Yorktown was still damaged from the Battle of the Coral Sea, which it sailed directly from in order to respond to this battle! What a ship, glad Capt. Ballard discovered it on the ocean floor many years later.
Yorktown sailed to Pearl Harbor for repairs after Coral Sea. She was definitely battle-worthy, though maybe not in peak condition. She caught up with Hornet and Enterprise when she could, in time for the battle. All three were under cloud cover, which gave them a definite advantage against enemy reconnaissance. We had a certain amount of dumb luck on our side as well as superior intelligence. Heroism and sacrifice were widespread on both sides.
Right from the start, there was only one raid on Japan before Midway, the Dolittle Raid. Carrier raids on the Japanese main islands didn't start until 1945. The Dolittle Raid forced Japan to keep a lot of fighting aircraft close to home.
No he said raids on the Japanese. Not specifically the Japanese mainland. The US carriers were indeed attacking Japanese on the islands that they had occupied.
Great animation, very clever tactic to show the many events that happened, thank God for the brave men that fought that battle and won convincingly, my freedoms as a USA citizen is because of the military, thank you all who served and who serve now.🙏🇺🇸
I found it really fun that out of any carrier, the one with the biggest impact was the Yorktown which change the course of the war kinda like the battle of Yorktown back then. The Yorktown didn't stayed in dockyard meanwhile put 2 greater ijn carriers at the dockyard. Then VT3 actually play cat and mouse with ijn cap in order to open the door with VB3 so CAP is completly overrun and then when VB-6 show up, there is no cap for the fatal blow because a guy named "Best" choose to switch target and made an epic critical hit (a pure 20 lol).
Your animation and story telling is impressive and deserves a ton of credit. However, some of your details are wrong, and the timing of the attacks on the morning of the 4th is also incorrect. For instance, the Enterprise Dive Bombers arrive over the Japanese fleet at the same time the Yorktown Dive Bombers do. (The famous 5 minutes that changed the war.) The Yorktowns Torpedo planes came with a Fighter squadron who distracted the Japanese pulling all their air defense. The Yorktown and Enterprise Dive Bombers then started their attack and were rather surprised to see one another. It was an absolute accident that was one of the biggest lucky breaks the US had in the entire war. Overall, great work! But please work on the details. They are very important to this story.
hotheaded Yamaguchi could have kept Hiryu out of dauntless range, but no, he wanted to stay with the screening force, orded into battle range in a last-minute decision.
Nicely done. However, in my opinion you should have mentioned the battle of the Coral Sea. In which the IJN Zuikaku lost most of her pilots and the IJN Shokaku was put out of action for about 6 months. Because of this outcome the Japanese had the Kaga, Akagi, Soryu and Hiryu available for the attack on Midway. The outcome of the Battle of Midway could have been different, had the Zuikaku and Shokaku been there too. The animation is pretty good, so thank you for that.
@@SnakeSalmon8izback Nothing wrong with patriotism, as long as it's taken in moderation. America had some luck in it's early engagements with the Japanese, but there was some smarts and hard work as well. And more than a little arrogance on the part of some Japanese top leaders. Had we not sunk 4 carriers at Midway the USA would have still won the war, we had rightful resolve on our part and the industrial base to make it happen. Japan erred in attacking us at Pearl Harbor, they should have withdrawn from Indochina and China and worked out an accommodation in the use of strategic assets.
Great animation, but forgetting the fact that the outcome was largely decided by Nagumos indecision regarding army planes with Torpedoe bombs to take out ships and high explosives to take out the runway at midway, in the end he was caught with his pants down
Dang. This is another version of the Battle of Midway that I have found. You did an excellent job of explaining everything and making it a great video! This Battle is one of my favorites because it proves that even though the United States didn't have as big of a US Navy force then the Japanese it could still get in some very decisive hits and take down the 4 Japanese Air Craft Carriers.. I hate that so many brave and courageous young men had to sacrifice themselves in order for the win, but I do know that their sacrifices were not in vain. Mccluskey made a critical decision to continue to look for the Japanese and when he did, well the rest is history. I believe that after the Battle of Midway the seed had been planted in the Japanese and they realized that they could indeed be beaten and that the United States Navy would make their lives hell for the next 3 years! The Pacific Theater was a huge area of operations and by the end of the war, the United States Navy had eclipsed the Japanese Navy for superiority and the United States Navy also had the best and deadliest Antiaircraft Fire in the world. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Btw, you have an excellent voice for doing these types of videos! Please could you maybe do a video about the Battle of Guadalcanal?? Or maybe about the Battle of Leyte Gulf?? 🤔 That would be amazing!! Thank you again!!
In 1945 Japan had a number of new empty carriers in various states of sinking laying about the country’s shoreline but no aircraft and no pilots. Thanks to midway.
As another person commented, a little too fast in the otherwise excellent video! I've been interested in The Battle of Midway since the 1976 movie. The new one went overboard with the CGI anti-aircraft fire. One thing I must bring up is the graphics of the SBDs. They are shown with fixed landing gears. Dauntlesses had retractable ones. It looks like a bunch of Vals attacking their own carriers.
The action was a miracle. The USA had inferior planes . The sacrifice of the torpedo planes brought the Japanese zero defenders down to sea level . By coincidence the dive bombers arrived over head just then . Scratch 3 Japanese carriers .
Although Yorktown was abandoned, on June 5 she was found still afloat. On June 6 with the Japanese in retreat, a salvage team was sent by destroyer Hammann. She moored at Yorktown's starboard side to provide power, when Japanese submarine I-168 deployed 4 torpedoes. 1 hit Hammann splitting her in half, and 2 hit Yorktown. Hammann's depth charges exploded, killing more sailors in the water. The salvage crew evacuated, and Yorktown was done for. But even then she took a while to sink. As for Mikuma, she was part of cruiser squadron 7 which were supposed to bombard Midway. Admiral Kurita; in charge of this cruiser squadron, received the retreat order from Admiral Yamamoto about 2 hours late. At that point, they were 50 miles away from Midway. He commenced retreat by changing course to the North-West. Submarine USS Tambor was spotted, and evasive maneuvers were ordered. In the confusion, cruiser Mogami collided with her sister ship, Mikuma. Mogami's bow was smashed, and was left behind. Mikuma stayed with her as escort, when they were bombed by Midway-based bombers. On June 6, they were then bombed by carrier-based bombers, which were from task force 16. Mogami suffered 4 hits, 5 on Mikuma, and 1 on a destroyer. Ironically, it was Mikuma who succumbed to her wounds. So, the 2 ships sank after the battle ended. The Japanese were already in retreat. So it is reasonable that they left it out. Here's my source: ruclips.net/video/BXjydKPcX60/видео.html Check out the series. It's pretty in depth.
When you drop bombs and say that little or no damage was inflicted, it does not really work. Either a something was hit, sunk or damaged. So using both little and no damage together sounds wrong... Am I right?
The bomb fuse may not have gone off. That happened a lot when Argentina bombed British ships around the Falkland Islands, the bombs were dropped too low and the fuse had insufficient time to activate. Might have been the case here as well. Besides, the US had far superior damage control on their carriers than the Japanese did. US carriers could flood the hanger rooms with tanked carbon dioxide to suppress fires. Even if bomb pierced the deck, overall damage might have been minimal. Lots of factors.
Excuse me? There was no SERIES of carrier based raids on Japan culminating in the Doolittle raid. There was the Doolittle raid prior to The Battle of Midway. Period. Basic Naval history. And you got it wrong. Everything else...eh. But....geez. .
One thing I never hear anyone mention is what happened to all the Japanese pilots at Midway, since they had no carrier to land on, did they all drown or were they able to be recovered? I know that at least one of the US pilots at Midway was able to be recovered from the ocean so I know the US had that capacity.
Most Japanese pilots were rescued by Japanese destroyers, after the battle some were transferred to Japan's new carriers while some into land bases at Rabaul.
This is the greatest Naval-Aerial Battle of All Time, right? What about just pure Naval Battles, no aircraft? Which battles are in the conversation for greatest?
High altitude bombing of moving ships was not very effective for any of the combatants. B-17's and B-26's didn't have much chance of hitting Japanese ships from 20,000 feet, at best they could scatter the ships and maybe delay their preparation from other strikes on Midway.
with the more advanced japanesse fighters, it's amazing, the us forces were even able to score as many hits as they did. And how things jsut worked out that even with the us as a smaller disadvantaged force, more then anything it makes me wonder if god had heard the prayers of servicemen and was a hidden hand. Or maybe it was just dumb luck. But it was a big turning point in the war that accelerated the downfall of japan.
Yorktown was still damaged from the Battle of the Coral Sea, which it sailed directly from in order to respond to this battle! What a ship, glad Capt. Ballard discovered it on the ocean floor many years later.
Yorktown sailed to Pearl Harbor for repairs after Coral Sea. She was definitely battle-worthy, though maybe not in peak condition. She caught up with Hornet and Enterprise when she could, in time for the battle. All three were under cloud cover, which gave them a definite advantage against enemy reconnaissance. We had a certain amount of dumb luck on our side as well as superior intelligence. Heroism and sacrifice were widespread on both sides.
Shokaku and Zuikaku were also damaged at Coral Sea , or they would have been at the Battle of Midway.
@@theodoremccoll3267 Zuikaku wasn't damaged. She was kept out of the Midway operation due to air group depletion.
Right from the start, there was only one raid on Japan before Midway, the Dolittle Raid. Carrier raids on the Japanese main islands didn't start until 1945. The Dolittle Raid forced Japan to keep a lot of fighting aircraft close to home.
No he said raids on the Japanese. Not specifically the Japanese mainland. The US carriers were indeed attacking Japanese on the islands that they had occupied.
@@panzerabwerkanone the graphics were misleading, as it implied multiple attacks on mainland.
Great animation, very clever tactic to show the many events that happened, thank God for the brave men that fought that battle and won convincingly, my freedoms as a USA citizen is because of the military, thank you all who served and who serve now.🙏🇺🇸
These kinds of animation really give us a sense of both the geography and timeline of a battle that are both entertaining and informative. Well done!
You did a great job telling and animation of a great story!!! Thank You! I enjoyed this video.
I found it really fun that out of any carrier, the one with the biggest impact was the Yorktown which change the course of the war kinda like the battle of Yorktown back then. The Yorktown didn't stayed in dockyard meanwhile put 2 greater ijn carriers at the dockyard. Then VT3 actually play cat and mouse with ijn cap in order to open the door with VB3 so CAP is completly overrun and then when VB-6 show up, there is no cap for the fatal blow because a guy named "Best" choose to switch target and made an epic critical hit (a pure 20 lol).
My gosh. This is the best animated series I’ve watched so far.
Fantastic animation!
Thank you for your effort to show what happened in the battle so we won't forget
Excellent! Thank you!
🇺🇸❤🇺🇸
Your animation and story telling is impressive and deserves a ton of credit. However, some of your details are wrong, and the timing of the attacks on the morning of the 4th is also incorrect.
For instance, the Enterprise Dive Bombers arrive over the Japanese fleet at the same time the Yorktown Dive Bombers do. (The famous 5 minutes that changed the war.) The Yorktowns Torpedo planes came with a Fighter squadron who distracted the Japanese pulling all their air defense. The Yorktown and Enterprise Dive Bombers then started their attack and were rather surprised to see one another. It was an absolute accident that was one of the biggest lucky breaks the US had in the entire war.
Overall, great work! But please work on the details. They are very important to this story.
you tell him son, tell them this story so no one forgets
Now this is the video I was looking. Explained very well. Thank you!!!
Thank you for making that so easy to understand!
hotheaded Yamaguchi could have kept Hiryu out of dauntless range, but no, he wanted to stay with the screening force, orded into battle range in a last-minute decision.
Nicely done. However, in my opinion you should have mentioned the battle of the Coral Sea. In which the IJN Zuikaku lost most of her pilots and the IJN Shokaku was put out of action for about 6 months. Because of this outcome the Japanese had the Kaga, Akagi, Soryu and Hiryu available for the attack on Midway. The outcome of the Battle of Midway could have been different, had the Zuikaku and Shokaku been there too.
The animation is pretty good, so thank you for that.
Sound effects on point
Very Very Excellent. Thanks a lot.
Great show
You forgot to mention that 'luck' was a huge factor.
Perhaps, but you make your own luck in many cases. Aggressiveness pays off.
the first frame of this video immediately reveals its bias lol
@@SnakeSalmon8izback Nothing wrong with patriotism, as long as it's taken in moderation. America had some luck in it's early engagements with the Japanese, but there was some smarts and hard work as well. And more than a little arrogance on the part of some Japanese top leaders. Had we not sunk 4 carriers at Midway the USA would have still won the war, we had rightful resolve on our part and the industrial base to make it happen. Japan erred in attacking us at Pearl Harbor, they should have withdrawn from Indochina and China and worked out an accommodation in the use of strategic assets.
Great animation, but forgetting the fact that the outcome was largely decided by Nagumos indecision regarding army planes with Torpedoe bombs to take out ships and high explosives to take out the runway at midway, in the end he was caught with his pants down
Hello thank you for the nice video. Is it okay if I capture and use part of this video for educational purposes?
Thank you...well done.
Dang. This is another version of the Battle of Midway that I have found.
You did an excellent job of explaining everything and making it a great video!
This Battle is one of my favorites because it proves that even though the United States didn't have as big of a US Navy force then the Japanese it could still get in some very decisive hits and take down the 4 Japanese Air Craft Carriers..
I hate that so many brave and courageous young men had to sacrifice themselves in order for the win, but I do know that their sacrifices were not in vain.
Mccluskey made a critical decision to continue to look for the Japanese and when he did, well the rest is history.
I believe that after the Battle of Midway the seed had been planted in the Japanese and they realized that they could indeed be beaten and that the United States Navy would make their lives hell for the next 3 years!
The Pacific Theater was a huge area of operations and by the end of the war, the United States Navy had eclipsed the Japanese Navy for superiority and the United States Navy also had the best and deadliest Antiaircraft Fire in the world. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Btw, you have an excellent voice for doing these types of videos!
Please could you maybe do a video about the Battle of Guadalcanal??
Or maybe about the Battle of Leyte Gulf?? 🤔
That would be amazing!!
Thank you again!!
You referred to Dick Best's hit on Akagi as lucky. That's bullshit. Dick Best was an incredible SBD pilot and his hit was due to pure skill.
In 1945 Japan had a number of new empty carriers in various states of sinking laying about the country’s shoreline but no aircraft and no pilots. Thanks to midway.
Not just due to Midway. Japan lost many pilots and planes too in the Guadalcanal Campaign and The Battle of the Philippine Sea.
Very well Done. Thank You.
As another person commented, a little too fast in the otherwise excellent video! I've been interested in The Battle of Midway since the 1976 movie. The new one went overboard with the CGI anti-aircraft fire.
One thing I must bring up is the graphics of the SBDs. They are shown with fixed landing gears. Dauntlesses had retractable ones. It looks like a bunch of Vals attacking their own carriers.
The action was a miracle. The USA had inferior planes .
The sacrifice of the torpedo planes brought the Japanese zero defenders down to sea level .
By coincidence the dive bombers arrived over head just then .
Scratch 3 Japanese carriers .
Not all American carrier planes were inferior against their Japanese counterparts. The SBD Dauntless were better than the D3A Val.
YOU FORGOT THE SINKING OF THE MIKUMA, HANNMAN AND THE YORKTOWN WHEN THE BOMBS HIT MIKUMA AND TORPEDOS HIT THE HANNMAN AND THE YORKTOWN
Bro he literally explainef that the yorktown was abandoned wdym
Although Yorktown was abandoned, on June 5 she was found still afloat. On June 6 with the Japanese in retreat, a salvage team was sent by destroyer Hammann. She moored at Yorktown's starboard side to provide power, when Japanese submarine I-168 deployed 4 torpedoes. 1 hit Hammann splitting her in half, and 2 hit Yorktown. Hammann's depth charges exploded, killing more sailors in the water. The salvage crew evacuated, and Yorktown was done for. But even then she took a while to sink.
As for Mikuma, she was part of cruiser squadron 7 which were supposed to bombard Midway. Admiral Kurita; in charge of this cruiser squadron, received the retreat order from Admiral Yamamoto about 2 hours late. At that point, they were 50 miles away from Midway. He commenced retreat by changing course to the North-West. Submarine USS Tambor was spotted, and evasive maneuvers were ordered. In the confusion, cruiser Mogami collided with her sister ship, Mikuma. Mogami's bow was smashed, and was left behind. Mikuma stayed with her as escort, when they were bombed by Midway-based bombers. On June 6, they were then bombed by carrier-based bombers, which were from task force 16. Mogami suffered 4 hits, 5 on Mikuma, and 1 on a destroyer. Ironically, it was Mikuma who succumbed to her wounds.
So, the 2 ships sank after the battle ended. The Japanese were already in retreat. So it is reasonable that they left it out.
Here's my source: ruclips.net/video/BXjydKPcX60/видео.html
Check out the series. It's pretty in depth.
Why people dislike it it so well made
Cool AF.
Sir you used which application to make this beautiful animation pls
The animation was made by the US government. It is in the public domain. Look in the details above.
needs more views this is actually Epic
I think ijn Hiryu was taking a sharp left turn in her final moments , which isn't shown here
WOWOWOW
When you drop bombs and say that little or no damage was inflicted, it does not really work. Either a something was hit, sunk or damaged. So using both little and no damage together sounds wrong... Am I right?
The bomb fuse may not have gone off. That happened a lot when Argentina bombed British ships around the Falkland Islands, the bombs were dropped too low and the fuse had insufficient time to activate. Might have been the case here as well. Besides, the US had far superior damage control on their carriers than the Japanese did. US carriers could flood the hanger rooms with tanked carbon dioxide to suppress fires. Even if bomb pierced the deck, overall damage might have been minimal. Lots of factors.
Good animation and explanations, but the tempo is breakneck speed, you seriously need to slow it down
how do you animate your videos ?
Excuse me? There was no SERIES of carrier based raids on Japan culminating in the Doolittle raid.
There was the Doolittle raid prior to The Battle of Midway. Period. Basic Naval history. And you got it wrong. Everything else...eh.
But....geez.
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One thing I never hear anyone mention is what happened to all the Japanese pilots at Midway, since they had no carrier to land on, did they all drown or were they able to be recovered? I know that at least one of the US pilots at Midway was able to be recovered from the ocean so I know the US had that capacity.
Most Japanese pilots were rescued by Japanese destroyers, after the battle some were transferred to Japan's new carriers while some into land bases at Rabaul.
This is the greatest Naval-Aerial Battle of All Time, right? What about just pure Naval Battles, no aircraft? Which battles are in the conversation for greatest?
Well.. LONG TIME. 2022? China. TAIWAN. How good is the US Navy now?
The best in the world.
at 00:10 'a series of US Carrier raids against the Japanese Homelands" what?? THIS DID NOT HAPPEN
Great video but I just can't stop thinking on how did most of the planes from Midways miss.
The B-17s?
High altitude bombing of moving ships was not very effective for any of the combatants. B-17's and B-26's didn't have much chance of hitting Japanese ships from 20,000 feet, at best they could scatter the ships and maybe delay their preparation from other strikes on Midway.
b17's came in from the west not the east
with the more advanced japanesse fighters, it's amazing, the us forces were even able to score as many hits as they did. And how things jsut worked out that even with the us as a smaller disadvantaged force, more then anything it makes me wonder if god had heard the prayers of servicemen and was a hidden hand. Or maybe it was just dumb luck. But it was a big turning point in the war that accelerated the downfall of japan.
Oh dear. A bit of an anime 'history'. This is a battle that deserves better. Please get 'Shattered Sword'. I promise you it is worth 10 x the dosh.
What usamenoenglandstaiusa
if only the japanese had lasers and radar and the proximity fuse.
ohh say can you seeeeee
Thank God & the Brave men that flew 🙏 US Navy 👍
I hate sushi 🍣 😒
One lucky shot ??? Lol
I dont think so...Richard Best was the best dive bomber pilot there and he relies on SKILL not luck !!!
this is all wrong