Australia's Pearl Harbor - Pacific War #23 DOCUMENTARY

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    Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering the Pacific War week by week continues. The Imperial Japanese Navy shocked the world when it consolidated most of its aircraft carriers into a striking force in 1941 and surprise-attacked Pearl Harbor. Something that is not as well known is that the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor would be replicated against Darwin, Australia by most of the same warships and aviators. This was the dawn of the aircraft carrier as the pinnacle of modern warfare, and the IJN were making full use of their carrier fleet. Out of all their carriers to rain terror upon the allies, one began the war as a flagship. This episode is about the IJN carrier Akagi and Australia's Pearl Harbor.
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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals  Před rokem +35

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    • @blokeVB
      @blokeVB Před rokem +3

      I love the snoty voice

    • @jjt1881
      @jjt1881 Před rokem +2

      Excellent video!

    • @jacksonpettit4690
      @jacksonpettit4690 Před rokem

      Can you please cover the raids along the New Zealand coastline and how it sparked the invention of the Bob semple

    • @kooperativekrohn819
      @kooperativekrohn819 Před rokem

      Ruined itself due to the crap updates the og version was better

    • @capttuttle7422
      @capttuttle7422 Před rokem

      Please the intro music to this is excellent. What is the title? It's so dramatic

  • @bangscutter
    @bangscutter Před rokem +588

    The bombing of Darwin affected the military and foreign policy posturing of Australia as a whole. Prior to this, Australia committed most of its army under the British Commonwealth banner in the North African campaign. (The infamous stubborn resistance at Tobruk.) After this, the Australian forces in North Africa were brought back home and shifted focus in the Pacific war instead of the North African and European theatre. On the foreign policy aspect, Australia leaned away from Great Britain and towards the United States as its primary military ally in the region.

    • @TenOrbital
      @TenOrbital Před rokem +57

      With a quite bit of friction with Churchill, who was not at all happy about Australia withdrawing forces to defend its homeland.

    • @jimdandy2024
      @jimdandy2024 Před rokem +22

      Australia had a bad time in Tobruk, it's called war. Just like Britain had in every other theater for 5 years. When the UK, Canada and the US stormed the beaches to liberate France and further Europe when Russia was suffering huge losses on the Eastern front, we did not winge. We got on with the task. The Pacific war was deliberately put on the backburner by allied forces as it was seen as a winnable side show compared to the European theater.

    • @TenOrbital
      @TenOrbital Před rokem +59

      @@jimdandy2024 - You were defending your homeland. Australians were doing the same.

    • @jimdandy2024
      @jimdandy2024 Před rokem

      @@TenOrbital
      Rubbish. Australia was and is weak. UK and US ships and aircraft were defending Australia. The best thing Australia could have done was help to destroy Hitler. Germany was the threat to the world.

    • @TenOrbital
      @TenOrbital Před rokem +45

      @@jimdandy2024 - Calm yourself sport. I could as easily say the UK was weak and only survived because the USSR and the US defeated Germany. The US was defending Australia, not the UK, certainly not after the fall of Singapore. Churchill only cared about India. Which is why we wanted our troops back and switched to the US alliance.

  • @PjRjHj
    @PjRjHj Před rokem +202

    My Grandfather was left deaf in his left ear from the bombing of Darwin. He was part of an Airforce radio team, informing Canberra of the bombing. He's living mostly independently at 103 years old.
    *Correction, he radioed Alice Springs of the attack, they relayed the message to Canberra.

    • @espi371
      @espi371 Před rokem +21

      Bro you should interview him and upload it while you can.

    • @benimmortal5858
      @benimmortal5858 Před rokem +15

      Bro you are kidding right?....interview him that video is worth more than Gold.....video interview him now!!!!!

    • @bonefetcherbrimley7740
      @bonefetcherbrimley7740 Před rokem +5

      Agree with others. Hope Hes having a good life too!

    • @PjRjHj
      @PjRjHj Před rokem +3

      @@espi371 I dont live near him but I'm pretty sure my sister has done such a recording so I'll case her down.

    • @PjRjHj
      @PjRjHj Před rokem +11

      @@bonefetcherbrimley7740
      I'd like to think so. 4 kids, 19 grandkids, 10 great grandkids. Respected small business man. Oldest signed up and paid member of the National Electrical and Communications Association (Australia). He lives in Albany WA, and avoids military commemorations, even when offered a chauffeur for recent ANZAC Days by the RSL. He's a modest man, doesn't like the fuss.

  • @ThePacificWarChannel
    @ThePacificWarChannel Před rokem +259

    Was one of my favorite scripts to write =). The bombing of Darwin is quite a lesser known event in the Pacific War outside Australia!

    • @drdamianmarucci
      @drdamianmarucci Před rokem +12

      Well done Craig. Awesome episode.

    • @Kenneth-qs3jr
      @Kenneth-qs3jr Před rokem +6

      I've always heard of it as an offhand comment when talking about pearl, never realized it was so massive. Nice job on the script!

    • @apexnext
      @apexnext Před rokem +4

      Yay #23 is on the list! 👍
      I am super glad this was released now. Great writing! Great animation. And of course Great narration. 😁

    • @TenOrbital
      @TenOrbital Před rokem +3

      @@nicheva417 - it's often mentioned in the media and remembrances on the anniversary, if you ask me.

    • @jacksonpettit4690
      @jacksonpettit4690 Před rokem +5

      Even less is known about the raids on the new Zealand coastlines

  • @SpottoBotto
    @SpottoBotto Před rokem +165

    The attack on Darwin qas a real wakeup call for many Australians who believe the war was still a distant conflict. It was certainly an attack that will forever live in infamy 🇦🇺 Fantastic episode, K&G 👏

    • @petethebastard
      @petethebastard Před rokem +2

      MY Mum said she didn't know of The Darwin Bombing until the 50's!

    • @wisdomleader85
      @wisdomleader85 Před rokem +1

      @@petethebastard
      You guys don't learn this stuff at school?

    • @420JackG
      @420JackG Před rokem +7

      @@wisdomleader85 I think it was kinda swept under the rug for awhile until after the war. Probably afraid of sparking a widespread panic, and back then PD was pretty damn isolated so it was probably relatively easy to censor.

    • @samwill7259
      @samwill7259 Před rokem +11

      @@wisdomleader85 He said she didn't learn about it until the 50s, sir. She LIVED through the war, why would she learn about it in school?

    • @nileshkumaraswamy2711
      @nileshkumaraswamy2711 Před rokem +2

      I remember seeing a Japanese attack on Australia a while back and didn't know much about it until this video.

  • @bevanml
    @bevanml Před rokem +227

    This is an unexpected second video in a week from K&G but it is very much appreciated! Especially for an Australian like me whose great-grandfather served in Darwin during the war.

    • @bvansenu
      @bvansenu Před rokem +5

      Unexpected second video of this *series*. They amazingly have been putting out like a video almost every other day in various series for some time now, it's honestly mind blowing.

    • @olorinmartinez
      @olorinmartinez Před rokem +4

      I read your comment with an accent.

    • @Chucky925
      @Chucky925 Před rokem +4

      It's out of order this one should have been played. This is 23 and we are in the 40s for the Pacific war series. They must have missed it that's why we got two of the Pacific war series this week......

    • @campfireeverything
      @campfireeverything Před rokem +1

      Thank you to your great grandfather, from a fellow Aussie K&G fan.

    • @ThugShakers4Christ
      @ThugShakers4Christ Před rokem +1

      It's a little awkward to note that, in the late 30s, Darwin was jam packed with gay dudes. Just saying.

  • @MrSteveK1138
    @MrSteveK1138 Před rokem +94

    Two Pacific War videos on one week. Excellent!

  • @turjun
    @turjun Před rokem +52

    I really liked the technical details given about Akagi. Many I have heard before, like belt armor, but here you are shown what it is referring to

  • @TenOrbital
    @TenOrbital Před rokem +34

    Darwin International Airport now uses the same runways as RAAF Base Darwin. Parap airfield is gone, replaced by a suburb of the same name. Darwin only had a couple thousand people in 1939, it now has 132,000. It is a minimum two day drive to get there from the south or east, 36 hours from Brisbane, 31 hours from Adelaide. After days traversing the desert it is hard to describe the feeling when you drive in at night and finally see the brightly-lit city, greenery and streetscapes. Only in 2004 was the train line to Adelaide completed.

  • @marcosmartins7581
    @marcosmartins7581 Před rokem +32

    The sheer quality of these videos... Congrats on another good one 👍🏾 most people don't really know about this and yet for Australia it was pivotal, marking its seriousness and commitment throughout the conflict

  • @minoru-kk
    @minoru-kk Před rokem +25

    Brilliant movie as usual! The animation about renovation of Akagi was especially wonderful.
    This time the damage caused by Darwin raids has been revealed. Looking forward to seeing more details about events and damage in future chapters on bombings.

  • @petethebastard
    @petethebastard Před rokem +22

    ...Great vid!!! Well done!
    Let's use " R double-A F " as we Aussies do... Although everyone knows they're Raffies, their's a difference between the RAF and the RAAF... They are both Raffies.
    R - Double-a - F.

    • @rithikuja7299
      @rithikuja7299 Před měsícem

      I’d also appreciate at least some attempt to correct pronounce the key place and ship names. To me, not making an attempt smacks of imperial arrogance on the part of the narrator.

  • @anthologyofheroespodcast
    @anthologyofheroespodcast Před rokem +13

    As an Aussie, I've enjoyed this series tremendously. Thanks a bunch!

  • @wolfu597
    @wolfu597 Před rokem +15

    Fun fact: Because of pilots universal tendency to veer left in an emergerncy, Akagi's design caused many more landing accidents than carriers with the bridge on the starboard side.

    • @aaronmarks9366
      @aaronmarks9366 Před rokem +1

      I've never heard that before, what causes pilots to veer left?

    • @wolfu597
      @wolfu597 Před rokem +1

      @@aaronmarks9366 Due to aerodynamics principles, more commonly known as yaw.

    • @stuartnorman5209
      @stuartnorman5209 Před rokem +9

      ​@@wolfu597 I think the issue was more to do with propeller torque as the A6M Zeke (Zero) propeller rotated to the left and the aircraft was extremely lightweight. Allied pilots learned of this when they captured an intact zero in the Aelutians in 1942. When they tested it they found it snap-rolled to left violently so they developed defensive doctrine whereby allied pilots would break right to evade a trailing zero. On landing the torque would pull the plane to the left too.

  • @T7_H3rbz
    @T7_H3rbz Před rokem +43

    Glad they finally got around to getting EP23 out there, stopped watching at EP22 waiting for 23, and was wondering what was going on.

    • @apexnext
      @apexnext Před rokem +5

      Oh you didn't need to do that! Should have kept watching. 😎
      Didn't they explain at the end of 22, that they would take a week off and release this video later?
      Well either way #23 is on the list and OP has some catching up to do. 😁👍

  • @sa25-svredemption98
    @sa25-svredemption98 Před rokem +4

    When saying Darwin was undefended, remember that in any other nation on earth the population would not even rate a town. The role of Darwin in the Pacific War saw a change in Darwin's importance that could not be responded to overnight. Considering martial law was declared for most of the region, Darwin's population still ballooned in the aftermath of the attacks as virtually every garrison and militia force was sent to Darwin (and Townsville, Cairns and Broome) to bolster the defence there. Apart from volunteer militia forces and US troops in reserve and on furlough, the south of Australia virtually emptied of domestic defence forces, as they were all relocated to the Top End. At the time of the bombing, Darwin was mostly a military town (as it remains to this day) with basic port facilities to support the beef cattle industry (which has changed over the intervening years). So, per capita, it was one of the most defended towns in Australia. it's just that the sheer population there was too low for more than what already existed. There were fortifications being expanded at the time (forts that had been planned and being built for years prior), but without the local workforce to do the job overnight, there was little could be done that wasn't already being done. It was after the bombing, when both Australian and US forces redeployed to Darwin (blowing that already extremely high civilian to defence ratio out of the water) that many of the planned works were able to be implemented. By the time of the last air raid in 1943, Darwin had transformed into one large fort and logistics base bristling with defences, port infrastructure and air strips. The Northern Territory itself became one large army camp, from Darwin to Alice, from Kununurra to Gove.

  • @scottjuhnke6825
    @scottjuhnke6825 Před rokem +7

    I've been reading about and studying WW2 for a long time. I don't ever recall reading about this. Thank you so much for putting this out here!

  • @taun856
    @taun856 Před rokem +9

    Major Kudos to whomever generates your graphics.

  • @Barwasser
    @Barwasser Před rokem +38

    The animations in this video are amazing!
    K&G has come so far...

    • @pieterhulsen9170
      @pieterhulsen9170 Před rokem +3

      visually stunning, from the ship analysis to the bombing scenery

    • @mmmg297
      @mmmg297 Před rokem +1

      You really think so? I found this 3d animation look cheap. Their medieval style is much better.

    • @Barwasser
      @Barwasser Před rokem +4

      @@mmmg297 Well I don't expect Hollywood-level animation in a video that comes out in between weekly episodes. We are getting this for free...

    • @Zogerpogger
      @Zogerpogger Před rokem +3

      Most of the animations (not the 3D ones) for this series are done by Zakuan Musa of the Vector Historia channel. I was watching his Pacific War series a few years ago and thought it was really good, when I saw the animation on this series I realized it was the same person. Kings and Generals were smart to hire such talent for this series.

    • @historyuntold6991
      @historyuntold6991 Před rokem

      @@mmmg297 I guess you really don't know much about animation if you found this cheap.

  • @donconners6937
    @donconners6937 Před rokem +9

    I love the shadowing of the flights etc. great detail, apreciated

  • @tokysobukanla
    @tokysobukanla Před rokem +8

    Wow! I was not expecting a second video this week form K & G. Kudos to you! 👍🏿

  • @geodesic1974
    @geodesic1974 Před rokem +6

    My Grandfather served with the groundcrew for one of the liberators that fought in the pacific war. I inherited a machete made of balsa wood from him with the words "Suva" on one side and "Fiji" on the other. My grandfather wasn't one to let the truth get in the way of a good yarn but apparently he was collecting logs that were floating in a river. Not knowing it was balsa wood he injured himself when (expecting a heavy load) he tried to lift it half way to the moon!

  • @robandcheryls
    @robandcheryls Před rokem +5

    Amazing graphics, it tells a great story and not a cartoon. Well done.

  • @jackson857
    @jackson857 Před rokem +15

    As an Australian this was a very emotional episode for me. But I have to say the animation looks incredible.

  • @vortega472
    @vortega472 Před rokem +3

    I love these videos, and these surprised videos that show a lot of behind the scenes information, I am in a historical happy place.
    Thank you Kings and Generals.

  • @TheMrSomeone
    @TheMrSomeone Před rokem +6

    The details are just insane, well done!

  • @huzaifa9215
    @huzaifa9215 Před rokem +7

    Hey kings and generals. Big fan of the work you guys make battles seem so interesting.keep the good work up.

  • @joshkent4888
    @joshkent4888 Před rokem +13

    It might sound silly today but for 50 years my father refused to own a Japanese car because of what they did to Darwin. I wasn't until the mid 90s before he finally gave in.

    • @aaronmarks9366
      @aaronmarks9366 Před rokem +4

      A lot of American veterans of WWII felt the same way, all the way into the 1980s there was a lot of xenophobia against Japanese stuff here.

  • @carnthecorby
    @carnthecorby Před rokem +8

    I believe most of the north Australian populace moved south when the threat of invasion became serious. Most of the fighting men were initially in Europe, Middle East and Africa including the most elite and experienced. Australia fought to maintain itself freedoms.

  • @neilwilson5785
    @neilwilson5785 Před rokem +5

    I love the historical content as usual. The new graphical look is quite awesome as well.

  • @nomooon
    @nomooon Před rokem +5

    1 v 5 and downed 4? And I can't even look up his name online... what a lowkey ace

  • @matthewbianco9662
    @matthewbianco9662 Před rokem +3

    DAM SON, that production value.

  • @willmanning8084
    @willmanning8084 Před rokem +2

    This is hands down my favorite weekly series to watch

  • @jozzieokes3422
    @jozzieokes3422 Před rokem +4

    Thanks so much from Australia

  • @guydreamr
    @guydreamr Před rokem +3

    Amazing that this level of complacency still remained after Pearl Harbor and Japan's continued moves throughout the Pacific.

  • @leathalEly
    @leathalEly Před rokem +3

    Amazing video, great work shedding light on a culturally, militarily significant event for Australians that is often never recognized outside

  • @impostor101
    @impostor101 Před rokem +3

    I did not expect this 😆 two episodes in one awesome 🤩

  • @vDawGG
    @vDawGG Před rokem +1

    Great new animations. I love this channel. Thank you to everyone involved.

  • @Skipper.17
    @Skipper.17 Před rokem +10

    The big difference between Darwin and pearl harbour is that Darwin was bombed over 50 times.

  • @West_Kagle
    @West_Kagle Před rokem +1

    Hey...I just realized this is episode 23. Awesome. Been waiting to it to show up. Thanx.

  • @davidshaon
    @davidshaon Před rokem +4

    Very good video and great graphics quality. Keep up the good work.

  • @broken505rythem_yt
    @broken505rythem_yt Před rokem +3

    Still as good as ever. I've watched so many of your vids that I'm on the way to become a full on general

  • @speaktoranjit
    @speaktoranjit Před rokem +2

    wow ... that was a lovely video and that animation work was really lovely!

  • @rupertlindsay5682
    @rupertlindsay5682 Před rokem +2

    Love the new graphics style!

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE Před rokem +1

    Thanks for the video 👊🏻

  • @Manos_Plakias
    @Manos_Plakias Před rokem +1

    Thanks for the video K&G 🙂

  • @isocrates0001
    @isocrates0001 Před rokem +3

    I'm loving the new "Google Earth" like graphics!

  • @nathanroberts355
    @nathanroberts355 Před rokem +4

    My grandfather John Roberts was a telegraphist in Darwin post office in ww2 and he jumped off the esplanade in Darwin during the bombing of Darwin 1942

  • @eyesofstatic9641
    @eyesofstatic9641 Před rokem +3

    Damn Kings and Generals, you're killing it with these videos!

  • @Patriciadiko
    @Patriciadiko Před 2 měsíci +2

    My great grandfather was serving with the Merchant Navy in Darwin on the first day of the bombings.
    His ship, the SS Zealandia, was sunk in Darwin Harbour. As was the MV Neptuna, a hospital ship carrying ammunition that my Great Grandfather helped rescue crew members and patients from.
    I wish I could've met him...

    • @sdjuxu
      @sdjuxu Před 15 dny +1

      That was just the first attack...there were at least 64 more attacks,,my grandfather was there for every single of them ,from start to finish,he was stationed at the air field as ground crew...he told me some very sad stories...one story he told me was how this new guy who was very young ,was blown to bits by a bomb on his birthday....and I asked my grandfather what they did with the body ..and my grandfather told me there was no body ,and that they swept up the young man with dust pans and brooms and put him in 44 gallon drum ...my grandfather shed tears telling the story...
      My grandfathers always told me war was a terrible thing and as they got older, wondered why they even fought the war , seeing how various governments,sold Australia out in the end anyway...If they could see how things have become,they would roll in their graves ..
      Bless their souls..
      LEST WE FORGET.

  • @mumpetwombat822
    @mumpetwombat822 Před 2 měsíci +7

    I heard an interesting story about Darwin about a captured pilot. Apparently he was shot down by a lone digger “Aussie soldier” with a lee Enfield or Lewis gun while standing atop one of the oil tanks, the aircraft flew low over the tanks as it went out into the harbour then banked towards the islands north where it crashed. The pilot was captured by an indigenous bloke who snuck up behinds him, poked him in the back with a stick and said “reach for the sky” he copied from a cowboy movie he watched when he snuck into the Darwin cinema. The wreckage of the plane was recovered and in the engine block they found a single .303 inch hole. I have no idea how much truth is behind this story but it’s an interesting one nonetheless

    • @colinr1960
      @colinr1960 Před 2 měsíci +3

      It’s true, all right. Just did a tour of Darwin specifically on the bombing.
      The pilot who was captured ended up at Cowra POW camp. During the Cowra breakout it was he who sounded his bugle to start the escape. He then committed suicide.
      Can’t think for the soldiers name but he was shooting at the planes coming low over the fuel tanks. I heard he had hit an oil line and the engine began overheating and blowing smoke. Don’t know about the engine block itself but he certainly brought it down.
      Wife’s father was there during the attack, as part of a searchlight crew attached to anti-aircraft company. He never spoke of the war, regardless what he was asked. Ended up in New Guinea, wounded and sent back to Sydney in 1943.
      Oh, and the plane was the most intact zero captured up till that time and they learnt a lot from the wreckage about how it handled etc. The pilot did a great job crash landing.

    • @mumpetwombat822
      @mumpetwombat822 Před dnem

      @@colinr1960 I’m guessing since you heard the story I’m guessing you went on the same tour I did a fair few years ago

  • @alexwilson1913
    @alexwilson1913 Před rokem +5

    Great animation in this one!

  • @chengken000
    @chengken000 Před rokem +4

    these animations are awesome!

  • @hansvonmannschaft9062
    @hansvonmannschaft9062 Před rokem +2

    This one was fantastic. I reckon that a videogame or alike simulator was used for the English Civil War videos I watched yesterday, so it makes sense for the graphics and animations here being different, and of course, outstanding eye-candy, including but in spite of the '88s and MG42's the Oz's apparently had despite hearing a different name 😂🤣- Great watch once again, thank you! 👍🏼

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter2254 Před rokem +3

    I really like vids with a ship or construction where it goes into detailed panorama. More please!

  • @Jobe-13
    @Jobe-13 Před rokem +29

    This is intense. I never knew Australia was ever attacked during the war.

    • @Wayne.J
      @Wayne.J Před rokem +11

      Bombed regularly after this attack.
      March 5 saw 10 Zeros travel 500miles to bomb Broome from Timor. Featureless water to destroy nearly all the US and Dutch Catalinas in the ABDA area was a remarkable achievement.

    • @Jobe-13
      @Jobe-13 Před rokem +1

      @@Wayne.J yeesh

    • @Wayne.J
      @Wayne.J Před rokem +7

      @@Jobe-13
      No carrier raids after this raid, but if Lexington and,Yorktown weren't in Coral Sea, Townsville might have been raided by CarDiv 5.
      Australia had about 100 raids from Feb 42 through to November 43 mainly in and around Darwin.
      Japanese 3rd Air Group was most experienced Air Group of the IJN and they were major Zero fighter escort group for the Betty bombers that raided Darwin

    • @mojowwwav4357
      @mojowwwav4357 Před rokem +7

      @@Wayne.J Townsville casualties: 1 palm tree lmao

    • @Jobe-13
      @Jobe-13 Před rokem +5

      @@Wayne.J I guess it shows that Australia had a lot of strategic importance for the Allies it was attacked so heavily. Makes a lot of sense though.

  • @uriabinenshtok
    @uriabinenshtok Před rokem

    Woh. you're just getting better and better in your videos, awsome job

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ Před rokem +1

    Terrific video!

  • @13thravenpurple94
    @13thravenpurple94 Před rokem

    Great work Thank you

  • @levidecastroqueiroz7376

    What a video. Superb. You're awesome guys.

  • @oriffel
    @oriffel Před rokem +2

    awesome anumations

  • @frogfrager
    @frogfrager Před rokem +3

    good work on the animations

  • @stennan
    @stennan Před rokem +2

    Impressive animation for this episode,

  • @oscarpalacios7964
    @oscarpalacios7964 Před rokem +2

    I really love the animations

  • @masterimbecile
    @masterimbecile Před rokem +8

    IJN sailor shouts at a shadowy figure in the fog: “I Soryu!”
    The figure replied: “I Hiryu!”

  • @aussietiger
    @aussietiger Před rokem +3

    Yes it changed Australia's focus from North Africa to the Pacific, ( much to the dismay of Churchill, who was willing to let Australia to taken by the Japanese, in his view to save India), my Grandfather fought in both North Africa and at Darwin. He unfortunately was badly wounded during the raid on Darwin and lived his life on a Veterans Pension.

  • @bahkeru645
    @bahkeru645 Před rokem +3

    Wow bonus pacific war!

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 Před rokem +6

    US: Pearl Harbour
    Australia: Darwin
    Canada: “If Day”.

  • @easyjdier
    @easyjdier Před rokem

    Your content has always been great and the graphics good. But it looks like you've upped your game on the graphics here! Nice!

  • @grillodofus
    @grillodofus Před rokem

    YEAH! CHAPTER 23 AT LEAST! And oh boy! You have outdone your selves! One of your very finest!

  • @rig.veda200
    @rig.veda200 Před 6 měsíci

    So impressive documentary!!!

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 Před rokem

    Nicely informative video

  • @vg4917
    @vg4917 Před rokem +7

    thanks for this, i believe it was downplayed- the severity of the attack in the media at the time and australians at the time shrugged it off due to pride, but it wasnt nothing...

  • @CptChaosSidekick
    @CptChaosSidekick Před rokem +1

    Bonus episode!!

  • @vectorstrike
    @vectorstrike Před rokem +3

    15:12 the solo hero of the air defense!

  • @Dantheman813
    @Dantheman813 Před rokem

    YESSSSSSS NEW VIDEOOOO

  • @MoroccoGamer
    @MoroccoGamer Před rokem +1

    nice video

  • @robandcheryls
    @robandcheryls Před rokem +1

    I love these nostalgic strategic ‘Reminders’. 🇨🇦Veteran

  • @blockmasterscott
    @blockmasterscott Před rokem +1

    Wow, I never heard of this one!

  • @kenc9236
    @kenc9236 Před rokem

    Love this channel. You should make a game like this.

  • @RUHappyATM
    @RUHappyATM Před 2 měsíci

    Mate, that "She'll be rite mate attitude" sure costed Darwin a few P40 and then some ships!

  • @paulluka2029
    @paulluka2029 Před rokem +6

    well now this is a surprise well done king's and generals💪💪💪

  • @ramal5708
    @ramal5708 Před měsícem +2

    Both the US and UK had their own Pearl Harbor, now Australia too. But then Japan 1945 was Pearl Harbored by US carrier fleet at Kure. No one is immune to this Pearl Harbor type attack, even though the UK did it first at Taranto against Italian ships

  • @kineuhansen8629
    @kineuhansen8629 Před rokem

    awesome animation

  • @omarbradley6807
    @omarbradley6807 Před rokem +1

    What a great surprise, Darwin alongside Pearl Harbor and the Indian Ocean were a series of similar raids who neutralized an important part of the enemy first at the East, then at South and finally at the West.

  • @ricbarker4829
    @ricbarker4829 Před měsícem +1

    I am a 64 year old Australian and 20 year Air Force veteran, and I can honestly say I have never heard the attack on Darwin being refereed to as the "Australian Pearl Harbor".

  • @johnkennett7331
    @johnkennett7331 Před rokem +4

    Another brilliant video. Who could have predicted at that time that less than four months after the devastating raid on Darwin, all four of the Japanese aircraft carriers involved would be at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

  • @theawesomeman9821
    @theawesomeman9821 Před rokem +3

    I remember that the attack on Darwin was displayed in the movie, Australia, which featured Nicole Kidman.

  • @petergarrone8242
    @petergarrone8242 Před rokem +3

    I recall a TV documentary stating that some of the military combatants on the ground deserted after the attack and made it to Melbourne in three days. If so, would have been interesting to know how they did it.

  • @omarbradley6807
    @omarbradley6807 Před rokem +1

    About the Washington naval treaty is worth to mention who, soon after the Navy split into the Kantai-Ha (Fleet faction) leaded by the prince Fusimi Hiroyasu, who oposed the restrictions and wanted to join the army in their expansionist view, with this doctrine leaded by admiral Osami Nagano, and Soemu Toyoda, and one who supported it but not the war idea leaded by Chuichi Nagumo. That faction dominated the politics especially because they were leaded by the Prince and have the support of both Army factions (Kodoha and Toseiha) and the Joyaku-Ha (Treaty faction) leaded by Mitsumasa Yonai, and having peace advocates, with the most notable advocate of a hard line being Shigeyosi Inoue, other members of influence were Isoroku Yamamoto, Teikichi Horii, Sakonji Seizo, Takarabi Takeshi, Kanji Kakuta, Tamon Yamaguchi, Minechi Koga, Jizaburo Ozawa, Nobutake Kondo, Gunichi Mikawa etc.

  • @edsalisch4322
    @edsalisch4322 Před rokem +1

    I was surprised this vides was not made in February but I enjoyed it just the same.

  • @crowgaming2137
    @crowgaming2137 Před rokem +2

    Any other Australians get weirded out when he says every letter in RAAF? We say it as Raf, as in rif-raf. That said, great vid mate

    • @adriankrause7331
      @adriankrause7331 Před rokem +1

      Back 50 years ago I recall it as being “r double-a f” I believe the poms said raf

  • @StuNneR9886
    @StuNneR9886 Před rokem +1

    Wow! I love videos, but it seems no one noticed the graphics are much better.

  • @janmartinfontbuena4464
    @janmartinfontbuena4464 Před rokem +2

    Tuskegee Akagi

  • @user-fp8gg7xf9e
    @user-fp8gg7xf9e Před měsícem +1

    great vid
    Love the comment from Fuchida-san

  • @beachboy0505
    @beachboy0505 Před rokem +1

    Excellent video 📹
    Australia 🇦🇺 needs to make films 🎥 🎬

  • @damienhudson8028
    @damienhudson8028 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Great video, but never heard it called "Australia's Pearl Harbour". We (Aussies) did not have the same loss of life in Darwin than on The Day of Infamy, but we certainly got bombed a lot more (to say nothing of midget subs in Sydney Harbour and other places).
    Trivia - i known lots of WW2 Aussie vets, but 2 come to mind. One was in New Guinea as a desk jockey and never heard a shot, the other a radar operator in Darwin and other locations in Western Australia who got bombed many times. The desk jocky got a combat pension, the radar operator did not. The desk jockey always said of unfair it was to the guy who had been bombed. RIP Ken and Jim, privileged to have met them and other veterans of The Greatest Generation.

  • @m-foxfactor9432
    @m-foxfactor9432 Před rokem +1

    Fantastic video I wish do specials of certain things like the Battle of Midway or the Coral Sea like this. I'm a huge fan of this channel

  • @smartbaba1321
    @smartbaba1321 Před rokem +1

    Australia: plzz don't bomb me, am innocent, I even love "Ninjas".
    😂😂😂😂

  • @adamcheklat7387
    @adamcheklat7387 Před rokem +1

    I think you can do more 3D videos. This definitely has a future!