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Love your guys work! I was a history major until I realized how hard it was to make money doing that, so loads of respect to you guys. And some money ;) Different note, I’d be interested to hear a snippet on Texas A&M university during the war. It actually put out more officers then the service schools combined.
I have a minor thing and I'm probably the only one. When you show maps of SE Asia, I have a hard time distinguishing which is land and which is sea because the colors run together. Maybe I just need an eye exam but you guys are doing the Lords work
Haha. Me neither! (Not my handwriting - I've been breaking into your place at night and trying to read your notes.) Btw - would it kill you to do some dishes and clean that bathroom??? SHEESH
I noticed that Cologne has relatively few buildings dating to before WW2. Huge numbers were destroyed in the war or damaged to the point that the remnants were pulled down.
There is an interesting side note this week. On April 25 1942, then 16 year old *Princess Elizabeth* (now presently Queen Elizabeth II), daughter and heir to reigning King George VI, registers for war service in the United Kingdom.
@@davidwright7193 If the late Prince Phillips was able to live till age 99, perhaps Queen Elizabeth II might stand a chance of doing so since she is currently 95.
The Russians were their own worst enemy. Perhaps I should say Stalin was Russia's worst enemy. They won because they were able to replace their losses and Germany was not. To be sure it was not an infinite supply of manpower but it was enough.
@@ReclinedPhysicist Stalin would achieve nothing if he worked alone. By the time he got to power terror and making up enemies within the state was standard procedure.
For those unfamiliar with code breaking: What Indy didnt explain was that to crack a code you need lots of transmitted words. Its very hard to break a code when the message is only a few words long. The more words you have, the faster a pattern is develops. It's those patterns you look for. In English the most used letter is "E". The least used is "Z". So if you see alot of the same letter you can surmise that it's probably the letter "E". You can then work out the rest of the letters from there. This is a very simplified explanation of course, and not all codes work the same. But the gist is there. The more info you have to work with the better.
@@richardkammerer2814 yeah.. they thought that this war was like any other normal wars in history, and the allies would just surrender after some time had passed...
German bombardier: "Fritz are you sure this is ein Englander target of strategic impotance!" Fritz : "The guide said it was the center of English whalling industry!" German bombardier: "Those gentle giants of the sea, ich verstehe Fritz, Ich verstehe" single tear drops down check.
My Uncle Andy was in Burma with the USAAF in WW2 and was at Myitkyina later in the war. He was a mechanic who spent most of his time servicing planes that were flying supplies over "the Hump" into China. None of the family had ever heard of Burma before the war and as far as they were concerned he may as well have been on the far side of the Moon. It's good to see this theater being covered in this series since so many people are unaware that it even existed.
I owe my life to your uncle and all WWII vets. My mom was born in a Japanese POW Camp. I owe my life to the brave men and women who sacrificed their lives, their sanity to go war. I’m humbled by their bravery. Forever grateful for my family and my life.
I forgot to mention last week, another of the Australian destroyers, HMAS Vendetta, finally made it back to port melbourne, after being towed the entire way from singapore in phases after leaving February 2nd.
With carriers on both sides, it is certainly a chance that we will see some naval battles where the only method of attack is airpower. It's quite an intriguing possibility.
@@korbell1089 Of course! The idea that a carrier could ever replace a capital ship with its big guns and heavy armor is ludicrous. The Japanese might have a slight advantage now, but just you wait until those battleships at Pearl get floated and refitted and THEN we'll see some real naval action in this war!
It almost happened during the Indian Ocean raid. The British carriers knew where the Kido Butai was but they didn't attack as they were outnumbered, while the Kido Butai never found out that it was only 150 km from the British carriers. Had it done so, it would have been the first carrier to carrier battle, a month earlier.
What really gets me about the pacific theater is how much of a classical Greek Epic it comes across at times. Rage, loss, cunning commanders taking actions out of spite. Hell the phrase "he wept with rage" is part of the historic record for the Leyte Gulf
Admiral Inoue had a brilliant understanding of Japan`s strategic situation (and along with Yamamoto had opposed the idea of going to war with the US). He also heavily criticized the navy`s fascination with the Yamato superbattleship fetish. That said, Inoue had bad luck on a tactical basis....
Admiral Inoue 'carried the can' to the failure at the Corel Sea and his front line career was effectively over - one suspects that had he made more than his fair share of enemies in the IJN by advocating carriers over battleships. He was right of course and one wonders what difference it may had made had he been placed in command of the Kido Butai instead of Nagumo.
@@Zen-sx5io There were too many other issues that would have reached a crisis point. Eventually there can only be one top dog. A simple but nonetheless true examination of the problem. Ulysses S. Grant realized that the US and Japan would clash at some point, way back in the 1880s.
One Admiral has bad luck and Yamamoto had a problem with his frequent flier miles. Both Good Admirals but lack of code security has huge consequences and the Allies with a few notable failures, nevertheless dominated the code war.
@@Zen-sx5io No, because the Philippines were being reinforced, they had ex US General as their leader of their armed forces. If bypassed, the US could declare war on Japan any day after the Malaya campaign started and IJN were in no position to attack them (unless they had prior knowledge of US involvement in the war - ie time and date and operations) U can not leave a huge amount of (potential) enemy forces across your supply lines and hope they leave you alone. Plus USA would be letting the Japanese conquest the biggest mineral and oil rich place on earth so they could potentially be a future enemy. US would attack Japan early in 1942, regardless of Pearl Harbor or a Philippines invasion.
The thing I'll always remember about Lord Gort is seeing an old British Pathe video of him getting command of the BEF and the newsreader went "Lord Gort is only 53.. And an Irishman."
The animated maps of the fronts, particularly the 'Eastern Front,' are excellent; they are among the most helpful presentations I've seen anywhere. Thank you.
The Doolittle raid had so many bonuses for the Allies; it was a morale boost for America, caused panic among the Japanese military leadership, distracted them from important objectives, diluted the naval forces in a new defensive posture and generated lots of Intel for the US code breakers. It was way out of proportion to the damage the bombing raid caused.
@@hanspetrich6520 He has no excuse. Stop feeling sorry for him. He was a general fighting in a war of annihilation against his people, and even when Stalin sent a plane to pick him up -- he refused it, and after he was (predictably) caught he threw his lot in with the enemy that wanted to commit genocide on his people. Kirponos had the same situation when Kiev was encircled, and Kirponos didn't turn traitor; he fought till his last.
@@emisat8970 I am not apologizing for his actions, I am just pointing out that it is likely that he used the event mentioned in this episode as a justification for what he went on to do and saw it as legitimate reason. Most people would disagree with that justification though and generally see him as a collaborator and traitor.
@@hanspetrich6520 Vlasov was a brutal merciless Commander. He ordered for a many days trainings before war where soldiers died from starvation and sunstrokes. Ironically it was a thing that helped to survive in harsh conditions for many men.
One of the reasons the Japanese are slow to change their codes has been the sheer tempo of operations they have been undertaking. Making sure every unit is supplied with the new code books is a tricky feat of logistics that would slow down their plans in the works.
Good point. It's hard to ensure all of your units have the new books in time for the switch-over when there are so many of them advancing and moving around.
Yukio Mishima once wrote: "A samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine"
For some reason whenever my home town (Norwich) is mentioned in one of these it always makes the episode and the events in them seem more "real" and tangible, and makes me think about how these events really didn't happen all that long ago. Great episode as always!
Yeah, it’s going to be weird when I see Sydney and Newcastle (Australia) in one of these episodes. There is this kind of disconnect between then and now that makes it weird to visit a battlefield or meet a veteran. Also, I see you have the most underrated Danganronpa character as your profile picture lol
After all these years, I have finally, with great effort due to lack of time, watched every Great War and World war Two videos and reached "current" events. The series is nothing but impressive, in every way. I thought things were bad, but no: They were much, much worse. I don't have money to be a Patreon, the only thing I can say is: Thank you, I'm in awe of the massive effort you are doing. Even specialized historians are learning insane amounts from your videos. Keep up the good work!
That's why I love this channel. Such a simple explanation connecting the Doolittle raid to the Battle of Midway and yet I've never heard it in years of college history classes and independent study. Going through this at the pace it happened instead of skipping between 'big events' brings these things to light more than any book could.
@@Raskolnikov70 - Absolutely. I think something that's easily lost in the simple overviews or teaching just the basic events is that none of the major figures are irrational in their own mind. There are perfectly good reasons for every event. Using WWII as a base, there are good reasons to take on the Winter War, to utilize the Maginot line, to conduct Pearl Harbor and Midway operations, to run the Doolittle raid...all of them have meaning and a thought process behind them. It might take additional time to get that context, but it's there. Midway is often is simplified to "it is too close to the US for them to ignore and Japan believes it will give the knockout blow they want" with the sudden change in movement not really being covered. The explanation given by Indy really makes that aspect a whole lot clearer.
@@kirant Another thing I've noticed about the week-to-week approach is how good it is at pushing back against the 'madman' leader tropes that get used as explanations for so many things. People want to say that things like Fall Blau in '42 or Stalin's "Not One Step Back" order were insane choices made by crazy people, but when you see them in this context - looking at what the leaders are seeing at the time, not knowing how things will ultimately end - you can start to understand why they made those seemingly insane choices. They made logical sense at the time. Looking at the Doolittle raid through our 20/20 hindsignt, yeah it seems like a pointless waste of men and planes. But the folks who pulled it off back in '42 knew they were kicking a hornets nest and that it would pay off for them.
History is not only what has happened in the past but also what is happening today. I think it’s also really important to cover conflicts of the 21st century. There are some incredibly complex politics and history surrounding wars in Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh, Georgia, Syria and many other countries. It would be great to see those events explained from a historical perspective, without any political biases.
just received the tie from this episode. As Indy wrote in the note, it is a beauty ... a Pierre Cardin no less. Thank you Indy and team. The work you are doing is so important. Much appreciated, much respect. Stay safe all.
Something that greatly helped the Allies, particularly the US Navy at HYPO station, in the Pacific shortly before, and definitely after the Doolittle Raid, was that the codebreakers FINALLY had access to the Purple messages. That's according to Edwin T. Layton's book "... And I Was There: Pearl Harbor and Midway - Breaking the Secrets."
"What in the world will they do?" Oh man, this is the 'darkest hour' part of the story. We better level grind and- "Did I hear someone say collectibles?" OOH! Sidequest! Sidequest!
The grim reality of war is something so few in my generation and younger understand. It's honestly a miracle I have any comprehension of it myself. I suppose being a history buff has made me more aware of the cost
@@jacobnewell7845 human nature. That's why it irritates me when people complain about celebrating VE day. Not to get too political but it is usually lefty types too. Just ignorance at the end of the day
In Burmese romanization, a ky is pronounced like an English ch, so Myitkyina is pronounced more like "Mitchinna" Also, I was super upset that we didn't get more on the battle of Yeyanguan and Sun Li Ren. The Chinese troops there legit saved the British and Sun Li Ren is a super interesting guy. He really needs to get a biospecial. (Actually, Sun Li Ren and Xue Yue would be the two Chinese generals I'd recommend.)
It’s a miracle that any side got anything done in this war, every week I see decisions that would be better made by an actual child. Obviously there were also a lot of tactical geniuses on all sides, but what’s the point of leaving all those soviet men to die? Makes zero sense to me.
The Japanese have an incredibly competent and professional navy. I'm sure they won't throw their advantages away by distributing their fleet in penny packers just small enough for the Americans to destroy and too far apart to support each other.
Well, I think the people who believe the Pacific should belong to the Japanese, and the people who believe it should belong to the Americans are gonna have to meet midway.
Would like to know more about the Axis powers work at cracking Allied codes. The Germans were reading British convoy codes, but that's about all I have learned.
It would be interesting to have the history of Soviet code breaking of Axis communications. We heard about the "Red Orchestra" and few other things. But their code breaking successes have been mostly kept secret and are unknown as far as I can tell.
@@douglasturner6153 My understanding is that the British used an unauthorized version of Enigma called "TypeX" to encrypt their messages. The Americans had SIGABA, also based on stepping rotors, to handle message encryption. I wonder how much luck the Axis had in trying to break the keys of these systems, especially since TypeX was so similar to Enigma. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGABA
@@douglasturner6153 As I understand it. The Soviets were always short on radios so they would not have been intercepting much and they did not have anything like the Bombe or other types of electro mechanical decoding equipment.
He wasn't abandoned. Stalin sent a plane to fly him out when his position became untenable. He refused it and hid from the Germans himself until a local farmer snitched on him. I know people like to think Stalin was a bumbling incompetent but he wasn't.
@@saslykasLT It's pretty simple mathematics. Shorter lines for the Germans mean they can mass more reserves to cover the holes in their lines. The Soviets had constructed nearly 800 divisional equivalents from scratch in 1941. One understrength army wasn't worth much in Stalin's eyes. And as for Kyiv, it was one of the largest cities in the USSR and one of the crossings over the great Dnepr river. The barrier which guarded Ukraine's valuable soil, resources and further afield, the Caucasus oil fields. There's only so far you can retreat.
@@emisat8970 Sure, it might be my bias, but for one, there iš difference of bulge (aš in Kharkov ir Kursk, second iš leaving people almost trapped. Sure, it requires german soldiers to cover ir, but that coridor with Soviet capabilities to fight pdf The Germanas just screams disaster. It seems pointless to burn manpower that way.
@@emisat8970 So Stalin sent a plane to get him and his senior staff out which would have been meant Vlasov and his staff and therefore Stalin abandoning the soldiers. Such a lovely chap!
I have a ritual I do for this show. When it airs on Saturday. I make a big cup of coffee and a double egg cheese cucumber & tomato sandwich. This is my favorite show. I love the week week by interpretation of the war. Very in depth
2 fried eggs, bacon and wheat toast is my tradition but I've missed it the last couple of weeks, haven't been awake when the episodes have dropped on Saturday morning. And yea, watching things unfold in real-time instead of skipping over the 'small stuff' like the connection between the Doolittle raid and Midway is amazing for understanding why things happened the way they did.
That's nice to hear, it's cool to know you have weekly ritual for our show. In terms of the sandwich, i'm not a massive fan of egg, but cheese, cucumber, and tomato make a very nice combination! Please keep up your support of us.
At 4:32 a cipher is not a code. From your description, the Japanese here used two codebooks rather than a cipher such as provided by the Enigma cipher machine. The Japanese did have a cipher machine designated 'purple' by the US, and they broke it, but in this battle, it wasn't relevant.
I am hyped for the start of Faul Blau. The context of that brutal charge across the scorching summer steppes sets the scene for Stalingrad. I think seeing the casulties mount and momentum stall for the Germans before they even reach the city week by week will really put the doomed nature of the entire operation into context from the start. Too many people start their histories of the Stalingrad campaign in September when they reach the city and miss two whole months when the german army bleeds itself dry on the steppe.
They already did, but it was encoded in some of the prior show notes. Only I seem to have decrypted it so far. You need the IN-3 key and a lock of Astrid's hair.
I live in Exeter, one of the victim cities of the Baedeker raids. Much of the cities medieval character was lost as a result of the bombing and poor re-construction. Last month we were reminded of the raids when a 1 ton unexploded German bomb was found and detonated damaging dozens of buildings. Thankfully no one was hurt.
Oh yes. I heard about that. I bet that had at least one old German chuckling about that😅 Seriously, WW1 and WW2 munitions experts have job security for the next 250 years trying to defuse, removing, or at least IDing those things. They still kill farmers tilling their fields. Apparently “Dirt Bombs” from the American Civil War are still considered dangerous by modern bomb squads to this day. Recently a family discovered their Civil War cannon ball was actually an exploding dirt bomb. They had passed gown a few generations until someone realized what it was! The bomb squad offered to run a few non-destructive “electrical tests on it”. If it did not go off, it was inert and the family could keep it. Ran tests......*kaboom*. Bomb Squad and watching family😳. Oops. Welp. They could gather the shrapnel and pass that down, along with the story what happened at least. That bomb could of definitely pruned a few branches off the family tree😣. I read another article how another family found a “dirt bomb” and kept it on their dining room table for a few years as a discussion piece, until a guest took a closer look at at. The family was shocked when the bomb squad came knocking, in full hurt locker gear. They were upset when the bomb squad deliberately set it off. But that bomb squad was taking no chances! Edit: Specialists who know how to handle and disarm WW2 and WW1 ordinance have job security for the next 250 years it’s estimated. It’s why, long after our civil war is over, we still take those exploding cannon balls seriously. I have read a few stories where relatives have found old munitions kept as secret souvenirs from WW1, WW2, Korea, and Vietnam. One family had a freak out when moving a recently deceased Vietnam Vets sofa...a live, but thankfully still pinned, grenade fell out a slit. Thankfully, everyone fled and called the bomb squad from another house. Or a man digging in his deceased grandfathers attic found a box of live grenades from WW2. He decided to carry the box to his car and take it to a police station. A friend, who happens to be in law enforcement, happened to call while he was on his way. The idiot then just casually mentions the grenades in his trunk. The friend freaks out and tells him to pull over NOW and get the Hell away from them! The guy then pulls over, next to a postoffice, on a busy weekday! The moral. If it looks like munitions, don’t touch it! Especially grenades. If you move to an area where war has been fought, dig carefully. This is (partially) why military members can’t bring home “war booty” or souvenirs from combat these days. Last year a boy was killed when he got his hands in a real freaking grenade at a flea market!!!!
I'm amazed those things stay dangerous as long as they do. When I was in the Army we had the opposite problem, with all of our older equipment constantly breaking down and needing tons of maintenance. Murphy's Law always wins.
The postwar rebuilding process of many British cities was a disaster of modernist concrete. Compared to say Lubeck or Warsaw old town which were put back more or less exactly as they were and are now fantastic cities with character and a sense of history (which many don't know were largely razed).
@@GrrAargh1 Depends. Explosives tend to become more volatile the older they get. It depends how they were made, how well they were made, and the materials used. One week after the 75th anniversary if the landings of D-Day, a random bomb blew up in a (thankfully) empty field in Germany. It created a hole 33 feet wide and 13 feet deep. It just went off.....75 years to late. A family discovered in the US the Civil War cannon ball they had passed down a few generations was actually a “dirt bomb”, or exploding cannon ball. The bomb squad who got called promised the family if they ran a few “electrical tests” on it, and nothing happened, it was safe and it would be returned to them. Yep. It went BOOM. Yea. Better it went off then then pruning the family tree after someone did something “stupid” with it. Entertainment Tonight posted the footage on RU-vid. Maybe the family can gather the shrapnel and pass that (safely) down to the next generation.
We should be careful not to overestimate how effective Allied codebreaking was. Quoting The Battle of Midway, by Craig Symmonds: "Because there was a shortage of personnel at Hypo, men frequently worked twelve-hour shifts, or longer. Only about 60 percent of all the messages that were intercepted could be subjected to analysis at all because there were so many messages-five hundred to a thousand every day-and breaking them took time. Of those that were analyzed, fewer than half yielded any useful information, and within those only small fragments, perhaps 10-15 percent, might be rendered comprehensible. Often the code breakers at Hypo could determine the sender and the recipient, and perhaps one or two other phrases. Here, for example, is an actual decrypt from May 5, 1942: “KAGA and (blank) (blank) less (blank) and (blank) will depart Bungo Channel (blank) May 4th and arrive (blank) (blank).” It was Rochefort’s job to fill in those blanks [this refers to Joseph Rochefort, famous cryptanalyst that helped obtain information on the Japanese plans for the Battle of Midway]. To say, then, that the Americans were “reading” the Japanese message traffic is an exaggeration. After much hard work, they might in the end be able to decipher a tiny fraction of it, and they had to rely on their experience, informed guesswork, and intuition to determine what it might mean and how to take advantage of it." (end quote) In the end, a lot of it was guesswork, and the guesswork could be wrong. Quoting the same book: "On one occasion, when radio traffic showed that several destroyers usually associated with a particular Japanese carrier were in the Marshalls, Rochefort assumed the carrier was there, too. He was wrong. His rare error was an example of how the analysts had to apply intuition to determine the utility of the intercepts."
Crypto analysis is something of an art, but they can piece the big picture together by partial messages a day even the volume of messages that cannot be read.
@@mjbull5156 A common problem for all sides in code-breaking was that a message might be decoded two or three months after it was sent - too late to make an operational difference. Improvements were made, getting the decrypt time down to one or two weeks but decoding was always a struggle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra#/media/File:Bletchley_decrypt.jpg A February 1945 Ultra decrypt. The Germans are requesting info about what units of theirs are trapped in the Kurland pocket, but it is clear not every word in the message has been decrypted. It appears to date from February 14 but the stamp on the left says February 21, which may mean it took a week to produce this decrypt.
Thankyou for acknowledging the work of the Australian decryption teams. Its largely ignored and an overwhelming amount of credit is given to the US instead. in reality, in a Brisbane, Queensland suburb, IBM machines ran almost 24/7 working on decryption and analysis. In Townsville, Queensland, similar radio traffic was being intercepted, including the information about Admiral Yamamoto's intended flight - and his last one, in April 43. Your series are beyond description as to the quality. Today (April 25) in Australian we commemorate ANZAC Day. Lest We Forget.
Their is no more caption on all images ? A shame it was a way of knowing if these images were direcly related to the narration or was just for illustration. These captions are what makes your show a real historical "accurate" as images are not misleading at all because we know what they are and when they were taken. For exemple, images in color ! of russian troops should have a legend to explain why it was colored and not the rest.
We only caption the pictures when they depict a different event but which has strong similarities with the event that is spoken about. So you can be sure that no caption means that it is historically accurate. But thanks for the feedback. Great to read that you appreciate the captions. Well be sure to keep adding them when necessary
It's great Indy is able to talk on the phone with so man influential people. Imagine being able to talk on the phone with the man who sent planes across the world.
Perhaps this is beyond the scope of this show but wondering if Indy and the crew could delve a little deeper into allied code-breaking? Especially the efforts of a seemingly ordinary American housewife who also happened to be a master code-breaker and mathematical genius. Her name is Elizebeth Smith Friedman. It truly is a fascinating and remarkable story. Thanks once again for an excellent episode!! Cheers, Dan D
@@neilsherman2680 The implications of code-breaking cannot be over-stated and it is not usually due to the efforts of one individual but the cooperation of a team of experts. Think for example what may have happened had the Kito Butai engaged another surprise attack on the Pacific fleet at Midway (possibly dealing the US a death-blow). Due to breaking the codes we knew they were coming and this changed the entire course of the war in the Pacific for the US
US:"No, no, we're listening, go ahead and keep talking and if you hear about any of our outposts having trouble with their freshwater plants please be sure to let us know! K thx bye." Also I must be a product of my times but I cannot hear Gen Stilwell's name and not think about when he ordered the MPs to hold a block so he could finish watching Dumbo. Edit to correct a misspelling
Did the Americans attempt to bomb the Emperor's palace in the Doolittle raid? If not, then why not? It would be very interesting to hear if this was ever considered and what were the pros and cons for such a deciscion. Thanks a LOT for this great channel! Keep it up!
Since the start of the Japanese involvement in this series, it has given me ideas to use in my War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition playthrough versus my opponent. And it also has given me clues of what not to do. For example, Allied SigInt (signal intelligence) is very strong and will at random give my opponent information on task force contents and destinations. I can spoof that by giving a false destination and waypoint towards the actual objective. Shameless plug, BattleGroupGamer. It's a small channel and my hobby centered around naval combat.
America will build another entire fleet every 4 months and even if the Japanese can destroy 3 carriers or battleships for every 1 lost America will win by attrition, and both sides know it.
First let me say that I'm enjoying your series tremendously. I wish I had watched your Great War series and I do plan on going back to watch it at some point. I'm very happy to be a Patreon supporter and a member of the TimeGhost Army. I have to say that I love your ties, Indy. My dad, who passed away in 2010, also collected interesting ties. He had over 400 when he passed away and would have had many, many more but Mom eventually said enough was enough. He was a college professor who taught computer classes for the non-science and technology students, primarily business majors. He would wear a different tie every day and find some way to tie it into his lesson (his pun, not mine). Sometimes they were hokey. Sometimes it would be another awful dad-joke pun. His students loved it though. He would have also found your channel fascinating. Following the World Wars as unfolding events rather than events that occurred decades, or even a century, ago is something he would have enjoyed as much as I am. It also would have played to his love of theatre and mysteries. Your ties bring back many fond memories. Keep up the great work, guys.
Such a good point about intelligence. If you don't have the resources to beat the enemy then knowing what they are going to do is no use. Maybe the Americans luck will be better?
Yeesh, I had no idea that the entire Combined Fleet went after the carriers of the Doolittle Raid. Talk about overkill. And the consequences of that tiny raid is gigantic holy shit. While it wasn't the 'turning point of the war', it did lay the foundation for that.
USA: Indy is right! We don't have all the stuff we need yet. What will we do? *checks Crystal Ball* Oh, okay, that works. Great tie, Indy! I can't wait for May and June. Damn, so much is coming up. Battles of Coral Sea and Midway in the Pacific, Rommel at Gazala and Tobruk. Father Time needs to speed up the clock!
At 3:52, there is a photograph of an office full of codebreakers. I am curious, do you know the names of the people in this photograph? My grandfather served in the Pacific and the man on the bottom right looks an awful lot like him
@@zw4732 it started with Lt. Commander Joe Roachford and and Lt. Commander Layton we're two intelligent officers in the Navy before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor!! Afterwards they were short on manpower and the California was sunk but the band had mostly survived... So Roachford had an idea! Take musicians may play the same instruments but play it differently because the same rules apply on an old telegraph key... After awhile you can tell what radioman we're and what ship or base he is on!!
I just want to send a HUGE THANK YOU to you who makes the subs to these vids, they have gotten so much better and I love to be able to hear what Indy says in the phone in the beginning as well. /A hard of hearing fan
