Can't recommend this documentary strongly enough. Absolutely first class. Students studying WW2 are in for a treat.

@kevinkammueller7553

Ай бұрын

Not bad. Not meant as an exhaustive treatment, but some of the details are a bit vague and somewhat "Americanized".

It seems most people in this comment section are University students dedicating their time to this subject. Meanwhile, my interest stemmed from a fascination for Japanese culture, which could only be whole by seeing the entire picture by exploring both good and bad. This documentary series is excellent at explaining things that maybe most people wouldn’t be familiar with when it comes to military technicalities. This is great for both history enthusiasts and students alike. Thank you for this.

@garryschaffer5265

3 ай бұрын

Well put. However, I do not advise that students use this material for facts. This series is 70% correct at best. My father served in WW@. I am an avid enthusiast. Many mistakes here. Watch Battle 360. It is centered around the carrier Enterprise, but mew who were there tell it like it was.

@pcgamingeconomico3057

2 ай бұрын

i hope you are not one of those weabos that romanticize samurais and their talks of "honor" and "loyalty" when they had none of these 2....

@pinkumiilku

2 ай бұрын

@@pcgamingeconomico3057 I literally said, it's good to see a culture and history in its entirety, both the good and the bad. What about my comment made it seem like I am in any way condoning this part of history? Have you ever heard of culture?

Honestly, this is all I do watch, listen-to and consume this amazing World event. I really think WW2 started in 37, then, a continuation was Germany invading Poland. Discuss amongst yourselves. Mussolini wasn't a big help either, not to mention Franco in Spain...ugh, a perfect storm. Symptoms of WW1. Thanks, great video!

@NormanBraslow-nh2tz

4 ай бұрын

Nothing new for students of East Asia.

@USSBB62

4 ай бұрын

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific Podcast on KZread. Start from the Beginning ( Episode 101 ) You won't be disappointed .

@furious_wrath7079

4 ай бұрын

You could even say it started with end of ww1 and the treaty of Versailles. Spain civil war helped germany test equipment. Woodrow Wilson was on to something with his 14 points document or 10 points bur he wanted to try and incorporate germany into the economy to prevent them from being impoverished precursor per say with what we did with germany after ww2. Ww1 ended but didn't solve a lot of on going issues in certain countries.

@bbmtge

3 ай бұрын

But you never thought WW2 started in 1937 until people like Frank came of that opinion. Interesting to try to claim an opinion as your own.

@RUHappyATM

3 ай бұрын

@@bbmtge You don't have to have people like your Frank come out with that idea. If you know your history and connect the dots. The 2nd Sino-Japanese war started in 1937 (some even say it started in 1931) and continued into 1939, then 1941. But the West will only remember the invasion of Poland as the start.

Nimitz was not at coral sea. Admiral Fletcher was. Nimitz was commander and chief Pacific fleet in hawaii

@mohdfahmi8841

4 ай бұрын

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@CRSolarice

4 ай бұрын

I agree. Some footage is jaw dropping, some is difficult to match up, ie is it really an aircraft carrier vaporizing by a 'rocket' or something else, seen in gun cam footage 47:18), still very amazing footage, throughout.

@srquint

3 ай бұрын

Yes! This program has so many small errors like this that it is annoying to watch.

@johndunn678

3 ай бұрын

Add to the errors Washington cracking the Japanese code. That was the office in Hawaii under Joseph Rocheforts leadership

@gaoxiaen1

3 ай бұрын

@@srquint And a few big ones.

Very outstanding documentary.job well done on this great film of history. Your u tube channel does an outstanding job. Thanks for sharing. Respectfully herr Dave blackburn

Before Guadalcanal, Australia handed out the first two defeats against Japan’s best troops, on the Kokoda Track and at Milne Bay.

@mattp6953

2 ай бұрын

The Aussie contributions to stabilizing the front are really unheralded. The New Guinea campaign was nasty and almost entirely fought by Anzac and Papuans

Thank you for conveying this. I have just finished the first installment this dark Christmas afternoon. Now onto the second. For the algorithm. Why not?

@NormanBraslow-nh2tz

4 ай бұрын

Don't because there are too many factual errors.

Great video when do we get part 2

Excellent footage, btw. Never seen large parts of it !

@greggweber9967

4 ай бұрын

I suspect that a large part of the film is free of copyright government film that they have colorized and maybe removed the jitter. That takes money, and so maybe they can copyright their output. Let the customer choose (if they advertise and allow the original black and white to be sold for the price of packaging and shipping) between the original and their products.

@jonnyblayze5149

4 ай бұрын

Really? Ive seen all of it more than a few times. Still good footage though. I dont tire of second world war footage

Omitting the sacrifice of the crews of the torpedo planes that had the carriers turning so they couldn’t launch planes is terrible. Their sacrifice was a major factor in the Japanese loses.

@saifulsidek2724

4 ай бұрын

Japan losing so many pilot whos have experience at battle becouse of kamikaze ideas....they still have so many planes at mainland japan after japanese surrender,but dont have so many pilot to fly that planes....

@FairwayJack

4 ай бұрын

good point .. they were indeed heroic .. and one flight even disobeyed orders and left their fighters to attack the IJN's correct location (Walden's flight) ... they attacked without functioning torpedoes and fighter cover ... smh ... the battle was won thru many serendipitous events

@RickTheClipper

4 ай бұрын

Propaganda is everywhere

@Zerox_Prime

3 ай бұрын

IMHO, the task of flying a torpedo bomber through anti-aircraft and enemy interceptors gave the pilots little choice other than to complete their missions... death was coming either way.

@EdwardJordanTheOriginal

Ай бұрын

​@saifulsidek2724 true but it was also due to having virtually no aviation gasoline remaining

Seriously some amazing camera footage. This one is so easy to miss (47:17) because it is such a short clip. It is a gun camera and it depicts an aircraft flying at wavetop altitude and firing a rocket at a ship. The rocket explodes (and it is a large explosion, indeed) but a split second later there is a secondary explosion (magazine, freighted ammo and/or fuel)? Both explosions are large enough to completely conceal the ship but the secondary is absolutely colossal. As I mentioned earlier this clip is so easy to miss but when you see and understand what is being depicted it gives you a sense of what reality was like in the Pacific war zone. Precision? Perhaps. But these folks were using serious explosive power in their weapons and of this there can be no doubt. 47:17 is just amazing. Check it out a couple times to get the full affect.... They weren't fooling around.

God bless you, truly

The Doolittle Raid was the true morale booster for the US in mid 1942, they had several bad runs in early 1942 against Japan, loss of Wake Island, Guam, Philippines and the beatdown at Dutch East Indies. The US need to show grit before the great showdown at Midway and South Pacific, also they needed American civilians to believe in the cause and to head back in manufacturing military equipment.

@bbmtge

3 ай бұрын

Another idiotic comment.

@danpetrescu4915

Ай бұрын

All military or not leader , WANT TO KILL CIVILIANS FIRST ? why ,?

@danpetrescu4915

Ай бұрын

America have this fethis 3000 casualty from FALSE FLAG to START A WAR . In Cuba to start a war with Spain to take Cuba and Filipine , golf Tonkin to start a war with Vietnam ,,- killing ONLY 2.000.000 civilians . Chile , Salvador , Panama , pigs in Cuba , Hungaria , Afganistan , Irak , again Afganistan ( 20 years ,!!!!,) Libia ( thank you democrat clinton ,)Siria , Egipt , Liban , ukraina . În all word is a ideea , why all world BAN america and they stay at home ?

Good video

This is the very best documentary on WWII especially the detail in the beginning of the war. Something it really emphasis in a disguised way is how gullible and ignorant the Japanese thought Americans were. The Pride worked into extreme arrogance which led Japan to destruction. From Japans overall thoughts of defeating the USA to general everyday combat decisions were all based on who they THOUGHT we were. So Admiral Nimitz and his staff easily recognized Japan's true intentions through all their diversionary tactics. We definitely had the better people.

Great video , Enjoyed every min of it

I'm a WW2 history buff. And I personally never understood the impotence of the Doolittle Raid. I get that America desperately needed a moral boost at that early point of the war, as "everything" was going Japan's way up to that point. But was the Doolittle raid really it? The damages the bombs caused in Tokyo in that raid was so shockingly little. I suspect that the cost of air fuel for the Mitchells ALONE greatly exceeded damage that the bombs caused. But just a few months later, the miracle of Midway happened. And that was not just a HUGE moral boost, but the turning point of the pacific war (all in one naval battle).

What continually fascinates me is how quickly the Allies cracked the codes used by the Axis Powers. What an exceptional advantage these breakthroughs gave the Allies in the early and less-prepared stages of US involvement in the fight . . . advantages which, in the annals of warfare against two determined adversaries, exceptionally rapidly turned into superiority which neither insular major Axis enemy had the capacity to counter in manpower, raw/finished materiel logistics or replenishment capabilities.

@Netseer2000

4 ай бұрын

The codes were cracked quickly because of prior experience. During Prohibition, smugglers used codes to communicate (think Boardwalk Empire). Government agents are placed on cracking the codes. In response, codes become more complex. One agent brought in his wife who was a mathematical genius. With her help, the government was able to keep up. It gave her practical experience which she used in cracking the Japanese codes. Her name was kept secret for so long for the same reason as Alan Turing was kept secret. Pardon me for not remembering names. I am horrible at remembering names. One day I woke up and thought my name was Calvin Klein. 😛 It's in an episode of Mick Rowe's "How Booze Built America". So raise a glass of your choice of poison for booze saving the world.

@Pugiron

4 ай бұрын

There were alos those little factors of gearing up wartime production and recruitment and travelling halfway around the world.

That 1937 Metal is groovy ❤

@johnemerson1363

4 ай бұрын

Those medals were given in recognition of help after the Tokyo earthquake in the 1920's.

My great grandfather was in WW1 and at the age of 45 years old was drafted into WW2

These militant Japanese were more ambitious than I knew.

Japan conquered USA with Toyota

@MarkSmith-ns1es

Ай бұрын

Conquered? 🤣🤣🤣

@thomaslthomas1506

24 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@rascallyrabbit717

21 күн бұрын

tapedecks

@TheBillaro

13 күн бұрын

those cars will be running long after the empire falls

@michaellynes3540

4 күн бұрын

With Honda, Nissan and Subaru.

Great video but a little inaccurate. Bull Hullsey commanded the fleets not Nimets and Yorktown was sunk by a Japanese submarine not the planes from the Japanese carrier. It’s only a 48 minute video so I know you could not include everything from that battle but no matter what you need to be correct when telling the story of history.

MacChicken escaped to Australia. What a cowardly move from a commander. He preferred to escape than to face capture with his multitude of men.

@snafubar5491

Ай бұрын

But.....but....but he got a MoH for running away. Left General Wainwright holding the bag and then ole Dugout Dougie denied Gen. W any medals because he surrendered to save the few men and women still alive.

@brotjack

Ай бұрын

@@snafubar5491 yeah, thats effed up. Doug MacCoward just left his reigns to poor Jonathan to escape possible capture. He saved his own skin than to face the theinevitable. What's surprising is, he is still considered as a hero. He even got a highway named after him.

@snafubar5491

Ай бұрын

@@brotjack.......Him, Ike, and Patton were known good little order followers (see actions during Bonus Army attack) to the point of firing on WWI Veterans, women, and children that were just poor, tired, and hungry. Worked out real well for all three.

Your channel showed up in my feed and I couldn't be happier! Fantastic presentation with videos and stills that I had never seen before. Also, specific information that I was not aware of. Nagumo didn't stand a chance here and seemed to make one bad decision after the next! Thank you for all the hard work you put into making these documentaries! My father was in the US Navy,S Pacific during the War and was stationed aboard the light Cruiser Montpelier. She was in the thick of it from New Guinea, the Philippines, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, where she was struck by a Kamikaze followed by four near misses. I don't know where she was hit but I believe it was on the stern. This was the action that kept my father awake for many years post-war with his horrible night terrors. I want to thank you for creating this content because it helps me to understand what my father went through and helps me to reconnect with him, if that makes sense. The Greatest Generation!! No truer words were spoken!💖🇺🇲⚓️💯🙏👌

My Mom was in love with a SeaBee, but he was killed in the South Pacific. Then she met my Dad in a dance hall. She always told my two sisters, "Never marry someone you meet in a dance hall."

I think you missed very important point here. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other military bases was done without a formal declaration of war.

@johnemerson1363

4 ай бұрын

Indeed, Yamamoto insisted that the Americans get the declaration of war at least 30 minutes before the attack. They neglected to have the proper staff available and it was way too late. His Sleeping Giant quote, real or not, was his belief when he found out the Embassy failed miserably.

@bclmax

Ай бұрын

they wanted to...wasnt omitted on purpose. sorry no internet back in those days

Abbreviated, but Not Bad ! Covers a few important things most documentaries overlook. Great film footage. My uncles and some of their local military friends who served in the PTO, (one of whom was stationed in the Philippines and spent the war in a Bataan POW camp), never could figure out what McArthur didn't understand about the bombing of Pearl . . . One always said NONE of those planes should have been left where they could be found at Clark AF, a primary target. BTW: Admiral Nimitz authorized the coded instructions asking Midway to send that message about their water "problem" at the recommendation of his own code brakers. Washington's 'experts' didn't believe AF could have been Midway.

Somw of your footage from the Doolitttle raid and earlier in the film are from later in the war: THe "Star and bars" insignia appeared in June 1943.

While I'm watching my bones is chilling

Great info Great video

@salvadorvizcarra769

4 ай бұрын

Propaganda, but NOT History, has led us to believe that the Empire of Japan began its territorial expansion in the 1930’s, invading China, creating the puppet State of Manchukuo and “Provoking” the war with the Western Powers. But, Was this really, how events happened? Did Japan invade China and South East Asia? It seems so. However, the Propaganda does NOT say that for centuries, all Asia was invaded by Western Powers. England occupied India, Burma (Myanmar); Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, Malaysia and China (Hong Kong, Nanking, Shanghai, etc). France dominated all Indochina. The Netherlands intervened by the Force of its Arms, to all of Indonesia. And Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and of course, also the United States were in South East Asia cuz, for example this country, the US, occupied the Philippines since 1898. (Spanish-American War). Thus the panorama in the 30's, the Empire of Japan, when defeating to the Tsarist Russian Empire, it also decided to "Grow" by invading its neighbors. In those years, all European nations had colonies in Africa, India, the Middle East, Asia and America. (England came to occupy almost ¼ part of the planet). For its part, the US, in 113 years of existence as a nation in those years, had "Grown" 711 the size of its territory from its original 13 colonies. Now is the picture clear? Japan for its part, had fought on the side of the winners in World War I (1914-1918), and they, the Japanese, not awarded any "Gain". The western victors of WWI divided the world. Japan was excluded. Thus, Japan's motives for attacking and expanding as the Europeans and the US did seem clearer, right? Then they, the Japanese, attacked China in 1931, which was occupied by 6 Western Powers for almost a century. None of the Western Powers occupying China at this time, OPPOSED or fought Japan for Invading China. NONE! Then, 11 years later after having occupied the territory of China and coexisted without any problem with the Western Powers within China, they, the Japanese, attacked Hawaii, which in turn, this Island had been occupied and annexed by the US in 1898. (In 1900-01, Hawaii became US territory and Hawaii ceased to be an independent nation after more than 630 years of sovereignty. By the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States had just completed the 40th anniversary of the military occupation and annexation of Hawaii). They, the Japanese, attacked Singapore, which was then a Colony of England. They, the Japanese, attacked the Philippines, which were occupied by the US and whose Gov’r, Douglas MacArthur reined as Emperor. Yup… Truly like an Absolute Autocrat. Therefore, the Japanese did NOT attack (In the 40’s), Singapore, Burma, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Borneo, Timor, the Philippines, etc. In reality, the Japanese attacked England, France, Holland, the US, the UK, etc. That is, the Japanese attacked the Western Powers invading all of Asia. That is the verifiable truth. The Empire of Japan didn’t invade. Japan fought against the Invaders. But, Propaganda has made us believe that the good guys were us, the US. And of course… Nanking was a horrendous Genocide committed by Japan, but, it was no more horrendous than the 12 Genocides committed by the United States in his History and all over the world. Nor was it less horrendous than the Genocide committed by King Leopold II of Belgium, in Central Africa. Nor was Nanking more or less horrendous than the Genocides that the British Empire committed in America, Africa, Australia, Middle East, India and also in China too. In the Philippines (1898-1902), the US Army produced a Genocide of One Million people dead. ONE MILLION. And now, the Japanese are our friends and allies... Yup… But, to fight against China, AGAIN!!! Well… No More. No More British Malaya nor British Borneo nor British wherever. No More French Indochina. No more Dutch Indies. No More Portugese Domains. No More US Domain here. Asia is for Asians and “The China Sea” belongs to CHINA. Westerns powers have nothing to do in Asia. NOTHING!!!

@1:32 is that the Fuso?

I stopped it at 12 minutes because I'm sick, sick SICK of KZread blurring out certain images! What's so pearl-clutching gory about a wounded soldier being carried on a stretcher by his comrades?

@plmokm33

20 күн бұрын

Maybe half his face is missing or something?

Actually, the US military was expecting war with Japan but didn't know where or when.

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The Unauthorized history of the Pacific Podcast on KZread you won't be disappointed if you want the whole story in detail. Start at the beginning Episode 101 , Thanks

@jumpinjehoshaphat9075

2 ай бұрын

If they watch, they might learn how MacArthur "flew" in torpedo boats, how he dispersed his forces in opposition to the long-standing plan to oppose Japanese invasion, and learn what a prima-donna he was

Part 2??

MacArther was evacuated by PT boat. Not aircraft. Though much of his household was moved via air.

@johnemerson1363

4 ай бұрын

You are half right. MacArthur went to the southern Philippines in a PT boat, then a B17 to Australia.

Why did Japan’s strategy of a decisive naval battle fail? Because defeat does not automatically mean surrender; America did not surrender at Pearl Harbor and Japan did not surrender at aaHiroshima.

@80harrison

3 ай бұрын

Most of their naval commanders were too old. They made the wrong decisions almost every time. The USA having broken their codes helped too.

@JLWestaz

2 ай бұрын

Japan did not expect a US surrender after Pearl Harbor. They wanted a sphere of influence in the Pacific to control the resources. They achieved that. But they couldn't hold the ring of influence. The didn't have the industrial base. The were at war between 1937 - 1945 and were unable to produce any new aircraft. They were still using the Zero on the last day of the war. They were forced to surrender after the second atomic bomb.

@ Pearl Harbour three attacks were planned, only two took place … after Midway Island it was always retreat …

Nagumo only knew of one carrier and even that report was delayed. The first report included only surface vessels. The Japanese never knew we had three carriers at Midway and I am glad they did not because they could not attack them nor try to understand why we had them there in the first place.

I'm terrible at it but I spent way too much time trying to think what the 1 or 2 letter morse code was every time text appeared. Just heard "3" I think? Have the radioman lay off the coffee 😂

Where did you find those videos in world war?

@josephsesay5662

20 күн бұрын

In movies of course😂

Why do so many documentaries skip several years of war Japan was involved in leading up to the attack on multiple Pacific islands?

@brett76544

4 ай бұрын

You really have to go back into the 30 to even see how Japan was leading a little quiet war in China. Even some stuff back in the 20's was building up to open war with china.

Pt boats not just aircraftyou also forget Guam was already a US taritory. Much closer then the Philippines but it was attacked at the same time period as Hawaii and the Philippines

No, all the Doolittle Raiders did not ditch. Some did, but many bailed out before crashing, including Doolittle's. Bottom line, all crashed.

@jbw8471

4 ай бұрын

except 1

@johnemerson1363

4 ай бұрын

@@jbw8471 Ah yes. I forgot about the one to Vladivostok. You know, most of us do.

Great footage. Missing a lot of backstory and not all the facts are correct. Most irritating is the grinding metal music in the background. I gave up after five minutes and even that was too much of my time.

I love learning about the Pacific war. I never learned in school about the atrocities they committed. Or the Nazis for that matter.

@flashgordon6670

4 ай бұрын

What did you learn?

@bobbynoname2538

4 ай бұрын

That they only want the young people today to always look at everything through rose tinted lens.

@mohdfahmi8841

4 ай бұрын

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You didn't mention that Macarthur was sent orders to protect his planes, and have many in the air. He didn't. Dereliction of duty?

12:19 McArthur didn't fly out of the Philippines, he escaped on a PT boat. This video is fun, but don't count on it's accuracy.

@n3wpass

Ай бұрын

MacArthur did leave Corregidor by PT boat, but went to another island in the Philippines archipelago, from where he caught a plane. It's not like the trip to Australia was on a PT boat.

@mikegutknecht6145

Ай бұрын

he went by PT boat from Corregidor to Mindanao then flew to Australia,so he was flown out of the Philippines,research before comment

One thing that is not commented on much is the way that Americans lose far fewer personnel even when they lose whole ships. The Japanese throughout the way throw away many highly trained combat and technical personnel with ships going down w most of their crews or garrisons left on islands to die

The file footage is so far out of synch with the period being covered e,g, McArthur being evicted from Phillipines where he is actually 2 years. later advancing through New Guinea.I just have to forget authenticity.

McArthur first left Manila Bay on a PT Boat then flew

@alanwayte432

4 ай бұрын

Symantec nonsense, your going to state the make of car he drove to PT Boat next ... honestly stop trying to show off that you can read Wikipedia

@denvan3143

4 ай бұрын

@@alanwayte432 I also knew that MacArthur left the Philippines in the PT boat, and I didn’t read Wikipedia but evidently that’s the first source that came to your mind. Wikipedia is a joke.

Any comments on Japan’s refusal to apologise for waging aggressive war and other crimes. Visit the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo where, to this day, Japanese atrocities and war criminals are revered.😡😡 MacArthur was not flown to Australia. He departed Corregidor by PT boat to Mindanao and from there, flew to Darwin. Bad mistake in the author’s research for this video…😏😏

Coral Sea was a tactical victory, we stopped the Japanese from taking Port Morsbey.....

The US cut off all of the steel and oil exports to Japan.. Japan faced a slow death without steel and oil so they attacked. Why Japan did not send a third carrier strike is hard to believe. They had started a war but failed to strike a decisive blow to Pearl Harbor.

Fletcher not Nimitz was in the corral sea

You really cant say the Japanese had no reason to attack Pearl considering the US cut off Japan's oil supply. The US should have been ready for Japan to retaliate for that very reason.

STOP blurring out the wonder and dead!! It’s HISTORY and that’s the problem with the younger generation they don’t see the grime realities of death

If you can sink 14 ships and the attack is a fail you picked the wrong strategy, that should never have been done in the first place. Japan should have knowen they Couldn't knock out America with one Attack.

@jhathaway8026

4 ай бұрын

The prevailing view in Japan was the US was weak with a small military and an isolationist population. Factories were turning out refrigerators, not tanks. They had no idea the US could turn their entire economy into a wartime footing so fast.

@RogueReplicant

3 ай бұрын

​@@jhathaway8026Exactly. They were fools blinded by their ego and ridiculous sense of superiority. The imbeciles couldn't be bothered to actually KNOW their enemy. Whenever people say, "Asians are smart", I just have to laugh.

glitzy melodrama. you think they show this at war college?

A lot of facts have been omitted. In some cases, history was re-written. Bad stuff dude.

The Japanese attack at Pearl failed only because the American aircraft carriers were safley out to sea. Had the carriers been destroyed that fateful day the following American victory at Midway could not have happened.

There were reasons the carriers were not in port.

The "incoming message triple beep tone" used each time a date is displayed is a cheesy artistic decision. I may have been able to get over it, were it not for the excessive use of it.

Woefully short on vital details. No maps, numbers, names and dates missing...

Also - U.S. Aircraft Carriers are NOT armed with fighters & fighter-bombers - they carry fighters, dive-bombers and torpedo planes !

@michaelforup6413

4 ай бұрын

Glamour cutiess❤ 4:39

@gavinpadilla4019

4 ай бұрын

The Dauntless was used at times as a fighter when needed . So for you to say Carriers are not armed with fighters and fighter bombers is invalid. Just because the torpedo bombers were left out doesn’t mean he was wrong . ALSO the torpedo bombers had 50 cal in front so that is semi considered as a fighter but slow . And ALSO remember the torpedo bombers went also used to BOMB Japanese bases , airfields , etc with the dive bombers . You should do your home work before you say something is not when there’s always more to a story

@pierredecine1936

4 ай бұрын

I know many times what you know about WWII - I have studied it 50 years - dork !@@gavinpadilla4019

@flashgordon6670

4 ай бұрын

You contradict yourself.

@flashgordon6670

4 ай бұрын

@gavinpadilla: Correct.

DUDE the music just totally kills the content.

( 12:56 ) MacArthur wasn’t too important to risk capture, after all, he managed even after a good ten hours lead time, to get his entire Air Force in the far east destroyed on the ground without firing a shot in anger. No…, he was too “popular”with the innocently uninformed…, American Public. As far as him being too important to the strategic war effort; he was about as useful as an electric refrigerator in an Eskimo village during winter.

Unnecessary, intrusive background music makes listening difficult. I have to sign off.

Some facts are off but the video is second to none....

Other countries Always underestimate Americans . 😆😆😆

MacArthur did not Fly out of the Philippines he took a PT boat.

They caught the us asleep at the wheel.

It didn't start at Pearl Harbor.

US Presidents cannot declare war, only Congress has that Constitutional authority.

@brendanmccambridge8609

29 күн бұрын

As a matter of interest, when did they last do this? I found the answer. During WWll

Dugout Doug

Why is the commentator's so LOW compared to the rest of the audio?

Name of the narrator

At the 30 minute mark did he say fuel zapping wind. In another video, Gary Sinese video the wind help them,i recollect.

Never you attack those who are bigger than you

@alanwayte432

4 ай бұрын

Nope never attack a country with larger industrial economic base

@kurtvonfricken6829

4 ай бұрын

@@alanwayte432 Never attack a country where all the scientists driven out of Europe by your ally are living and capable of thinking up how to make really big bombs.😊

YT censorship and blurring is an absolute disgrace.

I didn't know that Australia never contributed in the Pacific, I could of sworn that they did? buggar.

@fredpeterson4654

4 ай бұрын

They did fight in both theaters of the war

Who bombed? Pearl Harbor

AF born!

FAFO Lesson tho be learned, don’t call PoPo if you don’t want men with guns (who are willing and capable of using them) to show up.

During the war 2,Japan killed 35 million of Chinese people, yet we didn't demand any war reparations. Do you know why? eye on eye,blood on blood. So plz pray for Japan, hope there will no more world war 3.

I say in today's times, China, NK & Russia could do this to the USA if they don't keep their eye's open and read the warnings signs! 😮

I understand that the attack on Pearl Harbour came as no surprise...and because of various intelligence agencies did not communicate with each other,....this could have been thwarted.Sir Max Hastings,,,He has written many fine books...Particularly Nemesis...

@saifulsidek2724

4 ай бұрын

Arccording to historian,so many blunder happen under a r pacival command at malayan campaign too...

@denvan3143

4 ай бұрын

A guy wrote a book and you believed him. I read a book about flying saucers, you’d probably believe that, too.

@NormanBraslow-nh2tz

4 ай бұрын

This theory has been debunked for many years.

@trekker3468

4 ай бұрын

Former Director of the CIA, AND OSS William Casey stated in his book that Churchill told Roosevelt directly of the attack. The British and Australians had direct access to the Japanese JN 25 navel radio traffic.

@jerryg53125

4 ай бұрын

@@trekker3468 No one was reading JN-OP25 B at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

tollll 2 much boop kie!

Doolittle's publicity stunt cost the lives of 250,000 Chinese. Nice, huh?

Stop blurring history

How absurd. 'Myth of Japanese invulnerability?' This weird idea that the US was the underdog is rather bizarre. Yes, the US might have been on the back foot in the Pacific as late as mid 1943 if things had gone poorly, and hitting something like parity a year earlier was an achievement, but yeesh. It's also more than a little weird hearing you talk about Nimitz launching airstrikes and the like; dude spent the war in Honolulu. Airstrikes were below his level of responsibility; he had a theatre to run and juniors like Fletcher, Halsey, and Spruance for running little things like battles.

@LongJohnLiver

4 ай бұрын

The myth of Japanese invulnerability came from the fact that the IJN hadn't lost a decisive naval victory until Midway, and her army hadn't lost a decisive land battle until Guadalcanal which ended in early 43. Before that they had been at war since 1937 with no major defeats. As far as the underdog status, technically speaking, the US was the underdog in the beginning. Not necessarily at the point of attack for the battles of coral sea or midway, but over all, Japan had a larger, better trained navy, and far more experience.

Macarthur was removed from the Philippines in a PT boat.... He wasn't "flow" out, don't they research this stuff?!?!

Make the country great thru use of force, most recent time I've heard that, it was in Russian.

@bob494949

Ай бұрын

Arabic.

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MacArthur was not out numbered however he was out gunned

@donalgoan5083

2 ай бұрын

My mother and father were at pearl during the attack. The night before the attack they played cards (bridge) with a sailor from the arizona. he went back to the ship and was killed the next day. My father sent my mother back to san diego. He was put on bull halsey's staff on the yorktown. MacArthur was called dugout doug by the marines. He was one of the worst army generals, basically an administrator. Patton was a warrior and the most aggressive general we had.

MacArthur didn't leave the Philippines on airplane for Australia. He left on PT boat on multiple day sea escape.

今ウクライナに必要なのは1万機のレシプロ攻撃機じゃないか？

Lol for these old ww2 documentaries. "No one expected war" "America was completely caught off guard". An embargo is an act of war and by cutting Japan's oil by 80% America declared war.

@TomFynn

4 ай бұрын

Japan had been - for decades - on a conquest in SE Asia. The oil embargo was issued when Japan had invaded southern Vietnam in Seb 1941, bringing allied bases like Singapore in range of Japanese bombers. It had not been issued earlier, since the US knew that it could be constructed (note "could") as a hostile act. When Japan had invaded southern Vietnam and showed no sign of stopping, it was clear that war was inevitable, "hostile act" or no. The only declaration of war here was given by Japan. After Pearl Harbor.

@This_is_a_burner

3 ай бұрын

You must also be the type to proclaim that lend lease is an act of war, or even just economic support, hell, even allowing volunteers to fight in another country.

@bobsmith3560

3 ай бұрын

@@This_is_a_burner As far as I know the things that yo m

@bobsmith3560

3 ай бұрын

As far as I know the things that you mention have not been recognized by the international community as an act ovf war. An embargo has been.

@elizabradley4797

3 ай бұрын

Correct.