Pacific Series Part 2: The Disaster at Midway

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    After losing the whole video Thursday, I was able to remake it in time for this weekend. Part 2 goes from right after Pearl Harbor following Japanese expansion to their first major defeat at Midway and their huge loss of striking ability losing many carriers in the process.
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  • @bskorupk
    @bskorupk Před 5 lety +3019

    Japan was looking for a Decisive Battle at Midway, and Japan got a Decisive Battle at Midway.

    • @rodrigogascagomez5190
      @rodrigogascagomez5190 Před 5 lety +251

      Be careful what you wish for, it might go horribly right

    • @yankeebrit9399
      @yankeebrit9399 Před 4 lety +68

      Just not what they hoped for

    • @kloschuessel773
      @kloschuessel773 Před 4 lety +42

      Zachary Kissoon no plan survives contact with the enemy.
      I mean lets be honest here...
      The us knew the plan apparently so the us had the advantage.
      And they send a carrier that was thought to be damaged and not able to fight.
      So it was a double surprise effect for the us navy + getting lucky with the japanese being caught left handed when the us planes reached the japanese carriers.
      So its really arrogant to make fun of japanese strategy here

    • @martabakcoding7784
      @martabakcoding7784 Před 4 lety +57

      @@kloschuessel773 no they are also to blame. The original plan based on the assumsion that the japanese going out with six carriers therefore has a numerical superiority. Shoukaku is inoperational because of battle at coral sea. However Zuikaku is operational and all it need to do to bring her is by reinforcing her air group with squadron from other carrier (in this case shoukaku) but Yamamoto didnt do this or adjust his plan either and instead went with just 4 carrier against 3 us carrier + midway airbase. He basically lower his margin of error

    • @martabakcoding7784
      @martabakcoding7784 Před 4 lety +41

      Not to mention inadequate recon plan, Positioning of the main body (yamato, nagato, mutsu, etc),the invasion force, and the carrier group that is so far from each other to provide direct support. Also questionable is yamamoto decision to command from the yamato, 600 miles away from kido butai and the battle, meaning his tactical awareness is severely limited. The japanese rely too much on us navy behaving exactly as they predicted so closed the room for contingencies

  • @JoelJames2
    @JoelJames2 Před 4 lety +1175

    Yorktown: The ship that was patched up so ludicrously fast after taking damage, that the Japanese thought it was a different ship with the same name.

    • @adenmitchell7633
      @adenmitchell7633 Před rokem +59

      I thought the Japanese thought that it was a "ghost carrier"

    • @firewolf_
      @firewolf_ Před rokem +15

      それも効く

    • @jtgd
      @jtgd Před rokem

      “Wait didn’t I literally JUST kill you?”

    • @USSEnterprise6126
      @USSEnterprise6126 Před rokem +30

      Same with enterprise a few times they thought thay sank the big e a few times I believe

    • @josephryan3597
      @josephryan3597 Před rokem +11

      @@USSEnterprise6126 And Lexington.

  • @samuelshort327
    @samuelshort327 Před 3 lety +667

    Step 1: realize how important carriers are
    Step 2: lose 4 carriers
    Step 3: panic

    • @sushivision
      @sushivision Před rokem +12

      They (Japan) knew how important the carriers would be. Some commanders in the IJN still hung on to battleships and surface battles being the decisive elements, but the people who planned and executed Pearl Harbor and Midway operations (Yamamoto and his officers) knew how important the carriers were for both sides, hence the primary objective of seeking and baiting the USN carriers into an engagement to destroy them.

    • @The_whales
      @The_whales Před 9 měsíci +1

      Americans when Japanese use their tactics: *shrug*
      Japanese when the Americans use their tactics: *confused screaming*

  • @SultanOfAwesomeness
    @SultanOfAwesomeness Před 5 lety +3730

    When your Emperor asks where all your carriers went

    • @bigrabii9470
      @bigrabii9470 Před 5 lety +194

      Mfw divebombers do a divebomb.

    • @chat3087
      @chat3087 Před 5 lety +176

      Dive bombers: *Shrug*

    • @mr.narwhal9034
      @mr.narwhal9034 Před 5 lety +204

      *Commits sudoku*

    • @cg9256
      @cg9256 Před 5 lety +59

      Good question

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety +76

      They actually hid the truth about Midway from the emperor.

  • @randomclouds4404
    @randomclouds4404 Před 5 lety +2502

    Japanese carriers: move to Midway
    U.S intelligence: I'm about to end this man's whole career

    • @michiganfarmer69
      @michiganfarmer69 Před 5 lety +18

      U mean Fletcher not ultra

    • @bennytheclone1199
      @bennytheclone1199 Před 5 lety +59

      Japanese Navy: Why is their Boss fight music
      Boss fight: The US in Midway.

    • @Raptor747
      @Raptor747 Před 5 lety +10

      It actually wasn't Ultra. It was an entirely different code-breaking unit (all American, at that), breaking an entirely different code (and a new code, at that), using entirely different equipment.

    • @ousou78
      @ousou78 Před 5 lety +8

      *end those men whole carriers*

    • @Mantodeavideos
      @Mantodeavideos Před 5 lety +6

      technically its the NSA, or what eventually became the NSA...

  • @americancaesar6065
    @americancaesar6065 Před rokem +234

    The Yorktown can't be complimented enough. Damaged after the battle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese had written it off as sunk when in fact it managed to make it back to Peal Harbor (Albeit damaged and lacking most of it's planes). It was estimated that the Yorktwon required at least 90 days of drydock repair before it could be combat ready again.
    Nimitz gave them 3.
    In 3 days, the Yorktown was ready to go to sail off and fight at midway, a literal miracle performed by the dockworkers of Hawaii.

    • @spynix0718
      @spynix0718 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Not only that, but during Midway when the Japanese first retaliated against the Yorktown, they thought they sunk it. So in an attempt to even the playing field, they attacked, what they thought was a different Carrier. Instead, they attacked the Yorktown twice.

    • @rapatacush3
      @rapatacush3 Před 5 měsíci

      The dock i went to, took three days to replace a single 3 inch tube.

  • @TomFynn
    @TomFynn Před rokem +177

    Nimitz: "See those Jap carriers?"
    Fletcher: "Yes, Sir!"
    Nimitz: "I don't want to."

    • @cleverusername9369
      @cleverusername9369 Před rokem

      Nimitz was back in Pearl Harbor. Never saw a Jap carrier during Midway.

    • @flickcentergaming680
      @flickcentergaming680 Před 10 měsíci +7

      "Yes, Sir."

    • @The_whales
      @The_whales Před 9 měsíci +10

      “Ay admiral do you want your carriers medium rare? Because I did it anyways”
      -dive bombers pilots

  • @GaldirEonai
    @GaldirEonai Před 4 lety +348

    "Nagumo's No-Good Horrible Very Bad Day" is probably the best possible description of Midway.

  • @idontknowhowtonamethings.6905
    @idontknowhowtonamethings.6905 Před 5 lety +1660

    Netherlands: damn we lost to the Germans, at least we got the East Indies
    Japan: I'm about to end this man's whole career

    • @starcrafter9672
      @starcrafter9672 Před 5 lety +18

      I don't know how to name things. Yes it’s what we thought

    • @warc8us
      @warc8us Před 4 lety +29

      The Dutch even considered moving their capital to Batavia at one point - It's not crazy to suggest an alternate history in which the whole Dutch nation migrates to the East Indies!

    • @maartenboy37
      @maartenboy37 Před 3 lety +15

      GEdeKOLONISEERD

    • @dualrotorhelicopter
      @dualrotorhelicopter Před 3 lety +8

      Aw shucks, atleast they have *Suriname*

    • @NewNoobie
      @NewNoobie Před 2 lety +2

      Indonesian Revolutionary Force hearing Japanese incoming attack : :)

  • @cellperfecto421
    @cellperfecto421 Před 5 lety +2324

    When the Japanese planes are bombarding Midway and the American planes are getting close to your carriers: (chuckles) I'm in danger

    • @YoBoyNeptune
      @YoBoyNeptune Před 3 lety +16

      When you're about to launch 4 carriers worth of attack aircraft against the American carriers but you hear dive bombers and they aren't yours:
      *Nervous laughter* wtf

  • @thomasturner6980
    @thomasturner6980 Před 5 lety +2130

    Little did Japan know that there was gonna be a massive mushroom on their mainland in a few years time

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Před 5 lety +1571

    Nowadays Midway is a National Wildlife Refuge and breeding ground for the near threatened Laysan albatross. It has become home sweet home for the birds. The oldest wild bird in the world is found on the island, a female named Wisdom who was born in 1951

    • @TorchedKiwi
      @TorchedKiwi Před 5 lety +204

      Nice to know that it's not just death that Midway's famous for.

    • @timonsolus
      @timonsolus Před 5 lety +135

      It always was. Even during the war. They were very tame. One US pilot enticed an albatross into his friend’s bunk (with food) as a joke. His friend got a huge shock, and a chunk nipped out of his thumb when he went to get into bed. True story.

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety +36

      The birds were there since before the war. A lot of them were killed by military-owned dogs.

    • @AverytheCubanAmerican
      @AverytheCubanAmerican Před 5 lety +33

      Tim Smith It wasn’t always a National Wildlife Refuge. It became one in 1988

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety +29

      Avery The Cuban-American
      He meant the birds were always there.

  • @Corristo89
    @Corristo89 Před 4 lety +140

    An interesting sidenote on the USA breaking the IJN codes: They could intercept and decipher the codes, but didn't know what the code word for Midway was. So they had the base send out a message with "Our water supplies are running low" or something like that. The USA then waited and intercepted an IJN transmission, stating that "American base (insert code word here) is low on water". So when the IJN was constantly using the code word for Midway, the Americans knew well in advance that the base was going to be the main target of the planned carrier strike.

    • @USSEnterprise6126
      @USSEnterprise6126 Před rokem +2

      Target af I believe

    • @leong108
      @leong108 Před rokem +15

      They had a strong belief that AF was Midway, and the ruse was only in the week before the attack. They ran that ruse about wat6er to confirm 100% that AF was Midway. If they didnt get confirmation they might still have prepared the same way for Midway, but also have done something else to detect or deter the operation.

    • @cjclark1208
      @cjclark1208 Před rokem +4

      That’s some GD grade-A high intellectual maximum brain power forethought usage tbh.

  • @mikeyfisher4256
    @mikeyfisher4256 Před 5 lety +219

    Nagumo: "Oh boy! Midway!"
    **American planes appear overhead**
    Nagumo: **high pitched squeal**

  • @surprisedchar2458
    @surprisedchar2458 Před 4 lety +41

    In the US, we know the successful sudden strike on the IJN Carriers as “McClusky’s Miracle”.
    In Japan, this event is known as “Where the hell did all these gaijin planes come from?”

  • @USSAnimeNCC-
    @USSAnimeNCC- Před 5 lety +611

    America: Remember when you sunk my ship in swallow water and fail to get my carrier
    Japan: Ah shit don't remind us again

    • @justat1149
      @justat1149 Před 5 lety +23

      Failure at Pearl Harbor. Midway: Japan, “Oh shit, here we go again”

    • @johnisaacfelipe6357
      @johnisaacfelipe6357 Před 4 lety +14

      Church literally saved sailors from getting bombed.

    • @JoelJames2
      @JoelJames2 Před 4 lety +6

      Japan: "Remember when my Japan-izing beam turned your ships into waifus?"

    • @Web720
      @Web720 Před 4 lety +11

      @@JoelJames2 Didn't matter won the war and got carrier waifus.

    • @SolarMonolith206
      @SolarMonolith206 Před 4 lety +7

      @@Web720 "I see this as an absolute win"

  • @comm___4871
    @comm___4871 Před 5 lety +105

    Midway: exsists
    Japanese Carrier fleet: yo I’m straight up not having a good time

  • @romanbellic810
    @romanbellic810 Před 5 lety +622

    You didn't sink my battleship! Carrier? Never heard of it.

    • @USSAnimeNCC-
      @USSAnimeNCC- Před 5 lety +28

      Who carrier I don't remember such a thing

    • @BirdRaiserE
      @BirdRaiserE Před 4 lety +9

      And then I said "Carrier? I hardly knew her!" Hahaha!

    • @johnilarde7087
      @johnilarde7087 Před 3 lety +3

      "Carriers are just myths"

    • @wyveriusblackfire3834
      @wyveriusblackfire3834 Před 2 lety +2

      Ah, yes, "carriers"; the large ships carrying airplanes that are supposedly the future of naval combat. We have dismissed that claim.

  • @CommieMemes
    @CommieMemes Před 5 lety +737

    *Nanjing*
    *WOOPS HOW THAT GET IN THERE*

  • @MikeJones-qn1gz
    @MikeJones-qn1gz Před 4 lety +44

    *The Solomon islands exist* Japan: "yeah I got time" Morgan Freeman " but he indeed did not have time"

  • @Kardia_of_Rhodes
    @Kardia_of_Rhodes Před 5 lety +254

    When you can intercept and decode your enemy's encrypted messages before they have time to decode them, themselves.
    *INTELLIGENCE: 100*

    • @alastorsanderson2620
      @alastorsanderson2620 Před 5 lety +19

      seeing the large size of the Yamoto fills you with DETERMINATION
      ~only now notices U.S. dive bombers~
      Japanese sailor #1: heh heh
      I'm in danger

    • @vinz4066
      @vinz4066 Před 2 lety +6

      Britian did the Same thing to Germany

    • @Ballin4Vengeance
      @Ballin4Vengeance Před rokem

      @@vinz4066 Took them some time

  • @Zakatak-mf4iq
    @Zakatak-mf4iq Před 5 lety +348

    *Far from shore, a Pacific war!*
    *Bombs are falling from the skies;*
    *It's a bomb-run day, it's the naval way*
    *A blood-red sun is on the rise!!*

    • @crleL-xn1im
      @crleL-xn1im Před 5 lety +25

      *guitar solo kicks in*

    • @grlt23
      @grlt23 Před 5 lety +30

      When the winged Carriers arrived!
      ...
      ...
      Wait, wrong battle..

    • @headinquisitor8706
      @headinquisitor8706 Před 5 lety +12

      r/unexpectedsabaton

    • @Slayer_Jesse
      @Slayer_Jesse Před 5 lety +13

      MIDWAY! WE'LL MEET AT MIDWAY! NAAAAA-VAAAAAL WAR!

    • @inshrektorgadget1546
      @inshrektorgadget1546 Před 4 lety +16

      DISPLAY THEIR MIGHT, ORDERING CARRIERS
      ADMIRALS AT WAR
      *WE MEET AT MIDWAY*
      TO WIN THE FIGHT, TACTICS ARE CRUCIAL
      *NAAAAAAVAL WAR*

  • @steweygrrr
    @steweygrrr Před 3 lety +97

    "In a day the Japanese Navy went from etc etc etc"
    Not even that. Five minutes. That's how long it took Japan to essentially lose the naval war in the Pacific. Oh and a metric fuckton of that good ol' Enterprise cheat level luck.

    • @USSEnterprise6126
      @USSEnterprise6126 Před rokem +10

      Well enterprise is the God of the pacific
      (Fight me)

    • @cleverusername9369
      @cleverusername9369 Před rokem +2

      Enterprise was American, she wouldn't have used not-getting-to-the-moon ass metric

    • @steweygrrr
      @steweygrrr Před rokem +5

      @@cleverusername9369 psssst the Moon missions all used metric measurements

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před rokem

      Not really, given that Japan’s most capable carriers weren’t even at Midway and that Japan actually recovered most of the pilots at Midway (this video gets this wrong).
      What really killed the IJN carrier arm was Guadalcanal.

    • @steweygrrr
      @steweygrrr Před rokem +1

      @Bk Jeong Eh? Four out of the six IJN fleet carriers were at Midway because Shoukaku had been mauled and Zuikaku damaged during the battle of the Coral Sea and needed repairs and to replace large aircraft pilot losses. Almost all of Hiryuu's surviving pilots were lost because of her final counterattack, Akagi and Kaga's took major losses both in air and from the hangar explosions that sank them. Between the four carriers, they lost over 5,000 veteran carrier crew and pilots. Without those fleet carriers, they were on parity with the allies but fell behind massively in their both industrial capacity to replace them quickly enough and their ability to replace aircrew because of the way they taught combat pilots.

  • @kasparkannel3108
    @kasparkannel3108 Před 5 lety +342

    "I personally enjoy aircraft carriers the most"
    oh no

    • @frenchsoldier8485
      @frenchsoldier8485 Před 5 lety +17

      *Dramactic music as an Admiral Kuznetsov launched its total amount of Su-33s*

    • @mayer492
      @mayer492 Před 4 lety +9

      *Proceeds to alt f4*

    • @tjb_6203
      @tjb_6203 Před 4 lety +2

      *KAMIKAZE FLIES INTENSIFY*

  • @fuchsia3623
    @fuchsia3623 Před 5 lety +247

    Yamamoto: let's not tell theme there's aircraft carriers
    American pilots: bitch gonna die

    • @phuct4980
      @phuct4980 Před 5 lety +7

      world war boi hi mate how are u today. Did anyone of your family were in the war or in any war u know.

    • @fuchsia3623
      @fuchsia3623 Před 5 lety +5

      @@phuct4980 um yeah my grandpa fought in Normandy and my great grandfather fought in France in ww1 for a short while he didint get their till 1918 my grandpas brother joined before him he was sent to the Pacific and his friend based of of what my grandpa told me unfortunately died on normandy

    • @phuct4980
      @phuct4980 Před 5 lety +3

      world war boi ok my uncle fight for the vietcong my family was tear apart from south and north, he was force to fight if he want my family in the north to have a place to live. Unfortunately he died a few year before the war end via agent orange gas.

    • @fuchsia3623
      @fuchsia3623 Před 5 lety +1

      @@phuct4980 I'm sorry to hear that my dad uncle severed in Vietnam I'm sorry for your loss

  • @woop4628
    @woop4628 Před 5 lety +31

    My grandpa faught in Midway. I still have his ka-bar. After Midway he got a knife made with a handle made of plastic from a Japanese fighter plane

  • @animatorkid939
    @animatorkid939 Před 5 lety +488

    Wow hold up
    World of warship sponsor RussianBadger and you can do a code where you can get Langley (Tier 4 usa carrier)
    And for potential history you get Hosho (tier 4 IJN carrier)
    *COINCIDENCE I THINK NOT*

    • @arthurmorgan2418
      @arthurmorgan2418 Před 5 lety +27

      *POTENTIAL HISTORY SECRETLY BAJUR CONFIRMED?*

    • @rossf8616
      @rossf8616 Před 5 lety +10

      choose your side.

    • @animatorkid939
      @animatorkid939 Před 5 lety +4

      @@rossf8616
      Potential History

    • @rn-zu5ld
      @rn-zu5ld Před 5 lety +3

      @@arthurmorgan2418 MURICA TIME

    • @gggaming4tg
      @gggaming4tg Před 5 lety +3

      Ooooo,Badger vs Potential history
      Go Badger
      Go Badger

  • @elitapjohnson
    @elitapjohnson Před 5 lety +75

    Pacific islands: *exists*
    Japan: *would be a shame if someone just captured this*
    This series is going to take forever

  • @TheGreatLlamaJockey
    @TheGreatLlamaJockey Před 3 lety +12

    Nagumo: let’s attack midway to bait their carriers
    Nimitz: I’m ‘bout to do what’s called a pro gamer move.

  • @chinny18
    @chinny18 Před 5 lety +331

    *Shows non-controversy lists
    *inserts Nanjing
    Nice meme

    • @tjb_6203
      @tjb_6203 Před 4 lety +29

      Don’t believe this damn bias nothing happened in Nanjing it was basically just the Japanese having an awesome party with many Chinese Women.

    • @dinosaurusrex1482
      @dinosaurusrex1482 Před 4 lety +4

      @@tjb_6203 undead women?

    • @tjb_6203
      @tjb_6203 Před 4 lety +10

      Dinosaurus Rex
      Well some of them celebrated their liberation too much so they died from alcohol poisoning

    • @literaldirt
      @literaldirt Před 4 lety +1

      TJB _
      You kidding right? If not, *go back to school you weeaboo*

    • @hirocheeto7795
      @hirocheeto7795 Před 4 lety +13

      Of course he's kidding

  • @Alphaisnothere
    @Alphaisnothere Před 5 lety +136

    A swarm of panes from the Enterprise atack the Kaga.
    "OWARIDA" : Enterprise probably.

  • @Slatts2
    @Slatts2 Před 5 lety +143

    wew boy that 1-800-now-arc-rime got me good

  • @emmanmojica3642
    @emmanmojica3642 Před 5 lety +88

    You forgot to mention the Philippine Commonwealth troops that fought as hard as the Americans. At this point, the Philippines was semi-independent with nominal autonomy so by that extension, we fought as allies and not as colonial troops.
    But still, great video!

    • @emmanmojica3642
      @emmanmojica3642 Před 5 lety +8

      Britannic hayyomatt
      Erhm, no. America did not govern the Philippines the same way as the British governed their own colonies. The Philippines was a semi-independent country thanks to the Tydings-Mcduffie Act and America realizing it was the late kid who brought into the schoolyard fad.
      Practically, my grandfathers fought for the Philippines, under Filipino officers who took orders from the Quezon government and coordinated with American forces.

    • @emmanmojica3642
      @emmanmojica3642 Před 5 lety +1

      Britannic hayyomatt
      Fair point. The only thing I’m ticked about is that he didn’t mention the Philippine Army who fought on their own soil and the Filipinos who endured five years of brutality and rape.

    • @callummurrayofficialyoutub1369
      @callummurrayofficialyoutub1369 Před 5 lety +4

      CrazyNikel wow calm down mate

    • @CrazyNikel
      @CrazyNikel Před 4 lety +8

      @Britannic hayyomatt You typed all of that and I never said otherwise? I said the facts, which was the US would win regardless. It was an overwhelming victory that forced Japan to consider using *school children to fight.* So again, nicely typed and I agree. These people fought hard *as I originally said.* But, as you Euros love saying Russia won the war in Europe, the US on the other hand won the war in the pacific.

    • @CrazyNikel
      @CrazyNikel Před 4 lety

      @Britannic hayyomatt If you arent a anti US troll: czcams.com/video/l9ag2x3CS9M/video.html watch that video *done by a German* and you will understand.

  • @FuryTomic
    @FuryTomic Před 5 lety +79

    I feel honored to have a video I made be featured here! Enjoyed the history man! :)

  • @rgm96x49
    @rgm96x49 Před 5 lety +16

    Another thing about Midway was that the IJN suppressed information on the battle's results from pretty much everyone that wasn't the Emperor and his close aides (their official tally on the battle at the time was somewhere along the lines of 1 carrier lost and the USN fleet annihilated).
    Grey Ghost soon!

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety

      They didn’t tell the Emperor either, actually.

    • @damonedrington3453
      @damonedrington3453 Před 19 dny

      I wonder if Hirohito ever went “Uh guys, isn’t it kinda weird that we’ve destroyed the pacific fleet like 4 times?”

  • @E100Omega123
    @E100Omega123 Před 5 lety +16

    Me, a DD main: Oh boy a new Potential History video! He sure is one of my favorite youtubers!
    Potential History: I'm a carrier main
    Me: You're dead to me

  • @kilroywashere8008
    @kilroywashere8008 Před 5 lety +154

    You are, by far, one of my favorite youtubers as you blend memes and history in such a brilliant way. I am so glad that I have something that I can share with my dad that he can enjoy too. Keep up the great work

    • @MF-wl2yn
      @MF-wl2yn Před 5 lety

      Ironfox ur mom gay

    • @deathwolf123451
      @deathwolf123451 Před 5 lety +1

      @@MF-wl2yn Why is this the one reply lmao

    • @F.R.E.D.D2986
      @F.R.E.D.D2986 Před 4 lety

      I'm just gonna reply so that the likes can be divided by 3 and it to be equal

    • @MF-wl2yn
      @MF-wl2yn Před 4 lety

      Freddy Fazbear And Springtrap gtfo bitch

    • @m.steward9146
      @m.steward9146 Před 4 lety +1

      Kilroywashere: REDDIT ROX!

  • @PotentialHistory
    @PotentialHistory  Před 5 lety +47

    Hey everyone, I realized that it's been a while since part 1 of this series and some people may have forgotten since it's been so long, so I linked part 1 in the description (lead up and Pearl Harbor) for anyone who wants to go back and watch it or hasn't watched it yet. Thanks everyone for watching and I'm looking forward as we continue this series!

    • @shermsgamingshenanigans3900
      @shermsgamingshenanigans3900 Před 5 lety +3

      Hey Potential History you should redo this video. It’s not detailed enough and has a giant rushed feeling compared to the rest of what I’ve watched of yours. I really like your content but this is not the quality I usually see in here. The whole battle of Midway is much more complicated than what’s presented here.

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety +1

      Sherm’s Gaming Shenanigans
      It’s also quite inaccurate on several points.

  • @NBblowyouup71
    @NBblowyouup71 Před 5 lety +7

    0:30 “Whoops how’d that get in there” for Nanjing😂😂😂

  • @pk-zi7lm
    @pk-zi7lm Před 5 lety +96

    USA: "(japan,) the numbahs dont lie... A N D T H E Y S P E L L D I S A S T A H F O R Y O U"
    japan: _nervous sweating_

  • @tacticalfall4505
    @tacticalfall4505 Před 5 lety +28

    The second wave of Japanese against the Yorktown though it was a different carrier it because of how quickly it got repaired after the first wave.

  • @rafalemiec8683
    @rafalemiec8683 Před 5 lety +16

    Funny. I've recently seen Battle at Midway with Japanese fog of war videos recommended to me, watched the entire series guy had about the war in the Pacific, and decided to collect the Kido Butai in 1:700 scale. I'm painting the Shokaku while watching this (if only had it been present...)

  • @waltermartinez9110
    @waltermartinez9110 Před 5 lety +29

    "I SHALL RETURN"
    -MC ARTHUR
    I miss that quotation

  • @tennoshenaniganizer9234
    @tennoshenaniganizer9234 Před 5 lety +29

    Japan: "I can't see. Are we boned?"
    Nagumo: "Yep."
    Me: **dead xD**

  • @25henrywatson
    @25henrywatson Před 5 lety +50

    When you use Global Chat instead of Team..

  • @pelayovial4779
    @pelayovial4779 Před 5 lety +330

    I thought this series was dead
    Im happy it isnt. ¡great video!

    • @zacharymohammadi
      @zacharymohammadi Před 5 lety +2

      Me to

    • @PotentialHistory
      @PotentialHistory  Před 5 lety +30

      It's been scheduled to where the final episode will air on the anniversary of the Japanese surrender, so it's going to be kind of spread out. But will finish and go the whole way!

    • @fuchsia3623
      @fuchsia3623 Před 5 lety +3

      oh so it's kinda like how the great war channel did there series on ww1

    • @TheJudge1933
      @TheJudge1933 Před 5 lety +2

      @@PotentialHistory that's what goering said at stalingrad...

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety

      Potential History
      I honestly have to say this is one of your weakest videos; it reinforces old myths about Midway and about IJN carrier doctrine in general.

  • @Spaceman404.
    @Spaceman404. Před 5 lety +13

    Side-note:
    The US was originally going to bring USS Saratoga CV-3 as a 4th carrier for the battle, but it was going under repairs after suffering a hit from a torpedo it took during a raid, so the flight groups from Saratoga were used to reinforce Yorktown's airgroups after the losses it suffered at Coral Sea

  • @Valks-22
    @Valks-22 Před 5 lety +9

    as far as "turning points" I'd wager the really important ones were not necessarily in battle, but in decryption and espionage.
    Once Japanese and German (engima) codes were broken it was pretty much downhill for them, even if they had more carriers to spare the allies knew when, where, and how they were going the use them, their strategies, plans, routes etc. and could prepare and set traps accordingly having that information at their disposal.

  • @eugeneoliveros5814
    @eugeneoliveros5814 Před 5 lety +6

    Japan’s basically that kid in RISK that just yeets the entirety of Asia in one turn because ignoring them seemed like a good idea at the time

  • @joshuaslawson9125
    @joshuaslawson9125 Před 5 lety +26

    The Battle of the Coral Sea was a Japanese Tactical Victory and an American Strategic Victory, whilst The Battle of Midway was an American Decisive Victory.

  • @Minecraftineer998
    @Minecraftineer998 Před 5 lety +55

    when you realize the Pacific Theatre was lowkey the greatest naval war in history
    edit: oops was that spoilers?

    • @USSEnterprise6126
      @USSEnterprise6126 Před rokem

      Well it was until around late 1942 early 43 after that it was basically a stomp fest for the most part

    • @idisplaypace2411
      @idisplaypace2411 Před rokem +1

      @@USSEnterprise6126 no. 1944 saw the biggest naval battle in history

    • @USSEnterprise6126
      @USSEnterprise6126 Před rokem

      @@idisplaypace2411 what is the name of it

    • @idisplaypace2411
      @idisplaypace2411 Před rokem +1

      Leyte gulf

    • @USSEnterprise6126
      @USSEnterprise6126 Před rokem

      @@idisplaypace2411 layte was part of the stomp fest
      It was over 300 allied ships including 8 fleet carriers vs 67 Japanese with 1 fleet carrier
      Tell me how that isn't a stomp (I Google largest navel battle and layte came up)
      So yes after what the dates I stated it was a stomp fest

  • @drk6632
    @drk6632 Před 5 lety +13

    *Nanjing scrolls by* "whoops howd that get in there"
    I spit out my coffee when i heard that

  • @my_boi55
    @my_boi55 Před 5 lety +90

    "Hands of American Troops in the Philippines" Erm I know this is just small thing but I would really appreciate atleast calling also Filipino troops that particpated in defending my country
    but nevertheless great video!
    (Pls dont dis on me in the comments)

    • @callummurrayofficialyoutub1369
      @callummurrayofficialyoutub1369 Před 5 lety +19

      Prepare to be dissed (not really)
      They really should be called American Filipino troops seeing they where under American control but still nationally Filipino and seeing we call African troops in WW2 with their prefixes and even Indian troops we probably should do the same for the Filipinos

    • @danielmedina3094
      @danielmedina3094 Před 4 lety +1

      Britannia 1812 well a lot of them were Americans. It was a mixed force of US army and Philippine constabulary.

    • @elitecassidy8258
      @elitecassidy8258 Před 4 lety +4

      You could say the Filipinos counted as Americans because your country was part of the US at the time

    • @ericaarcadia7178
      @ericaarcadia7178 Před 4 lety +5

      The Philippines back then was a commonwealth on it's way to independence, read Tydings-McDuffie Act, which reclassified Filipinos as non-Americans.

    • @randomguy-tg7ok
      @randomguy-tg7ok Před 4 lety +1

      I guess you _could_ also interpret the statement as "American-controlled" troops, like "Soviet tanks in Finland in 1944" are probably going to be American-made. Though yeah, it wasn't just Americans defending the Philippines.

  • @bluehemlock1156
    @bluehemlock1156 Před 5 lety +29

    Now-arc-rime? what is that?
    no war-
    *oh*

  • @sealordmountbatten
    @sealordmountbatten Před 5 lety +15

    0:59 "Simulator"
    Yeah, we'll go with that

  • @lancegideondiokno1774
    @lancegideondiokno1774 Před 2 lety +8

    Just a slight correction
    Nagumo went on a CRUISER not a destroyer
    also the 3rd "group" was literally just a lieutenant and his wingmen Dick Best
    and Best's bomb singlehandedly told Akagi that it wasnt allowed to exist

  • @nerowulfee9210
    @nerowulfee9210 Před 5 lety +9

    The most "NANI?!" moment in history. Of all time.

  • @CH0PSTlCKS
    @CH0PSTlCKS Před 4 lety +7

    "Pearl Harbor"
    "Nanjing"
    "Whoops! How did that get in there?"

  • @aze94
    @aze94 Před 5 lety +3

    Fun fact 1: All 4 Japanese carriers were sunk within 5 minutes. It's even called "The five minutes that changed history".
    Fun fact 2: The Japanese Navy tried to hide their defeat at Midway and announced a great victory instead, saying that they had sunk several US ships and lost merely one carrier. This greatly disrupted military plans and even Tojo himself only learned of the defeat several months later.

    • @thomasderp8434
      @thomasderp8434 Před 5 lety

      They were idiots

    • @Nuke89345
      @Nuke89345 Před 5 lety +1

      3 of the 4 were hit in the 5 minutes, Hiryuu was ahead of the carriers so she escaped that to launch her strikes at Yorktown twice while thinking she was attacking two different carriers.

  • @g0urd_dude246
    @g0urd_dude246 Před 5 lety +51

    Pacific Series Part 2: Electric Boogaloo?

  • @atomichobbit7358
    @atomichobbit7358 Před 5 lety +3

    I've noticed a pattern that many of Japan's naval plans centered around complicated maneuvers and coordination between fleets and yet they were not talking to each other in an attempt to stay hidden. Both during the battles off of the Philippines and Midway, the Japanese appeared to have had no idea where each other were and what the situation was.

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety

      Michael Reikes
      Overcomplicated planning was one of the biggest problems with the IJN; honestly it was a far more endemic problem than the usually mentioned “focused too much on battleships”, because while everyone in WWII built useless battleships, only Imperial Japan drew up stupidly convoluted naval plans that didn’t fit even their own doctrine.
      For example, the “decisive battle” they wanted would have gone like this:
      - first, use your own carriers to kill any surviving enemy carriers (this part is sound)
      - then, after nightfall launch torpedo attacks on enemy screening units and then attack the main enemy battleline itself (Japanese torpedoes were among the best of the war, but even they weren’t so good as to be able to have as much of an impact as the plan called for. So it’s questionable whether this stage would have worked in practice)
      - finally, use your own battleships to mop up the remainder of the enemy battleline, using long-range fire at ranges of 35,000-40,000 yards to avoid own casualties (this is the pointless part; the whole reason for killing the enemy carriers is so enemy carriers can’t kill your own battleships, but that also means you can just use your own carriers to sink the enemy battleline with impunity. So why even bother adding this third stage of the battle? Aside from that, there’s the fact that naval gunfire at those ranges was very inaccurate even with late-war radar-guided American fire control, making it impossible to actually sink anything in an useful timeframe. This problem would be worse for the Japanese as they only had search radar and then only on newer ships)

    • @jameshannagan4256
      @jameshannagan4256 Před rokem

      It worked until we cracked their codes I think that had a lot more to do with it.

    • @jameshannagan4256
      @jameshannagan4256 Před rokem

      @@bkjeong4302 Their intel was really poor and then we cracked their codes that probably had more to do with it than anything else.

  • @Minboelf
    @Minboelf Před 5 lety +20

    Then:Pacific series directed by Steven Spielberg
    Now:Pacific series directed by Potential history

  • @michaelfrasinelli3279
    @michaelfrasinelli3279 Před 5 lety +5

    I just discovered this channel a few days ago, and after some obligatory binge watching, it is in my top 5 if not top 3 favorites now. Great content man

  • @justiceforjoggers2897
    @justiceforjoggers2897 Před 5 lety +338

    So many people who aren't first, such a shamefur dispray

  • @foresstfire23
    @foresstfire23 Před 4 lety +5

    Yamamoto: Haha with my four carriers, there's no way the Americans can defend Midway
    USS Enterprise, Hornet, and Yorktown: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*

  • @kyle857
    @kyle857 Před 4 lety +3

    Good idea: Sinking an enemy fleet in a surprise attack.
    Bad idea: Sinking it in harbor where the ships can easily be refloated or repaired...

  • @misanthropicservitorofmars2116

    The Enterprise was such a CHAD ship. I’m glad the story of it was told on history channel back in the day. The crew of the USS Enterprise hands down get the MVP medal for the pacific war.

  • @mochawatte
    @mochawatte Před 5 lety +11

    Just a heads ups, the hosho is not a premium ship, its the first aircraft carrier in its tier

  • @declangulley4687
    @declangulley4687 Před 5 lety +33

    shows Nanjing
    "OOPS How did that get in there?"

  • @BeerHombre
    @BeerHombre Před 5 lety +12

    Japanese Emperor: GIVE ME BACK MY CARRIERS!

  • @unitednations774
    @unitednations774 Před 5 lety +13

    I got a farmers insurance when I called the number.

  • @juliuss2056
    @juliuss2056 Před 4 lety +4

    5:42 you could say that the Japanese achieved a tactical victory while the Americans gained a strategic victory

  • @kreegercast7943
    @kreegercast7943 Před 5 lety +3

    One of your best intros yet. Not to mention mention one of your best episodes yet. I got a very good documentary feel from this one.

  • @noblegamer5627
    @noblegamer5627 Před 5 lety +8

    I recommend to people who are interested to watch the MIDWAY movie. Its an old but fantastic and really accurate movie of the battle of midway using actual color footage from the battle mix with animated footage.

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety

      noblegamer56
      It’s not that accurate-the historiography of the battle (and other Pacific Theatre battles) has changed a lot since it came out, so a lot is out of date.

    • @machaiping
      @machaiping Před 5 lety +1

      @@bkjeong4302 You know, I'm debating whether to recommend people to play Empire Earth: Art of Conquest American campaign for one of the most cringe worthy Midway recreation ever conceived or not.
      It starts with BOTH American and Japanese fielding *Gearing Class destroyer* , then there's Zeroes that's spawned from the ocean floor instead of from IJN carriers because the AI controlling Japanese side doesn't like following the script and drive the carriers away from where they historically located. And if you failed a spot check or bad at scouting (the map is huge so it's even more likely) you can run your Enterprise into their fleet too because, again, they're not where they supposed to be and planes has limited fuel thus cannot traverse the entire map. It's like the developers doesn't want to give players with history knowledge an easy win.

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety

      machaiping
      Dafuq?

    • @machaiping
      @machaiping Před 5 lety +1

      @@bkjeong4302 But to be fair, back when this game came out, 4GB harddisk and 650 MB CD Rom is considered super-expensive high-end rigs, and this game spanned from Prehistoric period with Cavemen to Future era with Giant Robots, they just don't have enough disk space for every unique unit models for everything so they settled for that.
      But that doesn't excuse the AI decided that it doesn't like the Midway script (or any historical missions script at all) and doing their own thing despite it's supposed to be recreation of historical event though.

  • @harryzhao727
    @harryzhao727 Před 5 lety +15

    Imagine having a ship that had turrets, this meme was made by the aircraft carrier gang

    • @yourlocalt72
      @yourlocalt72 Před 5 lety +6

      Harry Zhao imagine having a ship with a fuck ton of planes and this meme was made by battleship gang

    • @basicpigeonbee
      @basicpigeonbee Před 5 lety +10

      Imagine your ship taking years upon years to build and costing millions but being sunk by a torpedo
      This meme was made by the submarine gang

    • @yourlocalt72
      @yourlocalt72 Před 5 lety +10

      Cxxvii imagine just because you are submerged you can escape a depth charge this meme was made by destroyer gang

    • @jassonms2224
      @jassonms2224 Před 5 lety +7

      @@yourlocalt72 imagine having to travel by sea, this meme was made by Planes gang

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety +2

      Imagine having to have pilots to kill things from hundreds of miles away
      This meme was made by the missile cruiser gang.

  • @trashlag
    @trashlag Před 5 lety +11

    Japan: Let's win
    Japan's generals: I don't know about that chief
    Japan's carriers: *Uh*

  • @vinkhe861
    @vinkhe861 Před 4 lety +3

    Japan : After this glorious battle, the Americans will be on their backfoot yet again!
    Carriers : *Uhh I'm about to head out tho*

  • @stevemc01
    @stevemc01 Před 2 lety +4

    9:07
    Now HOW the Enterprise bombers got to the Japanese force is a bit of a funny story.
    The USS Nautilus, a submarine in the Midway task force, shadowed the Japanese force and basically had Nagumo s***ting himself. He dispatched the destroyer IJN Arashi to turn around and make depth charge runs on Nautilus. Arashi manages several hits, but Nautilus escapes.
    Meanwhile, the SBD squadron from the Enterprise had followed a predicted route that the carriers MIGHT have taken, and found nothing. This was where Wade McCluskey had to make a choice:
    - Return to the Enterprise to refuel
    - Keep shadowing the area or maybe head south to find a different route
    McCluskey, as we know, went with option 2, and it wasn't for nothing. While the planes kept running low, the crew spotted a ship sailing in the distance. Now guess what ship that was exactly...
    It was the IJN Arashi lol. She gave up on her hunt for Nautilus and headed back to the carriers. McCluskey caught her on her return trip, followed her course, and unleashed hell with his squadron. So you could say the biggest help for the Americans at Midway wasn't even American.

  • @nathandurrence134
    @nathandurrence134 Před 5 lety +130

    World of Warships:
    Free to play*
    Simulator *
    Realistic*
    War Thunder has entered the chat

    • @yobeefjerky42
      @yobeefjerky42 Před 5 lety +14

      People with time has left the chat

    • @toddhoward7649
      @toddhoward7649 Před 4 lety +8

      Not being grindy*
      No seriously ive played it for ages and only have a few tier 5s

    • @AlabamaSoldier
      @AlabamaSoldier Před 4 lety

      Call me when War Thunder has a respectable naval presence.

    • @rockboy3970
      @rockboy3970 Před 4 lety +2

      @@AlabamaSoldier hey uh, it does now.

    • @anusers76thaccount.83
      @anusers76thaccount.83 Před 3 lety

      @@rockboy3970 Ah, really? How is they naval battles in comparison with World of Warships?

  • @Wallyworld30
    @Wallyworld30 Před 5 lety +10

    I highly recommend Montemeyer's Midway video. Best on youtube.

    • @eldorados_lost_searcher
      @eldorados_lost_searcher Před 5 lety +1

      It's from the Japanese perspective of the battle, so you only know what they know as it plays out.

    • @marc751
      @marc751 Před 5 lety

      Agreed very good video.

    • @Wallyworld30
      @Wallyworld30 Před 5 lety +2

      @@eldorados_lost_searcher I actually loved the way he told it as it let's you understand the decisions the Japanese took.

  • @boxman9033
    @boxman9033 Před 5 lety +9

    We'll meet at midway
    To win the fight,
    tactics are crucial
    Naval war
    ,
    Midway!!!

  • @FredRated1967
    @FredRated1967 Před 3 lety +1

    Read an interesting book many years ago. It was a breakdown of the Battle of Midway through the eyes of a couple of Japanese naval officers present at the engagement.
    The upshot was is the IJN had serious case of victory disease, due to their string of victories. So much so that during sand table exercises for the commanding officers, ships that were killed were miraculously brought back to life.
    Essentially, even the training was colored by those victory glasses. This was one of many reasons they got spanked at Midway.

  • @bluewarbler9034
    @bluewarbler9034 Před 4 lety +3

    "Nagumo's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day"
    Lost it there.

  • @TheGoodGeneral59
    @TheGoodGeneral59 Před 5 lety +3

    well this was well timed, i was watching the japanese pov of midway, then the fortester aircraft carrier explosion during vietnam

  • @warrenlehmkuhleii8472
    @warrenlehmkuhleii8472 Před 5 lety +14

    You forgot to mention most glorious warship ever.
    USS Enterprise CV-6. (Well HMS Victory ties.)

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety +5

      Warren Lehmkuhle
      HMS Victory only won a major victory once and then didn’t do much.
      Enterprise won a major victory, and then kept fighting in multiple smaller engagements. Though after the Essexes came about she was verging on obsolescence.

    • @TheRedKing247
      @TheRedKing247 Před 5 lety +2

      To boldly go where no sailor has gone before...

    • @andrewcampbell7771
      @andrewcampbell7771 Před 5 lety +4

      Bk Jeong I would say HMS Warspite would be a better contender fought ww1 & 2 including Jutland and pretty much ever theatre in WW2

    • @rodrigogascagomez5190
      @rodrigogascagomez5190 Před 5 lety +2

      @@andrewcampbell7771 HMS Warspite is awesome. Even if it had a bit of a tendency to crash into things.

    • @HunterSteel29
      @HunterSteel29 Před 5 lety +7

      And no shoutout to the only CV rivalry in the world. Enterprise and Zuikaku. These two, in all except 2 battles, always had their planes fight. They were really the only example of two opposing enemy ships that can be called Nemesis. That, and Zuikaku tried to carry the Combined Fleet as one of Japan's only remaining Fleet Carriers after Midway.

  • @EarthborneGnome
    @EarthborneGnome Před 5 lety +2

    Actually Operation AL wasn’t designed as a diversion. It was it’s own full operation and it being a diversion is a common myth. I highly recommend the book Shattered Sword by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully, it’s a fantastic book on Midway from the Japanese perspective and addresses many myth about the battle.

  • @ToToSEAL
    @ToToSEAL Před 5 lety +3

    IJN:
    Every Potential History's japan video: RADIO SILENCE

  • @Memetastic
    @Memetastic Před 5 lety +77

    Tactical Nuke incoming
    eventually...

  • @mikhailgorbachev1709
    @mikhailgorbachev1709 Před 5 lety +3

    3:05 those Australians be walking with swagger

  • @derekwoolley3243
    @derekwoolley3243 Před 5 lety +2

    I have to disagree,if the Japanese did not understand how important carriers were than they would have conducted more of a classic attack (like a bombardment) or just set up a submarine blockade and prevent any ships from leaving the harbor. The point of Perl harbor was to delay the Americans long enough for them to be able to claim tarritorty in the pacific. Ps I absolutely love your content keep up the good work

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety +1

      Berek Boolley
      The Japanese considered battleships as more important but also recognized enemy carriers as being the priority targets in any engagement.

  • @vasteria446
    @vasteria446 Před 4 lety +6

    Nanjing
    Potential History: ops how did that get in there.

  • @netrolancer1061
    @netrolancer1061 Před 5 lety +11

    *(Insert Sabaton meme)*
    MIDWAY, WE MEET AT MIDWAY, NAVAL WAR!!!!!

  • @a-1tetropilovstava822
    @a-1tetropilovstava822 Před 5 lety +7

    Where is limited edition Soviet-Manchuria border spin-off?

  • @emanuelfigueroa5657
    @emanuelfigueroa5657 Před rokem +2

    It would be an interesting scenario what if Japan goes to full conquest of Hawaii itself, with the force they were preparing to conquer South East Asia.
    In this scenario now US carriers had to make a Midway against Hawaii somewhere in 1943.

    • @magnapinna7169
      @magnapinna7169 Před rokem +1

      I doubt Japan's logistics could handle that.

  • @conradcash5103
    @conradcash5103 Před 5 lety +4

    A great view of this battle from the Japanese perspective is from Montemayor, who doesn't upload nearly as much as he should.

  • @shadowtrooper262
    @shadowtrooper262 Před 5 lety +4

    The Japanese really expanded themselves until they were not able to defend themselves against the island hopping operations.

    • @crocs4304
      @crocs4304 Před 5 lety

      Nah the only reason they lost is because they couldn't replace their men and equipment.

  • @romanbellic810
    @romanbellic810 Před 5 lety +5

    The tides have turned. I see what you did there.

  • @Raptor747
    @Raptor747 Před 5 lety +2

    5:30 The reasons it's considered an American victory is:
    1) It took not one, but two Japanese fleet carriers out of action at a critical point. Even though Zuikaku was undamaged, its air group had taken serious losses. Because of the strict way the IJN managed its carrier air groups (where each air group was tied to its carrier, and could not be switched around, and each carrier was part of a pair that always operated together), this meant that Zuikaku couldn't just take on the remaining airmen/planes from Shoukaku and participate in the Battle of Midway a month later. This is crucial because the only reason the USN actually fought at Midway was because it was able to scrape together enough aircraft to match the Japanese carrier fleet in terms of quantity, even if the quality of many of its pilots/planes were not at all equal to that of the Japanese in that battle (the Marine and Army aviators/planes being not up for the task of conducting an attack against enemy warships, though their attacks still served a critical purpose). Because of this, Japan sailed into Midway with just four fleet carriers rather than six (plus a light carrier, which the USN sank at Coral Sea), and lost all four of them.
    2) Strategically, the invasion of Port Moresby was cancelled. This is really important, because it was literally the first time in the war that a Japanese invasion had been defeated outright (rather than just delayed for a few days). Port Moresby's location and facilities meant that Japan would have been able to attack the sea lanes between the US and Australia directly with aircraft constantly, which would have been a very big deal. It's why the USN even fought at Coral Sea to begin with.
    3) The USN learned just how vulnerable carriers were to having their aviation gasoline lines cracked/ruptured (which could easily spell doom for the ship as soon as a single spark ignites the fumes), and invented a solution to solve that problem, by flooding the aviation gasoline lines with inert gas before an attack is incoming. This very innovation allowed the USS Yorktown to absorb tremendous punishment at Midway and still stay in the fight, and would later be instrumental in allowing the USS Enterprise, USS Hornet, and USS Saratoga to do the same in the rest of 1942. It also learned that the bomb sights for its dive bombers fogged up when executing a dive in tropical climates, which was very important to know.
    As for victory or defeat being measured by tonnage sunk: I present to you the Battle of Jutland, where the Germans absolutely sank more tonnage (by a wide margin) than the British, but the British ended the German Navy's ability and willingness to threaten the British blockage against the Central Powers.

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety +1

      SaltyWaffles
      The Imperial German Navy of WWI never actually was large enough to threaten the Entente. Jutland simply maintained that status quo, rather than establishing it.
      The immediate German goal at Jutland was also not breaking the blockade; it was to lure out a small section of the Grand Fleet, inflict heavy losses and then flee, The idea was that if they repeated this, eventually it would reduce British naval strength. What actually happened was that the Germans did inflict the losses, but took losses themselves that they weren’t expecting, and then the British never took the bait again for the rest of the war, making Jutland pointless.
      Edit: this means that Jutland actually WAS a German victory because they achieved what they wanted....except that achieving their objective still failed to change the reality of the situation.

  • @salokin3087
    @salokin3087 Před 5 lety +12

    This is good shit, the Pacific war especially midway, is never talked about enough

    • @rodrigogascagomez5190
      @rodrigogascagomez5190 Před 5 lety

      Agreed. Everyone talks about France '40, the Battle of Britain, PH, Stalingrad and Normandy, but there is so much left forgotten in between.

  • @cpmenninga
    @cpmenninga Před 5 lety +3

    My military history professor used to say that the decisive battle and turning point of the Pacific War was Pearl Harbor. The Japanese never recovered from the U.S. entering the war.

    • @Nuke89345
      @Nuke89345 Před 5 lety +2

      Perhaps the best answer as no matter what happened, Japan can never hope to match the US industry and the surprise attack infuriated US too much for them to consider surrendering to Japan as Japan had gambled was their winning move.

    • @coryfice1881
      @coryfice1881 Před 5 lety +2

      @@Nuke89345 They completely underestimated American willingness to fight. It really shows in their propaganda.