Japan Built a Weapon So Disturbing It Tried to Hide it
2024 ж. 26 Ақп.
1 210 001 Рет қаралды
At www.magicmind.com/thoughty THOUGHTY gets you up to 56% off your first subscription for the next 10 days.
#magicmind#productivityhacksThoughty2
Patreon & Discord: / thoughty2
Thoughty2 Audiobook: geni.us/t2audio
Thoughty2 Book: geni.us/t2book
Follow Thoughty2
TikTok: / realthoughty2
Facebook: / thoughty2
Instagram: / thoughty2
Website: thoughty2.com
About Thoughty2
Thoughty2 (Arran) is a British KZheadr and gatekeeper of useless facts. Thoughty2 creates mind-blowing factual videos about science, tech, history, opinion and just about everything else.
#Thoughty2
Writing: Steven Rix
Editing: Jack Stevens
Boy, do I miss the old thumbnails... Those AI generated ones are just beyond cursed...
Before WW2 in 1937 Kamikaze was a Mitsubishi Ki-15 that won long distance flight speed records. The pilot Masaaki Iinuma was a pacifist and spoke out about using aviation in the war in China r and Japan's militaristic expansion. Because he was so famous they couldn't really do anything so they shipped him off to South East Asia to train pilots. When he heard the news about the attacks on Pearl Harbour and Malaya he was so distraught that he walked into the propellor of an aircraft that he was about to train a pilot in.
I lived in Okinawa, Japan, for a few years, and I knew an Okinawan man who had been conscripted out of middle school and trained to be one of those guided torpedo pilots. (I don't know which type.) He said the Japanese were running out of equipment, and they trained in wood "torpedos." Japan surrendered just before his training ended, so he lived to tell about it.
My dad was on board the mine sweeper, USS Swallow. It was hit and sunk within minutes. He was one of a few that survived. He was in shark infested water for a long time. He wouldn't talk about his time in the navy for a long time. He was in his late 70's before he would say anything. RIP Dad.
It always boggles the mind just how much senseless death, destruction, and suffering are caused by the ambitions of just a relatively few psychopathic megalomaniacs. And that's not limited to wars by any means.
Fun fact for language nerds: "Kamikaze" wasn't the general Japanese term for suicide attacks in WWII. The characters that can be read "kamikaze" are "神風" and they only refer to the air suicide attacks of the navy, but even then the characters were much more commonly read as "shinpu". In full it's 神風特別攻撃隊 "shinpu tokubetsu kogeki tai". The name for suicide attacks generally, not just the ones from the air was 特別攻撃隊 "tokubetsu kogeki tai" and usually abbreviated to just 特攻隊 "tokkotai". If you try to look up "kamikaze" in a Japanese dictionary what you'll find is 神風タクシー "kamikaze taxi", Japanese slang for a taxi that ignores traffic rules!
That's one thing that could truly be said regardless of Nation. It is so ironic that leaders can convince young men can go to the battlefield under the guise of "patriotism". Denounce everyone else that does not want to fight as being weak.
Please don’t ever stop making these historical vids we love you thoughty2
My father was a veteran of WWII Pacific Theater, He was an officer in the US Army Amphibious Engineers (the Army's Navy). HE fought from the Dutch East Indies, and through the Philippines. In one battle, The Battle of Zamboanga he had to ferry troops from ship to shore in his LCM, several round trips while under fire from Japanese shore batteries. One thing that was very noteworthy to him was the Japanese use of Kamikaze speed boats designed to ram allied ships. From what I gather they weren't very successful due to Allied ships being too well defended. Interesting note: My father found out after the war that his Japanese brother-in-law was at that battle fighting on the Japanese side. My uncle was a very quiet & humble man who after the war became an English teacher. Dad and Uncle became close friends.
8:29
Putting 48 stars on the flag is the kind of detail that makes me appreciate your quality work
My dad was a Naval Lt Commander during WWII. One day, he called us all into the living room to watch a newsreel of a kamikaze hitting his ship. He survived😀.
"the mongolians fought the japanese and then died in a tornado, then they came back, enjoyed fighting the japanese a bit more, then died in a tornado" - Bill Wurtz
That intro to bring us to the key word (no spoilers) was outstanding
Emperor Hirohito who should have held responsibilty for war escaped so easily. He just denounce himself from "living god" to just human and nothing happened to him.
Bro! Your smile in the advertisement was so wholesome. Honestly just seeing that smile made me so happy. Thoughty2 is a legend. He is the reason I decided to go to university. This dude literally changed my life. I dropped out of school and got into bad things and than when i was on probation stuck at home I would sit and watch thoughty2 all day and than I realized I like learning I just didn’t like the school system I was in. I decided to start saving money for school, I start my first semester of psychology next year. Thanks thoughty :)
My uncle was a cryptologist that was whisked out of the Philippines as the Japanese invaded. So, yes! His team did a true service in steaming/winning the war against Japan. However, the Battle of Midway also had the factor of luck and timely leadership. The U.S. Navy had inexperience with battles, faulty torpedoes, and horrible tactics. Sending slow torpedo bombers with defective torpedoes unaccompanied by fighters (that were inferior to the Zero - it took two U.S. Wildcat fighters to protect each other [the Thatcher's Weave] while leaving the bombers on their own. The U.S. Admiral immediately called for an attack once the Japanese fleet was located although it was not in an ideal position to attack. Being 'first' paid dividends. The Japanese also were busy switching out land bombs for torpedoes once the Japanese knew where the US Fleet's location. The 'lost' U.S. dive bombers that stumbled across the Japanese fleet right as its fighters were preoccupied with the straggling Wildcats in the distance, right as the Japanese fleet was refueling its planes, switching out unsecure bombs/torpedoes and for the US dive bombers to suddenly switch targets in a middle of their dive to maximize hits led for most of Japanese aircraft carriers to be placed out of action in one swoop. Otherwise, under 'normal' conditions, the damage from the dive bomb run would have been nominal and the battle could have been very different. As baseball fame, Lefty Gomez, once said, "I would rather be lucky than good."
An important detail of the War's turning point around the time of the Battle of Midway is the coeval Battle of the Aleutian Islands, where the allies captured an intact Japanese Zero and were subsequently able to discover its limitations.
The Japanese also had suicide speed boats, and perhaps most disturbing of all, were training old men, women, and children to charge at the Amercian forces with bamboo spears in mass Banzai charges.
the serious wink at the end shows how serious he is when telling something. love this man