Americans Shot Down Sixty Zero Fighters In Two Battles
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- (Part 9) Watch our video "Americans Shot Down Sixty Zero Fighters In Two Battles" and Embark on a riveting journey through the skies of the Pacific War as you delve into the harrowing memoirs of Japan's living legendary flying ace. Step into the cockpit and witness firsthand the adrenaline-soaked drama of the greatest air battles of World War two. This gripping series unveils the untold stories of aerial prowess, courage, and sacrifice from the Japanese perspective. As this flying ace's soaring narratives unfold, experience the highs and lows of dogfights that shaped history. From the roar of engines to the dance of fight in the clouds, each episode promises an immersive exploration of the extraordinary life of a true samurai of the skies. Get ready to soar into the heart of the action, where valor meets the clouds, and the legacy of a wartime hero takes flight.
Link of the playlist • Memoirs of a Japanese ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 9 (second last part ) of memoirs of a Japanese Naval Aviator and Flying Ace, He was one of the Imperial Japanese Navy's top aces, with over 60 confirmed kills in air to air combat. He also had a charmed life which somehow saw him through the war despite the tremendous losses the IJN took. He saw active action in South East Asia and Pacific Theater of World War 2
Here is the link of the playlist czcams.com/play/PLGjbe3ikd0XGLxNyj6uVM2YdDEBkUWzyd.html
Link of part 1 czcams.com/video/6dPu-SZOwHY/video.html
Link of part 2 czcams.com/video/NkYH90wYUbk/video.html
Link of part 3 czcams.com/video/vj-TQwUW-i8/video.html
Link of part 4 czcams.com/video/07cIRpQSORo/video.html
Link of part 5 czcams.com/video/gVl_2dlK3n0/video.html
Link of part 6 czcams.com/video/-6Yc6ZT5z5U/video.html
Link of part 7 czcams.com/video/qB1BTKGfaYk/video.html
Link of part 8 czcams.com/video/tGOhX-ri8KU/video.html
You must say his name. Nothing else will do! Sakai Saburo!! I will not allow him to be forgotten in a day and age that treats history like a broken child's toy!
The pronunciation of words in your videos is regularly very strange. Why is that?
Why in the name of the gods is this AI is so crappy? And why do you not check your video's before they are published?
AI...
@@joesmith323
Weird mispronunciations -- "save-edge" in place of "savage", e.g. Speech program has too small a dictionary?
My uncle Chuck was the tail gunner on one of those Avengers.
He had a difficult time emotionally after the war.
We used to go quail hunting in the 60's. I loved that man.
- His Nephew
Those tail gunners had HUGE balls. You’re in a slow bomber and trusting your life to another guy. You’re fighting fast enemy planes that have .50 cal and 20mm cannons with only a small belt-fed machine gun. Those guys deserve so much credit.
My father fought in both The Aleutian Islands of Alaska and on Okinawa. He told me the atomic bombs saved the lives of an entire generation of American Soldiers.
Just a note my mother was a nurse in training durring ww2. The word she always said was expected casualty of invading Japan would be 2 milion Americans and 10 million dead japaneese. Had simple blockade been decided on it is to be noted the Tokyo metro area imported 98 % of its food mostly either by boat which airforce and naval forced would have destroyed or by easily destroyed coastal railroads. It is beleaved even with out invasion by spring of 46 there would not be a government in Japan able to surender leaving nothing but continued air and sea attack for years. Also likely with America and England tied up east aisa would have been taken over by the ussr it would have been a great tragedy
There's more to Japan then just Tokyo. Many areas could sustain themselves. I think the US had lost it's patience with both wars, and the savagery of it, and just wanted to end it. You make a good point, the bomb was not only to end the Japanese fighting, but as a warning shot to Russia. Who knows what Russia would have done in Europe and Asia. They had millions for men than the US, but when they saw the bomb, it may have cut them short. @@jeffbybee5207
Current research suggests it was the Red Army knocking on the door in the North. The idea of having their Emperor executed was too much to bear, so there was a negotiated surrender allowing the emperor to continue. Not the two nukes or the third in CA on its way to Osaka that caused the surrender.
My father was First Cav and said the same thing. My own thought is the Russian's attack was the real reason. They knew what the Russians would do. I read Sakai's book years ago and it gave me more insight into the training and thinking of the Japanese of the time. A very good book.
WHOLE of the Males and my Gramma got Very Involved! in WWII "I think" your DAD was spot ON! Uncle John was supposedly on the Mighty Mo at Armistice
My Gramps was a Seabee, he may have helped build the Hwy ALL the way up the coast to the Aleutian's campaign? and the airstrip that loaded the B 29's BOMB, Grama was involved with the air industry in CA. Long Beach to Burbank. Her second or fourth Husband was B 17's ETO. THE WHOLE of the US Had SKIN in the GAME, every family, coast to coast paid in BLOOD and Treasures, life's changed.
Now it looks like we have forgotten their Price Paid for US!
My old man was out there keeping the Marine Corsairs functioning. Amazingly he actually was one of the cylinder-head specialists that worked on Pappy Boyington's aircraft, he told me that that ace was a terrifying officer, get it wrong and you'd get skinned. Manifold pressures on his squadrons planes had to be perfect balanced. That was the way it was.
I met Lt. Sakai in about 1996 at a Gathering of Eagles at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. I have a signed copy of Samurai and got to talk to him for a few minutes. His flight back to Rabaul from Guadalcanal was epic and the fact that he always brought his wingmen home. is almost unique. I asked him if he was carrier qualified and he said "yes, but he was never assigned to to a carrier squadron.
@johnemerson1363 Sir thank you so much for sharing these wonderful memories of Sakai , sir did you ask him ,why did not he pursue flying in post war Japan ?
That was discussed but not specifically with me. Someone else asked the question. His answer was two fold. First, there were no pilot jobs for years, until Japanese civilian airlines were created. Second and most important, after he recovered from his injuries from Guadalcanal he never regained his sight in one eye. He was grounded for some time but was allowed to fly again because he was a better pilot half blind that most with two eyes. Under post war rules, he could not pass the physical as a pilot. @@WW2Tales
The fact that he was not assigned to a carrier may be why he was still living. Still 60 combat victories, that's a lot to survive, especially after the Hellcats came out.
@@ppumpkin3282 That and the fact that he was grounded for about a year after Guadalcanal.
@johnemerson1363 You are absolutely right sir ,in the post war Japan when there was no urgent need for Pilots ,he was not able to qualify having lost eye sight in one of the eyes, sir have you ever seen or known any commercial pilot flying commercial jets with eye sight in only one eye , as for as I remember I never saw any , cuz even if your are a transport/air mobility/ commercial pilot still you need to have perfect eye sight
General George Patton said something like no one ever won a battle by dying, make the other side die for their country.
Some of those pronunciations are hysterical!
Nice editing Mr AI. It cut off in the middle of the word "shells", I guess.
Can we get some USMC stories? And in this voice?
Pretty exciting series, but also quite fabulist. I know that pilot claims about kills always needed to be taken with a pinch to a peck of salt, but this memoir is fun, even if less than accurate.
I was in a Shorts 220 (??) (2 prop, maybe 50 passenger plane) in 1985 flying from Ottumwa, IA to St. Louis. We flew through a thunderstorm like he describes at 0:50; of course the plane was a bit heavier than a Zero, but it was still flung around like a leaf. That just about convinced me that flying was not a great idea, and I haven't flown on a plane since 1987.
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The Japanese are being overwhelmed.
I love this channel. This playlist reminds me of a Bruce Springsteen song “Glory Days”
Thank you so much Sir , 🙏
Interesting story, This gives a human side to the Kamakazi pilots. I was under the impression they were volunteers, this guy claims that he was ordered to go. Also I was under the impression that those selected to go were new inexperinced pilots, it doesn't make a lot of sense to send your most experienced ACEs to their death, as this man claims.
That was one of the problems they had is they didn't rotate their good pilots to train new pilots and it's part of the reason they ran out of experienced pilots. I have heard stories of them giving the kamikaze pilots saki, aka rice wine, before sending them out as well as only enough gas to go one way and even sometimes bolting their canopies down so they had no way to try to gently ditch the plane and escape it. How much of that is true is hard for me personally to say and it's hard to say if they were just bolting on the canopies because they didn't have time to finish the planes properly too. I have heard a story of a kamikaze pilot who came back twice after going out and getting half way only to be told he'd be shot if he came back again and then got picked up from the water by an American ship after he ditched and the cockpit popped open on impact. If I remember correctly he was also treated for a bullet wound to the thigh because as he put it 'how could the Americans know I wasn't aiming for their ships like the rest but after I was in the water not to close to any ship they had other concerns than me'.
What you don't know is the Japanese said that having armor on their craft made it
What a guy. unbelievable 😮
Pay back is hell, eh Tojo?
Found the Boomer
i can't believe the Japanese Navy would send just a small group of planes against a giant multiple Carrier task force. Pointless
if you think that's pointless you should lool into the 8th Air Force and the stupid suicide missions they made our boys do
Desperation is a hell if a thing.
It is an odd coincidence that Nakajima was a company which built the IJA's fighters,, and that both they and the IJN's fighters were powered by Sakai radial engines.
Love the stories. but the mispronunciations of the robo vice is killing me.
Guys I'm a fan of your channel and I believe I was the one who instigated the hardest to get you to use this particular AI voice when World War II stories went offline a few months ago. Luckily that channel has returned and so the comparison is more clear and unfortunately they seem to do a much better job of working out the bugs in the narration. All I'm trying to say is that if they can use the same AI narrator and not have so many mistakes then you guys can do that too. I'm just asking that maybe you try a little harder. Thanks for the content. 🎉
Which narrator system is this. Do you have a link?
@@overcastfriday81 no I don't. I know it through watching many of these different diary channels over the last few years. This voice was the one chosen by World War II stories which was the best one going for a while but it disappeared all of a sudden. When this channel started running a lot of the same type of subject I asked for this particular narrator on multiple occasions and I believe they obliged to my request though I'm sure I wasn't the only person. I don't know anything about video making other than being aware of what is done well and what is not done well and I believe that they could check the narration for screw-ups more than they do on this channel. By the way World War II stories is back and you can see the difference if you want to give it a try and also a lot of the older videos seem to be on a channel called Tally Carleen or Karleen. I can't remember without checking but I imagine if you just get through Tally you're probably going to find it using the CZcams search. World War II stories used to have a huge of video series but I'm guessing something happened with copyright strike that made them kind of reformat to individual episodes out of a diary rather than the entire thing. I'm calling them diaries but a lot of these were books written by former German soldiers who served on the Eastern front. Some of them are probably passed being copyrighted by now but a lot of that would depend on when they were written. If the publishers got strict enough they could probably wipe out these channels but these are foreign presses for the most part and some of them probably don't exist anymore. Anyhow I just rambled on and I'm sorry.
The pronunciation does sound strange at times.@@bookaufman9643
i enjoy the narration actually, the odd pronunciation makes me pay better attention, and the voice is quite pleasant
Sir please give your feedback on the recently uploaded video,have tried to improve narration,your honest feedback is required, did you find any improvement at all ?
How can the ai reading this get the British accent so right, but can't pronounce Plane or Marvelous?
This is a stunning story. It’s a shame the computer voice was trained to correctly speak every word. Had this been done there would have been no way to detect it’s wasn’t a real human speaking.
I think he mispronounced the word savage. He said "SAY-vage.
come on now i know the pilots were out for blue ed
I caught it on mecha-nics. Also the pacing is weird, there aren't the pauses you would expect. AI voicing is a no-no for me, for this and other reasons, so I'll sadly forgo these amazing stories.
A.I. is a great invention, but please know that it's still in the making. It takes much human coding time to make it a 'More Perfect Union' of software and intelligence. I suggest that we stop whining about such relatively trivial things and use our energy to take in the story, lest we miss the experience of it and cheat ourselves out of the very human story it is.
NOT
This was USA people not the whole Continent.
Great story! Is this a publication that I can read in its entirety somehow
'Samurai' by Saburo Sakai - his account of his time as a IJN fighter pilot
@@750suzuki7 thanks!
Sir please check the memoirs of Saburo Sakai
@@WW2Tales thank you very much
Sir most welcome 🤗
not only as described here but also the Japanese launched from aircraft carriers and shot down hundreds of enemy aircraft refferred to as the great Marianas Turkey shoot….oh yea that was the Americans
Sakai “I outfought 12 Hellcats while blind in one eye and completely numb in my left arm and my plane barely worked.” Ok Sakai…whatever you say we weren’t there so who are we to say. Half of this is clearly exaggerated.
oh look a man still in his momma`s house shitting on a man who fought for his country.
I agree with you. He also talks about how bad American pilots were at this late stage in the war.
The Japanese in general had a habit of overstating their victories. Sixty kills? American kills had to be verified, and they carried cameras, I wonder how Japanese kills were vetted.
Pretty sure Sakai met US pilots after the war and spoke with them about the aerial duels.
15:00 "You will be flying into certain death.....may good fortune accompany you".
The narrative speaks of Dauntlesses, but the image is of Helldivers...
Devestators all died in the Midway attack. They were never used in an assault capacity again. It was the Dauntlesses that sank the carriers at Midway.
@@lamwen03 Not Curtiss Helldivers. Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers.
@@lamwen03 you're right, of course. Had a brain fart. Corrected.
'I could only lean against the planae and mumblae...'
Omg the ai pronounces "Jay-Pan" instead of "Japan," in a history of the Japanese ?!? (21:50)
AI voice not good on this one.
Pretty impressive for an AI voice.
Go Sakai!
these do seem like 'tales'
62 x 0 = zero?
Range anxiety before EVs.
Why is this automated narrator constantly mispronouncing words in bizarre ways that no actual person would?
Get a grip
@@georgehoffman7846 Whatever, bot.
It's because they don't proof-read (proof-listen) to it before publishing. It's disappointing, because the AI voice is mostly very good.
Left and right magnetos instead of generators….
Magnetos are for engine ignition. They are not in place of generators. Piston powered airplanes even today typically have two -- left and right -- magnetos for ignition and generators or alternators in conjunction with a battery to provide electrical system power.
Does the samuri code suggest it’s appropriate to torture pows?
Does the american code suggest it`s appropriate do have a holocaust of the native americans ? If we go back in history long enough we all have that dark day in history. Don`t act like your nation is a saint
They didn't really consider them as POWs. To surrender was to give up your status as a respected warrior.
The code of Bushido states that surrendering was the most disgraceful thing that could ever happen to you. If you surrendered, you had no honor.
@@CRAZYHORSE19682003Still, I expect that there would have been the usual Bell Curve of fervent Bushido through various phases of what's convenient at the time to those who didn't buy into it at all.
@@CRAZYHORSE19682003where can we see the codes of bushido?
What about the Japanese Aircraft carriers
by that time in the war most of the jap carriers had transformed into elaborate fish reefs
If the airfield is being decimated than were is the aviation fuel and ammunition coming from?
Underground bunkers. Okinawa was riddled with tunnels.
@@allangibson8494correct except this happens on a different island. I will spell it wrong, it was on iwo jima.
Decimated is an overused word meaning 1 in 10 Roman for when a legion would break 1 in ten were murdered by the other 9 as a lesson to never break in battle again but only 90 % leaves lots to fuel and arm a last desperate futile stab
Probably underground and protected .
it said ground crews pulled what was left of the planes out of shelters or something close@@erichughes284
6 years ago, they looked down on Chinese pilots, now, they were looked down by American. What a turn-around.
Japanese? We were buddies with the Chinese.
@@seabirdsolar yes, the Japanese. The Chinese air force was wiped out due to inferior hardware.
@@seabirdsolar hahahahah watch the captured Japanese films of the “ Rape of Nanking “
defending Your country or attack other country
The American airmen were the best around, but in fairness to the Japanese, due to their strict training and pilot selection the Americans would not have a whole of trouble with these later airmen out of Japan.
A very interesting video but I'm sorry to say spoiled because the commentary contained so many mispronounciations, even of easy words like 'island'. It was not as bad as my satnav trying to say Welsh place names but, of course, Welsh is a different language to English (American or UK). I really feel it detracted quite a lot from the story of some very brave men (even if they were the enemy).
In 60s and 70s there were a lot of surviving military men and women still in the workforce that were in the Australian military during world war 2 i was told of a few atrocities that were performed by Australian soldiers and this happened world wide during that horrible war. In Singapore some Australian military personnel tried to get onto evacuation ships designated for women and children to save their own skins but im sure that other allied service personnel did the same
And that Dammed AI is still messing up so m any words. Does no one check these video's before they are published?
These readings could be better; not starting in mid sentence maybe. Episode numbers in the title. Episode numbers in the beginning of the reading maybe. There are other better channels out there. Who ever is in charge of this one only has exclusive content going for him
Who or what is reading this? A British AI?
Why is the narrator voice the same as the German narration....sounds more like just reading some story...
Sakai was so full of himself. Nobody on the ground would've been able to make anything out from that height, let alone when he was in the clouds. No way could they could've counted fifteen planes either. I've read the book many times over the years and finally concluded that it mostly garbage.
dea reAH, expec tehhd....goddam robot voice
The Claims the Japanese pilots made were the most unreliable of the war. While it wasnt uncommon for all sides to exaggerate, paperwork shows that his claims over Iwo of lost Hellcats is vastly exaggerated. The Zero even if it got the drop on a hellcat rarely brought it down as rhe hellcat was almosg impervious to the zeros firepower.
You’re right he doesn’t let the truth get in the way of his stories.
Aham ,,, unlike the yanks who scored 10 killes and reported 50 right? frak off mate. you did nothing in your life that will be remembered, when you die you will be forgoten in 1 year. That will be your legacy, Nothing at all
Almost impervious? A single exploding cannon shell within the cockpit is very likely to severely injure the pilot. Perspex is no barrier. The Zero had a cannon.
14:35 - Start a war you have not chance of winning and suffer the consequences. The only solution is surrender, and fortunately, the US had a weapon which forced that decision and likely saved millions of lives.
18:39 - A war of religious believers against engineers, machinists and scientists. You lose.
22:24 - Japan never, after Guadalcanal, staged a successful offensive action. By now, you are the ragged mops, lefty to wipe the floors of the battlefields.
36:28 - Radar says you will never get close to the fleet.
57:26 - You will swing flyswatters and be hit by cannon.
58:49 - The US fleet would have laughed at your feeble attempt at causing harm.
59:23 - Needed another week to save Marines.
1:00:04 - Except the tunnels,
They knew they could not win against the US. What they gambled on was that the US, already involved in a war in Europe, would settle for an armistice in the Pacific, and allow Japan to loot the resources of the Dutch East Indies in peace.
What nonsense. Three planes against 60 and they made it through. This is a story all right, a bs story.
I dont think so as he was one of a handful to survive the war.
No, he was a good pilot, but his stories have been proven to be exaggerated. Post war analysis has shown that he most likely really shot down about 27 allied aircraft. He didn't fly much combat in 44-45, if he did he wouldn't have been around to write a book.
@@johnlewis9907 Surely he would have died and anything more than 5 planes attacking at one time doesnt make much difference cuz they cant sttack at once.
Bro,cup,bunch ton,cuz that's The USA's total vocabulary 😂
@@jamwri6718 Thats a brilliant observation bro.
sounds like ah vocaloid. the mispronunciations
abound,tho as realistic as any other. needa
good sound engineer ta sort out the very strange
pronunciations
Sacrifice your lives to save your country? The same thing ukranians soldiers say.
Fake news
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