My dad, Kenneth McDonald, served on the carrier Saratoga in the pacific during ww2 and told me about being on the flight deck during battles like this. I really appreciate the film because it, in detail, shows truly how bad it was. I wish I’d had been able to understand how horrible it really was while listening to the stories but I’m thankful now for having a visual image of what he endured.
Ken McDonald. USMC 64 -- 68. Marine Detachment USS Saratoga, 1966 -- 68. My Dad was on the old USS Wasp Marine Detachment many years earlier. Hats off to your Dad and God Bless.
Hey Ken, my father in law Bruce Clifford was also on the Sara... the stories he told! My father was also in theater, but never talked about it... not until he met Bruce! When I was married on a cruise ship, those two couldn't wait for dinner when they would sit together and remember... kids today have no idea about that war, and/or a distorted view of why we did. Cheers Ken!
hi Ken McDonald, my dad was on the Saratoga as well. He was enlisted and worked on radar. he was injured by flying shrapnel, lost a lot of teeth and had gold caps for replacements. He never talked a lot about it. I wonder where I could get more info on the ship? Best- Terry Rhodes
(My Uncle, Randy Boyer, commanded the USS Morris, DD417, during this Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. His ship shop down 6 Japanese aircraft, and took on 500 sailors, many wounded, from the USS Hornet to the USS Morris. He and one of his crewmen were awarded the Navy Cross for their actions that day.)
✌️🇺🇸 God Bless All of our brave Veteran's always....God Bless America. My father fought in the Pacific at Guadalcanal and Okinawa. 1st Marine division...🇺🇸 All I can say is...War is Hell.
My father is a WWII US Navy veteran. He served in the pacific theatre. He has zero animosity toward the Japanese and Japan. He very much respects their culture. He truly was part of our greatest generation. At 94 he still is an inspiration to me.
thank you. When the Allies occupied Japan in 1945, Allied soldiers came up to the house where my old grandparents and three daughters lived without taking off their shoes. They searched all over the house. The three daughters have continued to talk since then. "I was scared at that time." But he has a different impression of American soldiers. They were very bright and friendly and loved the children. Japan and the United States have been in a friendly relationship since 1945. One of the reasons is this fact.
@@nownowswanow my wife’s coworker’s mother and grandmother were 5 miles from ground zero when the Hiroshima bomb detonated (they both survived). Her mom was a hospital nurse. Her dad was an American GI and worked as an orderly in the same hospital during the occupation. They fell in love, got married and my wife’s coworker was born. Her mom and grandmother were taught that the GIs were monsters, but as it turned out, many were very empathetic. They were pleasantly surprised.
Credit to the cameraman, he shoot a good scene that we never expect, look at the bomb hit on the hull of a warship that was unbelievable, they are the braviest soldier/human, they dont care about death..
they didn't care about death? you've been watching too many movies... everyone was scared to die but they had duty and honor to uphold for their country and families.
This is real footage!.. Its not ment to be watched in theater with popcorn.. If you stop imagine shht and think about it its possible that there are people watching their actual brother or son on this very aircraft?..
@@Catcrumbs I am not sure what was i thinking back then.. It makes no sense now. Just forget and leave it If someone else comment about it i will delete both my comments
Others have commented and I agree, that it's amazing seeing the full on power of an aircraft carrier cranking turns so sharp that the sailors struggle against the g-force. It must have been sheer intense hell inside that engine room. I salute those heroes that dealt with that, but are often overlooked for the "glamour" of top gunners and such.
Can only imagine how these soldiers felt standing on these ships and watching it all play out in front of their eyes.God bless them all for their sacrifice and their families from Bosnia
My Father was a WW2 veteran deployed on the USS Wasp CV-18 He was a CPO first class radio operator had 7 battle engagements with the Japanese in the South Pacific from 1943/45 . His ship was hit twice by Kamikazis and dive bombed once. His ship was a group of five in the third fleet in Ulithi Atoll "Murderer's Row" Which was The USS Wasp,USS Hornet,USS Yorktown, USS Hancock and USS Ticonderoga.
Wow, not the American soldiers neither the Japanese pilots did know that : they will being watched by the new generations as it is just live show, while they are risking their lives, so poetic.
My father in law was in the DE Navy in WWII. He saw Naval combat in both the Atlantic & Pacific theaters making 37 trips through the Panama Canal. When he finally opened up to me (after realizing I too am a Navy vet) in about 1995 he told me his stories to include being under kamikaze attack. Had the hair on the back of my neck standing up. RIP Brownie we miss you. FLY NAVY!!!
@@sarhan5568 His first cruises were convoy duty in the North Atlantic in early 1942. Told me they always took several dozen ships across at a time. They never left the convoy and also couldn't stop to pick up survivors of torpedo attacks by wolf packs. He was on three different destroyer escorts. On one cruise they hit a whale and had to turn back to the US. In the Pacific they often got calls to pick up down pilots that were reported as alive. When they got on the scene they found them dead machine gunned by the Japanese. After that the CO of the ship said he didn't care what they did to Japanese but they weren't going to pick them up. He also survived quite a few kamikaze attacks as well. FLY NAVY!!!
The issue date of this is November of '43 but it was filmed at the battle of Santa Cruz in October of '42. That film on the deck is actually from USS Hornet which was sunk during the battle after having been abandoned. Those bombs delivered by Aichi D3A "Val" dive bombers that penetrated the deck set off ordinance and aircraft fuel below decks. Another Val too damaged to return to it's carrier dove into Hornet's stack. Another stricken Val purposely rammed into it's antiaircraft guns. Yet another stricken Val dove into the destroyer USS Smith. That would be the last of the well trained IJN aircrews, combat veterans of China, Pearl Harbor and the three carrier battles preceding this. Japan could claim a tactical victory in vessels sunk and damaged but Japan's loss of nearly all their good naval aircrews in accomplishing what they did was more critical for them than the loss of USS Hornet and destroyer USS Porter was for us. As the only operational capital US carrier left until the Essex class were commissioned, damaged USS Enterprise then retreated from the battle with her escorts to fight another day. Santa Cruz was a vicious damned sea battle as were all of them..
The deck footage was shot on Enterprise, not Hornet. The part where the bombs hit is from the battle of the Eastern Solomons. At 2:10 we can see the second bomb to hit Enterprise which set off the ready powder bags for the 5-inch guns, killing the adjacent gun crews. At 2:40 the third bomb blows a hole in the flight deck. The part at 3:45 and subsequent shots of that same Wildcat were also filmed on the Enterprise, but during Santa Cruz. I am not sure about the other footage but I believe it can be found out if we find the separate footage from both battles.
@@gasperpoklukar8372 I stand corrected. You're right about the bomb going through the deck happening at Eastern Solomons. And you're right about it being Enterprise. I remembered seeing some of it on a video about Santa Cruz but don't recall which. Some of that might've been still mounted camera video and that which was on Hornet would have likely gone down with her at Santa Cruz. I'm now trying to remember where I'd seen the video. Don't want to guess until I find it.
@@icewaterslim7260 If you remember, do tell! I also saw the Eastern Solomons bit somewhere and it was much more extended. It included a good bit of maneuvering before the hits.
0:28 and 0:35 USS Enterprise under attack during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942. There is SBD dive bomber which fell from the flight deck after near Japanese bomb hit. 4:21 during the attack and 4:28 the moment of the hit when SBD fell from the flight deck. 1:20 again USS Enterprise during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands 1:41 USS Hornet during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands 2:08 bomb hit to USS Enterprise 24 August 1942 during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons 2:41 second bomb hit to USS Enterprise 24 August 1942 during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons 3:45 A Hornet Wildcat that had just landed skids across Enterprise's flight deck as the carrier maneuvers violently during Jun'yo's dive-bomber attack, 26 October 1942, Battle of Santa Cruz Islands 3:37 there is USS Hornet or USS Enterprise? After 5:00 again USS Enterprise. So, here almost all footage is from USS Enterprise, not USS Hornet
Google TranslateI- think the sacrifices made were great for both Japan and the United States. It made me very thoughtful to see the soldiers running and running away ... Thank you for posting such a valuable video!
Ted Frey you should have included women as well in your comment and nowadays if an auditor goes anywhere near a military base in the US legally recording they ring the cops to investigate what's going on.
well, it didn't happen by chance, basically at the end of WW2 Japan became an American colony...also nowadays with China's expansionary policy of course USA represents the only real help
This is real war real pilots real warships, now it's just a few seconds confrontation in air look at this how brave these pilots are can't even imagine
It's no joke now. Peacetime Navy is a different animal than wartime, but they'll step up when it's time, just like these guys did. Not much choice really, there's no where to run on a ship, so it's fight or die. DDG-8, Operation Praying Mantis.
The effects of WWII are still felt today. My father was a United States Army Air Corps pilot in WWII. Everybody's lives changed as a result of this war, worldwide.
I can't imagine being a 19 year old kid, running for his life in the middle of the SW Pacific. Just a few months ago, he was in high school, probably planning on getting married and starting a life. But, his country has called him to sacrifice and defend her. Challenge accepted. I just can't imagine what that was like.
@scoot manke It was a passing comment and paying respect to their bravery. You're the one who can't understand the difference between the two realities. Get back in your shell you fkin tool.
If a world war start today, will have millions of great mans fighting. Its not exclusivity of just one generation, but fortunately, today we don't need it.
My grandfather was a pilot of the Japanese Imperial Air Force. He was shot down by the US Air Force in the Battle of the Coral Sea and died, but I'm proud of him.
If only the youth of today could understand how lucky they all are. When I hear people complaining about the Internet being down, or they've had to walk somewhere, I'd like to show them these film reels.
Insane footage. I wonder how common it was for men to be thrown off the ship from all that maneuvering?!? Those men were only kids at the time, but they were 10 times the men any of us will ever be .
they have nets around the sides, the net up front is wonderful to sit in, 100 feet over the water on a full moon night you can see dolphins riding the ships push, in the florescent water below you
Maybe 10 times the man you are. My father was a gunners mate 1st class. He joined November 1940 and was trained in the Atlantic on the wyoming and then served the rest of the war in the Pacific. DD519 Daly from March 1943 to February 1945. He was on 2 different mine sweepers as a gunner. He hated the term greatest generation. Guys like my father loved this country and retired as GMC gunners mate Chief. I love this country just as much as he did. Our family history goes back to 1620 on my mother's side and 1677 on my father's. I'm my opinion the greatest generation if your going to use that term was our ancestors who fought for our independence. They had it far worse than your average ww2 soldier. Plus their wives and children were exposed to danger just like they were. My father did what he had to do, so would you and I if we were put in the same position.
@@johnstack4316 lol vanity rules humanity and the weak minded are too ignorant to understand. my family has been here also since the scots were kicked out of Scotland by the english. and my father joined before pearl also and was attached to the RAF for the Battle of Briton
@@johnstack4316 you as well. My grandfathers fought in both wars. They are 10 the man me or you are and thats a fact. Dont ride others coat tail. Maybe our greatest generation was the revolutionary generation but to most people that were in ww2 it was the greatest. You forget we were far from the only ones in the war. 100s of millions of people would have died if the allies didn't win. Cant say the same for the revolution
@@protipskiptoendofvideoandr286 no maybe 10 times the man you are not me. I'm just as American as my father and 9 generations of my grandfathers before me. Just because you have been castrated doesn't mean the rest of us are. My ancestors would have been offended that you put them on such a high pedestal.
@@jellyfishi_ I was about to say that no we aren't, Europe most of the world is at peace....but after looking it up, yeah, I can see that. Somewhat. away from traditional wars to asymmetric warefare.
I understand much of this showcases the USS Enterprise. After the Coral Sea, Midway, and the battles around Guadalcanal, the Enterprise was the only carrier we had in the Pacific. It was constantly protecting our forces for almost a year, nearly alone but for its brave escorts. A retired Soldier salutes the greatest fighting ship in history. God Bless those brave men and their gallant steel lady.
@Woody Meggs we did just that when we built better army then British , search for Sikh nation vs British , but the issue is what took tears to happen you wanna make a conclusion about that in seconds , at least spend 15-20 minute on a small documentary about the topic Of you want an answer otherwise god bless you
@@pagodebregaeforro2803 anything possible in that chaos,RIP to the fallen..I really hope we would never have to see such times again . By now we should be more advanced as a species to overcome mass killing each other's kids as a solution to disgreements ,defend the weak against evil agressors with dark agendas by all means, but large scale war among nations should not be an option ever again ,else we haven't really made progress as a species..
Brave men died for us to have the life we have today. I cannot imagine what it must have been like to experience something like this... This kind of footage makes me very emotional.
I've gone hard over at flank speed while on a FFG. Being on a carrier making those turns is a sight to behold. Fair winds and following seas, brothers.
Not every US carrier is the enterprise. Honestly I feel like enterprise and Yorktown get too much attention Nobody really knows about hornet, wasp,ranger and Lexington
FYI, the guy who started Enterprise auto rentals was a fighter pilot on the Enterprise during WW2. There was a strong attachment and pride to that ship.
My dad was a US Marine attached to the USS Intrepid. Port side front gunnery tub and was seriously wounded on 25 November 1944 when kamikazis crashed onto the carrier.....he told me when battle stations and general quarters sounded they were instructed to shoot at the sun, as that’s where the Japanese planes were coming from.....two kamikazis hit CV 11 and shrapnel went everywhere.....
That "Sun" tactic was a genius move . The Nazis back then proposed a "Sun Gun" weapon where it will be launched in space , they say it's a mirror or it was like the "Magnifying Glass" style where they will utilize the Sunlight and they'll point it towards enemy nation to fry their cities whole .Glad it didn't happened .
"General quarters, general quarters, all hands man your battle stations" for jarheads in the peacetime Med Floats of the 80's, meant another game of spades and a nap if we wanted while the Navy had to scramble and be responsible.
If I remember correctly the camera operator was so dedicated he was killed by the bomb hitting the elevator on that carrier. The gun crews aft were atomized by the first hit. To me those sailors struggling against the sharp turn carrying fire extinguishers are all heroes-just a selfless action doing their jobs to try and help. As one newsreel stated during the Kamikaze attacks at Okinawa, these sailors didn't have any foxholes to jump into but just had to take it.
My god this is wow, you just don’t get a feeling like this from movies, so many guns going off from the ship and so brutal from both sides would be feeling like death is close.
My dad, Kenneth McDonald, served on the carrier Saratoga in the pacific during ww2 and told me about being on the flight deck during battles like this. I really appreciate the film because it, in detail, shows truly how bad it was. I wish I’d had been able to understand how horrible it really was while listening to the stories but I’m thankful now for having a visual image of what he endured.
Ken McDonald. USMC 64 -- 68. Marine Detachment USS Saratoga, 1966 -- 68. My Dad was on the old USS Wasp Marine Detachment many years earlier. Hats off to your Dad and God Bless.
@@davidfrehlini968 Thanks for sharing the story ww2 is tough
u mean ur dad works at mcdonalds
Hey Ken, my father in law Bruce Clifford was also on the Sara... the stories he told! My father was also in theater, but never talked about it... not until he met Bruce! When I was married on a cruise ship, those two couldn't wait for dinner when they would sit together and remember... kids today have no idea about that war, and/or a distorted view of why we did. Cheers Ken!
hi Ken McDonald, my dad was on the Saratoga as well. He was enlisted and worked on radar. he was injured by flying shrapnel, lost a lot of teeth and had gold caps for replacements. He never talked a lot about it. I wonder where I could get more info on the ship? Best- Terry Rhodes
(My Uncle, Randy Boyer, commanded the USS Morris, DD417, during this Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. His ship shop down 6 Japanese aircraft, and took on 500 sailors, many wounded, from the USS Hornet to the USS Morris. He and one of his crewmen were awarded the Navy Cross for their actions that day.)
USS Morris......Hmmmm......Sims Class DD I believe.🤔
God bless him.
✌️🇺🇸 God Bless All of our brave Veteran's always....God Bless America. My father fought in the Pacific at Guadalcanal and Okinawa. 1st Marine division...🇺🇸 All I can say is...War is Hell.
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500 men on a destroyer? That ship was CROWDED!
I can't believe a bomb hits the deck right in front of the camera, amazing footage
Bomb hits carrier, starts fire.
Next bomb hits alongside seconds later, water rains on deck, puts out fire.
Japanese pilot: "Ah, son-of-a-geisha!"
That bomb mortally wounded the cameraman.
It was Enterprise
Stop
They have CCTV🤣🤣
My father is a WWII US Navy veteran. He served in the pacific theatre. He has zero animosity toward the Japanese and Japan. He very much respects their culture. He truly was part of our greatest generation. At 94 he still is an inspiration to me.
My father was too. From Dec 7th til the end. He felt the same way, after spending years as part of the occupation force...
thank you. When the Allies occupied Japan in 1945, Allied soldiers came up to the house where my old grandparents and three daughters lived without taking off their shoes. They searched all over the house. The three daughters have continued to talk since then.
"I was scared at that time."
But he has a different impression of American soldiers. They were very bright and friendly and loved the children.
Japan and the United States have been in a friendly relationship since 1945. One of the reasons is this fact.
@@nownowswanow my wife’s coworker’s mother and grandmother were 5 miles from ground zero when the Hiroshima bomb detonated (they both survived). Her mom was a hospital nurse. Her dad was an American GI and worked as an orderly in the same hospital during the occupation. They fell in love, got married and my wife’s coworker was born. Her mom and grandmother were taught that the GIs were monsters, but as it turned out, many were very empathetic. They were pleasantly surprised.
So very true.....the Greatest Generation.
私の祖父は海軍一等兵曹でマレー半島で戦いました。生き残り、孫の私に戦争の話をしてくれましたが、生きて帰るのが奇跡のような話ばかりでした。祖父は陸戦では斥候だったそうで、本人曰く足が速いからその役目だったらしいです。戦地の住民と仲良く相撲をしたことも話してくれて、幼かった私は祖父の優しい顔を良く覚えています。
Credit to the cameraman, he shoot a good scene that we never expect, look at the bomb hit on the hull of a warship that was unbelievable, they are the braviest soldier/human, they dont care about death..
Ikr
they didn't care about death? you've been watching too many movies... everyone was scared to die but they had duty and honor to uphold for their country and families.
All carriers recorded every landing and take off from set cameras there was no cameraman.
The care about death they just accepted death are ok with it.... True heroes!
It's an amazing amount of maneuvering that ship was doing. The scene has never been matched by any movie.
*Such a dumb thing to say. That Hollywood hasn't bothered to do it is that they haven't done even better than reality.*
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@@theotherside931 Settle down Bevis, he said "Matched", "Matched", I think your SAG card is Safe.
ah yes, and what a rare breed ww2 vets are becoming. 👍
Yes. That hard turn was so fast.
Cameraman has a balls of steel during the recording of this.
Idk he doesnt move the camera so maybe he just let the camera there recording and he was crying in other side.
Bonjour du Canada Yes but steel rust
Or maybe balls of reinforced concrete😂
Balls of diamonds
@@fascistalien and the movement must be robots being controlled remotely
Imagine watching this in the theater knowing your son or brother was serving on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific.
My nan used to scrutinize the Africa Campaign, her brother died out in the field, and since he didn't age she'd have recognised him if she saw him.
This is real footage!.. Its not ment to be watched in theater with popcorn..
If you stop imagine shht and think about it its possible that there are people watching their actual brother or son on this very aircraft?..
Imagine watching this in the eiga kan knowing your son or brother was serving all of Japan bravely knowing his not gonna return
@@ystoyanov3669 So where do you think newsreels were shown, if not at the theatre?
@@Catcrumbs I am not sure what was i thinking back then.. It makes no sense now. Just forget and leave it
If someone else comment about it i will delete both my comments
Others have commented and I agree, that it's amazing seeing the full on power of an aircraft carrier cranking turns so sharp that the sailors struggle against the g-force. It must have been sheer intense hell inside that engine room. I salute those heroes that dealt with that, but are often overlooked for the "glamour" of top gunners and such.
Can only imagine what it was like below the deck
usa terror country !! forever Japan 🇯🇵🇹🇷Turkey 🇰🇷 Korea
@@bluejeans8698 ?
@@bluejeans8698 you're correct. We seem to be the only country able and willing to stop terror.
@@OKuusava good one. Was agent orange used to harm ppl or destroy vegetation? Clearly the after effects were horrible but not it's intended purpose.
Can only imagine how these soldiers felt standing on these ships and watching it all play out in front of their eyes.God bless them all for their sacrifice and their families from Bosnia
They weren't from Bosnia
Sailors, not soldiers...
@@robkj7575 seeth
@@failtolawl Peter Tomić was from Bosnia and he sailed one of these boats and died on one of them.
Heroes 🇧🇦❤️
I cant understand how almost 100 years ago we had such marvel of engineering. Truly impressive
whats marvellous about it ?? its just weapons of war. incredible engineering goes back thousands of years ago
Aliens and bigfoots and people from the future contacted us and gave us that knowledge
@@Astrothunder_ drugs?
@@danielcallapinachanco7817 Opium For Sure.
@@danielcallapinachanco7817 i think he is sarcastic.
Meanwhile, some kid is telling his grandpa how hard his life is.
Yes
Grandpa : hold my story
So people aren't allowed to complain just because they havn't seen war? You're an idiot.
@@Zamandu boomers life and gen z life are different, be understand
@@reffo5548 boomers had an easy life. Real estate costed nothing in There time
My Father was a WW2 veteran deployed on the USS Wasp CV-18 He was a CPO first class radio operator had 7 battle engagements with the Japanese in the South Pacific from 1943/45 . His ship was hit twice by Kamikazis and dive bombed once. His ship was a group of five in the third fleet in Ulithi Atoll "Murderer's Row" Which was The USS Wasp,USS Hornet,USS Yorktown, USS Hancock and USS Ticonderoga.
I remember when the Wasp was CVS-18. She and the Intrepid would dock at Quonset Point NAS back in 1969-70.
My former neighbor served on the U.S.S. Wasp at the same time. The stories he told were incredible. R.I.P. Charlie.
Wow, not the American soldiers neither the Japanese pilots did know that : they will being watched by the new generations as it is just live show, while they are risking their lives, so poetic.
My father in law was in the DE Navy in WWII. He saw Naval combat in both the Atlantic & Pacific theaters making 37 trips through the Panama Canal. When he finally opened up to me (after realizing I too am a Navy vet) in about 1995 he told me his stories to include being under kamikaze attack. Had the hair on the back of my neck standing up. RIP Brownie we miss you. FLY NAVY!!!
I would love to hear some of these personal stories if you don't mind sharing.
@@sarhan5568 His first cruises were convoy duty in the North Atlantic in early 1942. Told me they always took several dozen ships across at a time. They never left the convoy and also couldn't stop to pick up survivors of torpedo attacks by wolf packs. He was on three different destroyer escorts. On one cruise they hit a whale and had to turn back to the US. In the Pacific they often got calls to pick up down pilots that were reported as alive. When they got on the scene they found them dead machine gunned by the Japanese. After that the CO of the ship said he didn't care what they did to Japanese but they weren't going to pick them up. He also survived quite a few kamikaze attacks as well. FLY NAVY!!!
@@USNveteran Thanks for sharing. It must have been terrifying getting ambushed by a wolf pack emerging out of nowhere.
Thank you for sharing your family stories!
That must have been absolutely terrifying. Brave bunch.
The cameraman is so brave
The issue date of this is November of '43 but it was filmed at the battle of Santa Cruz in October of '42. That film on the deck is actually from USS Hornet which was sunk during the battle after having been abandoned. Those bombs delivered by Aichi D3A "Val" dive bombers that penetrated the deck set off ordinance and aircraft fuel below decks. Another Val too damaged to return to it's carrier dove into Hornet's stack. Another stricken Val purposely rammed into it's antiaircraft guns. Yet another stricken Val dove into the destroyer USS Smith.
That would be the last of the well trained IJN aircrews, combat veterans of China, Pearl Harbor and the three carrier battles preceding this. Japan could claim a tactical victory in vessels sunk and damaged but Japan's loss of nearly all their good naval aircrews in accomplishing what they did was more critical for them than the loss of USS Hornet and destroyer USS Porter was for us.
As the only operational capital US carrier left until the Essex class were commissioned, damaged USS Enterprise then retreated from the battle with her escorts to fight another day. Santa Cruz was a vicious damned sea battle as were all of them..
This war is where my grant grandfather received his commission as a Maj. General.
Leyte Gulf.
And don't forget the USS Robin.
The deck footage was shot on Enterprise, not Hornet. The part where the bombs hit is from the battle of the Eastern Solomons. At 2:10 we can see the second bomb to hit Enterprise which set off the ready powder bags for the 5-inch guns, killing the adjacent gun crews. At 2:40 the third bomb blows a hole in the flight deck.
The part at 3:45 and subsequent shots of that same Wildcat were also filmed on the Enterprise, but during Santa Cruz. I am not sure about the other footage but I believe it can be found out if we find the separate footage from both battles.
@@gasperpoklukar8372 I stand corrected. You're right about the bomb going through the deck happening at Eastern Solomons. And you're right about it being Enterprise. I remembered seeing some of it on a video about Santa Cruz but don't recall which. Some of that might've been still mounted camera video and that which was on Hornet would have likely gone down with her at Santa Cruz. I'm now trying to remember where I'd seen the video. Don't want to guess until I find it.
@@icewaterslim7260 If you remember, do tell! I also saw the Eastern Solomons bit somewhere and it was much more extended. It included a good bit of maneuvering before the hits.
0:28 and 0:35 USS Enterprise under attack during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942. There is SBD dive bomber which fell from the flight deck after near Japanese bomb hit. 4:21 during the attack and 4:28 the moment of the hit when SBD fell from the flight deck.
1:20 again USS Enterprise during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands
1:41 USS Hornet during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands
2:08 bomb hit to USS Enterprise 24 August 1942 during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons
2:41 second bomb hit to USS Enterprise 24 August 1942 during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons
3:45 A Hornet Wildcat that had just landed skids across Enterprise's flight deck as the carrier maneuvers violently during Jun'yo's dive-bomber attack, 26 October 1942, Battle of Santa Cruz Islands
3:37 there is USS Hornet or USS Enterprise?
After 5:00 again USS Enterprise.
So, here almost all footage is from USS Enterprise, not USS Hornet
at 1:41 when you said that was the hornet was it the cv 12 or cv 8?
@@stuffdoer5965 CV-8
My uncle served as second officer for the CVN Enterprise in the 1980s. Love the Big E!
I see you like to dissect these old videos like I do. Good job.
@@stuffdoer5965 ThT would be CV8.CV12 is still a good 8 or 9 months up the road.Essex Yorktown and Intrepid will come first.
日本人として私達の爺さんがどの様に戦ったかを記録していただいて本当に有難いです…次の世代そして次の世代と伝えていきたい！…アメリカに負けたが互いの勇姿を後世に伝えていきたいです。
Idk why but i think we have lost a lot of brave and great man in this generation☠
Respeto a tu nación y la valentía de tus ancestros al igual que respeto a los Estadounidenses.. 🙏
Today's Japanese young guys forget their military history.
@@marcojesus3108 Y tú qué haces comentando aquí 😂
@@zaratustraishere ?? Quien eres??
Badass at 2:22 walking with the tank in his hand didn’t run from the fire of bullets
Crazy ass real deal footage...God Bless this Generation. Thank You, Amen.
日本にとってもアメリカにとっても払った犠牲は大きかったと思う。
兵士が走って逃げているのを見て非常に考えさせられました……こんな貴重な映像を投稿して頂きありがとうございます！
Thanks from Japan!🇯🇵
Google TranslateI- think the sacrifices made were great for both Japan and the United States.
It made me very thoughtful to see the soldiers running and running away ... Thank you for posting such a valuable video!
Ironically World War Two is the reason Japan is an economic powerhouse and the two countries are close friends.
I feel badly for the Sailors of both Countries when I watch these films! Thousands died on carriers damaged or sunk during the War!
よく見てよ、1945🇺🇸とか日本とか PPB が やって、けんかんをやめてください
When men were built of the same stuff as the ships.
can you let mi faind that ship that have my stuff
@@Mikaiah72 you are not wrong there.
@@Mikaiah72 Each generation during the last 200 years has been gradually softer.
They were also white back then.
Ted Frey you should have included women as well in your comment and nowadays if an auditor goes anywhere near a military base in the US legally recording they ring the cops to investigate what's going on.
What's more amazing is, these countries are like Best friends now
It's because of Shinzo Abe.. now that he already step down on power and a new emperor takes the throne something might change in the future.
@edca poik yeah they tried to create a nuclear weapons before but decided to stop because of America's strong military presence on their territory.
@edca poik No. Japan and South Korea like having allies that protect them from communist neighbors.
well, it didn't happen by chance, basically at the end of WW2 Japan became an American colony...also nowadays with China's expansionary policy of course USA represents the only real help
This is real war real pilots real warships, now it's just a few seconds confrontation in air look at this how brave these pilots are can't even imagine
Back then being in the Navy was no joke. These were some ironclad men.
It's no joke now. Peacetime Navy is a different animal than wartime, but they'll step up when it's time, just like these guys did. Not much choice really, there's no where to run on a ship, so it's fight or die. DDG-8, Operation Praying Mantis.
@@thumper9633 yeah except now America has people like Emma with TWO MOMS, compared to back in the day when people weren't weren't week minded
@@Andrew58251 MUH PATRIOT MISSILE CUZ MY TWO MOMS
@@thumper9633 peacetime navy is a joke though.
@@Andrew58251 i dont think being lesbian is weak, also you cant even spell "weak"
日本名「南太平洋海戦」1942年10月26日の映像のようです。翔鶴の第二次攻撃隊(零戦5、艦爆19)がエンタープライズを攻撃中。爆弾2発(2:07、2:39)を命中させるが、零戦1、艦爆10が撃墜された。なおこの映像の後、瑞鶴隊の艦攻16機が雷撃を行うが命中せず艦攻9喪失。エンタープライズは難を逃れた。
対空母攻撃の攻撃隊は損耗率高いですね。半数～2/3が失われるんですね。辛うじて帰還した機も被弾していて再度の出撃は無理だったり搭乗員が亡くなったり、大怪我をしていて再び出撃できなかったり、操縦員、偵察員、電信員、などペアが揃わなかったり・・・を考える再出撃可能な機は２割無いかもしれません？ってところでしょうか？
話によりますと瑞鶴の攻撃隊の発進が30分遅れ、結果として翔鶴隊と瑞鶴隊は各個撃破された形となったようです。もし同時に攻撃していたとすると雷爆同時攻撃となり、ホーネット同様エンタープライズも南太平洋に沈んでいたかもしれませんが、歴史にifはありませんね。
南太平洋海戦？誤った解説。より研究の深いアメリカ人が正確な解説をしてくれています。
All that America did to you, including torture, rape, and nuclear weapons, and you still worship it, what dignity do you have??
@@nownowswanow
アメリカの方も南太平洋海戦(米軍呼称:サンタクルーズの戦い)と紹介しているので間違っては無いですよ
INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE!! The Nation should be Forced to watch this on Memorial Day.
The effects of WWII are still felt today. My father was a United States Army Air Corps pilot in WWII. Everybody's lives changed as a result of this war, worldwide.
4:04 wow, how fast the carrier turn!!!
They have to make drastic evasive manuevers to avoid getting hit by bombs and torpedos
Yes there is a mechanism that giant carrier can turn under short curves
Proof cameraman never dies
The Man behind the Camera is crazily courageous .
The camera is not being held by someone. It is fixed in position. You're welcome.
I'd rather face another year of the Covid pandemic than go back in time & relive these days.
I want to do this
@@Nfl_fan_12 no you don’t, you think you do but you really, really don’t. We are an incredibly privileged generation to even think like this
@@James-yy4vl no we are a bad gen yeah wow electric cars and electrical devices but come on now we aren't privilege at all
@@Nfl_fan_12 we aren’t privileged? Is that a joke? We live in the easiest times the world has ever known
I would like to serve in the navy
Thanks for uploading real footage
Brave lads in history,RIP all of them, this just the definition of fire and fury
A full war in these times would end us all
@Woody Meggs well you predicted it
I can't imagine being a 19 year old kid, running for his life in the middle of the SW Pacific.
Just a few months ago, he was in high school, probably planning on getting married and starting a life.
But, his country has called him to sacrifice and defend her.
Challenge accepted.
I just can't imagine what that was like.
Well the difference is, between then and what came after, Korea, Vietnam, was that America was fighting against enemies who had attacked them.
@@davidtuer5825 Vietnam never attacked the USA. A Pentagon investigation found that the gulf of Tonkin incident didn't happen.
@@qqqalo That's what I said but in a bit of a convoluted way, sorry.
Look in any military cemetery, that's the average age.
My dad was one of those 19 year-old kids, on HMS Victorious alongside the US in the Pacific 1944.
Amazing front seat footage!
My Dad was in this mess!
That's cool!
Sadly, mine also.
I mean not cool he was in the mess but cool that you have a Ancestor that fough in the World War 2
@@drawcartoonswar2284 Two! My uncle was in Battle Of The Bulge fought under Patton and wounded by grace of God they both made it home 🙏
This is some incredible footage.
this must be the fiercest war footage ever. amazing job done by camera crews
Just one soldier in a plane.
My uncle fought in Italy. He was a pracinha (the way we call the soldiers from FEB, Força Expedicionária Brasileira). We are proud of them. 🇧🇷
never seen such before, especially as Flightdeck was hit and before the Crew stand there😳
アメリカ軍と我々の英霊…そしてこの様に映像を遺してくれたアメリカに感謝します！…日米の英雄です。
Странный ты человек.
なんで火事場泥棒のロシアの奴がコメントしてるのか？無礼極まるw
日本は正々堂々米国と戦った。
やばすぎだろロシア人
Tôi là người Việt Nam, tôi rất ngưởng mộ các bạn Nhật Bản. Tình yêu mà người Việt Nam dành cho Nhật Bản là rất nhiều. Yêu các bạn.
@@marietadano3813 Ты всех русских считаешь ворами?
When we all stuck together and men were men. Great video.
Kudos to the Americans in the Pacific and beyond. From the UK.
2:25 bro came running out naked he said “hell no I’m not dying today” lol respect
I've never been in combat, but I've now got PTSD just from watching it. It was no joke back then.
Americans at that time were smart and brave
@scoot manke It was a passing comment and paying respect to their bravery. You're the one who can't understand the difference between the two realities. Get back in your shell you fkin tool.
Hats off, that was some good footage!
This footage is incredible. Really shows you what heavy combat was like for Navy soldiers
Imagine being on that ship, how brave were those men, truly the greatest generation ever, unlike the mamby pamby lot today
@ISledgehammerI Who has never seen action except keyboard action.
If a world war start today, will have millions of great mans fighting. Its not exclusivity of just one generation, but fortunately, today we don't need it.
stop comparing people with their generations
Exactly right
Wow never seen a carrier shudder like that. Interesting that they took the time to recover the ditched plane.
Not really there were allied planes in the air, if an emergency happens and they need to land they can't have a plane just chilling there lol.
@@stalinfortimee5065 I think he's referring to them using a crane to take a ditched plane out of the water at 3:19
Maybe it was to save the crew/get them on board to avoid launching a small boat
Japanese ship designers: put just enough aa to make it look good
American ship designers: strap aa on every flat surface
My grandfather was a pilot of the Japanese Imperial Air Force. He was shot down by the US Air Force in the Battle of the Coral Sea and died, but I'm proud of him.
We owe these heroes so much. Thank you for my freedom.
yes get your booster,for your safety,..or you will have no job,no food,no money,..etc....enjoy your new world order freedom.
If only the youth of today could understand how lucky they all are.
When I hear people complaining about the Internet being down, or they've had to walk somewhere, I'd like to show them these film reels.
Insane footage. I wonder how common it was for men to be thrown off the ship from all that maneuvering?!? Those men were only kids at the time, but they were 10 times the men any of us will ever be .
they have nets around the sides, the net up front is wonderful to sit in, 100 feet over the water on a full moon night you can see dolphins riding the ships push, in the florescent water below you
Maybe 10 times the man you are. My father was a gunners mate 1st class. He joined November 1940 and was trained in the Atlantic on the wyoming and then served the rest of the war in the Pacific. DD519 Daly from March 1943 to February 1945. He was on 2 different mine sweepers as a gunner. He hated the term greatest generation. Guys like my father loved this country and retired as GMC gunners mate Chief. I love this country just as much as he did. Our family history goes back to 1620 on my mother's side and 1677 on my father's. I'm my opinion the greatest generation if your going to use that term was our ancestors who fought for our independence. They had it far worse than your average ww2 soldier. Plus their wives and children were exposed to danger just like they were. My father did what he had to do, so would you and I if we were put in the same position.
@@johnstack4316 lol vanity rules humanity and the weak minded are too ignorant to understand. my family has been here also since the scots were kicked out of Scotland by the english. and my father joined before pearl also and was attached to the RAF for the Battle of Briton
@@johnstack4316 you as well. My grandfathers fought in both wars. They are 10 the man me or you are and thats a fact. Dont ride others coat tail. Maybe our greatest generation was the revolutionary generation but to most people that were in ww2 it was the greatest. You forget we were far from the only ones in the war. 100s of millions of people would have died if the allies didn't win. Cant say the same for the revolution
@@protipskiptoendofvideoandr286 no maybe 10 times the man you are not me. I'm just as American as my father and 9 generations of my grandfathers before me. Just because you have been castrated doesn't mean the rest of us are. My ancestors would have been offended that you put them on such a high pedestal.
Once upon a time japan had the strongest airforce in the whole world!!
And THIRD STRONGEST navy after America and Britain
pilots so passionate that they suicide bomb
For about 2 days
For like a day.
wow!! That was incredibly intense. Never seen anything like it. Unbelievable
Respect to both US and Japan , a true hero who do their duty braverly.
And Japan?
??? Why japan??
The Hornet is turning hard and fast amazing footage
Hornet sank in 1942, this is supposed to be from 1943, which means it is Enterprise.
Some of the best and intense war footage I've seen.
And people freaking out now because they have virtual classes. Just wake up and turn on the computer. But cannot handle it. Be glad you live now!
We might have aliens now so don't speak too soon.
@@jellyfishi_ I was about to say that no we aren't, Europe most of the world is at peace....but after looking it up, yeah, I can see that. Somewhat. away from traditional wars to asymmetric warefare.
Bullets everywhere and bombs.,I salute the courage of the camera man
I understand much of this showcases the USS Enterprise. After the Coral Sea, Midway, and the battles around Guadalcanal, the Enterprise was the only carrier we had in the Pacific. It was constantly protecting our forces for almost a year, nearly alone but for its brave escorts. A retired Soldier salutes the greatest fighting ship in history. God Bless those brave men and their gallant steel lady.
It is amazing that some countries had such an advanced technology even 75 years ago while some countries can’t even produce a bicycle today!!!
Because that technology came from the money robbed from the other countries
Well seems you stayed in a cave for too long
@Woody Meggs it's just like saying a big guy in the house with guns to go where they can from
@Woody Meggs we did just that when we built better army then British , search for Sikh nation vs British , but the issue is what took tears to happen you wanna make a conclusion about that in seconds , at least spend 15-20 minute on a small documentary about the topic Of you want an answer otherwise god bless you
@@harindersingh6922 ✌✌✌
How the hell can they run like that with balls of steel. True American heroes
Incredible footage!!Looks like one of the sailors ran right off the edge of the carrier when bomb made direct hit.
Looked like a recessed step down area where personnel could walk along the sides of the vessel and load ammo and operate the side guns etc..
@@Trinavara when the carrier took a near miss she shaked heavily and the plane parked/abandoned just fell there, I wonder if someone got hit by it.
@@pagodebregaeforro2803 anything possible in that chaos,RIP to the fallen..I really hope we would never have to see such times again .
By now we should be more advanced as a species to overcome mass killing each other's kids as a solution to disgreements ,defend the weak against evil agressors with dark agendas by all means, but large scale war among nations should not be an option ever again ,else we haven't really made progress as a species..
My grandfather would talk about the battle of the “Coral Sea” when he was aboard the U.S.S. Lexington. He said it was a battle for survival.
Brave men died for us to have the life we have today.
I cannot imagine what it must have been like to experience something like this... This kind of footage makes me very emotional.
I've gone hard over at flank speed while on a FFG. Being on a carrier making those turns is a sight to behold. Fair winds and following seas, brothers.
I'm really surprised at how manuverable those big boats are.
Exactly what I was thinking!
Ship.
I think they went full power. You can never be too fast when you’re life is in danger.
@@ottomueller4425 we in the usn always refer to our ship as boat
REAL MAN REAL ACTION..
that is USS Enterprise! what a hell bloody war
My father was on the Enterprise in 1943.
The description says USS Hornet
Lmao .. read the description fool
Not every US carrier is the enterprise.
Honestly I feel like enterprise and Yorktown get too much attention
Nobody really knows about hornet, wasp,ranger and Lexington
FYI, the guy who started Enterprise auto rentals was a fighter pilot on the Enterprise during WW2. There was a strong attachment and pride to that ship.
Safe spaces never exist in war. Tough battle for a hardened crew.
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Japan fight like a Man. Respect
This is absolutely incredible footage AMAZING! TY 🇺🇸
My dad was a US Marine attached to the USS Intrepid. Port side front gunnery tub and was seriously wounded on 25 November 1944 when kamikazis crashed onto the carrier.....he told me when battle stations and general quarters sounded they were instructed to shoot at the sun, as that’s where the Japanese planes were coming from.....two kamikazis hit CV 11 and shrapnel went everywhere.....
That "Sun" tactic was a genius move . The Nazis back then proposed a "Sun Gun" weapon where it will be launched in space , they say it's a mirror or it was like the "Magnifying Glass" style where they will utilize the Sunlight and they'll point it towards enemy nation to fry their cities whole .Glad it didn't happened .
"General quarters, general quarters, all hands man your battle stations" for jarheads in the peacetime Med Floats of the 80's, meant another game of spades and a nap if we wanted while the Navy had to scramble and be responsible.
I love how they make it seem like it's no big deal lol
Lol
Hero’s
Yes Zero Heros. :,)
Important for war morale. Plus the famous British way of understating the terrible.
Hate, makes them feel bigger! Anemy and what ever comes from a front of them is tiny thing,,
Crazy footage dude
I love this guy he speaks well and I'm very proud to see how well the yanks battle
If I remember correctly the camera operator was so dedicated he was killed by the bomb hitting the elevator on that carrier. The gun crews aft were atomized by the first hit. To me those sailors struggling against the sharp turn carrying fire extinguishers are all heroes-just a selfless action doing their jobs to try and help. As one newsreel stated during the Kamikaze attacks at Okinawa, these sailors didn't have any foxholes to jump into but just had to take it.
that was a brutal fight
こんな綺麗な空の下で殺し合ってるの見てて不思議な気持ちになる
Unbelievable footage of a bunch of courageous folks 👍🇬🇧.
Feels like am watching a movie. Much respect from Kenya🇰🇪🇰🇪 to veterans🇺🇸
4:00 - THAT is what you call “hard over”. The wake is sideways to the boat.
In a Non-Military ship,
Cargo Ships -
We call it "Hard Starboard" or "Hard Port"
She was moving !
You see the guys running on the deck? They're almost at a 45 deg. angle. LOL.
Wow !!!!!! that hole was deep on the top of that carrier. Very very brave men
Honestly a Cameraman is the ultimate Master at Chicken…hands down props.
You can only see the films that are not burned together with the cameraman
Hands down? Alex, I only seen people running on the deck!!
the most intense war film ever..
those turns at flank speed are amazing..
Cameraman never dies
God bless all those men who fought in that war. Thank you for your service.
Very brave men. Respect 👊
This is pure content, makes up my day :)
Countries that destroy everything as they like and get no consequences.
Better the US than Russia or Germany
Another proof cameraman never dies
I know this fact already . Amazing video bro
Imagine WWs recorded by an HD camera
The bomb hit at 2:40 actually killed the photographer running the camera.
How do you know? If so, that's sad
It couldn't have the camera never moved when that bomb hit
No it didn't. That's a myth.
If these brave young people still live in this era..
Thanks to Britain’s Pathe News.
My god this is wow, you just don’t get a feeling like this from movies, so many guns going off from the ship and so brutal from both sides would be feeling like death is close.