Battle of Midway & Beyond | April - June 1942 | World War II Colorized | Subtitled 

I so agree. Nice one bruv.

Agree with you sonmuch to achieve as never being yteach in school.

Yes, me too. I am like Tony Soprano.

It's pretty much the same nowadays with the war in Ukraine. It's the Americans and the Dutch who were infringing on Japan, east indies, and other territories. Sucking the money out of asian assets. It was WE in the west who were on THEIR territory. Like NATO is on RUSSIAS doorstep. It boggles my mind why people don't realize it was always america and britain who started every war for the past 100 years. Not the Germans. Not the Vietnamese. Not the Iraqis. Not the lybians. Not the Japanese. Not the phippinos. Not the Iranians who are looking for war, but as sure as heck the American and Isreal governments want full control of the middle east. May all those who have suffered and died because of american greed ... REST IN PEACE

Yup.. same here

From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.

Paw marched across New Guinea to Buna. When relieved, after dealing with starvation, malaria, dysentery, and battling the Japanese he weighed under 100 lbs. After recovering in Australia he island hopped, and was finally released- having acrued enough points in July, 1945 while on the front line in the Philippines. What amazes me about him and so many others - given the horrors they endured, was that they came home and became loving husbands and fathers. Like so many of his fellow vets, many who I grew up among - he wouldn’t speak of combat. It was a forbidden subject. He would speak of the jungles. The native porters/guides who he absolutely loved. His love and admiration of the Aussies.

Ditto

God bless your dad and his comrades. 🙏

Hard times make strong men

You should scan it and post it. That would be pretty tight. An actually newspaper that was apart of the war, and was read real time providing the much needed and love information about the war, and was the paper that told your grandmother and father the great victory and was the greatest and most important battle of the Pacific war.(no library microfilm or digital storage source, which was never used as intend, reporting important information the day it happens.) take it light --KB Side note: I have something of much less significant value, that being a unit award for my great uncle who was one of the combat engineer who built the bridges across the Rhine and signed by Omar Bradly. (He said you realize that not every bullet has your name on it, he also said they had to destroy the bridges 2 or 3 time and rebuild it each time b/c the Germans retook it and lost it, retook and lost ..... Anyway as I said, that has little value aside the fact he was family.

My dad was a radar operator on one of the islands. He was not there long because he picked up TB. He never spoke of any of it. Only got stories from uncles who were Navy petty officers.

Can you post it please

From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.

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@joeclayton2121 Absolutely and the woke crowd that attempts to denigrate them and America should be ashamed.

Everyone says that was the greatest generation I don't mean to take away from their sacrifices but thats also the generation that started the us on its downward spiral of corruption. The people of the US have always be3n great . We've got the frontier spirit. You can't blaim these kids today for the oligarchs taking away their opportunities & tie-in their hands in wars

To be fair, Japan had no interest in conquering the U.S. mainland or anything like that. Wasn't even a thought in their minds. They were the instrument of our politician's will in our national interests. Defending our freedom, in a sense. Neither power ever truly had intentions on infringing U.S. freedoms or conquering us. But, I reckon there's no war better to say "fighting for freedom" than WW2. That's for sure. An entire generation that stepped up to the plate when we were attacked. A righteous war.

From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.

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From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.

@@user-gi2cz8jt6w kewl story but who asked ?

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John Wayne on Donavan’s Reef, Coral Sea, we were with ya.

From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.

At the Coral Sea, yes. The Australians were part of it. I am not aware of either British or Australian forces being at Midway. Please explain.

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@@user-gi2cz8jt6w “Wrong Bat Channel. Wrong Bat Time.”

You were part of the rebel alliance and a traitor

@@kjdempsey He's not old enough to be stationed on Midway.

My Great uncle was in the navy and he was stationed in Hawaii after the war. He said there was still a lot of anger.

@@johnlawler4241 a bit. But I was stationed on Midway in the early 1980's. All that sentiment was essentially gone by then.

@janjoska2549 It helped but what made the difference was vest industrials power of the arsenal of Democracy built by capitalism.

The photography is great I. Used to live near Grummans. Growing up on Long Island

Thank you

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@@Olorin7 Apparently you are unaware of the great good America has done in the world.

@@dennisweidner288 indeed. It's pleasant under this rock.

But the interesting point is that the US didn’t have much to go on offensive themselves but yet the fooled the IJN into believing they did. Imagine just having one carrier at times and taking a small amount of vessels down south each time in 1942. One could ask, why didn’t the IJN go after Midway again. Would the US then be on defense once again. Instead of taking all their vessels down south as they did, could the IJN muster up another Midway plan and this time battleships and surface ships leading the charge. Shokaku was repaired in July 1942. Carrier Hiyo 53 planes was completed in July 1942. So the IJN still has 7 carriers: 1. Shokaku 84 2. Zuikaku 84 3. Hiyo 53 4. Junyo 45 5. Ryujo 45 6. Zuiho 30 7. Hosho 15 They also still had their 11 battleships but perhaps 4 older slower ones left back home to conserve fuel. So 4 Kongo class battleships plus Yamato would approach Midway at night and shell the island. The 7 carriers are loaded with 2/3 fighters for CAP. So it’s 235 fighter planes and 120 bombers. This combined is more than the 248 attack planes which the IJN utilized at Midway. How would this battle play out. Let’s say the IJN brought 20 cruisers and 55 destroyers too along with 25 subs. It’s very possible that both Wasp and Saratoga could have been taken out by IJN subs too. That’s why in reality happened to them. So now the US just has Hornet and Enterprise in Midway2.

@@f430ferrari5 But that's not what they did.

@@stischer47 who cares. You can’t even get yourself to deny that the IJN should have re-targeted Midway. Or approach Midway with surface ships to begin with. You just live in denial. Your brain can’t comprehend an IJN win even with all the evidence in front of you.

Brasil lixo como sempre

@@ariellntonio99356 não temos um porta avião descente com o tamanho da nossa área marítima 👍

From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.

But the Islands were captured thanks to the United States Marine Corps!

@rossgingerich7759 Yes, You had Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima to name a few

Battle of Savo Island wasn’t aviation.

They sent a pair of light carriers and less than 2k troops to take what little they did take or damage in the Aleutian Islands. Even if they had invaded Midway it was doubtful they could have even held it. In air attack range of Pearl would have been embargoed from anything getting through by submarines alone. They literally had just 5k men to attack it with and we had close to 4k defenders for it.

From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.

Would it not be obvious that an "attack" on the Aleutians HAD to be a diversion? The island chain is way too numerous and WAY too long (longer than Japan itself) to be a legitimate permanent-occupation main objective. I'm just asking, that's all. How would any high-level US Navy commander consider it anything other than diversionary?

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@michaelwillis5040 Nonsense. Soviet Lend Lease supplies were a fraction of the deliveries to the American forces. There were three Lend Lease routes. The North Atlantic route (the Arctic convoys) was dangerous , but not entirely due to U-boats, but also due to air attacks and surface raiders as well as the weather. This is why the Pacific route and the South Atlantic Indian Ocean route were the most important.

You are talking about fascist Republicans.

​@Michael Williams The NFL are republicans, the BLM are republicans? Who knew.

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@@michaelwilliams2430 really fucking Republicans that's your response it's liberals that disrespect the flag and our country I'm neither explain to me why I should have to vote for the lesser of two evils why do politicians have maintaine power for decades and they cannot relinquish it tell us all your extensive experience

Amen to that stars and stripes do not deserve to be disrespected by their own people

@sydmccreath4554 Yes they had to defend from all those armoured sampans poling up the Hudson with their bloodthirsty crews of bamboo wielding Vitenamese.

@@2011littlejohn1 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@MoonLover; go watch the Hollywood movie Good Morning Vietnam. It's a close enough deception of American role in Vietnam war. or M*A*S*H for Korean war..😅😷 - same reason the French do not talk much of Vietnam war. When you lost there's not much to document.- 🤒😷

There is Ken Burns' Viet Nam documentary.

Yea. Sure he is.

From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.

LOL, you're right. And the narrator's commentary that immediately follows just makes it funnier: "There would be the occasional setback . . ."

I couldn't tell which one. The people are so small and close together.

Ok, that was funny. That guy was MAD!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

N0p...japan never surendder because tactic very dirty US dr0p at0m b0mb hir0shima and nagasaki...in fact us army n0t t0 str0ng😅

No it didn’t. Japan had the US right where they wanted them at Midway. They absolutely blew it. US could only muster up obsolete planes on Midway and had just 8 cruisers and 15 destroyers in Task Force 16 and 17. 3 carriers with Yorktown damaged and borrowed planes and pilots from Saratoga. Japan foolishly split their forces. 11 battleships, 22 cruisers, and 64 destroyers for the Midway and Aleutians Force. Plus 9 carriers available plus over 500 planes and they left Zuikaku at home and sent two mid size carriers to the Aleutians. The US was in deep trouble. Nimitz even said had the IJN brought everything we would have lost. Even the US Naval War College said the same thing.

@ex-navyspook Absolutely correct.

@@f430ferrari5 Nonsense. The placement of the carriers meant that if things did not go well, the carriers could get back to Pearl. The American planes were not obsolete. The Wildcats could do well against the Zeros, The SBDs were one of the great planes of the war. Only the Devastator torpedo planes were obsolete.

@@dennisweidner288 what do you mean nonsense. US Carriers cannot out run IJN planes. And a damaged Yorktown was dead for nearly an hour and got back up to 19 knots. IJN cruisers and destroyers could do 36 knots. With the US carriers trying to dodge IJN bombers then it’s not that simple making it back to Pearl. And I said obsolete planes on Midway. And of course Wildcats could do well against the zero but you’re referring to the F-3 non folded wing version. The folded wing variation which the carriers used were not as good. Also, the US was lucky the IJN blew it in their planning because it was 360 US planes vs 248 for the IJN in which only 80-85 were zero fighters. The IJN blew it. They could have had 5 more carriers at Midway and made use of them. Zuikaku was left back in Japan. There was Ryujo, Junyo, Zuiho, and Hosho. These 5 carriers could have added 200 more planes. Even the 4 main carriers could have carried more planes and plane mixture switched to 2/3 fighters vs 2/3 bombers. The US would have been facing 350 fighter planes and over 150 bombers. If IJN battleships were shelling Midway then the IJN wouldn’t need so many bombers. Just a total f up by the IJN battle plan committee.

Actually, USS Saratoga was not sunk at Midway, it provided support and went back to Pearl June 6. Went on to Guadalcanal!

And to NOT censor the dead bodies.

Most of the sailors on USS Lexington had time to go down to their lockers and grab one personal memento/item: an Alka Seltzer bottle filled with quarters, a letter from a sweetheart or her picture, an unread paperback book. It was a very orderly evacuation, almost like they were doing another drill.

Coral Sea was an American victory because the Shukokuu and the zurikuku were so damaged that they couldn't show at midway a month later.... it was a tactical victory

it is history , past , it should be used to learn but unfortunately we now have world dictatorships which we need to fight against now just like they did in the ww2 , if we dont stand up and fight you will lose all your freedoms which they fought for all those years ago

Your confusing the coral sea battle with the philippine sea battle

@@DanielMulloy-bg6gw Only a light carrier (which is different than an escort carrier because it could keep up with the fast fleet elements) was sunk and 1 fleet carrier was badly damaged but they lost a lot of planes a whole carrier group was almost wiped out with the majority of the pilots more importantly so even though they had one of their best and biggest fleet carriers available they did not take it to Midway (their doctrine would not allow mixed air units to serve on another carrier) that was a major mistake. my point is that their air element took a beating from US AA so it was not a big victory even in a tactical sense.

In strategic terms it was an American victory for we stopped the Japanese from landing their troops that more than likely would have taken complete control of New Guinea. It was a tactical draw in terms of losses we lost the Lexington and the Yorktown was damaged plus a destroyer and a tanker. They lost the Zuiho a light carrier and 2 fleet carriers were damaged or had enough planes destroyed that they missed Midway. Those 2 carriers would have been vital at Midway. Yorktown was repaired in less than 72 hours to 100 percent combat effective not 100 percent repaired and they literally took the air group off the Saratoga which had been torpedoed by a submarine in January and was just about repaired and put them aboard the Yorktown. So we took a carrier to was damaged no planes in less than 3 days put her back into combat. She sank the Soryu and ate 2 strikes that damaged her she almost survived but a submarine sank her.

If the Japs had made a final sorty to take out the Pearl Harbour fuel tanks the Navy would have had to pull back to the west coast.

they could never do that. didnt have the troops and how on earth could they supply those islands. IJA had its hands full in china