My grandfather flew 66 operational missions in a Lancaster Mk X. He was partway through his second tour, when he was shot down, on his 26th birthday, while supporting breakout operations from Normandy. His plane took a hit in the port wing that made a hole the size of a bathtub between the engines, and disabled both engine 1 & 2. They took a second hit in the fuselage, about 10 feet in front of the tail, disabling the tail control surfaces. Most of the crew bailed above 1500 feet, but the pilot, Howie (I don't remember his last name), and my grandfather, stayed in the bomber to try and get the tail-gunner out. He'd been trapped by the second hit, Howie kept the plane in the air as long as possible, while grandpa got the door open and the gunner out. The tail-gunner was next to bail, followed by grandpa and then Howie at about 800 feet. Everybody managed to get back to friendly lines, except the tail-gunner, who was captured and spent the rest of the war in a POW camp. Howie and my grandfather, Reg Swartz, were awarded the Bar to their DFC's by King George VI, in Buckingham Palace, in March of 1946. His medals and uniform are part of the permanent collection of the Elgin Museum, in St Thomas, Ontario.

The real limitation is experienced Pilots who understand tactics. U.S. Pilots flew as teams and learned to kill enemy aircraft regardless of their performance. The tactics changed with experience and advancements in Aircraft. I flew the F4E Phantom II. Taught by an Instructor who instructed me to think outside the box.

@eltontonge4186

2 ай бұрын

Did you write that with a crayon ?

Yes the Zero was a top of the line plane when it was first introduced. But, the technology was advancing so quickly at the time, two years later it wasn't so great.

@cigarsgunsandgasoline8032

4 ай бұрын

if they had self-sealing fuel tanks they would have been better!

@Wardads1

3 ай бұрын

It was at the acme of its development with little room for further improvement

@dindodayao6238

3 ай бұрын

Yes Mitsubishi engines are superb I own an old car that have a Mitsubishi SATURN 4G32 chain type w/side drop Webber's still roars like a monster!!

@Banthisyoutube-zs6sx

3 ай бұрын

​@@dindodayao6238i drove a 91 mirage i got as a hand me down from my parents minimal maintainence as my dad wasn't really a car guy and money was tight growing up......300k miles and no major repairs besides a starter.......and a new 5 speed manual that came off a 2nd hand parts dealer. Would probablly still start after sitting dor 10 years if i went and pit a new battery in her.

Man I love this doc series ! Almost 3 hours ? What’s not to love !?

@Anglo_Saxon1

4 ай бұрын

Yeah,the full series was first aired on uk telly about 5 years ago.I agree they're quality documentaries 👍 There's 3 series' (22 episodes).

@steveanderson4768

Ай бұрын

Because it truly beats what is on TV in the networks, all they can produce is garbage

Excellent documentary! Well done Brits

Absolutely phenomenal! I'm blown away by their precision.

Very cool documentary, thanks for sharing this. 👍

Your presentation segment on the M-16 failure rate, leaves the impression that Colt was somehow responsible. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and his cadre of collegiate whiz kids, decided that they were collectively smarter than designer/engineer Eugene Stoner. Whereas Stoner's specifications called for use of the newer conical propellant, the whiz kids changed it to ball powder that was already in supply. Stoner likewise specified chrome lined chambers and bores, that the whiz kids discarded thinking it to be an unnecessary extravagant expense. Just those two government overrides, to ball powder and non-chrome lined chambers and bores. produced carbon fouling that adhered to the interior of the weapon, thus creating a jammomatic suicide machine. AK-47s at 100yds. were far more effective over American troops armed with bayonets at the end of a M-16 stick. I would suggest that our current cultural self-destruction again sources directly back to the collegiate theoretical universe.

@piotrd.4850

4 ай бұрын

Also remember, that Army was like "yeah, nice.... can we make it stronger buullet?" ?

@itzjcee557

4 ай бұрын

Great comment about McNamara and his whiz kids!

@rammuchewicz8045

4 ай бұрын

@@piotrd.4850, Its original configuration was 7.62 x 51. there was a change to 5.56 x 45 as thinking embraced the idea that casualties would remove more of the enemy from the field. Dead is dead, but wounded require assistance. The initial first appearance in the field was satisfactory with SOG units, who named it a "meat axe". After about 200 yds. the round would begin to keyhole or rotate end over end, due to a loss of gyro-stability, the rearmost weight of the boat-tail bullet begins to overtake the front. Producing varied results such as impacts in the thigh exiting a shoulder. 5.56 gave more firepower than 7.62 in a standard load-out by weight.

@IcelanderUSer

4 ай бұрын

Current self destruction is the fault of DJT 100%. Wake the fk up.

@jnovikoff001

4 ай бұрын

Reminds me of Alaska Airlines who wanted a more profitable door plug where the Boeing disign was orininally for an emergency exit. I prefer the emergency exit.

That gentleman loves his country and his dad. I can’t imagine what it would cost to build that airplane

In all fairness you can't have factories without access to natural resources like oil to begin with. We in America had oil, Japan and Germany didn't.....in fact, that's why the war started to begin with.

@brianmoncion6723

4 ай бұрын

Now we a F1 race there. My message got deleted. I was saying it was political alliances with the German run Baku refinery and export that really hurt the German war machine. For lack of going into detail that's it.

@gagamba9198

4 ай бұрын

_'In all fairness you can't have factories without access to natural resources...'_ True. _'like oil to begin with.'_ Not true 'to begin with' . The most important resource for factories was coal. This was true for not only for Germany and Japan but also UK and US. Coal was king back then. How was coal Japan's most important resource? In 1936, it provided 51.4 per cent of Japan’s energy needs, serving both industry and households. Firewood and charcoal accounted for 18.6 per cent of Japan’s total energy consumption, mostly for household use. Electric power provided most of the rest of Japan’s energy, at 21.3 per cent. Depending on the season, hydroelectric power provided up to 78% of electricity and the remainder came from coal. (Had Japan built more reservoirs coal's use in generating electricity could have been reduced greatly.) Hydroelectric power provided 25 per cent of Japan's industries' energy whilst coal powered 71.2 per cent of Japanese industrial operations. Petroleum accounted for only 7.9 per cent of Japanese energy use, but, since this was *largely for military use* , it had disproportionate strategic importance. By 1940, coal had become even more important, supplying 66.1 per cent of Japan’s energy needs (civilian, industrial, agricultural, and military), while electric power provided 16.2 per cent, firewood and charcoal 10.7 per cent, and petroleum only 7.0 per cent. Companies like Toto, a maker of ceramic products which is energy intensive production, switched from oil to heat its kilns to coal and coal gas. Other than Japan's military, who consumed oil? The merchant and fishing fleets, though some of the merchant fleet still used coal in whole or in part. When war with the US began, much of Japan's fishing fleet had its operational range significantly reduced and many fisherman were drafted. This lack of manpower affected many other industries as well as skilled workers were inducted by a military that did not consider the consequences to industrial productivity. Coal was important to the entire economy yet during the '40s coal was mined by men too old to induct, women, children, and forced labourers from Korea as well as POWs. Certainly vehicles relied on petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel, but Japan had only 0.5% of the vehicles the US had. Rationing began in 1938 and by 1941 almost no fuel was available for civilian vehicles except trucks, which numbered 77,000. Gasoline for civilian use fell 66% between 1938 and 1941 _before_ Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Even public buses were were converted from diesel and gasoline to coal and charcoal. Railroads were powered by coal (intercity routes) and electricity (intracity routes). Commercial airline service barely existed; Japan Air Transport carried 70,000 passengers in 1938, many of whom were military officers and government officials. Civilian aviation was a niche business sector. Coal was also the source for chemicals such as nitrates and ammonia for use as fertilisers and industrial feedstocks. This began with the Haber process and then the alternative Casale, Claude, and the Mont-Cenis processes. Hydroelectric dams also can be used for nitrogen fixation, i.e. converting into ammonia or related nitrogenous compounds. Both Japan and Germany had large deposits of coal (as did the US and UK). In Japan significant reserves were in Kyushu and in Hokkaido and smaller reserves in the Ube and Joban areas of Honshu. Japan lacked coking coal, needed for steel, in the amount needed to build all the munitions the militarists wanted, which is why it grabbed North China. By 1940 more than half of Japan's steel went to munitions. Oil replaced coal's importance in industry _after_ WWII, starting with the US (in 1949 iirc) and expanding to other industrialised countries in the '50s and '60s. _'in fact, that's why the war started to begin with.'_ I think you put the cart before the horse. Japan and Germany could have continued to buy resources just like everyone else. If we look at 'peacetime' Japan's oil imports of 1936 (before the military took over the economy), we find Japan was importing less than 30 million barrels from the US. Yet even this total was inflated due to the 1934 law requiring oil importers to maintain a 6-month stockpile in Japan. (Japan built an oil stockpile exceeding 50 million barrels, estimated to be two years' civilian consumption, before 1940.) The average price of oil in 1936 was $1.09 per barrel (and ranged from $1.02 to $1.18 per barrel from 1937 to 1941), meaning that Japan's oil bill ranged from about $32 million to $40 million. But the militarists took over and military solutions were the answers to all problems.

I have an old car that have a Mitsubishi SATURN 4D32 engine chain type w/ sidedrop Webber's and still roars like a monster!!!

@johnriley9214

2 ай бұрын

The 4D32 engine was a diesel ,therefore no Webers!!!

Shoigu reminded the west yesterday of the kalisnikov Which was interesting

The Lancaster was undoubtedly a suburb aircraft and had capabilities that were unique at the time. However, I have always believed that it was used incorrectly. It was used to do things that could have been just as easily been done by other aircraft, using it to destroy entire cities just to make sure that SOME of the militarily significant targets in that city were hit. Britain should have diverted the majority of it's aircraft production to the plane that could hit targets, and hit them hard. The De Haviland Mosquito was cheaper, quicker to build and only need two Merlins instead of four. It's speed at all flight levels meant it could actually find and hit targets with a good chance of escaping unscathed, it only had a crew of two, needed significantly less maintenance and plane for plane could probably do more damage than a Lancaster when comparing where bombs actually landed. Harris fought the introduction and production of the Mosquito in favour of the 'heavies' when a much smaller force of Lancasters could have been used only for operations that no other aircraft could achieve, the Dam Busters Raid being one and dropping of Tallboys being the obvious other. Lancasters were also ideal as support for army land forces, providing carpet bombing of enemy defensive lines as the 8th Air Force did in Operation Cobra and the Lancaster itself did on D-Day and for Operation Plunder. Using them as city-busters was, to my mind, a waste of an exceptional aircraft. Nearly 600 heavy bombers, including over 300 Lancasters, were used in August 1943 to attack Peenemunde with mixed results where a raid by 500 Mosquitos would have been devastating. Even in 1944-45 most Lancaster raids actually relied on Mosquito pathfinders to locate and mark the targets, especially after the introduction of OBOE, due to the need for Lancasters to bomb from high altitude to avoid being shot down.

This was a great video !

Great Vid , the Zero was an excellent insight into a Great Aircraft and later its Short comings , Luv Guy Pearce , but a Great vid.

I absolutely love stuff made in Japan..from hobby stuff to cars ...yes Biuld a zero 😮

@Banthisyoutube-zs6sx

3 ай бұрын

As a scale modeller thwir hobby supplies and kits are way better then their american counterparts but their models are being supplanted by companies like dragon out of china. But it still has its place if i am looking for a decent kit thats not as indepth as say a dragon kit tamiya is still a solid vhoice for when i don't feel lile making 30 road wheels for a panzer that have 12 parts per wheel.....yes that is literally how many parts are in a dragon panzer 4 road wheel.

Brilliant Video thanks for the Upload !!!!!!

VERY BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL... CHARMING DOCUMENTARY

Brilliant Documentary!

Arguably browning should be up there with colt and kolashnikov

@gbear1005

4 ай бұрын

maxim first

@phann860

3 ай бұрын

Not arguably but top, a war changing inventor.

good work

This documentary had 190 ads, be ready for them in this 2hours and 50 minutes. The normal KZread ads that you can scip after 5 seconds. However some you can't scip which were like 13 seconds.

The massive drop in production by the end of January 1945 had nothing to do with the bombing campaign but with the final Soviet Winter offensive that captured, often entirely intact, most of the German heavy industry on the Eastern Front.

@xandervk2371

20 күн бұрын

Not true. The heavy industry was concentrated in the Ruhr basin.

There is a fully restored and flying Lancaster in Alberta Canada.

To a large extent, the gunpowder is what makes, (or breaks), the gun.

Fine documentary

A wonderful channel that deserves the best regards, appreciation, admiration and pride. It provides accurate and useful information. I thank you for all the beautiful words and sincere feelings for your distinguished posts. I wish you continued success and all the best. My utmost respect and appreciation

Great work!

WE SHOULD BE HUMBLED BY SUCH EFFORTS

@tedleavell9322

24 күн бұрын

Yes

@MAGACAT

17 күн бұрын

ALL CAPS FTW WOOT

I never actually understood the Japanese Zero even being a War Veteran until i watched the show in Grand Junction Colorado about 10 yrs ago. The Zero has a nimble way to achieve speed, then turn on a dime which would firce any enemy to over shoot from almost any attack angle. Hats off to Mitsubishi, what a incredible plane. Had the pilots been better trained to fly such a fighter the war may have been different.

@20chocsaday

4 ай бұрын

A very long while ago my father let me play with a Duralamim tube. It had been formed like blown plastic and was closed by a screwon cap. Both parts were almost like foil. But unlike foil it was rigged. Again, unlike foil if I bent it, I could not get it back. Instead it broke in this child's hands.

@EdwardEmmick

4 ай бұрын

In fairness, midway was hard on Japan. They lost not only carriers but most of their trained and experienced pilots. Never could replace them.

Just bought a new 1911 last month. 10mm for bear protection though (Montana).

Would it be in bad taste for Mitsubishi to build a sports car and name it Zero??

Manufacturing scholars completely ignoring W. Edwards Deming’s influence on Japanese quality control? How did they skip that?

That woman’s great uncle 43:49 would be proud of her.

As a professional cod player i can confirm this is accurate.

EUROPE BETTER BE STEPPING IT UP!

@DennisFreitas-bn7nh

14 күн бұрын

TOO LATE!

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography/maps enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Special thanks to guest speakers making this presentation more authentic and possible. Viewing this from the comfort of my computer room. Along the " Space Coast " 🚀 of Florida🐊🐊🐊 . wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous ( 2024 )🌈🎉😉.

@xinniethep00h

4 ай бұрын

Can you see rocket launches from your house?

It will Always in All Ways Be Sad... Go Lancaster!!!

@mickvonbornemann3824

4 ай бұрын

I don’t recall them mention that AVROE also had a shadow factory in Canada as a safety guarantee & they were the best of all the Lancs, because they also armed with .50BMGs, not just .303s

At 2:02:58 the cost is estimated about 300-500USD. This is most likely decimal error. The gun can be produced at 30-50USD or even less in low cost countries. And there were surplus guns sold in nineties for 7USD a piece :)

I’ve been watching your channel for just a couple months. I absolutely love it! I’m going to subscribe to KZread premium because of your channel,, and in turn subscribe and support your content.

I l9ve how many times this documentary has been re-posted lol

The scrape steel Japan was buying from the US shortly before Pearl Harbor was at its highest level , an importance to give a pondering if you are not expecting an extreme turn of events during peacetime .That was a real blunder

34:15 Regarding the Kamikaze Pilots, I assume it took less time to train them since they didn’t need to teach them how to land the aircraft, just how to takeoff! If you need to resort to sending your young men on suicide attacks then it’s time to say enough! Great fascinating documentary series!

The company war😁

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Hold my beer..

You can have as many factories to built the war machine but if there is no fuel, those machine will be as good as a rusty paper weight. Why the USA and USSR came up tops is because these two countries has their own fuel, resources and the means to produce large quantity of war machines and personel to operate them.

I vote for a defective fuse.

The BAR is really the first assault rifle And the M1911 was still in use during the Gulf war Dessert storm.

That these historians actually believe that the US Navy threw away 3 squadrons of torpedo planes on purpose is beyond the absurd.

@millermike5739

4 ай бұрын

Take a look at Afghanistan. Haha

@EdwardEmmick

4 ай бұрын

They couldn't have planned it as they almost could not even locate them. Fog of war.

Pretty sad we still need to do this.

@WarnockRafferty

4 ай бұрын

Sad we still need to do what?!?

@richbrockmeier3922

4 ай бұрын

Indeed. Sadly, war is big business today. Biggest business in the free world is weapons manufacturers.

@nlknok77

4 ай бұрын

I'd rather live my life without any war

@nlknok77

4 ай бұрын

​@@WarnockRaffertymaking ammunition for war .... Kinda what this is about. Where did you go to school?

@zAlaska

4 ай бұрын

How? GM has gone all electric

1:55:47 Lord of War...Of all the weapons in the vast Soviet arsenal, nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947, more commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the world's most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It will shoot whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy, even a child can use it; and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars.

Those old fashioned machines cannot be built any longer. TSMC does it all without a pilot in the missing cockpits, safe flying VR seated on the ground even half a world away.

@20chocsaday

4 ай бұрын

With jam on it.

Thumbnail looked like a bunch of penguins. Or maybe that's just me

@todx15

2 ай бұрын

i see it to😂😂😂

@battlefieldkille

7 күн бұрын

nah man u arent alone lmao

What happened to the Wellington? :o I never hear of it, my understanding is it was superseded by the Lancaster. Sorry if I missed it being mentioned I'd love to know more about that plane given the little information I can find

The Blitz and Avro city ruin tactics were the same. Neither targeted civilians but critical infrastructure for the war effort.

AK 47, the VLC of the rifle world.

M16 problems 💯 % ammunition related

So much ideas about manufacturing but indeed this revelation of how to hijack someone's technologies

*MatatanRibirin H-S* *Amazing documentary very well done ✅*

Keenly observe the dressing of soldiers

26:00 800 hours of flight before combat mission before the war, reduced to 350 hours during the war. And Russian pilots today have 120 hours before entering in combat over Ukraine.

At the time stamp of 43:40 for a few minutes, that daughter of the Lancaster bomber pilot... Just wanted to say, DANG SHE IS FINE!!!!! oh, and clearly smart too!!!!!

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Where's Bomberman jelly bomb as seen on thumbnail?

If they attack we will see how accurate their ballistic missles are

I am A Canadian . I lived in Malton Ontario . The Avro Valcan looks to Me like the Avro Arrow Built in Malton Ontario Canada. By McDonald Douglas

@r.p.4683

3 ай бұрын

Canada also built 430 Lancaster, the Avro should also have been featured

My father fighting over Burma used to say that the Japanese zeros were significantly inferior to the spitfires and would dive and duct away low to escape while hurricane were quite easily overcome by zero.

@lornespry

2 ай бұрын

Well, yes and no. There is the matter of when, where and the evolution of tactics. When the Japanese were attacking Darwin in northern Australia, Spitfires were hurriedly rushed to the area to deal with AM6 Zero escorts to the bombers. Within a relatively short time, the Spitfire formation was seriously mauled.

21:12 - “victory disease.”

The war of northern aggression. 1 and 2

Ha ha, @18:20 he is using control markers and some game pieces from the board game Axis & Allies 💥 @ 1:20:40 the Lancaster drops my favorite bomb load, 14x 1,000 pounders and 1 4,000 canister bomb. 💣💥 I love the Lancaster, but I love the Vulcan bomber more and I am saying this as an American.

Can U please keep uploading more documentarys like this please

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Colt did the assembly line. Ford, the moving assembly line...

They got the summery of the Midway battle wrong. The fortunate dispersal of the Japanese high fighter cover wasn't a tactic it was blind luck.

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Sounds just like the MIC here in the U.S. today.

Coming to a factory near you

let alone the japanese aircraft designers that went and designed super bikes, being that they also glide thru the air like fighter planes

🎯👍🏽🏆. Very Well: Organized/ Detailed/ Presented AND Entertaining! Question???When from Colt, S&W, etc., and early manufacturing- did they have INTERCHANGEABLE Barrels?? Could they “Un-Screw” , or take it THAT far apart for Cleaning? Or.. IF anything damages the Barrel- were you out of Luck? Only asking; I have between : 8”, 10” and 10 “ interchangeable barrels.. back then? Or were they Solid 1 piece poured? NRN. God Bless. 👴🏽NoBody. PS?-,Well I’ll say it - MY FAVORITE MAN’S fragrance? HOPPER #9 !!

What is that theme song at the beginning from? it sounds like the theme music for the 34th americas cup. I've been trying to find that song for a while, does anyone know what stock music was used or where I can find it

My friend was losing with his corsair,he hit his air brakes, the 0 went sailing past as an easy target.

Yeah but the hellcat and Corsair and p51 mustangs planes virtually obliterate the zero

@asullivan4047

4 ай бұрын

Those crafts were instrumental in defeating the real threat. The Luftwaffe before the ME-262 jet fighter could reak disaster againt the bombers.

2:33:01 ".... by the time he arrived at York he had been ..." had been WHAT? PLEASE, Anyone! he had been ....? I just can't figure it out!

They're one by the men who die there too.Just by factories there's a lot of good men died

6:50 - it's MITSUBICHI hahahaha

I’m gonna interject that Eli Whitney had a stiff competition with colt for the 1865 revolver colt won, my grandpa had one of the Eli Whitney revolvers. Idk what my father did with it but there is a big leave of this revolver made by Eli

won the war??? lost everything else..

When you sound incredulous that the Japanese army and navy did not share aircraft types, you forget that neither did the US forces. The British had limited crossover between RAF and FAA but, really, no nation had an army and navy using the same front line combat aircraft. And, one thing that you never mention in your heavy emphasis on the production numbers game is that all of the equipment in the world will do you no good without trained people to operate and maintain it, not to mention the supply chain to keep it in service. The Germans lost that game. They had no shortage of equipment, right to the end. They lacked for skilled operators, and logistical support.

This one dude sounds like lazerpig

@32:48 Dude taking a whiz.

@crazyproducts76

3 ай бұрын

Watched the entire doco without seeing that. Your comment made me see that. Dude was like "I have to go right now" He flung out his schlong and started dripping😂😂😂😂

@crazyproducts76

3 ай бұрын

Dude had to go at that moment. It was funny hw he didn't give a hoot whether a top official was visiting. He just turned his back them and did his thing! 😂😂😂

Your thumbnail looks like penguins in a factory

Killing always in fashion

Mahigpit na ipinag bbawal ng dyos ang panalangin na pakunwari, mga paulit ulit. Mga aral ng mga walang alam kundi tradition. Maawa kayo sa mga kaluluwa dahil lang sa kinikita nyo.

So all FORD motors did was copy the progress of COLT firearms of mass production. Who actually was the first to put it all together ? I suspect that was in London ?

The zero was a beautiful, nimble, and long ranged fighter, perfectly suited to win World War One. But it lacked armor and a self sealing gas tank. It was a zippo, waiting to be flicked. So what do you do if you are up against an airplane that dogfights better than yours? You don’t dogfight, you hit and dive away, and even the archaic P-40 could do that. Then along came Thatch.

@Ken_oh545

4 ай бұрын

Erm......

@lornespry

2 ай бұрын

What was archaic about the P-40 ? The Mitsubishi and Curtis were close contemporaries and approximations (or better) of the contemporary state of the art. Both had weaknesses and virtues. Used wisely, both were very effective in combat. They were different types of machines. The Zero was a naval deck fighter. The P-40 was never even modified for that role. Both were used in various roles until the conclusion of hostilities. Both were rather obsolete by that time, but still they were still given importance. The P-40 was an evolution of the P-35. That did not make it archaic.

some Polish and some Eastern european pilots train for two weeks and then flew spitfire to take on the Luftwaffe

1:03:34 can someone please agree that at timestamp that this is not in fact pirates of the carabian theme song?

A6M deployed 01 July 1940

Why the Japanese did that cleaning in pearl harbor? Who lied to whom? This is the question.