One thing that is overlooked is that the Japanese civilians were often warned via leaflets to get out of cities that were about to be bombed. Hiroshima was given a 48-hour notice that something very very bad was about to happen..
John Chambers - Same for Nagasaki and other major targets, but Japanese had to read them surreptitiously, because they were forbidden to pick up U.S. flyers and read them.
@UCtfTzz4Me2zWLn6pVVbOP3g After nearly 15 years of unspeakable Japanese atrocities in China, the sneak Pearl Harbor operation, and the Bataan Death March, I don't think that people were very entuned to various legalities.
@@spraudoggy they are hammered with this idea that their vid needs dramatic music but war docs obviously have more than enough drama already. The ones making foreign language vids do even worse.
I complain about this many times on RU-vid ..People think they have to add everything including the kitchen sink that they have at their disposal to the videos. Many videos are ruined with music..Many times when I start to watch a video, and I hear music, I shut the video off, I go to comments and tell them what I think. I never do watch the video or give them a thumbs up
@@Jodyrides it's called the Black Box disease. It the reason you cannot into a restaurant anywhere in the third world - and even in USA restaurants - without management letting you know, "We are as civilized as you from the advanced worlds or upper class neighborhoods. Listen how loud we can play our local music."
Wow, i love your description. I have most recently been convinced of the chaos insueing as we do not organise our efforts for positive godly ambitions, what are they ? Take care of this place the divine master gave you, take care of and help those whom the divine master blessed us with, as community, and culture, and knowledge. It's simple. It's written on our hearts. Thank you good Sir.
@ 'illuminarty' .... 'little god' ?? Tell ya what, when you're ever near death, jumping out of that aircraft and skydiving and you pull on your ripcord, and your chute doesn't come out...instead your roommates dirty laundry comes flying out? *call me real quick on your way back to the surface of the earth, and tell me there's no God.* I could present a thousand other scenarios, but i believe you can deduce what I am saying. Have a great day! ☀️😎☀️🇺🇸
@@djangorheinhardt it was a total war. We bombed all their important cities until they surrendered. war is a bitch and sometimes you have to take necessary actions to end the war
@@djangorheinhardt oh can you possibly send it again? I want to know what your reply was, I also want to know what you would have done differently if you were in charge of the war.
When the Russians were reverse-engineering our lost B-29 aircraft, they were so impressed at least one engineer said it was as if God had designed an airplane.
*A Rebirth in an Ancient Tomb.* The Grand Passage Tomb is located in Ireland and was constructed over fifty-two-hundred years ago, it defines the winter solstice and celebrates a Rebirth of the Sun. "Let the Sunshine In." E pluribus Unum.
@@darrellborland119 the reality, in any battle the winner is the one who lost less and the loser is the one who lost more. Lesson learnt , is don't start any war in the first place. Is a question of who will lost more in terms of lives , properties and trillions of $$$
@@josephastier7421 jeezus fucking christ, do you snowflakes need to have your hand held all day long? read up on the 22nd army air force history sometime
@@princeofcupspoc9073 Hey chill, I was pointing out the CC. Blame RU-vid for their joke of a caption. It's been two years and they still haven't fix it.
Imagine noticing the joke but still r/wooshing. Then again, there's no use in explaining it to someone who had forgotten to turn on the closed captions.
@germanyforever40 Yes. That does bother me too about our Japanese friends. They have not recognized what happened. I really do like both Germany & Japan today, but it gets me very upset to see their leaders go to the war criminals tombs. Kind of bizarre, if you think about it. There's a billion Chinese who are much, much more offended than I am.
@@morecopemorerope4372 - killing women and children whatever the reason it is a war crime, dumbass and fact be know it didn't end the war or prevent an invasion
@@miguellopez3392 - the logic is simple, under the exciting laws of WW2 killing civilians was illegal and not every soldier did it - we tried and hung over 1,000 IJA war criminals yet if those laws were applied evenly and fairly would also incriminate our leaders in many of the war war crimes such as Hiroshima , a war crime
A necessary evil😕 The Japanese soldier proved their inhumanity time and again. Any civilian/civilization that participated in that machine, unfortunately had to go. Period! Long live humanity in its meanings.
This color footage is so rare that it was in an entirely different video I watched before this one. Last video they were hailing how acurate the bombing was and in this video not acurate
@@YUSKHAN soviet union and england begged for america to come to their aid and it was america's industrial power that turned things around for the allies
I protect cows all the time. I give them top and bottom cover.... made of bread. You just have to ask yourself: "If not me, then who?" I like to think that I'm doing my part.
What models had four guns per torret? Some B models had a 20mm gun and some others had thee .50cals in the tail, but most all of them had guns and torrets removed for saving weight.
only 2 turretts had 4 guns, the rest had 2. the tail had a 2 gun plus 20mm cannon for a while, but revisions dispersed with that. when the bombing campaign started going night raids and radar guiding, its true that most weaponry was removed, along with a reduction of crew to allow for heavier payload.
The only one's I've seen had 4x50s in the 2 dorsal turrets, with the 2 ventral turrets having 2x50s each, and 2x50s + 1x20mm in the tail stinger. Still... waltzing up to a bomber with 8 50s pointed at you cannot be a good feeling!
@@BigSkyCurmudgeon during the air raid over Tokyo the US dropped specially made bombs that where essentially cluster bombs with napalm, these where more effective but I'm not sure how extensive it was used.
That's nothing.. The B-36, designed pre- Dec 7, could take off from Ft Worth ,drop 10k lbs of bombs on Tokyo, and fly back to Texas on a tank of gas. Two days airborne, burning 3 railroad tank cars of gasoline. To this day, biggest bomber and heaviest bomb load ever built. The nuclear powered test B-36 had 110,000 lbs of lead shielding around the air-cooled reactor. Plane was so heavy they experimented with tracked landing gear
@@GrrMeister problem there was the jet stream winds. sometimes the bombers were flying 400+ miles per hour, sometimes 100 mph. also the reason high altitude bombing was discontinued by Lemay. accuracy suffered
@@tq6407 and besides that the children that were being killed weren't being taught nothing but how to starve and die..and I know more than my share of history.
Japan was willing to waste their airplanes and pilots for minimal damage,maybe, they also told them to die, rather than surrender, here their getting exactly what they asked for. 🇺🇲
Yamamoto after pearl harbor attack knew damn well that Japan was starting a war it couldn't win Americ a is a super power because of its shear industrial might and we must maintain that as China casts longing eyes in our direction
The Japanese thought the raid on Pearl Harbor would demoralize the United States and to take out the carriers and Pacific fleet based there. As you’re probably already aware, the carriers were absent at the time. And the bombing only stimulated America’s resolve. America was not equipped for war when it came, but within a year or two, we were.
Reading stories of Japanese troops that fought in Okinawa of preparing for the American landing assaults and reading the thoughts of how attacking America was a mistake even though Pearl Harbour was so successful. It gives a perspective that is not usually given in WWll movies and I wish they would provide that view today.
Pearl was not successful, it was a a speedbump. Only two ships from the Pearl Harbor attack could not be raised, all the others were repaired and fought again. That’s not success.
What a disaster area the USA made of Japan. But we stood by them like brothers after the war. Now that we are allies, I hope it's always so. Enough blood and hate was paid in the Pacific for an eternity of friendship.
targeting cities and killing civilians is hardly a "battlefront" but fit only for cowards - killing civilians is not war and it never delivered the knockout punch to end the war with the Nazis or Japanese
You are right. The Americans only did it as a last resort and the Japanese citizens were forbidden to read the warning letters the Americans dropped. Same in Germany too. Sad to think how so many people were controlled by their leaders
@@thetom1sout431 - actually there was no last resort - at the time of the bombings USA was not under a threat of invasion as well the Japanese Navy and Airforce were almost defunct and Japan was beaten but simply refusing to surrender to unconditional terms of the Potsdam ultimatum - under Hague Law such warnings, leaflets etc were required only under certain conditions during a land invasion or siege of a town which as we all know had not even begun so they only serve to incriminate Truman in war crimes
dumbass those same cities had military targets, included factories producing military goods. lots of aircraft production had moved into civilian neighborhoods as the major factories were bombed out. even Hiroshima was the headquarters of most of the Japanese land forces
@@BigSkyCurmudgeon - FYI Hiroshima had a population of 350,000 of which 120,000 were killed and is too large a number to be acceptable collateral damage. Under Hague Law of WW2 it was illegal to deliberately target civilians - as well the military targets which were mostly empty, General Hata's HQ etc were never the stated target of the bomb and the mere fact the bomb exploded over the middle of the densely populated 4 square mile of Hiroshima attests to the fact you are blowing fart bubbles - the other thing worth mentioning is that most of the military factories were on the outskirts of Hiroshima were relatively untouched by the bomb and were up and running within 2 weeks - "dumbass" would definitely be you
TO: Marcel Hitoshi : In 1941 the IJA had 51 divisions of around 1.7 million men with 40 divisions IN CHINA - which included on the Mongolian border. DO THE MATHS that is about 80% . 80% of 1.7 MIL is 1.36 MILLION.. maybe you just forgot the first million? Now read THIS : Several reasons are theorized for the especially brutal and merciless behavior exhibited by many members of the IJA towards their adversaries or non-Japanese civilians. In Manila the Japanese could have surrendered as they were surrounded, outgunned and outnumbererd - but what did they do instead? Blow up half the city on purpose and killed as many civilians..men..women and children as they could. These were NOT bombs drooped, these were Japanese soldiers DELIBERATING killing the kids, women, old folks ANY and every one. Your comments are vile, disgusting and evil.
The Japanese Air corp was an elitist organization unlike the American air forces who allowed anyone who was qualified. When the Japanese lost their 1st string airmen they had no replacements..
Denny....that is a historical fact. Thanks. Japanese politicians call ww2 "their great miscalculation" . In fact, some historians have said that Japan should have done it's conquest during WW1, NOT during the '30's.
What I want to say is War is tragedy for both side. I think No one can blame another side. Anyway, I checked how did they kill hundreds of thousands innocent civilians by air-raids. I don't think that was SHI KA TA GA NAI. Gen. Curtis LeMay ordered using incendiary bombs by indiscriminate bombing. Especially, March 9 through 10 night in 1945, 325 number of B29s dropped 381,300 number, totally 1,665 tons of incendiary bombs on residential area inTokyo. Those days, almost young male had left Tokyo for conscription. At that night, asleeped innocent babies, children, housewives and elderly people were killed by burning. Hopefully, when they could evacuate from burning home, all surroundings were on huge fire. Finally more than a hundred of thousands people were killed via fire, smoke, choking with hypoxia and evacuation in the water river. That was truelly GENOCIDE by B29 and those troops.
We must each pay the price to forgive others. It costs us. Also, remember, "ALL wars are religious wars" whether the two sides think so or not. What was the first war and what was it about? Cain killed his brother Abel, Why? Because Abel gave a better sacrifice to God. How? Abel paid attention to his parents in bible study. When they sinned God shed blood of an animal (a Leopard) to provide covering to Adam & Eve. Abel shed the blood of his most perfect lamb and offered it to God and God accepted it, Cain offered the best of his garden fruit and God shunned him. Cain would not pay the price to forgive God...Moses
Without watching more than a few minutes of this US propaganda film, I can only say Japanese population then had NOTHING to do with Japan's US aggression toward US. Believe if you will, but blame each country's leaders then, as today, for what riles any one, including US, towards warfare..
@jerryaltman You haven't a clue about what you talking about. Go study the history of color motion picture photography. Simply Google Kodak history of color motion picture photography.
