The Naval Battles That Turned The Tide Of WW2's Pacific Theater | WWII In Colour | War Stories 

I agree but the tide Is turning !!

I think a lot of the reasons the Asian front isn't talked about a lot in modern history is because many allied prisoners suffered under Japanese treatment and the colonial way of thinking was that people who died in Asia as a whole weren't as important as those from closer to home. After the war we generally detached Nazis actions from Germany as a whole to aid in reconstruction . In the same vein the darker sides of Japanese actions in WW2 aren't mentioned now because to this day Japan as a whole denies vehemently denies a lot of the crimes it committed. In a drive to improve diplomatic relationships it is generally considered bad etiquette to remind them they were monstrous animals with very little humanity because if you weren't Japanese you weren't considered worthy of humane treatment so to them everything was justified.

I think so too because the world is fed with biased nonsense.US citizens know more about the US Civil War than WW1.Believe it or not.

I totally agree. The soldier who fought in Africa and Italy are even more forgotten. The Americans began fighting in Africa right after Pearl Harbor in mid 1942 and the Brits and Aussie’s had been fighting there as early as 1940! By the time D-Day occurred, all those men were fighting in those other theaters for YEARS!

Nah everyone knows japans naval fleet against the Americans fleet was the best sea combat in WW2

And then the Giant went and stomped on their house and destroyed it.

@@kenkleinsasser8165 yeah...didn't end well for them...kaboom!

They didn't get any carriers, which was their objective. Got their Whole country destroyed

I don't understand why, all through history there have been people that wanted to "take over the world". And it always ended badly for them. I guess that the Axis Powers didn't study world history much. The Allies gave them a crash course in history repeating itself. Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. It is a shame that between 65 to 80 million people had to die in the process. I believe that China & Russia had more dead soldiers & civilians than the rest of the Allies combined. And the biggest reason the Japanese had such success was that with the Great Depression that military outposts in Asia were not being kept up to par cuz of the lack of funds from the UK & USA. And in 1940 we were just getting over the Depression but military funding hadn't had a chance to start reinforcing the much neglected military outposts in Asia. Which imo is why large troop concentrations of the USA & UK had to surrender to smaller Japanese forces. They just didn't have the appropriate equipment to keep fighting. And weren't fanatical enough to do bonzi charges like the Japanese.

Go make your own documentary then you whining Sheila

Grinds my back teeth the way we were Underestimated in what we achieved. We had troops in Africa desert come back to fight in Jungles -no one else did this

Australians have never been underestimated. It took time to build up the US forces and armament. Australian troops played a pivotal role in keeping the Japanese at bay until that came into fruition. As a grandson of a WWII combat bombardier do not ever minimize Australia’s role in the war.

I met some Australian troops on R and R in Hong Hong. That experience left no doubt in my mind about the Australian soldiers. I know the history of that area , the Kota trail and the battles they fought. I for one have no doubt about the strength and courage of those men. My dad served with some Australian Engineers in the Philippines, and he was astounded by their skills, courage and will to" just do what it took". Americans do tend to forget about the others, for several reasons, but rest assured that despite the obvious overlooking in this work, there are many Americans who fully understand and appreciate what those men did .

@@k75romeofive You are absolutely correct. Aussie’s will never fall into a category of doubt regarding their heroism, determination and commitment to whatever comes their way. History has proven that time and again. 🇺🇸 will always stand proudly together with Australia 🇦🇺.

This channel does this with every video they ever upload. You can guarantee that the title is NOT accurate to the video because it's a form of click bait. Bet you watched the entire video waiting for those naval battles.

I mean... Midway....?

@@cleverusername9369 The coverage of the Midway Campaign lacked the depth of a serious discussion about the battle itself.

A good overview of these battles as a whole. If people want more detail, they should study each battle individually.

​@@robertdelacruz2951 The Midway account is pretty much also the classic "myth of Midway", long-exploded in Japan, and more recently by US and other historians. The Aleutians force was not a feint. And the Japanese were never anywhere near being able to launch a second strike as their decks had been busy replenishing their CAP under a series of US air attacks from Midway. Nor could the Japanese have held or possibly even taken Midway - strategically their commanders, high commands and services were all at each others' throats, and Midway was the resulting pointless disaster.

Winning Guadalcanal, was the starting point for the island hopping campaign. Midway was turning point for boosting American morale.

Yup in China

Before deciding on attacking the Pacific Fleet the Japanese Imperial Army tried taking on the the Red Army in Siberia. Got their butt’s handed to them. Then the Army dominated government made their fateful decisions

Bruh, it was a declaration of war because when they received the diplomatic message from Japan, the default is whether or not you as a state accept this or immediately sue for peace. That was after all, the entire Japanese goal no matter how deluded, and it became the policy to seek unconditional surrender in turn by the United States.

Capitalism is a helluva drug.

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The third one in the Pacific was the USS Hornet

Just another video ignoring the Saratoga,

In this part of the video I remember years when I was helping my nanny in Pennsylvania and I woke up because in the back yard I could hear someone talking out loud so I got up and a man was looking for his dog and I used Military language and he understood me,he was a Veteran so am I veterans understood veterans it's a language that most people don't understand unless you served

Not when they left.

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Coral Sea was seen as a tactical draw even though the IJN was checked strategically but Midway was the true blunder.

Just read "Shattered Spear" about Midway, which is excellent. They very much make that point that Coral Sea meant two less Japanese fleet carriers at Midway, one because of damage and one because its air wing had been so badly savaged (and unlike the US, who regarded squadrons as pretty much freely reassignable between carriers, the Japanese regarded them as an integral part of the ship, so repopulating with new squadrons wasn't even considered). And if the Japanese had had all six of their fleet carriers there, the result would likely have been very different.

No doubt it may be true but What about the battle of Stalingrad.. ? Both armies used to fight for control of severage lines streets houses and even rooms of houses for months without electricity and without heat at minus 30c temp.... I remember a line from a German soldier.... We advanced meter by meter but pls remember that it was a Stalingrad meter...

Have you never heard of the Battle of the Surigao Strait?

For the Navy, most were of Yamamoto's mindset that carriers were the king of the oceans with even older battleship hands like Kurita or Nagumo begrudgingly accepting that. The problem is that they thought so dogmatically at Midway while Fletcher, Nimitz, and Kincaid all showed that carrier operations required huge flexibility.

The diversion was a secondary goal. The Aleutian campaign was a waste of time and troops for everybody there. My neighbor was there and all it accomplished was to kill pilots and crew with impossible weather.

My grandfather was part of the 206th CA from the Arkansas National Guard that was stationed at Dutch Harbor. From the books I have read about his unit and the Aleutian campaign, the Japanese invasion force was to be a diversion in force. Basically, it was to hopefully draw attention away from Midway and if any substantial territory had been gained, then they could seek for reinforcements, but it really was a hey I'm here you can't get me type of thing then when they didn't get as much of a response as they were looking for, they pulled out so to not put the entire task force at jeopardy of being caught and destroyed. With the loss of the carriers at Midway, the Japanese had to know there was no way they would ever be able to keep Kiska and Attu without naval protection. When US/Canadian troops invaded Attu then Kiska, the Japanese were able to evacuate under the cover of dense fog. The American General in command was the son of a Confederate General. The son's name was Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr who was also a racist, maybe due to the times, but honestly, I don't think so for this general. I think he was influenced too much by his father.

@@vanringo Read "Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway," by Jonathan Parshall, and Anthony Tully. The Aleutians campaign was added to Midway campaign by the Navy General staff, to close the gap in the north (under the assumption that Midway would be successful). There is no evidence at all that the Japanese considered it a diversion. Nor would it make sense as a diversion, if you look at the timing of the campaign.

@@robskalas It was a diversion because they sent light carriers and evacuated from the islands before the US counterattacked to the point that we lost more lives from friendly fire, the climate, and traps than direct combat. We saw none of the banzai suicidal defense seen at Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, or Saipan.

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Nevermind. I'm dumb

I don't care for MacArthur but he didn't have the assets to defend the Philippines.

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