Japanese Air Attack on US Navy Aircraft Carrier Task Force Off Saipan Combat Action Footage WW2 

Scary is how it looked

And they said that some films like midway 2019 was a cgi crap and too much explosions and smokes.

@@Jupiter.141 idiots would say that, people in the know-corner know how realistic and close to reality it was and i was actually impressed at how historically accurate the movie was

It's fake there no way they can get camera Angels like that

@@cancelculturecansuckmydick4923 no fucking shit it’s fake it’s called a movie dumb ass

Believe it or not, very little actual lead is used for .50 Cal and bigger. The ammo the .50s took was copper jacketed steel core. The copper was to protect the barrel and the steel core ripped right through planes. The 20mm and bigger often fired explosive shells, often with proximity fuses. That's the difference between a "gun" and a "cannon." What makes a cannon a cannon is the type of ammo it fired. To be considered a cannon, a gun had to fire explosive or incendiary shells and have a caliber of 15mm or larger. What really helped us back then was that in addition to an endless supply of ammo we could hurl at the Japanese, we began using proximity fuses. Those use sonar to detonate even when they're in the vicinity of a target. The effect was to turn our AAA into really big, fully automatic shotguns, quadrupling their effectiveness. A study was conducted on the effectiveness of proximity fuses and they found that we could down the same number of enemy planes with only one-fourth as many shells when using prox rounds. Basically, our ammo was four times as effective as Tojo's, AND we had at least 40 times as many as they did. Even Yamamoto knew that Imperial Japan's days were numbered when they failed to destroy the entire US Pacific Fleet. We could build ships faster than Japan could destroy them and our ships could take more damage because we had better damage control. The effect was that for every ship or plane Tojo destroyed, we could (and did) replace it with two others. We didn't have the fanaticism or experience of the Axis powers, but we learned quickly and had ten times the logistical capacity.

@@thatguy22441 ...it's a figure of speech

those are 20mm and 40mm Bofors

More like 6 inches

@@thatguy22441 well to be frank the japanese spread too thin they already occupy their force across Asia troop ships and rss they are scatters in matter area and Japanese small country island compare to unlimited resources of Americans and her ally.it a matter of time before Japanese.but when the war break out if their arrogance and pride didkt get in their way there would have stand better chance but neither way americans will win do to nukes was already on its way even after the war was already won usa want to show the world and pick the most softest spot and dent populations the force of try weapons and the devastation to the world the might of American even mean horrific death to many innocent lives

Depending on where you are you may not even know. During Pearl Harbor, one of the mechanics below deck on the Vestal, anchored near the Arizona, did not even realize the arizona had exploded until he went topside, at least according to Indy Neidell and the team over at World War Two and Timeghost.

I remember a little story about engine room crew aboard battleships. ‘I always knew when the battle first started, the deep rumbling and thunder below. I heard a great loud explosion, and when my ship stopped firing I had believed we were victorious. That was, until the water rose over the air intakes and suffocated the engines, committing us eternally to the deep.’

exactly what my coach told me when I was in boot camp.......okay I'm just a kid.

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JOHN HUNTER did you know that the tracers were actually inaccurate because they had less gunpowder due the chemical to act as tracers. Therefore if the 40mm tracers were on target,the other 5 on the clip were not on target. I just learned this recently. Article said fighter pilots were aware of this.

Night battles sights were really spectacular. You saw every flash,that at the gun and that of the exploding shells,and every tracer against the dark sky,plus all the noise. What was very scary bwas when the enemy dropped flares on mini parachutes and they lit you up so brightly you could read a newspaper by the light .That light also silloetted the ships for subs to see. very upsetting. They were called 'starshells ' and seemed to burn forever.

+jaddy540 my grandfather said the parachuted flare takes longer time to land because the heat from the flare fill the chute. they often focused on the flare first because they were vulnerable to the sub than the bomber.

One tracer round every 5.

And that only makes it even more terrifying.

Holy cow look at them fireworks!

@@yuppy1967 just shut your ass up. I will like you to be present there and then even try to determine anything like fireworks - where millions of deaths actually occurred

I see where ZUN got the idea for Touhou, man. These attacks were a proverbial bullet hell.

several gunners experienced hearing loss

That's one thing movies and video games can never get right about gun battles. The noise is beyond anything you've ever heard. That's one reason we use hand and arm signals.

“Your hearing loss is not service related”

It’s sped up footage with sounds added

For most of them, it was the last thing they ever thought. We lost like 400 of 460 pilots during the battle of Midway for example... We won, so that's good, but god damn.

Brickcellent whats about heroshima ?? u respect this

dandy ozone Yes otherwise who knows how many would have died from another war

dandy ozone read what the Japanese did to Asia before you think Hiroshima was some act of evil. And read the consequences of not using nukes

from google translate.. First, the United States does not like Asia to save it, as it did with Iraq when it said about weapons of mass destruction. After its destruction, it apologized and occupied Afghanistan under the pretext of terrorism. They were the ones who financed terrorism on their claims during the Russian occupation, Vietnam, Hiroshima and many massacres.

bye..

I wonder if that was Yamato, it was listed in of the participants of the mariana campaign

It's the USS Washington BB-56

looks real bad ass

Lightning-Mover 256 any idea what aircraft was used by the us?

Lightning-Mover 256 my grandpa (navy vet) took me aboard the USS North Carolina and it was amazing. I will never forget that day. The ship bristled with guns like a sea urchin. I cannot imagine being present with all those guns firing.

Some navigation was done using star charts and constellations. Even U2 spy planes used that for a bit I believe! I’m not sure beyond that though.

Some planes had a homing beacon for the carrier.

its not the same, back then weapons were not accurate you got a bunch of kamikazes heading for you, what are you gonna do? of course you are gonna use every single weapon on your ship and shoot at it like theres no tomorrow no radar control, at least up until the 1944 where the earliest form of radar controlled engagements were developed, just spray the skies where the target is and some bullets will hit it eventually, then its just a matter of how quickly you can put enough bullets there for the plane to be destroyed its a very different kind of warfare from today's devastating and pinpoint accurate weaponry

id argue the war in ukraine is just as intense

because there is no full scale war like this in the current age mainly just civil war with insurgents

This was the war to end all wars. No one wants to fuck with the US and its allies after this war.

no shit, the guy at 3:23 is swiss cheese after 2 seconds lol

You think

BENJAMIN TEPSIC Ik this is old but stfu annoying ass patriot

Machine Gun Nest yang nanya

Bhs inggris oi

More respect to him

Navy, marines??

My great grandfather was in World War II as well (yes I am quite young, 16 to be exact). I wonder if your dad and my great grandfather ever saw each other at some point during the war, although my great grandfather was infantry.

That's why they always had supply ships in the convoi and massive storage on their own ships.

Cargo ships (Fuel, Ammo, etc) are included in each task force :)!

@@iseedeathpeoples8522 They didn't bring enough food, ammo, etc for every day of each campaign. That's folly to think that way. As Eisenhower is so famous for saying "the plan is nothing... planing is everything". They had no idea some of the islands were going to take months to clear out.

me! how did u know?

Same here! Just to check out the flak.

during air attack (with perhaps a few exceptions) the only guns being manned were the AA guns. the normal AA guns couldn't do any serious damage to ships, the 5"/38 dual purpose gun could, but only if it were firing APC or HE shells, which it wouldn't when firing at aircraft.

Oh they did.

There were a few incidents of friendly fire, but there was armour around the aa

They could and did do superficial damage to each other, but even the thinnest armour could easily tank flak. Friendly planes typically stayed away during such barrages, though there are accounts, especially during kamikaze attacks, of them charging onto flak to save their ships.

very heavily edited, many planes not hit, we only saw the success' here.

Our ships did put a lot of shells in the air and did get good results, but this is a film that was made specifically to make the Navy look good. While our navy was good, don't take anything you see in this film as being 100% accurate.

Kaymarx What the hell are you talking about? The proof is in the end result -- the United States won the war whether you want to face into that fact or not

Jeff H I think you all need to first READ about these engagements in the Pacific. -- Leyte Gulf, Saipan, Guadalcanal and the Marianas Turkey Shoot and see just who won all those battles before you make statements that this is in essence hype or edited.

Jeff Why don't you READ about these engagements in the Pacific and see who won them before you imply that this is hype. I would suggest the Battle off Samar and Surigaio Strait (Battle of Leyte Gulf) . Just don't tell people that this all edited and we didn't shoot down as many planes as they would like you to believe; thst's what you're really saying.

exactly why carriers boasted the largest compliment of AA guns, 3 reasons, 1st is they ALWAYS had an escort of warships with big guns, so they didnt need them/have the room for them, 2nd a deterrent, try to keep enemy planes on the other rim of the kill zone or face a (at times) LITERAL impassible wall of lead and flak, 3rd, act as the heaviest AA defender beside the cruisers for her battleships, prime pickings with how big/slow they were usually you'd want to bomb the battleships into oblivion with bombers so the enemy fleets battleships could obliterate the carrier's thin armor, and pick apart the smaller ships, destroyers/cruisers rare had the firepower to breach a full battleship's hull unless they were close... and that was a kill zone off of its own rarely did this plan work as intended but-

The Soviet Army? The Soviets killed more people than Nazi's and also raped countless which Nazi's would execute any Rapist among their ranks on sight. We just didn't find out about the Soviets war crimes till the collapse. "I can see now we fought with the wrong allies and we defeated the wrong enemies" General Patton on Allied victory

@@aaronscott4984 no those are propaganda stories told by fascists. The Red Army executed rapists, whereas the Wehrmacht raped and burned their way across the USSR from the very beginning, with Barbarossa. The Soviets were Allies and we owe it to them for beating fascism. Respect to fallen comrades.

@@aaronscott4984 also the Nazis definitely killed more civilians than the Soviets, lol wtf are you on about, you fuckin Nazi

You're being a little naive about the Soviets, really?

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Indeed.. how the fuck you can stay alive after that......

for every tracer round you see there are 5 or 6 non-tracers you do not see.If you put enough metal into the air,enemy planes can go down just from damage from flying into it

That’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Good lord.

Go play World of tanks and world of warships, u get to use most of these old ships.

Lmao as if that's a bad thing 😂

@@ilikethatboulder.thatisani5496 kinda is

_"Planes without human pilot being gunned down is boring. Throw some living human in there! Ain't gonna watch some robots killin' eachother, when you can bet countless of human lives on it. Step up the war, will ya?"_ - Maybe some psychopaths who thinks that war is just for show; an entertainment. Those who think that robotic warfare is boring, compared to the exciting war that kills millions.

in near future "battle of Minds"

All i need is som herb yo

@Thomas Shelton Greetings.....my late father was in 11 battles just in the South Pacific Theater aboard the destroyer USS CASSIN YOUNG DD-793(and is in Boston harbor as a National Monument. I was blessed that my father could share some of his horrendous stories of when his destroyer was hit by a kamikaze plane off of Okinawa, when they were running radar picket duty. My father was 18, from the hills of West Virginia, as were most of the "boys" as he would call his shipmates. They were scared, homesick and almost couldn't comprehend this level of War, slaughter and in-humanity. The Japanese, with the code of Bushido , would and could not surrender because of the deeply taught PRIDE, and the dishonor of surrendering. my father said, that radar picked up a bogey coming in low 2 miles out. by the time the plane was in visual reference, they found out it was flying on the Deck, or about 10 feet off the surface of the ocean, and it was actually a cloth and fabric Bi-plane(they were running out of flyable airplanes) with a 500lb bomb strapped to her belly! All the gun crews on the 40mm and 20mm mounts could not train the aim of the guns they were manning as low as the plane was coming in, but they kept trying to ricochet anything to stop it. Talk about scared? my father said it took place within 2 minutes and time just stood still, watching the suicide plane coming in closer and closer NOTHING STOPPING IT AND THE FLYING DEATH IT BROUGHT! After the bi-plane was sighted until it slammed into the USS CASSIN YOUNG at about 80MPH right behind the #2 smokestack! It immediately detonated and completely vaporized 28 men into pieces. My father was bending around an aft bulkhead for ammunition when the kamikaze struck, blowing him 15 feet into the air, and wounding him. The Japanese were completely fanatical about still trying to win the war at any cost, surrender and defeat were not in their vocabulary. My father suffered with battle fatigue or PTSD as its now known as, until his death 11 months ago. I have many stories that my father shared with me and only me, especially the horrible torpedoing of the USS PRINCETON, where all seamen on the starboard side of the USS CASSIN YOUNG were issued small arms to fire on the sharks devouring PRINCETONS survivors in the water..........................................

Too many movies have made people like you oblivious to the extent of cowardice displayed back then.

^^^@Joel Serey .. I Bet Your Late Father (bless him soul) Shared Some Very Horrific War Storie's With You, War is Atrocious and Horrifying for Any Sane Person, Thank's For Sharing and I Thank Your Dad For His Service and May He Rest in Peace Until We All Meet Again :D] .v .. .

Now the economy is fucked by the baby boomers and people aren't so easily fooled by perpetuated wars. There's nothing to glorify about ww2 other than the fact that the Axis powers were stopped. War is never a good thing, but in this case it was necessary as it was a war against imperialism that threatened the existence of nations and their people. Since then everything else has been for our own oligarch's neo-imperialism and profit, at the tune of trillions of taxpayer dollars.

戦争中ではなく今があります。

Never too much dakka

@@themonolithian Only when its flying at you is it too much

Cayden sarcastic

No they are not... they may seem that way, but behind closed doors they are extremely strict and brutal.

Cayden yeah its true japan country is the respectfull country

Yeah, well as a white Australian I knew my descendants pretty much wiped out the natives in my country and that Europe colonized the entire globe. Only two countries on the planet escaped the yoke - Thailand and Japan. Japan just had to look south = Philippines (screwed by Spain and now owned by US), west = China, screwed by Germany France, England and now by them too., South-East = Vietnam, screwed by France, Indonesia by Holland etc., That in no way excuses Japan for its savagery but you can't help thinking they needed to colonize to survive too. Just saying. Let us not get too cocky, and no, I do not want to be in a Japanese railway gang or Soviet gulag either.

TommyTwobats what is intriguing is the fact that their industrial capability in 1930s to 1945 is almost as good as great britain and even surpass italy. Now imagine a country with scarce natural resource but has an industry as active as great britain without any colony. What you say its true. The japanese need steel,oil and coal. And the US embargo didn't help. At all

They certainly did. They had to because the implications of the Axis powers winning the war are horrifying.

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Amy This is not a movie; it's taken from newsreels or military photograhers.

I agree. Monumental gun battles are absolutely fantastic sights and works of art. Wish they had 4K recording capabilities back then too.

the movie Battleship has a stint of a US WWII era warship lighting the shit out of an alien vessel for a short time

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That would explain why all their planes landed in the ocean. Or perhaps the stupid amount of AA fire. I dunno

Eagle Eye you comment is a very bad

Eagle Eye Vietnam isn’t even in the war

Indonesian too

But not good at killing American soldiers

pretty sure Isoroku didn't say "dragon"

@@吉弘久米 nah nah its a saying when the japanese made a misake bombing pearl harbor

There are quite many friendly fire cases due to AA fire during WW2. Not just bullets, fragmentation from flak shells too.

watch "battle 360".. they mentioned about friendly fire from those ships attacks...

It can many people died during war cause of friendly fire

Why are you sure japanese aircraft gets shot fool patriot

Why are you sure japanese aircraft gets shot fool patriot

Navid uhm because a Aircraft carrier just fucked up a squadrons of Japanese planes bud.

You conveniently forgot about Pearl Harbor and the fact that long before the US got involved with Japan the Japanese had invaded China

furkan it actualy few of the thing that made japan grow extremly well in the 60s up to 90s japan dont need to focus on army => all the money go to the economy cause the govt knew that there is american navy base = if some one attack japan = attack america but now thing diffirent with the chinese that why you see japan navy growing and army / airforce changing super fast :) and grow

You have to remember that that is how the USA felt about Japan because of Pearl Harbor, and the USA wasnt just going to lay down. I cant speak for all of the wars involving the USA, but we here in the US have nothing to apologize for when it comes to WW2. The world was screaming for us to help them out against Germany and then the Japanese attacked us before they even declared war on the us. At the end of the war they were warned to stop or many people would die, and their stupid leader would not surrender so we had to do what we had to do. And in a real declared official war, countries and those that fought in the war on both sides can eventually get along again and be friends. Most of the time its not the peoples will to fight and make war, its the leaders of their countries, and many of their leaders were not very good people, they were dictators.

Bob bro well , but japan attacked an army place but USA hit civil population , not once but twice.Hitting civilians is a war crime .Do you remember any other act of terrorism or war crime worse than the use of nuclear weapons on civilians

Furkan Gungor agreed..this was USA's act of war crime and terrorism.Hitting civilians with nuclear weapons twice and no apology.instead some people tries to defend it.but i met so many japenese students in Toronto , honestly they feel really bad about USA.