The German pilot was a idiot and a traitor. Those bombers where there to kill civilians, women and children. Imagine a police man catching a group of terrorists who just killed a bunch of civilians and he thinks he is being knightly and honorable by letting them go because their car got shot up by other policemen and it wouldn't be sportive to finish them. What would you say about that police man? Would he be a hero and a great guy? The civilians killed by those bombers won't be talking to anyone anymore. How wholesome is that?
At 16:07, in Galland's story. The picture framed on the wall kind of looks like The Armchair Historian's style. Was there a collab? A former Armchair Historian team artist working now with YarnHub? Or something?
@@JamesWWagner-my8zm just because one side was evil, doenst excuse the other from doing evil things as well, besides Saburo wasnt at Nanking, he didnt kill anyone there, why would you assume he was evil too because the county he fought for did evil things? Are you also saying the millions of japane Civillians were evil too? How would you argue against all the evil things the us did? Does that make all of us citizens evil too?
@@soru2186 Do you not see what the first comment is trying to do? They're taking away from Sakai's story by bringing up something that has nothing to do with Sakai. Stop feeding into this.
Why can't we have more people like Franz Stigel? I feel his story should be taught in a lot of history and literature classes because his experience is a great example of modern chivalry, honor, and kindness.
I agree with you as well war sucks 😢but it’s how animals are as animals even humans fight for beliefs and resorces to this day 😐my grandparents from my dads side were normal citizens in ww2 some of them are still alive 🙂but I can’t forgive nazis 😑but I can forgive Germans like franz 🙂as not even they want war but I do have to agree what franz was saying as it was about dudy and survival 😐but I feel yea man 😑we are different but the respect for Germans killing us is the same is we killed them 😐
@@ConfuzelddYT and so who cares ?😑all your doing is campaigning on something you don’t understand 😑if you ask me WHY I use emojis is 1 thing 😐but you say emojis are bad when you don’t have real proof 😑what your saying is more of an a opinion rather then truth 😑
@@TrangleC Someone clearly doesn’t understand the concept of war. The soldiers, pilots, and soldiers don’t have a choice in who they attack where as terrorists very much do. Those pilots had to fight and bomb, the terrorists do not have to kill innocent civilians.
Very few people would have blamed Stigler for shooting the bomber down however there was no reason to. He saw 8 men who would be doomed if he shot them down over the English channel. In Europe, many pilots had qualms about shooting enemies or being shot down over open water as it basically meant a very painful very slow, very cold death of drowning with your plane. Warriors impart death. That doesn't mean they always want to be cruel about it.
Finland pay FULLPRICE those planes!!! Planes what nobody else wanted, planes who mainly comes too late. Same time Sovjets bombing Finland citicens by using USA flying petrol. Thanks for world biggest kommunist Roosevelt.
@@jakkeledin4645 - - Why it would be the need for "Sovjets bombing Finland citicens by using USA flying petrol", considering that Soviet Union had so much petroleum and gasoline, that it was exporting massive quantities to Nazi Germany in 1940 ...early 1941?
@@jakkeledin4645 Yes, Finnland was a victim of Soviet expansionism; yes, USA business interests wanted to keep USA 'neutral' for financial reasons; yes, Roosevelt did some illegal things (against USA law), and, yes, Roosevelt implemented many programs that were economically 'socialistic', BUT, A. We already had SOME 'socialistic' features in our society; B. He was NOT trying to fully convert the government to Socialism; C. He was not trying to convert the country to Communism; D. He certainly did not believe in Communism: he certainly could not have been the world 'biggest' Communist!! Sorry that the Finns got screwed over by Stalin in WW2; but I think we can all* agree that the Poles got screwed over much worse * (except for the 6 million Poles that got killed! They can't really agree!!) Sorry that the Finns are on Putin's list today, but hopefully, thanks to the price Ukrainians are paying (and being helped with), the objectives on that list are not going to be attempted. But Roosevelt was absolutely NOT a Communist, so, you just make yourself appear less credible by saying so.
Zeroes in 1942 seldom had radios. The equipment was faulty and barely useable and japanese pilots often got rid of them to gain weigth. Zero pilots communicated through hand signals and relied heavily on close knited shotai, they knew their wingmen and how they would react overcoming a little the downsides of not being able to use radios. Appaling losses over Guadalcanal would quickly put an end to that as japanese veteran pilots had been already been few to survive by the end of 1942.
He's definitely a hero in my opinion. He was fighting for hos country that got invaded by the Russians. Seems like the Russians love to invade and attack their neighbors.
True. He was a hero defending his own country against Soviet Invasion. He never fought in other country territory. Only defending his people inside Finland.
And he wasn't using a scope as well as to not get detected put snow in his mouth . After the war he was asked : " - what did you feel when you shot a Russian? - The recoil " Fucking legendary
Ouch YarnHub, you kinda missed the mark with the first one. Simo Häyhä fought during the Winter War where Finland was non-aligned, not during the Continuation War when Finland was co-belligerent with the Axis. So technically speaking, White Death cannot really be counted as an "Axis side story" per se.
@@adambane1719 That's not the definition of being part of the Axis as even Germany had a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union at the time. Finland joined the Axis as a co-belligerent on the Continuation War some years later.
@@hrishikeshXXV This is a video collection of "Axis side stories". Häyhä did not fight on the Axis side. There's really no two sides about this, that video should be on a "Stories from neutral sides" compilation. If you want a Finnish part on a "Stories from the Axis side" compilation video, then you could easily just make a video on Larry Thorne instead, or many other stories that took place in Continuation War where one could at least argue that Finland fought on the Axis side as a co-belligerent.
Simo actually tried to join the Finnish army for the 1941-44 war but the army refused to let him. His shot up jaw and mouth would have made communication with other soldiers too much of a hassle.
@@maverickmissile801 And the reason was the illegitime war started by the Soviet Union in 1939. Anyone supporting the Soviet Union during WWII supported the enslaving of a free nation. Great Britain had the good taste to apologize for that after the war. Many countries did not.
The animations, while not realistic, are excellent, highly detailed, and fun to watch; the stories are unique and educational; and the narration is dynamic and engaging. Fantastic work!
Admiral Cunningham if i remember correctly actually gave the leader of that raid a medal. From Jingles, the italian navy captains where mostly political postings but apparently the further from high command you got the more discipled the men where and the allies considered the italian frogmen as a real and serious threat due to their successes.
It might be interesting for some to know that the descendants of Mr. Galland are running a restaurant in the town of Herne, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany, these days.
Still waiting for the EBEN EMAEL raid video. It will be absolutely sick and perhaps your top video when released. It's surprising how people aren't aware of that mission.
I remember reading about Ében-Émael many years ago, not only the operation was like taken from a good movie script, but the epic, Tolkien-esque name of the fort made it impossible to forget for me 🙂.
3:42, Glare and reflections from the scopes can be mitigated by positioning and concealment, he also disliked scopes because they also tended to fog up or get moisture inside them with large temperature changes (warm inside, freezing outside) or easily damaged, rendering them useless.
“The other 8 billion people on the planet understood it” a- not at all your comment gave no reason to believe you were talking about old scopes nor would the average person know how different today’s scopes are. Not mention probably only a couple thousand people max even saw your comment, with him being the only reply. Get off your high horse smart ass.
@@gregedwards1087 Mitch334 is right... the scopes during the 30s and 40s were of low caliber compared to today's scopes. The low quality often meant that you normally couldn't achieve better than 1.5 to 2 X magnification. Today's scopes can get you up to 30 X magnification. So with all the problems you stated, the scopes magnification was useless if you couldn't see through it. Today's sniper scopes also come with a special cover/filter that eliminates reflective glare, so your position isn't given away due to sunlight.
I think the best Saburo Sakai story is him accidentally joining what he thought was a flight of Zeros but turned out to be a squadron of 15 F6F Hellcat fighters. He managed to not only avoid being killed, but also escaped from them with no damage. He was able to use their superior numbers against them, He was of course a master aviator, and the US pilots were nowhere as skilled or experienced as he was, but it's still a remarkable story-and was witnessed and verified by US officers at the time in debriefing. This was 1944 and the old Zero was thoroughly outclassed by the Hellcat, so only an incredibly skilled pilot could have pulled it off.
@FlitzerFlash nonsense, we rotated a lot of experienced pilots back to the states for a year to pass on their expertise to the new pilots, then they rotated back into the fight. The Axis just let their pilots fight until they got killed or captured without having passed on their experience to new pilots. That and we started to have way better equipment from 43 on.
What a nonsense. Tell me more about the Poles. Allies uses their pilots as a reserve and instructors while nazis had to fight until death so already in a Battle of Britain they use a lot of freshers. That also a Germans who ruthlessly attacked civilians and hospitals. Allies were trying to make rotation for front units, German while they rebuilted their units. Also for bomber pilots were allowed to back home after certain number of missions like in "Catch 22" novel.
@FlitzerFlashplease tell me you’re joking?! The average Allied pilot by even late ‘43 usually had quadruple the flight hours before combat that a new Japanese or German pilot did. Just because a small subset of Axis aces had extremely high kill totals by late war just shows how they were used constantly, while Allies maintained their training and rotation systems through the end of the war. And you actually think the Allies were the ones doing the civilian slaughtering?! I guess we found our Nazi sympathizer.
@@FelixMendelson No , it’s worse than ever , even free speech died with Covid and we are all Nazis in case we don’t share the opinion of the ruling party 🤢.
@overused6632 that’s a terrible thing to say considering 95% of people on the Axis side aren’t bad people at all the Allies have done a lot of fucked up shit too.
@@NathanielNerquaye-Tetteh-uz2nf leave the moralist be .. his inept way of thinking cannons understand the "logic" of war and the people that fight it. he thinks the allies were the "good guys" .. yet he has no freakin clue about the countless war crimes they did during the war. ignoramus at his finest :)
I got to meet saburo sakai at the opening of the nimitz museum at Fredericksburg Tx in the early 90s. He allowed me to get a photo of the two of us. I wish very much i could have gotten to spend some time with him.
I would love it if Yarnhub did a video on the Monchy 9 of Newfoundland. 9 men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment positioned at Monchy-le-Preux during the Battle of Arras in 1917 hid behind shrubbery and defended the town from a German force anywhere from 200 - 300 men strong for 11 hours to prevent a German break through. I think it is a very cool and very underrated battle that sounds like the plot of a movie.
Hi a huge fan from india, good to see u post vedios about war stories. India is also home to several of them. I recommend u making vedios about some interesting ones: 1.Battle of longewala(in 1971 indo pak war when 120 indian soldiers successfully defeated 2000 pak soldiers and 41 tanks with least fatalities) 2.CQMH Abdul hamid(man who bravely destroyed 8 Patton tanks single handedly with just a recoil less jeep gun in 1965war but was killed in action and later awarded india's highest gallantry award pvc ) 3.Battle of Asal uttar (largest tank battle after ww2 where indian army won and penetrated deep in Pakistan land in 1965) 4.Brave commandos of 26 11 attacks in Taj hotel Bombay who fought the terrorists. 5.Captain Vikram batra, the indian lion of kargil 1999 Hope u will make vedios on these forgotten tales of indian velour. Eager to see them. With lots of brotherhood and support from India...
Can you give an example of a British fighter that spared a German bomber after it unloaded on a British city? I'm guessing not, but I await your answer.
Yeah... big difference in the mentality of the populations... our strongest doesnt beat people while they're down... neither do those from Alemania... but the English are llike cats who play with their prey... like a narcissists convention..
@@teedepefanio4974you lost the war. The English and other Allie’s remain standing whilst your fascist dictatorship crumbled down whilst we stood strongly and marched over your destroyed cities
@@teedepefanio4974 Doesnt beat people when their down huh? I think a couple of millions would like to say something about that, but cannot from their burned dead bodies.
@@teedepefanio4974 Doesnt beat people when their down huh? I think a couple of millions would like to say something about that, but cannot from their burned dead bodies.
Simo is shown shooting; his rifle "bucks". Not too much, but no sniper would allow that to happen; they hold the rifle in a solid grip (or down onto a solid support), disallowing any recoil whatsoever. Anything less than this solid performance would never be allowed. Showing a recoil in this situation is a misleading fantasy.
I remember a Galland interview where he said in Spain he preferred open cockpit. That way he could smell the oil that enemy combatants burned. An added advantage. I was like goddamn. I never thought about that.
The one with Franz stigler and the bomber one, man that brings tears to my eyes everytime, that enemies became friends and died together and man their 2 planes at the end melted my heart to
Agreed 🥲in fact my family was in ww2 in Europe they are part Slovenian in fact my grandpa was actually born in ww2 in Europe in 1943 the same year franz spared Charlie 🙂no joke 😐this year he is 80 years old and this year would mark the 80th anniversary of no bullets fly 🙂
please dont hate me, yes i am german and i am very interested in ww2. i am sorry what my people did to the world, but we are not allowed to be proud or happy to be german in our own country, we have to live with that ultimate guilt. they teached us in school. i never feel very comfortable to say i am from germany, thank you for this cool stories!
@@christoperwallace6197 It's weird to act as if there was a good and a bad side in that war. I get the overall idea, but marking the Axis as the bad and the Allies as the good side would make the Soviets good guys as well, and I'm pretty sure all of Eastern Europe would strongly disagree there.
I seriously think that Galland's comment about give me Spitfires came out after the War! Why do I think this because the Bf 109E was superior to the Spitfire in the following areas:- 1. It was faster than the Spitfire Mk 3 at climbing, diving and level flight. 2. However the Bf109E wasn't as good as the Spitfire in terms of turning in some situations but it was better than the Spitfire at turning in other situations. ie. the Bf 109E was far better than the Spitfire in extremely tight turns, dives and climbs and rolls as it had a direct injected, variable supercharged Engine where as the dear old Spitfire only had a naturally aspirated engine with tractor like Carburetors! 3. The Bf 109E had 1 x20mm cannon, firing through the Nose and 2X 13 mm machine guns in the wings and 2x 7.96 mm above the engine!
Its a good point. From the documentary I saw, he was saying that the spitfires were better at low speeds and because the Bf-109s were told to stick to the bombers they were at a disadvantage.
If mentioned Stiegler , dont forget about Friedrich Lengfeld , who gave his own life in the attempt to safe an wounded enemy , that one gets me to tears every time , as it gives me hope that even in the harshest, darkest times there will always be humanity remaining 🙏🏻
Whenever Yamato gets featured prominently in media, a lot of people will immediately bash her for being useless, and while she genuinely WAS useless, there is a persistent narrative that other contemporary battleship designs were far better in terms of overall strategic value…which they weren’t. Yamato was a failure not because she was unusually useless for a WWII-era battleship, but rather because she was *similar* to other WWII-era battleships in being pointless and obsolete upon entering service. There are very, very few WWII-gen battleships that ever managed to achieve anything that could have justified the expenditure and investment that goes into building a new battleship, even among those that saw “active service” (which generally meant acting as pointlessly expensive and gigantic destroyers in supporting roles like AA escort-building entire capital ships just to use them for the roles of subcapital warships is strategic stupidity).
I would only disagree to the extent that nothing could compare to the shore bombardment capabilities of the 14" and 16" guns of the Battleships. However, it would certainly have been possible to design and build something much less expensive and labor intensive to basically act as a giant gun truck.
@@christineshotton824 Shore bombardment failed to justify battleship construction in WWII for a few reasons: - battleships were big enough investments that they only make sense at the strategic level if you can use them as capital ships (as in, the heavy hitters of your fleet to sink the enemy heavy hitters so your navy is free to carry out its operations without worrying about enemy heavy hitters). Once they were forced out of that role due to lack of offensive capability in a setting where airpower had increased battle ranges massively (far beyond the ranges at which any battleship was able to fire on any enemy ship), the sheer cost and expenditure that went into battleship construction outweighed whatever benefits battleships could still provide in secondary roles, especially since cheaper alternatives had those roles covered (see below). - for most shore bombardment applications cruisers and destroyers were sufficient, because while their guns are much smaller than those of battleships that still puts them well above most land artillery in terms of firepower; destroyers in particular proved invaluable in fire support (such as on D-Day), because they were seen as being more expendable (so people were much more willing to risk them against enemy shore or underwater defences), and because their smaller size meant they could get much closer to shore and fire more accurately onto enemy positions. The only cases where you really need battleships for shore bombardment is if the targets are far enough inland that you can’t hit them with cruiser or destroyer guns, but that’s where the next caveat comes in: - pretty much everyone going into WWII already had plenty of old battleships that could be used for shore bombardment, so even if you absolutely needed battleships to do shore bombardment, there was no reason to build any new battleships. Indeed, it was these old battleships that did far more shore bombardment than the WWII-generation battleships across all WWII navies. - lastly, some navies (the Royal Navy most prominently) had monitors, which packed the firepower of a battleship on a far smaller and cheaper platform for shore bombardment, being the exact sort of cheap but potent gun platform you were arguing in favour of and further reducing the importance of battleships.
And yet she is bigger and more ambitious and expensive than all the rest, yet what does she do in the war? Nothing whatsoever of any importance, neither shore bombardment nor engaging any other larger warship, with her only real surface engagement being against Taffy Three. Being too "valuable" to sortie, too expensive to fuel she and her sister was held in reserve until Japan had already effectively lost and of course as a result could do absolutely nothing. And secondly you just keep spamming every damn WW2 video that mentions the navy I see with the same message as if builders and politicians at the time knew this ahead of time. What exactly are you hoping to achieve other than annoy people? If you are so obsessed with the superiority of the carrier and wish to preach it all day long go invent yourself a damn timemachine and go back and try to convince the people of the time then.. seriously get some fucking hobbies, you're no better than a spambot
@@Arthion Yamato actually wasn’t the most expensive WWII-gen battleship in spite of being the largest: the Iowas were more expensive individually. If you go by *relative* expense (what the ship cost compared to what her nation could afford), the Bismarcks were probably the most expensive, given that the Kriegsmarine was on a shoestring budget and had far less naval infrastructure to work with compared to the IJN (for the obvious reason that Germany was a land power and Japan was a naval power). If you think Allied battleships were more useful because they did shore bombardment, you’re forgetting that a) most shore bombardment from battleships in WWII wasn’t from the fast battleships but pre-existing older battleships, b) cruisers and destroyers were enough for most fire support missions, and c) building a capital ship to do shore bombardment is also a massive waste in itself. The Yamatos actually sortied significantly more often than often assumed (not as often as Allied fast battleships, the Littorios or the Kongos, but much more often than the Nagatos, Fusos or Ises, or the German capital ships). More importantly, *sortieing does not make a ship useful unless the ship can actually do her job by sortieing.* Yes, Allies fast battleships were present in a lot of engagements-but in spite of that most of them never actually played any significant role during said engagements (either being relegated to the role of overgrown destroyers or even just being there without doing anything), meaning that they might as well not have sortied at all. In fact, you can legitimately argue that a pointless and useless battleship that doesn’t sortie is better than one that does, because at least it’s not using up as much fuel that way and it isn’t as if the battleship that does sortie is justifying her existence by sortieing. You do realize you’re being hypocritical by being an apologist for Allied WWII-era battleships and making excuses for them by saying the Allies didn’t know any better? Note that I never said Yamato was actually useful or in any way strategically sensible; I said that she was a pointless waste of resources because she never justified the investment put into building her. All I did was to apply this same standard to every WWII-gen battleship to point out that nearly all contemporary Allied battleships (and all German and Italian battleships) should also be criticized for the same sin of being pointless wastes of resources. The fact nobody knew these ships would be a net strategic negative to the navies that built them doesn’t mean they were not net strategic negatives at the end of the day; saying that these battleships were justifiable because the people who ordered their construction thought they were is like saying Vasa was a well-designed ship because the people who built her didn’t know that she was a horribly unstable and unseaworthy vessel.
Good stuff for the most part. More suggestions/requests: Skorzeny, Rudel, Hess, Degrelle, really, so many European heroes that tried to save the world from the beast.....
When I was a kid I read a firsthand account of Ten-Go in "Japanese Destroyer Captain" by Tamaichi Hara, Captain of the _Yahagi_ (and _Amatsukaze_ and _Shigure)._ It seems that many Japanese knew the war was over by 1943, but their commanders did not... It really makes one wonder about those in charge.
I have been waiting for your videos i love yarnhub do you remember the old animations i remember the b17 video with the old animations ❤ your animations have taken a huge leap i love your videos❤❤🎉🎉 if you made a game yarnhub i would play it every day
First time hearing about the Samurai pilot's story & it really moved me. Not only was he exceptionally skillful to say the least, but he showed utmost honorableness by sparing civilian lives, against his own country's order (as a japanese), mind you. What a legend!
What a great documentary this is! You have covered so many theatres of war very well. Thank you! As a New Zealander whose father fought against the Italians, Germans and finally the Yugoslav Communists in WW2 I had a European Centric View of WW2. However I had 3 Uncles who fought the Japanese. All were New Zealanders. I have been fascinated by Japanese Aviation Technology and Naval Technology. I have a great deal of respect for the Japanese and Chinese for that matter. Please make more of these programmes as I think the have been a neglected part of our history. I Love Japan as I do with South Korea and Taiwan, plus many other Nations in the Pacific Rim. There is something magical about Japanese Battleships, Cruisers, Aircraft Carriers and Submarines!
I'm a bit sad about the fact that there's nothing about Italian soldiers but you did a wonderful job anyway, your graphics became so good that it feels like a real movie sometimes!! Sincere congratulations yarn team! ❤
@@hauptmannnnThe only Who talks about propaganda is you. Italians had many heroic acts. The last cavalry attack and victory of WW2 was made by the Savoy ( Savoia) platoon against the russians and their T34 on the Don river. Or the torpedos manned attack on the Alexandra harbour with the sinking of the 2 Battle ships Valiant and Queen Elizabeth. Or the Fighter pilots Who defended the sky from the B17 with a ratio of 500 Vs 30 on average ( Macchi and Fiat G55). Or the Folgore parachuters in North Africa at El Alamein... That's history not propaganda
@@piersp38 i guess it comes from the post war sentiments that the italians weren't really good soldiers having to be constantly be saved by Germany until they finally changed sides. Yet Admiral Cunningham as i said before held their frogmen in the highest regard.
@@gregorturner9421 I am afraid that despite the attempt to explain some event you made the facts more foggy and untrue. Legends and saxon propaganda said germans saved us and we swapt side. The reality Is they helped US with the Africa korps but have you ever seen that if they came to Africa It was thanks to the italian Royal Navy and not to their kriegsmarine? We gave them our fleet and ensured tons of ammo till late 42' bringing fame to Rommel thanks to our soldiers and marines, moreover we saved them in Tunisia and Sicily allowing them to retreat at our own cost [ you never heard about right?] . In Russia, to the Don river, to protect their back we faced the soviets operations Saturn and Little Saturn loosing 80k Alpine troops to protect their escape and their total strategy failure in the Donbass and Stalingrad [ saving romanians and hungarians too ] . About switching side, OMG that's funny .... It was a civil war , the king and some of his loyal troops declared war on Germany, the other half remained loyal to Benito and Adolf not only till last day of 1945 but also till 1953 where finally we signed the peace with Jugoslavia.... Where have you study history? To the pub ?
Why is the Finnish soldier a story of the axis soldiers. The Russians where not part of the Allie’s until 1941 But more importantly, this was a great video.
I think it's a little hot take to put the finish on the axis side just because they where fighting against the russians. They where having none of the fascist ideologies and where merely defending their country
when the white death video had started, the first thing i thought of was ‘Almost night, a crimson horizon. painting thousand lakes red’ from Sabaton’s song of the same name
Such an Honorable Attitude of Soldiers on the otherside of WW2 like Simo Hawha, Adolf Galland, Franz Steigler, Saburo Sakai, that truly knows when to shoot and not to shoot. Nevertheless we people should not be Sarcastic at all.😢
I recommend reading the book "Samurai" by Saburo Sakai. In one occasion he managed to escape from 14 american fighters, partially by skill and by luck. Every single page of his book is worth to be read.
Simo Hahya was not an axis soldier though. Finns just feared the russians so they fought them (and for good reason, they tried to invade them after all)
You should learn about the story of the "Cormorant" german ship.... the real story that have inspired the "Master and Commander" movie.... TY for this awesome video!
Finland (Suomi to the people who live there) was never part of the Axis. The rifle Heyha used his personal Mauser 1898 according to him, he was a good person
Honestly? I wonder how many crazy stories from axis soldiers were simply forgotten. My grandpa for example escaped as a pow by stealing a spitfire in africa, among doing other things. Yet these stories just aren’t talked about
It's yet another testament to the Japanese's fearless spirit at the time that when Sakai thought it would be his end, he immediately tried to find an enemy to claim as his final act.
Mr. Yarnhub. Let me begin by saying how much I love your work and these animated stories are just terrific. I'm from the time when you painted pictures in you mind while holding the book. So please accept this very minor correction with my conveyed respect for the fine effort here. The Saburo Sakai incident was an attack on Dauntlesses yes, but the engagement that nearly cost him his life was with Avengers. I read Samurai as a teen so this story has stayed close to me. "I was in a trap, the enemy planes were not fighters but bombers the new Avengers torpedo planes, types I had never seen before. From the rear they looked exactly like Wildcats but now their extra size was visible as was their top turret with single gun and the belly turret with a single 0.50 caliber gun." Later in my WW2 studies when I learned to the demise of Dutch O'Hare I wondered if he too was felled by a rearward facing gunner on a Betty he attacked that night. PEACE
Although this tribute to the Finnish super-sniper Simo Häyhä is fully justified, this cannot be an heroic Axis story as Finland at that time was an independent and sovereign country. Yes it is true that in 1939 the Soviet Union invaded Finland despite the fact that a non aggression treaty between the Soviet Union and Finland was in place. I strongly recommend the originator of this presentation to correct this groos historical error and do justice to Finland and its armed forces who were able to stop the Russian hordes in their tracks during the so-called Winter War.
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Why is the story of Simo in a video of Axis stories? The Finns weren’t a part of the axis when Simo fought in the winter war…
This was a great work you did. Now please make a video on the USS Laffey and it's fight against the 50 Kamikazes during the Battle of Okinawa.
It was so wholesome when we see the 2 pilots talking with each other at the end ( the incident )
The German pilot was a idiot and a traitor. Those bombers where there to kill civilians, women and children.
Imagine a police man catching a group of terrorists who just killed a bunch of civilians and he thinks he is being knightly and honorable by letting them go because their car got shot up by other policemen and it wouldn't be sportive to finish them.
What would you say about that police man? Would he be a hero and a great guy?
The civilians killed by those bombers won't be talking to anyone anymore. How wholesome is that?
Great book, it was an excellent read
I could watch yarnhub all day. The narrators have great feeling in the voices and tell the story telling is fantastic. I absolutely love them.
Except that their animator sucks... The Japanese sailors never wore the German Stahlhelm
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War crimes? Hartmann? 😂 For being criminally good as a fighter pilot, maybe? Damn, where the Soviets salty about him...
Erich Hartman is amazing
To be fair, Finland was on Finland’s side
I love the channel! The animation just keeps getting better!
Glad to see this side being told. Always wanted to hear thier experiences.
Bless all
Always wanted to be a pilot, but nature cursed me with being 6'6, id never fit into a fighter these stories pull at my heart strings hard.
somehow wittman looks so creepy.
Also, not sure how those feats needed exaggerated lol
At 16:07, in Galland's story. The picture framed on the wall kind of looks like The Armchair Historian's style. Was there a collab? A former Armchair Historian team artist working now with YarnHub? Or something?
i wonder which 3d engine do you use in your wonderful videos?
Great video 🎉🎉
Saburo Sakai's story was really a gem. Saburo Sakai spared the allied plane full of civilians,what a man.
@@JamesWWagner-my8zm Americans were deliberately attacking civilians in Germany. I think that is pretty evil.
@@freigeist2814 And what were the Germans up to at the time?
@@82dorrin You mean the school kids that were being shot at?
@@JamesWWagner-my8zm just because one side was evil, doenst excuse the other from doing evil things as well, besides Saburo wasnt at Nanking, he didnt kill anyone there, why would you assume he was evil too because the county he fought for did evil things? Are you also saying the millions of japane Civillians were evil too? How would you argue against all the evil things the us did? Does that make all of us citizens evil too?
@@soru2186 Do you not see what the first comment is trying to do? They're taking away from Sakai's story by bringing up something that has nothing to do with Sakai. Stop feeding into this.
Franz Stiegler is an incredible pilot and an amazing human being.
The book a Higher call is about the story
@jomeugene8492. You're easily impressed.
i agree
He was a Nazi. It's not good to glorify Nazis.
Con dos cojones
Why can't we have more people like Franz Stigel? I feel his story should be taught in a lot of history and literature classes because his experience is a great example of modern chivalry, honor, and kindness.
I agree with you as well war sucks 😢but it’s how animals are as animals even humans fight for beliefs and resorces to this day 😐my grandparents from my dads side were normal citizens in ww2 some of them are still alive 🙂but I can’t forgive nazis 😑but I can forgive Germans like franz 🙂as not even they want war but I do have to agree what franz was saying as it was about dudy and survival 😐but I feel yea man 😑we are different but the respect for Germans killing us is the same is we killed them 😐
@@jettmthebluedragon blud uses the whole ass emoji tab for a comment
@@ConfuzelddYT❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊
@@ConfuzelddYT and so who cares ?😑all your doing is campaigning on something you don’t understand 😑if you ask me WHY I use emojis is 1 thing 😐but you say emojis are bad when you don’t have real proof 😑what your saying is more of an a opinion rather then truth 😑
@@jettmthebluedragon who tf said tht emojis are bad??
The Stigler story always brings a tear to my eye. That man's honor is beyond measure.
@@TrangleC Someone clearly doesn’t understand the concept of war. The soldiers, pilots, and soldiers don’t have a choice in who they attack where as terrorists very much do. Those pilots had to fight and bomb, the terrorists do not have to kill innocent civilians.
Very few people would have blamed Stigler for shooting the bomber down however there was no reason to. He saw 8 men who would be doomed if he shot them down over the English channel.
In Europe, many pilots had qualms about shooting enemies or being shot down over open water as it basically meant a very painful very slow, very cold death of drowning with your plane. Warriors impart death. That doesn't mean they always want to be cruel about it.
@@n8zog584 Exactly.
@@TrangleC nuh-uh
@@n8zog584 These 8 man just killed 800 man women & children. They all are part of war. Stigel's act wasn't brave it was just kind.
Strictly speaking, during the Winter War, Finland had not yet become part of the axis. Excellent stories, thank you.
Right. Soviet Union was closer to the Axis. During the first Soviet-Finish war, Finland received fighter airplanes from The United States.
@@FlorinSutu fascists, communists... who cares they are all socialists.
Finland pay FULLPRICE those planes!!! Planes what nobody else wanted, planes who mainly comes too late.
Same time Sovjets bombing Finland citicens by using USA flying petrol. Thanks for world biggest kommunist Roosevelt.
@@jakkeledin4645 - - Why it would be the need for "Sovjets bombing Finland citicens by using USA flying petrol", considering that Soviet Union had so much petroleum and gasoline, that it was exporting massive quantities to Nazi Germany in 1940 ...early 1941?
@@jakkeledin4645 Yes, Finnland was a victim of Soviet expansionism; yes, USA business interests wanted to keep USA 'neutral' for financial reasons; yes, Roosevelt did some illegal things (against USA law), and, yes, Roosevelt implemented many programs that were economically 'socialistic', BUT,
A. We already had SOME 'socialistic' features in our society;
B. He was NOT trying to fully convert the government to Socialism;
C. He was not trying to convert the country to Communism;
D. He certainly did not believe in Communism: he certainly could not have been the world 'biggest' Communist!!
Sorry that the Finns got screwed over by Stalin in WW2; but I think we can all* agree that the Poles got screwed over much worse
* (except for the 6 million Poles that got killed! They can't really agree!!)
Sorry that the Finns are on Putin's list today, but hopefully, thanks to the price Ukrainians are paying (and being helped with), the objectives on that list are not going to be attempted.
But Roosevelt was absolutely NOT a Communist, so, you just make yourself appear less credible by saying so.
零戦のパイロットの坂井さんの物語、自分が小学生の時学校の図書館で初めて読みました!
ただ1回だけではなく何回か読んたのを覚えてます！
たぶんそれが今、太平洋戦争時の航空機や戦艦や戦記が好きになった要因になったのかも知れないです。
戦争自体は嫌いですが、今の技術にも活かされていると言う事も否定できないですよね!
これからの時代、戦争なくしての技術進歩してほしいと願うばかりです!
Finally another video about axis
@k-27 locomotive on hitler*
@@stomper2888bruh Germany isn't mr adolf 💀💀
@@stomper2888 you do realise that he wasn't always in charge, right?
@@KLUCZESIA you do realize that idgaf right
Bozo dunno how to argue then put iDgAf shit lmao
Zeroes in 1942 seldom had radios. The equipment was faulty and barely useable and japanese pilots often got rid of them to gain weigth. Zero pilots communicated through hand signals and relied heavily on close knited shotai, they knew their wingmen and how they would react overcoming a little the downsides of not being able to use radios. Appaling losses over Guadalcanal would quickly put an end to that as japanese veteran pilots had been already been few to survive by the end of 1942.
The white death's story is so interesting, hero or not, he is a brave and intelligent soldier! Imo he's a hero
He's definitely a hero in my opinion.
He was fighting for hos country that got invaded by the Russians. Seems like the Russians love to invade and attack their neighbors.
Undeniably, a hero, serving his country
True. He was a hero defending his own country against Soviet Invasion. He never fought in other country territory. Only defending his people inside Finland.
He fought against the Russians that's good enough for me to make him a hero
And he wasn't using a scope as well as to not get detected put snow in his mouth . After the war he was asked : "
- what did you feel when you shot a Russian?
- The recoil "
Fucking legendary
Ouch YarnHub, you kinda missed the mark with the first one.
Simo Häyhä fought during the Winter War where Finland was non-aligned, not during the Continuation War when Finland was co-belligerent with the Axis.
So technically speaking, White Death cannot really be counted as an "Axis side story" per se.
@@adambane1719 That's not the definition of being part of the Axis as even Germany had a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union at the time.
Finland joined the Axis as a co-belligerent on the Continuation War some years later.
He doesnt miss. Pipe down kid
@@hrishikeshXXV This is a video collection of "Axis side stories".
Häyhä did not fight on the Axis side.
There's really no two sides about this, that video should be on a "Stories from neutral sides" compilation.
If you want a Finnish part on a "Stories from the Axis side" compilation video, then you could easily just make a video on Larry Thorne instead, or many other stories that took place in Continuation War where one could at least argue that Finland fought on the Axis side as a co-belligerent.
I wouldn’t call Simo an axis soldier. Finland hadn’t aligned with Germany yet and when they did, it was because of the Soviets
Simo actually tried to join the Finnish army for the 1941-44 war but the army refused to let him.
His shot up jaw and mouth would have made communication with other soldiers too much of a hassle.
No, but at one point, his country was aligned with Germany and the axis powers, so good enough.
@@maverickmissile801 like USSR in 1939 during Poland invasion?
@@unowen9027 kinda
@@maverickmissile801 And the reason was the illegitime war started by the Soviet Union in 1939. Anyone supporting the Soviet Union during WWII supported the enslaving of a free nation. Great Britain had the good taste to apologize for that after the war. Many countries did not.
The animations, while not realistic, are excellent, highly detailed, and fun to watch; the stories are unique and educational; and the narration is dynamic and engaging. Fantastic work!
shit is amazing! not even worth saying its not realistic. its fucking amazing animation
Also, for once the Finns actually speak proper and correct Finnish. And the narrator does a darn fine job in pronunciation or Finnish names!
@@Lonkka665
Mega upvotes !!!
Simo Häyhä shouldn't be viewed as an axis soldier, cause he was in thw right. The fins fought a brave fight against all ods for freedom.
Saburo Sakai is probably one of Yarnhub's best works yet.
Hahah, the only one that brought some tears, I AINT CRYIN THO!
What you saying, you were ugly crying too.
He didn't kill a bunch of children and he did attack in violation of a ceasefire, killing a man. I guess I'm not as moved.
You should have included the Italian MAS DECIMA raid on the harbour of Alexandria where the Italians took out 2 British Battleships.
That's a good idea. I also mentioned 4 different other things, 3 comments above yours.
Admiral Cunningham if i remember correctly actually gave the leader of that raid a medal. From Jingles, the italian navy captains where mostly political postings but apparently the further from high command you got the more discipled the men where and the allies considered the italian frogmen as a real and serious threat due to their successes.
Yep … what about the Alpini that broke out from the Seige of Stalingrad … when the Soviets refer to them as White Devils … you know they were tough!
It might be interesting for some to know that the descendants of Mr. Galland are running a restaurant in the town of Herne, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany, these days.
Are there any momentous in the restaurant?
@@big566bunny There used to be a picture of him in one of the rooms, but that was years ago. No idea if it's still there.
Just because they're the enemy doesn't mean they're evil.
“No bullets fly” is one of my favorite stories I had a fascination for it everytime I have read it.
FLY, FIGHTING FAIR!!!!
@@skyvic09gaming21 it’s the code of the AIR!
@@114Riggs Brothers, heroes, foes!
@@skyvic09gaming21KILLING MACHINE HONOR IN THE SKIES
B17! Flying Home!@@bongo4522
Still waiting for the EBEN EMAEL raid video. It will be absolutely sick and perhaps your top video when released. It's surprising how people aren't aware of that mission.
I remember reading about Ében-Émael many years ago, not only the operation was like taken from a good movie script, but the epic, Tolkien-esque name of the fort made it impossible to forget for me 🙂.
The P-51 had six .50 cal. machine guns, not eight. (Sonderkommando story)
Yes. But you see... Stiegler's 109 G-6 is also animated as 109 E-3. Which would even include different armament setup, too.
Triggered same way so scrolled down to find who finds it . Just a small mistake of great video series
amateurish
There was also that one Japanese pilot who dove into the path of a torpedo to protect his carrier..
3:42, Glare and reflections from the scopes can be mitigated by positioning and concealment, he also disliked scopes because they also tended to fog up or get moisture inside them with large temperature changes (warm inside, freezing outside) or easily damaged, rendering them useless.
Scopes also weren’t the same in the 1930’s/1940’s
@@Deltathegoldenretriever, I was specifically commenting on the scopes from his era. The other 8 Billion people on the planet understood it.
“The other 8 billion people on the planet understood it” a- not at all your comment gave no reason to believe you were talking about old scopes nor would the average person know how different today’s scopes are. Not mention probably only a couple thousand people max even saw your comment, with him being the only reply.
Get off your high horse smart ass.
@@gregedwards1087This dude thinks everyone on earth saw his comment lmao what a dumb dumb
@@gregedwards1087 Mitch334 is right... the scopes during the 30s and 40s were of low caliber compared to today's scopes. The low quality often meant that you normally couldn't achieve better than 1.5 to 2 X magnification. Today's scopes can get you up to 30 X magnification. So with all the problems you stated, the scopes magnification was useless if you couldn't see through it. Today's sniper scopes also come with a special cover/filter that eliminates reflective glare, so your position isn't given away due to sunlight.
I think the best Saburo Sakai story is him accidentally joining what he thought was a flight of Zeros but turned out to be a squadron of 15 F6F Hellcat fighters. He managed to not only avoid being killed, but also escaped from them with no damage. He was able to use their superior numbers against them, He was of course a master aviator, and the US pilots were nowhere as skilled or experienced as he was, but it's still a remarkable story-and was witnessed and verified by US officers at the time in debriefing. This was 1944 and the old Zero was thoroughly outclassed by the Hellcat, so only an incredibly skilled pilot could have pulled it off.
@FlitzerFlash nonsense, we rotated a lot of experienced pilots back to the states for a year to pass on their expertise to the new pilots, then they rotated back into the fight. The Axis just let their pilots fight until they got killed or captured without having passed on their experience to new pilots. That and we started to have way better equipment from 43 on.
What a nonsense. Tell me more about the Poles. Allies uses their pilots as a reserve and instructors while nazis had to fight until death so already in a Battle of Britain they use a lot of freshers. That also a Germans who ruthlessly attacked civilians and hospitals. Allies were trying to make rotation for front units, German while they rebuilted their units. Also for bomber pilots were allowed to back home after certain number of missions like in "Catch 22" novel.
@FlitzerFlash the japanese literally ate people and shot down pilots in parachutes.
@FlitzerFlashplease tell me you’re joking?! The average Allied pilot by even late ‘43 usually had quadruple the flight hours before combat that a new Japanese or German pilot did. Just because a small subset of Axis aces had extremely high kill totals by late war just shows how they were used constantly, while Allies maintained their training and rotation systems through the end of the war.
And you actually think the Allies were the ones doing the civilian slaughtering?! I guess we found our Nazi sympathizer.
yamato... their last hope...
shws now a symbol..
rest well beneath the seas
and all sailors aswell
These are some great story’s of life and death and honor I like it 🙂 I think China Russia and North Korea needs to listen to these stories 🙂
i wish there were more japanese stories, they have them as well not just only Saburo Sakai and seeing a bast majority of german stories
Hiroyoshi Nischizawa
@@Abhishek_I99 yeah i know, even like the IJN Haguro last stand or Commander Nishi
but its unlikely to be featured in Yarnhub
Don't forget the captain of the IJN Ikazuchi who rescued 442 Allied sailors including a future British diplomat
Like the Japanese pilot who deliberately rammed a torpedo in the water to protect his carrier.
No matter right or wrong I can appreciate these men's courage.
Cool you do stories from about all sides .Thanks from Germany.
Ah yes and now you have democracy and you are very free ,as are we in Ireland.
Ah yes paradise indeed.
@@FelixMendelson No , it’s worse than ever , even free speech died with Covid and we are all Nazis in case we don’t share the opinion of the ruling party 🤢.
Not at all , even my first reply got deleted.
Freedom exists only for the rich.
The Axis have the best stories
Axis stories include the people with the biggest balls
@@overused6632doesnt exist
@overused6632 that’s a terrible thing to say considering 95% of people on the Axis side aren’t bad people at all the Allies have done a lot of fucked up shit too.
@@NathanielNerquaye-Tetteh-uz2nf leave the moralist be .. his inept way of thinking cannons understand the "logic" of war and the people that fight it. he thinks the allies were the "good guys" .. yet he has no freakin clue about the countless war crimes they did during the war. ignoramus at his finest :)
And the worst.
really did your best make the german tiger commander look like a villain, huh?
Your animations keep getting better and better as well as your stories! Hope you can create more awesome content!😁
I got to meet saburo sakai at the opening of the nimitz museum at Fredericksburg Tx in the early 90s. He allowed me to get a photo of the two of us. I wish very much i could have gotten to spend some time with him.
I would love it if Yarnhub did a video on the Monchy 9 of Newfoundland. 9 men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment positioned at Monchy-le-Preux during the Battle of Arras in 1917 hid behind shrubbery and defended the town from a German force anywhere from 200 - 300 men strong for 11 hours to prevent a German break through. I think it is a very cool and very underrated battle that sounds like the plot of a movie.
i too would enjoy this
@@hilmarheathkliff9511 Have you heard of this story before?
@@AppleHistoryGuy i have not. But i want to.
Good story.
@@rdallas81 Thanks.
Hi a huge fan from india,
good to see u post vedios about war stories.
India is also home to several of them. I recommend u making vedios about some interesting ones:
1.Battle of longewala(in 1971 indo pak war when 120 indian soldiers successfully defeated 2000 pak soldiers and 41 tanks with least fatalities)
2.CQMH Abdul hamid(man who bravely destroyed 8 Patton tanks single handedly with just a recoil less jeep gun in 1965war but was killed in action and later awarded india's highest gallantry award pvc )
3.Battle of Asal uttar (largest tank battle after ww2 where indian army won and penetrated deep in Pakistan land in 1965)
4.Brave commandos of 26 11 attacks in Taj hotel Bombay who fought the terrorists.
5.Captain Vikram batra, the indian lion of kargil 1999
Hope u will make vedios on these forgotten tales of indian velour.
Eager to see them.
With lots of brotherhood and support from India...
It would be great if he made them fr
Jeet singh sekhon's stand, Battle of Rezang la
America saved the world. Only to become the worlds largest terrorist organization ever.
Can you give an example of a British fighter that spared a German bomber after it unloaded on a British city? I'm guessing not, but I await your answer.
Nope... I'll wait as well.
Yeah... big difference in the mentality of the populations... our strongest doesnt beat people while they're down... neither do those from Alemania... but the English are llike cats who play with their prey... like a narcissists convention..
@@teedepefanio4974you lost the war. The English and other Allie’s remain standing whilst your fascist dictatorship crumbled down whilst we stood strongly and marched over your destroyed cities
@@teedepefanio4974
Doesnt beat people when their down huh?
I think a couple of millions would like to say something about that, but cannot from their burned dead bodies.
@@teedepefanio4974
Doesnt beat people when their down huh?
I think a couple of millions would like to say something about that, but cannot from their burned dead bodies.
Wehraboos shat their pants to this notification
lmfaooo 💀 💀
Which is no different of the stuff they do usually
Simo is shown shooting; his rifle "bucks". Not too much, but no sniper would allow that to happen; they hold the rifle in a solid grip (or down onto a solid support), disallowing any recoil whatsoever. Anything less than this solid performance would never be allowed. Showing a recoil in this situation is a misleading fantasy.
I remember a Galland interview where he said in Spain he preferred open cockpit. That way he could smell the oil that enemy combatants burned. An added advantage. I was like goddamn. I never thought about that.
Everyone knows that the smell of burning oil doesn't penetrate a closed window. Rubbish.
I am freshly shaved, lubricated and willing..
Finland was not a member in the Axis Powers in winter 1939 ...
Yes, HOWEVER they were considered Axis later on in the war. So yes they were part of the Axis.
Alaska was part of Russia…so all Americans are communists? 🤔
The one with Franz stigler and the bomber one, man that brings tears to my eyes everytime, that enemies became friends and died together and man their 2 planes at the end melted my heart to
Agreed 🥲in fact my family was in ww2 in Europe they are part Slovenian in fact my grandpa was actually born in ww2 in Europe in 1943 the same year franz spared Charlie 🙂no joke 😐this year he is 80 years old and this year would mark the 80th anniversary of no bullets fly 🙂
I will upload a 80th anniversary of no bullets fly this December 20th 🙂
Yeah but Finland wasn't really part of the Axis.
It’s unfortunate they don’t acknowledge that. Just defending themselves from Soviet rule trying to avoid being victims of Genocide: )
If you think any yarnhub videos are “rough” get your eyes checked 😂
That's what I'm saying
please dont hate me, yes i am german and i am very interested in ww2. i am sorry what my people did to the world, but we are not allowed to be proud or happy to be german in our own country, we have to live with that ultimate guilt. they teached us in school. i never feel very comfortable to say i am from germany, thank you for this cool stories!
brother, that was a long time ago. I dont hate you, i hate nazis. 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇲🤝🇩🇪
Yamato o maior navio de guerra já construído. 🧐
24:23 my right eye started to hurt when I got here
Glad to see you're actively covering axis war stories. There are so many and there are often overlooked.
@@overused6632
cringe statement
@@overused6632 there are no good guys in war
@@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078 true statement.
@@christoperwallace6197
It's weird to act as if there was a good and a bad side in that war. I get the overall idea, but marking the Axis as the bad and the Allies as the good side would make the Soviets good guys as well, and I'm pretty sure all of Eastern Europe would strongly disagree there.
@@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078yea at this point if you think the axis weren't that bad compared to the allies, your living in a world devoid of facts.
I seriously think that Galland's comment about give me Spitfires came out after the War! Why do I think this because the Bf 109E was superior to the Spitfire in the following areas:-
1. It was faster than the Spitfire Mk 3 at climbing, diving and level flight.
2. However the Bf109E wasn't as good as the Spitfire in terms of turning in some situations but it was better than the Spitfire at turning in other situations. ie. the Bf 109E was far better than the Spitfire in extremely tight turns, dives and climbs and rolls as it had a direct injected, variable supercharged Engine where as the dear old Spitfire only had a naturally aspirated engine with tractor like Carburetors!
3. The Bf 109E had 1 x20mm cannon, firing through the Nose and 2X 13 mm machine guns in the wings and 2x 7.96 mm above the engine!
Its a good point. From the documentary I saw, he was saying that the spitfires were better at low speeds and because the Bf-109s were told to stick to the bombers they were at a disadvantage.
If mentioned Stiegler , dont forget about Friedrich Lengfeld , who gave his own life in the attempt to safe an wounded enemy , that one gets me to tears every time , as it gives me hope that even in the harshest, darkest times there will always be humanity remaining 🙏🏻
A great story that must be told !
These Storys are getting told not often enough
Whenever Yamato gets featured prominently in media, a lot of people will immediately bash her for being useless, and while she genuinely WAS useless, there is a persistent narrative that other contemporary battleship designs were far better in terms of overall strategic value…which they weren’t.
Yamato was a failure not because she was unusually useless for a WWII-era battleship, but rather because she was *similar* to other WWII-era battleships in being pointless and obsolete upon entering service. There are very, very few WWII-gen battleships that ever managed to achieve anything that could have justified the expenditure and investment that goes into building a new battleship, even among those that saw “active service” (which generally meant acting as pointlessly expensive and gigantic destroyers in supporting roles like AA escort-building entire capital ships just to use them for the roles of subcapital warships is strategic stupidity).
I would only disagree to the extent that nothing could compare to the shore bombardment capabilities of the 14" and 16" guns of the Battleships. However, it would certainly have been possible to design and build something much less expensive and labor intensive to basically act as a giant gun truck.
@@christineshotton824
Shore bombardment failed to justify battleship construction in WWII for a few reasons:
- battleships were big enough investments that they only make sense at the strategic level if you can use them as capital ships (as in, the heavy hitters of your fleet to sink the enemy heavy hitters so your navy is free to carry out its operations without worrying about enemy heavy hitters). Once they were forced out of that role due to lack of offensive capability in a setting where airpower had increased battle ranges massively (far beyond the ranges at which any battleship was able to fire on any enemy ship), the sheer cost and expenditure that went into battleship construction outweighed whatever benefits battleships could still provide in secondary roles, especially since cheaper alternatives had those roles covered (see below).
- for most shore bombardment applications cruisers and destroyers were sufficient, because while their guns are much smaller than those of battleships that still puts them well above most land artillery in terms of firepower; destroyers in particular proved invaluable in fire support (such as on D-Day), because they were seen as being more expendable (so people were much more willing to risk them against enemy shore or underwater defences), and because their smaller size meant they could get much closer to shore and fire more accurately onto enemy positions. The only cases where you really need battleships for shore bombardment is if the targets are far enough inland that you can’t hit them with cruiser or destroyer guns, but that’s where the next caveat comes in:
- pretty much everyone going into WWII already had plenty of old battleships that could be used for shore bombardment, so even if you absolutely needed battleships to do shore bombardment, there was no reason to build any new battleships. Indeed, it was these old battleships that did far more shore bombardment than the WWII-generation battleships across all WWII navies.
- lastly, some navies (the Royal Navy most prominently) had monitors, which packed the firepower of a battleship on a far smaller and cheaper platform for shore bombardment, being the exact sort of cheap but potent gun platform you were arguing in favour of and further reducing the importance of battleships.
And yet she is bigger and more ambitious and expensive than all the rest, yet what does she do in the war? Nothing whatsoever of any importance, neither shore bombardment nor engaging any other larger warship, with her only real surface engagement being against Taffy Three. Being too "valuable" to sortie, too expensive to fuel she and her sister was held in reserve until Japan had already effectively lost and of course as a result could do absolutely nothing. And secondly you just keep spamming every damn WW2 video that mentions the navy I see with the same message as if builders and politicians at the time knew this ahead of time.
What exactly are you hoping to achieve other than annoy people? If you are so obsessed with the superiority of the carrier and wish to preach it all day long go invent yourself a damn timemachine and go back and try to convince the people of the time then.. seriously get some fucking hobbies, you're no better than a spambot
@@Arthion
Yamato actually wasn’t the most expensive WWII-gen battleship in spite of being the largest: the Iowas were more expensive individually. If you go by *relative* expense (what the ship cost compared to what her nation could afford), the Bismarcks were probably the most expensive, given that the Kriegsmarine was on a shoestring budget and had far less naval infrastructure to work with compared to the IJN (for the obvious reason that Germany was a land power and Japan was a naval power).
If you think Allied battleships were more useful because they did shore bombardment, you’re forgetting that a) most shore bombardment from battleships in WWII wasn’t from the fast battleships but pre-existing older battleships, b) cruisers and destroyers were enough for most fire support missions, and c) building a capital ship to do shore bombardment is also a massive waste in itself.
The Yamatos actually sortied significantly more often than often assumed (not as often as Allied fast battleships, the Littorios or the Kongos, but much more often than the Nagatos, Fusos or Ises, or the German capital ships). More importantly, *sortieing does not make a ship useful unless the ship can actually do her job by sortieing.* Yes, Allies fast battleships were present in a lot of engagements-but in spite of that most of them never actually played any significant role during said engagements (either being relegated to the role of overgrown destroyers or even just being there without doing anything), meaning that they might as well not have sortied at all. In fact, you can legitimately argue that a pointless and useless battleship that doesn’t sortie is better than one that does, because at least it’s not using up as much fuel that way and it isn’t as if the battleship that does sortie is justifying her existence by sortieing.
You do realize you’re being hypocritical by being an apologist for Allied WWII-era battleships and making excuses for them by saying the Allies didn’t know any better? Note that I never said Yamato was actually useful or in any way strategically sensible; I said that she was a pointless waste of resources because she never justified the investment put into building her. All I did was to apply this same standard to every WWII-gen battleship to point out that nearly all contemporary Allied battleships (and all German and Italian battleships) should also be criticized for the same sin of being pointless wastes of resources. The fact nobody knew these ships would be a net strategic negative to the navies that built them doesn’t mean they were not net strategic negatives at the end of the day; saying that these battleships were justifiable because the people who ordered their construction thought they were is like saying Vasa was a well-designed ship because the people who built her didn’t know that she was a horribly unstable and unseaworthy vessel.
@@Arthion
Just don't watch the channel if it bothers you that much.
Good stuff for the most part. More suggestions/requests: Skorzeny, Rudel, Hess, Degrelle, really, so many European heroes that tried to save the world from the beast.....
When I was a kid I read a firsthand account of Ten-Go in "Japanese Destroyer Captain" by Tamaichi Hara, Captain of the _Yahagi_ (and _Amatsukaze_ and _Shigure)._
It seems that many Japanese knew the war was over by 1943, but their commanders did not...
It really makes one wonder about those in charge.
I have been waiting for your videos i love yarnhub do you remember the old animations i remember the b17 video with the old animations ❤ your animations have taken a huge leap i love your videos❤❤🎉🎉 if you made a game yarnhub i would play it every day
Saburo Sakai's story was really a gem
Yamato=Prince Wales Last Stand
Saburo Sakai spared the allied plane full of civilians,what a man👍👍👍👍
First time hearing about the Samurai pilot's story & it really moved me. Not only was he exceptionally skillful to say the least, but he showed utmost honorableness by sparing civilian lives, against his own country's order (as a japanese), mind you. What a legend!
Finland was never a part of the axis side. Just defending for itself.
What a great documentary this is! You have covered so many theatres of war very well. Thank you! As a New Zealander whose father fought against the Italians, Germans and finally the Yugoslav Communists in WW2 I had a European Centric View of WW2. However I had 3 Uncles who fought the Japanese. All were New Zealanders.
I have been fascinated by Japanese Aviation Technology and Naval Technology. I have a great deal of respect for the Japanese and Chinese for that matter.
Please make more of these programmes as I think the have been a neglected part of our history. I Love Japan as I do with South Korea and Taiwan, plus many other Nations in the Pacific Rim.
There is something magical about Japanese Battleships, Cruisers, Aircraft Carriers and Submarines!
I'm a bit sad about the fact that there's nothing about Italian soldiers but you did a wonderful job anyway, your graphics became so good that it feels like a real movie sometimes!!
Sincere congratulations yarn team! ❤
@@overused6632 well there were many heroic acts of the Italians during the second world war
@@overused6632 why shouldn't? afterall its a military story channel, not a propaganda channel.. right?
@@hauptmannnnThe only Who talks about propaganda is you. Italians had many heroic acts. The last cavalry attack and victory of WW2 was made by the Savoy ( Savoia) platoon against the russians and their T34 on the Don river. Or the torpedos manned attack on the Alexandra harbour with the sinking of the 2 Battle ships Valiant and Queen Elizabeth. Or the Fighter pilots Who defended the sky from the B17 with a ratio of 500 Vs 30 on average ( Macchi and Fiat G55). Or the Folgore parachuters in North Africa at El Alamein... That's history not propaganda
@@piersp38 i guess it comes from the post war sentiments that the italians weren't really good soldiers having to be constantly be saved by Germany until they finally changed sides. Yet Admiral Cunningham as i said before held their frogmen in the highest regard.
@@gregorturner9421 I am afraid that despite the attempt to explain some event you made the facts more foggy and untrue. Legends and saxon propaganda said germans saved us and we swapt side. The reality Is they helped US with the Africa korps but have you ever seen that if they came to Africa It was thanks to the italian Royal Navy and not to their kriegsmarine? We gave them our fleet and ensured tons of ammo till late 42' bringing fame to Rommel thanks to our soldiers and marines, moreover we saved them in Tunisia and Sicily allowing them to retreat at our own cost [ you never heard about right?] . In Russia, to the Don river, to protect their back we faced the soviets operations Saturn and Little Saturn loosing 80k Alpine troops to protect their escape and their total strategy failure in the Donbass and Stalingrad [ saving romanians and hungarians too ] . About switching side, OMG that's funny .... It was a civil war , the king and some of his loyal troops declared war on Germany, the other half remained loyal to Benito and Adolf not only till last day of 1945 but also till 1953 where finally we signed the peace with Jugoslavia.... Where have you study history? To the pub ?
Why is the Finnish soldier a story of the axis soldiers. The Russians where not part of the Allie’s until 1941
But more importantly, this was a great video.
YarnHub, could you try and make an episode about Admiral Graf Spee?
Fun fact for ya: Yamato is the ancient word for Japan. She was an incredible warship.
El Yamato fue el acorazado más grande y poderoso del orbe jamás creado, de ahí la importancia de su eliminación por parte del otro bando.
Yea you should do more axis stories
I think it's a little hot take to put the finish on the axis side just because they where fighting against the russians. They where having none of the fascist ideologies and where merely defending their country
Pretty cool. Best cartoons i ever watched... thank you
Adolf Galland is fucking legend,carius shot a plane with His tigers 8,8 down
when the white death video had started, the first thing i thought of was ‘Almost night, a crimson horizon. painting thousand lakes red’ from Sabaton’s song of the same name
Such an Honorable Attitude of Soldiers on the otherside of WW2 like Simo Hawha, Adolf Galland, Franz Steigler, Saburo Sakai, that truly knows when to shoot and not to shoot. Nevertheless we people should not be Sarcastic at all.😢
I recommend reading the book "Samurai" by Saburo Sakai. In one occasion he managed to escape from 14 american fighters, partially by skill and by luck. Every single page of his book is worth to be read.
Simo Hahya was not an axis soldier though. Finns just feared the russians so they fought them (and for good reason, they tried to invade them after all)
You should learn about the story of the "Cormorant" german ship.... the real story that have inspired the "Master and Commander" movie.... TY for this awesome video!
Finland (Suomi to the people who live there) was never part of the Axis. The rifle Heyha used his personal Mauser 1898 according to him, he was a good person
Great perspective from other side,
Honestly? I wonder how many crazy stories from axis soldiers were simply forgotten. My grandpa for example escaped as a pow by stealing a spitfire in africa, among doing other things.
Yet these stories just aren’t talked about
It's yet another testament to the Japanese's fearless spirit at the time that when Sakai thought it would be his end, he immediately tried to find an enemy to claim as his final act.
How about a story of Kurt Knispel - the highest scoring panzer ace of WWII? He was a gentleman, unlike Michael Witmann who was a brutal Nazi
I think Pat Dyas was actually blown out of the cupola (He described the scene once in a documentary that you were PRETTY DANG spot on with)
Good job- especially at 25 minutes about Sukai.
Mr. Yarnhub. Let me begin by saying how much I love your work and these animated stories are just terrific. I'm from the time when you painted pictures in you mind while holding the book. So please accept this very minor correction with my conveyed respect for the fine effort here.
The Saburo Sakai incident was an attack on Dauntlesses yes, but the engagement that nearly cost him his life was with Avengers. I read Samurai as a teen so this story has stayed close to me.
"I was in a trap, the enemy planes were not fighters but bombers the new Avengers torpedo planes, types I had never seen before. From the rear they looked exactly like Wildcats but now their extra size was visible as was their top turret with single gun and the belly turret with a single 0.50 caliber gun."
Later in my WW2 studies when I learned to the demise of Dutch O'Hare I wondered if he too was felled by a rearward facing gunner on a Betty he attacked that night. PEACE
日本語音声もあって助かるけど直訳も結構あって違和感を感じる...18:41の「盗賊だ！」なんかも日本人は使わない言い回しだし。「敵機だ！」とか「敵戦闘機だ！」の方があってる気がする
14:54 That man was Werner Mölders also a Luftwaffe Ace (First pilot to achieve 100 victories) and Galland's friend
Imagine dying to a sniper and your body is just found in a T-pose
Quiet a skillful and creative presentation! The combat sequences in the Yamato segment are awesome!
Thank you
Although this tribute to the Finnish super-sniper Simo Häyhä is fully justified, this cannot be an heroic Axis story as Finland at that time was an independent and sovereign country. Yes it is true that in 1939 the Soviet Union invaded Finland despite the fact that a non aggression treaty between the Soviet Union and Finland was in place.
I strongly recommend the originator of this presentation to correct this groos historical error and do justice to Finland and its armed forces who were able to stop the Russian hordes in their tracks during the so-called Winter War.
Love The axis point of view
It's inappropriate to include Finland defending themselves against the defacto Axis member, the Soviet Union.
The finnish sniper
That's why the Russians have so much fear concerning Finnish Nato allied.
Sakai is an absolute legend. Respect