Hey everyone, glad to see that for the most you're enjoying this review. Unfortunately I messed up one small detail at 8:36 that one of you was kind enough to point out. I accidently referred to Tsar Nicholas as Tsar Nicholas I. He wasn't. He was Tsar Nicholas II. I think when I was recording, my dyslexia misread II as I. Sorry about that!

@velociraptor3313

3 жыл бұрын

It's alright mate I'm just happy to watch a new video of your reviews and if I may say I saw Midway when it was released and I enjoyed it. But if I may ask what other reviews do you have planned in the future? Sincerely a fan from Australia.

@jimmingtonmcjim7916

3 жыл бұрын

Don't worry about it dude, the quality of your videos is always great.

@VK-jy3pi

3 жыл бұрын

It's alright.

@15mmGustavus

3 жыл бұрын

It's all good I'm dyslexic to. We all make the odd mistake.. And it certainly doesn't get in the way of great content like yours

@munawaralias8980

3 жыл бұрын

Worth the wait. Yay!

The great irony: Midway did a better job depicting Pearl Harbor than Pearl Harbor..

@littlefluffybushbaby7256

3 жыл бұрын

For Pearl I'd go for "Tora,Tora,Tora". HB already covered it I think.

@alexbrown1930

3 жыл бұрын

@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 Oh, yes, I know. But I was meaning that,of recent movies, not classics, Midway did Pearl Harbor better, as the opening act, than Pearl Harbor, a movie that was supposed to be all about Pearl Harbor!

@Alex-pj8nz

3 жыл бұрын

That love story ???

@vinniemoran7362

3 жыл бұрын

"Pearl Harbor" was a turd pile.

@dustindubbo2892

3 жыл бұрын

@@skippa7324 I’m pretty sure they had some AA guns but they only started shoving them wherever they could fit after this and other carrier battles.

"Pearl Harbor" is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle.

@martincann5052

3 жыл бұрын

@Dragon On Coke He's referring to a line from the Roger Ebert review of 'Pearl Harbor'.

@magatetus

3 жыл бұрын

Terrible Writing Advice would like to know your location.

@mibatten

3 жыл бұрын

@michael boultinghouse all credit to Roger Ebert

@mibatten

3 жыл бұрын

@michael boultinghouse lol was truly an 'artiste' ...

@clxwncrxwn

3 жыл бұрын

Well if they included a bonus scene of emperor Hirohito getting a short drop with a sudden stop. Would that make it better?

Fun fact: There is a district in the old capital of Finland, Turku, called Port Arthur. This is because when Port Arthur was lost, construction workers building the then new district joked about building "a new Port Arthur to replace the one lost" and the name stuck.

@Shlogger

2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact. There's a town in Texas called Port Arthur where Janis Joplin and the rap group UGK were from.

@megaman7010

2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: I knew non of those facts.

@KyleMiddleton7

Жыл бұрын

Of note, Australia has a Port Arthur as well. It's also the site of the 1996 mass shooting that led to drastic tightening of Australia's firearm ownership policies. So if you're talking to an Australian and you mention Port Arthur, this is what they will be thinking of (if they're over thirty anyway).

@athras8822

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact, I was born in Dalian, which is essentially the modern metropolitan city of Port Arthur. I have visited where the beach head that the Ruskis built those pillboxes, and they are still there, as the Japanese left them there and used them themselves.

@lucasoheyze4597

Жыл бұрын

None of this was fun.

Despite being sunk eventually, Yorktown was one hell of a ship taking so many beatings.

@frankpienkosky5688

7 ай бұрын

they were still trying to save her when a jap sub finished her....tough ship!

@ashleightompkins3200

2 ай бұрын

Pretty fitting name in that case.

When the world needed him most, he returned! Yes!

@dot8530

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@jeromelabrosse1669

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@dallesamllhals9161

3 жыл бұрын

Heh, I'll yell: YAY when he does Das Boot!

@not_ferranti3607

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@waynehanley72

3 жыл бұрын

Arthur?

"we need at LEAST two weeks before she can put back out to sea" "you have 3 days" they did it in 48 hours... legends

@donnash5813

3 жыл бұрын

"We must assume they it wasn't sunk and they were able to repair her."

@ghostwriter4618

3 жыл бұрын

And according to "Incredible Victory" some of the construction workers had to be flown off once she was out to sea, enroute to Midway.

@paulsteaven

3 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile at the other side of the Pacific, the IJN could have transferred the air group of the damaged Shoukaku to its sister ship Zuikaku to join the other 4 Fleet carriers.

@ghostwriter4618

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulsteaven Yes, and they should have. They could have pulled down the 2 light carriers from the Aleutians, or plugged the hole NE of Midway with a cruiser that had a float plane. If you haven't read it, "Shattered Sword" is a fantastic book.

@paulsteaven

3 жыл бұрын

@@ghostwriter4618 they should have before the invasion of Aleutian Island started and maybe the other light carrier(s) available to join the Kido Butai. If they'd done that, they just not increase the CAP for their task force but they also prevented the Akutan Zero from happening since that captured intact zero was from the light carrier Ryujo that was sent to cover the Operation AL. I'd read that book few times and give me valuable insights about the many problems that the both sides encountered like the infamous "Nagumo's dilemma".

Being educated in the US, Yamamoto was well aware that the industrial ability of the US. Their hopes of bring the US to the peace talks critically depended on the destruction of the carriers. When he found out that didn't happen, he wrote in his personal diary: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

@kristofevarsson6903

Жыл бұрын

Yamamoto was also the one who had the _audacity_ to laugh in the presence of the Emperor when another commander suggested a land invasion of mainland America. He supposedly delivered that famous line about "behind every blade of grass, behind every tree and fencepost, behind every car and window there is an American rifle waiting for you".

@nachonachoman

Жыл бұрын

He's a good admiral. Happy things didn't go his way though

@shawnwitthoff471

11 ай бұрын

If you research that quote it's actually not proven he said this. However he certainly understood the risks and the extremely problematic outcome of the strike. He actually warned against war with the United States in entirety

@Flowersinadesert

11 ай бұрын

He never wrote it and as far as we know, he never said it. The line is from Tora Tora and likely based on a quote from Napolean. There were other people who said similar things like radio commentators in the US but no record of Yamamato ever writing or saying this has ever been produced

@Weshopwizard

10 ай бұрын

@@Flowersinadesertof course he did. I saw it in tora tora tora.

Woody Harrelson has to be in the good graces of just about every studio in Hollywood. He shows up in more movies than any actor I can think of. Good thing, because I love his acting.

@jamesdo3086

Жыл бұрын

Or he’s good at his job

@thomastaylor6355

Жыл бұрын

Me too

@nachonachoman

Жыл бұрын

For this role, he's definitely the best choice. I was shocked how similar he looks to Nimitz

@SKa-tt9nm

11 ай бұрын

He had his 15 minutes of being an A list movie star. This is what he was always meant to be - an outstanding character actor.

@ericwalsh2954

11 ай бұрын

Him and mattew are brothers soo

“It’ll take 2 weeks to fix this ship!” “You have 3 days” *does it in 2 days*

@silverletter4551

3 жыл бұрын

How did they do that so long ago? It would probably take months to rebuild a ship in modern times. Are people just dumber now or lazier? Lost our work ethic perhaps.

@CaptainCiph3r

3 жыл бұрын

@@silverletter4551 carriers are more complicated and much, much bigger now than they used to be. On top of that, repairing a ship as fast as possible for an emergency battle, and making sure a ship is prepped for a long, arduous service life, are two different things.

@BlastinRope

3 жыл бұрын

Youre describing my bosses day dreams

@ramal5708

2 жыл бұрын

Both Yorktown and Enterprise later that year proved the world that Wooden flight deck could be patched up quickly if they got holed.

@theamericanpotatonamedphil4306

2 жыл бұрын

Well it's a misconception that the officer said it would take that long, the only damage to Yourktown really was a hol in the deck which wasn't hard to patch up

speaking of the russian baltic fleet: Their journey to the pacifc should be comedy film. the amount of stuff that went wrong is amazing!

@BlunderMunchkin

3 жыл бұрын

Those poor British fishermen weren't laughing, though.

@HDreamer

3 жыл бұрын

Kamchatka wants to know if you've seen Torpedoboats

@cristianvillanueva8782

3 жыл бұрын

If there is one to be made, I hope its the same director from the death of stalin, that would be perfect.

@kk7324

3 жыл бұрын

stuff for monthy python film.

@MaxwellAerialPhotography

3 жыл бұрын

Drachinifel - Voyage of the the Damned

Woody Harrelson did an awesome job portraying Nimitz as did Dennis Quaid portraying Bull Halsey.

@frankpienkosky5688

7 ай бұрын

think Cagney did a better job playing Halsey....["The Gallant Hours"]

@jmwoods190

Ай бұрын

And Jake Weber also portrayed Raymond Spruance quite well, even though his appearances were very brief- which didn't do justice to Spruance's important role in Midway.

It’s amazing seeing how all the protocols followed by the modern US military, which seem a little excessive, all come from past experiences written in blood. And a huge majority of those lessons were learned in WW2. Fascinating.

@MrGaters34

6 ай бұрын

can you detail which protocols in specific you have in mind ?

@JLWalker101

3 ай бұрын

Defence protocols for ships against aircraft, combat narative for both armed and unarmed combat and how to deal with unconventional military with blitz tactics similar to what was delt with in the spanish american war, sea combat was a big one as well as air to air combat which drastically changed from ww1 to ww2, and then the biggest one was how america used sea planes like pby's to both gather intelligence and harrass shipping lanes due to there ability to land and refuel anywhere using subs islands other ships or other sea planes and the number one biggest lesson was carrier combat and the usefullness of carrier based aircraft

If this is a two-parter...then you’re Midway through it.

@leiladekwatro3147

3 жыл бұрын

Take my like and fuck off

@littlefluffybushbaby7256

3 жыл бұрын

Nicely done

@derworfnet

3 жыл бұрын

I literally stopped any rolled my eyes when I read this. Have a like and go to your room.

@zaif4200

3 жыл бұрын

Bah dum tsh

@skunkbucket9408

2 жыл бұрын

Seriously? You went there.

The Doolittle Raid ended up being more than a morale booster, but strategically brilliant ...as it forced Japan to keep many resources in the home island for defense, restricting their offensive forces.

@berginusmc

3 жыл бұрын

It led to the slaughter of 100,000 thousand Chinese civilians

@zachowon

3 жыл бұрын

@@berginusmc ...Japan had already committed atrocities greater then that before then

@hertzair1186

3 жыл бұрын

@@berginusmc . Yes sadly true, but that is nothing the Americans could control in war

@vector9586

3 жыл бұрын

Dawg, it’s the 1940s, the intention was not to solely bomb civilians. You’re looking at planes that are using highly inaccurate ordnance, are low on fuel and trying to get to safety, and are more or less likely tweeking out because it’s their first ever mission over there. You can argue the point later on, but that again was far after the the bombing of Tokyo. Unfortunately the only way you could insure that your target would be hit was if you sent hundreds of planes to carpet bomb an entire city. If we’re being technically the us wasn’t throwing babies into the air and ski shooting them or r*ping women left and right. You can say what you want but World War Two like many wars is not black and white, but gray. However one side was definitely far worse than the other.

@MrSGL21

3 жыл бұрын

@@berginusmc 250,000 from what i understand. I had a teacher in high school who survived the bataan death march.... he shared some of his stories....i'd believe the 250k.

Interesting timeline: Every two months. December 1941: Pearl Harbor. February 1942: Marshall’s raid. April 1942: Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. June1942: Midway. August 1942: Guadalcanal.

@craigbenn8671

Жыл бұрын

March 1942 Raid on Lae, May 1942 Battle of Coral Sea....not seeing it.

@dawsynlarson696

10 ай бұрын

Busy 2 years

@mrroland1975

9 ай бұрын

Fun Fact there are no Mountains on all of the 100's of Marshall Islands period but some how there are Mountains on the Raid in Marshall Islands depicted in the film

The attention to detail for authenticity is amazing , like the 100% cotton uniforms of the naval officers or what really got my attention was the Chinese insurgents using German weapons like the Mauser 98 rifles and the C96 Mauser broomhandle pistol , which Germany had been supplying to the Chinese before 1937 . I would have liked to see at least one of the Chinese wearing a German 1935 helmet . It is the attention to details no matter how small that makes this another reason this movie is great .

As an Australian, whose country was separated by only a small stretch of water away from the Japanese Empire in 1941, the Battle of Midway was a godsend. Even now I feel thankful that our American friends won the battle that day and began the liberation of the Pacific. One of the most important days in history.

@mikeoyler2983

3 жыл бұрын

Don't you mean the Battle of Coral Sea?

@jackthorton10

3 жыл бұрын

I think, or was it another battle like that?

@Ansible1000

3 жыл бұрын

My grandfather was in the pacific theater. I’m glad we were able to help our family across the pacific when we were needed. Hopefully we’re now on a track to be the help the world needs again. Sorry about the last four years, we’re trying to do better!

@wuwei7006

3 жыл бұрын

Too bad America did not intervene for the Aboriginal nation, it would have been a God-Send.

@Ansible1000

3 жыл бұрын

@@wuwei7006 Yeah, sorry about that. Of course, American help at the time wouldn't have taken a very good form. We don't have the best track record of dealing with native peoples.

"We need two weeks to repair" "You have three days" I thought that kind of conversation only happened in Star Trek.

@nunyabidness674

2 жыл бұрын

there is the plausibility that it happened in Star Trek because of that...

@loganroy3381

2 жыл бұрын

@@nunyabidness674 Maybe a more realistic part of that universe than I'd thought.

@RipOffProductionsLLC

2 жыл бұрын

@@nunyabidness674 a few of the Original series cast and crew were WWII vets, so that makes sense.

@jimreilly917

2 жыл бұрын

And Star Trek is make believe. The dockmen had it done in TWO. LEGENDS of the seas.

@kentonufreichuk933

2 жыл бұрын

by the book.

A great detail I love was that, the ship moored next to the Arizona was on fire. When the Arizona detonated, you can see that the shockwave literally blew out every single fire on that smaller ship. This actually happened in real life, and really shows the Roland did his research on this movie. …just wish he did the same on Moonfall…

@Planag7

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah I noticed that when I watched it in the movie. But less said about moonfall the better lol

@harrymiram6621

7 ай бұрын

Repair ship USS Vestal(AR-4) was moored alongside USS Arizona. She survived WW2 & was scrapped 7/1950

It's crazy how Roland Emmerich. The man who's famous for non sensical Hollywood Movies. Makes a historically accurate movie which is made like it came out of the 60s or 70s. Except with CGI. Honestly. This is the type of movie I've always waited for...

@frankpienkosky5688

7 ай бұрын

movie does a good job conveying the desperation that was common at this time.....

I wrote my high school history term paper on the counterintelligence that led to the victory at Midway. Awesome to see it here!

@sandvichomnom2779

3 жыл бұрын

Must be so nice to write your high school paper on American history. I had to do mine on Canadian history which, don’t get me wrong, has its highlights but American history is certainly filled with cooler stuff.

@u.h.forum.

3 жыл бұрын

@@sandvichomnom2779 not a red and white flag waving nationalist here but Canada has as much of an interesting history as the US... and dare I say a more interesting one

@potatoboyhats905

3 жыл бұрын

@@u.h.forum. As neither American nor Canadian...Got any highlights?

@u.h.forum.

3 жыл бұрын

@@potatoboyhats905 creation of Quebec, Hudsons bay expansion, expedition into the Yukon and northern passage such as the Franklin expedition, American invasion of Quebec, war of 1812, confederation, all history from then onwards. Untouched gem really

@jodu626

3 жыл бұрын

@@u.h.forum. I’m British and we have you both beat. Sorry lads

I love how the ship Yorktown is such an amazing character all on her own gets nearly sunk, her crew amazingly saves her, rebuilt in beyond record time for the decisive battle, nearly gets sunk again during said battle but is miraculously saved yet again, to the point where when she gets hit for the third and final time the Japanese don't even realize it was the same carrier they thought had already been sunk. One of my favorite stories from the Pacific war, her crew were mad-lads of the highest caliber

@hpep9159

2 жыл бұрын

Its funny how the yorktown class ships never dissapointed, the uss yorktown example you gave, uss hornet doing the doolittle raid, and uss enterprise participating in almost all key naval battles, its nice that these ships preformed their tasks above and beyond

@JayJayM57

2 жыл бұрын

if you are interested in the ships from that time I recommend the enterprise. I`m personally fond of her. she received the nickname the gray gosh because multiple times she was reported sunk only to show up in the next battle.

@kreigguardsman3355

2 жыл бұрын

She is currently docked in a Charleston harbor. Love her story

@TheEvilMrJeb

2 жыл бұрын

@@kreigguardsman3355 the Yorktown at Midway is a second ship with the same name. The original Yorktown was lost after Midway. She got torpedoed by a submarine while under tow headed back to port. The one in Charleston was originally going to be called “Bonhomme Richard.”

@brandonclark435

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheEvilMrJeb Could you imagine if Yorktown survived the war only to be scrapped?

Had my first date going to this movie, I thought it would had some forced romance and drama bullshit going on like pearl harbour so why not? Well, she just sat through 2+ hours of planes and boats shooting eachother. We're together for 2 years now.

@NoOneAlive_

Жыл бұрын

GG King

@LaikaTheG

Жыл бұрын

I saw the first half of the comment before loading the second half. A surprise to be sure but a welcome one. Wish this worked for me

@Bruno-G

Жыл бұрын

Magic of the cinema

@grumblesa10

Жыл бұрын

..Yup she's a keeper.

@GuineaPigEveryday

Жыл бұрын

Absolute win

The repair and firefighting crews on Yorktown were the real MVPs of the Battle of Midway!

@ShainAndrews

Жыл бұрын

Right... it's just a game after all.

**Comes home glad it's Friday** **Sees HistoryBuffs upload** *All in the world is right again*

@TheNeonParadox

3 жыл бұрын

Same.

I was happy to hear someone talk at length about the tragedy of the defective torpedoes the American forces were using on their planes and subs.

@shawnc1016

2 жыл бұрын

He said early days of the war. More like early years.

@qd7260

2 жыл бұрын

@@88porpoise to me, it's not even that they denied the claims of bad torpedos, it's that it took *two years* for them to admit it, and fix it.

@samiam619

2 жыл бұрын

There was an entire movie with John Wayne about the torpedo problem.

@patcornwell9298

2 жыл бұрын

Torpedoes failed 90% of the time . And the torpedo bombs were slow,needed the fighters to protect them .The battle or Midway was poorly planned,but the dive bombers were very good !

@marcusher4979

2 жыл бұрын

The should have got this guy onto solving it? ‘Eugene Bennett Fluckey (October 5, 1913 - June 28, 2007), nicknamed "Lucky Fluckey",[1] was a United States Navy rear admiral who received the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses during his service as a submarine commander in World War II.’ He apparently rebuilt all his torpedos after having failures and they operated perfectly?

After seeing Woody Harrelson in some other movies, it's hard to picture him as a serious Admiral in this one...although he does look somewhat like the real Admiral Nimitz.

@brentbrady7865

2 жыл бұрын

Woody is a dang good actor. I had no issues believing him to play Gen Nimitz even with hairpiece.

@donkloos9078

Жыл бұрын

Exactly my thoughts! Woody looked like the real person, but is so horrifically miscast and unbelievable. I expect him to crack a smile and deliver some sarcastic joke . LOL

@frankpienkosky5688

7 ай бұрын

worked with Woody on "Kingpin"...funny dude!....quite a stretch from "Munson" to Nimitz....but he did ok....

My father served in the Navy during WWII, and retired after 20 years. He was a civilian for me. He never talked much, though one time when he was at my teaching job and noticed a globe. He pointed out the Solomon Islands where he was stationed.

I never knew they flew with their wind shield open to prevent fogging. That is nuts. But I mean all aerial combat really is pretty nuts

@clairenollet2389

3 жыл бұрын

My dad was a dive bomber pilot in the South Pacific, and he never told us that detail! I was so glad to see the footage in this review (starting at 15:35). I had known my dad was brave, but this was absolutely crazy!

@johngordon6526

3 жыл бұрын

They also left it open so if they crashed on landing, if the canopy rails were bent they could get out (from what I've read).

@GSMSfromFV

2 жыл бұрын

I was unable to find a link to info that indicated the "windshield" on the Dauntless was openable. Now, the sliding "canopy" was left open for ditching safety purposes. It also would allow for enough air circulation to prevent fogging.

@ramal5708

2 жыл бұрын

That is why future of naval warfare belongs to aircraft, carriers and submarines

@patcornwell9298

2 жыл бұрын

Open to keep from fogging ,started there dive from 19000 ft .

Thank you for mentioning the often forgotten fact that Japan retaliated against the Chinese people for their aiding the Doolittle raiders by killing roughly 250,000 Chinese peasants.

@silverletter4551

3 жыл бұрын

I guess they shouldn't have helped then? It was war. The US killed a lot of people too.

@anbitye2134

3 жыл бұрын

@@silverletter4551 I thought Ben Shapiro made people smarter, not dumber

@silverletter4551

3 жыл бұрын

@@anbitye2134 What do you mean? If my family was going to be killed, I would have not helped anyone. I would have minded my own business or even helped the Japanese.

@calistoyew1313

2 жыл бұрын

@@silverletter4551 are you American?

@ghostreconzb231

2 жыл бұрын

@@silverletter4551 Nah mate, just remember this, no need to think it should not happen or feel sorry for the Dolittle Raid. There can be no victory without sacrifice, Chinese know about this just as good as Russians. Dolittle himself, just like back in US, is held as a hero by the Chinese, there is even a memorial museum in Zhejiang province where Dolittle landed.

Japan always seeking that ONE battle so peace, under terms, can be made. German did the same thing with Britain thinking, "if we can hurt them bad enough, they HAVE to come to negotiate " (Battle of Britain) * RAF has entered the chat

@solarprophet5439

2 жыл бұрын

* 303rd has entered the chat * 310th has entered the chat * 401st has entered the chat * Hermann Goering has left the chat

@AYVYN

Жыл бұрын

Surrender is similar to death, but the pain lasts forever.

@SuperChuckRaney

Жыл бұрын

@@solarprophet5439 *Hermann Goering has left the chgat and taken the paintings off the chat wall

@SuperChuckRaney

Жыл бұрын

@@solarprophet5439 Napoleon had the same thought process vs Russia. Once we TAKE Moscow, they'll HAVE to accept our terms

Nick I don’t know how you do it, but you make these documentaries as suspenseful as the films you’re reviewing. Leaving this on the cliffhanger “the battle of Midway was about to begin” and then cutting to your outro made me audibly “argh” and appreciate how much I love your channel. Part two here we go!!

The one thing that always annoys me is how Hollywood tends to put the Dive Bomber Siren from the Stukka Dive Bomber on every single aircraft that goes into a dive.

@Christopheromoan

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. If you jumped off a bridge, it would make Stuka siren sounds on the way down like a bugs bunny cartoon.

@KingdomKali

3 жыл бұрын

@@Christopheromoan hahahaha!

@chrisg2739

3 жыл бұрын

Or how all dogfighting the planes never lose energy at all and can climb and turn like Fokker DR1s.

@kinagrill

3 жыл бұрын

The Dauntless Dive Bomber had the dive sirens as well.

@Laura-wc5xt

3 жыл бұрын

got that right

Welcome back Nick, KZread is whole again.

@dot8530

3 жыл бұрын

Finally it is

@oishiikayo7635

3 жыл бұрын

You have no idea how many times I've rewatch the old videos waiting for a new one

@dallesamllhals9161

3 жыл бұрын

How? It worked yesterday :-P

@DYLANJJK94

3 жыл бұрын

Next time he can give us a shout to him leaving for a year beforehand lol people unsub after a week is ridiculous, but si is leaving for a year or so like a few other history ytubers have done without a word. Lol

@jonaz7312

3 жыл бұрын

...for now...

I would love if you reviewed Der Untergang. It is so underrated and probably the most historically accurate movie about World War 2. Bruno Ganz's performance of Adolf Hitler was unbelievable, and when you see him in the film it was like actually seeing the evil dictator himself. The other characters were also extremely well portrayed too.

@cleverusername9369

Жыл бұрын

Downfall?

@n.an.r3873

Жыл бұрын

...Der Untergang is underrated? I thought it was considered as THE Hitler movie....

@sabrecatsmiladon7380

Жыл бұрын

GANZ was magnificent! I hate to say Ive seen many funny meme's and shorts about "Someone" calls Hitler...i.e. Beavis and Butthead call Hitler

@dr69_420

Жыл бұрын

@@cleverusername9369 yes Downfall the German name is der untergang

@joshuafletcher598

Жыл бұрын

I love downfall one of my fav movies Bruno ganz should have gotten an Oscar for his performance

Funny thing about the defective torpedoes is that it basically happened again with air-to-air missiles in Vietnam. The Air Force was so sure of them that they designed the F-4 Phantom without a gun. The damn things had a failure rate of about 70%, and their unreliability got a lot of pilots shot down. Because of that embarrassment, USAF design doctrine was changed so that EVERY fighter craft in service MUST have a gun. Of course, then General Electric took that to the logical extreme, built the GAU-8 Avenger, and Fairchild Republic designed the A-10 Thunderbolt around it. God I love this country. "Here's a gun for your aircraft. No, scratch that. Here's an aircraft for your gun!"

@KaiserStormTracking

2 жыл бұрын

ah yes the brrrrrrrr air plane

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer

2 жыл бұрын

Air Force Air to air missiles also were not effective over Vietnam. The missiles that the Air Force deployed were designed more for attacking a lumbering bomber in defense of the United States than to tangle with other fighters. The Air Force ended up switching to the AIM 9 sidewinder and AIM 7 Sparrow missile.

@jankutac9753

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know much about that war, but curious why they'd need air to air missiles? To shoot down Vietnamese mosquitos?

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer

2 жыл бұрын

@@jankutac9753 Mig-17,19 and 21's.

@jankutac9753

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnRodriguesPhotographerright, could have thought that. But the planes were manned by Vietnamese? Somehow hard to imagine. How did their pilots even get to train? From images the closest I have ever seen Vietnamese to the skies was using an AA gun

“I don’t envy the new commander”. “It’s me isn’t.” Admiral Nimitz

@sam8742

3 жыл бұрын

That grammar feels off, like it works but not really

@zackgeorgly5099

3 жыл бұрын

More like: - I don't envy the new commander. - (Meaningful silence) P R O C E S S I N G . . . P R O C E S S I N G . . . - It's me, isn't it? (What makes that scene is the pause it takes for Nimitz to get it)

Sorry boss, I’ve got to take a half hour break. History buffs just uploaded

@MrJJuK

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment.

@Chebab-Chebab

3 жыл бұрын

Understandable.

@hoangho6781

3 жыл бұрын

Ok

@samuraipanda851

3 жыл бұрын

Step into my office. My computer has surround sound.

@TheKurtkapan34

3 жыл бұрын

lol, watching it on my lunch right now

"I don't envy their new commander... its me isn't it?" Love it.

AS A FORMER HISTORY TEACHER, HS & COLLEGE, I AM PROUD TO SAY THIS IS THE BEST HISTORY BASED MOVIE REVIEW SHOW ON YT.

@GTASpuds725

Жыл бұрын

You should watch 3 part series of KZread vids depicting midway battle from Japanese perspective.... Also read the after action reports submitted by the squadron commanders... Nick did a good job on the morning battles, but the movie horribly depicted the late afternoon battle and completely ignored the skirmishes over the next few days

@Joko_P

Жыл бұрын

@@GTASpuds725 can you tell me what's their channel? I wanna know what the Japanese thought of this movie

@tire26

Жыл бұрын

THANKS

"I don't care if he consults coffee grounds while doing the boogie woogy as long as the intel is good That had me rolling!

@timmorris2048

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a line from "Blue Thunder"" "Did you know he checks his sanity with a stopwatch?" "What do you use? A dipstick?"

@ExHyperion

2 жыл бұрын

@@mitchellhawkes22 seethe

"That was Washington. They've intercepted several Japanese messages claiming that the target of their upcoming attack...is out of fresh water." "Interesting, sir. I heard that Midway accidentally sent out an unencrypted transmission that their water plant was broken." "And is their water plant broken?" "Not that I know of sir. I love this.

@ryangibson5462

2 жыл бұрын

That smirk he gives him. Admiral Nimitz could appreciate some good sarcasm.

@tellyonthewall8751

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryangibson5462 And you of cause knew Adm. Nimitz in person

@ryangibson5462

2 жыл бұрын

@@tellyonthewall8751 Obviously, I mean who hasn't. Lol

@tellyonthewall8751

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryangibson5462 You for one hasn't ... guess those gaming headphone has pressed a little too hard on the string between your ears .. that string to keep your ears in place. Your head is keeping the distance between your ears .. as its primary (and only) task in life. If I was you, I would put up my head for organ donation you would even get some money before "donating" a prime organ ... argumentation would sound like: "Head for organ donation, nearly new, never used" You ever thought about that funny noise sounding, when you shake your head? Like one marble in a jar???

@Kaiimei

2 жыл бұрын

@@mitchellhawkes22 Meh, don't care, it's a cocol scene =D Plus, I think it was more just a joke between them, I don't think Nimitz didn't know, he was just amused by the ruse.

The battle of midway is one of the most decisive battles in history. In A battle the chance of the Imperial Japanese to win which is small already got smaller

@frankpienkosky5688

7 ай бұрын

the Japanese would have done better to sail away from Midway and the American carriers while recovering theitr planes than straight at them....remember their planes could outrange ours....then turnabout and launch a full strike from a distance....that would probably have allowed them to win the battle

My Dads roommate while he was at Texas A&M was Ensign George Gay who was the only survivor of his Torpedo Squadron at Midway.

My grandfather served in WW2. Every year on December 7th when my dad was growing up, he would sit at the breakfast table with everyone and he would look down and say " on this day we where attacked."

@rxdntpto

3 жыл бұрын

@Marty Genesis please tell me where the brainwashing is. Please, by all means, explain where remembrance of a historic day is brainwashing, go ahead.

@rxdntpto

3 жыл бұрын

@Marty Genesis you are truly confused

@indicarter7511

3 жыл бұрын

@Marty Genesis *Japan fought for survival* *Raped nanking*

@indicarter7511

3 жыл бұрын

@Marty Genesis Firstly, I'm not American. Secondly, just because America committed atrocities, doesn't mean that Japan can do it as well.

@kuriboh635

3 жыл бұрын

@Marty Genesis no he just had pride in his nation and his service. He fought both the Germans on d Day and occupied Japan after his unit was ordered to help take the Philippines. He saw true horrors in the war and didn't talk about it once, was shot twice and was pretty anti war on most wars after nam. He loved people and was famous for saying if anyone ask him his feeling about the German or japanese soldiers he fought "ah horse sh*t, they where soldiers under orders lol us." Or " war is started my old men who can't get along, but finished by young men who can fight and have everything to loose." He went through a lot of theropy to be right with everything that happened. And years with AA to be right with himself.

As my brother told me, "This is the movie you were hoping it would be." I was hoping for something close to "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and we got it.

@yoehonjohn4832

3 жыл бұрын

It’s a lot more historically accurate than the old one but it still has some things that bug me. It would have been better if this were a mini series so it leads up to the midway battle. Last soundtrack. I still prefer John Williams midway.

@timmorris2048

3 жыл бұрын

@@yoehonjohn4832 There are always going to be things that bug us. There isn't a perfect movie, and there will always be liberties that have to be taken.

@Avatar2312

3 жыл бұрын

I liked it much more than Pearl Harbor, but it was somewhat inconsistent in its depiction of the timeline AND you were a bit lost in about what was happening if you did not know what was happening beforehand. Why did Midway launch its planes and why did they not engage the incoming bombers and what about Hornets planes (which didn't even participate in the battle as they went on a sightseeing tour of water way north of the Kido Butai).

The Russian navy of 1904 was a far cry from what you describe it sir. It was riddled with strife,mutiny and revolution. Also for a nation that is supposed to be honorable Japan sure liked to strike without a declaration of war.

@Ballin4Vengeance

4 ай бұрын

The japanese code of honour technically permits you to lie, betray and do such sneaky shit as long as it’s for your master or family, so from their point of view it was fully honorable

You spoke of humbling. At the School that teaches US Navy Corpsmen, medics essentially, there is glass case that holds a Navy Dress White Uniform. The uniform is stained in blood and oil. On the left sleeve the Red Cross armband was removed and the fabric beneath was still stark white. Humbling thing as a student.

@risingsun9595

Жыл бұрын

Wow, I'd love to see a pic of that

Nick did “Band of Brothers” a while back, he should also do “The Pacific” at some point.

@littlefluffybushbaby7256

3 жыл бұрын

I think there's also a third one of those series coming out soon about the 8th Air Force

@idk2865

3 жыл бұрын

@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 yeah heard that was due this fall for release after years and years of either delays or just work since I first heard the rumor like 2 years ago.

@kainhall

3 жыл бұрын

and "generation kill" . everyone remembers Band of Brothers and The Pacific..... but the same production company did a HBO series on the Iraq/Iran war..... from 2001 till today.... . Generation Kill is...... not PG-13 (did they even cuss in BoB??) and thats probably why most havent seen it . also because it was FAR lower budget than Pacific or BoB......FAR lower!! and this war i still far to recent for a lot of people who lost family...... . . but talking to my cousin (and a few other family that were in WW2)..... and seeing EX-military people talk about Generation Kill on youtube..... . i think its more real than not....... especially the emotional / command BS / general realism with "sitting at camp" stuff (aka a combat-jack) . . . however..... the terrorists act like B move bad guys.... shooting from the hip..... having NO tactics or strategy.... probably even said "dirkka dirkka jihad" at some point...... . but ya.... some of it shows the insurgents actually doing what they would do (tactically.... in fire fights and ambushes and crap) other times its "shoot from the hip...... wearing 20 dollar costumes......with D movie acting..... . . . ya gotta remember..... GK released in 2008.... the USA (aka 100% of HBO viewers.... for a HBO mini-series)...... we just had a BIG push (this is when my cousin went on deployment) so a LOT of people had personal connections . a lot of WW2, namn, ETC movies are made 10, 20.....70 years.... after the battle its your grandfather's movie...... VS your brother or son's movie . "hits ya right in the feels" . . . TLDR..... they show the insurgents as IN-F'IN-comment idiots..... because if they showed these "goat herders" as actually trained, battle hardened, pushed back the USSR dudes..... . well.... that might scare all the Karens'..... and the studio will get sued to death . so they run straight at in-placed US troops..... spraying and praying like its CS-GO.....(a video game)

@Stevie8654

3 жыл бұрын

@@kainhall Generation Kill is my favorite because they talk more like what I remember in the military. I was in the Navy during that time period and it gets the fucked up conversations perfect.

@tsdobbi

3 жыл бұрын

@@kainhall "HBO series on the Iraq/Iran war." Iran war? I assume you mean Afghanistan as the unit depicted fought in Afghanistan prior, and the show literally just covers the initial invasion of Iraq to the fall of Baghdad.

"I don't envy the new commander." "...Bruh."

@Del_S

2 жыл бұрын

@@mitchellhawkes22 I'd not bet against it being inserted for a little bit of dark comedy

An interesting tidbit about Repulse and Prince of Wales. The HMS Repulse was the second of two Renown Class Battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Both Renown and Repulse were given refits in the inter-war period to make them more competitive capital ships. of the two, Repulse received far fewer modifications than Renown, with significant deficiencies in the anti-aircraft department. At the time of her sinking, the HMS Repulse carried 42 barrels capable of AA combat, consisting of 2 dual-purpose 4"/45 guns in single mounts, 24 x 40mm pom-poms in 3 octuple mounts, and 16 x 0.5" Vickers machine guns in 4 quad mounts. of these, only the 40mm pom-poms were of much use. The HMS Prince of Wales was one of the newest battleships in the world, and had a much more capable suite of AA weapons. At the time of her sinking she was protected by 75 barrels capable of AA fire. Her weapons consisted of 16 x 5.25"/50 dual-purpose guns in 8 twin turrets, 52 x 40mm pom-poms in 1 quad and 6 octuple mounts, and 7 x 20mm Oerlikons in single mounts. By all accounts, a pretty decent Armament, especially for the time. It wasn't necessarily a lack of AA Armament that led to the sinking of the Royal Navy ships, but a significant and often overlooked factor was the complete lack of tracer rounds for their weapons. A remarkable benefit of the use of tracer rounds is the effect they have on pilots. When they see tracer fire whizzing by them, they take evasive action. The Japanese pilots were hardly able to tell they were being fired upon. Also notable are the mechanical troubles experienced by the Prince of Wales. HMS Prince of Wales had experienced troubles with her systems during the battle of Denmark Strait, and would experience electrical failure during her final battle. This kept parts of the ship in near-total darkness, severely hampering damage control efforts.

I had low expectations for this movie, but am glad to say it exceeded my expectations on every level!

History Buffs? Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time... *Little reference to one of the actors in the movie, it’ll be a quote. “He ain’t all there is he?”*

Massive shoutout to your editor. History Buffs has really upped their game. Welcome back Nick.

Young man, if you don’t mind me calling you that, I’m 67, my dad fought to free the Phillipines at the Leyte Landing. BTW, my dad absolutely despised MacArthur. You are beating all the competition, my friend. If not through good research, but through your use of proper pronunciations alone. Thanks a lot.

The National Museum of the Pacific War (a.k.a The Nimitz Museum) in Nimitz's hometown of Fredericksburg, Texas is awesome. They do reenactments and fire blanks. The heat from the flamethrower was unexpected and unnerving.

That trick about the water pumps to get the proof for the code breakers was honestly genius

@thedemonlord275

3 жыл бұрын

Simple yet effective

@RandomStuff-he7lu

3 жыл бұрын

It actually wasn't. It was a desperate gamble which should have alerted the Japanese that the US could read their messages. To this day historians are confused as to why the Japanese fell for it rather than immediately changing their codes.

@unbeatablesniper16

3 жыл бұрын

@@RandomStuff-he7lu a small isolated island outpost sending a message to the admiralty that they have mintainance / supply issues isn't out of the ordinary. Why would the Japanese get suspicious of an airbase just sending another simple mintainance log?

@RandomStuff-he7lu

3 жыл бұрын

@@unbeatablesniper16 Because it was sent unencrypted. That should have raised suspicions.

@unbeatablesniper16

3 жыл бұрын

@@RandomStuff-he7lu pretty sure it wasn't the first unencrypted message. Don't forget how arrogant and desperate Japan was to damage America too

This has probably the most effective Nebula ad I've ever seen, because dangling Part Two like that is pretty irresistible.

@dwc1964

3 жыл бұрын

coming right after Patrick (H) Willems teasing the finale to the Charl saga

@patrickblanchette4337

3 жыл бұрын

What finally got me on the Nebula bandwagon was Polymatter’s video on China’s collapsing demographics; the fact that I could be missing out on something by watching only the shorter KZread version was too much.

@Bayou_Russ

3 жыл бұрын

It is but like the game stop clerks learned all those years ago I can out wait $60 games till they hit the bargain bin. See y’all next week!✌🏻

Arguably one of the most damaging factors to the Japanese war effort was the kantai kessen, the naval decisive battle doctrine, which they deemed to have won them the Russo-Japanese War. This idea of a grand battle that would decide the war, like two star fighters betting everything on one clean fight, was ever in the backs of their minds. It was a beguiling notion, but a flawed one, when the principle effect it was to have was to lay open an exposed area of the enemy to potential and perhaps real damage. In Russia this was quite easily done, since Russia's ability at the time to move military assets from the industrialised and population dense west was impeded by lack of infrastructure, and the fact that it was right on Japan's doorstep. To do the same to the US, they would have to traverse the entire Pacific, and threaten a coastline 95,000 miles in length. And then, contend with the fact that a solid portion of the economic blood-flow of the US ran via the OPPOSITE coastline, which for all intents and purposes was entirely out of practical reach. Kantai kessen was a clear vision of realistically achievable goals up to, and no further than the decisive battle. After the battle... um, something-something, we win?

27:36 God that is such a well crafted scene. It very well mixes the historical context of Target AF with cinematic greatness through acting, music, and camerawork.

"and no one thought that the shallow water torpedo's would work!" The British look on sipping tea: "Well we did show the Japanese how to do it in Taranto"

@AliasAlias-nm9df

3 жыл бұрын

I mean Louis Mountbatten outright predicted the attack on pearl harbor. Which isn't surprising since it was exactly what they would have done in the Japanese position (except they would have attacked at night). The WW2 British navy is heavily underrated, especially their carrier arm.

@thierryvael9589

3 жыл бұрын

If memory serves me right, HMS Warspite stopped by Hawaii on her way to repairs and also said that Pearl Harbor would be an easy target for torpedos as it had been there for Taranto.

@tonyb7615

3 жыл бұрын

its right there

@tonyb7615

3 жыл бұрын

u can ask for refuge. be like me. a citizen

@odysseusrex5908

3 жыл бұрын

I thought Taranto had deeper water.

No one has content like yours. Seriously, it's your storytelling skills, mixed with your love of cinema that make these videos so special. I only wish I could watch more!

@dallesamllhals9161

3 жыл бұрын

If history: How about Mark Felton? And if on the 7 seas: How about Drachinifel?

@remigiuscaesar8307

3 жыл бұрын

@@dallesamllhals9161 yeah Mark Felton is really good!

@antonvoloshin9833

3 жыл бұрын

There is one... but it's in Russian, but really great.

@dallesamllhals9161

3 жыл бұрын

@@antonvoloshin9833 Erh, I'll take your word for IT? ..Erta problema..partjemu Ja Nje dumaju erta PRAVDA? Yup! 2 years of Russian in 1996-1998 did help (F-you! Googletran..gavnor ;-D ) DA! I'm a bit 'rusty'...

What many people didn't realize is that The Attack on Pearl Harbor wasn't really a success on the Japanese side. They missed their primary targets, and the results had TERRIBLE consequences!! The beginning of Midway showed two Japanese generals talking that it wasn't a success on their part, and one of them was talking about getting rid of the leader behind the attack. But the other general thought against it cuz the public viewed him as a hero. It's something that's often overlooked, and it's a underrated little scene in the movie.

"There are no installations here...what's their target?" "People are target." "People...people...and we just made it worse." That was delivered just...so brilliantly.

@zDerezzed

Жыл бұрын

Aaron Eckhart is always good no matter the role.

The Russo-Japanese War tie in to Pearl Harbor was quite interesting. I'd never heard that kind of analysis presented when talking about Japan's decision to attack the US. It would make sense that Japan would feel more confident about going up against a larger Western power when you consider that they had succeeded in beating the Russian Empire just a generation earlier.

@jeffblansit786

3 жыл бұрын

Years ago I spent a Saturday touring 3 WWII museums in Fredericksburg, TX with my sons Venture Crew. One of them, I believe it was then called the George Bush Museum, was laid out chronologically from Commodore Perry sailing in to Tokyo Harbor in 1853. The point of how Japan was treated by the major powers was really driven home to me. As a point of interest, our Scoutmasters father was part of the crew that actually captured a Japanese mini-Sub on December 7th, 1941.

@samvodopianov9399

3 жыл бұрын

My great grandfather fought the Japanese in Manchuria. The main reason the Russians lost was because of poor logistics along the not-yet finished trans-siberian railway. Most of the regional resources were being used for inferstructure and it was difficult to bring men and resources from Europe.

@jeffblansit786

3 жыл бұрын

@@samvodopianov9399 I can only imagine the challenges of moving men and material across the vast nation under the conditions of that time.

@magicman3163

3 жыл бұрын

They didn’t want to mess with the USSR tho

@were-owlinwisconsin4441

3 жыл бұрын

I've read that Admiral Nagumo had the "Z Flag" that was flown on the flagship "Mikasa" at the battle of Tsushima, and flew it once again as a symbol of victory after Pearl Harbor. He also ordered the "Z Flag" to be flown while his planes were taking off to bomb Midway Island.

I'm a simple man i see a History Buffs video, i click it.

@greatkentuckian9032

3 жыл бұрын

True...true.

@dot8530

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@susanmaggiora4800

3 жыл бұрын

Word

@kookdarice9621

3 жыл бұрын

True

@Chaosian

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a complex man, with an intricate and troubled backstory, morally ambiguous nature, and deep character arc. My allegiances seem to change with the wind, for reasons lost to many, and few know me well enough to get past my nigh impregnable emotional barriers. But yeah- I see a History Buffs video, I also click it.

What a fantastic presentation. This is the ONLY way movies should be reviewed. Sending to my Dad, who taught me about Midway as he hung out there enroute to the Philippines circa 1970.

Thanks again for this Mr. Hodges. I know I am a bit late to the party, but as a fellow history fanatic, I just want to say this episode was phenomenal. I love WWII history, and it is more important now than ever that events events not be lost. Thank you for all that you do and keep it up! We need more content like this to keep the history alive!

A very interesting note I found is that when investigating the Mark 14 torpedo and it's aerial variant it was found that the current torpedo bomber tactics of coming slow and low actually increased the chances of a miss or failure. Coming in fast in a shallow dive was found to be far better for it after they fixed the main issue of the duds.

@MrSleepy677

2 жыл бұрын

Drachinifel did a video on the Mark 14.

As a history teacher here in Australia I love your work, used the episode on Rome recently to discuss the reasons why Caesar was murdered. Just watched the film Midway today so I could watch this. Keep it up!

@MASTEROFEVIL

2 жыл бұрын

Loved history class when I was a kid

There's a small inaccuracy that I found in the movie, and I found it watching this video. At the 3:36 mark during a fly-by of the USS Arizona and USS Vestal you can see the USS Nevada aft of the Arizona, the last in line of Battleship Row, and on B-turret you'll notice three gun barrels. This is wrong. The Nevada was equipped with ten 14" rifles in four turrets, arranged A to D, 3-2-2-3. One of the reasons I'm familiar with this fact is that my grandfather was briefly on the crew that manned the port battery of B-turret, serving aboard her for the voyage from Pearl Harbor to Puget Sound where she completed her upgrades and repairs. Gotcha, Midway! ;-)

"we need 2 weeks repairs." "we give you 3 days." "ok. 48 hours."

HE HAS RETURNED ONCE AGAIN, but he will return to darkness for a few months. Also im excited to watch this!

Going to be honest, I avoided this movie without giving it a real chance because of just how corny and over-the-top the trailers were.

@indianasprintnews4446

3 жыл бұрын

I did the same but was pleased when I finally viewed it on HBO Max.

@sorenpx

2 жыл бұрын

Huh, weird, I remember seeing the first trailer and thinking the movie looked fucking awesome. Didn't like the second trailer as much.

@zeus28frenzy

2 жыл бұрын

Because those are actually correct actions taken by menM

@MrDwarfpitcher

2 жыл бұрын

Understandable I did the same with Inglorious Bastards, thinking it just another blood thirsty movie with shallow characters. And blood thirsty it was, but shallow? Most certainly not

@Sir_Stalwart

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, the marketing for this movie was pretty shit.

Some day, they need to make a book and movie about the repair of the Yorktown before the details are lost. Those men were unsung heroes.

"we need 2weeks" "you have 3days" "hold my beer we will do it in 2"

The battles in Alaska is an often overlooked campaign of the war. My grandfather fought the Japanese hand to hand on the island of Attu and on "Engineer Hill" where an American company of combat engineers fought off a Japanese banzai charge. My grandfather was boyonetted in the back and it went out right below his collarbone. He died before I was born but he told my dad it was brutal when my dad got a little older and he started asking about all my grandfather's scars.

Midway was the last movie I watched with my father before he died. We were desperately looking forward to watching your historical review together. Thankyou for making this. I’m watching this with him in spirit.

@Pantheragem

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss. I'm glad you guys got to see a good movie for the last one. One that sparked some interesting after-movie conversation to be sure. Take care my friend.

@StephenLuke

3 жыл бұрын

RIP Your father :-(

The Yorktown rehab is still an incredible example of the US' ability to bring back ships that were crippled.

"DON'T TOUCH OUR BOATS!!!" -A man who can make anyone around him fill with joy and have fun is unparalleled and unmatched to the point where it's almost mandatory

A granddaughter of Gen. Doolittle said that the newer Midway film miss-portrayed him. Film showed him a gruff personality. She said reality was that he was known as a temperate man fully in control of himself. But my gosh the special effects!

@PrinceArtemis

2 жыл бұрын

Thing is, shes portraying someone from her memory in the relaxed time on shoreleave, not in war time in a middle of a battle

@brucechmiel7964

2 жыл бұрын

@@mitchellhawkes22 They never could get his casting right. He was a short bald man. "So lets have Alec Baldwin and the Fucking Punisher play him."

@TricksterDa

2 жыл бұрын

@@brucechmiel7964 , I wonder if the closest onscreen portrayal of Doolittle isn't Spencer Tracy in "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo." That picture was made in 1942/43. right after the raid and many of the people involved in its making would have been alive when Doolittle first became known to the public during the First World War. The real Doolittle would have been as familiar to them as a celebrity and personality as, say, Colin Powell is to us today.

@brucechmiel7964

2 жыл бұрын

@@TricksterDa Just like in 43’ everyone knew who John Basilone was.

@oldgringo2001

2 жыл бұрын

@@TricksterDa Like Eisenhower, Doolittle spent World War I training others in the States. He didn't really become any kind of celebrity until the Thirties, through air racing and a number of aviation firsts (first outside loop; first flight entirely on instruments, etc.). After reading his his autobiography, I say that Jimmy Cagney would have been a lot closer in portraying Doolittle as he really was--although I'm guessing Doolittle could have matched the real Spencer Tracy drink for drink. BTW, the background picture I have on my laptop is Doolittle's plane taking off from the USS Hornet on April 18, 1942.

THE GOD OF HISTORICAL ACCURACY HAS RETURNED TO OUR GRACES, MANKIND WILL BE RESTORED AGAIN!

@bazsnell3178

3 жыл бұрын

PLEASE STOP SHOUTING!!!!!!!!!

@brodown64

3 жыл бұрын

@@bazsnell3178 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@dfmrcv862

3 жыл бұрын

*LOUD NOISES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

@nemicofitid3617

3 жыл бұрын

PRAISE THE SUNNNNNN

@sphinxrising1129

3 жыл бұрын

Get real, according to the new version 2 or 3 people won several battle all by themselves.

You guys did an awesome job on this video. Not boring at all. Can't wait to watch the 2nd half now. Thank you so much.

Germany: “Okay, this is gonna be a hard fought battle, but Britain is running low on supplies, the Polish resistance has no support, and the Soviets just keep throwing men into a hole, so we can win this war!” Japan: “We just started a war with America.” Germany: YOU WHAT?”

@Grimmwoldds

7 ай бұрын

TBF, 23:41 talks about the IJN/IJA rivalary. Germany: Hold my wikinger. The wikipedia page for it was unintentional genius before it was changed to be less misleading. It had Wikinger as a "battle" between Britain and the Germans, except it had nulls for every British field(commander, participants, casualties, etc) and declared it a victory for good ol' Englando.

To add to the repair of The Yorktown, they had thousands of welders working on the ship for the entirety of the 48hrs, and even dedicated a majority of the island’s power plant to the port

Just yesterday I thought " Where is that masterful rouge History Buffs?" and lo and behold less than 24 hrs later here you are. Huzzah!

@cnppreactorno.4965

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@yiannikir9674

3 жыл бұрын

Now time fore oversimplified to uploaf

@burntbread8465

3 жыл бұрын

Same dude

@solsunman383

3 жыл бұрын

I always thought he was more of a bleu than a rouge

@NerdilyDone

3 жыл бұрын

Dude, me too.

I just love your channel Nick. Looking forward to more interesting and well-researched episodes.

I had avoided this one because so many times historians have gotten so much about the battle of Midway wrong. This was a pleasant surprise. Thank you!

I had mixed feelings about this movie trying to cover too much at once, but overall I liked that it tried to show that the events of Midway was a immense line of dominoes.

@casematecardinal

3 жыл бұрын

I'm just waiting for a battle off somar movie. It could be called dark-horse or something like that

@tonyb7615

3 жыл бұрын

@@casematecardinal indian? that will never. wont work. make it work to us. see we abuse a horse. in india, they dont hurt cows. i think its a buhdist thing.

@casematecardinal

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonyb7615 what? I'm talking about the battle between taffy 3 and center force. You know the one with Yamato, the largest battleship ever.

@tonyb7615

3 жыл бұрын

@@casematecardinal no dude. yamato is star craft

@casematecardinal

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonyb7615 I can't tell if you are fucking with me or not. Either way the Yamato was a super battleship with 18 inch guns. The thing was a variable fortress afloat. If you are serious, look up battleship Yamato. She was a beauty. Too bad the country that had her was run by war criminals but hey you cant always get what you want

I urge you to make your next project “Valkyrie” (2008, United Artist) starring Tom Cruise

@chrais78

3 жыл бұрын

Agree!

@mr.nobody5860

3 жыл бұрын

agreed

@Wolfe1966

3 жыл бұрын

Meh 😑 the original German version is much better

@seokeady

3 жыл бұрын

I've only watched the 2008 version so far, but I'd be interested in seeing how they both compare, jointly. Take the pepsi challenge, so to speak.

@Wolfe1966

3 жыл бұрын

@@seokeady well hearing the Germans speak German makes it a lot more convincing for me 😉

at 26:30 "what were the US Carriers doing there" The IJN missed a huge opportunity to re-think Midway

There were more carriers in the USA than they say here. Ranger, Yorktown, Saratoga, Lexington, Enterprise, Wasp, Hornet. Ranger stayed the whole war in the Atlantic. Saratoga and Enterprise only survived the Pacific war. But these ships all were afloat when this statement was made. It's just that Lexington was sunk right before Midway in the Coral Sea and that left three just for the Midway battle that could be used right then.

"it is good that war is so terrible, lest we should grow too fond of it". There's a lot of emotion that this information brings to our families that were affected by this battle, but it's good that this Battle is remembered.

@Quincy_Morris

3 жыл бұрын

War is inevitable. Liberty is not.

@tolvaer

3 жыл бұрын

Well said

@tolvaer

3 жыл бұрын

@Andrew Vidito yes

@tolvaer

3 жыл бұрын

@Andrew Vidito Fredericksburg, the General said it on Telegraph Hill. A beautiful area, it's a growing town these days

@tolvaer

3 жыл бұрын

@Andrew Vidito haha Currahee is a Mount in my home town, my name is Nehemiah Austin

The story of the Yorktown being turned around in three days is the one I tell to people to remind them that anything is possible when you muster all your effort and tools. On a meta level, seeing Midway rank #1 in the box office on its opening week was an epic finger to Hollywood for their refusal to make war pictures.

@onylra6265

3 жыл бұрын

Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, Dunkirk, Hurt Locker, Inglorious Basterds, Three Kings, Platoon, Jarhead, Full Metal Jacket, Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Glory, Hacksaw Ridge, Fury, 1917, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters From Iwo Jima, War Horse, etc etc. I could go on and on - I ain't even mentioning the awful shit they put out, like Pearl Harbour, or even the really incredible miniseries like Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and Generation Kill. What you talking about bro? Hollywood makes war stuff, it's a staple genre and well-served by quality shit.

@sebastianmelmoth9100

3 жыл бұрын

onylra the ambivalent Nice. And how about all the Churchill films, and “Then There Were Giants.” And three Stalingrad classics. And Gettysburg and Andersonville.

@smac9633

3 жыл бұрын

So were you disappointed that this movie barely mentioned how the Yorktown was repaired and put to sea? Midway was so much trivia and very short on interesting facts.

@nahladel

3 жыл бұрын

Hollywood was only too happy to make Iraq and Afghanistan war movies telling us all how evil and corrupt the west is. They're not necessarily always wrong and this would have been fine if they weren't being made and shown whilst our troops were out there taking bullets and seeing their friends getting blown up in wars our government's had sent them to. Even if you don't agree with war don't go making propaganda films for the other side.

@Aragon1500

3 жыл бұрын

@@nahladel So in other words don't actually represent the reality of wars that's like telling a reporter in nam not to report on ambushes or the tet offensive wars aren't always just we literally kicked in Iraqs teeth just about a decade before we invaded it the fuck did it do to get invaded again oh wait nothing there were no wmds iraq had them when we sold them to some to fight Iran in the deadliest war since WWII

Am really impressed by the high quality of virtually everything Nick has produced here: text-wise, sentence structure, historical accuracy, video montages, everything. Well done :) Every time I see such top standards, I take my hat off. This is another lesson of humility for my ego, thanks again.

I like the insights of the Midway engagement. And when you understand the details this American story is truly remarkable.

the wait was worthy, this episode is one of the most complete you've ever made!

When learning about this subject, it always struck me as to how clueless the Japanese military seemed to be about the concept of code breaking, while they seemed to be very intelligent and skillful at so many other aspects of the war. Perhaps it was the factional rivalries between the different compartments of the military that hampered their comprehension of code breaking?

@cardiv5zuikaku944

2 жыл бұрын

it's possible yeah, I mean afaik if a plane comes to the sea, the army won't even inform the navy, saying it's the navy problem, while the navy said it's army problem since the bomber target is a land target, they won't even repair each other plane who land on their base, and even goes as far with the saying "IJA Have their own navy and IJN Have their own army."

@Kaiserboo1871

2 жыл бұрын

I have never seen a more dysfunctional nor more toxic relationship than that of the relationship between the IJN and the IJA.

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer

2 жыл бұрын

If anything cryptologists have one blind spot, that if they rolled a code someone else could crank it. Even the Germans were so confident with enigma it never really cross their mind that there was weakness in the system. Then you've got the allies with the merchant code for civilian ships, they knew that code or should have known that code had been compromised, I say compromise rather than cracked because it's possible that they got hold of the documents from sinking allied merchantment, by reading enigma they should have known. The Japanese at the same time just before Midway change their Naval codes and it was just through a stroke of luck and genius that Rochfert was was able to partially crack it before Midway.

@Roma_eterna

2 жыл бұрын

Now that you mention it, I would love to learn more about Japanese politics during the Second World War!

@anthtan

Жыл бұрын

For a culture that seems to emphasises so much on cohesion and social harmony, this kind of factionalism is a baffling contradiction.

I'm re-watching this one years later, and I'd forgotten what a good job you did,