When the Japanese came after a Pearl Harbor survivor again - USS Pennsylvania, August 12th 1945 

Given their larger size, better construction and historical toughness, could the Shoukaku's have weathered the Damage taken by Soryuu and Hiryuu at Midway? And would the Japanese have been in a better situation if the Soryuu and Hiryuu were deployed to Coral Sea and the Shoukaku's were sent to Midway? (I don't think the Japanese could have won Midway with the Shoukaku's, but they might have been able to recover the 5th carrier division at least and bring them back to action later)

Do you think you could explain the lack of an island on some carriers like the Ryūjō?

I recently watched a documentary, missions that changed the war, about the Doolittle raid. They said that the cruiser Nashville expended over 900 rounds in the sinking of the picket ship that spotted the task force. They said the sea conditions were bad so I was wondering is this a case of bad conditions and a green crew, or I there something I'm missing?

What in your opinion was the most powerful ironclad monitor?

'Standard'! Penny vs. Queeny?

I had to look up Johnny Carson's wiki page and sure enough, you were talking about THAT Johnny Carson! I never knew he served in the Navy or WWII. Learn something new every day.

@@RCAvhstape He would occasionally talk about how he was a brand new Ensign, typically affecting a high, nasally voice and say ""Allright men...." and remark that here he was addressing all these grizzled, experienced sailors and how incongruous it all was.

@@RCAvhstape and his sidekick served in the Marines

Imagine an older Capt. Carson enterring the bridge of his ship.... Instead of "Captain on deck!", the call is "Here's Johnny!" 😆

@@lancerevell5979 Over the 1MC every damned day lol.

Also "Old Falling Apart" a nickname gained in the Aleutians Campaign due to her amount of sustained fire, still holds the record for most ordinance fired by one ship.....ever.

Angry Sister!!!

The moniker fits very well. :-D

This being Pearl Harbor day, I’ll remember my uncle Ens. George A. Wolf Jr. (ironically from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania), who disappeared after the explosion of the forward magazine of USS Arizona. Assigned to Plot, just aft the bridge, there was never a chance of his remains ever being discovered. The only sign humans had once been stationed there was Admiral Kidd’s Annapolis class ring, fused to a metal panel.

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Respect to your grandfather.

Thank you. I’m sure he’d have appreciated it. He would have loved Draco’s channel, too, I bet.

My dad also lies about his age and joined the Army in December of 1941 at the age of 16

I know what you mean. My father was aboard USS Enterprise in 1942, and every time I see an image or some film, I wonder if he’s in it.

My uncle Howerd was killed at Pearl the family is still varry proud of his sacrafice. His little sister my grand mother never forgot her big brother and spoke his name on her death bed befor passing.

Respect to your father.

My Grandfather and his good friend Kenneth Taylor, both university students, decided to join the US Army in 1940 because they saw the war coming. Taylor succeeded but the recruiter refused to take my Grandfather. Turns out the man recognized Grandpa as the only child of a beloved family in the area and that he'd never hear the end of it from people if he took my Grandfather. Thus, Kenny went on to become a pilot for the US Army Air Corps and found himself at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, earning fame for his actions that day. Grandpa was thrilled Kenny survived, but furious he was not there himself. Actually worked out for the best, however, because while Kenny was learning to be an Army Air Corps pilot, Grandpa finished his education as a chemical engineer and got his first job building aviation gasoline refineries for the US Army Air Corps, so not unimportant work as it turned out. Once he decided enough gas was flowing, he volunteered for the Navy despite being exempt from the draft due to his education and went into naval mine warfare.

Wonderful little ship Drach do a video on her now!

It's always wonderful to hear the long story of a ship's life end with "is currently being restored".

@@BleedingUranium been following the project for awhile. they've done a lot of work already

Fascinating ! As an added detail as the Acushnet Shackle would play a massive role in one of the finest hours of coast guard history. That of course being when Two tankers broke apart mere miles apart from each other during a heavy storm off cape cod. Acushnet would be one of the first ship to respond and would be responsible for saving most of the crew from one of the stricken ships.

The phrase is "Tactically Acquired"

@@ahwilson1744 In the US Marine Corps the phrase is "recon'd"

I believe HMS Renown was in that club. And whole of KGV class minus the PoW.

Add Nevada to the list

I see an anime series in this

@@Trek001 : New episode idea for Azur Lane

Is Agrajag a Japanese name then?

@@cbbees1468 hush you... no need to drag our state's politics into the comment section where we're having fun

Every old Salaryman I knew when living in Japan.

As an In Port Officer of the Deck in USS Caron and USS Nassau it was my responsibility to keep the rough deck log, handwritten. The NAV Division would type up a smooth copy of the Log the next day and then have to track down all the OODs from that previous duty day so at a minimum they could sign it, or sit with the NAV guys to "translate" the handwriting (scrawl) they couldn't read as it was typed up.

I facepalmed at his pronunciation of Tenino. I grew up in Washington, a few dozen miles from that town. It's not te-KNEE-no, as most from out of State say it, but te-NINE-oh. It supposedly originates with the name of the steam engine that ran there - the 10-9-0.

Respect to your grandfather.

One of the higher ups in my company was a former nuke engineer aboard her. Just met him today and we talked about sonar for a good 30 minutes.

Hey, if you're on a warship and run-of-the-mill workplace injuries are prominent enough to show up in the deck logs, you're doing pretty well.

I looked hard but I couldn't find a damage report in the archives, although the deck war diary does refer to them being submitted.

@@Drachinifel I think those reports were "liberated" by someone with a connection to the Pennsylvania, perhaps even after obtaining them for some official purpose. This someone probably figured that after she was scuttled "No one will miss them." That or they were "lost" by a sloppy bureaucracy.

@@robertf3479 Probably in that big warehouse next to the box containing the Arc of the Covenant...

Odds are that the report is simply still in the archives, one of the billions of pieces of paper the US Navy stored after the war with minimal concern for ease of later reference. After all, in an age before computers, the only way to know where a specific paper was in the archives is if someone wrote down its location on another piece of paper, which meant someone had to then store that paper, which consumed space that could have been used to store records. Thus, it shouldn't be that surprising that most US records of the war are not listed, simply stored in boxes as they arrived at the archives from the agencies sending said records, and the only way to find a specific record you don't already know the location of is to look through boxes until one finds it.

@@genericpersonx333 And often stored in the wrong boxes too. I’ve known of a few people who have gone through the Archives and found items that bear no relevance to what the box says it does.

Probably very limp from the electrocution 😀

@@Drachinifel lol that probably DID save him. 30' is a heck of a drop.

My dad was on the ship also. Richard Pryor

Pretty sure Brits invented floating drydocks, but I am not sure.

Don't be ridiculous, Sir. If the IJN damages the facilities in the Philippines, I'm sure the British will offer theirs at Singapore. Also, there's nothing wrong with our torpedoes...

@@mikhailiagacesa3406 pretty much 😁

Few U.S. battleships could take a torpedo even on the bulges without serious damage. Even the Japanese airdropped torpedoes had more powerful warheads than ours.

Had this attack occurred while underway in combat, she likely would’ve been lost w/o quick assistance from support/aux. ships like the kind found in ports or in that anchorage. I guess I am surprised that a single hit from a torpedo on a battleship could doom it.

My first boat, Los Angeles (SSN 688) was located in Drydock #1 when I reported aboard 42 years later in 1984. The cool thing is the portal cranes that were there on December 7th of '41 are still there and in use.

The USS Olympia is at Penns Landing too which Admiral Dewey used as a flagship during the attack on Manila. Also the SS United sits there as well but the owners are struggling to figure out what to do with her as she needs alot of funding to repair. She still holds the record for the fastest trans atlantic crossing. I hope they can restore her.

I absolutely feel you man I'm from up eerie Way we have a lot of Navy history here you know Battle lake Erie Oliver has a Perry and I don't know what it is but every time someone talks about a ship with the name Pennsylvania on it or has a name from Pennsylvania like Philadelphia Pittsburgh Erie Youngstown any ship that's ever carried a name from the state of Pennsylvania has always had some weird thing happened to it whether it does some cool s*** like Old falling apart firing the most artillery shells to support a landing or USS Pittsburgh being the longest ship in the world by having like 40 ft of its front end ripped off and drifting over a thousand miles apart and then USS Erie a gunboat carried for 6-in guns and nearly started a second war with Spain during the Spanish revolution or civil war

I could be mistaken... But I believe that, in the damage report the shaft alley was one of the arias that WASN'T flooded...?

I built the Revell model in the mid 60’s. It was the third Revell battleship kit l built as a boy, the Iowa and the Bismarck being the first two. I had the pleasure of visiting and touring the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk in 2015. One of my bucket list items was to tour one of the Iowa class battleships, as the USS Iowa was always my favorite ship growing up!

My father-in-law was present at the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests and probably saw the USS Pennsylvania after the explosions. He was aboard the USS Orca, which was a destroyer/sea plane tender which was docked in the atoll after the tests to retrieve float planes, as that was the only place where the water was calm enough to do so. My father-in-law remembered getting a close-up look the ships in the atoll, including either the Prinz Eugene or the IJN Sakai’s which were surrendered at the end of the war and used in the tests.

@@davidrupp9089 Very cool. I built the Prinz Eugene model as a child . The Bismarck chase made her famous.

@@davidrupp9089 The Whisky was also my first Iowa class battleship tour. Finally toured her , including the CIC and engine room extra cost tours, in July 2022. Super impressive , especially the engine room and the massive boilers and turbines. Barely saw any of the rest of that museum in Norfolk , VA.

I also built the Prinz Eugene kit as a companion to the Bismarck kit. Later, l also built the King George V model as she fought against the Bismarck.

I was going to ask the same thing, do we know who that guy was? There is a famous photograph of a Japanese aircraft in combat in the Solomons and the pilot was identified. Last time I checked that guy is now like a hundred years old and still flying glider tow planes in Japan!

Hey my fellow Mountain standard time time zone occupier.

Greetings fellow Keystone taxpayer... 🙋🏽‍♂️

@@WALTERBROADDUS Greetings on this Day that will live in infamy, join me for a moment of Silence for lost shipmates of the past