The Battle for Henderson Field: An Astounding US Victory | Battle 360 | History 

My dad was in there somewhere on a destroyer, the U.S.S. Strong. The Strong was sunk by Japanese torpedoes and a few men survived of which my dad was one.

My uncle was a gunnery officer in the A turret of the Washington when it sank Kirishima.

God bless Admiral Lee and the USS Washington BB-56 and all who helped in this Legendary Engagement of Battleships. Go Navy God Bless America.

Back when y'all actually showed stuff about history.

My Grandpa Jack was on the U.S.S Washington and was in this battle. I had no idea what he had been through until years later. I once asked him if he was ever afraid.during battle's and he said they were too busy and they focused on doing their task properly. He passed away in 1994.

Shame, been to northern Aussie not far from the coral sea... seen and thank the graves of your American kids... thanked them for saving our parents 🌹

A stunning engagement, that only true history buffs tend to fully appreciate.

Yes, more content like this, History Channel!

The narrator has a golden voice! It's like a movie I'm watching.

The animation in these are great

Further analysis has shown that Kirishima sank due to progressive flooding and was not scuttled.

STAND ASIDE IM COMING THROUGH IS THE BEST BATTLE CALL

Adm. "Ching" Lee was correct in ordering the other ships to get out of his way. The Combat Information Center on the USS Washington was better at directing gunfire by radar than the rest of the fleet, and radar was the only way they could detect the enemy on that night.

Astounding when one side had Radar and the other didn't... more like expected.

One of the things that doomed the IJN: no radar on their ships. They still relied on sight and range finder while US ships already had radar.

This video if from the olden days when the history channel actually presented history.

nice, back when history channel was actually about history

Back in the early 1990's there was a movie about a sailor on the Washington-he was only 16 years old. He was asleep on the deck and didn't hear the alarms. He was actually outside as the 16 inch guns went off. He was injured and taken to a hospital where his true age was found. I think Ricky Schroeder played the sailor.

Great Job to ALL OF THE AMERICAN FORCES DURING THAT HISTORIC VICTORY BATTLE

The night-time battle was later described by USN commanders as 'a bar room brawl with the lights shot out'.

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From the halls of Montezuma...to the hills of Bloody ridge. Semper Fi.

awesome

The night of November 14, 1942 was one of the worst nights in US Navy history. It was called "The battle Of Iron Bottom Sound'' and it was when the Japanese got their revenge for The Battle of Midway.

“stand aside i am coming through” reminds me of that justice league scene where green lantern says “stand back and peep the light show green lanterns got this” then he gets waxed by all those goons

One of the only Battleship duels in the Pacific Theatre

The Battleship Washington fired on Battleship Kirishima from 9,000 yards and wrecked it. While the Japanese warships had target fixation on Battleship South Dakota. The US Navy lost all four Destroyers brought to the battle. The Battleship South Dakota returned fire very little due to engineering failures

Legend has the sharks of the pacific dont use chopsticks with their Japenese

That wasn't a gun fight. It was a back alley brawl.

USS Washington vs Kirishima it is Battleship vs Battleship where winner takes all

Please release the full episodes of Battle 360 again

My god, now I am pumped and I have no clue what to waste this energy on. Wife!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where you at

Good show

This is from battle 360, Enterprise. to bad they don't have all the episodes on the tube.but the ones do have are great.Alsp check out Patton battle 360.

When US battleships swing their massive metal ball bats.

This is History channel at its best

Best history in the video.

Amazing animation.

Awesome 😎

This is why im subscribed in the first place.

Lead? Battleship rounds are made of steel.

Muy buenas películas

Where can i find the soundtrack for Battle 360?

that radar played a bigger part at midway then is mentioned. it was only about a 15 min warning but in 15 min you could clear your deck . man your guns. and move up to flank speed. a decisive advantage. thank the english for that advantage!

This is why we don’t kneel we don’t disrespect the people that gave their life for freedom

These ships do not fire lead ammunition.

16" gun firing American lead?? There's no lead in an APCBC armor piercing 16" shell.

U.S.S Washington receives citadel crisis. World of warships reference

Bit of a mistake....the old USS Battleships sank the IJN Yamashiro (battleship) at the Battle of Suriago Strait

They just said in this video it was the only Battleship on Battleship fight and sinking of another during WWII. For being experts in history they obviously forgot about the Bismark sinking the Hood in 1940 or the battleships that went after and sank the Bismark later

Nice clip, BUT the documentary left out critical facts of this battle, that further the high stakes drama of this firefight. 1 Battleship South Dakota was brutally damaged, losing radar and frequently power throughout the battle. I read that it took about 40 shell hits. 2 IJN made a fatal error of concentrating fire on South Dakota, as battleship Washington, undetected, continued to fire unopposed at Kirishima. 3 The RAdm Lee was the top radar gunnery expert in the world, early in on its development for the US Navy. 4 Kirishima was scuttled later the following day by its commander, though Lee got credit for the sinking. 5 USA suffered terrible ship losses.

No mention of how the Kirishima savaged the South Dakota BB look it up

Nobody: American battleships:dish it out!

Doesn't bring up the four destroyers lost and the beating the battleship south Dakota took prior to the Washington kirishima engagment.

There was a reason the USS Washington was so accurate and vicious thanks to the admiral that commanded her

Even a 5” gun is called a riffle.

Two of South Dakota's front turrets' 16" rifles were defective and could not be fired

Isn't it the same night as what happened during Friday the 13 of November 1942?

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Just curious, but did the tail guns on the Dauntless have a mechanism to stop the involuntary damage to the tail fins??🤔 They always look dangerously close to shearing off the tail assembly??

Go Washington 💪 huuura

Onde estavam os porta aviões americanos?

My Uncle Manuel fought and was wounded at Guadalcanal

Lol, move aside, I'm coming through to end this man's whole career.

They were armor Piercing high explosive salvos, not led.

Nice to hear all of the action and history but a very poor video due to lack of night vision on my part. Watching a black screen with a splash of light is one thing but really not that we'll done .to show a huge piece of history

The quote from Admiral Willis "Ching" Lee is incorrect.

They got what they had coming; remember Pearl Harbor.

when history talks about ww2 and then said 10 miles away

I love USS Washington Its the Only US Battleship to sink an Enemy Battleship

No background on the radar advantage of US ships?

US Veterans are ordinary people doing extraordinary thing's.

Well, the Washington with radar and 16" guns vs. no radar and 14" guns sounds like the Kirishima was way over-matched and so the result was not surprising.

1st rule for a battle ship duel . Always being bigger guns

The image of the washington shows the shape of an iowa class bb

And the South Dakota take heavy damage in this night battle

This video misses about 20 SUPER interesting factoids about that battle!

Boy they just glossed right over the part where the US destroyer screen got shredded.

Washington was so close to IJN Kirashima that Washington could use its 5” dual purpose guns

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Victory thanks to the British radar designs given to the US enabling the US ships to accurately aim at the Japanese during the night.

Too bad they didn't use actual footage of the big ships in action. Much better than computer game screens...

I might be wrong, but I believe the real prize were the transport ships that were delayed and caught out in the daylight by American Wildcats and bombers. The destruction of the men and equipment resulted in the decision to evacuate.

The South Dakota took a beating in that engagement all the fighting was done by Washington.

Without diminishing the accomplishment of BB-56 Washington in sinking the Kirishima, this red-white and-blue account of the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal is hugely inaccurate as "history," and does a major disservice to the over 240 U.S. sailors who died during this critical engagement. A far better and more accurate account can be read on Wiki (Search: Naval Battles of Guadalcanal). While BB-56 did indeed pummel Kirishima into eventual sinking, what gets left out of this fairy-tail account is that BB-57 South Dakota, also on this mission, experienced an electrical failure at a critical moment which knocked out her guns for a period of time, resulting in Kirishima and others pounding her badly. Also ignored completely is that the 4 U.S. destroyers assigned to this Task Force that night were sunk, at great loss of life. Not even mentioning these facts is a huge disrespect of the sacrifice of those men that night. As stirring rah-rah U.S. "history", this account is adequate. But it's not real history -- it's incomplete propaganda which is an insult to the brave sailors who participated in that battle, many of whom died that night.

I am glad I have laternatives to history channel now. If I only had listened to their biased videoes I would also chant USA at every opportunity i got.

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You know this is actually movie style graphics

My Father served on the Washington Chief

My favorite of Biden's stories is the one of how he got his Medal of Honor for bayonetting Ho Chi Minh at the Battle of Henderson Field. It's also where he got the honorific "G.I. Joe."

i think we should have kept the battleships around, they upgraded the Missouri and it was relevant in desert storm , if nothing else just for the nostalgia of them and protecting the carriers

Idontbelevethe tounds are lead

Salute to the brave Japan 🇯🇵

Where was the part where the USS South Dakota got mauled because it lost power due to its guns overloading the electrical circuit so it sailed blind into the Japanese fleet and got an overhauling

How is this a victory when we lost 242 and Japan lost 249

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It's CGI, the camera does not need to shake.

The actual battle wasn't as one-sided as it appears here. Kirishima disabled South Dakota with a lucky hit, shorting out her electrical systems, and the US destroyer screen got fairly beat up as well.

No mention of how Kirishima was targeting South Dakota, severely damaging Dakota which allowed Washington to move in for the kill, but whatever

Notice how only the victories are spoken about?