The Second Japanese Pearl Harbor Attack
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Many people don't realise that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor twice - once, infamously, on 7th December 1941, but again, in a daring long-range attack, in 1942. Find out how they managed to complete the second raid.
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My grandpa was in the 2nd wave. Lived through the entire war, and was friends with former enemies by comparing log books in the 1950s after meeting two American veterans in Alaska.
Tomoko very cool 😎
They totally murdered those trees. Flawless victory!
The behavior of the two Japanese pilots was so very human, and typical of what is seen in military operations around the world. Such high-risk operations are not supposed to encounter avoidable factors, but frequently do.
The American war effort was great affected by the loss of those trees.
Kiyoshi Kirishima .. you are why come to the comments...lol.. but I wonder if they had humanitarian alternative motives
killed some fish too
Call Mr Beast.
NEVER!...Under any circumstances (short of death or near death) should ever stop making fantastic videos like this. I thank you for your dedication to and love of history.
Untold truths coming to life.
How are you gonna upload videos when you're dead?
Yeah men if this guy stops making videos like this it will be a huge crime.
Dr felton is a jewel on you tube for all ww2 freaks
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9:26 that's my friend's mom! She passed away a few years ago. He's a retired US Navy officer living in Florida. This same picture is displayed in the Spy Museum in Washington DC.
Many, many years ago I read of the lead up to the battle of Midway. The Japanese realized they had not crippled the oil storage tanks nor the ammo dumps and had completely failed to hit any carriers. So they came up with some ambitious plans to correct these mistakes, the sea plane raid was mentioned as a failure, along with proposals to land saboteurs and station submarines around Oahu but the distances involved were too great. What the Japanese realized was that they needed a more forward base and thus the Midway operation was planned. If the Japanese had succeeded at Midway, they most certainly would have made many more attempts to destroy the Pearl Harbor base.
Most of those targets and the Dru Docks were scheduled for the 3rd wave that didn't happen. The Japanese were worried about the Lack of Carriers at Pearl Harbor and cut the the most important piece of the Mission out. That's what helped the 7th Fleet recover so fast.
That thumbnail looks amazing Props to the artist
They all do
anyone know what plan that is? id like to use it as a wallpaper
@@AwesomeMoss it's a Kawanishi H8K Flying Boat
Also heres a picture of the flying boat getting shot down www.google.com/search?q=kawanishi+h8k+shot+down&client=ms-android-mpcs-us-revc&prmd=inv&sxsrf=ACYBGNRTl6mi2NGtCsXuaVbtTh8mVIQWyA:1576298646855&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-hp-HqrTmAhWviOAKHX1XBE4Q_AUoAXoECA4QAQ&biw=360&bih=645#imgrc=VJbLF08kd2ymyM Japanese Kawanishi H8K “Emily” aircraft under attack by a slightly smaller American PB2Y Coronado of Heavy Patrol Squadron 116, and finally sunk. The Japanese aircraft is shown with one engine on fire. Photograph received November 12, 1944.
@@JustJohn505 I have no idea why you just shared that but it's very interesting...
I was born in 1942 and have read scores (at least) of books about the war, beginning shortly after learning to read. I have talked to veterans of the fighting, including close relatives, and I even served with veterans during my time in the military. I have kept up with discoveries of war history such as the recent location of the remains of legendary war ships. So how is it that Mark Felton regularly demonstrates to me that I don't know squat about the history of the war? Was he magically there to witness every battle?
You are not alone. Mark Felton does what "The History Guy" (KZhead and Patreon) and others do for a passionate vocation-- illuminating history. Doubtless, you know about items they have yet to come across, which is why you should consider making your own videos.
@sandysalads 03: Well, if they had, we sure wouldn't be bombarded with political B.S. investigations without end in the U.S. like we are now. That would be one good thing, huh? There wouldn't be any elections. We wouldn't be free. There would be only the Emperor or the Fuhrer's successor, or both. Or perhaps Stalin's. That P.O.S fake Commie, old Murdering Joe, would probably have taken out the US also. And yeah, he was a fake POS. Why? Because the tyrant leaders always seem to become irrevocably corrupt. They insist on the masses working themselves to death in 'equality' (equal rights for all, meaning NONE) while the leader gets to eat anything he wants, have any opposition murdered, do whatever he pleases. It's a sham, and always will be. Wake the eff up people. Socialism is BS because the top ain't socialist. The top will always have the best food, the best doctors, jet airplanes and limousines. The rest of us just get to barely make it.
Because Felton specializes in trivia. Extremely minor detail that made little difference in the actual outcome and which is therefore omitted for space and/or relevance in most accounts, but which is interesting nonetheless.
@Hopelessand Forlorn: I think he tries to find veterans for their stories as well as search every nook and cranny. You should contact him, bet you have stories to tell as well. And i know the feeling, think i read about 10.000 pages of WWII history, and his stories keep surprising me too, though i knew of this one (one line in a battle of Midway book)
@sandysalads 03 Do you like the darkness of death around you? Count your blessings if your in a free democracy.
I’m shocked I never knew of this
I have a fantastic history section in my library, have been reading about this stuff for 50 years, yet Mark is _always_ able to come up with something I've never heard of.
Or I?
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I did
you say that a lot on this site
I live near Mt Tantalus. The craters are still there. Overgrown with grass and plants, but still there. Side note. Tantalus is very close to the "Punchbowl" which is the nickname of the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. aka....the Arlington Cemetery in the Pacific Ocean. A beautiful spot on the Island. Thousands of headstones and dozens of huge walls with the names of those "lost at sea, remains not recovered."
olemissfan91.........no. It's just that everyone who grew up in the "hood" knew about it. Adults and kids alike. The information was just passed on from decade to decade.
When you hear the music take your seats students as Dr. Felton is taking your ass to school.
I was just at Pearl Harbor. I don’t recall the tour mentioning that a second raid was attempted
Look it up on Wikipedia
Also on the tour did they tell you on the other side of Ford Island is the USS Utah with 52 men still on it. AND that the Park Service cannot take civilians over to look at or honor the dead as it is a part of a military reservation. Look it up on youtube American Artifacts: USS Utah Memorial. A forgotten ship.
@@josephbingham1255 Got to visit the USS Utah memorial during 90s Hydroplane races.
@David Parry -- Of course, you never hide YOUR failures, do you?
@David Parry And the Germans and Japanese were overconfident and thought they were invincible.
Most interesting and well produced. A not well known event. Many people are not aware that Sydney Harbour was attacked by Japanese midget submarines. One of these sunk a ferry acting as a dormitory and killing over 100 sailors. In the same raid the mother submarine stood off shore and shells landed in coast line suburbs.
Where do you even find all of this crazy footage??? Its so perfect in every vid.
This strikes me as their answer to the Doolittle Raid: more for psychological effect than to destroy military hardware.
The Doolittle raid happened over a month later. If anything the B-25 mission against Tokyo was the reply to Operation K.
@@enscroggs Yes, you were first to comment. I was ready to insert, "Interesting to note the March 3 attack was only weeks before the Doolittle raid on Tokyo".
If you remember there were 4 missed targets from the December 7th attack: the aircraft carriers (which weren't there), the submarines; the fuel depot; & the dry dock facilities. So, this 2nd raid wasn't so much for psychologic purposes as a strategic imperative.
Yes, but considering its impact - or lack thereof - the Japanese version should be called the Do-Little raid.
@@enscroggs : I don't think it was a reply. I believe the Tokyo raid had been in planning and training for several months already.
Mark you might have missed something. You said the Japanese never returned to French Frigates shoal, but I think you might be wrong. Prior to the Midway operation a Japanese submarine went to French Frigates shoal to refuel a flying boat that would do a reconnaissance flight over Pearl Harbor to determine if there were any aircraft carriers there. They were anxious to know the location of the carriers so there would be no threat to their aircraft carriers in the vicinity of Midway. Since Nimitz suspected the Japanese of using French Frigate shoal, he sent a ship to that location to deter its use by the Japanese. Indeed a Japanese submarine went to the shoal but discovered the ship and cancelled the reconnaissance operation. I am doing this from memory but if it serves me, I should have recalled the event correctly.
You always seem to come up with stories that I have never heard of. My only regret is that my dad is not around to see them. He served in the Navy during WWII and was a big history buff. I really miss talking to him. He died at the young age of 62, I'm 70 now.
I treasure this channel so much I listen through the full audiobook ads
Surely no one is that dedicated?
@@alecblunden8615 even two
Time to learn something new.
Always time to learn something new or long buried seeling daylight.
Far right maggots desire war without end so long as they never fight. Cowards
Video's about things i dont know are rare
@@manuelamarcano817 I always thought learning was pleasant if I had a deep interest and almost impossible when I didn't.
Scott Klocke they call that American. The right doesn’t,t run from a fight to preserve America. Except California. That,s for sale
I enjoyed the video, as I do all of yours, but (there's always a but) if the planes were flying west to east over Oahu, on a path north of Pearl Harbor, and made a sharp turn to port (13.28), then they'd be flying north, away from Pearl, not south, towards it.
Thank you Mark for your hard work in putting these videos together! They never disappoint!
Those HUGE Kawanishi flying boats were the flying boat that the Sunderland, as good as it undoubtedly was, could never hope to be. They operated some unbelievable long-range flights and even raided Townsville, Aistralia.
Some years ago on Ebay for sale was an UNIDENTIFIED set of WWll era Japanese collar tabs and an ID document showing the photo of a man wearing the collar tabs. Liking a mystery I decided to research them. What I came up with was: A factory test pilot - located in a Japanese coastal town. The same coastal town where these large flying boats were being made by hand one at a time. It makes sense the factory would have it's own test personnel with status insignia and identification.
The Japanese industry of the time did use some very well designed machine tools, such as used at the Kawanishi factories. Their engineering has always been of a high level. This is a nation that is now the foremost industrial country, yet when it comes to giving credit many in the west tend to shun their achievements. Some parts of the flying boats would have been made by hand, such as complicated angles in a wooden spar, beam etc, but these were exceptions to the rule.
Joseph Bingham....Did you buy the tabs?!Tell me you did...outstanding research over a possible purchase...at least did you try to win the auction?
@InfiniteMushroom they had oil from Indonesia until the US subs started to really choke Japanese shipping.
Great sponsor! I’ve listened to two of Dr. Felton’s books via Audible. Once again, great story telling and research. Thank you.
I’ve read about this incident before -but you did an excellent job of covering it-thank you👍
Thank you Mark. You've renewed my interest in the World Wars, plus the surrounding topics, recent & old. I thought I'd seen & read everything. Not only do you cover a lot of very obscure topics, you do it extremely well! Again, thank you!
Great research! This is a fascinating part of WWII history in the Pacific of which I was unaware! You’ve done it again, Mark!
Yet again a fascinating review of ,to me at least, an unknown raid. Your research is commendable .Thank you and I look forward to seeing your next posting.
This history was new to me. I can't emphasize how unusual that is. Great video!
Hey Mark, where do you find or come across these amazing ww2 stories? I'm a huge ww2 buff but most of the stories in your video's I've never has any idea about! I love these little lesser known stories about WW2!
I've never heard of this 2nd Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor until today. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for another fantastic historical video, Dr. Felton! I'd never heard anything about this attack before.
I continue to hear about the previously unheard of military events through your outstanding videos. Thanks Mark for the excellent research!🇺🇸
US: finally the pearl harbor attack is over Japan: There is another
There was another before this too. On December 11th, a Japanese recon plane flew over Pearl Harbor to report damage. Although I have no idea what model it was.
@@loveofmangos6112 Does a routine reconnaissance mission count as "an attack"?
@@alecblunden8615 Yes because they learned that targets were not hit. Enough proof at least to launch this flying boat attack. Unfortunately for the Japanese their bombs only destroyed a few trees. Lol.
@@loveofmangos6112 interesting. You learn something everyday.
How good would this be as a DCS mission.. I want to fly a Kawanishi H8K1 now!!
My dad was in the Philippines during the liberating push 43 on,. He and several of the guy's he was there with, they only talked in Italian. My family came to the states in 1917.
An excellent description of a little known operation, full of detail and anecdotal evidence. Very clearly narrated and easy to listen to. Thanks for taking the time to put this together and sharing with us - much appreciated. As for Audible - you are preaching to the converted, already a member for some years.
What an amazing history piece! Never have I caught even a glimpse of this story before. So many things that made the difference for a fail that could have been so different! At least on this raid we were aware they were coming even though they weren't found.
Another video, another event of WW2 I knew nothing about. keep teaching history mark, schools barely do their jobs nowadays!!!
Although tempting to include schools "barely do their jobs", the task facing the history teacher is enormous. Watch the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", as teacher Ben Stein tries to acquaint middle-teen students with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, and causes one girl to lapse unconscious with disinterest. To place credit where credit is due, Mark Felton's signature is not only comprehensive knowledge of the historic context, but an eye for the unusual event which is not quite significant enough to include in most undergraduate studies, not to mention high school texts.
To put the issue in perspective from a retired history teacher - two years ago the state of Florida required that U.S. History teachers cause their students in 180 days to master 120 standards. Those 180 days included from 10 - 20 days of standardized testing that took students out from class, a 10% student absentee rate every day, instruction, testing, remediation, make-up work for the absentees, as well as the state mandated lessons that weren't necessarily related to history as well as the surprise drills for fire, tornado, and shooter.
how racist? I had my objections to some of them...but racists? I never saw that.. Although with some of the situations they find themselves in the modern-era schools, it is surprising if they are not. I saw one young female US teacher telling a grueling tale about trying to teach in a fucked up school with an utterly incompetent black female principal (as they more often than not are incompetent teachers/principals/administrators of any kind ) who basically comes for any non-black teacher such as herself. So she was caught in a hell-vice with a significant coloured enrollment on one side, and coloured staff including boss on the other) Her I felt sorry for.Or any other poor slob that affirmative action hiring and fast-track promotion path ever blew back on.
tbh, you are expecting far too much obscure fine detail from high school history classes..all of this kind of thing is in the specialist books 'suggested further reading" category.
Because we don't need to know every obscure and insignificant fact in a general knowledge course. That's why schools aren't just KZhead in person.
8:00 I believe at this point in the war, the Lexington in use would be CV-2, as the one shown would not be commissioned until 1943.
So many obscure stories are brought to light by you Mr. Felton. Bravo, and thank you!
Mark, your videos NEVER cease to amaze! I'm always watching for more new vids of yours to watch!
Who gives this a thumbs down? History is history.
History isn't history, much depends on how it's presented. Dr.Felton does an excellent politically neutral job. Other channels about a great war don't always do the same, the problem is if you don't already know the history you don't understand their implicit political bias and what and how that changes what you're learning.
otm646 well said, and it’s not just biases, there are many ways information could be miscommunicated, especially in history.
the thumbs down people will be blue haired snowflake types who would spray paint slogans on military graves etc
Samuel Johnstone indeed
It must be his slight mispronunciation of Ensign. Lol.
Great video. This was worth watching just for the H8K media. Love that machine.
Another interesting tidbit about the war. I thought I was fairly learned about WWII, until your channel popped up one day. 📻🙂
mark scores another direct hit! the thumbnails as well as the video titles are excellent selling points
I thought this was about the 2nd wave of the Japanese surprise attack on Dec7, 1941, until I learnt that Mark was talking about Mac 4, 1942 some 3 months after the 1st attack. This is new to me. Thanks for the great info Mark, and keep up the excellent work.
I find myself walking around whistling the opening music all the time at work. Thanks Mark.
hearing that lovely theme ...
Gunnar Anderson hah right? It’s a fucking banger-I love it.
The nick name for the Mitsubishi flying boats was first coined by the Germans for the Sunderland as it was festooned with .303 guns. 6 German Ju88's attacking one over the Bay of Biscay lost a number of them shot down by the lone Sunderland. The 88's could fire their cannons from 1000 yds but the Sunderland's effective range was 600 yds. Upon returning to base there were counted 200 holes in the Sunderland's fuselage.
I heard about H8K 'Emily's being stationed near Oahu acting as recon. But never heard about this raid. Always great to learn new bit of history. As a fan of Axis and Allies War at Sea. These flying boats are great to use in-game
War thunder
This was good. Thank you. This near meaningless Pearl Harbor run left a giant crater behind Roosevelt High School in Honolulu, but its significance was in the fact that the US then became able to break Japanese naval codes which was pivotal to the US success at Midway, beyond the luck that favored them over those three days in June 1942. Next, perhaps you could do a video on the Battle of Ni'ihau and its impact on US policy toward US citizens of Japanese ancestry and toward Japanese resident in the US either denied citizenship or who chose to remain loyal to Tokyo.
The picture of the USS Lexington shown in this video is not the early war USS Lexington (CV2) that was in use in 1942. It may by the replacement Lexington CV16 that came after the original Lexington was sunk and the battle of the Coral Sea May 8, 1942. CV16 was launched in September 1942. The original Lexington and her sister ship the USS Saratoga had very distinctive Smoke stacks which the ship in this picture does not have.
Hi Mark, at 8:09 that's the wrong USS Lexington. You've pictured the later Essex class CV-16. Not the actual Lexington class CV-2 later lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Good eye!
@@davidvavra9113 : The domatix is an expert on carrier identification : ) my hat is off to him, bravo
Try to get with the Japanse aircraft carrier forces, they could use an eagle eye like you. During the battle of Coral Sea, the oiltanker Neosho was mistakenly identified as an aircraft carrier escorted by a battleship (Destroyer Simms) by a Japanse recon pilot. Both ships were sunk with minimal losses, but when the actual american carriers were spotted, no aircraft were available for an attack, dooming the Japanse ships when the american recons spotted them later. So yeah, OP has a good point, good recon is vital.
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 My dad was onboard Uss Helm which rescued the survivors of the Neosho and Simms.
@@russdority6295 thanks. Never knew that, always thought they went down with all hens because there was no one near them. That must have been a story, trying to find guys in the open ocean. And think of the poor guys, first they get attacked by more then a hundred aircraft and wonder what they did wrong to deserve this, then they are wondering if anyone will ever find them.... *salutes*
Outstanding piece of history...thank you Mr. Felton
Three Kanawishi " Emilys" also dropped bombs on Townsville North Queensland in 1942 close to my home town of Cairns.......another isolated attack took place near Cairns that year... Les Griffiths
Les Griffiths only an ossi would say Townsville is close to cairns xD
@@Iamtherealjerkfreak -Ossi? Is that short for Ostrich?
Should be aussi or ozzy ;) Ar as that guy is from cairns you also can call him bananabender ;)
Wow, such an incredible story. All that planning and man power employed just for them to completely miss the target? I'm guessing that's the best they could do, however having someone on the Island transmitting seems an ideas worth considering. A BIG thumbs up from me for this fascinating piece of history. Thank you Sir.
A very interesting piece of history and another outstanding video Mark !
Another great production! Wasn’t there a recon attempt via French Frigate Shoals over Pearl as part of the Midway operation. I seem to recall it was cancelled when a US presence was found at the Shoals...
Headline in the morning edition of the Tokyo Times 5 March 1942 - Decadent and Lazy American Trees Defeated From Resisting Our Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere!
lol
Every day I’m surprised by how little I know, thanks for your videos. I find them Interesting and well presented....
Brv This Channel Has Everything I Didn't know about WW1,WW2,Korean War Etc. Love it Hope you keep doing these vids
I served in the navigation division of the US Navy on a destroyer during the Viet Nam era. We sailed from San Diego to Hawaii to Da Nang Harbor in Vietnam. For days and days, we saw nothing but water and haze. You couldn't even see the sun or the stars on many days. For a long time, we navigated using Loran C which gave us a master & slave signal that enabled us to know where we were. I have to commend the Japanese sailors & airmen who found French Shoals & Hawaii because they lacked the equipment we had some 20 to 25 years later. This was a dangerous assignment - just look what happened to Ameila Earhart in 1939 & she had US Navy picket ships along her route. This is an interesting story, Mark. I wish you had researched the navigation techniques that the subs and the flying boats used. I'd compare finding the French Shoals to finding a specific pile of hay in Nebraska in the middle of a light rain. Think about it: the subs and the airplanes found the rendezvous point. The weather, however, was so tricky that the flying boats never saw Pearl Harbor. That gives the viewer perspective.
Another great video. Hopefully, you can tell us about the Brazilian Expeditionary Force that served alongside the Allies, an organization that I've heard very little about.
Very nice video, as you spoke of the p-40's flying in the dark, I was thinking you should do a video on the P-61. It has a very interesting history in Europe as well as the Pacific. Thanks
An amazing and unknown (to me) story. Thanks!
When that opening banger of a song comes on. You know it’s gonna he another Mark Felton production, baby! Love this shit-love that opening song!
My favorite channel !!!! always interesting and almost unknown to me ...
Another fine episode! One of the best, I'd say.
Thanks for the amazing content! I believe you showed a picture of the 2nd USS Lexington carrier CV-16 rather than the original carrier, CV-2, which is easily identifiable due to its enormous funnel; it was also larger.
A suggestion for a future episode: At the close of the war in the Pacific the Japanese were pulling back assets to Japan. Those assets included POWs used for slave labor. My great uncle was one of those POWs. 1600 men were shipped to Japan on his "hell ship" after the allied bombing and terrible conditions less than 400 were alive to reach Japan. Less than 300 made it back at the end of the war. No glamour here, however, it would be interesting to know how much the allies knew of the ships and their cargo of POWs, also why if the POWs were considered an asset were no efforts used to preserve their lives so they could do the slave labor, and last, why was the presence of POWs kept a secret (or was it) when it could have been used as cover to avoid allied attack. Thanks for your channel!
We went to the Battleship Arizona Memorial with my Grandparents and some Japanese men in suites were there and they were joking around and laughing and taking loudly in Japanese and so my Gradma got fed up and told them if they didn't shut up and show some respect she was going to throw them in the water right on top of the oil slick! They didn't say anything else after that
Mr. Felton, your videos are incredible. Thanks for all the detailed History you've been posting. Not only educational, but also entertaining. Just one small detail about that video. That particular USS Lexington (CV-16) was not the same one in the action you described. The original USS Lexington (CV-2) was sunk during the Battle of the Coral Sea, and the one you depicted was an Essex Class Carrier and named Lexington to honor the one lost at Coral Sea. That doesn't take anything from all the details of this little known second air raid on Pearl, though, so keep up the excellent work! :)
Wow you're over 400k subs already! Congratz man
You should do a story on the war crimes of the Japanese Army and treatment of allied prisoners. Some of the prison commandants were hung or shot after a suitable court inquiries. But it would be interesting to shed more light on these crimes which were dastardly to say the least. The Japanese now have little understanding or knowledge of what their grandfathers did to the people they subjugated, in the 1930`s and 1940`s. Nor would they believe it.
North of Pearl and turning south would be a starboard turn.
yep..he likes using the word port though...he did it couple times.
Always solid work. Thank you, Mark.
Every time a new WW2 story that we (I) didn't know of... Thanks again!
Sir, we love your vids. Peace from Berkshire.
The Emily was an excellent aircraft, especially in the anti-submarine role.
Just by description it sounds like a beast!
@@silentwatch1 Yes, huge size, and incredible armament. 20mm cannon as defensive armament -- on an aircraft early in the Warr??
It's type 2 flying boat you damn american
@@Furman2137 It served in more than one role, it could carry a considerable number of external bombs and depth charges.
@@Alaninbroomfield I'm just making a joke based on nomenclature, I always disliked these american callnames and used original ones, like, what the hell are frogfoot, jimmy, timmy, jake or whatever. And yeah, it did serve multiple roles, it was a really cool airplane. I remember reading about a story where a japanese crew has got into a battle with american bombers, managed to fend off two of those and returned home.
@ 8:01 The Carrier shown here is an Essex class, which went into service in 1943. The USS Lexington you are referring was CV-2, commissioned in 1925 and sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea in May of 1942.
nearly 20 minute video. Is it Christmas already? excellent stuff Mark!
I have never heard of this event.
I heard of it, but not in this much detail
Woah I just recommend this on your last video! I don’t know if you saw it and made a video or if it’s just a coincidence. Either way great video!
It was on my list - and actually taken from a book I wrote in 2006!
Mark Felton Productions interesting! I had a feeling we might see this since we just had the 78th anniversary of Pearl Harbor bombings
Excellent work Mark. I thought I had a good knowledge-base about Pearl Harbour - but I had never heard of this raid.
Another piece of a fascinating history of the era of the Battle for the Pacific. during WW11 Thank you for making these videos available for historians .
8:00, shouldn't it be the old Lexington. The image you are using is of the "newer" Essex-class Lexington.
Great video Mark and one I knew nothing about. I thought that was a Sunderland in the original photo so the explanation of Shorts connection to the Japanese makes so much sense. My Dad a RAF warrant officer in WWII told me about how the Japanese were excellent at reverse engineering and copying many armaments, machine tools ect sometimes improving on the originals even though allied propaganda tried to play them down as inferior pilots with inferior equipment. Many thanks again for your excellent content. I have learnt a lot from your videos. 😊
Allied propoganda claimed (I'm not making this up) that the Japanese pilots were substandard because their "slanty eyes" meant they had poor vision.. I'm betting that many a early war pilot received a rude shock the first time they encountered a zero..
@@frankryan2505 Yes I heard that too Frank.
Another "I had no Idea" story...Thanks Mark!
USS Lexington, shown at 8:07, is the Essex-class CV-16, commissioned in February 1943. This is not to be confused with USS Lexington, CV-2, sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 8, 1942. The latter is the one that figures in this March 1942 story.
Like my daddy said the Japanese didn't have a lot of quit in them. They were very persistent.
It helps explain Hitler's insistence that his men fight to the death, to the last man, even in battles that were foregone conclusions, and his fury and sense of betrayal when those Germans surrendered instead. After all, if his Axis partners on the other side of the world persistently refused to surrender and fought to the last man, why not his own troops?
@@IrishCarney The German people did have there hearts in it. Russian people did and so did English and America.
@@benjimenfranklin7650 Certainly, but there were major cultural differences, including in the level of willingness to take casualties, with the spectrum going from the British on the least willing (hence their reluctance for a second front in France despite US and Soviet pressure), then in ascending order of willingness, the Americans, Germans, Russians, and Japanese.
@@IrishCarney There still are major cultural differences. The Japanese haven't changed a bit and now they're on our side. The Russian are very changed they are more thinking about self rather than country. The English are lost they have come to the end of a great empire. The Germans are scared and mad . They can't protect them selves from Muslims. The Chinese are money hungry.
@@benjimenfranklin7650 Oh I think the Japanese have changed a lot. Their military is still legally civilian, civil servants, and every baby step toward improving their military strength or international posture has been intensely controversial within the country, let alone from outside. It took them forever to even make their own flag and anthem official again, and their nuke-phobia verges on the hysterical. I just very much doubt they would exhibit the kind of suicidal fanaticism on a 100% mass basis in another conflict, although I'm sure their self-defense forces would have decent morale, courage, and discipline by normal standards.
If one were to very carefully read about the battle of Midway, this story is included. The intel people on Oahu picked up the radio transmissions of this raid. Months later, as the Japanese navy made ready to sail toward Midway, intel was listening to Japanese code and an intel person remembered planes on this raid referred to Midway as MI. Once the intel person reported the memory, the chief of intel reported the memory to Nimitz and the decision was made to send unencoded messages that Midway's water plant was disabled. The Japanese took the bait and broadcasted to the Japanese navy that Midway's water plant was down. The rest, as they say, is history.
Pope Anthony-Just a note - MidwaY was coded as F1,not MI.
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Holy crap, how did I not know about this!?!? Excellent review!!
Interesting that both the Short Sunderland and "Emily" flying boats were given the nick name "Flying Porcupine" by their respective enemies.
How good would this be as a DCS mission.. I want to fly a Kawanishi H8K1 now!!
The Germans called the Sunderland, "The Flying Porcupine" because they reckoned it was a "prickly customer" because of its guns & gave it much respect.
The Japanese flying boats remind me of the Pam Am Clipper airliner flown back in the 1930's. They were well known around the Pacific. Also, what happened to the missing Japanese submarine?
Look very much like a Short Sunderland
Wabi Sabi - It’s missing.
Iceman, I am glad to hear you talking about it. A lot have struggled with it. Semper fiedelis
Thank you! I have never heard of this history before.
Can you talk about the Norwegian volunteers of the Waffen-SS? (Great video btw)
Yes, know your traitors.
second Pearl Harbor attack vs. first Pearl Habor attack, or in other words: You vs. the Guy she tells you not to worry about
Lmao 😂
Due to Mark’s fantastic accent and articulation, it reminds me of that show connections Where they would connect two inventions, like the butter churner and the💡light bulb.
I first learned about this in the late 1970s reading a book called "I boat captain" excellent!