Doolittle Raid Shocked Japanese Into A Realization That Americans Were Only Beginning To Fight(Ep.1)
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- (Memoirs of Guadalcanal; Series; Part 1)Delve into the gripping narrative of one of WWII's most crucial campaigns as we uncover the harrowing struggles, heroic deeds, and strategic maneuvers that defined this intense battle for control of the Pacific. Witness the sacrifices and triumphs of soldiers on both sides as we explore this historic turning point. Prepare to be captivated by the epic tale of Guadalcanal in this must-watch exploration of military history.
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Ladies And Gentlemen this is Part 1 of Memoirs of Guadalcanal!
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No need to cloud the issue with facts
FYI - too much chatter without graphic illustration. Tough to listen too.
Where does the writing that is being read during your videos come from? Is written by a team, an individual, is it cited from textbooks or somewhere else?
@@goalwingconsultants142 I opened a second window to Google Maps and searched the Solomon Islands. Then just listen to the narration while looking at the map. They weren't kidding about the "Slot" it's a straight shot from Rabaul to Guadalcanal.
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Probably one of the greatest assets that the Allied Forces had in the Pacific was the fact that the Japanese Navy and the Japanese Army both hated each other.
Yep 100% correct.
There wasn't "hate" between the two branches. Their relationship was adversarial due to two opposite philosophical concepts using their equipment and budgets. Yamamoto's views were more astute than his opponents, because his previous experience gave him an understanding of the enormous potential of America and British industrial abilities. This enabled a more conservative foresight than his political adversaries.
@@nomadpi1 you’re right, hate was probably the wrong word to use. But, their adversarial relationship was counter productive.
@@nomadpi1 No it was definitely hate. It dates back to the Meiji period. The navy was dominated by one clan. The army by another. Into the 1920s assassinations were pretty common between the two rival services.
@glenchapman3899 it greatly hampered their war efforts. Instead of a central planning to produce war equipment, materials etc you had competing military branches controlling different production facilities. It also prevented a unified air defense of the home islands.
My great-uncle fought in Guadalcanal. My mom actually met him when she was a little girl and said he was a real handsome guy with blonde hair and blue eyes. He looked very much like my son she said. His parents had kept his room exactly the way he had left it when he entered the United States Marine Corps.A baseball glove with ball and bat sat next to a dresser. It was covered with trophies and awards. Model planes hung around the room on strings pinned to the ceiling.
His name was Michael but my mom called him uncle Mikey. He never returned home. He was killed assaulting a machine gun nest on Guadalcanal. My mother still cries when her memories put her back to those days 80 short years ago. Still sadness sweeps over our family to this day and we've never met him. He is still loved by our family and missed.
What a tribute to him. I think he would love that remembrance.
In that way, he lives on…
The biggest effect from the Doolittle Raid was that it re-focused Imperial Japan to re-engage the U.S. immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack instead of devoting its major Naval resources against China and India. This raid directly led to the Battle of Midway as a brilliant U.S. Navy set-up to make a major blow against Japan’s mighty carrier attack fleet! Let us not forget, that approx 250,000 Chinese civilians died in retribution for aiding the downed Doolittle flight crews!
A fair point, but we did almost cock-up the Battle of Midway. We had a great strategic advantage and used NONE of it, along with faulty weapons- Midway was a closer battle then we give credit. It was a great victory for the americans, but it could've easily been MUCH worse. Luck, God, or whatever the hell you believe in was on our side that day, that much is true.
@joemomma2189 Yes! It still required so much luck despite knowing it was coming. Approximately 50% of US aircraft lost. Stunning loses for the side setting the trap.
People forget the USS nautilus taking a shot at the Kido Butai, forcing a destroyer to chase it, only to have one of the air groups that was going the wrong way too see the destroyer and follow it to the target, striking exactly when other groups were striking.
Just insane luck and devastating loses to go with the great code breaking.
@@joemomma2189 the fact that we had broken the Japanese naval code was a huge help
@@FoxWood2222 Oh no kidding it was- I just wish we didn't have to sacrifice the torpedo squadrons.
China was our friend, and Japan was our enemy.
In europe, Germany was our enemy and Russia was our ally.
The banksters have since reversed the roles. 🤡 🙄
I taught Strategy and Policy at the Naval War College from 1990 through 2012. This presentation is a considerably more sophisticated look at the origins of the Gualdalcanal campaign and the early planning for the Pacific War than we ever managed to give our students, I am sorry to say. I think you could make it about 50 percent more helpful, however, by inserting maps at appropriate moments. There are very few people who carry pictures of the relative location of the various south Pacific island groups in their head, and I don't happen to be one of them. Could you also list your sources? I am especially curious about the arguments among the senior American military leaders. Thanks in any case.
As I've learned more history and about complexity theory, the more I've come to appreciate the importance of context: historical, cultural, technological, political, geographical and climate contexts all have powerful influence on the agents involved that make history. I'm trying to learn more about Japan's history in the, say, 50 years before December 7th, 1941 to especially understand how basically the Japanese Army and Navy came to rule Japan and how the militarists decided that creating an empire by violence was their choice.
Like you, I'm grateful for these series of presentations because of the scarcity of other narratives of these profoundly important events that created the world we live in today. I asked the same question you did to the channel owner regarding the source(s) of the text that the apparently AI voice is reading and am increasingly believing the entire was generated by some AI model. One of my favorite aphorisms is "Examine everything carefully; cling firmly to that which you find to be good." So right now my intention is to listen to this narrative and as interest and bandwidth become available, I'll crosscheck the information I'm hearing here and see it it's validated by more referenced sources. As I'm sure you're aware, it's rare that any single historian is capable of assembling and writing a comprehensive, completely knowledgeable and error-free understanding of such massive, sprawling events as World War II.
I would enjoy more maps as well but I just use google maps on another tab and it helps immensely. There are a ton of islands and unfamiliar names to keep track of.
All these uploads are from WW2 history books or WW2 veterans that wrote memoirs.
The uploader does not give any info about What Books, or Authors, to evade copyright strikes.
It's crazy frustrating, as he doesn't even number the episodes.
Its basically Bootleg WW2 history.
I agree that w/o some maps and force layouts this excellent "sounding" exposition is near useless. Sources lacking. I am not going to subscribe to this channel regardless of my interest in these subjects. Click-bait from some AI b.s.?
This is done by a bot I think.
My late father-in-law served under MacArthur in New Guinea. He hated him and called him "that S.O.B.". He told stories of the Japanese snipers tied in trees, but otherwise didn't talk a whole lot about it.
perhaps it might be of your interest to know that Mac was also responsible for ordering Captain “Patton” to tear apart , and destroy the Bonus Army’s encampment (located on the Whitehouse Lawn), & to trample it into dust, … neither officer were punished, but Mac took off for the Philippines, leaving the continental US, the next day& leaving Patton to fend for himself, at the time, …
McArthur was a fucking coward an should not be written as heroes. He abandon so many marines sailors and army personnel so he can escape of island in the dead of night.
@@johnosman8140 What was the reason for an encampment on the White House lawn ?
@@maxinefreeman8858 enter this into your browser Bonus Army our military been getting the short end of the stick for way too long
They were WWI vets demanding their war pensions. During the Great Depression.
Maps matching that narrative would be better than a flying boat. love the history.
Just 2 months later, after the Doolittle Raid, the Battle of Midway was the real wake-up call?
The Doolittle raid was on April 18th 1942. The Battle of Midway was June 4th to the 6th. And yes, that was or should be referred to as the "Wake up Call"
@@longrider42I found a Nickel made in 1942.
more like death knell, the nips were walking dead after midway.
@@longrider42 Well, Midway was a wakeup call for the IJN, at least the brass. But for the rest of Japan, especially the IJA? Nope. How could it have been a wakeup call if they didn't even know about it?
And you can say Midway was won both in the code rooms and at Coral Sea where two fleet carriers were knocked out of the Kidō Butai that hit Midway. Midway was either sides battle to win or lose so one or two more carriers could have made the world of difference for the IJN at Midway.
MacArthur’s theater of Operations was ranked in order of supply importance behind the Panama Canal Zone. Marines on Guadalcanal fought the Japanese to a stand still with WW 1 equipment. The Australians beat the Japanese back across the mountains of New Guinea and all in all Winston Churchill got a commitment from FDR to deal with Hitler FIRST. And in spite of all that VJ Day came a mere four months after VE Day. I’d have to say Yamamoto was optimistic in his timeline.
It did help that they were two very different wars. In the Pacific it was all about the Marines and Navy. Europe it was all about boots on the ground and air force.
@@glenchapman3899 I hadn't really considered that before but yeah, it's probably 85% Marines and Navy in the pacific and the inverse in Europe. That does make things easier when you don't have split the branches, just assign each to a theater with a few support elements from the other branches.
Just remembered, the airforce was a subsection of the army at the time, so the Army took Europe (they had a few elements in the pacific, but I don't think anything major) and the Navy grabbed their boarding party (Marines) and went to handle the pacific (again, they also had some elements in the atlantic and the med)
22 army divisions fought in the Pacific, 6 Marine divs fought in the Pacific.
@@rungfang27 And 62 divisions fought in Europe
Very informative. The US was a monster in scale that was and still is the most amazing military power the world has ever known. The US withstood and beat the Japanese on Guadalcanal without having even arming itself and made Europe its priority. No Army to speak of in 1941, built an army in 42, moved it around the world in 43. Landed in France in June 1944 and Germany was defeated 10 months later. Japan was on its back foot in 1944 and the home islands were the next stop, this in the after thought theater of war. They may not have known it in 1942 but by 1944 it was clear a super power had been created.
Yamamoto was one of the best admirals of the past two centuries and having studied in the US knew early on it was a suicidal insanity of a war… he did his job and a honorable duty. Had the fanatics listened to him there would have never been a war….
Wasn’t even close to one of the best. The IJN had a massive advantage at Midway and Yamamoto blew it with his flawed battle plan for Midway.
Yes. there would have been a war against both America and Britain. Yamamoto was only one voice in a minority of the Japanese military society. The majority of Japanese political leadership was on a path of adversarial aggression fueled by their attack and conquering of Manchuria.
@@nomadpi1 you have clue as to what you’re talking about.
You do realize Germany was occupying China. Yes? Read up on WW1 and how Japan/Britain fought against Germany.
European nations “conquered” various Asian countries well before Japan stepped in. Care to admit this.
Japan only went to Asian countries already controlled by European nations.
Japan was on a mission to free Asian nations and utilize their resources in trade or basically do what European nations were already doing.
Hypocrite. 😂🤣
@@f430ferrari5 Whoa whoa whoa... hold on there, Hoss. "Japan was on a mission to free Asian nations"??? Is that what you call Nanking oppression? Is that freedom, to stab men, women and babies and treat them as target dummies? You have a very weird sense of "to free".
@@f430ferrari5 I fail to see how your points are relevant to @nomadpi statement.
Last I checked the events in Nanking had nothing to do with Europeans or "Freeing" Asian nations.
Yes, the Japanese were still riding the high from destroying the Russian Pacific fleets in the Russo-Japanese war.
Now your last point has some merit, Japan did intend to take their turn at colonial empire. But don't condemn the European nations for that two lines up and then act like Japan's intent to do the same thing was somehow noble because they were closer geographically.
I've had some very good Japanese friends over the years, so I say this with some dread. If the Japanese had attempted to invade North America I fear what we would have done to Japan. It would have been absolutely brutal. As an American I can say that Canadians in particular have a weird dichotomy. You'll never meet a friendlier a bunch, but after you "flip the switch" you really don't want to be fighting them.
I'm in the US, and agree. We peaceful people are holding in a lot of anger!
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My father served in WWII with a USMC Air Patrol Group on the Island of Funafuti. He flew the Douglas SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber. Thankfully, the Japanese never moved into that area.
In 1958 when I was stationed at NAS Atsugi Japan with Marine Air Group 11, I had a copy of Saburo Sakai's book "Samurai" (?) which detailed his experience through pilot training and aerial combat during the War. I think it's important to remember that the men, American, Japanese, British, and German, who fought that war were the survivors who had grown up during the worldwide depression of the 30s. These were men who had not known life with plenty of food, leisure time to play video games, get wasted on drugs and booze, and give the middle finger to all forms of authority. Lord help us if we ever find ourselves in combat.
Isn't it the whole point to make sure your descendants have an easier life than you did, Guess what they succeeded. ...
We have found ourselves in combat. And we never lost a major battle since Vietnam and the golf wars. We left Afghanistan but were not defeated there nor were WE defeated in Vietnam. Two years after we left Vietnam they lost their country. So our guys did pretty well in the last generations. We druggies at least did as well as the boozers that filled the ranks in WWII.
Obama started it & through Joe biden finished the once great nation....I'll keep fighting for the americaan constitution bit the nation as envisioned by the founders is no more...😢
@@RobertBowell100if you leave a field and the enemy take that, is called a defeat. yes , not on the field, but you lost your strategical target. why you go there to combat if you leave it? it's meaningless
@@notcherbane3218 no the goal is to acquire the wealth and experience to better raise your children to be competent.
Giving children an easy early life removes important lessons and ensures a hard life dispute favorable circumstances.
Excellent coverage of these events. Thank you. 👍🏽
Capturing territory is not that difficult when your opponents are poorly armed and trained. Holding that territory is another thing.
Yamamoto spent time across the USA. Understood the US and what they were capable of if engaged long term
Yamamoto earned a Masters degree in economics from Harvard.
My grandfather was at New Caledonia and he remembered seeing flashes of light from over the horizon but this was the closest he ever got to combat.
He worked in the motor pool and fixed damaged combat vehicles. The tanks were really bad.
Yamamoto had attended Harvard and did not expect that this attack would actually convince the American government to agree to peace. His comments about occupying the West Coast was due to clear implausbility of a successful conquest of the West Coast.
MacArthur is given more credit than he earns, it seems. He cocked up the defense of the Philippines and then during the war made some questionable decisions , cocked up the defense of Korea.
He deserves nothing! What a piece of shit leaving his troops, who treated their prisoners horribly . Also he botched the airport defense after Pearl Harbor, he was totally unequipped to be in charge
It was worse than "cocked up". He initially opposed the "island-hopping" strategy, acted contrarily, then later claimed he was the author.
MacArthur had reached mandatory retirement age years BEFORE the attack on Pearl Harbor, He was a military advisor to the President of the Philippines, he was activated just before hostilities began. Just like the Korean Conflict later on MacArthur could only advise, if the United States failed to supply the troops, American and Philippine with the proper arms then that’s not MacArthurs fault, just as in Korea the United States failed to supply South Korea with Tanks and Artillery, again NOT MacArthurs fault, that rests with the politicians and Stalins moles in our government. As far as cocked up the defense that’s a mixed bag he had a peace time Army to fight highly trained VETERANS in the Imperial Japanese Army. MacArthurs skillful maneuvering prevented his forces from being outflanked and was able to retreat into Bataan and Corregidor. Also remember the fuel for our PT boats was sabotaged during that time so there were definitely not so friendly friendliest. He declared Manila an open city but failed to transfer the supplies to Bataan. Also what Air Force they had was caught on the ground just like at Pearl Harbor
MacArthur knew of the attack on Pearl Harbor, but did nothing to prepare for an attack on his forces for 2 whole days. He consequently got caught with his pants way, way down.
MacArthur abandoned several years of supplies in Manila, dooming the Bataan garrison.
During the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese: (1) did not destroy the American attack carriers. (2) did not destroy the ammo dumps (3) did not destroy the maintenance and repair shops (4) did not destroy the aviation and heavy oil depots (5) did not knock out army airforce airfields, army bases and naval piers (6) did sink some obsolete battleships and kill approximately 3000 american soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen.
Ive been listening to theses stories for months, and had heard much of the exploits of Saburo Sakai, but until now had not known that the first air battle over Guadalcanal was when he was injured, losing an eye and having his right hand destroyed.
Nicely narrated. A good summary, thank you.
After Pearl Harbour when he learned they had missed sinking any aircraft carriers, admiral Yamamoto already knew they were in deep trouble.
You alway do such a great job, with these ..thank you.
Excellent as always. I enjoy these stories very much. Thank you.
This is FANTASTIC, so deliciously informing!
Thanks!
My father’s cousin Sgt William/Bill Dieter was one of those who died after their bombing raid. The next yr my father John M. Dieter would join the army air core in a B-17 as a radio operator & waist gunner based in north Italy.
If you don’t have it, there is a book called “Four Came Home” by Carroll V. Clines that talks a lot about the two crews that were captured by the Japanese. Your cousin was in plane #6. The other one was plane #16. He was the bombadier. He and the gunner Sgt. Donald E. Fitzmaurice, were killed in the crash but the rest of the crew were captured. The Japanese made up charges and convicted some of them (wrongly) of war crimes. They decided to execute the pilot and gunner from each crew. Therefore, they executed your cousin’s pilot, Lt. Dean E. Hallmark, and the pilot and gunner from plane #16. There is a picture of your cousin on page 24. The copilot of plane 16, Lt. Robert L. Hite is from my hometown and that is why I have been doing research on this.
@@dougtaylor8735 thank you so much Doug for this information! I will pass it on to my brothers & son:)
Not to be a nit-picker but it isn't "core." It is "corp.
Japanese culture of following the leaders without question didn't help either.
Today, even after history providing so many examples, many people around the world, including Americans, don't see nationalistic, jingoistic bluster right before them.
Well done! Thank you.
Great story!!
I absolutely love your amazing Tale of WW II! I only wish there was a way to include maps and images to compliment your incredible narrative!!! I know the additional work that would take, but it would elevate the quality far above it being an audiobook on CZcams! I know that many of us would be more than willing to pay for that effort! Cheers!!!💕💕💕
I bought a paperback book in the Honolulu airport bookstore in the 1990's. I still have it. It's "The Pacific War Atlas 1941-1945" by David Smurthwaite, Published in association with the National Army Museum, London, 1995. 144p
ISBN 0-11-290548-X
Amazing education here thank you.
This presentation could have been so much better with additional pictures and maps. Great history.
This content is best absorbed by listening as there's nothing to see. I'll play it while driving or while doing other things where my ears aren't really needed
@@RustyShacklefordsGribble-lw5dcFor you that’s fine, but people are all different. For me, I am a visual learner. I retain material much better with visual input. With just auditory, I retain far less.
What I do is get Google maps of the islands and ship movements during the battles. The last I did was the battle of Layte Gulf. Maps of all navies are available and they helped with that narration. If you have CZcams premium you can look at maps on safari or chrome while continuing to listen to. I wish this content provider would tell what all goes into making these recordings. I’m imagining provider scanning book into computer with AI word recognition and making and posting recordings. Probably very time intensive and I’d bet he can’t afford an intern to attach all the maps etc so we don’t have to.
Nishizawa was an even better pilot than Sakai. For instance, in one raid on Port Moresby he claimed that his squadron shot down more planes than the Austrailians even had. Truly a fantastic feat of aviation!
This isn't a computer voice reading a script, right? Please say Yes.
You are obviously ignorant of the 22nd Bomb Group. If Johnny Zero shot down 10 Zero's and my dad six, what about the other gunners?
@@mnoliberal7335 It's A.I.
The Japanese dispersed everyone involved in Midway except the pilots, thus losing many aircraft technicians who could have helped on other carriers.
The Japanese philosophy of keeping the most experienced people, like pilots, in the front throughout the war only made sense if they planned on a quick war. The US cycled people back to train new people based on experience rather than just theory.
While this cut down on the number of ace pilots early, it meant the US second tier were vastly better than their Japanese equivalent.
Bro really thought he was going to invade america by going down through canada from alaska and occupy the west coast? Would have had a better chance at collecting all the dragon ballz and wishing america out of existence.
Yamamoto had a clue & his bosses were full of themselves 🤔
...excellent use of maps, pictures of military personal cited & videos of said battles really brought this recording together...
...was cassette or 8-track used for the audio?
some maps would have been nice...
I do think maps are nice...but you can easily add them yourself... In that most devices allow two windows to split the screen. For vids like this, I almost always have my android phone screen split with the one screen on a browser and then will open a series of tabs with relevant wikipedia articles and similar references that I refer to as needed.
Meet Jimmy Doolittle many times as a kid as he would come over to the fly casting pond here in Santa Monica to practice and would give us tips also
Bro, you should pay somebody to do some animations with your voice over. You'd have a million subs in no time.
its ai
Any chance I could talk you into fixing the playlist order? This part 1 video is #5 in the playlist.
Some of your playlist are great, but a few like this one are out of order.
Thanks for another interesting series.
Rather than a photo of a Japanese plane the entire video, it would have helped to have some maps that corresponded with the narration.
People don't seem to understand the Japan never ever thought it was going to win or even fight a prolonged war with the United States. They had hoped to knock out our aircraft carriers and do so much damage at Pearl Harbor that we would simply sue for peace as a result of an inability to be able to fight the prolonged war. They were counting on a devastating first attack that would put us on our knees. But because they didn't get the aircraft carriers, that allowed us to counter punch at Midway and sink four of theirs. And for all of the success they initially had at Pearl harbor, it was a strategic failure because the targets that they were going after were not there. They failed to deliver the immediate knockout they were hoping for
You say Japan didn’t expect to win and they describe how they expected to win. If the US sued for peace as a result of Pearl Harbor, that is Japanese victory. Literally the definition of victory in war.
Because of spies, the Japanese had to know the carriers were not there. Maybe they were too far along to stop or delay the attack.
@wallyshedd3157 Perhaps I can help you with your reading comprehension. I know it's hard, but sound the words out and try to follow along. I said that Japan never expected to engage in or win a prolonged war. PROLONGED. Meaning that they expected to strike such a devastating blow right out of the gate that we would sue for peace and get us to remain uninvolved in the affairs of their conquest of the Pacific rim. Even Japanese military leadership realized that a sustained, multi-year war with the United States would not end well because of our manufacturing base, population, and access to energy. That's why the entire attack was designed to be devastating and sudden. I hope that helps, and if you're still confused, look up the word prolonged. And judging by your picture, you're too old to be illiterate.
@@wallyshedd3157 prolonged, wally
@@richardbullwood5941 Now now... that was uncalled for. As for your assumption that Japan never thought to win, you apparently didn't listen to this story or contemplated Japanese history. Our narrator stressed that there were divisions in the government. Some felt that they shouldn't war with the Americans & the West, because they felt they couldn't win a protracted war. BUT there is another side, which was calling most of the shots, felt otherwise. They beat the Russians earlier (1905), then successful fought with China, and then pushed the British and Americans out of Philippines and other territories... they felt they couldn't be beaten.
In 1942, Chief-of-Everything King approved Admiral Kelly's early plans to roll back Japan because they were the exact plans King told Kelly to develop. Kind of a one-man show.
Those plans were based on Naval strategies developed in the 1920s to counter a Japanese offensive. There were modifications due to Carrier development.
Yamamoto didn't take Churchill into account. If Churchill wouldn't give into the much closer Germans why would the Japanese get special consideration?
I think the distance would play into the Japanese favor. I would be more worried about a rabid dog down the road than one the next town over so to speak. Also, I think every nation had good reason to think they would be treated different or at least better than Germany. Germany never really was just a nation like everyone else, the moment they were formed they were the biggest kid on the block trying to edge their way into the global power game as china has been doing these past few decades. Thirty years after Germany's formation WWI happened which ended with the neutering of what had been for a short time the most powerful of them all. When the Treaty of Versilia was signed many thought it unjust and that it would guarantee a second war of German retribution. The nations in power after WWI had everything to gain from keeping Germany as weak as possible and everything to lose should Germany ever recover and so acted to keep Germany at every opportunity. That is not to say that I believe the Japanese were not fools for expecting the reaction that they did, but I don't think it was entirely irrational.
Why should the Japanese have cared about Churchill?
@@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus For all intents and purposes, Churchill was England at that time. Not taking Churchills reaction into account is like not taking England's reaction into account. It would be like American politicians being entirely ignorant of Xi Ji Pings personality quirks. Sadly, I am sure many of them are ignorant of his character.
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Why wouldn't the Japanese take the British empire into account, seeing as they went to war with them at the same time as the United States?
@@reginabillotti Because the Brits had their hands more than full with the Germans, were half a world away, and well past their prime.
If the Japanese just before WW2 thought Americans were too soft, I wonder what they would have thought of today's Americans.
I can imagine.
lol
They got to be wondering WTF? They like: Japan did not lose to these continental us yahoos....We lost because of the Greatest American Generation arose to the occasion and set us free!
Toyota trumps Ford, Chevy, and Tesla
Japan free is unbeatable
You mean America where almost everyone has a gun.
@coronaflo , They were likely aware of how well armed the citizens of the US were.
Japanese Admiral Yamamoto is claimed by some to have said, “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”
"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass".
- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Justification for the Second Amendment
He actually never said that. It's just a typical urban legend that has been repeatedly disproven over the last 80 plus years.
i call BS!
@@stephenbrecht1696 Yamamoto never said that; no need for the second amendment.
@@rlkinnardSelf-defense is a need always. You might get a call for cops to save yourself and family, hours later or whatever? Also, all tyrannical governments first disarms the people, make guns illegal. Why? To make the people easier to oppress.
The Japanese army found out about the defeat 4 days after the arrived home.
As an Australian I was extremely interested in this episode. However, I was really not able to understand the narrative on its own. I would have appreciated a map background with the fighting areas highlighted during the narrative and a few pics. Pictures would not add to clarity, just make the screen experience a bit more interesting.
what would help this narration would be maps of the areas concerned as they are discussed
To be fair it would at least triple the effort of production, especially if any rudimentary animation of the maps were employed, or even overlaying to show positions of contesting forces.
Always fascinating to me, that Japan on December 7 proved that battleships were obsolete, yet they continued to build large battleships, and sought a battleship fight with the US Navy. We took what they taught us, and sent their battleships with their 18” guns to the bottom using our carrier planes.
You couldn’t find a few more pictures to go along with this fine documentary
After the reverses suffered by their Kwantung Army at Nomonhan and Khalkin Gol, the Imperial Japanese Army was rightly wary of further confrontations with the Soviet Union. That was a major reason for vetoing Yamamoto's suggestion to attack the USSR.
And when WII ended, the Soviets disarmed the Kwantung Army, and turned the weapons and munitions over to the Chinese Communists.
Many of the new naval vessels were constructed by converting ship hulls in San Fran, San Diego, etc already being built. By converting civilian hulls into military use saved time and resources. The fact that our western coast ship yards was untouched, fuelled by a bunch of hornets.... The Japanese they didn't stand a chance really. The west coast alone has more ship yards than all of Japan at this moment in time.
My father fought in the battle of Midway and told me great stories of the Japanese bombers flying over his head as he and another soldier much taller and the bomb came down infront of them and the percussion knocked them back on their backs. My dad didn’t get touched but the taller soldier got cut across his mid section from shrapnel. He said the Japanese subs would pop up at night and bomb the other side of the island and that’s where the higher brass slept and they blew up the building and killed all inside.
When they first landed on the island the CBs left the mattresses and so my dad’s men took them to sleep on them and the first night they found out why they were outside- they had bed bugs all over them at night time when they slept and ended up throwing them away into the ocean just the same
Sept. 11th.. America woke up again. You would be dumb to give it a reason to do so again.
Do you have downloadable audio files?
The tactic of fighting to the last is rather stupid.
If you make no attempt to pull your people out from defeat, they can never tell you what mistakes were made that led to the defeat.
And so you just keep making the same mistakes. You never learn what tactics failed so you keep using those bad tactics.
The US was a manufacturing dynamo supporting the war effort in manufacturing military equipment in a 3 shift mode. B24 airplanes were produced at a pace of one per hour as an example. No aggressor could stop this pace and we’re doomed because of it.
Nice, but maps would have been welcomed.
I've noticed in these videos the author tends to heap superlatives of praise on the Japanese. They're fierce and brave and such. I'm sure they were. There is no such praise for the Marines
A lot of the narritive in this series, comes from diaries and books, written by Japanese sailors and pilots. And no Marines were at this Battle.
Isn’t this from the memoires of Japanese officers? I’d expect they would believe their side was fierce and brave
It’s interesting how both of these major axis powers, Germany and Japan, had military branches at odds with one another. I don’t know much about Italy’s situation, but that certainly could not have helped.
MAPS !!! MAPS!!!! M A P S !!
I have always been of the opinion that not attacking the fuel tank farms at Pearl Harbor was a huge mistake on Japan's part. Without those tanks the US Navy would have been mobility constrained by needing to keep tankers in harbor to store fuel (rather than making deliveries) and oilers (not at sea replenishing ships) while the tank farms were repaired and then replenished over many months of deliveries.
And then there is Midway where the ships used in the diversionary attack of the Aleutians could have instead been used in support of Midway and possibly changed that outcome given that it would have added 4 additional carriers to the Kido Butai and provided them seaplane support for additional scouting rather than the largely ineffective attempt to divert forces away from Midway (which did not really happen since the US ships largely were already in Alaska or came from West Coast bases Naval Bases in Washington and California).
There was no diversionary attack, the aleutians invasion was an independent operation. Both operations were supposed to start at the same time, so no diversionary value at all. Also, I think the japanese used 2 carriers in that operation, not 4.
@@rodrigorincongarcia771 I got 4 from the order of battle but I just noticed one is listed twice so only 3, seaplane carrier Chiyoda, light carrier Ryūjō, andHiyō-class carrier Jun'yō along with all the other combat vessels in support. As for the objectives of the Aleutians campaign I have seen split opinions so yours is certainly valid. A quick google shows that the Naval War College aligns to your statement calling it a "complimentary" operation to Midway rather than a diversion. In any case NOT doing both operations simultaneously would have allowed more power projection at Midway and that is undeniable. Bad planning and overconfidence along with the absence of Zuikaku who's airwing was lost at Coral Sea but could have had a composite airgroup created from the remnants of Zuiho and Shokaku air groups, but for some reason they did not do this.
You are 100% correct about the BIG MISTAKE of not attacking the oil tank farm.
Their biggest mistake was not launching a third and maybe even a fourth attack wave. Pearl Harbor's defenses were very limited after the first 2 waves, and there were plenty of easy targets left. When your enemy is down, you hit him even harder! You don't turn around and sail home.
@@larrybremer4930 Midway operation didn't lack air power because of the Aleutian attack. Actually, the Imperial Navy headquarters decided to launch this operation to take advantage of those assets Yamamoto had already discarded for Midway. In other words, without the Aleutian operation, Midway would have been attacked by exactly the same forces.
@@JugSouthgate The Japanese did not know where the US carriers were, and were very concerned of a surprise attack. Also the Japanese had never planned a third wave. It was a spur of the moment discussion on board the carriers. This does point to definite differences between US and Japanese thinking. If reversed I am sure the Navy would have scrapped together a third attack. To the Japanese command, the mission had been completed, with far less losses than expected, so orders had been followed to the letter, time to head for home boys
This was great but 30 minutes too long. I wasn't able to stay focused enough to dedicate an hour listening to a soothing sopophoric voice while staring at a Japanese sea plane. I fell asleep twice before the half hour mark.
Maybe work on your passive focus and ADHD but otherwise yeah it can be rough
Change the playback speed to 2x...
Its hard to giggle when you're washing out another man's draws.
Excellent work my only complaint would be showing movements on a map
As a marine combat veteran fighting at Con Thien on Vietnams old DMZ summer of 1967 to into the late fall at Con Thien, I instinctively understand how violent and vicious war can be. I have my doubts whether our military, including the Marine Corps is up to being able to take on this new violence that has came up on us through technology. Frankly, I don’t see anything wrong with squad bay for anybody under E 5
I'm not clear on how "squad bay" is an answer. Considering the technology that can be tossed at an enemy from afar, boots on the ground have become a half measure. And that's why me and my pet cat Lotti should be in charge of everything.
I wonder if America could rise to the occasion like it did in WW2. The countries manufacturing has been so hollowed out I doubt it could. Nevermind the state of the population. We better pray things calm down I think.
The US is being torn apart by extremism. Democracy is this country is hanging by a thread. Many want a civil war but when you ask them why they want to kill their neighbors, they don’t know. They just know that they are angry. It’s what happens when you spend your time listening to Fox and social media.
Not even possible with the communist indoctrination by the Democrats
No chance. This place is done
Never underestimate the arm service of the U.S. it's more capable than u think they just don't show boat like other countries.
@@billyreastmanjr6176 I spent a decade in the army and fought in 2 wars with them. 2 wars against men in sandals that we lost. It's only gotten worse after I got out in 2011.
So the Doolittle Raid did a lot.
Mama lost a brother in the Philippines flying a medical plane out with wounded never found. Mama unlike daddy who was a paratrooper 82nd respected the Germans, mama disliked the Japanese very much.
The Japanese were brutal at war. It would have been impossible for anyone to like them. They would have had better success against America and Britain if they had treated their fellow Asians better in the conquered lands. Brutality lost them the war much quicker.
Racism? Pretty common back then...never would have dropped an A Bomb on Berlin...
With names like Mama and Daddy, racism and close-minded distrust of different cultures are understandable.
@@barbaraguntfat3047 What are you talking about, guntfat? Got any relevant experience to share, or are you just an empty troll?
A map or two would be helpful.
*Wow… what a blunder. Japan thought that occupying Hawaii and the US West Coast would bring Americans to the negotiating table? That would have brought us straight to Japan!*
Gotta love these AI robotic voice overs ... 11:43 "MacArthur was thrown a sop ...." pronounced "ess-op" in the voice over. MacArthur was thrown a sop. Pronounced "sahp", from the medieval practice of soaking a piece of the trencher/bread in meat juices and throwing it to the hounds in the banquet hall. In other words, MacArthur was thrown a condescending gesture/consolation prize. Ess-op, indeed. LOL!
Because of the title, I was expecting to at least hear a little bit about the Doolittle Raid.
Very interesting...but why nust show a photo of an old plane?Surely there are photos of Yamamoto...etc etc?...
Etc etc ....more photos.. etC. ..etc...
Little here on what/how the Doolittle raid affected Japanese planning.
Japan never faced total defeat until it was rolled by the US. 💪🏻
The fleet at Pearl Harbor was severely damaged, but not destroyed. The Japanese did not hit the dry dock, which means the damage could be repaired. The fuel storage tanks were not touched, so the fleet has the ability to leave the harbor and make noise. Ultimately, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had his wish for America to be in World War II.
Churchill wanted and needed America's entry even more than FDR.
Yamamoto expected to win the war in a few months... or not at all. So, by the time the battleships could have been fixed it would no longer matter. I guess, from that point of view (and not having enough planes to destroy everything) it made sense to focus on destroying the fighting forces (planes, ships...) and forget about everything else.
The fuel storage tanks at Pearl Harbor were scheduled to be destroyed by the third wave of Japanese planes. However, after the first two waves of attack, and fearing the American carriers had been notified of the attack by then, the third wave was called off, and the Japanese fleet high tailed it back to Japan. This plan of action cost the Japanese dearly later in the war, especially at Midway.
Don't forget the luck of the (4?)US Aircraft Carriers not being at Pearl Harbor
@@actionsouthnewsouthnetwork5690it seems as if FDR knew it was coming
Read it too, I was 8 years old. From Casablanca to Berlin was next. To sink the Bismark then A Bridge Too Far were my following.
By the age of nine I met Bilbo Baggins
The Japanese 100% knew the kinda shit storm they walked into.
Anyone know the book being read?
Much of the defense of the Pacific during the first year of the war fell to the USN submarine fleet, which was used to transport supplies and men and to attack Japanese shipping.
MY DAD'S COUSIN LEONARD GROTTE WAS A MARINE RAIDER, HE WAS ONE OF THE MARINE RAIDERS THAT LANDED ON THE FIRST JAPANESE HELD ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC--- AFTER WW2 HE LIVED IN A TOWN IN NORTH DAKOTA NEAR THE STATE CAPITOL, BISMARCK I BELIEVE THAT HE LIVED TO THE MIDDLE 1980'S.
THERE WERE AT LEAST 9 GROTTES AND ENGANS THAT SAW COMBAT IN WW2.
This thorough, historic and insightful narration of the WW2 war in the Pacific Ocean could be aided as a teaching tool with geographical animation.
I had great history teachers even in elementary and high school. I guess they can only put so much in a book. My teachers would tell us extra facts. I realized that the war in the Pacific wasn't taught so much. Just Iwo Jima , Okinawa, the big islands. I started reading and realizing that those little white dots on the globe were little islands that had to be taken before they got to the big ones.
24:05 the wasp
I think the carrier ship is actually known as The Hornet is it not?
this could really use some map visuals.
The issue was the Japanese were prepared to die to win. Meanwhile America was ready to KILL to win. One shows willingness however unwittingly, to acknowledge the possibility of defeat. The other shows an absolute refusal to accept losing as even a possibility. It also showed in how each force treated their armies. Japan was a burn hot but quick force and by the late stages of the war practically any ace Japanese pilot had already kamikazed themselves into oblivion whereas America tried to pull back aces one their kill tallies hit marks to come back to train up the next wave of pilots. By the late stages most of the American airforce was at the very least HIGHLY COMPETENT while the Japanese was decimated and throwing out untrained rookies to add to their funeral pyres.
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It’s incredible that he knew how bad their top down strategy was, but still stuck it out to try to give it some sliver of a chance.
Definitely honorable. Not sure if “good” - obviously if the truly competent people him had refused - they would have just replaced them, although widespread disfunction would likely have lead to an earlier capitulation and saved a lot of Japanese from firebombings - and starvation.
But still have a lot of respect for his commitment.
This would have been much better with map slides instead of the pby static image.
So, killers and non fighting warmongers, seeking glory and riches went against a warrior who understand actions have consequences.
Today, we demonstrate the lesson wasn't learned.
Nope. Par for the course. Remember, leaders don't fight.
“One scram bled up the side of the tank…”
Computer voice has gotten much better in just a few years but I really don’t understand why they couldn’t just use a human reader. I guess for the same reason there’s no video. Pity: the script is quite good.
Money. That's the issue. You can put up static images and use a robot voice for basically no cost. Doing animation and getting licensed footage and music requires a graphics person and an editor. A good human VO person isn't cheap, paid by the word or by the hour. Those are costs most small channels can't cover. Even the bigger ones struggle. Dan Monroe is a one-man show. The Why Files is more than one man but they go off the deep end (ha) with writing, edits and VO. It takes a ton of work and both of those channels regularly miss deadlines.
The Doolittle raid doesn't seem to be in this video at all.
Just talking got 200k views? I need to start a YT channel asap!
maps would have been very helpful.
They don’t hafta ask , they already know … 😖
6-6-2024. Hafta?????? What!!!!!!!
The japanes didn t realize that the blood flowing in americans veins was the blood of their ancestors , adventurers