Midway From The Japanese Perspective 

Can you something about Charles Upham or WW2 New Zealand.

You should definitely get Christopher Nolan and sabaton to do a 2 hour movie on a major historical event. Many including I would not only watch it but we would get the best cinema in history.

You should eventually, remaster The Ghost P-40. It's the video that started me with WW2. And it's how I found you guys

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Well well well, didn't expect my favorite youtuber from my teens to watch these kinds of video's. Explains the Pilkington tho.

Thanks for your content

Hey dad

Upload more robban, I will find you if you dont.

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Almost as if it was fate

God wanted us to win. There - I said it.

Oh boy we got us a historian here 🙄

@@MangoTroubles-007 Both my dad and I really enjoy studying WW2, especially th Pacific theater. He's former Navy, retired now, and I grew up visiting plenty of museum's and museum ships connected to both military aviation and warfare. So yes, I rather enjoy history. I'd hardly call myself a historian, but I do enjoy it.

No. Just delays it. US had air search radar, the Japanese did not. In fact it is surprising that the Japanese fared as well as they did with that handicap.

Appreciate your story 👍👍👍Thx Rest in Peace Jimmy

English fellow here I was about 20 when I was sat waiting for a blood test , I struck up a conversation with the old boy next to me & he told me that he had been a paratrooper in the war & told me all about his time during the failed operation Market Garden in Holland & the infamous bridge too far , I sat there & was mesmerised by his tale , 35 years later & I've never forgotten him , they were something else 🎉

I consider it a great honor to have known so many Veterans, and i was worried my post was too "longwinded," so im glad people approve. Ive been reading War History since I was a kid (post-industrial, mostly WW I, WW II, Korea, and Vietnam) so when I started as a Barber, Id always have some books on my station. Our shop in North Tampa had so many guys, theyd say "Oh! I was with Marine Artillery on Corregidor!" Or "I was in the 309th, flying B-17s." We had this one little guy, Frank Douer, was a waist gunner through those big raids on Schwienfurt, Regensburg.. He said they were coming back from one mission, with engines all shot up, etc. The pilot decided they had to bail. Frank said "we got our chutes on, all of us got by the door, a couple of em looked down, we looked at each other and shook our heads, too scared to jump! So the skipper had us all 'tuck in,' and he ditched the ship in a field in Holland. We split up, and local people hid us in their attic for about 10 days, when some resistance guys could get us out to the coast and a sub picked us up." His plane was "Devils Mistress," and he even had his old leather jacket with the painting on the back!

If it weren't for men like James my 11 yo they/them wouldn't be going through with they's bottom surgery tomorrow, thank James for his service

@@Skipjack7814 They were sure fascinating people weren't they , I'm glad they stepped up when they did , my grandad was a rear gunner in a Lancaster & survived the war but died in the 60's just before I was born so I never met him but my dad worshipped him & told me all about him but apparently he never talked about his time in the RAF , just too painful

Obviously! A masterpiece!!!

🎉ong ong

GOAT?

@@plugs313 Greatest Of All Time.

Greatest Of All Time!

I was just thinking I've seen the story enough now. Don't think I learned anything new this time around.

Yeah plus the fact that finding the enemy fleet when you did, i.e. when you are almost out of gas meant you almost certainly would run out of gas.

The last Midway movie did far more than show the story as real as could be. It showed the real naval aviators in real air defense systems of that day that took more than skill if not nerves of steel. If one assumes you are dead when you join the Naval Air Arm, you will survive. The finest of fliers and bravest of military personnel and truly miracle workers my maintenance department were made my 24 years as a naval aviation officer a story that Top Gun barely can scratch. Flight of the Intruder did that far better (sorry Tom).

They tried to save it but could not raise the money to purchase it from the Navy.

@kenheise162 Yeah. Always teared me up seeing an old sailer on the TV crying over what to him was his home being tore apart for scrap.

@@psychobeam99 what about the other old sailor saying he was glad there would never be any little kids running around the decks of the ship his buddies died on

@@BoxStudioExecutive I means they both had their fair arguments.

I mean yeah War decorations are good but 5 million or 5 million dude.

Now that was a perfect touch!

This was better than any Midway movie.

@@gmnotyet yeah so cool it make me play my old zero toy again.

@@gmnotyet no stop it, that's BS. The 1976 movie and the one from a few years ago were outstanding.

@@Defender78 That movie copied Storm over the Pacific

@@gmnotyet have you ever watched the movie Midway (2019). It's historically accurate while also being fuckin awesome.

Which one did you watch?

you should watch Midway 2019. its almost entirely historically accurate and isn't biased towards America even though its from the American perspective

@@Zivorad0284 Midway 2019 is terrible. Midway 1976 is the historically accurate one.

@@Nachtsider how is midway 2019 terrible?

@@Nachtsider how is midway 2019 terrible?

Storm Over the Pacific? I see you too are a man of wealth and taste.

The admiral and captain decisions to go down with the ship may show their bravery and honor, but is really self centered. The loss of a crewman or even a pilot is regrettable, but is not a strategic loss. The loss of an admiral or a captain is a different matter. Not just anyone has the training and experience to command a ship or a fleet. Japan couldn't afford to voluntarily lose its top officers. Honor should have required such officers to live to fight another day.

@@williamromine5715I can’t blame them, their country’s society would have constantly mocked them if they didn’t do it and for Japanese of the time their sense of honor was above life

Yamaguchi fully realised all of his mistakes, and understood that the damage he had done to his fleet was not matched by greater damage to the enemy. If his carriers were lost destroying all three of the US carriers in the Pacific Ocean, things might have gone differently. He wasn't only preserving his own honour, but he was removing an obstacle to his nation's victory as well.

@@williamromine5715 It was such a significant issue with the japanese naval command that it was pretty much outlawed because of midway. The japanese fleet never recovered not only from the loss of the ships, but also the loss of the experienced naval leadership.

Battle 360 was one of the coolest History channel documentaries before they became super dumb

@@supercat4539 Yep. Patton 360 wasn't too bad either.

Yoo I remember, that and Dogfights 2006

Ya i also watched it

@zipsexe Oh man, Dogfights was so good.

that ship was smashed lol

My grandfather served on the Yorktown as a boiler engineer, he was able to get of the ship with most of the men, the next day it was listing but was still afloat,my grandfather was selected to go back on board and try to get the boilers going again, they actually got it going and righted the ship, the Japanese sub came the next day and hit the Yorktown with 4 torpedoes, my grandfather was able to get off alive for the second time. God bless him , he came from Ireland and loved America and was willing to die for our country, he was awarded the silver star for bravery under enemy attack. I am so proud to have his last name

Quality back in those days, I'm confident the new ships we have aren't as durable.

​@googleifyouseekayu They are much more durable. What are you even talking about? 😅

@@alansteel u I guess haven't been paying attention the quality issues. Where back in the day, things were made to last. Today things are made to break.

True. But I would also have loved to hear how some of the ordinary seamen on board either of the 4 carriers experienced the battle and the sinking. They were the ones doing the hard labour and suffering the worst consequences in the explosions and fires. Yet it is never their story that we hear.

There would be a lot more yelling. It's BS.

Is ur favor to the creator or to TTS?

Agreed. Another subtle/overt way to convey that THIS STUFF REALLY HAPPENED, AND THAT THERE ARE STILL A FEW COMBATANTS FROM THAT BATTLE STILL ALIVE. Oops, sorry, got real there for a moment.

@@jimheimerl1637absolutely big agree on this. What a beautiful production.

If only they engaged broadside to broadside with the Americans. Then they would certainly have their trafalgar.

yeah, too bad the americans went all on pussymode and let their planes do all the work for the majority of the war.@@sanjithd3343

the foolishness of the japanese was comparing the russians to the americans at all. I wrote a basic study of the development of both states and they were essentially on par by ww1 and in fact russian development slowed considerably with their second revolution (often touted as a necesary evil by "commieboos" in truth the russians differed greatly from the japanese in that they tried to integrate into the european market relying on foreign investment and development, the japanese only allowed minimal foreign investment and development, just enough for them to understand it and do it for themselves. the russian imperial navy had been a joke to booth, they would have lost against fishin trawlers if those had had a couple torpedoes on board then their flagship nearly blew up and was also filled with madagascar animals, alcoholism was rampant, that all despite having a competent commander but he couldn't make up for the rot that had set in and remained to engrained in a system where the rank and file were treated with disdain by the nobles in command, probably trying to mock the brittish system but there the crew actually got treated with respect though being held to strict hierarchy. the japanese however were a naval power by design and the meiji restoration (and short civil war) took out most dissent against the new imperial regime. they had great incentive for functionallity ass well, they had been humiliated by the americans under commodore Perry (the start of american gunboat diplomacy) and realised that they would either adapt or face western dommination like china. the russians had just faced the humiliation of the crimean war. failing to effectively supply it's own troops and facing enormous losses against foes that had to send their forces all the way around europe trough the mediteranean to even get their men in place, remember it is easier to fight a deffensive war against a distant opponent but they still lost the japanese grew emboldened after beating the russians and this grew ever more after taking down large portions of the brittish and dutch forces in the pacific theatre. had they stuck within their lane they would have likely been pushed out eventually but on more favorable terms, perhaps even getting some of the conquered teritory in the process, but they lacked fuel and the US had cut them off and supplied their enemies, Japan could have tried to make a treaty with the soviets for oil which they would have likely been happy to grant given that they benefitted from weakening the western powers. but that would mean negotiating after defeat which means losing face. they could have bitten the bullet and slowed their war trying to get as much as they can out of their conquered teritories (which would never be enough in terms of oil) in the end they decided that the US posed to much of a treath and wanted to take them out of the war in one major strike, top government and population seemingly believing the US would cut their losses and come to the negotiating table (like japan in fact had after their brush with superior naval power) but anyone with the most elementary knowledge of the US realises that these SOB's could hate eachother but if any other state decided to attack them their reaction would be near universal, "revenge" hit them back twice as hard, today the US seems to have lost much of that mentallity with the growing wealth divide, corporatism and political divide tarnishing the view of their nation and making even those that are as red white and blue as they come, unwilling to risk life and limb for a government they hate more than any foreign power no matter who is in charge, if attacked domestically that would change, and the US is certainly the strongest militairy power on earth but a serious question to ask is whether that would carry over in an existential conflict (rather than minor interventions and "peacekeeping" missions) most wouldn't want to serve, certainly not against an enemy that could be classes as peer or near peer and certainly not for the benefit of an elite that is hated by both sides.

lol You are talking about the battle of Tsushima but that was a different time where carriers didn't exist. The battle of midway was sorely fighting with aircraft. It would not make sense why they were expecting for the same result if there was no ship vs ship battle.

​@@i_nameless_i-jgsdf Безусловно. Цусима была слишком давно. И даже тогда флот России был устаревшим. А авиация уже в начале второй мировой стала мощным оружием. В битвах на Тихом океане самолёты использовались и при налете на Перл Харбор , боях за Мидуэй . Гуадалканал . Палау. Обе стороны сражались отважно.

WW2 was unreal. It's very tempting to say we just don't make men like that anymore, but I suspect there's more a measure of what you touch upon in it, that we just aren't tested like that anymore. There are still crazy feats of arms that happen today, but the regularity and scale of WW2 is just so beyond, you'd have to be deluding yourself to think what we deal with today or produce is the same. It's just truly unreal.

I hope America people stay in their own land and not disturb other people land.

​@@userrrrrxx135 we will. Just don't touch our boats.

@@Scudboy17 He said, not thinking about how the US has not been staying in their own land for years.

​@@userrrrrxx135i believe that's what most Americans were saying about ww2 until the Japanese decided to make it a world wide war

Copying the laughable Cerveza beer Ads in Star Wars

The incredible turnaround by Yorktown had fooled the panicking Japanese airmen. God's plan was like a swiss cheesed mouse trap. The Japanese had never thought that was a piece of reused cheese.

Anticipation of enemy strikes by shipbuilders and damage control by USN personnel is a story as profound as code breaking. The IJN believing the Yorktown was a different carrier … two hours after they stuck it and left it dead in the water … is an incredible feat, it deserves more credit than it gets. Only the fact the carrier sank prevents that from getting the recognition it deserves.

The Yorktown (CV-5) was sunk 4 times, according to Japanese pilot reports. Once at Coral Sea , then by Hiryu's dive bombers at Midway, then again by Hiryu's torpedo planes, and then finally (and for real) by the Japanese sub I-168.

Like the new(er) ship sent to escort/protect Kuwaiti oil tankers in the Gulf from Iran in the 80s. It was the ships first mission and they hit an Irani mine in international waters and it destroyed the hull of the ship. Apparently it was only being held together by the deck. BUT they had the navy’s best repair crew and had actually won a few competitions. They were able to save it and limp it back to UAE for repair. Actually it’s fascinating how the US managed to salvage ships when for someone else it was a total loss.

This is false: the Japanese lost surprisingly few pilots at Midway (the majority were recovered and reassigned). It was the Guadalcanal Campaign that gutted their pilot corps.

The Japanese lost a lot of skilled aircraft mechanics, but they lost surprisingly few pilots at Midway.

​@@bkjeong4302i think he meant officers, not pilots.

Believe me, losing 4 out of their 6 fleet carriers hurt the most. The japanese never managed to recover that quality of carrier, all the cvs built after were smaller ones, the last true fleet carrier was taihou.

100名以上が戦死してるので決して少なくはないですが、空母4隻喪失にしては少ない損害です。 操縦士を本格的に損耗するのはソロモン方面の戦いですね...

They weren't actually sunk by the bomb hits. They were all scuttled to prevent the Americans from getting a trophy.

"Ackshually" they remained afloat for several hours, but yeah, they were as good as a raft because of how damaged they were. Souryu went down first in the afternoon after being scuttled. There was an attempt to stop the fire on Kaga, but they later abandoned the idea and scuttled her at night. There was an attempt to try to get Akagi back afloat and back to Japan, but it was the same as other carriers. Her crew probably gotten off at night and she was scuttled earlier in the morning, just hours before Souryu went down.

Some hard lessons where learned about securing your ordnance aboard ships.

@@SirHellNaja three aircraft carriers forcibly decommissioned within mere minutes of each other* hows that

The Japanese stole aircraft technology, and was gifted parts of it from the British during and post-WW I, but what the British and the Americans learned and the Japanese never did and what allowed the Yorktown to survive is crew training on how to keep their ships alive despite what could be considered catastrophic damage. Alongside the multiple redundancies and internal fire fighting systems the Allies ships had made them into formidable foes in naval warfare. Arguably Japan couldn't afford the same level of redundancy on their ships due to them having restricted manufacturing materials, which was one of the core reasons for the Japanese expansionism movement. It's also a reason that Zeros was so vulnerable as they didn't have any fuel tank protection so if a tank was hit it was often good night Vienna whereas the Allies aircraft had several layers of protection around their fuel and core areas at a cost of speed and agility. Japanese culture, doctrine and training was at the the core for the loss of the IJN despite their early advantages. Of course there is other factors at play but Japan saw Sacrifice as honourable, whereas the Allis tried to protect their men which led to clear distinctions when it came to designing ships, planes and their tanks.

Yes. His are the best, much better than this.

@@davidphillips6803 Room for all content.

​@@davidphillips6803 You sat that as if this is a bad video

@@davidphillips6803 Not neccaserily, you can only tell so much in 20 minutes

I also saw that video too

Too many ads interrupting

It’s also interesting to witness contemporary Japanese carrier Kaga equipped with American jets.

😂 Vcs não tem paz!

Explain sleep?

I liked his Japanese perspective video on the Midway battle.

What's the name of the music used?

Good eye on the Vals, i didnt notice that. My personal information nitpick is how closely together the japanese fleet is displayed, but i can understand that from a cinematic perspective. Another one i saw was that Makigumo's torpedo launcher looks like a mutant triple than a quad.

6 videos? There are only 3 - two from the Japanese and one from the American perspective. And yes, they are absolutely brilliant videos.

😂