Pearl Harbor: Japan's Only Chance To Knock Out The US | WWII In The Pacific | Timeline
On December 7, 1941, Japan gambled all and bombed the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour on Hawaii. In the following months, Japanese forces rampaged across Asia, humiliating America and her allies. It looked as though she was unbeatable. But then America fought back.
The War in the Pacific launched an entirely new form of naval warfare. By summer 1942 the United States ruled the waves but Japan was still undefeated on land and a powerful force in the air. The future was still far from certain.
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My Dad served as a radar reader on a destroyer in the Pacific theater. It was sunk during a battle & he had to float around till the fighting was over to get picked up. My Mom told me years later that the battle going on around him, trying to stay out of the way of ships & bombs being dropped, huge guns going off continuously, huge oil spills, some on fire, took its toll on him mentally. He was sent to a military hospital at Sun Valley, where my Mom was waiting for him. They were wed there.
So Your Dad survived the attack on Pearl Harbor?
@@brotv9458 He wasn't at Pearl Harbor. He, like tens of thousands of others, enlisted after December 7th.
Breh seriously he wasn’t at pearl or midway it doesn’t count
This ain't a pissing contest, his dad served in the pacific and did just as much as any other fighting man, good sir I salute to thee and thank you for your service!
@@aqua9270 neither were you. Difference was he did his bit and got the mental and emotional scars to show for it and earn respect for serving his country
This is a BRILLIANT documentary!! The Doolittle raid was BEYOND incredible - the fact those planes could even take off from the aircraft carrier was amazing!! 🤩
"In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain, I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.”. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
He knew what was coming even if his leadership didn't or ignored it
And he hit that 6 months almost to the day after losing at Midway.
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Japan took 5 mons to take Bataan And corregidor.....it's not a walk in the park.
The Japanese people of the Yamato people are proof that they are a family connected to Emperor Jimmu. Hakko Ichiu means that the world is like a family. This shows the fundamental principle of the international order, and the international order to date has been a weak and strong diet. A strong country exploits a weak country. However, Ichiu, the order of the family, does not mean that the strongest patriarch exploits the weakest family! A home is a system in which strong people work for weak people. The world becomes peaceful for the first time when the strongest nation in the world works for the weak nations and the weak peoples and the system that he does is established. Japan became the strongest and united with the heart that gave birth to the heavens and the earth, and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Area was a battle to eliminate racial discrimination and win free trade for the people of Asia. Proud Japanese who fought in the Greater East Asia War! 統べての大和民族日本人は、神武天皇に繋がる家族である 証拠です。八紘一宇とは世界が一家族の如く睦み合ふことである。 これは國際秩序の根本原則を御示し 現在までの國際秩序は弱肉強食である。 強い國が弱い國を搾取するのである。所が、 一宇即ち一家の秩序は一番強い家長が弱い家族を搾取するのではない！ 一案強い者が弱い者のために 働いてやる制度が家だ。 世界中で一番強い國が弱い國、弱い民族達のために働いて やる制度が 出来た時、初めて世界は平和になる。日本は一番強くなつて、そして 天地の萬物を生じた心に合一し、 大東亜共栄圏とは、 人種差別撤廃・アジアの民の為に自由な交易を勝ち取る為の戦いであった 大東亜戦争で戦った日本人よ誇りを持って！
The two biggest mistakes of World War II: Germany attacking Russia and Japan attacking the US. Both Germany and Japan were unstoppable and undefeated until they awoke the sleeping giants.
This response doesn't make much sense. The US had an oil embargo on Japan. And the Russians were going to invade the rest of Europe as well.
Germany weren't prepared for the cold. Nothing to do with Russian superiority. Until winter set in Germany was breezing through.
@@danmaggs142 exactly rusia are nothing look ucraine now.
Russia yea,they played fair. Unlucky germany hit the winter. But USA,they cheated with nuclear bombs.
Yeah and look back at vietnam too
I’ve watched most of the good war documentaries on KZhead and am running out of content. I really wish there was somewhere kind of like Netflix, but for history, where I could go to watch more docos
Not sure if you have a specific interest but there’s a couple really good documentaries on the Islamic state, like it’s rise and fall
You mean like The History Channel? 😐
I’m addicted too😢
There’s a steaming app I keep seeing ads for that says it’s just like Netflix, but for history buffs. Can’t remember the app, but it’s either History Hits or Magellan.
History hit on KZhead that's literally thier advertisement
This is some of the best war footage of the Pacific theater I have ever seen!
Me too why only know I've seen this I. Lucky I saw its wow
All i can say is amazing how they handle all those wars, at the same time it's horrifying to see the innocent people who suffered the most of that time 😩 god bless them all ❤️❤️❤️
Unfortunately we are probably going to be headed into round 3 soon, hopefully it ends the same as the first two world wars
Astonishingly brave cameramen at work here on both sides. Thanks to them, future generations are able to dissect the spectacle and futility of conflicts.
“I think we f@cked up”-Yamamoto
Great, well produced video. It also gave a good detailing of the sequence of events, and other good information. Thank you.
my grand father is one of the code breaker of US FORCES...and my dad is one of the pilot in the battle of mdway when he is 23...
Possibly the best film of the Pacific war I have seen in my eighty odd years. Have learned so much outside of what I knew. Thank you for this.
Me too this is it d best films I've seen I'm 69 now I'm from Ophir Philippines islands 🏝 💜 💕 ❤ 💖 87.643 islands at present times ⏲ 😀 😄 ❤ ♥ 😉 ⏲ 😀
My dad used to say that commander Yamamoto studied in US , so he knows the potential power of US. And Yamamoto knows how foolish and crazy they try to challenge against US ..
What a top-notch documentary! Thank you.
"I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto (admiral of the Japanese fleet, in an excerpt from his personal diary in 1941). Regards from Ireland, this Saturday morning @10.49 am, on the 7th of May 2022🇮🇪💕
And that's exactly what they did .
Exactly. Do not ever underestimate The U.S.
@@lanalane6838 right we were out numbered and out gunned it was not a easy win by any means. The American spirit is fierce. It's crazy to think how close we were to loosing the 2 a bombs is what won it . But the moral of the story is never underestimate your opponent
@@ericerto8250 you were there??? why do you look young? Oh well, the sad thing is, my country is there and our people have forgotten about how you helped us from the Japanese invasion.
@@ericerto8250 that was a nasty war. I've watched war movies and I think that the war in Europe was a lot of fighting but also a lot of mind games but the war in the Pacific was just nasty and bloody. That's why President Truman didn't want to do a land invasion on Japan and dropped the atomic bombs. It was awful but in the end far fewer people died.. there were more people who died on Iwo Jima and Okinawa then those who died after two atomic bombs were dropped in Japan. It was their own military's fault because they could have surrendered after the first one & they didn't.. they didn't even surrender after the second one and it took the emperor himself to come in and make them surrender.. thank God somebody cared about the Japanese people! The military only cares about their own pride. It's like that here at the Pentagon in Washington DC.. military industrial complex..
Camera 📸 man never dies
Doolittle thought he would receive a court-martial for losing all his aircraft. Instead, he received the MOH.
One of the best Wartime documentaries I've ever seen, quite literally. Sincere appreciation for all your effort
I actually had no idea the Japanese bombed the US base in Philippines after Pearl Harbor. Even still, I had no idea they bombed Australia either. Wow. Those 2 atomic bombs were definitely warranted to stop the madness.
Yes,it was attacked right after pearl harbor raid
America was loosing, That's why they resorted to Nuke's
Several in accuracies in this documentary I’ve come to expect more from timeline!
Inspiration for the plan to attack Pearl Harbor may have been books published in 1921 and 1925 written by Hector C. Bywater a British journalist and military writer who was the naval correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph. The title of the first book was “Sea Power in the Pacific.” Part of that book was later expanded into another novel, “The Great Pacific War.” In that book, Bywater describes a surprise attack on the U.S. Asiatic Fleet at Pearl Harbor, with simultaneous attacks at Guam and the Philippines. The Japanese Navy General Staff had “Sea Power in the Pacific’ translated and distributed to their top naval officers. They also adopted “The Great Pacific War” for the curriculum at the Japanese Naval War College.
Very interesting. Yamamoto being Harvard educated, and being tasked by Tojo to disable our Pacific fleet used thar book? Very interesting. I'd like to read that. Thank you for sharing this fascinating bit of significant historic information.
The RN raid on Taranto a year before was basically verification of the concept. They took it to heart, where the USN brass arrogance shrugged it off.
@@stevenweaver3386 so are you saying that the USN shouldve taken the book into account? that perfect description of hindsight
If d japanese are too smartsbim sure they will be dbpower rangersbof d falsification regions but unfortunately they lack managerial mindsettings
Also, two different war games.
That voice is so soothing. Great stuff as usual
The problem with Singapore's naval batteries weren't that they pointed south; they could fire north, but only had armour-piercing rounds which were ineffective against infrantry.
No. The problem with singapore is trusting the british to defend singapore. The british only care for their homeland fighting the german.
“I’m gonna armor-pierce this idiot’s helmet!”
Sinking two of the British Navy's best battleships didn't help, either.
And in 1944/45, when General C. Lemay took over command of the 20th Air Force, 1st thing he did was a Bomb Damage Assessment of targets In Japan. He found out that high Explosive ordinance was ineffective on Wooden Structures, so he ordered a change over to incendiary munitions and we started to get the results that We had been seeking from the air attack
excellent documentary video & Channel in introducing Historical events
The Japanese made several mistakes at Pearl Harbor. Two of the biggest were to not target the fuel storage depot that was nearby that held most of the oil reserves of the Pacific Fleet and also not destroying the numerous Submarines that were anchored up that day. Japan is an Island nation and as such depends on its sea ports for virtually everything. One of the little known facts of WWII is that the tiny submarine force which comprised about 2% of the United States Navy sank over 25% of the entire tonnage sank during the war. They virtually strangled Japan during the last 6 months of the war. As Casey Stengel used to love to say " You can look it up!!!!"
history teacher _ hat's off Amigo!!! bye.
I haven’t “looked it up” but the majority of those sinkings were probably by subs that were launched after December 1941. By the way, Jimmy Doolittle gets a nod here - there were so many heroes in WW II, but there are few individuals who had as much impact as he did.
American carrier groups chased the Japanese fleet, as well as covering amphibious assualts in the Pacific... Got all the glory... American submarines, destroyed the Japanese supply chain... Starving the factories of raw materials, and food for the people... 52 subs were lost in the war... There's a pretty cool memorial spot in San Diego, highlighting the story of each boat...
Japan made only one mistake …. Attacked US
The fuel storage could quickly be put right if the Japanese destroyed it.
This is one of the more detailed and exciting depictions of the Dolittle raid that I've seen. It seems like most documentaries about the war in the Pacific kind of skim over it. I imagine this is because of the lack of strategic value and materiel damage. In terms of propaganda and enemy moral it was HAYUGE!!! 🙏
*Yeah...that 'raid' was very effective!* *200,000 Chinese paid for it with their lives when Japan found-out where the Americans were supposed to land*
1973 Ft. Worth Texas at a Bob Hope OSU Tour General J Dolittle spoke as well as Audy Murphy most Decorated Veteran in WW-2. Those amazing Memories.
James steward , Edddie Albert and Foster Brooks where there also.
Whether the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was successful or not was ultimately irrelevant. Even if they got all the battleships, all the carriers, and all the fuel facilities, they’ve done absolutely nothing to affect the American industrial capacity or unlimited natural resources. It may have taken longer, but the math was never going to work out in Japan’s favor.
The navy would have fought with submarines and PT boats if necessary and they still would have won.
You missed the point - Japan never intended to win over USA in a conventional military sense. The attack on Pearl Harbor was done in order to give Japan time to finish conquering what they wanted to conquer (colonies for resources) and dig in, making it too costly for USA to continue the war. Japanese knew that they could not win in a conventional sense - that was never their intention. Go to war? Yes. Fight (and win) some battles? Yes. But at the end, force USA to sign a peace deal and everyone remains on their part of the globe - their version of Cold War in the Pacific region. The attack intended to give Japan a few years to finish up what they already started - and regardless of your resources, building a navy takes time. That is why they went for it. Yes, it would probably not change the outcome of the war too much - but not because of the USA, but because of China and USSR in the end. USA engaged primarily IJN and had a very limited conflict with IJA. China and USSR on the other hand bled Japanese manpower, war supplies and in the end conquered the resource areas Japan needed to continue fighting. Even USSR, who took part in the fighting only at the very end, threw out of the battle order more Japanese troops than the entire US campaign in the Pacific - Kwantung army was bigger than all of the Japanese garrisons in the Pacific, combined. And let's not even mention China.
@@Wustenfuchs109 A couple of points here... 1. You're not wrong. That was indeed the overall strategic plan. But... 2. I don't think your valid point really alters my analysis. The math was NEVER going to work out for them to maintain even a regional victory. I think the attack on PH and the PI sealed their fate no matter how successful those attacks either were or could have been. 3. While we think we know what the Japanese Strategic plan was... I question that somewhat. Unlike Germany who had officially acknowledged their war crimes, Japan has been less accepting of doing the same. So I wonder about the limited regional annexation being the true goal or just the plan they were willing to admit to. . I don't think the Japanese ever truly imagined occupying DC... but the US west coast... yes, I do think there was a file for that in their overall plan to dominate the pacific.
@@davidpietarila699 Your points 1 and 3 are contradictory - you confirm what a strategic plan was, then you say we don't know what the strategic plan was. Japan did not acknowledge its war crimes because, unlike Germany, it wasn't forced to. Because USA needed a strong anti-communist ally in that part of the world. So for the most part, USA and other democratic nations looked the other way to Japanese crimes. As for Japan's plan - the vision of occupied west coast is a work of fiction. Japan never planned anything like it. As you said in point 1, they knew what they might be able to do, what their capacities are... and even that was a gamble. Occupying any portion of continental USA was completely out of the question. Not only did they not have the resources and might for something like that - they did not have the need for it, nor the capacity to hold a land like that. Japan's plan was formulated, for decades, around the "Co-Prosperity Sphere", a network of puppet governments (similar to Warsaw Pact or NATO) in Asia that would feed Japan with raw resources and be a market for Japanese products. And it was more than enough for them. That was the main goal for the century. Pacific itself was not important. It is a vast, empty ocean. A few islands between Asia and America were important only as remote bases for the military. Japan's true goal was Asia. And unlike Germany with their Drang nach Osten, Japan did not plan on controlling territories directly, but installing puppet regimes, just like they did in China. In no shape or form was the conquest of USA, any part of it, considered as an option. Nor was victory over USA considered. The most Japan hoped for, is to knock the USA out for a while (for a few years at best, until USA rebuilds its navy and mobilizes its industry for war) so that Japan could secure what they needed in Asia, so that when USA DOES mobilize fully, the continuation of the war would simply be too costly to be worth it. Just like in many parts of the Cold War USA and USSR could perhaps take on one another and one side would win... but the cost would be too high and there was nothing to gain. Same concept really. And it is what Germany wanted as well - take over Europe install puppet regimes where needed, and go to Cold War with USA in the end. Scenarios where Germany or Japan take on the world and USA in particular, exist only in fiction, books, shows and video games. No one in those countries ever considered it as an option in any shape or form.
@@Wustenfuchs109 while I agree that the west wanted/needed an anti-communist stronghold in Germany, I thing Germany ultimately accepted responsibility because the had documented their atrocities so thoroughly that there was just too much evidence for there ti be any kind of denial. As far as my points being contradictory, there’s nothing wrong with that! Both truths are completely possible. There were numerous factions within the Japanese competing for power. Yes point 1 was the OFFICIAL policy. But to think that there weren’t factions that weren’t thinking bigger should they gain control, and that hadn’t drawn up plans… come on.
The Japanese really did believe they were untouchable and when the Doolittle raid happened, they literally lost their minds. There are video clips of the Japanese people and they're absolutely hysterical because the Americans did the unthinkable; they attacked Japan.
Woooooow first time I watch what happened 😳 in this war. That was an spectacular documentary 👏 👌 I 'm in shock
Were any enquiries made about why nothing was done to mobilise US and Philippino troops in the 10 hours after Pearl Harbour? That was MacArthurs remit in the lead up to the war.
MacArthur in my opinion was highly overrated.
See how beautiful is clark air base n or clarkfields n also d Nichols air bases in manila clarkgields is 1 hours between Nichols air base n vlarkfields
Franklin Roosevelt didn't "declare war on the Japanese." He asked Congress to declare war on the Japanese. In America, the president can't declare war on another nation. That is the Congress' area of responsibility.
Agreed n bulls eyes sniper sjots
Empire of Japan: "Why do they want to kill us?" Azrael: "Because you're pissing people off!"
In fact, the U.S. conducted war games in 1932 that involved a surprise attack on a Sunday morning. It was well publicized. The attackers won the war game. In 1936, the Japanese War College conducted a study involving a surprise attack at Pearl Harbor.
Truth is, the USA got their butts handed to them many times, and they never did defeat the Japs. Stalin's invasion of Manchuria is what finished the Japs off, it also ruled out the Japs getting Stalin to act as mediator for a conditional surrender, Japan did not surrender after the 2nd bomb, at all, that's mere US lies and attempted propaganda to excuse themselves of committing the most brutal, criminal attack against civilians in the history of the world. The timing of the surrender proves this categorically.
Amazing video thank you timeline very interesting to learn about it all
correction it is not "nationalism" it is imperialism, and if it were nationalism they would not be able to be in an alliance. nationalism is loving your country, imperialism is when you want to expand what you have
Agreed to you bulls eyes n snipers shots
This documentary almost mirrors all the sequence of events in John Toland's book " But not in Shame ", the first six months after Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese people of the Yamato people are proof that they are a family connected to Emperor Jimmu. Hakko Ichiu means that the world is like a family. This shows the fundamental principle of the international order, and the international order to date has been a weak and strong diet. A strong country exploits a weak country. However, Ichiu, the order of the family, does not mean that the strongest patriarch exploits the weakest family! A home is a system in which strong people work for weak people. The world becomes peaceful for the first time when the strongest nation in the world works for the weak nations and the weak peoples and the system that he does is established. Japan became the strongest and united with the heart that gave birth to the heavens and the earth, and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Area was a battle to eliminate racial discrimination and win free trade for the people of Asia. Proud Japanese who fought in the Greater East Asia War! 統べての大和民族日本人は、神武天皇に繋がる家族である 証拠です。八紘一宇とは世界が一家族の如く睦み合ふことである。 これは國際秩序の根本原則を御示し 現在までの國際秩序は弱肉強食である。 強い國が弱い國を搾取するのである。所が、 一宇即ち一家の秩序は一番強い家長が弱い家族を搾取するのではない！ 一案強い者が弱い者のために 働いてやる制度が家だ。 世界中で一番強い國が弱い國、弱い民族達のために働いて やる制度が 出来た時、初めて世界は平和になる。日本は一番強くなつて、そして 天地の萬物を生じた心に合一し、 大東亜共栄圏とは、 人種差別撤廃・アジアの民の為に自由な交易を勝ち取る為の戦いであった 大東亜戦争で戦った日本人よ誇りを持って！
Such a masterpiece video thank you
What a terrific video. Thank you.
If you sneak up on the big tough neighborhood bully and kick him in the nuts he will drop to his knees and you will be safe for a while. But you know that he will eventually recover and then he will come looking for you. What exactly were the japanese thinking?
This video omits many things in Asia leading up the the attack. its a very simplified view of Japan and of the attack. its 2021 we need better documentaries.
More nuance would have been nice.
Indy Neidell over at WW2 channel's Pearl Harbor doc is far better (though of course no doc is perfect). Since they do WW2 week by week as well as supplementary episodes you get a much more comprehensive view. Their Pearl Harbor doc is 6 hours! kzhead.info/sun/fdOhYqaQh6Woi6s/bejne.html
@@specialnewb9821 that's partially because a documentary doesn't have to present all the facts to be labeled a documentary. Documentaries are at best a persuasive argument by nature.
Admiral Nimitz said that Pearl Harbor was a strategic and tactical failure of the Japanese Navy for 3 reasons 1) The attacked on Sunday Morning when 90% of the crews and most Senior officers were ashore for the weekend. 2) They did not attack the fuel reserves at Diamondhead. 3) They did not destroy the dry docks. So most ships could be repaired in Hawaii instead of needing to be scuttled or towed to the west coast. When those ships were fixed they were abled to be fueled in Hawaii and did not need to wait for tankers from San Diego or San Francisco. One those ships were ready to fight, they had the officers and crew in Hawaii ready to board them. And 4 it really made the US angry.
an excellent example of "A goldsmith strikes a million time, the blacksmith, just once".
Love watching these. What an incredible era.
Elwin serrels wass the atlantoc kater the pacofic toroedoed butcsurvived. Delivered fightets to maltam
The Japanese were suffering from the victory disease. This state of hubris led to the carrier fleet going on a 50,000 mile mission all the way into the Indian ocean and straight back to Midway. Men and ships were exhausted. Get and read At Dawn We Slept and Miracle At Midway. Both by Gordon Prange
>The Japanese were suffering from the victory disease. Wrong. It was obvious that Japan would not attack us unless provoked into it as a rat driven into a corner. [FDR], however, undertook a series of provocative actions . . . with increasing violence until both national pride and national desperation led them to Pearl Harbor. I believe that the verdict of history will show that either [FDR] was wholly ignorant of Japanese psychology . . . or that . . . he was determined to provoke war with Japan as the method of entry. (Hoover, Freedom Betrayed, 824) In the Pacific we bypassed [Japan]. We closed in. You must understand that Japan had an enormous population of nearly 80 million people, crowded into 4 islands. . . . [B]ut they didn't have the basic materials. . . . They feared that if those supplies were cut off, there would be 10 to 12 million people unoccupied in Japan. Their purpose, therefore, in going to war was largely dictated by security. (Douglas MacArthur’s testimony at the 82nd Congress, 1951) Japan's defeat resulted in the present PRC, which spread the Covid-19 all over the world. The US is particularly heavily suffering from it now. It's an ironical retribution of history. At the PH, the US made a huge mistake.
Good documentary 👏 thanks for this video
Alasdair Simpson, one of the best narrators i've heard
Clark Field in the Philippines immediately launched all airplanes to prevent them from being bombed on the ground as had the airplanes on Hawaii. MacArthur got permission to conduct bombing missions on nearby Formosa (Taiwan today - owned by Japan at the time). MacArthur landed all planes to be loaded with bombs and fuel. Air crews went inside for breakfast and briefings. This was when the Japanese appeared. They had been delayed for over 2 hours by dense fog in Formosa.
I like that part, "the sleeping giant has shown its teeth" damn proud to be an American 🇺🇲 Thank you to all the brave men, women and the real hero's
Sleeping giant is well protected from the mini giants through uncoverable ocean and broad air space Did you know the Germans feared Russians and played with Americans like a killing toy If Russians don't join the tripartiate you were screwed
America was slow to react, but powerful when she did react!
You shouldn't be proud though.
men
@@larryachiya2475didn't they do the same with americans? They started it with couple thousand US soldiers dead, they slaughtered millions of people all over Asia. US did the right thing. Besides it's a WAR. Ever learned what happens under war? Moron
When been taught everything about World War 2 new information is still coming out.I hooked to World War 2 because a mini series called Winds of War.
Where can I find these videos? I have history hit but find myself coming back to this KZhead to find more ww2 content
the fact that i can see ww2 footage on yt for free is mind blowing to me rn
This isn't quite what I expected. I thought the video would be an in depth analysis of Pearl Harbor. Planing stages, all the politics involved, events leading up to it, the day of the attack and the immediate aftermath. Instead we get the Pacific theater from Pearl to Midway.
*Gian* have you ever wondered why getting us that letter an hour before the attach was so important to Japan?
Same here. The title very is misleading.
very much so RRice
maybe you can get your money back
Hate to disagree but Roosevelt did not declare war. He asked Congress to declare war. The US Constitution reserves a declaration of war as a Congressional power alone.
That's a very good point.
My great grandfather never had much friends in the army so he joined the navy back in 1936 on may 5th. The only friends he did make was when he would visit the ship in Pearl harbor, 2 lads who just turned 18 both American born and raised through the military just like their predecessors did before then. He was leaving the harbor to go vista his soon to be wife with their 9 month baby, it was interesting night singing dancing at the clubs on Honolulu. He had much to drink yes and he wasn’t able to go back to the Arizona, he woke up the sound of planes. When he stopped down the road to see the harbor he saw the Arizona and then saw planes flying a bit close for manuervers and tricks. Ship was hit and it went down immediately his two friends he made were on that ship he lost his only friend he had, but a fire grew in him and a fury to get revenge on not only his friends but his country which came under attack. As far as he’s told he only stopped when I asked him about the kamikazes, he was still having nightmares till he got about to his 80s. My father told me at a young age, if war breaks out and you somehow lose your way. Stay strong vigilant and quick on your judgement and life choices. I still have admiration for my great grandfather, I only wish he’d been more open, but then again he went through something that none of us will ever go through.
Glad Philippines was part of the history :) Clarke aibase is now an airport and something we go to as a park as well and bataan too is now a park ^^
In the scenes of Japanese planes taking off from a carrier, the shadows of the planes show it to be about midday. These scenes have been used to represent the launching of an attack against Pearl Harbour for as long as I can remember. The actual launches were made in the early morning.
history teacher _ excelente Amigo!!! hats off to YOU !!! bye.
It was December, the sun hadn't even broached the horizon yet, and the daylight footage is from the beginning of the second wave.
@@SierraThunder The shadows of the pilots are showing early morning but the shadows of the planes show midday. The Second wave hit Pearl Harbour about 10am so the second wave launched approx. 8.30am. Most of the Japanese film of the attack remained onboard the carriers and was destroyed at the Battle of Midway and was never seen.
And by the chronology of events in this doc, you'd think the Malayan Campaign began after Pearl Harbor. Even though it started hours before the Pearl Harbor attack. You'd think that a British doc would get this right, since the Malayan Campaign concerned them
I’ll pay that one!
Damn, Japan caught us lacking But they wasn’t ready for the smoke 🇺🇸
They weren't ready for when we got back up. When you kick someone down, either pray they don't get back up or make sure they stay down
Vietnamese rice farmer and afghan sandal foot militia is better then the japanese 😏😏😛 america lost the war.
Chicago made that term “lacking” lol we really are trend setters
@@iggy5347 the Taliban is weak
Amazing documentary
*this is absolutely amazing documentary very well done* *Matatan. Hs. Ribirin*
MS. Sweet My Father spent the war as a Japanese POW, captured in the Philippines in May 1942, held for a few months in Taiwan, forced to build Japanese ships in Yokohama Japan and finally at a POW site in Sendai, a town which was somewhat destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. He was killed by a Drunk Driver 20 yrs. and 1 month after his release as a POW.
my dad was pow walking from bataan to capas tarlac, called death march of walking escaped on the town of dinalupian. survived. with a sickness of malaria..if he didn't escaped im not in this world..
Wow! To live through all of that just to be killed by a drunk driver! I hope that drunk got what he deserved. And thanks for sharing this piece of history.
Sorry sir
@@brianmirrasi6389 sorry sir it happened wherever you are when the time it come, of course very sad...
Thank You Sir , for that historical video . Your work , is perfect . GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THE US NAVY 1941-2021
Awesome footage
Incredible footage
It was a sneak attack imagine a mother. My neighbor learning her son blown to smitheriens only 17years of age on his war ship in the pacific. She lost her mind over it it was something I will never forget for the rest of my life. I can’t forgive it it haunted me all these years. Rest in peace men of wa
It wasn't a sneak attack. The british-U.S. planned it.
Mom lived through the war. She’s never forgiven the Japanese
@@JeffMathias why? Anyone in the world who lived during that time people until the Japanese surrender "lived through the war". what a dumb statement, like it means anything.
“Aircraft production soars”.. I see what you did there 🇺🇸
The Japanese people of the Yamato people are proof that they are a family connected to Emperor Jimmu. Hakko Ichiu means that the world is like a family. This shows the fundamental principle of the international order, and the international order to date has been a weak and strong diet. A strong country exploits a weak country. However, Ichiu, the order of the family, does not mean that the strongest patriarch exploits the weakest family! A home is a system in which strong people work for weak people. The world becomes peaceful for the first time when the strongest nation in the world works for the weak nations and the weak peoples and the system that he does is established. Japan became the strongest and united with the heart that gave birth to the heavens and the earth, and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Area was a battle to eliminate racial discrimination and win free trade for the people of Asia. Proud Japanese who fought in the Greater East Asia War! 統べての大和民族日本人は、神武天皇に繋がる家族である 証拠です。八紘一宇とは世界が一家族の如く睦み合ふことである。 これは國際秩序の根本原則を御示し 現在までの國際秩序は弱肉強食である。 強い國が弱い國を搾取するのである。所が、 一宇即ち一家の秩序は一番強い家長が弱い家族を搾取するのではない！ 一案強い者が弱い者のために 働いてやる制度が家だ。 世界中で一番強い國が弱い國、弱い民族達のために働いて やる制度が 出来た時、初めて世界は平和になる。日本は一番強くなつて、そして 天地の萬物を生じた心に合一し、 大東亜共栄圏とは、 人種差別撤廃・アジアの民の為に自由な交易を勝ち取る為の戦いであった 大東亜戦争で戦った日本人よ誇りを持って！
@@user-ed8wc1yr8s who asked?
@@mikebennett153 who asked?バカに尋ねましたｗｗｗ 広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ 真珠湾攻撃では、日本のパイロットは、民間人を攻撃しませんでした！ 軍事施設に限定した爆撃です。米軍は、 広島・長崎・大阪・東京など無差別民間人を狙った大殺戮である。 It was a human experiment in Hiroshima and Nagasaki! The war was about to end soon, so we conducted a human experiment on the atomic bomb. Treating a girl who helped an A-bomb survivor in Hiroshima after the war Recorded the process of a girl dying of exposure by false treatment, and when she died, she took out her organs and took them back to the United States! In pearl harbor attack, Japanese pilots did not attack civilians! It is a bombing limited to military facilities. The U.S. military is a massacre targeting indiscriminate civilians in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo, and other areas.
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I've been to HAWAII and PEARL HARBOUR and there's a ship still in the water and to think of all the Lives that were LOST there and most of them are still in the ship makes me think i hope that there's not another war
Yamamoto came up with the idea for a carrier launched KO at Pearl Harbor. Airman Minoru Genda did the planning. The guns at Singapore rotated 360 degrees and did so but lacked ammunition for anti-personnel use. Just two errors noticed skipping through.
According to books I have read McArthur was no hero, he was an opportunist who readily took his chance to get away, leaving his men to suffer awfully during the death march.
Your reading the wrong books. MacArthur was ordered to leave by Franklin Roosevelt the commander and chief.In fact the order was sent twice but he did not open it.The third time the person was ordered to read it to him.MacArthur had a huge ego but he was a soldier and would not disobey a direct order from the commander and chief.
@@jerryg53125 Well, not really according to the studies I have read, sadly I cannot give the sources as it was over twenty years ago, but they were well researched and written by good historians.
@@SUSSDUE We can agree to disagree.
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Nagumo made one of the biggest blunders of the war by not carrying out the planned 3rd strike to attack Fuel tank farm, which held all the fuel Needed for us to conduct operations in the Pacific. But having said that, they really miscalculated how we would. Respond. Yamamoto iis famously quoted as saying after the attack," I'M AFRAID WE HAVE AWAKENED A SLEEPING GIANT" and his premonition, which he counseled Against the attack before the decision was made to carry out the plan, before he was sent away bc they military planners, including tojo and others didn't want to hear what he was saying. But he was speaking from experience, bc during the 1930's he was a naval liaison attached to the Embassy in Washington, and as such Had numerous opportunities to travel Throughout the country and saw firsthand just what the industrial capacity was. He knew they only had One chance to achieve their objectives But they only half heartedly went at it. In hindsight it was a stupid decision to Bring us into an active role in the war
I saw some of TL Documentary but I think in this one you missed to include more infos such as: navies specifications, the Yamamoto's university life in US among others.
From Doolittle; you can call me Meyer?
Tbh i was very surprised Doolittle made it off the flight deck, having balls that BIG.
Hallo I am here to follow all of the histories. Nice to see you forever
Yamamoto and Nimitz did not personally fight at Coral Sea. They were the commanders in chief of their respective combined fleets.
The 1940 US Naval Construction ACT which was not classified was passed by the US Congress, This authorization authorized 6 Alabama, 6 IOWAS, and 6 Montana's fast battleships and most importantly the 35 Essex class Carriers of which 24 were built, along with heavy and light cruisers and a ton of destroyers, the fruits of this authorization produced the swarm of large deck fleet carriers which simply swamped Japan. I am pretty sure that IJN had knowledge of this and their intractable belief of their warrior spirit became the "why" they attacked Pearl Harbor with Kido Butai (First Mobile Force).. Unfortunately for the IJN, they had Nagumo in charge who missed critical targets the oil storage tank, repair dry docks, the submarines and most importantly the aircraft carriers, major major mistakes, which would haunt the Japanese until they surrendered.
salute to all people who sacrifice life for peace
The situations they put our soldiers in....for what justification? Convenience? Thank you all Service Members.
Its like "DO A LITTLE THIS....DO A LITTLE THAT. But mission ACCOMPLISHED.
The Battle of Midway is oversimplified. Admiral Nagumo had many other factors working against him. 1. The returning carrier planes would be returning soon low on fuel. They needed to be recovered first. 2. Before he could do that, Midway based bombers started to attack the fleet, causing wild manoeuvring, with a damaged B-26 almost striking his ship. 3. Recovery, rearming and relaunching of the CAP, the finding out about a possible USN task force in the area. This caused a rearming from land to ship attack weapons. This is during the combined USAAF, USN and USMC attacks. 4. The continuing recovery operations during the air raids, and a submarine attack, further the delaying the second strike, now ready to engage the USN task force. 5. The uncoordinated and piece meal attacks by the USN torpedo bombers and occasional fighter planes that forced the CAP to expend fuel and ammo, also pulling the HICAP down to sea level, left the dive bombers free to commence their attack just as Nagumo was ready to launch his. 5 fateful minutes that changed the course of the Pacific War.
I know sometimes shows have to cut context for brevity but the information about the lead up and motivations for war in this show is just wrong.
Many people forget about the battle of Kohima where the Japanese troops were stopped. It's renowned as the Stallingrad of the east. 🙏🙏
The Emperor sat with a stoic look on his face when he heard the attack was successful. His General asked if he was pleased at the news. The Emperor replied with an expressionless face, " This is the most joyfull moment of my entire life"
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He was joyful because we cut off his oil supply for the imperial war machine because he invaded a British Island. The United States applied 90% of Japanese oil and that's why the emperor was so happy that Pearl harbor was attacked.
Although certainly Hirohito was a puppet of the Japanese Army, especially Tojo, he was in favor of Japan's aggressive actions. Later on, when the occupation under the "Gaijin Shogun", MacArthur, was in effect, he was re-invented as being "reluctant" to go along with the "militarists", with Tojo getting most of the blame. To the General's credit, he took the blame for the war and Japan's defeat, and tried to kill himself when the Americans tried to arrest him in September of '45. Saved by doctors at the time, he was put on trial as one of the main defendants in the International Military Tribunal of the Far East, found guilty of war crimes, and hanged in 1948. Sure, MacArthur was complicit in covering up Hirohito's guilt in the war, but his reasoning was sound. It was necessary, after having won the war, to win the PEACE, as had NOT been done after the end of World War One. Japan had a long-standing tradition of the "Samurai" class of warriors, with the Japanese Army taking on a modern interpretation of that role. The Japanese revered their Emperor as some manner of "living God", and were fanatical in dying in his service. All that devotion and fanaticism had to be re-directed by MacArthur to remake Japan not only into a peaceful country, but also as an ALLY, especially against encroaching Communism from the Soviet Union and Mao's Chicoms. This, more than anything of a military nature that "Dugout Doug" had done, or would do shortly thereafter in Korea, was his greatest career achievement.
First time I’ve seen an account timing the Philippines attack with Pearl Harbor and I’ve watched numerous documentaries, definitely never heard about McArthur going to and being attacked in Australia. Wonder why other productions left this out? Blows the mind that we got caught this many times as narrator states. Interesting….. and it took four months?!?! Guess they left quite a bit of the crucial information and just stated the finer points.
I was thinking the same thing. I've seen a lot of documentaries on Pearl Harbor.
Mac Arthur was not attacked in Australia.
Mac Arthur did not fly out of the Philippines. He was taken out on a P.T. boat. I wonder what other disinformation is included in this video.
@@brotherpaul963 Mac Arthur had to made several legs from Bataan to Australia. Bulkeley took him to Mindanao from there he flew to Northern Australia and then a train ride to Brisbane. The documentary is very "abridged".
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My father was a chief warrant officer on the USS West Virginia when the attack took place. He was sleeping and had to abandon ship swimming through fire that was burning fuel. Later he returned to do underwater metal cutting to remove the dead.
Both my sons were in this awful war and in the navy. Unfortunately they were on opposing sides as Jacob enlisted in the Imperial Navy and Louis was in the United States Navy. They both died in each other’s arms. Damn this war.
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Thanks to doliitle the tacticians. The general amd the encoders who encode their strategies. Salute to THE U. S. ARMY WHO RISK THEIR LIVES. may you rest in peace heroes s🔥♥️ Greetings from ph♥️
Fantastic documentary !
29:03, the officer was so worried about the fate of the pilots...
13:30 MacArthur left in PT boats
fantastico Admiral Nimitz..... with love and respect from Vietnam.
You don't mess with Russia and you don't mess with the U.S.A
McArthur has remained one of the WWII’s most overrated Generals. From pre-invasion non preparedness in the Philippines, to not hopping enough islands, to his totally inglorious return to the Philippines, to his arrogance and reckless planned invasion of China during the Korean “Conflict.” He -and his staff- showed a talent for self-promotion and an unwillingness to coordinate with the Navy and our allies. Fortunately for us, there were enough adults who were able to temper this presence.
Agree
MacArthur's lack of insight was evident BEFORE the war. It was his choice, against strong advice from his deputy (Eisenhower), to unleash the US Army on the unemployed veterans march in Washington in 1932. That discredited the US Army in many civilian eyes for almost a decade, which hampered war preparation..
The US succeeded in spite of him, not because of him.
I totally agree, I am not now and have never been a MacArthur fan. he was an arrogant prima donna.
MacArthur also wanted to nuke North Korea and China in 1950. This was why Truman took the heat and fired him. And this is why after Roosevelt, I think Truman was the greatest President of the 20th century.
46:30 - Here the narrator fails to mention that Nagumo wasn't told that the US Navy is coming, He was told that surface ships were detected but the kind of ships wasn't specified. This is why he hesitated. If he knew he faces the US carriers he prepared half of his planes for he would've never ordered the change of ordnances.
It’s irrelevant. You’re trying to claim that had Nagumo launched it would have changed the entire course of history?
@@f430ferrari5 The doc also doesn’t mention that the scout plane that was assigned to the sector where the US carriers were eventually spotted had its launch delayed. Had this not happened, Nagumo would have had much more time to prepare a full air strike against the American fleet. Considering the fact that the IJN’s pilots were much more experienced and were flying superior aircraft at this point, it’s highly likely that at least one if not all of the carriers would have been sunk or heavily damaged. I’d say that would definitely have changed the course of history. We simply got lucky in this battle.
@@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 Absolutely, I couldn't say it better.
Luck played a significant role in the battle, as well did the intelligence coup that allowed for the trap to be sent. Now what opened the Japanese carriers to be wide open to attack was a rapidly changing battle situation that lead to a flip flopping of orders and likely inflicted confusion on the enlisted men who would have made up the majority the Carrier's ground crews as well as the junior officers commanding them..
@@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 Its important to not that the US had 100 more carriers than the Japanese by the end of the war, all losing at mid way would have done is delay the inevitable. by the end of the war the US would have 10 aircraft carriers to every one of the Japanese, the only hope the Japanese had was to convince the Americans that the war wasn't worth it, but because Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack unprovoked it is extremely unlikely that America would have even considered anything but the complete surrender of Japan, would have only delayed the inevitable
Aircraft carriers were out and they sunk ships in a harbor with a shallow draft and repair facilities.
Doolittle's crew took off first from Hornet. In those bad conditions. They had steel you-know-whats. Each plane after them knew it was possible & had more deck to accelerate on.
Historical inaccuracies, one of which saying that Macarthur flew from Philippines to Australia. He departed Corregidor by PT boat, after a long difficult voyage to Southern Philippines, he flew to Northern Territory in Australia, let’s get that right. Neither Nimitz nor Yamamoto were in tactical command in the Battle of the Coral Sea. The research done for this video is sub standard.
A horrible understatement . Becoming all too typical of this channel. Just a money grab and propaganda factory. No legitimate advertising, all scam and worse.
yes I agree Ken
*Ken* if you want the truth about Pearl Harbor ands can put two and two together you need to watch *They Were Expendable* *In Harms Way* and *Tora Tora Tora* Make note of the "Letter" in Tora Tora Tora that the Japanese sent to the US and the fact that it was sent an hour later than it was supposed to be sent. Then ask why that letter was so important. If they had gotten that letter to us on time Pearl would have been mostly an empty target.
@@jetcitysinatra7300 Quite so and I wonder what would the IJN might have done to the US Battleships when they were at sea. The decoding of the 'Final' part from the Japanese Embassy was delayed due to reduced staff at the Embassy, not deliberate.
@@davidcroft9320 it wasn't deliberate yiu are right. The translator was unable to get the letter of intent translated in time. Japanese Navy was supposed to warn the upper crust that they were coming an hour before they got there. It woukd allow Pearl to be mostly vacant when they bombed so no real damage would happen. But you can't let everyone in on what you are doing because you need it to look real. So you only tell a few and allow the rest to freak out.
Find it funny how they say the battle of the coral sea was a stalemate, it was an American victory. Japanese invasion of Port Moresby was postponed indefinitely, 1 escort carrier sunk and 2 others so badly damaged they couldn't be used at the battle of midway.
Losing the Lex was a big deal though.
please make also a documentary video on the historical biggest naval war in the world. it is also part of the WWII and the return of Gen. McArthur in the Philippines.
McArthur return to the Philippines 🇵🇭 💕 💖 ❤ 😌 ♥ 🇵🇭 there's zlready a films videos check you tubes
One thing about Pearl harbor USA can be thankful about...it's a good thing our Carriers was at sea during the attack 😮
Yes, and it's also a good thing that the harbor wasn't blocked.