People can't comprehend the scale of guns ships have, a destroyer's gun would be considered a large gun on land. People see and 88mm on a tiger and go oh shit but face off against a 16in gun or 18inch.
Important to note that many were escort carriers, but nonetheless still very impressive. I would say it was even more impressive that morale was considered important enough that ice cream barges were built.
@@bodin1912 the commander that planned the Pearl Harbor attack. Who argued not to fight America beforehand because he knew what we could do. Was killed few years later when his flight was intercepted by American forces.
@@bodin1912 he was the lead Admiral for the Japanese navy. While it's debated whether or not he said those exact words, we have plenty of historical documents that show that he felt this way about attacking America.
@@bodin1912 Yamamoto was the lead admiral for the imperial japanese navy, he protested the idea of attacking the US but the japanese war council ignored him and told him to attack anyway
@@Wolfie142_ the two nukes didn't change a thing because before that the usa bomb Tokyo and kill above 100k civil and the capacity of this bombs is beyond nuke in the two city search for history it's just usa want you to believe that here efforts who stop the war ... Just search man
Fun Fact about D-DAY The USS Texas, a Battleship at Normandy, deliberately began to sink its self so it could get its cannon to the right angle to make it's shot. The Texas survived this event, and is now a ship museum on the Texas coast. (I think it's going in galveston after repairs)
Correction, the USS Texas deployed intentional counterflooding of the anti-torpedo blisters, enabling her to gain a 2 degree list. A 2 degree list wouldn't sink any dreadnought unless in rare circumstances. The anti-torpedo blisters aren't technically part of the hull, so she didn't flood herself either. The USS Texas didn't have enough gun range, since dreadnoughts of this era didn't have as much gun elevation compared to their treaty era or post treaty counterparts. Counterflooding: Intentional flooding of a ship to usually counteract a list of the ship, or to fill a magazine to prevent it from detonating Anti-torpedo blisters: Bulges on the side of a ship, used to prematurely detonate torpedoes outside of the actual hull List: When a ship leans to a certain side, too much list and a ship will capsize or flip
My grandfather fought in WW2 from France in 1940 to, North Africa, Italy and Germany in 45. Was wounded a number of times. His father fought in WW1 from 1914/8 and was wounded in the Somme.
@@JohnJones-k9d My late grandfather served in in WW2 fighting in Japan and got shot multiple times even losing his pinky finger which was probably the weirdest thing seeing as a kid lol
@@blitzy3244 Well....he knew they were coming just not when...the radar stations however saw the planes but wrote it off as a friendly training mission
@@blitzy3244 A common misconception. The US knew an attack was coming some days prior, but they didn't think it was Pearl Harbor, nor did they know when the attack was coming. They thought the attack would come at Wake, Midway, or the Philippines which did get attacked. American battleplanning didn't know that they would attack Pearl Harbor.
@Peter-ii6in i agree france was the one who originally starrted it. and then ww1 happened again thanks to france and britian. and ww2 happend again thanks to france and britian
@user-ud6ru4gu4e I think he's referring to the USS Liberty incident. The attacked the uss liberty with fighter planes and motor torpedo boats which killed 34 and wounded 171 crew because they were "confused on whether it was an Egyptian ship" even though it was flying the American flag and its identification was clearly shown with large letters on its hull. (Took place during the Six day war)
also the USSR finishing 80% of german troops KIA/MIA, fighting germany+italy+romania+(austria)+bulgaria+soldiers/volunteers from occupied countries+nazi-adjacent finland in parallel while the US bombed cities after realizing that factories had AA, which, surprise, actually increased german morale. they decreased Red Army casualties, but didn’t decide the war. the lend lease of all nations to the ussr was 4% in total war production and saved lifes, but not the outcome of the war. and then you landed when the ussr was like a solid year in retreat, achieving no territorial gains or victories after the battle of Kursk ended 1943. like army size/strength was comparable, but US was very cowardly, assuming they wanted to fight the nazis instead of allying with them against the USSR if their convois and harbor weren’t attacked
@@gonozal8_962 You forget the Pacific Theatre and the fact the U.S. still cared for their own soldiers, meanwhile the USSR lost 1/4 of their army and their leader didn't even care they were dying (benefit of the doubt is that its four percent less than Germany I guess), USSR in total lost like 30 million people. Of course the U.S. also supported the Allies through the lend-lease act, of which of course Russia received 11 billion. This was a fifth of the total worth of the weapons, 3 fifths being granted to Britain, and of course both payed the U.S. back for significantly less (Russia payed 700 million). The act also could have been one of the key components allowing Russia to defeat Germany, though this isn't likely and more so just helped a lot.
@@averylongnameforabsolutely566 well like the chinese also get forgotten frequently about in the pacific theatre and the USSRs fears about a japanese invasion weren’t irrational either. like yes, the US did a contribution and saved lives, but it’s effort was still lower than the USSR‘s. the US having more factories at the beginning of WW2 than almost all other participants combined, even though stalin went to do sacrifices to build up a heavy industry fast, of course ment that they could use more equipment ("care about their lives"). the USSR killed 4x the nazis, who actually also occupied their factories and used better equipment and soldiers (because a 30yo is more useful at a dynamic front than in a bunker, significant portions of atlantic wall troops were foreign conscripted 60+ year olds, who of course can’t fight as much as 20-30s soldiers in their peak shape. most, like 90% of Tiger Is (Tiger II a bit more balanced) were used on the eastern front, although some of those 90% also fought in north africa, which the US didn’t join initially iirc. the most produced tank for both nations, m4 and T-34, had still 50k produced each. if you have 4 times as many tanks compared to the enemies‘ numbers and eg the italian troops were less motivated, it’s no surprise to suffer less casualties. they had better navy, though, the USSR couldn’t have pulled off normandy landing. in conclusion, the US had more industrial capacity than USSR and germany combined, yet still fought less/less intense, which allowed them to use support, like especially air (the USSR lacked aluminium) way, WAY more often, which having these capabilities ofc reduced US casualties. additionally, roads were better in western europe, which made transporting equipment easier or building combat airstrips in a non-muddy terrain. when your GI can call in CAS, instead of outnumbered aurcraft struggling to just negate air superiority, you ofc have better recon, and killing a target pinned in position by an airstike instead of having to charge with ground forces costs less lives. if the US had 500k shermans, they would have suffered even less casualties because like every platoon gets a tank assigned, but in 1944, the majority of casualties infliced on germany was more than half of germans casualties in the war already, so these bigger numbers wouldn’t equate to more KIAs/MIAs/wounded for german losses and thus not to more contribution in my playbook. there’s a WWII every day/week (I don’t remember) animation which visualizes pretty well that the germany was already loosing when the US landed. additionally, the factory bombing (which was later replaced by city bombing because factories had AA, but rather strengthened war support than deplete it+soldiers weren’t in the cities anymore) may have had some effects on denying supply to the eastern front, but I don’t know how that compares to derailing trains, eg by yugoslav or soviet partisans and the equipment destroyed by that. loaded trains w/o factory bombing would‘ve also compensated more equipment produced by more losses from sabotage to a part. I‘d be interested in the numbers of equipment lost due to factory bombing (US+UK) compared to sabotage (occupied countries), though. US lend lease and war participation was noticeable, yet the soviets participated that much that it’s almost more wrong in terms of inaccuracy as to say the did equal as to say the US did nothing in, at least for european theatre. due to also soviet fighting in manchuria, weakening the Japanese army a lot, and therefore also denyed them resources. if they waited and US didn’t occupy/bomb japan mainland makes the US AF and navy significant, but like not necessarily required to win WW2 (bcs japan would lack the eg steel to keep their superior navy running and having to shrink it), while the USSR not doing anything in WW2 would’ve been more significant. apart from human lives mobilized, the USSR not producing anything would have been significantly better for the axis than lend lease not happening at all a fifth of total weapons produced in WWII globally or by the US, a fifth of what were you referencing?
@@averylongnameforabsolutely566 the US didn't share a land border with the Axis, though, which is probably a major component as to why they didn't suffer as many losses compared to the USSR.
I once smoked a joint, shit talked the government a little bit, and walked outside to an AH-64 flying directly over me... really put things into perspective.
I think the greatest quote to summarize the American fighting spirit was during the American Civil War. A Union general was in London and a British general asked him, "Why is it taking so long to win your war?" The Union general replied, "Because we are fighting Americans"
In the three years following the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers. The U.S. built 17. American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war: 297,000 aircraft, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks and two million army trucks. In four years, American industrial production, already the world's largest, doubled in size. “Powerful enemies must be out-fought and out-produced,” President Franklin Roosevelt told Congress and his countrymen less than a month after Pearl Harbor. “It is not enough to turn out just a few more planes, a few more tanks, a few more guns, a few more ships than can be turned out by our enemies,” he said. “We must out-produce them overwhelmingly, so that there can be no question of our ability to provide a crushing superiority of equipment in any theatre of the world war.”
@@ammonalldredge3495 If you're rich the US is probably the best place in the world. If you're poor or middle class, not so much. You have to accept that to make the country a better place. Just saying we are the best country in the world is just dumb.
@@ralfzacherl9942 Im in the middle class, and it definitely depends on where you live in the USA, it's not as generalized as that. Also, my rights are worth living her for as well
@@ammonalldredge3495 Life as middle calss is not better in the US than Norway, France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand or whatever. But when you work 2 or 3 jobs full time your life in a country with a stronger social democracy is better. Working minimum wage in the US has nothing good about it. As so called middle class you can't afford a house in a lot of areas as well. Don't know what rights you mean exactly but when it's about labour laws or similar, European countries are way better. When it's about guns of course not. But I prefer that my landlord can't kick me out any time or my employer quits me. Stuff like that can be prevented. I
They weren't fighting for 'their truth,' they were fighting for their way of life, not merely their lives or livelihoods. This was no petty war over resources but about how human life was to be organized, spent, crushed, savored, sacrificed, employed, enslaved, elevated, or degraded. Those men toiled through fear and wrath to decide what world would become our and what world would be killed and buried. All that said, I fucking love these types of compositions of archival footage and remixed modern music. This one is particularly well done.
@David1Eskin Wars over resources are not “petty”. That is very dumb for someone to say who is completely dependent on those resources to not struggle to survive while constantly starving, freezing, and sick.
@@midgetydeath Well put. People might think wars over resources are dumb, and sometimes they are, but for the most part they're just to keep the resource flow going.
@@crystalcat1002 france: you see i was relevant because... Brazil: lol disbanding the only professional force go brrrr India: 💀 Iran: WHY TF AM I EVEN HERE Turkey; i joined, germany surrended, coincidence? I think not Lebanon: hold my non existant food
@Sus-stewes, you mean a few centuries before this conflict? as an amateur ww2 historian and a us citizen, the British put in a colossal effort in this war and don't get recognized enough for it.
Even now? americans today are not like the men of the 1940's. We are weak, fat, and a bunch of potheads. You will be better to distance yourselves. The usa is an anchor of death.
The Spanish empire tried it once, the next day they suddenly lost most of their colony. Imperial Japan signed up for a round in the ring, the next thing they know their empire of the rising sun, turns to the empire of rising suns.
Everyone has their favorite, but the literal armada of B-17s and P-51s that would appear basically every other day above Germany for the last 3 years of the war will always be my favorite image. The skies always have, currently do, and always will speak American. It's our domain, and ours alone. Everyone else visits by tolerance.
Utter garbage. Russian air force was far larger. Germany put all its toughest units against Russia. Top Russian ace had more kills than top 30 us aces.
@@JohnJones-k9d 1. no the US naval air force was larger and vastly better than the soviet air force 2. the top American ace richard bong is officially credited with 43 confirmed air to air kills and at least 200 probable...
Imagine declaring war on a country that mass produces warships like it's nothing while some of it's dockyards are just reparing their and their allies ships 💀💀💀
I am proud to have family members on both sides who have served for the US, both of my grandfathers were in the navy and mainly saw the aftermath of the war. I promise to not let their sacrifice go to waste and look up to those of the generation who stopped the axis: from regular soldiers and navymen to intelligent leaders and generals. May other nations remember what happens when you awake a sleeping giant!
I had two as well on died after he got his plane up in Pearl harbor and the other fought at midway and iwo jima in the navy he survived the war though but died a year before I was born
There was an Japanese officer who spent time in the USA before the Second World War and he tried to advise his military to not attack the USA as he understood how they thought and knew how they’d respond, and they dismissed his comments and went ahead and that lost em the war 😂
False. Originally, we understood that if there was no response by November 25, we would be attacked, but what was issued was the Harnaut. The U.S. can't talk like this.
@@onions111 shouldn’t have questioned me, we Americans know our fucking oil man 💀💀💀 “Canada has the third largest oil reserves in the world and is the world's fourth largest oil producer and fourth largest oil exporter.”
The Japanese attack made it necessary for the US to become the world most powerful Navy and Airforce on the planet. The Germans made it necessary for the US to become the most powerful Army in the world. And we can only thank the men and women who met and exceeded in that challenge. 🇺🇸
@@canadian8770im Canadian and to be honest he’s right you can’t compare the USA to Canada militarily because the the Americans outnumber and outgun us in every possible way
Originally, we understood that if there was no response by November 25, we would be attacked, but what was issued was the Harnaut. The U.S. can't talk like this. DONT TOUCH JIHAD WARRIORS!!
I am proud to be related to one of the very first members of the US Airborne Infantry. My great- grandfather was unable to join the military during WW2 because he had a hernia in his back, but his brother was sent to the Bonin Islands. He told stories of his squad finding body parts in the Japanese duffle bags and other stories that gave me nightmares (one of the instances of my creative imagination coming back to bite me in the *ss). My grandpa (who passed down the stories from my great-uncle is retired Airborne Infantry, and my bio-dad is a Marine.
Infact they were really fit, even the real skinny guys would beat someone's ass from the modern day easily. For some of the part, not saying they wouldn't lose, but they'd run people for their money with brawling@@thesharky
No matter your view on the United States, She will go down as one of the most memorable and powerful nations in all of history. Dominating the air, the sea, and the ground, and one day the stars. First to the bomb, first to the moon, and reigns over her foes with superior firepower, and a defense budget large enough to fight god, and win.
Originally, we understood that if there was no response by November 25, we would be attacked, but what was issued was the Harnaut. The U.S. can't talk like this. DONT TOUCH JIHAD WARRIORS!!
Yes the US will go down in history with a lot of great titles..... But don't forget about the embarrassing titles: the worst tanks of ww2, racist, sexism, wokenes, women writes, homosexuallty losing a war against talking trees with AK-47s , school shooting, 911, that's for most people. Here are some more not commonly known: losing 2-6 nukes the most expensive military a case of expensive doesn't equal better, not so smart specifically navy and air force military commanders. IAM probably forgetting a lot.🎉🎉😅 Iam just a history fan and there is no country with a perfect history.
@@pixelcrystal9512 In the United States case, expensive does equal better, the US is literally unmatched in the Navy and Air Force departments, the US literally has the first and second strongest Air Force ~ USAF, USN. Vietnam was a strategic failure, and so was Afghanistan. The difference was that both those were asymmetric wars, when you're fighting an enemy that doesn't wear uniforms or obey laws of war, it's difficult securing a victory. While the US has lost 6 nuclear devices, nobody knows how many the Soviets have lost, so have fun with that knowledge. Nearly every country on earth has a history of racism and/or sexism. Of course I know the US isn't perfect, or is the greatest, but a country isn't defined by its failures
@@dusk07 Did the US obey the law of war? I don't think so like napalm or toxic gas shotguns And iam taking not about the place in the world of the air force or navy Iam taking about that in a real war history proves that US army commanders are incompetent(most of them)
Japan: I think I made the US mad Mexico: Why do you say that, what did you do? Japan: I hurt 8 of their boats and un-alived a lot of people Mexico: YOU DID WHAT!?!? The US: has smoke coming out if its ears and its face is red from how mad it is Mexico: Well Japan, it’s been nice knowing you. You better start running now
@@theawkwardhotchocalate5230 Japan: "Yeme... eh... word of advice. Don't. Touch. The Boats" Yemen: "Or what!? They are the aggressors! Not me!" USA: "Oh yes those merchant ships just transiting through international waters. MFer you haven't seen aggressive. Aggressive is when you can take pictures of your shadows 80yrs later!"
"Hell that isn't even the most aggressive, keep touching our boats and I'll be glad to deliver a red letter day to your doorstep, just ask Japan about the present, and we aren't helping you rebuild like Japan."@@Tank50us
To my American brother you ever need to ask Canada for anything we are North American by blood our families live on both sides of the imaginary border between 🇨🇦🇺🇸 we would die to defend every inch of this territory till None are left
The USS Nevada survived World War One, Pearl Harbor, World War Two, the bikini atoll nuclear bomb tests, and was sunk for naval gunnery practice in 1948
As a Canadian I would like to remind everyone while it is important to leave my tiny neighbours boats alone I would remind everyone most of the “Geneva suggestions” were made specifically to stop us from having fun
I go to Norfolk sometimes to visit family, and the cranes to unload shipping are the size of apartment buildings, and there are dozens. at one port. just for unloading boxes. really puts things into perspective
@@SebbyKV nah, the Philippines literally granted America every permission to use their ports, that's where Japan lost because hundreds of US navy ships, carriers and most importantly thousands of planes swarmed Japanese Navy, and heck! the deadliest ww2 naval battle even happened in Philippine Sea!
FUN FACT: America hasnt declared war on any country since WW2. FUN FACT #2: The korean war, vietnam war, persian gulf war, afghanistan/iraq war, and kosovo war....must have just been "conflicts"
@@definitely_not_Hirohito Oh, _he knew._ He warned against the exact action. However the Emperor ordered the attack, and that wasn't an order he could ignore.
@@definitely_not_Hirohito actually yes. Yamamoto studied in the US, and saw our manufacturing capacity and knew what we could do with it should we get on a war footing. He even told several of his colleagues that even if Pearl Harbor was successful, they would have six months of near total freedom in the Pacific before victory becomes extremely doubtful. By the end of the Battle of Midway on June 7th 1942, he was proven right as the last of the four carriers the IJN sent slipped beneath the waves.
They knew they didn’t have a chance in a long slugging match, but the Japanese assumed that the USA wouldn’t be willing to accept the hardships of a war and would agree to the Japanese terms (which were basically “give us the South Pacific and we’ll leave you alone”); it’s stupid in hindsight, honestly it was a long shot even at the time, but the Japanese were nothing if not insanely arrogant.
@@Shaun_Jonesyou know what’s ironic about that? China said the EXACT same thing. I’m over here thinking i’ll live in a god damn trench for the next 10 years to defend America. We enjoy our comforts and cushy lives but when push comes to shove all Americans will unite into a force the world has never seen.
@@Shaun_Jones I mean, it's not without merit. Japan had defeated the Russian Empire not that long prior, and they had most of the advantages coming into the war (well, on paper). So they thought that they could do it to us. Turns out... we're a bit better with our boats than the Russians were.
Given that every war we've fought (with maybe one or two exceptions) was because some one, some where decided messing with our boats was a good idea. You'd think they'd learn by now.
The Seven Nation Army: 1. Nazi Germany 2. Empire of Japan 3. Kingdom of Italy 4. Francoist Spain 5. Romania 6. Kingdom of Bulgaria 7. Kingdom of Hungary
The Germans had the Bismarck, the Japanese had the Yamato, both were sunk by the allies. America had the USS Nevada. They couldn’t sink the Nevada, so America did it herself.
Originally, we understood that if there was no response by November 25, we would be attacked, but what was issued was the Harnaut. The U.S. can't talk like this.
Cool video, but only people who have never seen war think it’s cool. It’s fucking horrible. No glory. No honor. Just death of the likes you can’t imagine.
I absolutely love the edit, and I like that it's in the Pacific theater (most of it), which is the part that my great grandfather served in. He served in the Occupation of Japan, basically the end of the war. Awesome!
@@wsdawfwabjseaoufde what do you mean AMÉRICA picked fights? People touched our crap, we beat their crap to hell, and WE’RE the bad guys? Until Europe was getting rolled over in WW1, the USA was a solitary nation, not unlike North Korea in how we stayed away from other nations.
@@wsdawfwabjseaoufdebro, japan attacked pearl harbor just because they wanted more oil, Japan was the people who picked the fight, and they payed for it dearly
@@wsdawfwabjseaoufde i mean it went from just pushing the war in our favour in the First World War to soloing an entire empire while helping with the other two
American policy in ww2 was "marching fire". Aka walk into wherever you were going and light the motherliving fuck out of everything you think could have an enemy in it. Ask questions later.
No? UK gained, Australia gained, Italy gained, Soviet Union gained because of there land size of the eastern bloc and they went on to gain East Germany
@@JaysWargaming UK lost the empire,Italy lost the empire and status of great power,the USSR lost so many men that the consequenses are stil seen today,the US lost almost no men,and no territory's and became the 1st world power
@@JaysWargamingThe US is the only nation to have a higher GDP, standard of living, and more infrastructure after the war ended than before the war started.
