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Operation PX - WW2 Japanese Bio Weapon Attack on America (Episode 1) 

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The true story of Japan's creation of a bio-weapons stockpile and a diabolical plan, using gigantic submarine aircraft carriers, to destroy the US West Coast.
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@thegunslinger1363
@thegunslinger1363 3 года назад
I read a book about Unit 731. Called "A Plague Upon Humanity." Which I highly recommend.
@oaples8790
@oaples8790 3 года назад
@@briancooper2112 i guess all those barbaric experiments did actually yield to some medical use, tough times
@wyattpeterson6286
@wyattpeterson6286 3 года назад
I also recommend "Factories of Death".
@dyveira
@dyveira 3 года назад
There's a very infamous and at times factual film called "The Men Behind The Sun" which is about Unit 731 and the horrors they took part in. Only for those with a very strong stomach, though, there's some pretty grotesque scenes. They don't pull punches about showing you things very much in line with what the real-life counterpart actually did.
@wyattpeterson6286
@wyattpeterson6286 3 года назад
@@dyveira Is it, by any chance, available on DVD in the United States?
@mirola73
@mirola73 3 года назад
The Japanese government remains very quiet about that to date.............. with the Americans using these war criminals for their own gain. Winner takes it all, eluding justice.
@napiersh1
@napiersh1 3 года назад
Don't forget to like. It's the least you can do.
@bumblebeebob
@bumblebeebob 3 года назад
And be sure to let the video play until it stops. The "watch" isn't credited if one leaves early.
@bumblebeebob
@bumblebeebob 3 года назад
@domen kavčič l could be wrong but my understanding is that for a video to be counted as watched, and thus credit for payment, it has to play until the end and it stops itself.
@Flapjackbatter
@Flapjackbatter 3 года назад
No. I don't like clickbait.
@hendrikvanleeuwen9110
@hendrikvanleeuwen9110 3 года назад
Leaving a comment/engaging in chat doesn't hurt either!
@neilwilson5785
@neilwilson5785 3 года назад
And comment a lot.
@bigblue6917
@bigblue6917 3 года назад
You get the feeling that if Japan had gone ahead with a chemical attack at that point in the war the US would have never stopped at just two nuclear bombs.
@Adiscretefirm
@Adiscretefirm 3 года назад
Or would have shifted the targets to Tokyo and Osaka to decapitate the military, rather than the relatively unscathed Hiroshima and Nagasaki to better demonstrate the efficacy of the new weapons.
@lambastepirate
@lambastepirate 3 года назад
We only had 3 at the time.
@demonprinces17
@demonprinces17 3 года назад
It would have open the door for us to use chemical weapons
@lambastepirate
@lambastepirate 3 года назад
@@herbertsusmann986 Agreed
@jamesricker3997
@jamesricker3997 3 года назад
The American biological weapons program was far larger than the Japanese one The US military was mass-producing anthrax and the United States had huge supplies of mustard gas and 500,000 tons of captured German nerve gas Japan would do one biological attack and get hit with 100
@roscoewhite3793
@roscoewhite3793 3 года назад
The I-400 submarines so impressed the American that they made sure to prevent the Russians from gaining any knowledge of them and scuttled all those captured once they had been examined. While nothing remains of the I-400s, one of the Seiran floatplanes is preserved at the Udvar-Hazy Centre in the US.
@curtiscrimmins6378
@curtiscrimmins6378 3 года назад
Nobua Fujita returned to the small town in Oregon after the war and gave them his family sword...hard to hate a man who honors his surrender...I think this story alone is worth a movie...the town welcomed him with open arms...after horrible wars forgiveness of honorable enemies is essential to moving forward.
@loveofmangos001
@loveofmangos001 3 года назад
The city is where I live called Bookings. He is honorary citizen, his sword is in city hall on display and he is buried here as well. Good man.
@curtiscrimmins6378
@curtiscrimmins6378 3 года назад
@@loveofmangos001 I love this story...A little bit of reconciliation after the darkest period of World history...I had no idea he was buried there...
@curtiscrimmins6378
@curtiscrimmins6378 Год назад
@8866panda nobody owes an apology to Japan for dropping two atom bombs and thus ending the war...Japanese imperialism started it, killed over 20 million in China and used Bacterial bombs, chemical and biological warfare on the Chinese as early as 1941...the Flying Tigers in Kunming experience biological warfare dropped on nearby cities The US like the Russians took Nazi scientists and Japanese scientists to further their weapons in the wake of a war that killed 60 million that the US tried like hell to stay out of the idea the US owes anybody an apology is the biggest most ignorant assumption I have ever seen.....not only do we not need to show remorse we need to understand after Saipan, Iwo , and Okinawa an invasion of the Japanese mainland would have cost millions of Japanese civilians lives...plus the fact the Soviets invaded with veteran blooded troops whom already committed mass rapes and atrocities on Berlin civilians it would have been a blood bath in the millions the Atom Bombs saved my grandfathers life as well as millions of Japanese lives nobody needs to show remorse except those that started WW2 Japan and Germany has Japan offered reparations to China and the 20 million innocents they killed?
@The_ZeroLine
@The_ZeroLine 10 месяцев назад
There are lots of great RU-vid videos about the man and his family and the family still visits the town on a regular basis to this day.
@martinhogg5337
@martinhogg5337 3 года назад
What an incredible story. Dr.Felton keeps coming up with these gems to educate and fascinate us! He is to be congratulated for his efforts. Many thanks!
@milanzdunic1940
@milanzdunic1940 3 года назад
All that was agenst rothshild banking kartel.
@archstanton6102
@archstanton6102 3 года назад
@@milanzdunic1940 Evidence and sources?
@Adiscretefirm
@Adiscretefirm 3 года назад
You cannot argue with the success of the long term goal of establishing a stable, capitalist, democratic Japanese state whose foreign policy would align with the Western Allies. From a moralistic perspective though, I can't help but think there should have been a much more robust Nuremberg-style reckoning in the immediate postwar years.
@dyveira
@dyveira 3 года назад
The entire staff of Unit 731 should have been tried, for one thing.
@scockery
@scockery 3 года назад
The US wanted the dirty little secrets that came from inhuman experiments and felt they needed those despicable "scientists" alive.
@footballnick2
@footballnick2 3 года назад
@@scockery Well the medical science learned from this experiment was very valuable so there's one reason.
@goatface6602
@goatface6602 3 года назад
The Chinese haven’t forgotten anything.
@sherwoodbaker2714
@sherwoodbaker2714 3 года назад
The Japanese got off easy at the end of the war...they had an active nuke as well as a bio-chem program! No sympathy for them
@tmclaug90
@tmclaug90 3 года назад
Dr Felton history lesson assault on the RU-vid mainland. Love it. Thank you.
@philliplamoureux9489
@philliplamoureux9489 3 года назад
They tried to ignite a fire in the Temperate Rain Forest! Lewis and Clark complained how the continuous rain drove them crazy and all their cured leather tack and harness MOLDED!!
@haniel559
@haniel559 3 года назад
Eating and Listening to Mark . Best combination..
@DASSTADT
@DASSTADT 3 года назад
Some of us are doing it for over a year.. lol
@kallelaur1762
@kallelaur1762 3 года назад
Can't say that professor Murray was the first westerner to underestimate Japan's capabilities.
@TheDasbull
@TheDasbull 3 года назад
I have been to the area where the Japanese attempted to start the forest fires mentioned at 6:19 There is a memorial there (Brookings OR). Also not far away a farm house and barn that were actually radar and I believe anti aircraft gun emplacement. Thank You for the video!
@danescottstephens
@danescottstephens 3 года назад
I learn something by watching all of your videos. I won't miss them.
@dtaylor10chuckufarle
@dtaylor10chuckufarle 3 года назад
I had no idea the Japanese were this close to attracting the US, Mark. This is scary stuff and we are damn lucky. Very interesting, much obliged.
@jussim.konttinen4981
@jussim.konttinen4981 3 года назад
Technically speaking, they held U.S. soil until 1945 because the Philippines had not yet gained independence.
@thunderbird1921
@thunderbird1921 Год назад
They technically DID attack and invade the US, look up the Aleutian Islands campaign in Alaska and the Japanese occupation of Guam as well (they were absolutely HORRIFIC to the native Chamorros, 10% of the entire tribal population died from mistreatment by the time U.S. Marines liberated the island in 1944). The battle with Japan wasn't merely to the aid of honorable nations, it was personal in so many ways.
@le4421
@le4421 3 года назад
Listening to this while laying on the beach in San Francisco. I’m looking toward the Golden Gate Bridge and imagining that it must of been a Japanese target at one point
@speedzero7478
@speedzero7478 3 года назад
The shipyards at Hunters Point would have been a major target too.
@stevethomas760
@stevethomas760 3 года назад
Met Dr Frank Culbertson once, dating his daughter, he flew Wildcats/Hellcats in WW2. He flew under the Golden Gate Bridge when he came back from the Pacific. His son, Frank Culbertson Jr, was a commander on the space shuttle.
@michaelbrashears8293
@michaelbrashears8293 3 года назад
Those who learn from history, generally won't repeat it.
@thomasriggle6371
@thomasriggle6371 3 года назад
Key word here is (generally). People are so stupid that they got a nasty habit of shooting themselves in the foot time and time again.
@nogisonoko5409
@nogisonoko5409 3 года назад
@@thomasriggle6371 They are not stupid. They were just didnt witness first hand what happened there.
@thomasriggle6371
@thomasriggle6371 3 года назад
🤔 here we've got someone that apparently spends way too much time watching cartoons, comes 14 hours after the original conversation and says (no people are not stupid they didn't witness first hand what happened). 🤯🤯 you don't have to see first hand what happened you meathead. Its written down for you. You learn about what happened by reading history. You're the perfect example of why I said (people are so stupid). Maybe if you shut off the cartoons and pay attention you wouldn't be so clueless right now.
@nogisonoko5409
@nogisonoko5409 3 года назад
@@thomasriggle6371 Learning what happened and experiencing for yourself is two very different matter. You can read all the history book you want but it will not be the same with you actually getting in that situation. That is human nature. We learned mistakes from experience. But i guess i wont argue further since i am talking with a person that are using more emojis than my younger sister on a pretty serious conversation. Your inherent discrimination towards someone interest does not help this conversation going either.
@thomasriggle6371
@thomasriggle6371 3 года назад
@@nogisonoko5409 if a warning sticker on a lawnmower says not to stick your hands into moving blades I guess by your logic you're going to do it because (its human nature). You apparently can't learn a lesson from reading. If using emojis in your logic is considered childish because your little sister uses them what age group would you consider her older brother is when he watches cartoons. Funny though how you through your sister under the bus so fast.
@djzrobzombie2813
@djzrobzombie2813 3 года назад
Best documentary voice 😎🤙🤙☝️👍😎
@IuliTr85
@IuliTr85 3 года назад
First time I heard about this was on Douglas Dietrich transmissions, he was the first to speak about this five years ago.
@nd493
@nd493 3 года назад
This level of quality beats many big productions we see on tv
@panzerivausfg4062
@panzerivausfg4062 3 года назад
Such a nice way to spend my Monday night in my bed listening to another of the incredible and to me unknown stories that share with us Dr. Felton!!!
@chs76945
@chs76945 3 года назад
The most implausible thing about this is "clear blue sky" over San Francisco.
@jbuckley2546
@jbuckley2546 3 года назад
I'm so used to listening to fantastic stories researched by Mr. Felton that I have to admit to being hoodwinked at first.
@ianlautze49
@ianlautze49 3 года назад
Me too! Mark's taught me so much about buried historical events that I thought it was just another story they didn't teach on school 🤣
@thomasriggle6371
@thomasriggle6371 3 года назад
In other words you'll eat up anything he tells you unless he admits he's lying. Don't worry bud, most sheep do the same thing. That's why you see all of the ass kissing going on in the comment section.
@meatrocket4830
@meatrocket4830 3 года назад
Found the Brit
@mattanderson6336
@mattanderson6336 3 года назад
There are probably still several things from WWII that we still haven’t been told about.
@jimc.goodfellas
@jimc.goodfellas 3 года назад
Hater in the house!!
@lynnwood7205
@lynnwood7205 3 года назад
My father related as how as a surveyor in an US Army Engineer Battalion in a mine in North Korea when the US Army was north of the 38th parallel they had to map and survey an entire mine facility. The only damage to equipment and buildings was from small arms. There were immense prestressed concrete building shells, some equipped with inches thick glass windows. The mine equipment, overhead cable tramway and electric motors and controls were all of German manufacture. Their officers made observations that this was not normal mine construction. All their survey notes and photographs had to be turned over to members of Army Intelligence on site. They were forbidden to bring personal cameras or to retain any writing material, and were sworn to secrecy. Decades later he suspected it was an atomic research facility.
@johnhardin4358
@johnhardin4358 3 года назад
Holy cow! Sometimes the comments are greater than the shows! I wonder why they kept it under wraps? Might explain how the communists got the Bomb. Seems an FOIA request is in order. Surely the N. Koreans know about it.
@Bruhfella
@Bruhfella 3 года назад
You had me totally enthralled in the beginning, I was saying to myself how I couldn’t believe I had never heard of a chemical attack on San Francisco
@sharonkaczorowski8690
@sharonkaczorowski8690 3 года назад
I read excerpts from the notebooks of scientists on the planes which dropped the atom bomb. Some were very annoyed that radiation prevented them from observing its effect on the human “test subjects” below. I consider myself to have a scientific mind but have never allowed it to destroy the ethical standards which govern my behavior. Scientists who don’t make that decision disturb me to my bones.
@lamarzimmermanmennonitefar5269
@lamarzimmermanmennonitefar5269 2 года назад
With good reason too
@stevenbreach2561
@stevenbreach2561 3 года назад
And only Japan decided to use bio warfare.If the Japanese had had access to nuclear weapons,they would have used them in a heartbeat
@bitjockey6265
@bitjockey6265 3 года назад
One of the most interesting books I have ever read was "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes. Being an engineer, I was looking forward to a technical book. Instead, I found a story of social and political pressures that molded the environment of the '30s and '40s in which the A Bomb was developed and deployed. Not an easy read, but I am glad I read it. (And it did contain a wealth of technical info.)
@Tyler-gv6zf
@Tyler-gv6zf 3 года назад
This had me on the edge of my seat; thanks for another lesson Dr. Felton!
@garymckee8857
@garymckee8857 3 года назад
Bubonic plague yes I remember reading about this. Thanks Mark
@dustywoood
@dustywoood 3 года назад
Just coincidentally opened this channel to see a fresh new upload, first comment, and first viewer, HELL FUCKING YEAH MARK
@shannonimmigrant3539
@shannonimmigrant3539 3 года назад
Banzai!
@TheHandofJove
@TheHandofJove 3 года назад
Banzai!!
@micuentaparaforosycosas3484
@micuentaparaforosycosas3484 3 года назад
*¡BAN F$&@#*G ZAI!*
@thomasriggle6371
@thomasriggle6371 3 года назад
Don't worry because after a couple years you will be disappointed.
@IvorMektin1701
@IvorMektin1701 3 года назад
My father was a little boy in San Francisco during the war. Hits close to home.
@seangannon6081
@seangannon6081 3 года назад
How close?? Like on his street or in his neighbor’s yard?
@IvorMektin1701
@IvorMektin1701 3 года назад
@@seangannon6081 He grew up in Mt. Davidson. My great grandparents live on Beulah Street in the Haight.
@jesuschrist872
@jesuschrist872 3 года назад
Yes, i remember your father when he was a kid.
@IvorMektin1701
@IvorMektin1701 3 года назад
@@jesuschrist872 Thanks Jesus, you're the best!
@stevefox8605
@stevefox8605 3 года назад
Thank you Dr Felton. Appreciate your efforts, always enjoyable and informative 👍🏻👍🏻
@elietcetera9686
@elietcetera9686 3 года назад
It would be really nice if you could add a "recently added" Playlist for the most recent week or two of videos so we could autoplay and catch up on the most recent uploads. Thanks!
@johnmellon1820
@johnmellon1820 3 года назад
I play Mark Felton videos at 1x speed because it is not just information but entertaining
@fernandochavez4312
@fernandochavez4312 3 года назад
This was one of the first model airplanes I ever built. Thanks.
@angelogarcia2189
@angelogarcia2189 3 года назад
I'm interested to see how it works out for the Japanese... Seems like they might be able to turn it around.....
@dyveira
@dyveira 3 года назад
I find it a bit ironic that for a people so motivated by honour, they were dead set on winning the war in the most dishonourable way possible.
@genes.3285
@genes.3285 3 года назад
Kind of reminds you of another country that did its best to rack up the number of civilian dead.
@johnmcmickle5685
@johnmcmickle5685 3 года назад
This would have been just one more set of war crimes they would have committed.
@Milkmans_Son
@Milkmans_Son 3 года назад
They convinced themselves they weren't fighting other people.
@nates9536
@nates9536 3 года назад
Japan only considered Japanese peoples worthy of honor. Everyone else were seen as inferior, even sub-human. Funny how reoccurring that theme is in warfare, from all sides
@johnmcmickle5685
@johnmcmickle5685 3 года назад
@@Milkmans_Son Except those they considered not to be people were giving them an extreme beat down at the time.
@technologic21
@technologic21 3 года назад
Amazing history Mark, one of the most important RU-vid channels!
@markfrench8892
@markfrench8892 3 года назад
Another great episode. Eagerly awaiting the next episode of this series.
@curtiscrimmins6378
@curtiscrimmins6378 3 года назад
this is a story that needed to be told...well done Mark.
@jayburn00
@jayburn00 3 года назад
We would have retaliated with a combination of chemical weapons and extra atomic weapons most likely. The US kept chemical weapons in reserve as an early form of deterrence (there were plans to use them in an invasion of the Japanese mainland if I recall correctly though).
@samuelmcbride9740
@samuelmcbride9740 3 года назад
Incendiary bombs were the real killer
@fernandochavez4312
@fernandochavez4312 3 года назад
Oh yeah, good thing we’re such good friends now.
@libertyman3729
@libertyman3729 3 года назад
Scary stuff Mark, Thanks once again for the history class.
@WesloTheHandsome
@WesloTheHandsome 3 года назад
Superb per Expected, Dr.Felton❕👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@Captain_Tumbleweed
@Captain_Tumbleweed 3 года назад
I recognised the Seiran in the thumbnail, so I knew the I-400 submarine would also make an apperance in the video ;)
@leemichael2154
@leemichael2154 3 года назад
I see Felton I click run those jewls professor Felton run those jewls .👉👊
@leemichael2154
@leemichael2154 3 года назад
Gave me a love! Now if I find out Felton is into RTJ I think I might be in love? My type of historical gangster proffeser!!! 👉👊
@oaples8790
@oaples8790 3 года назад
Imagine this actually succeding, the world would not only be still ravaged by war but have to contend with a new worldwide plague aswell.
@scockery
@scockery 3 года назад
Yeah, and asswelling would be painful for everyone.
@robertharper3754
@robertharper3754 3 года назад
Not really, Japan let plenty of bioweapons loose in China, and while they caused a serious amount of damage, they recovered.
@petewood2350
@petewood2350 3 года назад
And how Covid has changed the World, in just over one year.
@robertharper3754
@robertharper3754 3 года назад
@@petewood2350, we got lucky considering the types of pandemics we've had to face before, this is a pandemic with training wheels on. Just imagine how bad things would get with a more lethal virus, that is easily transmitted, say like an airborne ebola. You know, the crap Russia was playing around with in their bioweapon program, or what China plays around with now.
@jamesricker3997
@jamesricker3997 3 года назад
What would have happened if Japan had succeeded with that attack? To find out I suggest you Google anthrax bomb.
@tomknauss570
@tomknauss570 3 года назад
How did I miss this in my feed ? Good work doc.
@_Braised
@_Braised 3 года назад
Ohh boy- this one is going to be chilling...
@amadeusamwater
@amadeusamwater 3 года назад
The Japanese seemed to have skill at designing larger than normal ships. But their lack of resources kept them from building very many of them.
@mo07r1
@mo07r1 3 года назад
To be fair, we wanted all of our battleships to be able to fit through the Panama Canal, or we likely would have build some larger than we did.
@garretth8224
@garretth8224 3 года назад
Too bad focusing on large destroyers quickly became outdated.
@amadeusamwater
@amadeusamwater 3 года назад
@@garretth8224 I wonder how well an average destroyer would have done trying to sink an I-400 class sub.
@genes.3285
@genes.3285 3 года назад
It comes as no surprise that Dr. Ishii was not prosecuted.
@presidentmerkinmuffley6769
@presidentmerkinmuffley6769 3 года назад
Not in the slightest, something about redacted items and paperclips.....
@oncall21
@oncall21 3 года назад
Imagine if Richard Sorge had not been betrayed. Just the possible intel he may have been able to release to a cold eared Stalin. Thanks for sharing Dr Felton!
@garretth8224
@garretth8224 3 года назад
Stalin probably wouldn't have listened, he started to believe in his own cult of personality propaganda.
@peterdirlis6461
@peterdirlis6461 Год назад
Great presentation professor!! Thanks so much.
@btomlin5764
@btomlin5764 3 года назад
Absofreakinglutely amazing information. Would never have known about this threat had it not been for Dr. Felton. Incredible.
@ploptart4649
@ploptart4649 3 года назад
The west coast forest fire strategy only failed because it was eighty years too early. If it had been now, they could just pointed a magnifying glass out the plane window.
@rudithedog7534
@rudithedog7534 3 года назад
In before 10, have to admit i haven't watched it yet but i know its going to be good, love your work
@williamjpellas0314
@williamjpellas0314 7 месяцев назад
The Brits also wanted to get their hands on Ishii's research, and did so. IIRC there were British military officers in the audience when Ishii visited the US Army germ warfare establishment at Fort Dietrick, Maryland, after the war.
@lostinspace013
@lostinspace013 3 года назад
The fact that these people were simply not killed after the war shows who Americans are. Americans did not condemn to death not only people like thiese Japanese who murdered people by the hundreds of thousands, but also the Germans who murdered millions. They had no problem protecting many "scientist-criminals" and made many of them American heroes. Like, for example, the entire team of Werner Braun. Previously, these people murdered civilians en masse, and after the war ? They became rich and respected Americans.... When Poland in 1945-50 pursued many true German butchers who were hiding in Western Europe, and Poland wanted the Americans to hand them over to us, the Americans said "nope". And these people peacefully lived until normal death by age...
@ssg9offical
@ssg9offical 9 дней назад
Change yo pfp.
@captainamerica6525
@captainamerica6525 3 года назад
I did know about Unit 731 and its activities. This was a great review of those times and actions. I cannot conceive a scenario in which if the Japanese were successful the American public would not have demanded complete atomic destruction of the entirety of the Japanese home islands. Thank God neither happened.
@billd.iniowa2263
@billd.iniowa2263 3 года назад
You need to check this out. Unit 731 is probably the most disgusting thing I have ever encountered in my WWII studies. Joseph Mengele was an amateur in comparison.
@nogisonoko5409
@nogisonoko5409 3 года назад
@@billd.iniowa2263 Yes they are but they were able to escape their trials since US really want their results from such cruel human research.
@themadrazorback2019
@themadrazorback2019 Год назад
My Uncle was US Navy Submariner in WW2. He was part of a crew who sailed I-401 back to Pearl Harbor after the war. I have a plaque from the torpedo room. We sank all the Japanese super-subs as target practice off Hawaii - didn't want to share the technology with Stalin. Tragically my uncle was killed in a car accident right after returning from the Pacific. Robert Wynn McGrew, RIP.
@iatsechannel5255
@iatsechannel5255 3 года назад
Great work. I knew of the Seiran but not of the bio weapon aspect. Fascinating.
@ROBERTNABORNEY
@ROBERTNABORNEY Месяц назад
No snorkeling sub has ever been able to do 18 knots due to vibrations set up. The WW2 German snorkel MIGHT have managed - which was crude compared to later developments - MIGHT have been able to do 10 in very favorable conditions
@garyspencersalt9449
@garyspencersalt9449 3 года назад
M.A.D. - it did work even in WW2
@donaldseekins6516
@donaldseekins6516 3 года назад
I believe the name of the submarine-lunched aircraft was not "seran" or "saran" but SEIRAN. During the 1970s and 1980s, there was a rightwing faction of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party called the "Seiran-kai" or "storm from the sky association," which included an MP who later became prime minister, Yasuhiro Nakasone. He was an imperial naval veteran and might have had some role in Operation PX. Nakasone was famous for his close relationship to President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. How cynical history is!
@MrAndyLocksmith
@MrAndyLocksmith 3 года назад
Very interesting and informative, also something I’d not heard of.
@jessicamorris4748
@jessicamorris4748 3 года назад
I once had a teacher say that the problem with invading Russia is that you always wind up getting caught in their winter. Well, the problem with trying to start a forest fire along the Oregon coast is that you alway wind up getting caught in the rain! However, if any of those planes had managed to cross the Cascade range that would be a different story! As for setting off a bubonic plague epidemic in California, I think the Japanese government must have got the idea from the Spermophillous genus of ground squirrels because they managed to do it twice, once in 1900 in San Francisco and in 1924 in Los Angeles.
@andyjarman4958
@andyjarman4958 3 года назад
That's all we've got time for this week Basil !
@rogerhwerner6997
@rogerhwerner6997 3 года назад
Unit 731 played an interesting and important fictional roll in TV program X Files.
@colleena755
@colleena755 Год назад
Excellent!
@fuferito
@fuferito 3 года назад
And, I'm in the middle of watching _The Stand_ series...
@appallokelley3207
@appallokelley3207 3 года назад
I had no idea those balloon bombs 💣 actually killed anyone.
@АмериканецвРоссии-и4б
Mark talks about that in his video on the balloon bombs.
@edjopago1
@edjopago1 3 года назад
WOW.....I knew nothing about this!!!!
@FurobaOA
@FurobaOA 3 года назад
I recall I-400s were rumoured to have had a unique coating layer with acoustic dampening properties. Supposedly never tested by the US after capture.
@nogisonoko5409
@nogisonoko5409 3 года назад
They scrapped all the Sentoku class since they were afraid Soviet will copy the design.
@drott150
@drott150 3 года назад
Fantastic episode.
@ShaneBermingham616
@ShaneBermingham616 3 года назад
As always, excellent content.
@mikkyd656
@mikkyd656 3 года назад
I had no idea about this. Thanks again Mark!
@QPRTokyo
@QPRTokyo 3 года назад
Japan is still trying to cover this up.
@Afghan31
@Afghan31 3 года назад
People really be questioning why the allies dropped the nuclear bombs on Japan.
@simonoxley2019
@simonoxley2019 3 года назад
well researched and well presented historical accounts - history keeps unravelling new formerly hidden information each day - watching this gives a balanced view of each countries will to conquer the other with whatever it takes - the inventions we celebrate as human innovation often arise from reasons to dominate a foe
@tonycureton3003
@tonycureton3003 3 года назад
Facinating and all new to me-other than the specific submarines and aircraft type
@johnharris6655
@johnharris6655 3 года назад
I have heard some suggest that this is the reason Truman dropped the bombs, he knew Japan had to be destroyed for the war to end or they would keep trying to do stuff like this.
@jameslockard6956
@jameslockard6956 10 месяцев назад
The Japanese underwater submarine Air craft carrier. They did launch a mission to bomb the Panama Canal. However they were recalled before they could attack.😮
@Knuck_Knucks
@Knuck_Knucks 3 года назад
Omg omg omg .... Can't wait till next time!
@craigpennington1251
@craigpennington1251 2 года назад
Outstanding report. 1st I've heard about any of this. There's just not any info on this subject that I have been able to locate. Not knowing about certain things, one has no idea where to look for such. Thank you Mark. Yes, those were remarkable submarines. Quite bizarre but could've worked.
@LB-oz9hv
@LB-oz9hv 3 года назад
The Seiran was one beautiful looking aircraft.
@nancyhankey7413
@nancyhankey7413 3 года назад
Thank you...surprised Germany did not use these on a large scale.
@ROBERTNABORNEY
@ROBERTNABORNEY Месяц назад
I-400's were huge unmanoverable targets underwater- easily detectable by sonar
@paxtonwheeler98
@paxtonwheeler98 3 года назад
So essential no Japanese fire bombs started any wild fires, but some weirdo smoking a cigarette and throwing it out the car starts wild fires that burn for months
@BA-gn3qb
@BA-gn3qb 3 года назад
And, China did the exact same thing worldwide in 2019 using commercial aircraft.
@MitzvosGolem1
@MitzvosGolem1 3 года назад
Then we must wonder why America and Europe allowed so many aircraft to come in... Knowing it was a pandemic in China. Taiwan has 26 million only a few thousand deaths. India has 1.4 billion only 140k deaths. One must wonder why ..
@GarioTheRock
@GarioTheRock 3 года назад
@@MitzvosGolem1 Actually processing information isn't these people's forte.
@BA-gn3qb
@BA-gn3qb 3 года назад
@@MitzvosGolem1 - Since China and Taiwan hate each other, why would there be many flights back and forth? India has strained relations with China too.
@BA-gn3qb
@BA-gn3qb 3 года назад
@@GarioTheRock - Look at the relationships between China/Taiwan and China/India. Then try making an intelligent comment.
@MitzvosGolem1
@MitzvosGolem1 3 года назад
@@BA-gn3qb yes indeed . That's why I mentioned those two countries. One would think CCP pla China would have infected them intensely if this was a purposeful act by China... I believe it was an error and they tried to cover it up to maintain "friendly" trade... They are a tyrannical slave state especially to Uygar Muslim Chinese millions in forced labor camps.
@thegodofhellfire
@thegodofhellfire 3 года назад
very interesting! all I've ever heard about is the Panama canal attack
@charleshite7707
@charleshite7707 3 года назад
I agree with your buddy ARF!
@SelcukAskin
@SelcukAskin 3 года назад
SARS, MERS, Corona...”My Virus is more deadlier than yours!”
@arrow1414
@arrow1414 3 года назад
Those had nothing to do with Japan.
@thomasriggle6371
@thomasriggle6371 3 года назад
@@arrow1414 nowhere in his comment is he saying it does.
@arrow1414
@arrow1414 3 года назад
@@thomasriggle6371 I know, that is why his statement is irrelevant to the subject of the video.
@thomasriggle6371
@thomasriggle6371 3 года назад
@@arrow1414 LOL its only Irrelevant in your mind. Video subject: Japan has a potential of releasing viruses. His subject: viruses. His statement is more relevant than yours. 😂🤣
@arrow1414
@arrow1414 3 года назад
@@thomasriggle6371 Only if you think SARS, Corona, etc. are man made. Otherwise the reference in this context is as relevant as the 1918 flu.
@The_ZeroLine
@The_ZeroLine 10 месяцев назад
While I love Japan and have spent months there, there was basically absolutely no limit to their cruelty at the time when it came to both enemy combatant and civilians.
@theosphilusthistler712
@theosphilusthistler712 3 года назад
This is something that seldom gets mentioned when people discuss whether the atomic bombs were the reason for Japan's surrender. This would appear to add to the case against. Japan knew what the bombs were, knew how to build them, knew how hard it was to produce weapons grade material, knew the US could not have a large nuclear arsenal at that time. Japan also had its own, probably more terrifying, WMD program ready to go. What it didn't have, largely due to the Soviet advance, was the security of industrial and military capacity needed to implement operation PX effectively. And while it might have been an effective deterrent against the US the Soviet Union would be much less vulnerable to that form of attack.
@nogisonoko5409
@nogisonoko5409 3 года назад
Most of the Japanese hardly knew atomic weapons, only the higher ups know the exact detail of such weapon. Japanese could only estimate the amount of US nuclear arsenal since they have no way of confirming it. It could be 10,100 or maybe only 3.
@theosphilusthistler712
@theosphilusthistler712 3 года назад
@@nogisonoko5409 ​ It was the higher ups making the decision whether or not to surrender. Japan had 2 nuclear programs, one army, one navy. Some believe Japan tested a bomb in Nth Korea. The problem for Japan was obtaining and enriching enough material to produce 1 bomb, let alone an arsenal. If I recall correctly Japan eventually turned to Germany and a submarine carrying uranium was intercepted by the Canadian navy. So even though the US had access to greater natural resources Japan would have known there was no way they could have 10,100 in 1945. It required a well developed nuclear industry infrastructure and the US did not reach 50 nukes till 1948, something they achieved without the impediment of hot war or secrecy.
@nogisonoko5409
@nogisonoko5409 3 года назад
@@theosphilusthistler712 I knew Army is developing nuclear weapons but Navy? what do they even benefit on such weapon on naval fleet? 10,100 atomic bombs are just too much. 50-100 atomic bombs is a realistic estimate given the industrial capacity of US.
@theosphilusthistler712
@theosphilusthistler712 3 года назад
@@nogisonoko5409 In the fall of 1940 the Japanese army began a nuclear bomb program under Yoshio Nishina, called "Rikken" (at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research). In 1942 the navy started its own program called "F-Go" (F for fission) in Kyoto under the direction of Bansaku Arakatsu. Why these branches of service were not co-operating on a single, better, project I have no idea but no doubt that's an interesting story and one Mark Felton would do a great job of telling. Your name sounds Japanese. Is that correct? And is the fact that you seem to know slightly less about this indicative of the way WWII history is now taught in Japan? That would be very unfortunate. Good or bad, we should all know our past.
@nogisonoko5409
@nogisonoko5409 3 года назад
@@theosphilusthistler712 The reason why Navy and Army have 2 nuclear program is simple, they just dislike each other. While it is true that this name is a Japanese name, it is unfortunate that i am not a Japanese. I am an Asian though. My country have dark history with the Japanese.
@steveshoemaker6347
@steveshoemaker6347 3 года назад
Excellent...Thanks...!
@vcv6560
@vcv6560 2 года назад
It's interesting the i400 program was started in April 42, I can't help but think the Dolittle raid inspired that effort. Never discount your enemy's capacity to engineer a way to strike.
@MrFlintlock7
@MrFlintlock7 3 года назад
Yeeeeah...They earned every kiloton.
@bennybenitez2461
@bennybenitez2461 3 года назад
Sir, I render onto you a smart hand salute for yet another brilliant and most informative presentation. Your presentation are always captivating and it’s historical educational worth is paramount to those who savor these great bits of military history.
@stevelawrence5123
@stevelawrence5123 3 года назад
The US Public Health service could have dealt with such an attack easily. They were far more effective then than they are now. If Japan had conducted such an attack, there would have been nothing left of Japan after the war. the vengeance would have been horrible.
@SpenserRoger
@SpenserRoger 3 года назад
Mark told two fibs at the beginning. This is not an audio only video :)
@pierredecine1936
@pierredecine1936 3 года назад
Perhaps COVID is something buried at Unit 731 since then whose container recently rusted thru ...
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