoznotme Před 4 měsíci +19

    gotta love the names of british ships.

  • @nicholasmoore2590
    @nicholasmoore2590 Před 3 měsíci +7

    The Kriegsmarine were never a threat to the Royal Navy for one very good reason. The Kriegsmarine was too small and the RN was still the biggest navy in the world. What was worrying though was the U-boats, especially when France fell and Germany gained access to Atlantic ports.

    • @user-gl5dq2dg1j
      @user-gl5dq2dg1j Před 3 měsíci

      Not once the various sub hunters started to show up in numbers. If Hitler had started his war 2 years later, he would have lost his subs even faster.

    • @WilfredIvanhoe
      @WilfredIvanhoe Před 2 měsíci

      @@user-gl5dq2dg1j The idea was to not to start the war until 1945 or 1947. By then, according to the plan, Germany would have had a much more powerful navy.

    • @user-gl5dq2dg1j
      @user-gl5dq2dg1j Před 2 měsíci

      @@WilfredIvanhoe And Britain wouldn't have expanded even faster? They had more slipways and drydocks and already had plans on expanding their carriers and had started corvette and escort program before the war started. Germany would never have the navy to challenge the Royal Navy without stealing the French Navy and the Italian Navy was too dysfunctional as a whole.

    • @WilfredIvanhoe
      @WilfredIvanhoe Před 2 měsíci

      @@user-gl5dq2dg1j Having more slipways and drydocks won't help if you lack the rest of the resources: money, materials and industrial capacity. Britain already had trouble with producing enough guns for its new King George V class battleships fast enough.
      Plus it's likely that advocates of appeasement policies would have either opposed, delayed or nullified attempts to build up the military fast enough.
      While Britain might have still possessed superior numbers in naval power, most of its capital ships would have been badly outdated by 1947.

    • @user-gl5dq2dg1j
      @user-gl5dq2dg1j Před 2 měsíci

      @@WilfredIvanhoe I think that with the complete take over of Czechoslovakia Chamberlain's government was in trouble and the war hawks were starting to get the ascendancy. The build up of the navy and airforce might have bankrupted the country but they would have been build up and there was no way Germany with it's economy being raided to pay for the public deception works was going to compete with Britain in any longterm cold war build up of arms.

  • @conradnelson5283
    @conradnelson5283 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Sounds like a great ship. I always admired their steel decks.

  • @joetilman7227
    @joetilman7227 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Have you considered covering some amphibs? I am partial to the Iwo Jima class (LPH) carriers, but would love to see any amphibs.

  • @Dedelblute3
    @Dedelblute3 Před 3 měsíci +2

    For some reason, I have always found the scrapping of ships from WW1 or WW2 sad. Yeah, you can't keep every destroyer or torpedo boat, but for larger countries, they actually have the space to make most battleships and carriers into things like tourist ships. The number of cool ships I've seen that were intentionally destroyed instead of keeping them for the sake of history is MASSIVE, a lot of which come from the nuclear testing done to see how ships would fare against nuclear weaponry. (while writing this I realized I've NEVER ACTUALLY SEEN the definition of "sake" and I'm slightly concerned lmao)

  • @ValkyrieofNOLA
    @ValkyrieofNOLA Před 3 měsíci +1

    I just watched a video from Warographics, one of Simon Whistler’s channels, about the dire state of the Uk’s armed forces and how it’s dangerously unprepared for any kind of serious military conflict without the assistance of the rest of NATO, especially the United States. As an American, who is also from a military family, I’m used to the notion of a powerful and capable military with a large number of personnel, one and a half million actually, so hearing that the UK only has just over one hundred thousand military personnel… I was shocked! I know they’re a much smaller country, if you don’t count the many territories under the British commonwealth, but that seems like a small number of active duty troops. They also are very lacking in equipment and vehicles. From tanks, aircraft, armored personnel carriers, ships, and even the military housing is astoundingly below standard. They don’t even do their own recruiting anymore. It’s contracted out to a civilian company that doesn’t even have a face to face meeting with potential recruits, only on the phone. The glory days of the British empire and military might are long gone now.

  • @z06cowboy72
    @z06cowboy72 Před 4 měsíci +5

    She only lasted 10 years. How sad.

  • @DMS-pq8
    @DMS-pq8 Před 4 měsíci +8

    The British Pacific fleet also included the Aircraft carriers Formidable, Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable and Indefatigable several light and escort carries and Battleships as well as ships from Canada, Australia and New Zealand

    • @robertx8020
      @robertx8020 Před 4 měsíci

      Yes, and your point is? ....

    • @DMS-pq8
      @DMS-pq8 Před 4 měsíci

      @@robertx8020 The point is don't be a dick Robbie

    • @bravo2zero796
      @bravo2zero796 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@robertx8020 I believe his point was that after Great Britain and her commonwealth allies finished up in the European theatre, they were able to divert a very powerful force to the far east to give the japs a hard time.

    • @MrSummerblade
      @MrSummerblade Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@robertx8020Suppose the obvious implication is that it was a (HMS) Formidable fleet 😊

    • @robertx8020
      @robertx8020 Před 3 měsíci

      @@MrSummerblade 🤣nice pun
      But I wonder if it was needed? (that fleet being there I mean )

  • @joegordon5117
    @joegordon5117 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I'd imagine the crew were grateful for the decision to up her armour level, especially when she went to the Pacific

  • @tomredaintdead9575
    @tomredaintdead9575 Před 4 měsíci +6

    Always interesting and well written and narrated 👍

  • @scinanisern9845
    @scinanisern9845 Před 2 měsíci

    What is so awesome is that this was on standard fuels. No nukes. A real guzzler.

  • @robertx8020
    @robertx8020 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Great video ..but I feel the title is a bit oiver the top.. as I don't think (or see no evidence ) that Japan was more 'afraid ' of Implacable than any of the other 100 carriers of the US navy!
    Sinking Implacable would have changed nothing ..nor would 'not sinking' her .

  • @Whalewraith
    @Whalewraith Před 3 měsíci

    I'm not good at science so it always amazes me that these carrier's float. Sure I can see the maths working in benign circumstances but in rough weather? Guess I'm just a bit thick.
    Such a shame they scrap these iconic ships.

  • @MrJJuK
    @MrJJuK Před 3 měsíci +4

    The USS Johnston doesn't exist, apparently. 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️

  • @visionboard1783
    @visionboard1783 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Gotta give them there 🌹

  • @jimcat68
    @jimcat68 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I would have said "the Essex Class Carrier", but you make a good case here.

    • @sirblank2384
      @sirblank2384 Před 3 měsíci

      The enterprise is a good threat to that. older but still better and more stars lol

  • @sheilatruax6172
    @sheilatruax6172 Před 4 měsíci +1

    All those Corsairs!

  • @sheilatruax6172
    @sheilatruax6172 Před 4 měsíci +17

    The Brits got the Corsairs before our troops. Our folks thought they had too many glitches. So, Britain ironed out the problems and then US picked them up again

    • @g8ymw
      @g8ymw Před 4 měsíci +2

      Same with the Chrysler multibank engine fitted to some Sherman tanks.
      Not to mention dropping Merlin engines into Mustangs

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Are you peddling that incorrect myth that the UK showed the yanks how to land them on a carrier?

    • @g8ymw
      @g8ymw Před 4 měsíci

      @@mikeholland1031 How do you come to that conclusion?

    • @sheilatruax6172
      @sheilatruax6172 Před 4 měsíci

      @mikeholland1031 Thought it had to do with performance problems and general mechanical weirdness. Never heard about any landing problems.

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 Před 4 měsíci

      @@g8ymw facts

  • @tml721
    @tml721 Před měsícem

    It was too bad so many of these great ships were scrapped after their use was done. I get it, it was about cutting costs but museums could have been made of a few of them for future generations

  • @mad_max21
    @mad_max21 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Absolutely nothing suggest the Axis were afraid of this exact ship.

  • @jameswaterfield
    @jameswaterfield Před 4 měsíci

    HMS Implacable, featured in many Hollywood war movies

  • @kellyschram5486
    @kellyschram5486 Před 4 měsíci +1

    The greater strength longer range to hit the enemy. At the loss of defiance at close range

  • @garygone5234
    @garygone5234 Před 4 měsíci +7

    You need to use feet and inches as well as meters and kilometers and millimeters in your descriptions. Thank you

    • @DavidJones-me7yr
      @DavidJones-me7yr Před 4 měsíci +2

      You're right Giving haul thickness and deck thickness in millimeters makes it sound like it's made out of tin foil and newspaper!😢😂😊

    • @keithshackleton3173
      @keithshackleton3173 Před 4 měsíci

      The whole world works in metric but not the USA and two small countries. ​ The rest of us undetstand @@DavidJones-me7yr

    • @jamesathendune9026
      @jamesathendune9026 Před 4 měsíci +1

      These days everything should be measured in both Imperial and Metric and announced as such. One measurement should not be favoured over the other. Lefties love Metric!

    • @keithshackleton3173
      @keithshackleton3173 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@jamesathendune9026 the whole world is metric but the USA and two small countries. Cope with it or change to metric. Who stuffed up the Mars space craft because they used imperial not metric? Metric is the world standard, imperial is history.

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 Před 4 měsíci +1

      ​@@keithshackleton3173that was a cover story. It wasn't a conversion issue.

  • @josephjuno9555
    @josephjuno9555 Před 3 měsíci +1

    HMS Battle Axe had a Helicpter named Hatchet!

  • @dougmoore4326
    @dougmoore4326 Před 4 měsíci +2

    I’m sorry… a carrier does not “burst” into launching aircraft “without warning”,… less hyperbole in the narration please

  • @kenmcdougal97
    @kenmcdougal97 Před 4 měsíci

    She should have been saved as a museum ship😢

  • @AndreVanDiggelen-wl3fx
    @AndreVanDiggelen-wl3fx Před 4 měsíci

    Need a giant slide in magazine system that can be custom loaded by a re supply ship

  • @junk9636
    @junk9636 Před 4 měsíci

    Understood that this is a British vessel but for purposes of comparison and context in future vids please also throw in a few US customary units?

    • @danielweisgerber8569
      @danielweisgerber8569 Před 4 měsíci +2

      do some math bruh ain't that hard

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Why don't you guys join the rest of the world?

    • @davewolfy2906
      @davewolfy2906 Před 4 měsíci

      I agree only because these ships were not Metric.
      HMS Sheffield, that was lost in 1982 was the RNs first metric ship.

  • @jonathonhass4178
    @jonathonhass4178 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Implacable didn’t see the pacific war until July of ‘45 and Japan by that time had little to no fighting ability left and would capitulate 2 months later.
    Royal Navy presence by that time in the pacific was basically of little real value and they were there for ally credibility.
    Early in the pacific war, brit ships were of no value against the IJN as they were either outright sunk or heavily damaged and chased away. Brit troops in the pacific were horribly mismanaged by their commanders and hadn’t received the weapons/supplies needed to do much of anything of value.

    • @davewolfy2906
      @davewolfy2906 Před 4 měsíci

      Where were British troops in the Pacific? Apart from being overrun in Hong Kong.

    • @robertx8020
      @robertx8020 Před 4 měsíci

      @@davewolfy2906 The closest British troops would be in India

    • @davewolfy2906
      @davewolfy2906 Před 4 měsíci

      @@robertx8020 Burma I think, next door.

    • @robertx8020
      @robertx8020 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@davewolfy2906 You're right ..but close enough I think

    • @bravo2zero796
      @bravo2zero796 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@davewolfy2906are you serious?

  • @robertx8020
    @robertx8020 Před 4 měsíci +1

    A few questions ...
    1) Can someone tell me which carrier is shown at 5:37? It's not HMS Implacable, seems more like a Essex class (note the side elevator! ) and guntowers in front of the bridgestructure)
    2) Why would Germany 'fear' a ship that was only in action when Germany didn't care about it's fleet anymore? If they feared anything it had to be the Russians

    • @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020
      @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020 Před 3 měsíci +2

      And why would Japan fear about this ship when Japans navy and war fighting capability is already taken by the US navy

    • @robertx8020
      @robertx8020 Před 3 měsíci

      @@VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020 Right?
      It would me like you beating me up to near death and them me 'being afraid' of the person that spit on me 🤣

    • @bravo2zero796
      @bravo2zero796 Před 3 měsíci +2

      ​@@VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020The British pacific fleet were there too you know included six fleet carriers, four light carriers, two aircraft maintenance carriers and nine escort carriers (with a total of more than 750 aircraft), four battleships, 11 cruisers, 35 destroyers, 14 frigates, 44 smaller warships, 31 submarines, and 54 large vessels.. the royal navy had shit going on literally everywhere in the world

    • @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020
      @VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@bravo2zero796 of course, the Royal navy has been there in the pacific even before ww2. All I am saying is that the US navy destroyed the cream of the Japanese navy's fighting force in the battle of Midway, the Battle of the Philippines, the Battle of Leyte. After all of these battles, the Japanese is finished as a major threat, all that is left is mapping up operations of whatever remains of their fleet and that is where the Royal navy did helped.

    • @robertx8020
      @robertx8020 Před 3 měsíci

      @@VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020 True

  • @nomercyinc6783
    @nomercyinc6783 Před 3 měsíci

    the allies didnt fear aircraft carriers at all. they feared those big ass axis battleships

    • @theloneranger8725
      @theloneranger8725 Před 2 měsíci

      That's a rather ridiculous comment when you consider what the Japanese did at Pearl Harbor on 12/7/41 with nothing but carriers, unless by "axis" you are referring only to Germany. With just a little more luck, Japan could have won that war early with their carriers, but they made too many mistakes and miscalculations. Germany had only one carrier, and it was never completed. Hitler was a fool for not understanding the important role they would play in WWII. When he was building all those battleships before the war began, he should have been building carriers instead.

  • @patricks9401
    @patricks9401 Před 3 měsíci

    Hey, I know your not from the UK but you wouldnt actually say 2pdr you would say 2 pounder thats what it means pdr = pounder, it would be like saying the letters I N for inches, you wouldnt say 2 I N you would just say 2 inches.

  • @darrensmith6999
    @darrensmith6999 Před 2 měsíci

    Wow we could really build cool stuff in those days....what the hell happened to us?

  • @quietdignityandgrace
    @quietdignityandgrace Před 4 měsíci +4

    Why doesn't Dracinifel, Operations Room, Animachy and the like ever cover Britain's Pacific role? They never mention, or rarely mention Australia accept in a support role.
    I guess, USA Number 1 Joe?

    • @JohnKoenig-db8lk
      @JohnKoenig-db8lk Před 4 měsíci +2

      Your rant belies your screen name.

    • @tltc191
      @tltc191 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Maybe because the first battle group the UK sent got folded up like lawn chairs.

    • @quietdignityandgrace
      @quietdignityandgrace Před 4 měsíci

      @@JohnKoenig-db8lk Have you seen the scene that it comes from? Ranting is the point. Get it out of your system, move forward.

    • @quietdignityandgrace
      @quietdignityandgrace Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@tltc191 If they did a piece on it, maybe I'd know that. We'd know that. Sorry, I got a bit selfish there.

    • @JohnKoenig-db8lk
      @JohnKoenig-db8lk Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@quietdignityandgrace Sorry, Britain had a role other than "Bloody Shambles?"

  • @josephjuno9555
    @josephjuno9555 Před 3 měsíci +1

    If Japan realized that the US wud have 100 Aircraft carriers by fhs end of the war ? They might have reconsidered their future? Maybe we shud try to get along? The US aas trying to stay Neutral until Japan Attacked Pearl Harbor? Oh, it ON NOW! You started this, WE will Finish it!

    • @sirblank2384
      @sirblank2384 Před 3 měsíci

      They were lucky if the japanese didn't surrender our largest ship at the time was going to be heading their way

  • @williampaz2092
    @williampaz2092 Před 3 měsíci

    If only the Hawker Sea Fury was readily deployable when the British Pacific Fleet was activated….

  • @salamonrobert2584
    @salamonrobert2584 Před 3 měsíci

    Helicopters were available early 1945.Why didn't they reach the carriers?

  • @paxwallace8324
    @paxwallace8324 Před 4 měsíci +1

    What year did the British receive the F4U Corsair? I mean it'd also be more than a match for anything Germany had.

    • @josephjuno9555
      @josephjuno9555 Před 3 měsíci

      I have never heard the Brits got Corsairs? Was this in the Pacific?

    • @sirblank2384
      @sirblank2384 Před 3 měsíci

      1944 right after the u.s. made it easier to land them on carriers

    • @alecblunden8615
      @alecblunden8615 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@sirblank2384the turning approach for Corsairs was an innovation of the Royal Navy, NOT the USN

    • @sirblank2384
      @sirblank2384 Před 3 měsíci

      @alecblunden8615 the royal navy had nothing to do with corsairs until after the us fixed them to land on carriers so the royal navy did nothing

    • @alecblunden8615
      @alecblunden8615 Před 3 měsíci

      @@sirblank2384 the USN did NOT use corsairs on carriers until after the RN developed the turning approach method.The USN gave them to marines for ground use until then.. Look it up.

  • @larrymead151
    @larrymead151 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Another ridiculous title.

    • @robertx8020
      @robertx8020 Před 4 měsíci +1

      I haver to agree

    • @kelleren4840
      @kelleren4840 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Yeh, I have to go into these videos expecting them to not be 100% watertight on their details/facts, but entertaining and generally in the right ballpark nonetheless.
      Plus their library of archival footage is quite nice.
      If nothing else, the stories give me good inspiration for DnD scenarios/plotlines 😂

    • @robertx8020
      @robertx8020 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@kelleren4840 Some creators seem to think that extreme titlels lure more ppl in and while that might be true at first, after being 'fooled' long enough, ppl might never return..so it's a risk IMO

    • @kelleren4840
      @kelleren4840 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@robertx8020 yeah I agree on that 100%

  • @briankorbelik2873
    @briankorbelik2873 Před 3 měsíci

    And during the *entire* Pacific War, US Pacific Fleet was Where?

  • @jamiecampbell1981
    @jamiecampbell1981 Před 3 měsíci

    Those those planes arecorsairs right

  • @francislutz8027
    @francislutz8027 Před 4 měsíci +16

    Ahhh the Brits.
    Our closest and favorite allies. There isn't much the US and UK combined can't do

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Canada is far closer genius

    • @danielroelkey2155
      @danielroelkey2155 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@mikeholland1031 I cant tell if you are being serious or not. Obviously they are closest in terms of distance. The OP was talking about closeness in terms of the relationship.

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 Před 3 měsíci

      @@danielroelkey2155 distance.

    • @daviddehass6877
      @daviddehass6877 Před 3 měsíci

      Just trolling?

    • @josephjuno9555
      @josephjuno9555 Před 3 měsíci

      GB is USA mother and Canada is our Sister nation!

  • @williamdodge5123
    @williamdodge5123 Před 4 měsíci

    USS FORRESTAL CV-59 82-84

  • @garyharris629
    @garyharris629 Před 4 měsíci +8

    I remember watching a documentary about the war in the pacific, and an American sailor was saying that the bomb’s bounced off the decks of the British aircraft carrier’s, while they went through the decks of the American carriers!

    • @carlharris2808
      @carlharris2808 Před 4 měsíci +2

      America had wooden flight decks.

    • @chrismason7066
      @chrismason7066 Před 4 měsíci +5

      Yep. Britain had armored flight decks. We. the us. Did not. Armored flight decks are awesome at the cost of less planes. It's a give and take.

    • @garyharris629
      @garyharris629 Před 4 měsíci +3

      @@carlharris2808
      Yes, I remember he said that, your comment reminded me. The American carriers had more planes though, and more carriers in the Pacific while British carriers were mostly in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and the North Sea.

    • @g8ymw
      @g8ymw Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@garyharris629 I think that was the reason for the armoured flight decks.
      We were too close to multitudes of land based aircraft

    • @garyharris629
      @garyharris629 Před 4 měsíci

      @g8ymw I never thought of that, good point!

  • @dognute2746
    @dognute2746 Před 3 měsíci

    USS Nimitz

  • @mattmiller4613
    @mattmiller4613 Před 4 měsíci +37

    USS ENTERPRISE Was the greatest most killing most feared ship of the War.💪

    • @Axonteer
      @Axonteer Před 4 měsíci +2

      ok

    • @MSimmonsAZ
      @MSimmonsAZ Před 4 měsíci +11

      Yes about the Big E, but this is titled all Axis Powers. Enterprise was Pacific only.

    • @Axonteer
      @Axonteer Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@MSimmonsAZ How about the Enterprise D?

    • @mattmiller4613
      @mattmiller4613 Před 4 měsíci

      @@MSimmonsAZ agreed😌

    • @mattmiller4613
      @mattmiller4613 Před 4 měsíci

      @@Axonteer oh hell yes

  • @georgeyarbrough88
    @georgeyarbrough88 Před 3 měsíci +1

    At the end of world war II the Japanese told everybody what ship they were most afraid of and it was the Lexington because they thought they sent it three times they called it the Ghost ship.

    • @sirblank2384
      @sirblank2384 Před 3 měsíci

      Yorktown they said they sunk the Yorktown 3 times once in the coral sea, and twice at midway the Lexington was sunk in the coral sea

    • @georgeyarbrough88
      @georgeyarbrough88 Před 3 měsíci

      @@sirblank2384 yes that is true, but it was Lexington that received the name of the Ghost ship from the Japanese. Who constantly reported her sinking. Yorktown did not receive this name from the Japanese.

    • @sirblank2384
      @sirblank2384 Před 3 měsíci

      @@georgeyarbrough88 enterprise was grey ghost from the japanese

    • @georgeyarbrough88
      @georgeyarbrough88 Před 3 měsíci

      @@sirblank2384 you don't know Japanese history do you. The most feared airplane was the Corsair, the ghost ship was the Lexington. And the Americans called the Enterprise the gray ghost not the Japanese. I know my history extremely well. Now you can sit here and try to argue with me but you definitely need to do the research to back up what you say. And when you do you'll discover that I'm right. But you can believe what you want that's the right you have. But I'll stick with my historical degree and knowledge.

    • @sirblank2384
      @sirblank2384 Před 3 měsíci

      @@georgeyarbrough88 the americans called the iowa the grey ghost lol

  • @bulldawg6259
    @bulldawg6259 Před 4 měsíci

    How come I see Corsair’s land on a British carrier

    • @johnsheldon4880
      @johnsheldon4880 Před 4 měsíci

      The Brits were flying them off the carriers first. Our navy nixed tehm so they were sent to GB as partof the lend lease prgm. They solved the landing problems that the US navy couldn't. They figured to come in at an angle to land where the US Pilots flew straight to the landing, Hence the gift to GB. Once the Brits solved the problem, The US Marines yelled , gimme gimme we'll use them and they got them and the Japs regretted it. The Brits also used them in North Africa as fight/bombers and in Sicily also.

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Because you have eyes.

    • @sparky4878
      @sparky4878 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Because the Royal Navy had them. In fact I believe they were using them on carriers before the US marines and USN, who originally used them from shore bases.

    • @sirblank2384
      @sirblank2384 Před 3 měsíci +1

      ​@sparky4878 the brits used the corsairs in early to mid 1944 the americans used them on carriers right before them in early 1944 but also used them earlier than that on the land bases since 1942

  • @PepeK62
    @PepeK62 Před 3 měsíci

    The war in Europe was over by July, 1945.

  • @johnhopkins6260
    @johnhopkins6260 Před 3 měsíci

    Ummm... Britain taking revenge for Japan colonizing British colonies??

  • @steveshoemaker6347
    @steveshoemaker6347 Před 3 měsíci

    🇺🇸

  • @Mike-tg7dj
    @Mike-tg7dj Před 3 měsíci

    I guess the Brits don't have a sense of keeping up older ships. Who knows maybe that's why they like to visit the older ships when they visit the states. Who knows.

    • @Pedallingfuriously
      @Pedallingfuriously Před 3 měsíci

      HMS Victory. Launched 7th May 1765. Still in service . Flagship of the First Sea Lord.

  • @johnbrobston1334
    @johnbrobston1334 Před 4 měsíci +1

    A fine point, but Operation Inmate took place 4 months after 4 US carrier battle groups had pounded Truk to scrap.

  • @DavidBrown-zn8pd
    @DavidBrown-zn8pd Před 3 měsíci

    Please remember a great deal of your followers don’t know the metric system. So please include standard measurements in your description. Thank you

  • @johnnaugle5762
    @johnnaugle5762 Před 3 měsíci

    Tuff ass CVs for sure

  • @JamesWestVideo
    @JamesWestVideo Před 3 měsíci

    I love seeing Americans get all upset. A country that was late to both world wars.

    • @sirblank2384
      @sirblank2384 Před 3 měsíci

      And saved the day in both world wars saving the british twice with 2/3 of all vehicles for the allies in ww2 were american

    • @JamesWestVideo
      @JamesWestVideo Před 3 měsíci

      @@sirblank2384 any country that sits back for a few years and spins up their industry is gunna do well. Oh and make a lot of money too. Strange that.

    • @sirblank2384
      @sirblank2384 Před 3 měsíci

      @@JamesWestVideo we wanted to follow the founding fathers plans stay out of foreign affairs but no the brits having to beg us and the japanese had to touch our boats

    • @JamesWestVideo
      @JamesWestVideo Před 3 měsíci

      @@sirblank2384 an American talking about staying out of foreign affairs is beyond laughable.

    • @sirblank2384
      @sirblank2384 Před 3 měsíci

      @@JamesWestVideo after ww2 idk y but the us was made a police force of the planet

  • @ETicketM
    @ETicketM Před 3 měsíci +1

    32 knots is 37 MPH, not 59 MPH. 59 would be insane.

    • @dgflater
      @dgflater Před 3 měsíci

      Kilometres per hour not mph.

  • @deejaysyn420
    @deejaysyn420 Před 4 měsíci +1

    please. Big E is the real ship everyone was afraid of jeez

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 Před 4 měsíci

      Only in the pacific

    • @davewolfy2906
      @davewolfy2906 Před 4 měsíci

      The Germans were not afraid of it.
      You do know that the Germans were in the war?

    • @robertx8020
      @robertx8020 Před 4 měsíci +1

      TBH I don't think there was a single ship everyone was afraid of ..even not Enterprise ..is she had been sunk after 43 it would have made no difference1

    • @deejaysyn420
      @deejaysyn420 Před 3 měsíci

      @@robertx8020 very true

  • @josephjuno9555
    @josephjuno9555 Před 3 měsíci

    Princess Elizebeth! Future Queen!

  • @nationalzero269
    @nationalzero269 Před 4 měsíci +5

    At the war's end, the US had 103 aircraft carriers (23 fleet carriers) and a 1,000-plus-fleet navy. The HMS Implacable was irrelevant in the Pacific War.

  • @thomaslinton5765
    @thomaslinton5765 Před 3 měsíci

    Romania was doubtless terrified. Your titles are a joke.

  • @zascreamer100
    @zascreamer100 Před 4 měsíci +2

    You’re getting extremely lazy. Talking about the great British aircraft carrier but you show stock footage of American Corsairs- 1944? , and American carriers firing 5” guns.

    • @andynct
      @andynct Před 4 měsíci +3

      Corsairs did serve on British Pacific Fleet carriers. Just not on Implacable.
      The US guns - no excuse.

    • @pashby3
      @pashby3 Před 4 měsíci +3

      you're candor seems incongruous in regards to this good content creator ..maybe you're factual indulgence could be better worded to convey discord..

    • @johnbrobston1334
      @johnbrobston1334 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Not nearly as bad as the one that showed a nuclear powered cruiser.

    • @zascreamer100
      @zascreamer100 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@pashby3
      I don’t doubt his talent and watch all his videos. He’s an informative historian. However, lately the stock footage is a huge distraction that demeans the hard work and effort I’m sure he puts into it.

    • @sparky4878
      @sparky4878 Před 3 měsíci

      Royal Navy did fly Corsairs, they had them carrier certified before the US marines and USN, who originally flew them from land bases.

  • @nelsoncreekfarm
    @nelsoncreekfarm Před 4 měsíci

    If you are going to discuss American and British ships, drop that metric crap...

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Join the rest of the world

    • @RobertCunningham-cw4bv
      @RobertCunningham-cw4bv Před 4 měsíci

      The rest of the world is outta step 🫡🖕 lol Jk, but for American audiences, he should do that.
      ​@@mikeholland1031

    • @TheHeckert85
      @TheHeckert85 Před 3 měsíci

      NEVER!!!!!

  • @blrenx
    @blrenx Před 4 měsíci +1

    Gee thanks England for all the help after 5 years of being a no show

    • @tgamron
      @tgamron Před 4 měsíci +1

      No kidding.

    • @andynct
      @andynct Před 4 měsíci +3

      Lent US an aircraft carrier, USS Robin, and was very busy in the Indian Ocean theatre against the Japanese where the US was largely absent.

    • @davewolfy2906
      @davewolfy2906 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Time for your milk I think.

    • @truthhurts9241
      @truthhurts9241 Před 4 měsíci +3

      Clearly not a student of History.

    • @blrenx
      @blrenx Před 4 měsíci

      @@truthhurts9241 Is that right? Do me a favor, Tell me one.. Just one time, The Limeys won a battle in WW2? The battle of Britain was defensive, North Africa you couldn't win without Canada doing the fighting for you. And some limited help from the USA. Oh and then you have the battle of Caen that held up the D Day advancement for a month. All the other armies were begging Monty to by pass because of the casualties. and don't forget your little stroll through holland to take some bridges of zero strategic value..

  • @vwalsh63
    @vwalsh63 Před 4 měsíci +2

    The british had ruled the seas for 300 years, yet they still needed our help to prevent their total destruction.

    • @davehodgson9260
      @davehodgson9260 Před 4 měsíci

      But you needed your arse kicked by tiny Japan before woke up to the threat

    • @jamesknight3070
      @jamesknight3070 Před 4 měsíci

      No, by the time America decided to get off it's metaphorical ass the tide had already turned against the Third Reich.
      In the end, America and the Soviets became best of pals, making secret backroom deals sealing the fates of countries such as Poland...GG-WP!

    • @douglascampbell4993
      @douglascampbell4993 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Sure… that’s why they lent the US a carrier during the war is it? Because they needed help and were running out of ships? 🤣

    • @JamesWestVideo
      @JamesWestVideo Před 3 měsíci +2

      Shame it took you guys so long to get the courage to help.

    • @entropy5431
      @entropy5431 Před 3 měsíci +2

      When you have ruled the seas for 300 years you can laugh. Only up to about 75 years so far.

  • @rescuecaptainbob8564
    @rescuecaptainbob8564 Před 4 měsíci +1

    The Ship All Axis Powers Were so Afraid Of = The USS Enterprise