I love how the US navy is the 2nd largest airforce right behind the actual US airforce

@skull1161

3 жыл бұрын

lol pretty funny when you think about it.

@jdencemcbuilder2134

3 жыл бұрын

@@skull1161 lmaoo yeah

@blitzfrenzy2618

3 жыл бұрын

Murica baby

@Slayer-yt4vy

3 жыл бұрын

also, troops in Iraq call the navy most of the time for air support cuz their response time is actually quicker

@mch000

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the US Marine air wing.... The US Military has 4 branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard). The US Navy has their OWN ground forces - the US Marines. The US Marines have their own air wings, including 9 small escort carriers (groups of 3, called ARGs or Amphibious Ready Groups), which fly attack helicopters and harrier jump jets and F-35 fighter bombers. Thus, my military has a navy, which has it's own army, which has it's own navy and it's own air force and carrier air wings.....

Me: So what's on the docket today in covid lockdon? KZread algorithm: How about an Estonian soldier discussing WWII Naval warfare? Me: That works.

@sophiaschier-hanson4163

3 жыл бұрын

Same thing happened to me. But you know what, I could listen to this guy talk about military history all day. Then again, I could listen to ANYBODY talk about military history all day.

@TheBubba91

3 жыл бұрын

Same here!!

@frenstcht

3 жыл бұрын

The KZread recommendation algorithm really does kick up some gems now and again.

@ttry1152

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@Louieepicgamer2

3 жыл бұрын

No he’s just reacting

They didn’t crack the language, they had people that spoke Japanese. What they cracked was actual code that the Japanese used.

@cavscout888

3 жыл бұрын

They only cracked bits of the code, and as they couldn't get the entire plan from radio traffic, and had to analyze all the deciphered intercepts. They even had to come up with their own ploy to get the Japanese to basically tell them the target was Midway.

@crankyyankee7290

3 жыл бұрын

And the US had a code no one cracked, known as the Navaho language(native tribe) speaking code in the Navaho speech, the usual reaction to that(in British English would be "Wot in Ell is 'at?"). Another little problem of Midway for the Japanese was their invasion of the Aleutians, they did take and hold 2 small islands, but while there one Zero was lost on a beach, in relatively good condition, picked up by the US, repaired, studied, and tested, revealing its strengths, and weaknesses improving the tactics of the Wildcats, and later Corsairsa and making the Hellcat even deadlier to Zeroes. As I recall Yamamoto warned the Japanese leaders that in a war, he could run rampant for about 6 months after which things would go badly for Japan-Midway was about 6 months after Pearl Harbor. While being congratulated on his victory Yamamoto said "I fear that all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve", quite the prophet he was, and then a lightning would later strike him down.

"The largest uno reverse in military history" would be a better title lol

@sirethanthegreat4069

3 жыл бұрын

This is underrated.

@hamburgersandfuriousanger6820

3 жыл бұрын

My grandfather who was a veteran of the Solomon Islands and Saipan we owe our lives to each branch of the military.!Otherwise we’d either be speaking Japanese, German or Russian.

@sirethanthegreat4069

3 жыл бұрын

@JSENNER83 . Lol XD XD XD

@jameslaverdiere7933

3 жыл бұрын

The battle of uno

@iamaloafofbread8926

3 жыл бұрын

@@hamburgersandfuriousanger6820 you would technically be dead or not be born

Even though early waves of US bombers did not score any hits, they did prevent the Japanese from conducting normal air operations. It really messed with their ability to manage their air assets effectively.

@JediKnight19852002

4 жыл бұрын

Additionally, with Nagumo having held back his best pilots from the initial Midway attack, the best pilots in the Kido Butai were effectively grounded, watching their carriers dodge poorly coordinated torpedo and high altitude bombing runs, and then helpless as dive bombers come screaming in.

@thekhans2823

4 жыл бұрын

@ Googurz , no way

@sarahpatings6385

4 жыл бұрын

In ww2 days there was no guided missles or anything like that. And like they are now, naval forces group in defensive formations to make effective antiair defenses. The only way to do any damage was to group in a giant mass and push through the antiaircraft weapons, which outranges the planes. That is why there was a lot of bombers shot down. Furthermore, ships have thick armor and machine guns wont do anything. They had to use explosives and the only they had were bombs and torpedoes

@Googurz

4 жыл бұрын

@@JediKnight19852002 Exactly, you can't launch and recover planes while you are executing high speed maneuvers to avoid bombs and torpedos.

@jamesricker3997

4 жыл бұрын

It also exposed two of the fatal weaknesses of the Imperial Japanese Navy. the Zero did not have a big enough ammunition load for the mission of fleet defense and the main Japanese anti-aircraft weapon the 25mm cannon was not an adequate weapon

A lot of the US fighters and strategies were a little outdated this early in the war. Which makes sense, the US was not expecting to enter a world war, while Japan was preparing for years. On top of this Japan was expending all of their most experienced pilots on the front lines (which would later be a mistake as they all died). Later on in the war with the proliferation of the Hellcat, Corsair, and new strategies the US took the advantage. The Hellcat held a 19:1 kill ratio against the Imperial Japanese Navy, completely outclassing the Zero. The Corsair also held a 12:1 loss ratio against the Zero (These are Navy planes, the P51 Mustang also was extremely successful but was an Army Air Force plane and saw most of it's combat in Europe) People praise the few success early on by the Japanese, then ignore the US completely demolishing the Japanese after updating their fleet. This is what contributes to the US mentality of keeping their military constantly updated and more advanced.

@RCXDerp

4 жыл бұрын

Makes me want to buy the dodge now haha

@weasle2904

4 жыл бұрын

@@RCXDerp The Mustang also borrows it's name from the P51 Mustang. I think it's charming to see homage through America's automotive industry to the legendary aviation history in WW2. You'll see this referenced on the Mustang's speedometer "Ground Speed"

@danielhenderson8316

4 жыл бұрын

Add to the fact that at the beginning of the war, the Japanese also had more experienced pilots, but kept then in the front lines. After Midway, the US would cycle out experienced pilots to train new ones while the Japanese left the best out to die without thinking of how to replace them. Eventually it led to the kamakazi.

@LordMekanicus

4 жыл бұрын

Right on point Weasle. All you need do is compare the Wildcat to its successor the Hellcat and you get the picture. We feared the Zero at the start of the war because of how quick and nimble they were compared to ours at the time.

@barnabydodd8956

4 жыл бұрын

Good info.

The reason for bombing ships is partly because top deck is the least armored part of a ship

@volon5

3 жыл бұрын

Especially flat top carriers

@rumpleteaser100

3 жыл бұрын

In addition, you can't launch and recover aircraft if you are doing evasive maneuvers to avoid the high level bombers. The B-17's may not have scored any hits during the battle but they kept the japanese from launching and recovering aircraft for a crucial amount of time.

@thedeadyoutuberscollector8447

3 жыл бұрын

As well it is hard to get close with shipe

@ji3194

3 жыл бұрын

It depends on the design of the carriers, Royal Navy Carriers had heavily armoured flight decks compared to American and Japanese carriers.

@rumpleteaser100

3 жыл бұрын

@@ji3194 The planes are on the deck taking off or landing...... they aren't "heavily armored"...

Fun fact: the Germans had more success closer to the continental US than the Japanese. In the early part of the war, U Boats sank a lot of shipping within sight of the east coast of the United States. The US wasn't blacking out cities which silhouetted ships at night and many US merchant captains refused to participate in convoys thinking they could sneak through on their own.

@user-dc5ti1is1s

3 жыл бұрын

US you are being torpedoed constantly you need to do something, "Nah we just gonna ignore it for a while"

@WG55

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was Operation Paukenschlag (Drumbeat). One-fourth of all ships sunk by U-boats were during this single six-month period off of the US east coast and Gulf of Mexico.

@_AKMOMO_

3 жыл бұрын

You do know Japan invaded USA right? they invaded and occupied Alaska chain islands (Attu).

@folcotook3049

3 жыл бұрын

@@_AKMOMO_ as a diversion, yes, though remember at that point Alaska wasn't a state. The German U-Boats did far more significant damage to the war effort than the Japanese did in Alaska.

@user-dc5ti1is1s

3 жыл бұрын

@@folcotook3049 I mean main reason they did damage is because the US just decided to ignore the problem and keep New York lit up lmao.

Fun fact: Midway is home to the world's oldest wild bird, a Laysan albatross named Wisdom. She lives within the world's largest albatross colony.

@hypershock0762

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting.

@pierrewuranr6399

4 жыл бұрын

nice fact

@Stealthycessna

4 жыл бұрын

I remember a vid or a article I think it was an article for school on that

@obiohaz6023

4 жыл бұрын

how do they taste?

@michaelsmith-iu1be

4 жыл бұрын

On google maps you can visit Midway, which is kinda cool. Nobody there but a bunch of birds.

moment of silence for all them brave souls lost

@DarkRipper117

4 жыл бұрын

On both sides really....the Japanese naval pride was crushed at Midway...how demoralizing that must've been.

@gdo3510

4 жыл бұрын

DarkRipper117 you mess with the bull you get the horns

6:03 its a good thing our country (USA) contains so many different backgrounds of cultures, and at this time we still had Japanese Americans that knew the language at the time.

@carloscolon1279

3 жыл бұрын

True.. still heartbreaking how we treated the Japanese Americans at this time.

@skull1161

3 жыл бұрын

@@carloscolon1279 better safe than sorry?

@d.johnson9957

3 жыл бұрын

@@skull1161 Unfortunately true. Some of those Americans could still could have had family in Japan. Not to mention, a lot of immigrants who became citizens didn't do it because they lack loyalty to or love for their home country; they did it out of necessity. It's why you can find places throughout America like Little Italy or Chinatown. People from the same country tend to navigate towards one another and create their own cultural cluster. It reminds them of where they came from and for those who find it difficult to speak English, it gives them a comfortable place where they can communicate easily with people who speak the same language. Anyway, it can end up making them split their loyalty to their old country and their new country which puts them in a very precarious position. So I can understand why it was done. What I don't understand is why our government treated them like criminals and made them live in horrific conditions. They were still Americans and should have been treated with respect and given a proper place to stay. Not pinned up like cattle and treated like animals.

@colincampbell767

3 жыл бұрын

@@d.johnson9957 "Some of those Americans could still could have had family in Japan. " Of course people with family in Germany were not treated the same way. Also remember that the reason many of those Japanese people were locked up never because citizens was because there was a law passed that made it very difficult for Japanese immigrants to become citizens. And many of the people who were locked up were born and raised in the US. Trivia note: the reason the Japanese-Americans were interred by the Army was because the the senior managers in the Justice Department threatened to resign en mass if they were told to do it.

@d.johnson9957

3 жыл бұрын

@@colincampbell767 I didn't know any of this. It's not very often that someone takes the time in a comment to teach me something. Now, I'm eager to do a deeper dive into this to see what other information is out there. Thank you so much for sharing, you just made my day. 😊

You need to learn about the p51 mustang. It’s such a cool plane with some great history

@mohamedabdulla5414

3 жыл бұрын

Did thy open up yet?

@justanunluckyirishmaninabl5178

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, do the p47 thunderbolt instead. It's the a10 warthog of ww2

@nothing-mm8ui

3 жыл бұрын

@Yusuf Mohamed Fbi open up! Cia go away. Head of state time and date? Kgb come with me. The ultimate uno reverse

@TheDarkSpecter00

3 жыл бұрын

The Mustang is a thing of beauty, but I'm still partial to the F4U. Nothing quite like it.

Just so you know midway wasn't the largest naval battle of ww2 , the battle of leyte gulf and the battle of the Philippine sea were much bigger. Also if your interested in naval warfare and want to learn about the greatest ship in US history watch the show "battle 360" . Its a 10 episode documentary about the USS Enterprise CV-6 who fought in almost every major naval battle during ww2.

@maryjoygelizon4268

4 жыл бұрын

Before ww2 spain and usa wanted phillipines in ww2 japan wanted phillipones and now china wants phillipines,phillipines is very unlucky all the big countrys in asia wants it and theres nothing they can do cause its navy is still ships from ww2 even the planes and tanks and vehicles

@CPny65

4 жыл бұрын

Battle 360 was a great documentary....Very informative and well made.

@eodyn7

4 жыл бұрын

@@maryjoygelizon4268 It's strategic positioning to control water ways.

@tristandiaz7949

4 жыл бұрын

It may have not been the biggest, but Midway was pretty much the turning point in the Pacific

@thelokiway4478

4 жыл бұрын

@@tristandiaz7949 You are right about the turning point, that WAS the turning point. After Midway the Japanese were turned into a more defensive mindset and the US was attacking when and where they chose.

shooting at a ship would only injure crewman cause the ships armor is to thick. Bombs are mostly for aircraft carriers because they want to put the flight deck out of commission. They use torpedoes from torpedo bombers to sink ships.

@firghteningtruth7173

4 жыл бұрын

Also, didnt they store their planes on deck at that time? The bombs blow the planes...annnnnnd useless ship.

@chemislife

4 жыл бұрын

@@firghteningtruth7173 no they where below deck where they where re arming their planes. The main reason the Americans used bombs instead of torpedoes is because A)their torpedoes where unreliable due to an unreliable supplier B)the pilots felt more comfortable with bombing

@JiggleWiggleBagel

4 жыл бұрын

@@firghteningtruth7173 Depends on the country mostly, the British for example used armorued carriers where the planes were stored in armorued shells below deck coupled with an armoured flight deck it proved difficult to actually knock out British aircraft carriers by damaging the flight deck. IIRC there was an account where a japanese airplane kamikazied one carrier and the flight crw effectively brushed the destroyed aircraft and all the debris off the side of the ship and they were good to launch again

@RTStx1

4 жыл бұрын

@@chemislife But during midway after it was started and got heavy, the Japanese had their planes on deck loaded with bombs for midway. After learning other air craft carriers were around they went to switch to torps, and were hit at that moment causing the deck and planes to go sky high.

@kevin9218

4 жыл бұрын

Shooting ships with bullets might damage planes on deck and kill crew members, but the decks, even wooden ones were too tough to really damage significantly with machine guns. Bombs could leave a massive hole in the deck, meaning aircraft can't drive over that area to take off or land. Also bombs could penetrate below deck to hit ammunition storage, fuel, engines etc. Torpedoes were more reliable to sink a ship, but bombing a ship and setting it on fire was just as effective as knocking it out.

The US's torpedoes were terrible. The Japanese had great torpedoes. I think that played a role in the US sending more bombers

@philipgates988

3 жыл бұрын

The US developed effective torpedos later in the war. Study Leyte Gulf battles.

@ttry1152

3 жыл бұрын

There magnetic detectors where thrown of by anomalies and the equator. Which is why they failed

@remingtonwells5638

3 жыл бұрын

Look up the battle of Leyte Gulf, America made much better torpedoes quickly after Midway.

@PanzerMan332

3 жыл бұрын

The topic of the failures of the Mark 14 and Mark 15 torpedoes is a long one, and I particularly recommend Drachinifel's video on it. While yes, the U.S. eventually fielded better torpedoes, there's no excuse for taking several years to fix the problems that could've easily been avoided with proper research and testing in the first place.

One thing they didn't mention regarding McClusky is that he didn't go just off of pure instinct. The Submarine Nautilus that was a fleet scout had been spotted and was being hunted by the Japanese destroyer Arashi. Arashi had finally called off the hunt after a few hours and was powering back towards the feet at flank speed, giving off an enormous wake. McClucky was betting that if he pointed his group in the general direction of this destroyer moving at flank speed, it would take him to the carriers

@mljrotag6343

Жыл бұрын

Exactly right.

you need to learn about the enterprise carrier, the most decorated ship of the war

@lainehuang9954

4 жыл бұрын

Brooo yas !it was one of the best!

@illegalalien4444

4 жыл бұрын

@@lainehuang9954 USS Enterprise nicknamed the "Big E"

@badmoth242xl3

4 жыл бұрын

The one ship that carried the entire US Navy

@billallen4793

4 жыл бұрын

The Hornet is another great ship that is now a museum....from Wyoming USA 🔫🤠🇺🇸p.s stay safe and healthy everybody GOD BLESS OUR COUNTRY AND stop this foolishness ❤

@willdezso1101

4 жыл бұрын

The Enterprise is the greatest ship of the Pacific war.

The Zero was the best fighter in the Pacific until later in the war when the American Hellcat came on the seen. The Hellcat was the far superior plane for the remainder of the war.

@bluelunarwolf2996

3 жыл бұрын

Actually the F4U corsair was the superior plane in the war during the Pacific theater

@Mason-zp8yb

3 жыл бұрын

@@bluelunarwolf2996 The Corsair is truly a thing of beauty.

@Durahan82

3 жыл бұрын

P47 Thunderbolt & P-38 Lightning : are we Jokes to you ?

@Redspeare

3 жыл бұрын

@Hoocher Yep The US Army Air Forces used lots of P-38s and P-47s in the PTO. It was a P-38 pilot who shot down and killed Yamamoto. Also, the highest scoring USMC ace in the PTO, Captain Joe Foss scored all of his victories in an F4F Wildcat. The F4U had a kill to loss ration or 11:1. The F4F Wildcat had a 9:1 ratio, and the F6F Hellcat a 19:1 ratio.

@Redspeare

3 жыл бұрын

@@bluelunarwolf2996 "Actually" it was the F6F Hellcat with a 19:1 kill/loss ratio. :)

28:48 The Devastator was a torpedo bomber, and it was obsolete before the war started, combined with the fact that American torpedos were very unreliable at this stage, meant the devastator crews had little effect and were cut to pieces.

Me: *studies for an upcoming exam for 5 hours* “mom im done studying” My asian mom: 13:37

@BH-rm1ch

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@Alcivv

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh😂😂

@Alcivv

4 жыл бұрын

BuT wAS It EnOuGh

@joshstock6591

4 жыл бұрын

L33t

@QuacksThePoet

3 жыл бұрын

😭😭😭😭😭😭

24:50 - Yorktown damage control was so good the Japanese attacked it a second time thinking it was a different carrier. All the fires were out and the hole in the deck had been patched.

@Dust210

4 жыл бұрын

And it wasn't even the Japanese air attacks that sank it, a Japanese submarine stumbled upon her while she was being towed back to Pearl Harbor for repairs and fired 4 torpedoes at her. One missed, two hit the Yorktown, and one hit the destroyer that was alongside her at the time and blew it in half. She still might have survived all of that, but the destroyers depth charges went off and knocked out the auxiliary generator providing power to the repair crews and that was that for the ship which then finally sank, 14 hours later.

@l8tr597

4 жыл бұрын

Our damage control and fire suppression was far superior, also had fuel flushing systems to purge fuel lines to prevent the spread, again, unlike the enemy’s carriers.

@weasle2904

4 жыл бұрын

The US in general has better safety systems in their military across the board

@hunterskidmore1672

4 жыл бұрын

@@weasle2904 no one likes losing troops after all

You should watch the movie Midway, the70’s version. It’s a pretty good timeline of events.

@raptortime4562

4 жыл бұрын

I mean the new one is quite good

@cherylann9781

4 жыл бұрын

Oof Time I agree it’s a good movie, but the 70’s version has a better time line and is easier to follow as far as the actual battle goes.

@chemislife

4 жыл бұрын

@@cherylann9781 the problem with the 70s version is it has several inaccuracies in it's time line for instance the planes fueling on the top deck.

@binyominsilverman1592

4 жыл бұрын

The new one is better.

@michaelusswisconsin6002

4 жыл бұрын

2019 is also good

I think you need to watch the movie “MIDWAY”, it’s very accurate and more in-depth when it comes to the code breakers, uss enterprise and on the pilots!

"We meet at Midway!" "Naval War!"

@ISS600

3 жыл бұрын

FAR FROM SHORE, A PACIFIC WAR BOMBS ARE FALLING FROM THE SKY IT'S A BOMB RUN DAY, ITS THE NAVAL WAY A BLOOD RED SUN IS ON THE RISE

Hey Artur. History buff here. Bombs were the most effective in taking out enemy ships. The torpedo bombers at the time were outdated, it required pilots to fly low and slow making it easy for anti aircraft to pick them off, plus the torpedoes were plagued with problems primarily the torpedoes fuses not going off. Bombing specifically divebombing was more effective. It had a higher success rate than torpedoes and was in comparison a lot safer. Edit: The TBD Devastator is a torpedo bomber not a dive bomber. The SBD Dauntless was

@ttry1152

3 жыл бұрын

Magnetic detonators had trouble due to irregularities and beung near the equator

Watch "Midway" (2019)...very well made. McClusky's decision wasn't "pure luck", he followed a Japanese destroyer hightailing it back to the carriers. The Japanese pilots were considered the best in the Pacific if not the world.

@Seems12345

4 жыл бұрын

I watched it the day it came out two days before my birthday. Best war film I’ve seen. Since I haven’t seen many. Really good

@Dragonspirit223

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely the best war film (Okay, maybe 2nd, Gettysburg remains the top, maybe a tie between the two), as far as I know, historically accurate, didn't add a stupid love story, character development (From what I remember) was good, while they also showed the Japanese, American, and even the Chinese sides (The last I personally have never seen, I knew that it existed, but it was the first time that I can remember it appearing on a big screen. Seems like we Americans seem to forgive the Japanese for the atrocities they committed (I mean, we did the same, not to the same degree, but we've always committed atrocities in war) because we nuked them twice. Just a observation I've seen from school and general media).

@woody4077

4 жыл бұрын

to be fair he did get "lucky" that a japanese ship was in that location

@stischer47

4 жыл бұрын

@@woody4077 OK, but in that case just about all battles are decided by "luck"

@woody4077

4 жыл бұрын

@@stischer47 point conceeded

Fun fact: the son of the American President Franklin Roosevelt served on an anti aircraft gun on the island.

@solarios9983

3 жыл бұрын

wow

@manictiger

3 жыл бұрын

FDR: Hold my Pina Colada

“If you don’t like history... go away” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Artur you should check out Mark Felton Productions on KZread. He has a lot of stuff on World War 2 that I think you would find very interesting.

@thekhans2823

4 жыл бұрын

@ Shack19 , Oh yes

@casanmacaslang6245

4 жыл бұрын

I support this...

@TheBruceGday

4 жыл бұрын

Shack19 then there is Drachinfel for naval history!

Between Pearl Harbor and Midway (about 6 months apart) a small group of US carriers roamed the Japanese Pacific almost like pirate ships, striking at island bases and disappearing. This was one of the reasons Japan thought up the Midway attack - to deal a death blow to the American carrier fleet that was causing so much trouble

@JaayCeez

4 жыл бұрын

Is there a name to search of ra video of them?

@Andrew-ep4kw

4 жыл бұрын

@@JaayCeez you can search the battle of midway which will give you a bunch of videos. The two best in my opinion are the one from the Japanese perspective and the Battlefield episode, which goes into depth about the battles that led up to Midway. Here's the link to that video kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y6tnkqikg7vfhKg.html

One "battle" I'm really impressed by is when we took down Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto ... Less of a battle and more of an assassination but still very impressive build up

"Wind Talkers." Look into them!

@tyhen8211

3 жыл бұрын

Good one

@Utoober729

3 жыл бұрын

Navajo code talkers

@Patriotusa44

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Choctaw code talkers from WWI.

General Joseph here

@arturrehi

4 жыл бұрын

Members (Generals) have early access ;) nice

@2halliom

4 жыл бұрын

seya hin

“We didn’t win, Japan has awoken a sleeping giant..” Admiral Yamamoto after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Thanks for the likes I guess.

@mr.kamikaze8660

4 жыл бұрын

There’s no evidence he ever actually said that quote, but it’s plausible since he did have that kind of mindset.

@Andrew-ep4kw

4 жыл бұрын

@@mr.kamikaze8660 yeah I think he said something to the effect that Japan just awoke a sleeping giant, but I don't know the exact quote. I believe Yamamoto's strategy for Midway was to destroy the US Pacific carrier fleet then negotiate a peace with the United States. He was educated in the US, had seen it's industrial potential and knew Japan would lose a protracted war.

@weasle2904

4 жыл бұрын

@@Andrew-ep4kw Strange to see a person who calls himself a man study in the US, a country with far more individual freedoms than Japan, then be perfectly okay fighting for the broken and immoral government in Japan... It would be like a North Korean living in the US, then coming back to North Korea and leading the war on the US

@HardenJID

4 жыл бұрын

Weasle well it’s very funny you bring up the North Korean example considering there have been North Korean defectors who suffer such a major culture shock and were so “brainwashed” that they actually preferred to go back and some did, now obviously this isn’t every defector or even most but it does happen.

@USS_Grey_Ghost

4 жыл бұрын

Said something to the effect of I can give you 1 maybe 2 years of free reign in the Pacific after that I cannot guarantee this

I love how Artur talks about wars and stuff and doesn’t bring up politics it’s better than watching the history channel

@bromixsr

3 жыл бұрын

Nowadays, watching paint dry is better than watching the History Channel.

That dude doesn’t look like he should have that voice.

@ttry1152

3 жыл бұрын

I know right

torpedoes are a better than bombs but its still hard to hit the target.

@nicholaswilson1851

4 жыл бұрын

Fionn MacEachern not air-dropped torps they’re smaller than the kinds boats use

@tarn1135

4 жыл бұрын

The USA’s torpedos were temperamental at best. Our detonators work 1/3 of the time. Thankfully our dive bombers worked just fine.

@landonfonke6082

4 жыл бұрын

Back then, torpedoes were new so they were accident prone

@budmeister

4 жыл бұрын

@@landonfonke6082 The first effective self-propelled torpedo came out in 1866.

@Nyx_2142

4 жыл бұрын

@@tarn1135 No. The Mk. 14 torpedo was a dud 9 times out of 10. 1/3 is way too good for those pieces of junk.

As to bombing ships? It's possible, in fact it's one of the reasons dive bombing was invented, it's easier on fat, slow ships though, such as Battleships and Carriers.

The zero was a superior fighter early in the war. US weapons systems like torpedoes, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers were all inferior. The Yorktown was rushed into battle in a few days after sustaining major damage in the battle of corral sea. They patched a huge hole in her deck with plywood, and the Yorky was lost in battle. but it was invaluable to be able to launch the sheer number of aircraft needed to destroy the Japanese carrier fleet.

@Hello-ub8kt

3 жыл бұрын

It was terrifying early in the war but superior weapons, including far superior fighters, were developed over the course of the war, and the Japanese couldn’t keep up

@Baldeagle-tw2nv

3 жыл бұрын

The Yorktown taking those multiple hits also had the Japanese thinking that they had taken down two American carriers instead of hitting the Yorktown multiple times. Yorktown was a tough gal and took more punishment than a ship should have, she stood firm when her nation and sailors needed her to and the presence of her also confused the Japanese as they thought it was impossible to have the Yorktown back in combat after the massive damage taken at Coral Sea. People also forget that repair teams were still on the ship when she left Pearl Harbor and participated in the battle.

@kevinl2482

3 жыл бұрын

Yup. The Yorktown was set on fire during the first attack and heavy damage was done. It was hit by 3 bombs and 2 torps I think. The repair crew then patched up the decks and did their damage control stuff and the Yorktown was almost good as new until the second attack, leading the Japanese to think they got 2 carriers, and then got attacked while refueling. Also, instead of only 200 people repair it afte Coral Sea, they had 1400 people repair it. It was estimated that it would take 2 weeks normally to repair it, but Nimitz needed it in 3 days, so they x7 peopled and repaired it in 2 days. They did patch a hole with Plywood, but as the Russians say, "Whatever works, works".

@Ko_Kasumi

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hello-ub8kt Not all the US weapons were superior tho, Japanese had better torps pretty much the whole war for both planes and ship based torpedoes. Also Japan had better night sights for most the war which made night engagements extra scary. The biggest difference though was manpower and training ideologies. US Aces became teachers while Japanese Aces fought till they died and never passed on knowledge.

the B17's were heavy bombers from midway. you're confusing them with fighters, dive bombers and torpedo bombers that are on carriers.

@yeraymonzon6338

3 жыл бұрын

Ever heard of B-17 666?

Btw, Artur, just a heads up.. Idk if you'll see this, but whenever you see the name "Harbaugh" it's generally pronounced "Har-baw"

@captoscarmike9533

4 жыл бұрын

Or if referring to Coach Jim Harbaugh just say, moron and that should cover it...JK!!!

@jonathanbartron3658

4 жыл бұрын

@@captoscarmike9533, I was gonna pretty much say the same thing.

Love Your Channel. You Should React To Taffy 3: The Battle Off Samar. US Destroyers, Destroyer Escorts, And Escort Carriers Against Japanese Battleships, Heavy Cruisers, Light Cruisers And Destroyers.

@TheBruceGday

4 жыл бұрын

James Edwards yes! Watch the Odds? What are Those? From Drachinfel. Love his video on Samar! kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZnWYxdh9maSZnKg.html

@CorsetGrace

4 жыл бұрын

"The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" is the name of the book.

"If you don't like that, go away!" This is why I watch and love your videos 😂😂😂

I’ve been loving this channel recently, instant sub

So they used 3 Yorktown Class carriers to counter Akagi,Kaga,Hiryu,and Shoryu oh I love history

Maybe next the battle off Samar next. It’s even more epic! Even if it wasn’t as important

@pikamonketchumlol1237

4 жыл бұрын

As a Filipino I am kinda offended, but the Battle of Leyte Gulf was the biggest naval war, if you haven't Artur please react to it!

@dustypluskrat7423

4 жыл бұрын

PikamonKetchumlol 123 definitely Leyte Gulf for the absolute mad lads in Taffy-3 a true David and Goliath story.

@pikamonketchumlol1237

4 жыл бұрын

@@dustypluskrat7423 we all know what happens after that, Japan surrenders and pays its debt with its anime

@TheCsel

4 жыл бұрын

In what should have been the most spectacular battleship engagement of the war, instead it was the main Japanese battlefleet against a few American support carriers and destroyers. And the Americans win.

@TheBruceGday

4 жыл бұрын

POTATO JUICE yes! Watch the Odds? What are Those? From Drachinfel. Love his video on Samar! kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZnWYxdh9maSZnKg.html

I was a boyscout in the USA and my troop spent two nights in the Yorktowns barracks. It it in a permanent cement anchor off our east coast and we snuck away in the night and crawled around a bunch of parts of the ship that we weren't getting to see otherwise. Very fun very special memory.

My uncle Tom Reale was a B24 pilot who was posthumously decorated. Flying over the Pacific, his plane was hit by flack and caught on fire. He held it steady as most of the crew bailed out. He was literally burning up, but his job was to hold it steady. He saved the lives of six crew members before the flames caused the plane to blow up. I never knew him and there was no trace of his body. If you asked him if he was a hero, I know he would have said no; he died just doing his duty.

The Soviet Union's war industry couldn't have been successful without massive lend lease act. America provided tons of ammunition, provided the Soviets fuel for trucks and high octane aviation fuel, an entire military communications network with tens of thousands of radios, provided train tracks and railcars along with hundreds of thousands of trucks that provided the Soviets the ability to bring massive aid quickly to the fronts(apposed to the germans that relied on horses) and these trucks were also used to mount the feared soviet katyusha rocket system as well as pull towed artillery, these trucks also allowed them to out run the Germans and out supply them. The US help provide winter clothing as well as food to the Soviets (the germans were eating their own boots near the wars end). along with tanks and planes. for anyone questioning this, look at Stalins and Gorbachev's own memoirs on this, they essentially said the war on the Eastern front would have been lost without American and Western aid. do a video on this!

@alreadyblack3341

4 жыл бұрын

Not to mention, the Industrial Aid given to the Soviets pre-war. American contractors helped construct and design Soviet Factories, and these templates were copy and pasted essentially with the Industrial buildup of the Soviet's Central Asian sector.

@alextjb

4 жыл бұрын

You have to give the soviets credit for literally disassembling their factories in the west from Moscow and other cities and putting them on trains and rebuilding them in the East. It is an amazing feat of engineering to literally rebuild entire factories in just a few weeks. Without those factories the Russians have no tanks, rifles, ammunition, aircraft, etc etc.

@l8tr597

4 жыл бұрын

We gave them the Hearth Furnace technology inducing oxygen to make quality steel, which their t34s would have sucked without. Speaking of that, they also used Christie’s design (American from France) to make the T34s also, after our government turned the best tank design of the war down. Russia then, is like now, a paper tiger.

@casanmacaslang6245

4 жыл бұрын

Is there any good videos about this info

@alreadyblack3341

4 жыл бұрын

@@l8tr597 Well, their Armored core is dated and deteriorating, and they just don't have the economic or industrial capacity to withstand a major conflict against China, the U.S., or the E.U.

The US didnt really have a fighter advantage until a bit later in the war when through a combination of developing specialized tactics to deal with the Zeros, attrition leaving the Japanese navy with few experienced pilots, and eventually superior designed fighters they eventually gained the advantage probably culminating in "The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot"

@airsoftpopcorn

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, US fighters were a lot tougher and more resilient than japanese planes, but this meant they were less maneuverable. Especially earlier on in the war

@terrypennington2519

4 жыл бұрын

I think when the US had started using Hellcats they finally had a chance at dogfighting zeros, wildcats weren't very effective against them because US planes were designed to be much tougher at the cost of their maneuverability

@redshirt5126

4 жыл бұрын

Here's a link to a video that does a great job of explaining the advantages vs the disadvantages of the Japanese Mitsubishi Zero during the Pacific campaign. kzread.info/dash/bejne/c6SDyMSxoK-adMo.html

@TheCsel

4 жыл бұрын

Zeroes were good, but the Japanese never produced a great upgrade for them. Their design teams were working with too many constraints and as the war progressed their industry took hits. The Americans and British were able to field newer aircraft and they quickly outclassed the older Zeroes.

@redshirt5126

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheCsel It probably didnt help that the Zero had to be an extreamly balance airframe in terms of weight to get the best preformance out of it. Because of that, when the Japanese Navy started looking at adding upgrades, they found that anything they added would make the Zero overweight and unstable.

YOU NEED TO WATCH "BATTLE 360." Its the entire naval battle during ww2.

@h3S3zl

3 жыл бұрын

Where do you watch this

@blackopscw7913

3 жыл бұрын

Unforgiving 28 Tv

Please react to the Iowa-Class battleships, arguably the strongest warships of WWII. Served all the way until the 1990's

@tediz_ftw2240

3 жыл бұрын

Or the Yamato-class battleship which is the heaviest battleship ever made.

Early in the war, Japanese technology was superior. Planes could fly faster and turn sharper. Torpedoes almost always worked where ours failed to arm or hit. By the end of the war, our technology had caught up to and surpassed the Japanese. After the war, we silently swore to never allow a potential foe to have superior technology.

@TheCsel

4 жыл бұрын

If the Americans actually had functional torpedoes at the start of the war, it all would have turned out very differently.

@JHNielson4851

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheCsel - The Mark 14 torpedo was junk and the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance was to stubborn to listen to their submarine commanders. The aircraft at Midway use the Mark 13 torpedo but it was also a piece of junk.

@SaltineChips

4 жыл бұрын

@@JHNielson4851 I wonder if submarine commanders just simply began to not use then at all.

@Navy89SEALs

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheCsel Especially since the Japanese biggest mistake of Pearl Harbor was flying over the submarine base twice without dropping a single bomb. Our subs wrecked their shipping and supplies which kept us in the war. But just imagine if they had working torpedoes.

@bbigjohnson069

4 жыл бұрын

@@Navy89SEALs Their torpedoes were good ours weren't.

I would highly suggest watching the movie "Midway" one came out in 2019 and in 1976. Watch either, but great story telling and explains all this in great action and detail. One of my favorite movies.

The 1976 movie "Midway" is outstanding, you should watch it :) Also: the Battle of Coral (May '42) sea was the first time the Imperial Japanese navy failed to win. It was a draw and set the stage for Midway (June '42)

Ki Muas here from San Francisco, I’m a US Marine Veteran. Thanks for giving some good different perspective for my country’s history

Imagine if he saw Girls und panzer tank drifting

React to Taistelukenttä 2020. It's how Finland would go to war if it comes.

25:15 The Wildcats were obsolete against the Zeros but after the Newer Hellcats , Thunderbolts and Lightnings came later in the war , the Zeros had no chance .

Search for "Montemayor" The Battle of Midway: The Aerican Perspective, The Japanese Perspective and Hiryu's Counterstrike. This is the most precise single source on the Battle of Midway. I have been a military history buff since I was a child and I am a 56 years old U.S. Army veteran.

Artur, drink black tea with a little sugar instead of energy drink when tired.

There’s a great movie about this battle called “Midway” that is amazing and I highly recommend.

I think the best answer to naval combat at the time is yes, using planes to shoot and also during the time dive bombing. You can also do ship to ship battles. That’s what I think. But your answer was good too.

Bombing back then was extremely inaccurate. However ships have very thin armor on their decking which means the best way to do heavy damage is to try and get a bomb to land on the deck.

Spaceman here :)

@arturrehi

4 жыл бұрын

Hello General

@prodigalespace7299

4 жыл бұрын

@@arturrehi hello sir!

@comunistpig9500

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Sir @Artur Rehi

@comunistpig9500

4 жыл бұрын

@@SuperBobblehead77 no

@comunistpig9500

4 жыл бұрын

@@arturrehi Hello sir!

Why bombers? Because they had bombers. Ideally against enemy ships of this era you would torpedo planes, but this whole thing went down pretty swiftly.

@stischer47

4 жыл бұрын

But at the time US torpedos had lousy reliability. The best were dive bombers. Which took out the carriers.

@mikek0135

4 жыл бұрын

The American torpedo reliability wasn’t bad enough that it would cause them to choose bombers instead. In this case they sent bombers because they sent everything they had (except fighters).

@douglascampbell9809

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikek0135 American torpedo reliability was horrible at the start of the war. In mid-1943 an analysis of 105 Mark 13 torpedoes dropped at speeds in excess of 150 knots showed clearly why aviators distrusted the Mark 13: 36 percent ran cold, 20 percent sank, 20 percent had poor deflection performance, 18 percent gave unsatisfactory depth performance, 2 percent ran on the surface, and only 31 percent gave a satisfactory run. You had to fly low and slow to make them work. Pretty much making sure AA takes out your aircraft.

@stischer47

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikek0135 I agree. They used what they had. But it was the dive bombers not the torpedo bombers that caused the damage, plus luck of the CAP leaving the carriers unprotected from high level bombing.

Fun Fact about McClusky: The thing that gave him even an idea of what direction the fleet was in resulted in events carried out a while back. The fleet submarine USS Nautilus had been stalking the fleet from afar, setting up for a torpedo run on a Japanese Battleship in the area. Nautilus made an attack run on the BB, but missed. However, the attack was enough for the destroyer IJN Arashi, a Kagero class destroyer, to spend a considerable amount of time hunting Nautilus. After a while though, the Arashi gave up and started powering back towards the fleet at flank speed (~36 kts). The ship produced a massive wake behind it, which McClusky's group found as a lone contact in the water in their search. McClusky banked on the assumption that the destroyer was facing right towards the fleet and it paid off. One of the reasons McClusky's group was low on fuel is because McClusky was a former fighter pilot. SBD-3's are normally supposed to cruise at 260 kts. McClusky was running them at 290 kts the whole time, draining fuel. Once the air group reached the fleet, it almost results initially in catastrophe, as almost everyone targets the Kaga. A flight leader spots this and diverts himself and a few others to attack the Akagi. Several others diverted to attack Soryu as well.

My family was involved in that battle. My great grandfather designed the U.S.S. Hornet as well as the troop ships they used in the Pacific. My grandfather crewed one of the smaller PT boats.

Small correction Artur: the British cracked the Enigma machine. The mathematician named "Alan Turing", along with his team, learned of a key word for the machines. The Germans became lazy, and overconfident in their coded devices, that they used the same code word. With this information, Alan created a computer to check all of the possibilities, until they got one single option. They compared this option to the weather report for the day (because the Germans would send a weather report out every day to let the commanders make sure their codes were ok), and checked to see if the message made sense. In this way, Alan, along with his team, cracked the Enigma. However, at the start of the war, the Polish did crack the code, but only for a few months. The Germans changed the scramble sets, completley changing the configuration for the code. The main difference, is that the Polish sort of made it obvious that they were in the code, the British tried to keep it as secret as possible, selectively choosing which attacks to prevent, and which attacks to let happen.

@thekhans2823

4 жыл бұрын

@ CommentControl , Yeah they should have changed it 3 times a day

@ALRIGHTYTHEN.

4 жыл бұрын

You mean the Poles.

@thekhans2823

4 жыл бұрын

@ ALRIGHTY THEN , it was the poles you fool !

@mncharlie8455

4 жыл бұрын

You might check this out. Without the help of the Poles, Turing would not have cracked the final version the Germans were using then. www.warhistoryonline.com/featured/polish-mathematicians-role-in-cracking-germans-wwii-codesystem.html

Arthur: You are forgetting that Japan had access to a remarkable amount of resources. They had access to rubber from Malaya, oil from Indonesia, and steel from other conquered nations.

"Prisoners of Geography" is a great follow up book to put a finer point on how resources matter and how geography constrains the behaviors of nation states.

I’m in Boy Scouts in America and for a camping trip we went to the USS Yorktown in Charleston South Carolina. We slept on the ship for 2 days. Got to say, I had the time of my life.

react to the swedish metal band "sabaton-bismarck".

@Firusdhf

4 жыл бұрын

Power metal sucks

@collincaperton6718

4 жыл бұрын

@@Firusdhf I prefer heavy metal to power but sabaton is a good example of a powermeral band

@Firusdhf

4 жыл бұрын

Collin Caperton I like extremely metal like thrash, death and black

WW2 history is my personal favorite stay cheeki breeki rehi

Artur, You should watch the movie "midway". You wont regret it.

@TheDarkSpecter00

3 жыл бұрын

I really like the newest one, despite the critics review.. The 1976 one is alright, but a lot of added drama. Haven't seen the other one.

There's another great video of the battle of midway made by the youtube channel Montemayor. His video is told by the japanese perspective, it's a great video I highly recommend.

I wished they had gone more into detail about the intelligence and counter-intelligence parts of it. I’m pretty sure there is more to it than what was said.

@tchoupitoulos

4 жыл бұрын

This whole production was a very general overview, that misses a lot of detail.

Whereeee is taistelukenttääääää 2020

@potatojuice5124

4 жыл бұрын

I watched that and it’s very cool!

There was a great documentary featuring interviews with veterans of Midway. Best comment was from a sailor who had also been at Pearl Harbor: "This time we were waiting for them with a hatchet."

Artur, You should do a Video on the Battle of Attu. The only battle fought on American Soil. its a very interesting and has some crazy tactics to win the battle.

“Countries with resources will win.” This is very true. One of the big advantages Rome had over other powers in the ancient world was the fact that it was a vast empire with a vast amount of resources and good logistics. The Roman Empire had a great military, but they absolutely did not win every battle. The Empire had great resilience that made up for some of their defeats.

@l8tr597

4 жыл бұрын

Their Roads had a lot to do with it also, agreed, logistics worked

@ahkillease4324

3 жыл бұрын

l8tr597 And many of said roads were built whilst on campaign

You should watch ww2 from space it covers everything but it's like an 1 hour to 1 hour and 30 min.

I'm just amazed that there exists such clear colour footage of the Japanese attack on Midway. That was pretty damn cool. I've seen WWII-era colour footage before but colour combat footage is a little rarer as far as I know.

one thing to note about carrier battles is that a very important factor is launching the right planes at the right time. The japanese weren't expecting to fight another carrier so they didn't have the right planes prepped for lauch when the battle started.

React to taistelukenttä 2020 please artur

"Japan Attacked America, which nobody else had done before..." I thought you did a video on the War of 1812, where England attacked America.

@IrishBiteGirl

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, the USA was barely even a nation of its own at that point, a few decades. That's like attacking a baby as an adult then when he is older trying to say you were the first to ever beat that man up. Even though he wasn't a man yet, just a baby.

@leelendmccormick3538

3 жыл бұрын

But the British didn’t fight the fighters wer te world’s unsung heroes the Canadians

I was born and raised in San Diego, CA so it's a huge Navy city and I got to go out on the USS McClusky (named for Rear Admiral C. Wade McClusky) for a day trip. They shot off the cannons and the .50 cals and it was a good time. Too badly they recently retired the ship and sank it to the bottom of the ocean.

The answer to the bomber question is simple. It's more accurate than naval cannons and losing a plane costs far less than damage to a ship. Additionally, there are multiple types of bombers suited for different types of bombing runs. Level bombers are for area saturation carpet bombing like the B-17. Dive bombers like the Dauntless and Helldiver are used for delivering big bombs accurately to a target. Torpedo bombers are for launching torpedoes into the broad side of a ship and capsizing it with flooding.

Japanese carrier go bye-bye

@MrEd-qg8td

4 жыл бұрын

Yorktown sunk by Japanese submarine night after battle, couple of months later US carrier go bye bye USS Wasp, USS Saratoga badly damaged by by Sub and Enterprise damaged and had to return to Pearl Harbor for 2 months reapair work. Battle of Santa Cruz October 1942 Enterprise returns to battle and Hornet sunk, Enterprise badly damaged again and nearly sunk. After that we had basically no battle ready carriers. But Japan lost most of it's trained pilots. But Essex launched December 1942 and relieved Enterprise. Now Japan was in bad shape and could not recover. It was basically over for them.

At the time, the US bombers were older tech, and they were effectively sitting ducks.

A small but crucial detail that one of my college history professors pointed out. Bear in mind that after the order given at 19:11 the decks of the Japanese carriers were covered, not only with planes, but bombs, torpedoes, and fuel lines. A perfect recipe for a battle disaster

The A6M Zero Fighter was at the time of this battle the best fighter in the Pacific theater. It was light, fast, and extremely maneuverable and heavily armed with machine guns and 20mm cannons. The stall speed of the Zero was 70MPH/ (120 KPH?) A US Aircraft stalled / fell out of the sky at 120 MPH. It could in most cases totally outmaneuver US planes. The Zero fighter at that time fully loaded weighed in at about 2000 pounds. An empty Wildcat weighed twice that. But new tactics, training on the US part, and new planes turned the tide. There is also the fact that during the US evicting Japan from the Aleutians the US came across a fully intact though slightly damaged Zero Fighter. We recovered it, repaired it, then tested it against EVERY plane we had to see what would work best for each fighter.

Would war be impossible if each side had total intelligence of the adversaries position? No 'Fog of War' at all?

@jsl151850b

3 жыл бұрын

Ohhhh. As long as the adversaries had comparable military resources it would be a stalemate. If one side had an overwhelming advantage they could lose equal quantities until one side ran out.

@MDKMRMATT

3 жыл бұрын

@@jsl151850b i would say yes still possible because like watching a boxing match between two equal fighters they would maneuver for position until there is an advantage and unlike boxing for sport two people fighting to the death one may take an intentional non critical blow to score a fatal hit like Ali in boxing with a rope a dope

@Baldeagle-tw2nv

3 жыл бұрын

Also all the intel in the world cannot account for individual action. That was what set the American forces apart from every other force in WWII, the sheer unpredictability of American forces made it difficult to handle them. The Germans knew the Americans would fight tooth and nail, but didn't know HOW they would fight. There was no set American dogma of action and the Germans made comment of it several times. They knew how the Commonwealth forces would act and had a general idea of how the Soviets would fight, but they couldn't figure out for the love of God how the Americans were going to act. When your military is made up of wildcards that constantly change tactics and plans on the fly all the intel in the world is rendered pointless.

@jsl151850b

3 жыл бұрын

@@Baldeagle-tw2nv Thanks everyone for your replies. I don't know who else I could have asked. B1787 ...I wasn't saying foreknowledge, just impossible transparency. Magical cameraless television. "Know-Ware".

Watch video with the uss enterprise in ww2 like f you agree

Love your Channel. One little known fact that gave the American carriers an advantage in fire fighting was that the tanks holding aviation fuel were topped off with nitrogen gas as they used the fuel. That aided the carriers survival.

Watch the movie called "Midway" it came out in 2019 and is a really good and informational movie.

As a former U.S. soldier, I cannot state enough how much I appreciate your videos and motivation to study history. It is bittersweet to see a foreign national show so much more respect to American history and history in general than many current Americans, but I enjoy it all the more for that. The world would have much to learn from seeing fellow soldiers of different nations interact when together. Race doesnt matter, nationality doesn't matter. It's everyone understanding and respecting each other for what they were and are. Perhaps that is what made the previous generation the "greatest generation." They had first hand experience that there are regular people everywhere with their own lives and problems. This has been evident in almost every major war as allies mingled. Videos like yours bring that to the public and bring a little bit more people in. Thank you. If you haven't yet. I recommend you find a video on the Red Tail squadron. There was a popular movie made about them, but they earned it.

One of the things about our early torpedo attacks was that the Devastator Torpedo Bomber was an obsolete design. It was designed in the mid 30s and already obsolete by the time it entered service around 1939 (could be off by a year) where as the Japanese equivalent in the B5N “Kate” Torpedo Bomber was a superior design and was more successful; higher speed, better engine, higher payload, longer range, just all around better plane. And the other thing that made the Devastators suffer was the torpedo we had at the time was notorious for not arming after it was dropped; some exploded on contact with the water, but many more failed to detonate on contact with a ship and some just missed. It wasn’t until we got the TBF/M Avenger Torpedo Bomber and an updated torpedo that we started to reverse our victories in this area.

The USS YORKTOWN was so heavily damaged at the battle of Coral Sea, the Japanese thought they had sunk her and therefore thought the US was down 1 carrier and didn't expect to see her at all. When she limped back to Pearl Harbor, not really limped the damage control teams managed to do repairs so well she was able to obtain over 20 kts, the Yard Master told Nimitz it would take months to get the Old Girl back underway. The yard workers and sailors repaired her and got her back out to sea in 3 days and the repair work was so well done, you couldn't even tell she had been in a battle. This is why Nagumo focused his attack on the Yorktown at Midway. When he received word that the scout had spotted the Yorktown, he took it as an omen and much to his chagrin it was.

My cousin is deployed in the Baltic’s right now! 🇬🇧🇪🇪rule Britannia my friend