Victory At Sea - The Turkey Shoot - Episode 17 

So proud I was 15 when ww2 ended

Joe E Brown biggggg mouth

@@davidroby7290 ^

Good memories...

Conducted by an obscure fellow named Artruro Toscanini.

Good to know about good history

They used what they had, some is training film, some as you say isn’t even about the subject, some is actual footage from the event.

Joe prefers Chinese

Me too I watched VAS and it plus my Dad and brother had both been the Navy so I joined in '63 and after the Tonkin Gulf incident I was very happy I was in the Navy

What do you mean our side?

@@mgman6000 the gulf of Tonkin was all a lie

You can be born just about anytime in the last 30 years ago and therefore not have a clue about history.

​@@mgman6000 What Is VAS for people who use words?

Best ever. My grandmother gave me the record and it started my passion for WWII

I thank him for his service and all these with gif rest his soul I’m know he’s watching you up in Heaven.

But it was mostly Robert Russel Bennet who did most of the music. Unfortunately, Rogers got all of the credit. Very unjust.

Used to be the complete set on DVDs awhile ago.

Leonard Graves was incredible!

Great soundtrack...much of it from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific"....

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Thanks for the tip! I'll try it and see if it works.

You mean Anderson Air Force Base. And most B52 bombing from that base occurred way after 1967. I was there 1969/72.

BMf I couldn't agree more about NBC. Not only victory at sea but earlier when i was ten was the silent service who lost more men and sunk more Japanese shipping than any other arm including our glory hog carriers. Can you even imagine the fear when being depth charged and still doing your duty barely able to breath? When they finally got radar and could find the ships before they could be sighted they really stopped Japan cold.

Makes me miss orchestra and jazz band back in hs

Me too with my Dad at Yokuska Japan in 1959

"AND A NOW"...my ears would guide me to the old b&w tv like a moth to a flame.

Me too

Zenith baby.

scott left : Me too, and it drove the rest of the family crazy.

Que estas peliculas setraduzcsn al español.son muy interesante que las vean todos

What an amazing score. Was this part of the "war effort" I wonder? Or later? There was a lot of effort to match the music to the subject on the screen ... or vice versa. But I'm still impressed by Roger's music. The copyright at the beginning says MCMVII suggesting 1952. But the story in this episode suggests that the war was still not over. So when indeed was this film actually made?

Correction: Orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett

@@robvanwyck3063 I remember watching this with my father, an army veteran of Leyte and Okinawa. I think it was a weekly series that I think roughly followed the actual timeline of events. That was in the early to mid 50's. I was born in '47.

Source? I didn't think that happened.

I think it's called golden week. The Guam merchants look forward to it like American merchants look to black friday. Japanese tourists spend a lot of money

Same thing for the Samoans. They serve in large numbers. A huge percentage of Guam's area is ceded to US government use.

They are AWESOME people. Strong as fuck. And great to have on your side in a bar fight lol!!

I agree. So even the great DECEIVER (Obama) did nothing for the former service men and woman.

kim weaver, agree that they were and are fine, brave Americans but the VA is shitball all over and the native Chamorros are sure a hell of a lot better off than when occupied by the Imperial Japanese in WWII.

Patrick Reynolds He did what he could, without congressional action what could he do?

Might be @Andersen AB,Guam.Henderson airfield ,Guadalcanal was fought gallantly by the US Marines and recovered it from the Japanese in 1943🇺🇸

By this point the balance of skill and experience was on the American side. Our pilots were flying better planes and getting more training. The Japanese couldn't keep up from here on we were shooting down student pilots.

@@TheMikewalking Correct... with Midway, the Japanese began to hemorrhage pilots and planes badly and the US Navy's assets were updated, especially the Hellcat and Bearcat.

@@andrewrei6106 We had the Hellcat then, but the Bearcat was still on the drawing boards and didn't enter service until just after the war ended. Still made an effective ground-attack plane in Korea flying off of CVEs.

I watched them too in the 50s. I remembr that Walter Cronkite narrated Air Power. He was the last news anchor that the whole nation trusted.

It does that every day just no one has noticed. It is so quick you blink and you missed it.

Yeah. hahaha Dumb politicians.

These Chammoros had a bad reputation before ww2, because the japanese just murdered them wholesale after taking over.

Why the Japanese were going to occupy those islands even if ee weren't there & it could have been worse for them

Most of these Islanders in the states live of the welfare state, a lazier group you may never meet!

JosephK109 because most of the war in Europe was fought on land. In the Pacific it was island to island & they had a lot more battles on the oceans. Its called Victory at Sea emphasizes on the Sea part of it

@@jackboyer1280 There are episodes about the war in the Atlantic. I just watched one, "Killers and Killed".

I too was born in 47. Used to watch this series with my Dad. He was a radio repairman in well USAAC.

Watch the silent service

Greatest documentary for sure!

This and The World At War

karma has nothing to do with God not Him with it.

There is a book about this typhoon called Halsey's Typhoon.

Kennedy was dumped into the sea, swam back to shore with another sailor in his arm. f'd up his back etc. - silver spoon guy but still did great in the war, not a seat warmer.

randy109 I love this series!

They had the Hell Cats ! 2000 HP !

When I was a kid all the older generation, older than my parents, had been involved in WWII in some way. I didn't know some people had been in the camps.

Philbyd 123 They were called the greatest generation for all the sacrifices they all made to keep us free along with most of the rest of the world especially z Europe & Asia where most were a concured people & can't forget Africa too. they gave the Axis he'll that's for sure

A millennial said the me that “the world will be a much better place when all the boomers are gone” and the other millennials he was with agreed. God help the USA when they are in charge.

Amen to that...and what a generation it was. America’s GREATEST generation if you asked me.

@@djquinn11 Dale, they won't be charge.

paul m: It's bound to happen in a turkey shoot. Good thing his Hellcat has self-sealing fuel tanks!

Could have been the wingman of the Zero, firing on the Hellcat

@@davidrowley8251 it was a hellcat you can tell by the profile as he slides in

@@JohnRodriguesPhotographer Careless pilot!

Your comment is pretty mindless. But you knew that already.

@@ronaldcammarata3422 and you are a moron

@@ronaldcammarata3422 the was nothing mindless about the point he made or the logic behind it. Your comment on the other hand was a mere childish insult, a better example of mindless.

@@ronaldcammarata3422 mindless are you seriously that challenged? He is exercising his first amendment rights. You on the other hand need to stop taking enemas orally.

another trumpizoid special ed failure gives us the benefit of his two working brain cells

I watched Victory at Sea when I was a kid. Great series.

Channel 2 CBS Channel 4 NBC Channel 7 ABC.. 11 was WPIX and cant remember channel 5 or 9's station letters but they were local NYC stations...The 1970's back when the city was outstanding..Not the toilet it is today..

The scene in this episode is of Chamorros jumping to their deaths. They did so in order to avoid capture but also because they were starving and to sacrifice themselves so others could eat. U.S. troops told of finding the bodies of the elderly and mothers. They jumped so their babies could be better fed.

When it comes to casualties, the near-starving locals are ignored. They also contributed; they were what it was about.

In NYC everyone watched it with their veteran dad!.. Maurice HBank

You mean the tech idiots who came up with RU-vid? Ah, I understand.

@@davesnothere. ???

There were certainly some P-47's in the pacific theater

Just like today defense appropriations bills. You get down to brass tacks based on the original plan to defend us interests in the Pacific, plan orange, Guam was indefensible.

@@JohnRodriguesPhotographer Japan didnt think it was...We have the best politicians money can buy.. Twenty first century and they think the same

@@rackets7991 Keep in mind how their defense of Guam worked out. Also look at Plan Orange. Geographically Guam was then surrounded by Islands controlled by Japan. Which included airbases.

you can thank the right wig isolationists for that

Ahh The Tri Cities area. I miss Johnson City. And I quit watching the news a long time ago.

Props for mentioning Lee Marvin.

And where Admiral Nagumo of Midway fame committed Hari Kari . When you look at Nagumo’s picture you can see the overwhelming “Weight of Command “ in his eyes and demeanor !

@@oceanhome2023 Chuichi Nagumo was a truly tragic figure in this battle. Yes he was "Commander, Pacific Fleet" but that "fleet" was just a collection of shipping barges and a few transports. He had never recovered from his disgrace at Midway and was shunted into this insignificant command from which he had no chance to redeem his honour, trapped on an island of fanatics determined to fight to the death for a war which was out of their control. His earlier successes in 1941 and pre-Midway 1942 had led him to a meaningless death. But he still did his duty, and he remained his Emperor's soldier right to the very end.

Yes look what they have done with the WW1 films ! Amazing

I believe this series was made in the early 60’s . Go figure

I think it must be an early scan. This was probably recorded in 16 mm and should be capable of higher grade scanning. Films that were scanned to digital early, need a rescan, now that scanner tech is more evolved.

You noticed as well. There was also a 109 shot down here. I guess you get representative footage wherever you can.

It was no secret ,being published in the papers around the world in November 1941, a month before Pearl Harbour.... Would their have been build up of the military personel ?? On December 2, the fleet carriers were at sea in their effort of rushing around to move squadrons ... One defense for american/allied interests in South East Asia was a force of B17 bombers in the Philippines. Not being secret, these were also destroyed in surprise attacks on December 2, 1941. At the time, Japan had six fleet carriers, and USA had three ready, so they couldn't simply rush the aircraft carriers into the Marianas. They'd be sitting ducks for being wiped out. Due to american code breaking , the Battle of Midway, June 1942 was a win for the USA, and Japan was down to 2 fleet carriers vs USA's 3 ready at the time, And so the Americans can start the Guadacanal campaign in 1942, although this would see it as 2 vs 1 , USS Lexington being their sole remaining US fleet carrier for a while, the American Navy losing in the carrier battles there. So thats why sending large scale force to the Marianas had to wait .. until a large fleet of new ships was commissioned, the great build up of the US Army and Navy is extremely understated in this video.. it only shows a few warehouses. The US Navy had become a massive navy, the US Army was seaborn, with a massive fleet to transport it..

I don't know how that Admiral could keep his composure during that conversation.he should get a distinguished service cross for a Navy cross for that one.I would have completely lost it all over his honorable self.he would have better been served if he had asked if there was any potential for the volcano 200 reawaken on Guam. There is at least a very remote chance that that would happen.

Then he tried to lie about it when he said his comment was meant as a joke. Right, a joke in a House committee hearing. When I need a good laugh I watch ol Hank speak. It is like he has been huffing glue since he was a child.

@@JohnRodriguesPhotographer I think the closest active volcano in the Marianas chain it the northern most island of the chain, Paralon de Paharos.

Johnson was a despicable pos