Japanese Troops Were Shocked By The Ferocious Americans (Ep.1)

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  • (Japanese Ensign Series, Part 1) Watch our video "Japanese Troops Were Shocked By The Ferocious Americans (Ep.1)" and "Join us on a profound journey into the heart of the Pacific War through the eyes of a junior naval officer aboard one of Japan's most legendary warships Battleship Yamato. This video series unveils the gripping, first-hand account of a desperate April 1945 mission that marked the final chapter for the iconic battleship. Witness the human side of warfare: the valor, the sorrow, and the raw heroism in the face of overwhelming odds. Discover how life and duty intersect in the tumultuous final moments of a ship fated to go down in history. Subscribe to WW2 Tales for more stories of bravery and survival from the fiercest battles of the Second World War."
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  • @WW2Tales
    @WW2Tales  Před 16 dny +17

    (Ep.1) Ladies And Gentlemen Welcome to our new series of "Memoirs of a Japanese Ensign Aboard Battleship Yamato".
    Playlist: czcams.com/play/PLGjbe3ikd0XGHziC9zkhRt4Pl2Mz3i4Cc.html

  • @davorklemen3194
    @davorklemen3194 Před 7 dny +21

    To anyone wondering - the vessel in the photo is Fubuki class destroyer Sagiri - name written in direction from stern to bow. Number on the bow marks the destroyer division. It was sunk on Dec. 24th in 1941 by Dutch submarine HNMLS K XVI. This submarine was in turn sunk just a day later by a Japanese submarine I-66.

  • @GenX...MCMLXV
    @GenX...MCMLXV Před 6 dny +27

    Perhaps it would be pertinent to use an actual photo of the Yamato....

    • @RNW11B94B
      @RNW11B94B Před 3 dny +2

      Be careful what you wish for they may have used the Yamato from the anime series 🤭

    • @billj8513
      @billj8513 Před dnem +2

      Above or below sea level?

  • @davidhatton583
    @davidhatton583 Před 15 dny +26

    Another reason they lost… the common sailors were terrorized repeatedly… so None would ever dream of taking initiative. Even if they saw the entire damage control party blown up… they were trained it was not their job so none would even consider picking up the fire hose

  • @4catsnow
    @4catsnow Před 13 dny +16

    Japan opted to wake America at Pearl Harbor...America awoke. America was angry. America rose..Then America came for them.

    • @michaelclark587
      @michaelclark587 Před 9 dny

      Japan chose to F around. America let them find out.

  • @timothyodonnell8591
    @timothyodonnell8591 Před 16 dny +24

    Thank you for adding the episode number to the title!

    • @WW2Tales
      @WW2Tales  Před 16 dny

      Very kind of you sir 🙏

  • @scottgiles7546
    @scottgiles7546 Před 16 dny +44

    "Decisive Battle". The IJN sought, and had, several decisive battles by this point in the war losing them all. If it's a decisive battle and you lost should you not take the hint?

    • @jackbarnhill9354
      @jackbarnhill9354 Před 15 dny

      Delusions linger. There is no changing culture. A military can change many things but not that.

    • @richardm3023
      @richardm3023 Před 15 dny +8

      Some people piss blood and still don't get the hint.

    • @infernalone666
      @infernalone666 Před 15 dny +2

      Call do-overs until you win

    • @joebuckaroo82
      @joebuckaroo82 Před 10 dny +4

      Instead of changing our behavior to match reality, people are hell bent on denying reality.

    • @kevinohalloran7164
      @kevinohalloran7164 Před 9 dny +6

      The Americans are fighting on Okinawa - an island populated by Japanese citizens, the Musashi, Shinano, and Yamato have been sunk, and they were still contemplating a "decisive battle?"

  • @jackkunkel
    @jackkunkel Před 5 dny +6

    In a video about the biggest battleship in history, why would they display a picture of a destroyer? It's not like photos of Yamato are hard to find!

    • @buck9739
      @buck9739 Před 3 dny +1

      I thought it was small. I know Asian junk is smaller but jeez

  • @arcticfox5769
    @arcticfox5769 Před 15 dny +9

    The part of commanding with fear is eventually you either drive the initiative from your soldiers or find yourself with a knife in your back in the first battle

  • @safespacebear
    @safespacebear Před 15 dny +8

    To think of mother with children fighting on both sides of a war...brutal. I doubt anyone could pray for peace harder than her

    • @deaddocreallydeaddoc5244
      @deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 Před 9 dny +1

      It happened a great deal in our American Civil War. In the camps, the Neisi formed gangs and attacked Japanese who remained loyal to the U.S. The riots were so bad that the Army had to use tear gas and tanks at times.

  • @billisaacs702
    @billisaacs702 Před 16 dny +18

    These Japanese are interminably melodramatic.

    • @lunhil12
      @lunhil12 Před 4 dny

      You can see the same everywhere today. Nationalism depends on hyperbole to inflame the drones.

  • @HERETOHELPPEOPLE729
    @HERETOHELPPEOPLE729 Před 16 dny +10

    Love this channel thanks for another excellent upload ❤

    • @WW2Tales
      @WW2Tales  Před 16 dny +2

      Thanks for listening Sir 🙏

    • @HERETOHELPPEOPLE729
      @HERETOHELPPEOPLE729 Před 16 dny +1

      @@WW2Tales Thank you my friend

    • @WW2Tales
      @WW2Tales  Před 16 dny +1

      @@HERETOHELPPEOPLE729 Sir we are very much grateful to you for the support and encouragement , stay blessed Sir

  • @philbyd
    @philbyd Před 15 dny +3

    One of the best channels I have ever found on YT ,many thanks

    • @WW2Tales
      @WW2Tales  Před 15 dny

      Sie thank you so much 💐🙏

  • @NKBobcat
    @NKBobcat Před 10 dny +16

    Please use human narrators. SAKE is pronounced Sah-kee.

    • @creid7537
      @creid7537 Před 3 dny +1

      SAKE is pronounced Sack-ay. But yeah, not simply sake

    • @larrycumba2741
      @larrycumba2741 Před 3 dny

      Also spelled wrong. Should be Sackey.

    • @creid7537
      @creid7537 Před 2 dny +1

      @@larrycumba2741 and should be preceded by Hackey

    • @larrycumba2741
      @larrycumba2741 Před 2 dny

      @@creid7537 Even better.

  • @csulb75
    @csulb75 Před 10 dny +7

    The ship pictured is the Fubuki, a Japanese destroyer.

  • @Dav1Gv
    @Dav1Gv Před 15 dny +6

    Very interesting as usual. At the end of WW1 officers of the German High Seas Fleet decided to sail on a death ride against the British Grand Fleet to save the honour of the German nave. The sailors mutinied and joined those who wanted the war to end. This video really rubs home just how different the Japanese were. The Yamato's sister ship the Mushashi had been sunk by US planes in the Battle of Leyte Gulf without acheiving anything, making it obviouse that the whole thing was futile simply makes this wholve fiasco even more tragic.

  • @wisconsinfarmer4742
    @wisconsinfarmer4742 Před 8 dny +9

    Some say yah-may-toe
    some say yah-mah-toe
    shouldn't we call the whole thing off?

  • @user-qz8km2qr8g
    @user-qz8km2qr8g Před dnem +1

    Don't forget the Canadian Defense forces 🇨🇦!!!!

  • @jeffmcdonald4225
    @jeffmcdonald4225 Před 11 dny +6

    What a waste of perfectly good metal.

  • @VincenzoPentangeli
    @VincenzoPentangeli Před 9 dny +8

    AI has trouble with Sake.

  • @user-yn8io9vx7t
    @user-yn8io9vx7t Před 7 dny +2

    My father was on HMAS Barcoo during WW2. I remember his thoughts of an American ship that would not leave home port until they had their full compliment of ice cream.

  • @wittwittwer1043
    @wittwittwer1043 Před 8 dny +4

    The ship shown during this narrative is NOT the Yamato.

    • @lummoxx8586
      @lummoxx8586 Před 6 dny +1

      It is one of Yamato's lifeboats.

  • @earlworley-bd6zy
    @earlworley-bd6zy Před 12 dny +4

    The secret mission of USS-Maryland BB-46 sometime after Pearl Harbor attack.,If all American air craft carriers were wiped out,Then Maryland was to seek out the Japanese fleet & fire every last shell & ram until she was unable to move or sinking & then the crew was to go to the closest ship & take over & start fighting again until no more ships left or the crew was all killed.

  • @doninventura9474
    @doninventura9474 Před 8 dny +3

    Learned lesson: don’t ever underestimate the power and will of the United States.

    • @user-em4ol2uy4e
      @user-em4ol2uy4e Před 8 dny

      We are now in more danger than during WW2 for we have a enemy who wants to destroy us from within

  • @bonzomcduffy8336
    @bonzomcduffy8336 Před 4 dny +1

    If that's the Yamato it shrank a lot.

  • @scottbattaglia8595
    @scottbattaglia8595 Před 5 dny +1

    23:27 i love me some "sake"

  • @ejnordberg
    @ejnordberg Před 2 dny +1

    How was this log retrieved from Yamato? Is this historical fiction?

  • @larryyoung5757
    @larryyoung5757 Před 15 dny +8

    It’s disrespectful that the photo is not Yamato. It’s to the shame of the Japanese naval staff that it was not used earlier in 1942 where it may have done some damage to the US Navy. Their caution, ironically, brought about Yamato’s demise without achieving anything.

    • @WW2Tales
      @WW2Tales  Před 15 dny +2

      Sir Yamato's picture is used today ( in the last part of this series)

  • @moldyoldie7888
    @moldyoldie7888 Před 3 dny

    Asst Comms Officer Nakatani, a drafted Nisei, at 10:28

  • @kevinh5349
    @kevinh5349 Před 16 dny +7

    This is the decisive battle. Oh wait. I guess we still have more decisive battles in us.

    • @NateWilliams190
      @NateWilliams190 Před 15 dny +3

      Japan didn't know it at the time, but Pearl Harbor was The Decisive Battle.

    • @infernalone666
      @infernalone666 Před 15 dny

      Only when japan loses is it not *really* desicive

  • @edwardadams9358
    @edwardadams9358 Před 15 dny +6

    Shouldn't the picture be of IJN Yamato

    • @WW2Tales
      @WW2Tales  Před 15 dny

      Sir used in today's video ( last part of series)

  • @tommywolker5787
    @tommywolker5787 Před 4 dny +1

    I listened to this entire video. Although interesting, it did not even ADDRESS what the title advertised. That was really sloppy!!!

  • @James-he7bu
    @James-he7bu Před 5 dny +1

    Do cultures that develop on islands, isolated, develop unusual traits?

  • @allrequiredfields
    @allrequiredfields Před 12 hodinami

    09:09 Mistakenshittens?

  • @user-xh2yg4uv9q
    @user-xh2yg4uv9q Před 8 dny +1

    Yamato knew it was a suicide run that was doomed to failure due to the Americans be far more numerous and better equiped. Battleships were already obsolete.

  • @gtaylor2770
    @gtaylor2770 Před 15 dny +5

    Japanese sailors drinking "sake" (rhymes with "cake")? And your algorithm can't even pronounce 'ensign' correctly? Come on!

    • @Pixx4you
      @Pixx4you Před 9 dny +1

      Sake, rice wine, is pronounced sock-ee.

  • @patricktracey7424
    @patricktracey7424 Před 8 dny +1

    They must have scared easily when the yanks weren't shooting at the enemy they were shooting at each other, Its an American tradition which continues to date. In the battle of the bulge the germans carved there way through an entire american army routing them, if not for Patton turning his entire army 180 degrees to attack the germans and the germans being short of fuel it could have ended very differently. At the falaise pocket when the germans were trapped the allies and the americans were going towards each other full speed ahead, The allies stopped there advance because they didn't trust that the americans would not fire on them.

    • @quoilluminentur2981
      @quoilluminentur2981 Před 6 dny +2

      Suppose that's the risk you take when you can't even begin to fight your own wars, a British tradition which continues to date. 😂

    • @danwenner1906
      @danwenner1906 Před 3 dny +1

      Not hard to surprise a bunch of green army new recruits who thought nothing was coming this way due to a forest. Also the Germans were already stalled before Patton arrived.

  • @yankeecornbread8464
    @yankeecornbread8464 Před 4 dny

    Is this story historical fiction? Whoever wrote it did well.

  • @maswinkels
    @maswinkels Před 5 dny +2

    I might consider watching videos from this channel. But my policy against click-bait and overly sensational titles makes me ignore them.

  • @MikeHunt-fo3ow
    @MikeHunt-fo3ow Před 16 dny +2

    repeat?

    • @rickrudd
      @rickrudd Před 16 dny +3

      I think this might be, "Requiem for Battleship Y a m a t o"

    • @WW2Tales
      @WW2Tales  Před 16 dny +3

      Sir we are uploading this series for the first time

    • @roykliffen9674
      @roykliffen9674 Před 14 dny +1

      I do not know who wrote these narratives. Other channels provide similar content. If these are published narratives it is well possible different channels use the same narrative.

  • @baronoflivonia.3512
    @baronoflivonia.3512 Před 16 dny +4

    Sake or socky

  • @stannousflouride683
    @stannousflouride683 Před 6 dny +1

    I paused this to find something more about Yamato's final battle and discovered the Japanese film "Yamato" from 2005 and just finished watching it with English subtitles. czcams.com/video/5WCN0k2riew/video.html
    It is a very powerful, if gruesome, movie about the futility of of war.

  • @peterrobbins2862
    @peterrobbins2862 Před 8 dny

    It most certainly wasn't in new guinea they weren't held in high regard by the Australian or nipon forces

  • @rosaliegolding5549
    @rosaliegolding5549 Před 15 dny +5

    Philic 231 you”e obviously don’t know an educated narrative voice when you hear one ,it just simply causes distain and to comment what you imagine is correct diction and well expressed to your choice of a well spoken Narrative 🤗just saying 🤷‍♀️

    • @davidaware2366
      @davidaware2366 Před 15 dny +1

      It is really text to speech computer program though

  • @keithsargent6963
    @keithsargent6963 Před 8 dny

    Other countries still like to underestimate America.

    • @user-bf2cv9xo7x
      @user-bf2cv9xo7x Před 7 dny

      Sometimes, they decide the president is a moron. Like Bush Jr.

    • @azul8811
      @azul8811 Před 5 dny

      Like Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq?

  • @dusanbatancev5576
    @dusanbatancev5576 Před 16 dny +8

    Midway was turn over in the USA vs Japan war...Four carriers sunk and Japan did not have resurses and production capibiletis to make a new one...Holding back on the battleships was one more mistake from Japanes...Rest is history...

    • @ernestimken6969
      @ernestimken6969 Před 16 dny

      Why is the only pic an American destroyer escort while the report is from Japan?

    • @NateWilliams190
      @NateWilliams190 Před 15 dny +4

      Japan built 5 large carriers after Midway. They built the Taiho, Shinano & 3 Unryu class carriers - Unryu, Amagi & Katsuragi. Taiho, Shinano & Unryu were all sunk by American Submarines. Amagi was sunk by American planes in Japanese home waters. Katsuragi was badly damaged by American planes in Japanese home waters.

    • @dusanbatancev5576
      @dusanbatancev5576 Před 15 dny +1

      @@NateWilliams190 thanks for this information i did not known theat 🙂

    • @sabatcross8110
      @sabatcross8110 Před 15 dny

      ​​@@ernestimken6969 that is not a American USN DD picture...
      You can tell by the front turret design and Japanese writing on the middle side hull...
      Google picture of IJN Fubuki. You can see that it will mostly match this ship in IJN design style.

    • @donpietruk1517
      @donpietruk1517 Před 9 dny

      Actually moving forward with the battleship strategy was the huge mistake. The Japanese Naval staff were still mostly wedded to Admiral Mahan's battleship strategy which they had adopted wholeheartedly. Ironically the Japanese decimating the US battleship fleet at Pearl freed the US Navy from this strategy which they also favored and forced them to rely on carriers and smaller faster Destroyers. They relied on speed and maneuver more than raw power.

  • @TheHeavensEagle
    @TheHeavensEagle Před 6 dny

    Goes to show how poor the AI reader is. Can't pronounce the name of the rice wine properly. Sake is pronounced sak-ee

  • @gertpotgieter6461
    @gertpotgieter6461 Před 5 dny

    Japanese Troops Were Shocked By The Ferocious Americans

  • @ml8028
    @ml8028 Před 3 dny

    I am quitting watching until corrected with no AI. I just can not stand it.

  • @gertpotgieter6461
    @gertpotgieter6461 Před 5 dny +1

    Japanese Troops Were Shocked By The Ferocious Americans ??? To what war are you referring" Could not be WW2! Ferocious is definitely not a word associated with USA troop prowess in the pacific theatre of war. They were brave and willing to go the extra mile - give credit where credit is due. The Japanese - they could be described as ferocious. USSR celebrated Victory Day because they live under the dream they won the war against Germany in 1945. The US live in a bubble with limit knowledge of the rest of the world. They are taught the illusion they single handedly won WW2. Would you describe any country using weapons of mass destruction as "ferocious"? Then you are right - USA is the only country that ever used such weapons against civilians! - A crime against humanity. USA double standards is sickening!

    • @lindaterrell5535
      @lindaterrell5535 Před 5 dny

      WWII was a crime against humanity. Nearly 50 million people dead as a result. Half or more of that number were civilians. The firebombing of Tokyo destroyed more area and killed as many civilians as Hiroshima. Why no tears for Tokyo? People cry more over Dresden. Many French civilians died when the allies liberated them. This isn’t a buffet, you aren’t allowed to cherry pick which civilian atrocities to cry over.

    • @juliantimothy8945
      @juliantimothy8945 Před dnem +1

      The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved millions of lives - The Americans expected over 1 million American casualties based upon the losses involved in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Estimated losses that did include expected British and Commonwealth losses or the 5 to 10 Million Japanese dead expected from the Invasion.
      My Father who had suffered smoke inhalation damage to his lungs and extrene exposure from landing his burning plane on the Northern North Sea after being shot down flying to Murmansk in Winter 1941/42 spent 1943 and 1944 in South Africa training Anzan and South Africa aircrew for the far east before being posted to the far east in 1945 and didnt return to the UK until 1946. He was posted to take part in Operation Downfall, the invasion of the Japanese home islands planned in 2 stages - Stage 1 being Operation Olympic on November 1st, 1945 - The scheduled invasion of the Japanese home island of Kyushu to establish a staging base for Operation Coronet, the invasion of the Honshu and the Tokyo plain scheduled for March 1st, 1946.
      Operation Olympic (X-Day) was to be the largest amphibious invasion of WW2 with 42 aircraft carriers, 24 battleships and over 400 destroyers supporting the landings of 500,000 men on X-Day dwarfing the D-Day landings of 100,000 men on D-Day in Normandy to defeat Germany. The occupation of Kyushu was essential as both the staging post for the land base fighters, fighter bombers medium bombers essential for supporting. Once Kyushu was taken the aircraft carriers and battleships would not needed for operation Coronet invasion of Honshu in March 1946.
      The invasion of Kyushu being required as a staging base for the amphibious invasion of Honshu and as an unsinkable aircraft carrier for the allied airforces as well the ability to use fighters, ground attack aircraft and shorter range bombers operating across the narrow straights and not the 1000 miles from the USAAF bases bombing Japan.
      The Americans expected over 1 million casualties and between 500,000 and 1 million dead americans and between 5 million and 10 million japanese dead. The Americans also hoped the Japanese faced with a massive increase of bombing from the combined allied airforces operating out of Kyushu before the launch of Operation Coronet would save lives.
      Dropping the Atommic bombs saved millions of lives and the total destruction for Japanese cities like in Germany.

  • @warrenbfeagins
    @warrenbfeagins Před 13 dny

    🫡

  • @Philc231
    @Philc231 Před 16 dny +5

    AI voice is annoying .