Battle of Midway & Beyond | April - June 1942 | World War II Colorized | Subtitled
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After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, the US Navy shifted their focus to regaining control of the Pacific. In 1942, they emerged victorious in the Coral Sea and Midway battles against the Japanese. Meanwhile, the German airforce continued their bombing campaign on UK cities in the Baedeker Raids.
*I never get tired watching these WWII documentaries, nice job*
I so agree. Nice one bruv.
Agree with you sonmuch to achieve as never being yteach in school.
Yes, me too. I am like Tony Soprano.
It's pretty much the same nowadays with the war in Ukraine. It's the Americans and the Dutch who were infringing on Japan, east indies, and other territories. Sucking the money out of asian assets. It was WE in the west who were on THEIR territory. Like NATO is on RUSSIAS doorstep. It boggles my mind why people don't realize it was always america and britain who started every war for the past 100 years. Not the Germans. Not the Vietnamese. Not the Iraqis. Not the lybians. Not the Japanese. Not the phippinos. Not the Iranians who are looking for war, but as sure as heck the American and Isreal governments want full control of the middle east. May all those who have suffered and died because of american greed ... REST IN PEACE
Yup.. same here
It still amazes me my dad and his three brothers were involved in this war. Three of them survived the war, came home and raised families. They were relentless guys, and I can’t help but think their struggles through their war experiences gave them an extra boost to survive and persevere. My dad never gave up or gave in and he passed it on to us.
From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.
Paw marched across New Guinea to Buna. When relieved, after dealing with starvation, malaria, dysentery, and battling the Japanese he weighed under 100 lbs. After recovering in Australia he island hopped, and was finally released- having acrued enough points in July, 1945 while on the front line in the Philippines. What amazes me about him and so many others - given the horrors they endured, was that they came home and became loving husbands and fathers. Like so many of his fellow vets, many who I grew up among - he wouldn’t speak of combat. It was a forbidden subject. He would speak of the jungles. The native porters/guides who he absolutely loved. His love and admiration of the Aussies.
Ditto
God bless your dad and his comrades. 🙏
Hard times make strong men
I never get tired to watch this documentary,thanks to the greatest generation,we have a great lifestyle.Mi salute to the woman’s and men’s who fight in ww2.
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i still have the newspaper about the battle of midway, which my grandmother had saved, my Dad was on the yorktown at both coral sea and midway, Dad's gone now when i was a kid growing up i used to ask Dad about the war, but he never really talked much about it, as so many of the vets from ww2 never had much to say what they did or what they saw, one proud thing they didn't call both the women and men of the war years the greatest generation they earned it
You should scan it and post it. That would be pretty tight. An actually newspaper that was apart of the war, and was read real time providing the much needed and love information about the war, and was the paper that told your grandmother and father the great victory and was the greatest and most important battle of the Pacific war.(no library microfilm or digital storage source, which was never used as intend, reporting important information the day it happens.) take it light --KB Side note: I have something of much less significant value, that being a unit award for my great uncle who was one of the combat engineer who built the bridges across the Rhine and signed by Omar Bradly. (He said you realize that not every bullet has your name on it, he also said they had to destroy the bridges 2 or 3 time and rebuild it each time b/c the Germans retook it and lost it, retook and lost ..... Anyway as I said, that has little value aside the fact he was family.
My dad was a radar operator on one of the islands. He was not there long because he picked up TB. He never spoke of any of it. Only got stories from uncles who were Navy petty officers.
those Carriers and their crews were the wall between Japan and our shores the Greatest Generation and should never be forgotten Semper Fi
@joeclayton2121 Absolutely and the woke crowd that attempts to denigrate them and America should be ashamed.
Everyone says that was the greatest generation I don't mean to take away from their sacrifices but thats also the generation that started the us on its downward spiral of corruption. The people of the US have always be3n great . We've got the frontier spirit. You can't blaim these kids today for the oligarchs taking away their opportunities & tie-in their hands in wars
My father inlaw was in the Navy worked on LCT, (always walked like he was on ship) he never talked about it much, he did mention the Gilbert Islands once but never went into details about it. When Korea broke out he reinlisted in the Army. Came home with a Purple Heart. Never talked about that war either. I always had a deep respect for him
A neighbour of ours served in Coral Sea ... He made us a Concrete Knome... Lenny Bless his heart he became very deaf because of the shelling such a good neighbour cause he didn't hear us but he felt the rumbles.. What A Great Man XX Someone might know Him ?? We Loved Him .Good Ol Boy JBXX
Y'know what ?? Thankyou xx For Lenny I did not think I would get any comments but for his sake I am very proud. And all comments for that Man Appreciated. I maybe should of said ''The Gunning"" What ?? Fond Memories & the Knome Thankyou Again for your Kindness. He Was there JBX
From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.
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I have been all over YT looking for a half-decent docu on the Pacific War! This is the best so far. THANK YOU!
From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.
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From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.
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I was stationed on Midway Island. Truly the turning point of WWII.
You were part of the rebel alliance and a traitor
@@kjdempsey He's not old enough to be stationed on Midway.
My Great uncle was in the navy and he was stationed in Hawaii after the war. He said there was still a lot of anger.
@@johnlawler4241 a bit. But I was stationed on Midway in the early 1980's. All that sentiment was essentially gone by then.
Congrats, the very best Midway doc of the 100’s I’ve seen …
Thank you for your great documentary! I can't count how many times I've managed to watched any battle of Midway movies or docu's. Yours is the best I believe! Thanks again! New subs here.
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The wise made time to pray for those engaged in the battle. Praying is always wise.
Outstanding Documentary! Thank You So Much!
Japan lost the war the minute the first bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. Yamamoto feared this would happen.
N0p...japan never surendder because tactic very dirty US dr0p at0m b0mb hir0shima and nagasaki...in fact us army n0t t0 str0ng😅
No it didn’t. Japan had the US right where they wanted them at Midway. They absolutely blew it. US could only muster up obsolete planes on Midway and had just 8 cruisers and 15 destroyers in Task Force 16 and 17. 3 carriers with Yorktown damaged and borrowed planes and pilots from Saratoga. Japan foolishly split their forces. 11 battleships, 22 cruisers, and 64 destroyers for the Midway and Aleutians Force. Plus 9 carriers available plus over 500 planes and they left Zuikaku at home and sent two mid size carriers to the Aleutians. The US was in deep trouble. Nimitz even said had the IJN brought everything we would have lost. Even the US Naval War College said the same thing.
@ex-navyspook Absolutely correct.
@@f430ferrari5 Nonsense. The placement of the carriers meant that if things did not go well, the carriers could get back to Pearl. The American planes were not obsolete. The Wildcats could do well against the Zeros, The SBDs were one of the great planes of the war. Only the Devastator torpedo planes were obsolete.
@@dennisweidner288 what do you mean nonsense. US Carriers cannot out run IJN planes. And a damaged Yorktown was dead for nearly an hour and got back up to 19 knots. IJN cruisers and destroyers could do 36 knots. With the US carriers trying to dodge IJN bombers then it’s not that simple making it back to Pearl. And I said obsolete planes on Midway. And of course Wildcats could do well against the zero but you’re referring to the F-3 non folded wing version. The folded wing variation which the carriers used were not as good. Also, the US was lucky the IJN blew it in their planning because it was 360 US planes vs 248 for the IJN in which only 80-85 were zero fighters. The IJN blew it. They could have had 5 more carriers at Midway and made use of them. Zuikaku was left back in Japan. There was Ryujo, Junyo, Zuiho, and Hosho. These 5 carriers could have added 200 more planes. Even the 4 main carriers could have carried more planes and plane mixture switched to 2/3 fighters vs 2/3 bombers. The US would have been facing 350 fighter planes and over 150 bombers. If IJN battleships were shelling Midway then the IJN wouldn’t need so many bombers. Just a total f up by the IJN battle plan committee.
This is the first time I’ve heard about a joint Australian and Royal Navy presence at the Coral Sea and Midway. Thank you for sharing this information. 👍
John Wayne on Donavan’s Reef, Coral Sea, we were with ya.
From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.
At the Coral Sea, yes. The Australians were part of it. I am not aware of either British or Australian forces being at Midway. Please explain.
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Yamamoto figured that Japan had 6 months to run wild and create their defensive perimeter after which the US industrial might would kick in. Almost 6 months to the day after Pearl Harbor was Midway. Before Midway, Japanese was always on the offensive. After Midway, Japan was always on the defensive.
But the interesting point is that the US didn’t have much to go on offensive themselves but yet the fooled the IJN into believing they did. Imagine just having one carrier at times and taking a small amount of vessels down south each time in 1942. One could ask, why didn’t the IJN go after Midway again. Would the US then be on defense once again. Instead of taking all their vessels down south as they did, could the IJN muster up another Midway plan and this time battleships and surface ships leading the charge. Shokaku was repaired in July 1942. Carrier Hiyo 53 planes was completed in July 1942. So the IJN still has 7 carriers: 1. Shokaku 84 2. Zuikaku 84 3. Hiyo 53 4. Junyo 45 5. Ryujo 45 6. Zuiho 30 7. Hosho 15 They also still had their 11 battleships but perhaps 4 older slower ones left back home to conserve fuel. So 4 Kongo class battleships plus Yamato would approach Midway at night and shell the island. The 7 carriers are loaded with 2/3 fighters for CAP. So it’s 235 fighter planes and 120 bombers. This combined is more than the 248 attack planes which the IJN utilized at Midway. How would this battle play out. Let’s say the IJN brought 20 cruisers and 55 destroyers too along with 25 subs. It’s very possible that both Wasp and Saratoga could have been taken out by IJN subs too. That’s why in reality happened to them. So now the US just has Hornet and Enterprise in Midway2.
Very nice preservation of the films.thanks.
I have been looking for this documentary in particular colorized version is pretty good but not really needed it is an excellent documentary regardless..color or not.
Nem posso acreditar que estou vendo esse documentário em cores é extraordinário!!!❤
The photography is great I. Used to live near Grummans. Growing up on Long Island
Thank you
Interestingly enough midway however a victory basically happened almost by complete accident. We didn’t intend our air groups to hit separately which actually very much helped us keep them so busy we won
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@@Olorin7 Apparently you are unaware of the great good America has done in the world.
@@dennisweidner288 indeed. It's pleasant under this rock.
Great vid@!!!!! Ty much
The Marine pilots on Midway destroyed very few Japanese planes, but the AA guns did considerable damage, which I think is the reason the second strike was requested.
Que história gloriosa
Great content BZ 👏💯
Something of high historic value to me that really tells us all about the American Thought concerning who would win the war. Instead of asking the Japanese,,,"Who do think you are?",,, the question was>>> Who Do you Think We Are?"" Which is a huge difference and indicator that We absolutely KNEW we were going to Whoop Japan. Unquestionable.
Ótimo documentário parabéns👌👌🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏
The footage showing the Carrier engulfed in utter destruction gave me an overwhelming feeling of sickness in the pit of my stomach. I am not ashamed to tell you I actually cried. I Don't get Emotional but that just Floored me.👍
I have appreciate it you done to put in the persian language within others
Having ability to decode enemy`s messages kinda helps
@janjoska2549 It helped but what made the difference was vest industrials power of the arsenal of Democracy built by capitalism.
Most of the Pacific battles were actually aviation and naval campaigns, The Battle Of Midway was the most well known but there were many more.
But the Islands were captured thanks to the United States Marine Corps!
@rossgingerich7759 Yes, You had Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima to name a few
Battle of Savo Island wasn’t aviation.
Salute America 🇵🇭🙏🇺🇲
Respect to the officers and men who served aboard the Lady Lex.
The outcome of this battle like so many others was due to random good fortune and of course bravery and valor. The Civil War is full of little chance things that determined winners and losers. When you consider the stakes and consequences, it is quite the game of chance!
Excelente documentário 👍👍👏👏
Brasil lixo como sempre
@@ariellntonio99356 não temos um porta avião descente com o tamanho da nossa área marítima 👍
Thank you John Ford. ✨🇺🇸✨
Wife’s grand dad was on the Lexington. He made it!
We battle hard. Never going back.
Love this show :)
This is great
Thanks.
I'll never forget the eeriness I felt when I came in Bataan's Mt Samat for the first time.
WW2 is the best film . Well done
Great movie! Is the music composed by Paul Farrer?
Superbe documentaire bien expliqu,é et riches en images neuves si l'on peut diren,merci pour la divulguation de ce travail de recherche.
50:20 ....He sais that the airplane losses were continuing... They were not losing any more planes, they had already lost them all. Yamamato sent his battleship attack fleet in to search for the Americans to try to sink them in a night action...Would the Americans be hanging around near the atoll for the night to defend it ? But the American carrier task forces had correctly sailed away to avoid a night battle , so Yamamato withdrew during the night and got most of his ships safe from airplane attacks before dawn.
Sadly the USS Hornet only had the Japan raid to show for it. It provided almost nothing during the battle of Midway and was sunk by the Japanese soon after.
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From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.
My dad served on the U.S.S. Biloxi a light cruiser that shelled the Philippines helping our troops retake the island. He was the Morse code operator, Saul Lewis.
Ótimo documentário sobre a segunda guerra Mundial
Supplies to the Pacific front 'came at a less than ideal pace' because they were primarily going to Stalin's Soviet Union. The supplies came first to Stalin via the Atlantic but due to the Nazi submarine fleet losses were so heavy they had to be sent via the Pacific to Siberia.
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@michaelwillis5040 Nonsense. Soviet Lend Lease supplies were a fraction of the deliveries to the American forces. There were three Lend Lease routes. The North Atlantic route (the Arctic convoys) was dangerous , but not entirely due to U-boats, but also due to air attacks and surface raiders as well as the weather. This is why the Pacific route and the South Atlantic Indian Ocean route were the most important.
what is the background music on this documentary?
Excellent ❤
excellent
Very well produced, colourization great, narration and script superb. 😀😀
Not to make a joke out of this, but please watch at (9:18) check out the one guy standing alone on the huge chunk of metal, when it slips, the guy standing on it had a close call, and he gets pissed and throws his hat. Oh my god his reaction is hilarious. 😂 😆 😂. I must of watched it a dozen times and it's still hilarious. Poor guy, what a close call.
From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.
LOL, you're right. And the narrator's commentary that immediately follows just makes it funnier: "There would be the occasional setback . . ."
I couldn't tell which one. The people are so small and close together.
Ok, that was funny. That guy was MAD!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
What a relief to find a straightforward documentary on Midway, in contrast to the rubbishy alternatives. One small criticism: it is pointless, and bad style, to say, all the way through, "would do this" and "would do that", rather than simply, "did this" and "did that".
that’s awesome. both nations flying sorties in the wrong direction while being 70 miles away from one another
Micah 4:1-3 " In the final part of the days, The mountain of the house of Jehovah Will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, And it will be raised up above the hills, And to it peoples will stream. 2 And many nations will go and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah And to the house of the God of Jacob. He will instruct us about his ways, And we will walk in his paths.” For law will go out of Zion, And the word of Jehovah out of Jerusalem. 3 He will render judgment among many peoples And set matters straight respecting mighty nations far away. They will beat their swords into plowshares And their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, Nor will they learn war anymore."
Great doco thank you. It could be argued the dilution of force necessitated by the Aleution Island campaign cost Yamamoto a win at Midway. Thank goodness for that.
They sent a pair of light carriers and less than 2k troops to take what little they did take or damage in the Aleutian Islands. Even if they had invaded Midway it was doubtful they could have even held it. In air attack range of Pearl would have been embargoed from anything getting through by submarines alone. They literally had just 5k men to attack it with and we had close to 4k defenders for it.
From the explosion of a warhead with a capacity of up to 1 Mgt (40 Hiroshima) of the Russian Х-22 missile (a more modern modification - Х-23), which took place even at a distance of several kilometers from the American carrier formation, which is launched from a flying at a distance of several thousand km from this aircraft carrier formation a Russian missile-carrying aircraft and flies at speeds up to Mach 5 -:- 6 and can rise to a height of 50 km (i.e., practically indestructible), this carrier-based formation will be completely kaput. And these missiles (of course with dismantled nuclear warheads) hit objects on the sovereign territory of Ukraine with much greater accuracy (by an order of magnitude, and sometimes directly into the object). And not one of them has yet been shot down, which has already been officially recognized by the Ukrainian authorities.
Would it not be obvious that an "attack" on the Aleutians HAD to be a diversion? The island chain is way too numerous and WAY too long (longer than Japan itself) to be a legitimate permanent-occupation main objective. I'm just asking, that's all. How would any high-level US Navy commander consider it anything other than diversionary?
Damn well done.
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No mention of the USS Saratoga CV3 the first one that was sunk at Midway.
Actually, USS Saratoga was not sunk at Midway, it provided support and went back to Pearl June 6. Went on to Guadalcanal!
Great documentary, but I wonder where the music used was found ...clearly not Mozart or Beethoven any ideas?
Which country tsught Japan to produce war machinery and vehicles
Paranacity-PR. Muito bom!!!
My family and I would not exist if it hadn't been for the bravery and sacrifice of US soldiers, sailors and pilots in the Pacific. I'm not American, but it infuriates me to see Americans disrespecting the flag and national anthem.
You are talking about fascist Republicans.
@Michael Williams The NFL are republicans, the BLM are republicans? Who knew.
BHOOYHA
@@michaelwilliams2430 really fucking Republicans that's your response it's liberals that disrespect the flag and our country I'm neither explain to me why I should have to vote for the lesser of two evils why do politicians have maintaine power for decades and they cannot relinquish it tell us all your extensive experience
Amen to that stars and stripes do not deserve to be disrespected by their own people
36 Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers were used as high level bombers at midway
it is very good film documenter
Can you make a documentary about the Vietnam war? My father is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the Army
The US fought hard in that conflict respect to your father from the UK 🇬🇧 🫡
@@sydmccreath4554 Yes they had to defend from all those armoured sampans poling up the Hudson with their bloodthirsty crews of bamboo wielding Vitenamese.
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@MoonLover; go watch the Hollywood movie Good Morning Vietnam. It's a close enough deception of American role in Vietnam war. or M*A*S*H for Korean war..😅😷 - same reason the French do not talk much of Vietnam war. When you lost there's not much to document.- 🤒😷
There is Ken Burns' Viet Nam documentary.
I've always wondered where were the other carriers wasp,enterprise, Saratoga
Dad was on the Yorktown
One thing always bothered me about Midway, and I've never really seen it addressed anywhere. In the 1976 movie about the attack, Genda's character points out that they are launching half of their aircraft at Midway, with half held in reserve. All well and good, but then he points out that the remaining planes on Akagi and Kaga will wait with anti shipping weapons, while Soryu's and Hiryu's remaing planes will be configured for a conventional bombing mission to Midway. He sent *half of the compliment of each carrier* out, with the other half waiting. Why not send out the entire compliment of two carriers, keep one carrier ready for a Midway strike, and the other for an antishipping strike? "Enemy ships spotted 200 miles out!" (whatever it was) "Launch the anti ship strike!" "Second attack needed at Midway!" "Launch bombing strike! Reconfigure landing planes for antishipping and launch when we have more information from outbound antiship strike group!" Midway might have ended differently for the USN.
Your focus is still totally wrong. Get out the carrier strike concept. Where the IJN blew it was they they didn’t make use of their surface ships. The IJN had a massive advantage. 11 battleships, 22 cruisers, and 64 destroyers at their disposal. They also had 9 carriers available. To put pressure on the US Navy all the IJN had to do was lead with their surface ships. Just shell Midway with battleships. What exactly could the US do? The IJN carriers would have been loaded with 2/3 fighters not bombers. The US carrier planes could not get through with all the IJN CAP. After all the US planes are shot down it’s easy for the IJN bombers to then go after the US carriers. Fast IJN surface ships would be in pursuit also. Yorktown was dead in the water for around an hour. She only got back up to 14-19 knots. Fast IJN cruisers and destroyers could do 36 knots. The long lance torpedos would have wiped out Task Force 16 and 17.
I'm not sure but it might not have been possible to launch the entire carrier complement at once? For instance US carrier doctrine was to have all planes ready on the flight deck before taking off so the most you could launch was what could fit there; if you also wanted to launch whatever was left in the hangar deck it would take too long to move them via the elevator and launch, so the first wave would just be circling forever using up fuel. I'll bet there's an operational constraint like that. If the Japanese had a couple extra carriers ready for the operation then dividing responsibility for surface vs ship attacks between carriers might have worked better
@@f430ferrari5 The USN already knew the Japanese were coming. It was just a matter of finding them. The Japanese had no clue that the USN knew until it was too late. And it was definitely too late when the lone Japanese scout plane found the US fleet. And the USN was nowhere near Midway.
@@DirtyDrawers-kp3jm it don’t matter that they knew. In reality the US knew the IJN was coming for Pearl they just didn’t exactly know when. It was the same for Midway. So many naive people out here and there. It don’t matter if the IJN “knew” or not. The IJN had to “suspect” the US carriers were out there somewhere. The whole point was to lure the American carriers into battle. Yes? Do you even attempt to listen to yourself and your poor logic. The only reason it was too late is because the IJN put their carriers in front. You don’t even properly read or even research.
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6:08 ‘Britain had been alone’ The British Empire encompassed a vast swath of territory and people, and it’s gdp was enormous.
actually, the battle of the coral sea was not exactly a 'victory' with the loss of one us naval aircraft carrier and many aircraft and crew....the strategic element was in that it halted the japanese advance toward australia...at least, that is my historical understanding of the battle of the coral sea....i would say the hallmark of the battle was when the lights were left on for the homecoming war birds, way past their bedtimes.
Coral Sea was an American victory because the Shukokuu and the zurikuku were so damaged that they couldn't show at midway a month later.... it was a tactical victory
it is history , past , it should be used to learn but unfortunately we now have world dictatorships which we need to fight against now just like they did in the ww2 , if we dont stand up and fight you will lose all your freedoms which they fought for all those years ago
Your confusing the coral sea battle with the philippine sea battle
@@DanielMulloy-bg6gw Only a light carrier (which is different than an escort carrier because it could keep up with the fast fleet elements) was sunk and 1 fleet carrier was badly damaged but they lost a lot of planes a whole carrier group was almost wiped out with the majority of the pilots more importantly so even though they had one of their best and biggest fleet carriers available they did not take it to Midway (their doctrine would not allow mixed air units to serve on another carrier) that was a major mistake. my point is that their air element took a beating from US AA so it was not a big victory even in a tactical sense.
In strategic terms it was an American victory for we stopped the Japanese from landing their troops that more than likely would have taken complete control of New Guinea. It was a tactical draw in terms of losses we lost the Lexington and the Yorktown was damaged plus a destroyer and a tanker. They lost the Zuiho a light carrier and 2 fleet carriers were damaged or had enough planes destroyed that they missed Midway. Those 2 carriers would have been vital at Midway. Yorktown was repaired in less than 72 hours to 100 percent combat effective not 100 percent repaired and they literally took the air group off the Saratoga which had been torpedoed by a submarine in January and was just about repaired and put them aboard the Yorktown. So we took a carrier to was damaged no planes in less than 3 days put her back into combat. She sank the Soryu and ate 2 strikes that damaged her she almost survived but a submarine sank her.
In World War 2, Japan bombarded America on Tarakan Island, Indonesia 🇲🇨 and seized oil wells for war needs in the Pacific Ocean.
I watched a series on the History Vault channel yesterday - Battle 360º - Anyone seen it? I want to know if that pride in our country and military still exists. WWII was bloody - Would we have that pride again to combat our enemies like they did? I hope so! I can't tell you how many times I've watched this series!! And I still cry!! God bless our military and their families. My brother was on the next USS Enterprise - Vietnam. and I have the ship year book! But listening to the WWII veterans - My gosh what a generation!!
My Dad flew 48 missions in Europe as a waist gunner in a B-24 Liberator bomber before being shot down ( Coincidentally, his brother also on a bombing mission went MIA on the same day) Both spent the remainder of the war in a German POW camp. It was a special generation.
Battle 360 was one of my favorite. I love seeing all those intense naval battles in the pacific. For some reason...KZhead removed them all??
I watch them on History Vault and also own the DVD@@fcan222
Anyone else notice at 17:47 the clip of what looks like a B-29?
My dad was a firefighter on Midway.
only if those B-25J Mitchell multi role fighter bomber had mid-air refuelling capabilities . . . wouldn't have to jettison it's internal cannon/gun . . . because the B-25J Mitchell multi role fighter bomber had to be light enough to take off, with a full tank of fuel & weapons payload . . .
I’ve got this great idea for a t.v series. There's this bunch of British battleships and carriers in the Pacific and they have a long distance battle with the Japanese near a place called Midway. The heroes would be the pilots who would have jolly hocky stick personalities with moustaches and say things like ''Wizard Prang'' and ''Tallyo'' and they drink tea all the time and have flasks of it in their cockpits on the way to the target. Some could be eccentric like one Simon D'eath whose ancestor was one of the few in the Charge of The Light Brigade he's nicknamed Errol after Flynn who starred in the authentic film version - of course the one set in India and not the fake one from the Crimea. Anyway Errol refuses to take off unless he's got his ancestor's lance in the cockpit with him - it sticks out the back still flaunting the flag of the 9th Hussars. If our yank cousins object we'll just plead artistic licence.
I love it, when's the screenplay finished??
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Straight from the things to think about while getting high and watching war documentaries list
Why not? The coolest guy in the Great Escape was a Yank though so you’ll have to include something like that.
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My friend's dad flew on the Doolittle raid, interesting fellow Mr.Cole was...
Singapore was lost due to pure incompetence. It may have fallen eventually, but shouldn't have fallen when it did.
The music background was maybe fun for the neighbors kid that made it. If its not good its better without. Less is more.
Interested story stan firm the west I am happy to be a part of it 👍❤️💕🙏👍
There was not a rush to evacuate Lexington; sailors were calmly going down to the food stores and lifting tubs of ice-cream off the ship.
Most of the sailors on USS Lexington had time to go down to their lockers and grab one personal memento/item: an Alka Seltzer bottle filled with quarters, a letter from a sweetheart or her picture, an unread paperback book. It was a very orderly evacuation, almost like they were doing another drill.
We may have won but we lost so many
The more great in the World,good country and braves populations
Que triste....
I wish YT allowed for a "decolorization" selection to restore the film to its original black and white.
And to NOT censor the dead bodies.
I hare the Janavese >
Righteousness prevailed. Pray it prevails yet again in our blessed country, as we are being attacked from "within" by many destructive ideas and philosophies.
Don't forget that it took two Atomic bombs to get Japan to surrender and end the war. Sad but true.
J'adore le titre
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The big mistake Japan made was not taking Hawaiian islands when they had chance. The US didn't actually have much in army type forces in Hawaii at the time of Japanese attack.
If the Japs had made a final sorty to take out the Pearl Harbour fuel tanks the Navy would have had to pull back to the west coast.
they could never do that. didnt have the troops and how on earth could they supply those islands. IJA had its hands full in china
Wiecie, kto wojował o Midway? MY DWAJ!! 😊😊