World War II - Pacific War (1931-1945) - Every Day 

Finally you’re back! I’ve been waiting forever! Glad to see you again!

Btw in description it's not just Japan that has a special name for WWII. China also calls the Second Sino-Japanese War the "War of Resistance"

That was nice

broke the 69 likes

if you expected to upload the video right after the end of the war, well yes, you uploaded it late. But if you planned to upload it a couple of months ago, no problem.

the thai were probably more competent

Flex prime is right the thai did a lot of work against India

@@flexprime2010 No, they weren't.

Tibet = Swiss Philippines = Poland Indonesia = France but with a lot more deaths British RAJ= Egypt Australia = UK USA= USA China = Soviet Union Soviet Union = Turkey but more effective

anti-briton + antifrench = Thailand

Yeah, felt huge pity to the Chinese, Filipinos, Malays and Indonesians, they took huge toll from the Japanese

The Chinese under Chiang Kai-Shek also had some of the most brutal fighting conditions imaginable, in addition to our boys. What's even crueller is when they failed to hold cities, the Japanese often went in and committed the worst attrocities you could ever imagine humans doing to one another ("the Rape of Nanking" being one of the most infamous).

@Ryusei Sasaki The Battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima were so horrific specifically because the Japanese commanders forbade their troops from banzai charging. In earlier battles like Guadalcanal, Attu, Cape Gloucester, and Saipan the Japanese organized massive banzai charges against American positions resulting in the entire Japanese garrisons being wiped out. At Okinawa and Iwo Jima they built thousands of mutually supportive defensive positions, each containing only a few soldiers, forcing the Americans to individually assault each position at great loss of life.

what do you mean by undescribable?

@@kohtalainenalias He means that the only way to understand the fighting conditions would be to experience them yourself. One human cannot describe the conditions of the fighting to another and the other human fully understand what it was like.

Yes because the US cut off over 80% of their oil supply, as was the reason for the war. They had to attack and win a war against the allies before their oil reserves ran dry (6 months) after the US embargoed them following their occupation of Indochina. In their eyes, since procuring a peace treaty unfavorably would be not honorable the only choice they had was to go to war or lose the war and china and their colonial possessions.

Also, the Allies main focus was defeating the Nazi’s first. Which means the majority of their military force was liberating Europe. I’m not saying they “gave up” territory in the pacific, but they were more willing to “lose” in the short term while fighting on the European front.

Your terorist?

@@skeleextrue

其實日畜後期根本沒有很快

Not gonna happened, Japan and Germany were emasculated by the US. On the other hand, if they will launch another world war, they would better choose a none-nuclear weapon country as first step for their own safety.

@@marshallyoung6523 You are right. I doubt such a thing will ever happened again.

1911 : German,Austro-hungary,Turkey vs Allies 1939 : German,Italy,japan vs allies 2026 : Russia,China,Nk vs japan,sk,US,inidia. WW3 aka M.A.D.

@@marshallyoung6523 Its called joke

@@marshallyoung6523 ok kid...

What do you mean by ravaged? If you go by destruction the German city „Düren“ is probably the most ravaged city as 99% of the buildings were heavily damaged or destroyed through allied bombing.

@@timalexander1811 the germans litteraly left nothing but dust and rubble of warsaw. The modern city of Warsaw today has been completely rebuilt using old photos and first handaccounts. Not a single structure was left no benches,trashcans, buildings, or wooden beams. The city was reduced to nothing

@@timalexander1811 what he mean by ravaged is totally ravaged, hundreds of thousands of lives perished and the whole city was flattened by bombings and because of that, my city is nver rebuilt like the glory it once was

It's mainstream history

@@bluemobster0023 that's the SS for you

Tibet was involving in WW2

so I will eat pasta?

China=Soviet Union of the pacific USA=USA of the pacific

@@maggotfeast USA = USSR of the pacific, since they did all the work in this war USSR = USA of the pacific, since they joined at the very end of the war, grabbed a bunch of rich lands and declared that they had won this war

@@alfredjansa2648 I only compared China to the USSR because of their vast territory that the Japanese were unable to conquer, the partisans, and their almost unlimited manpower. But in terms of the war effort, I agree that the US is more similar to the USSR here.

"Juked, lmao XD!"

To be fair it was a very very brutal campaign

@@afr0218 especially peleliu

😭

Even the Japanese deserve respect

赖渲 And he got to watch China become communist

🇯🇵👐🇨🇳

@Folabi When did I suggest the CCP were the good guys in all this?

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I lost my word,,,

The West had been hostile towards Japan's imperialistic ambitions for a while. War might be coming any moment. Also, resources.

Dead meme

@@jevinliu4658 well Japan was allied with nazi Germany soooooooooo

@@mississippiball1003 yeah, that happened as well. And also, Japan could not really let the Phillipines alone in case the US did join the war, as it provided a forward base for the US to attack Japanese shipping and territory.

That moment, Japan invade faster than Germany with light vehicles

You misspelled HOI3, happy to correct that for you.

machtharry idk if this is a joke or not I'm confused

ActsRelax it’s because many people think HOI3 is better than HOI4

@@devinlastnamenotneeded8521 no not that many

@@Actsrelax That was just a joke because i personally think HOI3 is much better game than HOI4. I know others like HOI4 better though.

China=ussr

Soviet Union = USA

@@alfredjansa2648 USA = USA 2

How about Russia?

@@plaguedoctor_139 its the soviet union

What's harakiri?

@@dreel37 seppuku

@@dreel37 japanese soldiers stab themselves in the stomach with a sword to kill themselves

@@dreel37 it means he cut his own stomach. it's suicide

That's really cool

Next make a video showing how US hired the japanese scientists who experimented with pows

Nah, this guy is up with Yan Xishan.

@@impii552 There are more underrated mappers

Nah hes up with Karu

WRONG!He is up with all the above

USSR: *joins again*

Side quests be like.

USSR:Im busy

lol

*Remembers the Tzars' failure of the Russo-Japanese war* "Nah, I'll let the others deal with it."

Your grandfather was born in vietnam when colonial japan. not born in japan

I say that Japan wanted to do well, that is, it wanted to liberate Asia from the UK and France, but obviously to its advantage.☹️☹️☹️

@@kaiserworldc.p.2986 japan was way way way way way way way way way way worse than the nazis

@@dexterjettster3683 You're very right.Justice of the Japanese empire🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵

@@user-xf8dk2ow3q If you are born in Puerto Rico, you were born in the United States. If you were born in Cameroon in the 30's, you were born in France.

One more to complete infinity stone

@@konstantinriumin2657 Khey Pard obviously

Khey Pard💯

@@vianimator8918 --And me--

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Accurate it may be, it neglects the Australian and New Zealander efforts during the war by leaving their flags off the legend.

​@@touieg1211 While I overall agree with you, Australia & New Zealand were basically like the U.S. was in Europe: more of a mercenary than anything. They sent supplies and troops, but the U.S. was the strategic power in the Asia-Pacific region of the war. If the U.S. said jump, they would say "how high?" I do agree that he definitely could've added a flag or something to emphasize it better, but my point still stands.

8:07 Fall of Bataan, Beginning of the Bataan death March 😢

not all heros where capes

11:23 Where is the Manchurian campaign? 5:18 Where is the conflict between Japan and the Soviet Union at Halkin Gol? You seem to be one of those who doesn't want to write something related to the Soviet Union...

@@pomiklom2499 yo chill with the assumptions. Most likely he forgot.

Pretty sure 8:17; June 7th, 1942 was the Height of the Empire of Japan

But the Philippines was a colony of the United States

@@cri.682 True, we were an American colony at first but then we were given autonomy somewhere in the 20s which is the establishment of the commonwealth then promised independence in 1935 by congress that set up the 10 year process to independence, basically like the other guy said, we were the Australia of the US but I I’d rather have us called the Canada of the US due to our friendly nature (of course, we can be brutal when we are endangered)

@@firemangan2731 shuuuush its not a colony/dominion its an “Overseas territory”

@@firemangan2731 /s

実際はフィリピン全土を占領したはずだけどな

Same as in Serbia.

Same as in Russia :D

Here in the Philippines, its the exact opposite. We only learned about The Pacific Theatre and ignore The European one.

In Australia, we learned of the fear and terror that the Japanese would land on the beach at any moment

In Indonesia,We completely neglected the entire war and instead focused on the indonesian war of independence (1945-1949),With Really biased information. the teachers really suck here like im serious

Loved that moment. I wish China was strong enough to do it herself

@@bitterballs356 So the 50 center is here.

Lol

1944->1945

cool...?

Not to make this already fantastic vid completely overwhelming, but it would be cool to find a way to depict the US submarine campaign against Japan. US subs almost immediately took the offensive, quite amateurishly at first, much more lethally as the war went on, ultimately crippling Japan's economy and rendering all their land grabs useless as they were unable to bring any of their ill-gotten resources back home. It is interesting that Admiral Halsey, a carrier man, considered the submarine the single most important weapon in the US inventory.

China sends like mountains of people at you like, they don't even need weapons

@@KrazyKrab7 That doesn’t always work out.

@@KrazyKrab7 and they won?? What’s your point??

@@phx24 Survived is probly more accurate.

@@NeSeeger yeah fair but near the end of the war they were winning most of their battles

Agree but diplomatically ROC was still considered a single entity. The various warlord zones were considered internal issues. A bit like Syria & Libya. We do not consider IS or Al Nusra zones to be officially independent. Contemporary western maps showed ROC based on official claims.

That's wrong all warlord surrendered to chiang kai shek way before Japanese invasion. They just sometimes don't listen to his order that's all. In the end almost all fled to taiwan with chiang kai shek

No bro my liver give it back :(

@@tonysong7721 The leader of Guangxi warlord Li zongren never fled to Taiwan, Instead, He moved to the mainland China

A man who is not Chinese,teaching everyone about China. Interesting. You are wrong. Read more books

The greenmapper Karu’s one starts after japan bombed Pearl Harbor

Oh right. That nostalgia hit like a load of bricks. I'm kinda sad it was so short. Gotta go look it up now haha

Actually the Soviets invaded Manchuria hours before the bombs were dropped

The allies requested the soviets to declare war on Japan after Germany is defeated. Exactly after 3 months the soviets declared war on Japan.

квантунская армия передает привет. Если бы не стертая с лица земли квантунская армия Япония ещё бы долго не подписала бы капитуляцию. Им просто некем и нечем было воевать. 2 ядерных взрыва ничто по сравнению с тем как бомбили Японию Американцы обычными бомбами. Японцы не собирались капитулировать после ядерных ударов.

The bombs were dropped because the US didn't want the Soviets to take more territory

@@igorvolhen9855 любая война зло, ребята, давайте жить дружно! Нет насилию, нет войне!

bruh tigerstar is overrated. His map quality is worst but he joined early and got a chance to gain views. Khey pard, this dude, one other chinese and turkish mapper name I don't remember... Their videos are done better than tigerstar

@@FoggyOp I'm guessing by the Chinese Mapper, that would probably be Yan Xishan - his mapping videos are really high quality and expertly made - I love it!

@@FoggyOp*Kayra Atakan?

@Kohima1944 Yan agrees with this statement

@@FoggyOp don't forget danzig HD mapper and the dragon historian, the latter doesn't just do mapping, but he still puts a lot of work into his videos, he even composes the music for them.

the hell was past me talking about

It fell as soon as it reached its peak.

Lol that’s how peaks work. You can’t expand if you’ve reached your peak. Only go backwards.

Inferno Golem *cough.* mongol empire *cough.*

I'd say 8:25. The fleet moving towards Midway didn't give them any real territory. After Midway they still secure additional ground in the Andamans and New Guinea until the Allies start the Guadalcanal campaign. Of course, they're way stronger at 8:17 because by 8:25 they've lost 4 aircraft carriers.

Just before Midway.

Hellow bulgarian

Afternoon Bulgarian.

Hi there, Bulgarian

Massive overstatement of who they were fighting, the Chinese were incredibly underequipped and undertrained, the French and Dutch were nonexistent, the British/aussies were fighting with poorly trained and equipped troops, and the US was focused on a Germany first plan, which meant less focus on Japan. Edit: this doesn't mean they sucked as an army or navy just that they're a bit overstated by many.

"I shall return" 😉

​@@Potatotenkopf Only one I can agree on is with the French, (even then you ought to expect more from a literal superpower) but the Japanese navy had numerous engagements with the Dutch navy. China being underequipped is a huge myth, they even had enough firearms for guerilla combatants dressed as civilians. A large portion of US lend lease went to the Chinese in aid for the war, which included many American aircraft - which is why the Japanese air forces would pretty much only fight American fighter planes over China despite zero american pilots being there. Britain was probably the toughest foe the Japanese faced for the first six months of the war, and they were not undersupplied or undermanned by any means. Also I believe the estimates for the "Germany first" policy are off, it is often said the United States only devoted 15% of its resources to the Japanese war....which makes zero sense, and I believe is an artificial number, especially when you account for the very significant resources put out for the US navy, which was entirely made for the Japanese and not Germany. For every destroyer Japan sunk, the US commissioned 10 more... Keep in mind that almost all these battles Japan fought, Japan was the one actually under a disadvantage especially in terms of manpower, yet they still managed to defeat HEAVILY fortified fortresses. Japan shocked the entire world when Singapore, Britain's flagship city fortress manned to the teeth fell to the Japanese, even Churchill stated that this was worst defeat in all of British military history. Same with Malaya. We can also clump Australia along with Britain, but even then they contributed significant manpower in fighting the Japanese, ask any US WW2 veteran, and they almost certainly fought alongside an Aussie. I have to disagree sir, they are often UNDER-stated as a force, especially due to Hollywood propaganda portraying any Japanese or German soldier as a highly incompetent idiot who can't zero a sight for their life - the intention and purpose of this is obvious by now. Japan was quite literally the toughest foe the most powerful military, the US, had to ever face, and the highest number of American casualties was to the Japanese. 600,000 lost in less than 5 years, compare that to the entire Vietnam war with only 60,000 lost in over 20 years...

​@@Potatotenkopf Also I want to make this comparison with the two other largest empires at the time in 1942: Britain and France. Britain and France took centuries to reach their peak...and who were their main foes during their colonial expansion? Tribesmen in mudhuts fighting with stones. The Europeans were technologically superior in every way, despite this many natives fought to the very end. Japan reached its peak in 6 months. Japan's foes all had modern militaries, and even Japan fought enemies with technological superiority and most importantly, industrial superiority. Despite this, Japan was able to topple modern militaries with fewer men, using clever tactics.

@@user-pn3im5sm7k I mean Britain and France were their own main foes for centuries, and the Spanish, romans/byzantines, ottomans, and nords early on with the Germans and italians and Austrians later on as well as the Russians, globally the main foe of the British and French empires was just the distance from their holdings, Japan's empire was fairly compact compared to the British and French. Japan didn't reach its peak in 6 months they started climbing in 1894 when they went to war against the Chinese and won and reached their peak in 1942, meaning 48 years this is still a fraction of the time the French and British took but 6 months is absurd. Also the Japanese had one of the best trained and most technologically advanced navy for most the war only losing out towards the end when they couldn't compete with American industry any more.

Thank you very much!! Funny thing, I noticed that city Guiyang are situated at the wrong place when I have already had 3,000 slides... It was suddenly

Also, Changsha should've been shown as a major location.

oh wow, now we have a competition between 2 of my favourite youtubers

Both your channels are very good!!

Wasn't Shaan-gan-ning communist? As a result, it would be shown as red. And also, do you only have 17k subscribers? You both should have far more than that. At least 100k if not more.

*i n c i d e n t*

Nah if they hadn't whiffed at Pearl Harbor (missed the carriers and didnt kill the battleships) and Midway (got caught with their pants down before they found the enemy fleet), they would have won the war against the US handily and bought much more time. It came down to some tactical errors, not strategic.

@@joeking5679 No, even if they'd caught the US carriers, it only would have delayed the inevitable. Three carriers were in the Pacific at the time - Enterprise (which survived the war), Lexington (lost in her first major battle at Coral Sea), and Saratoga (which was hit by a Japanese submarine, and as a result didn't fight until the Guadalcanal campaign). Yorktown and Wasp were both in the Altantic (along with the other half of the American battleships), and Hornet was just starting her shakedown cruise. As such, those three ships were out of reach of the Japanese. Further, the Essex-class had already been ordered. Work had started on Essex herself several months earlier, the second and third ships of the class were also being built, and the keels were laid on the fourth and fifth ships of the class in December 1941. Seven ships of the class were commissioned in 1943 - more carriers than had been in the IJN task force that had attacked Pearl Harbor, each carrying many more aircraft than their IJN counterparts. And many more followed over the next year and a half. By the end of the war, there would be more active Essex-class carriers alone than the entirety of the Japanese carrier arm (including the IJN's light carriers). And that's without including the Independence-class light carriers, the new Midway-class (the lead ship, Midway, was commissioned days after the end of the war), or the absolutely ridiculous number of escort carriers the Americans built. The Japanese had to win - and win decisively, as they couldn't afford an even trade of carriers - *every* time, as they could only replace their carriers very slowly. The Americans only had to get lucky once, which they did at Midway.

​@@junior-fj8ud The Japanese navy never had more than 7 million barrels available a year for its navy. The German navy, by comparison, was using about 10 million barrels at the time of 1941. The Japanese needed 17 million to operate efficiently against the USA. The USA in 1941 used 18 million barrels in the Pacific and in 1942, about 28 million by comparison. The Japanese never planed to win as such it was about the peace deal, the whole point of the war with the USA was to bleed America manpower. The problem with that was the only islands that actually came close to that were Okinawa and Iwo Jima.

@@brianlong2334 Yes, anything that lasted more than a couple of years was suicide for Japan. But one of the things that the Japanese didn't realize is just how much Pearl Harbor would enrage the US population. As such, the war was always going to last longer than the Japanese had planned. Those Essex-class carriers were always going to arrive, and the Japanese were going to lose. And that would have happened even if the original Japanese plan to establish a line of island fortresses had been accomplished. Also, part of the Japanese plan required the US to stick with its current commitments to the Atlantic effort. The disastrous convoy PQ 17 operation partially soured the Americans on that, and USS Washington participated in her famous victory at Guadalcanal explicitly because she'd been pulled from the Atlantic due to American frustration. In short, no matter what happened, there was going to be a USN presence in the Pacific.

@junior737 I don't think so. The Japanese never planned to push the USA completely out of the Pacific, at least not until China had been subjugated for 30 years and indoctrinated to be basically Japanese. If every island in the Pacific was like Okinawa and Iwo Jima, I think you would find the USA Government much more likely to reach an agreement, even the unconditional surrender of the Japanese wasn't unconditional, the USA made concessions even though it claims it didn't, the reality was the Japanese weren't going to surrender enless there was. The American population getting upset was of little concern for the Japanese as they were ready to die in the tens of millions, the USA population not really in the same league for that, maybe if they were defending there home land it would be a different story, but the Japanese were unlike anyother nation in ww2 or since, they called for the glorious death of 100million Japanese and they ment it, that's why the USA drop the nukes on them, they didn't want to invade the home islands, as the estimated casualties were in the millions, something that would effect the USA economy drastically compered to how little manpower they actually lost in ww2 luckily for them, not to mention how much they made off the war and became the world dominant power. They would have fought a war more like the soviets did against Germany, something the USA didn't want. Yes, the USA industry was much bigger than the Japanese. The Japanese had and built over 700 major naval vessels, the USA 1,200. The USA built about 6,000 other ships like the liberty, the Japanese about 500. The Japanese merchant fleet was bringing in over 65 million tons of supplies to the home islands, about the same as the UK before the war with the USA, then it dropped to over 35 million tons till 1944 for the Japanese.

@spider love can’t destroy your enemies on an empty stomach *nom nom nom*

Quite simply, the US lost almost all of its carriers during the first year of the war and needed time to build more before going on the offensive, hence the 1943 lull between the Japanese not attacking anymore and the start of the big US push.

There was a lot of Guerilla Warfare on these islands throughout those 4 years. If they illustrated the Japanese occupied zones in these island chains, it would have looked a lot like China did. It was one of the major issues Japan faced, constant resistance.

@@nano9285 correct me if I'm wrong, but iirc after midway there was never again a time where the Japanese carrier force outnumbered the US carrier force

@@jeremywilliams2535 As weird as it may seem, the Japanese finished more carriers than the US during 1942 (2 vs 0). And then the US lost 1 of them during the early Guadalcanal campaign. So by the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in October 1942 the Japanese had again a larger carrier force. And they sank another US carrier there (reducing the carrier pacific fleet to just the Enterprise (although the Saratoga would finish repairs soon)), at the cost of half their naval aviation. The result is that by much of the following months both the Japanese and US navy carrier forces were too weak to go in the offensive. By fall 1943 the US had finished a bunch of Essex so they were able to start their island hopping campaign in force.

That was a border conflict called the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, which didn't go too well for Japan as they had their asses handed to them by the Mongolian-Soviet forces. If you'd like to read up more on it, here's a link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_border_conflicts

@@terrypennington2519 they got 25 army experience so it was worth losing it

Terry Pennington they beat a weakened army most of their resources was running dry at point.

The funniest thing is that Japan provoked USSR in 1935, 1939 and all time in 1941-45 (very small but numerous border incidents). And finally USSR started a war in 1945... its ended less than months later. P.S. Its hard to say what exactly was the reason of the Japan capitulation, because 2nd nuke was dropped in the same day USSR started the war. In my opinion they capitulated mainly because they lost their field armys and influence in mainland region because of USSR, since those armies were large and pretty expirienced.

@@carl-os4603 The Kwantung Army was a shadow of its former self because most of it was pulled back to defend Japan's mainland from Allied invasion. It stood no chance against the now-experienced Soviet troops. While I have no doubt the Soviets was a pretty good factor in Japan's surrender, just about everything points to the Americans and their nukes that ended the war. Even Hirohito's speech points to the atomic bombs as the reason Japan surrendered, and plans for Japan's defence showed them almost totally focused on defending from American invasion and very little focus was given to the Soviets at all.

Before I haven't had plans to make Western Front. But now I think someday this video will be released on my channel

@@CherepashkaShusha No worries,I was just curious. Thanks for the reply

The only flaw about the video is that it doesn’t show the United States taking Peleliu In which they did in 44

​@@andydufresnefromshawshank5866 it actually does show it, you just have to look carefully. In November of 44 it shows the allies taking the southern islands of Palau, which includes Peleliu

The problem is there might me more underatted mappers

That's because the Japanese were focused on a war of attrition in Bataan and Corregidor until May 1942. The other US units on the central islands would have continued the fight after the surrender of Bataan and Corregidor. But Gen. Wainwright, the overall commander in the Philippines after MacArthur left for Australia, was basically taken hostage by the Japanese and forced to read an order for all US forces in the Philippines to surrender. All organized resistance ended by June 1942, but then many individual American soldiers from the central islands refused to surrender and instead formed combined American-Filipino guerilla units.

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@@ginglee4199 stop speaking gibberish.

@@enixbluerain7213 The Philippine and American forces eventually surrendered, but I think that even under difficult conditions, their initial defense plan was perfectly carried out.

@@mjjanget It was War Plan Orange 3 by Gen. MacArthur. The plan was to delay the Japanese conquest as much as possible so that the mainland US forces could prepare the counter-offensive.

11:26 NUKE INCOMING

No te entendí ni madres xd

Well they really had to do it quickly as they knew US is sure gonna get involved if they proceed invading the south. That's also the reason they bombed Pearl Harbor hoping it would slow down the US Navy if they destroy enough ships and planes.

Invade the pacific speedrun any%

But in video East Timor is not Dutch. Allied forces only occupied it on December 17

@@CherepashkaShusha ok I understand

CherepashkaShusha netherlandish?? do you mean dutch?

@@lucaszerafa178 Yes, mistake :D

@Sir Knight Errant 😂

The Soviets, the firebombing, the war with china, US Invading, and the NUCLEAR BOMBS! Japan had a handful!

What's even more fucked is that there were still some generals and politicians in Japan who saw the Soviet invasion and nuclear bombings as a way to escape the embarrassment of surrendering because of Japan's severe internal problems. Some even wanted to keep fighting.

Guys I'm sorry it was just a prank!

@2021 S1G2 02 CHEN CHAK FUNG LUCAS that’s what it made them to be now The nuke make them be like cheese burger or vodka

Not just China The Pacific Theatre as a Whole

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Most of the IJA carriers were destroyed at Battle of Midway, which many historians mark as the beginning of the end of Empire of Japan. Mind you US crack the IJA naval codes before that battle. Also US taking Philippine, Iwo Jima and other crucial islands mean the can cut off all the war resources from SEA to reach Japan through sea. Which is why all the conquering in China and the construction of Burma Railways of death.

After June 1942 they had a worse navy than Germany after the treaty of Versailles .

@@FP19487 yup, I know their naval power by 1945 was overwhelming. Especially if you saw that video of day to day ship production between Japan and America (the first years go over pretty quick but by 1943 so much ships per day start launching the video grinds to a halt). Just imagining the other factors though.

@@narayasuiryoku1397 Don't get me wrong, midway was a massive blow, but that statement is just not true. After June, Japan still had six small carriers and two large with three more in nearly finished production. They had more warships then America in every class. Not to mention the frigging Yamamoto (and in August the Musashi). Their fleet was only crippled enough to stop complete domination, but it took a lot of production, careful planning and having the advantage of broken codes to fight them in the rest of 1942.

A lot of people say Midway was "the turning point of the war," but as whole, it kinda wasn't. Japan held much of it's conquered territory and things didn't really begin to turn south till around 1944 when the US managed to capture most of the nearby islands and surround Japan cutting it off from it's colonies.

not to mention the siege of papua new guinea

New Zealand too!

@@frasermackie5369 indeed. and at Gallipoli in WW1, and Vietnam. We've always been used as cannon fodder when the fighting gets bloody.

they were part of British Empire

@@electricforest17 No.