Operation Vengeance (Yamamoto Mission) - Yarnhub Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
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Gonna be 2060 by the time Napoleon Marshals series gets a reaction
Its a long series, dont think he will do it
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@@Kat-jk7zqHe did a 12 part Extra History series before
No excuse lmao
@Bob-iz2ji you know how much longer it is to tackle the marshals, which in a greater context has no significance? It's important but enough to tackle that dozens of hours long content
@jordanmiranda7143 What does significance matter? Its for mostly entertainment or learning how does reacting to something about other irrelevant topics has significance. The reactions are for fun. When he reacted to the entire napoleonic war series what significance does that have
Epic history just reposted the marshals series not sure why hes dodging it everyone talks about
Agreed on Yarnhub's quality - they've come a long way. Those guys do a great job and I always look forward to new videos from them.
Congratulation Yarnhub for 1 million subscribers! 🎉🎉🎉
From what I understand Ugaki was the brainchild behind the kamikaze concept. He felt so much grief and guilt from sending so many young people to thier death that he decided to join them. I've read some of his letters that justify that claim.
11:58 I looked into and the "killer team" originally consisting of 4 planes was all that was meant to take on the 6 escorts and the Betty Bomber. The other flights described as "top cover" at the beginning were tasked with taking out the eventual counterstrike from the near by Japanese Airbase. So when the two planes had to leave formation due to the drop tank malfunction, it meant they didn't have enough planes to deal with all the Japanese escorts during the start of the dogflight.
Thanks Chris for introducing me to Yarnhub. Great video and awesome movie like animation. And thanks for all you do.
For another Yarnhub video, I would recommend one from 5-ish months ago (as of writing) about tbe USS Laffey standing against a huge number of kamikaze attacks.
The P38 Lightning quite maneuverable and found very effective against the Zero. Ugaki would later take part in a suicide charge by aircraft against the US Navy as a kamikaze attack. It's standard procedure to assign names to the warships, aircraft, and other weapons of rival nations. Soviet fighter/attack planes were given names like Flogger, Flanker, and Foxbat. Bombers were given names that started with "B" such as Bull (the Tu-4, a clone of the B-29), and Bear, the Tu-95.
3:00 Yamamoto also didn't "flaunt" the idea of marching on the White House. This is the text of what he is attributed as saying.
"Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices."
"march into Washington..." was used by US propaganda but he clearly meant they'd have to conquer the USA to get the American to surrender...and he didn't think the war politicians(eg Tojo of the Army) really understood the culture of Americans
Yeah Yamamoto had actual respect for America's capabilities for war. He understood that Japan would have to have everything go perfectly for it to force a surrender
The United States took a serious risk when it greenlit this mission.
We learned of Yammamoto's inspection trip because our cryptologists had solved Japanese diplomatic and military codes to the point that we could determine Japan's plans to an amazing degree of accuracy. We knew where Yammamoto would be and exactly when- he was known for his punctuality. Sending our fighters on this mission was tantamount to an admission that we'd solved their codes. Bougainville was out of range for normal patrols and we even a stretch for the long-legged P-38s. It is amazing that the Japanese did not conclude that we had solved their codes and just put the intercept down to "bad luck".
I saw in another video that stated that the US sent out "dummy" missions of P38's to the same region for several days after Operation Vengence to make it appear that Vengence was merely the first mission of a larger operation and that they didn't know that Yamamoto was going to be there. The US didn't immediately make the fact that they "got" Yamamoto public for the same reason.
@@notapplicable531 I had not read that- worth some more investigation on my part. What I'd worry about if that were true is the Japanese might have noted the patrols in the area in which Yammamoto would be and cancel the flight.
Winston Churchill faced a similar quandary. ULTRA intelligence revealed Goering's plan to heavily bomb Coventry. Churchill's choices were to warn Coventry of the raid and risk revealing to the Germans that their codes had been broken or not do so and risk the lives of potentially thousands of Brits. Churchill decided not to inform Coventry. No good choices there.
Yes! Finally a Yarnhub reaction video. Love Yarnhub!
There were some in the U.S. military who were opposed to the mission because they were afraid that it would give away the fact that they had broken the Japanese Naval codes. It was for the same reason that they didn't report Yamamoto's death until after the Japanese themselves reported it to their people. In spite of the killing of Yamamoto and the earlier U.S. codebreaker coup at Midway, the Japanese still believed that their codes were unbreakable.
The reason why they still thought it was unbreakable is because Yamamoto or at least his group of people stubbornly refused to follow operational security instructions, his entire itinerary was broadcast through a minimum security channel that was meant to be used for routine and less important messages that didn't need the hassle of code. An officer noted the lack of security and warned that they should assume the itinerary to be compromised and they should change it, but he was ignored.
1:22 I love the West Wing! The We Killed Yamamoto episode was one of its best!!!
The wreckage of Yamamoto’s plane still remains where it crashed. The tail section is still mostly intact, other than the tail number being cut out which is now in a museum.
I'd highly recommend Drachinifel's video on Yamamoto's Career. For another yarnhub, I recommend the one on Graf Spee
Drachinfel also has an amazing video on taffy 3 and the uss Johnston
In my point of view, there were a total of three Wars fought during the second World War: the actual war, the intelligence war, and the manufacturing war.
And the resource war
I think we consider that part of the manufacturing war.
Well and you could also break it up into geographic- boundary wars, like the, eastern front, western front, the pacific war, the indian campaign, etc etc.
That's part of the actual war in my opinion, due to them being in my point of view, separate fronts or combat theaters of the same war.
If we look at both Sun Zi´s the Art of War and Kautilya´s Arthashastra, the both books approve assassinating enemy generals in a war because in both cases the enemy will lose skilled commanders and it will make harder for them to wage the war. If the enemy losses skilled commanders then it may also spare friendly resources and help to end the war quicker.
Quite frankly I don't even see how this is something to question. It was a declared war abd Yamamoto was an enemy combatant - of course you take him out if you have a chance. A skilled commander is an asset just like an aircraft carrier.
On the other hand assassinating a high ranking officer during "peace" times with a drone strike is nothing else but murder...
@@Llyd_ApDicta I agree. That was a question in the TV Series West Wing in a situation were a foreign dignitary was supporting terrorism while his nation was in peace with US. The President had to decide whether to kill him or not because of that.
Yes, Japanese did most certainly know that killing skilled enemy commanders was generally a good idea. If Japanese forces would have had a chance to kill Admiral Nimitz then there is a decent chance that they would have tried to do so.
November 2, 2023
“Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, has called on a global jihad amid Israel's ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.”
Could this be a declaration of war?
@@mitchellhedden1978 Are you replying to my post?
@@Llyd_ApDicta
Seems that way.
Russian/Soviet aircraft also have USAF/NATO nicknames unrelated to whatever their Russian name is: Foxbat, Fitter, Fulcrum, Fishbed, etc (fighters), Bear (bomber). So not surprised it started in WW2, just not as organized.
Just an FYI for if you visit, this crash did not occur on Guadalcanal Island (which is part of the Solomon Islands) but instead on Bougainville Island (which is geographically part of the same island chain but is part of Papua New Guinea).
Interestingly Bougainville is currently trying to become independent after a successful referendum in 2019, though it’s unlikely PNG will actually agree to this.
If you're interested there's a video called "The Pilots Who Failed to Protect Admiral Yamamoto" by TJ3 History that is about what became of the 6 Zero pilots that were guarding the bombers and what they did after Operation Vengeance.
This is your best presentation so far. I’ve studied this attack for years and learned a few things.
6:01 I am not sure, but I think the US not knowing about the second Betty is an oversight on US intelligence part didn’t consider that Yamamoto will be traveling with his retinue of aids and staff hence the second Betty.
I love your videos Chris. I look forward to them every single day
Wow--amazing quality video! And I learned a lot. Thanks!
Yarnhub's video about Aimo Koivunen, the man who overdozed on meth in an active warzone, is definitely one to check out. It's quite the funny one too.
There was a long running question of who shot down the general..Lanphier claimed he did and he had aspirations of a military career. The pilots almost got court martialed because this was to be kept secret for a time.
Re Ugaki's last flight: right there in that same wiki paragraph from which you read, also says that the fellow whose spot Ugaki took refused to be left behind, and climbed in anyway. So the 2-person plane was actually carrying 3 folks. One could only assume that the normally-assigned Warrant Officer must've been sitting in Ugaki's lap the whole way. It would be a humorously entertaining vignette, were not the context so tragic.
In times of war? Historically your enemy's men, women, children and animals are all in the PVP server
"Ladies and gentleman...we got'em!"
He went to Harvard!
Admiral Yamamoto went to Havard, plus he served two tours as the Japanese Naval Attache in Washington, DC.
A bit of a conflict or contradiction here. This video says two of the Zeros were shot down, but I just finished watching a video from the TJ3 History channel that deals with the post Vengence history of the six Zero pilots. It states that all six landed safely and goes into extensive detail of what happened to them for the rest of the war.
Chris, you should check out the one Yarnhub did with the Battle of the Post Office during Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland. That one as well as the Tiger tank that destroyed 15 or 20 T-34s.
The "Betty" bomber was called a Mitsubishi Navy Type 1 dive bomber by the Japanese.
Yarnhub's "Midway From the Japanese Perspective" was super intense, a very good watch.
TJ3 History just did a video 2 weeks ago about the dates of the 6 Zero pilots who failed to protect Yamamoto. That would be an interesting followup to this.
I can remember reading a Readers Digest article about this, I wanna say 50 years ago at least...Lamphier was given credit for killing Yamamoto. He wrote the article, and reputedly his name was concealed until after the war because (if I remember right) he had relatives--maybe a brother--in a Japanese prison camp. In any event, in the confusion of a dogfight it's often hard to know who shot down whom.
1940s Americans were not very sophisticated regarding foreign names (Polish guys in the American military were often nicknamed "Ski" because no one could pronounce their full name) and Japanese aircraft names, back in those days, were considered tongue-twisters for Americans. As a result, the American military came up with a system to designate all of these planes by more common, Anglo-Saxon given names, hence "Betty". The fighters were all named for boys: Frank, George, Nate, Tony, Hamp (hey it was the '40s), Pete, and the like. The bombers were named for girls: Betty, Nell, Kate, Val (apologies to Mr. Kilmer, it was considered a girl's name back then), Judy, Jill, Emily, etc. All of these planes also had a designated "number" associated with it, similar to the U.S. Army's M-date system (e.g. the 1911 pistol and the 1903 rifle) but the Japanese used their calendar to date the planes, using only the last two digits of the year designating the plane's introduction into service. So the Kate was the "Type 97" torpedo bomber, as an example, because the year it was adopted was 2397 in their calendar. The fighter they introduced just as the war was heating up was the Mitsubishi A6M fighter, which the Japanese military called the "Type 00 fighter" because it was introduced in 2400, in their calendar. The authorities that named all the planes called it a "Zeke", but no one used the designation; it was called the "Zero" by pretty much everyone.
P.S. a few years ago I met an actual aviator who was a WW2 vet. He insisted the P-38 Lightning was his favorite plane, for the reason you read most pilots liked them. You had a "spare" engine to get you home if one gave out (which happened to this gentleman on one occasion if I remember what he said correctly) and that was often a lifesaver.
Oh, and famously a British sniper (Patrick Ferguson) had a chance to shoot a Continental army officer during the Revolution, and didn't because he thought it wasn't "sporting." Modern historians are pretty sure he passed up a chance to kill George Washington.
I'm a big WW2 plane buff, the P-38 is awesome.
A beautiful plane, but I personally prefer the P-47
@@jacobnugent8159 Thunderbolt is one of my favorites as well
Answer to the question, YES.
New subscriber! Love the videos! Fun fact, I was born in the same city as Woodrow Wilson lol.
A P-38 was twice the cost to produce than a P-51
In a weird way, having a whole army targeting you personally is a big compliment for a general.
It's like a less extreme version of all of Europe declaring war on Napoleon.
i cant tell how much i adore the p 38 lightning it was perfect for these type of long range interception it was stupid fast belive one of the fastest at the time also i use one in my war thunder us line up
Thanks for introducing Yarnhub.
The mustang's vs ME262's is a pretty good one to look at not just a normal battle in the air but a battle between the age's of props and jets to see which was better
I highly recommend a reaction to Tex talks history the greatest con in early aviation the dr Christmas story.
Tex does mostly battletech lore with this being his first irl history video.
On the anniversary of Operation Neptune Spear, as well? Nice.
Talk about an elitist mentality. “Hey guys you can hit me! I went to college”! 😢
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Have you read Flames In The Sky by Pierre Clostermann? WW2 air combat book with lots of info about the fighter planes with a chapter devoted to this mission.
Anything dealing with watchtower would greatly be enjoyed.
In my opinion, the P-38 Lighting is one of the coolest looking planes from WW2
Always love the yarnhub uploads for sure! would love to see you check out their vid on the greatest fighter ace erich hartmann
1:29 "When is it OK target an individual" - We were at war, Yamamoto was in their military, what's the problem?
Why was the policy "germany first"? After pearl harbour and the fact that Japan is threatening mainland US, why would they want to take out germany first? Is it like eating your vegetables before the main meal, just so you can enjoy the main meal even more?
They were cooking when they made the name of the operation. Power caught up with them
Yarnhubs animation has gotten so impressive. I know it would take a ton of work but I’d watch an animated mini series if they made it.
The only gripe I have with it (and it's very minor so no big deal) is when they show infantry, they don't give them the gear that they would have on a daily basis in combat.
I have a feeling if this operation didn’t take place and he survived to the surrender he would of been arrested and charged with war crimes
2:00 Officers should be the prime target. The common soldier is more likely to be just some ordinary Joe who isn't really into the war but is just doing his duty.
You should check out their episode featuring JFK's naval career and the PT-109 incident
I heard this story a few times but didnt know there was a Japanese perspective from a survivor.
It came up recently when Trump did a little Operation Vengeance himself in Iraq against an Iranian commander. Turns out theres precedent for it.
It's the voiceover for Sabaton!
I$d like to se you do a tier list on WW1 and WW2 generals, I'm interested in your opinion
I’m wanting to travel to different historical places in other countries but Japan is at the top of my list for sure also at this point in the war weren’t most of the Japanese pilots newly trained?.
Hey Chris, Extra History does some videos on the resource war of WW2. I'd love to see you do a reaction to these. I think it's only 2 or 3 videos. Also, check out Extra History's videos on cults, like the Illuminati. They're fairly recent.
Did the resource war series about a year ago.
@@VloggingThroughHistory Oh okay. I guessed I missed or forgot about it. So much for growing old and memory fading. 😀
I'll rewatch it. Thanks.
I subbed to his channel this is how you make a video
Omg vth reacting to yarnhub!
Hey guys I Know this is an old video but if you ever want to play a WW2 fps that looks like a yarnhub video please get easy red 2 witch costs 9 dollars it is a very good game but it is indie
please do yarnhub D-Day Medics that Saved Friends and Enemies
Watch Battle of the Coral Sea from Operations Room
Hi, I was wondering if you could react to some vietnam war stuff
Let’s goooooooooo
Please do wildcat down or fighting the Germans 40 to 1
Clearly the allies won in large part due to better intelligence
You should react to shane gillis and louis ck talk about the presidents
Why is there a jet on their thumbnail?🤔
How much ammo does this guy have....
Chris could u do a reaction video to Internet Historian's the Gentleman Pirate?? Please, you've got to react to it! And also, SandRhoman History's the (great) siege of malta? I really wish to see you react to those two, plus ur historical input!
He did a reaction to Blue Jay's video of the gentlemen pirate.
@@coxmosia1 it's nowhere near as good as Internet Historian's. Internet Historian's video is a masterpiece
Is there a VTH discord I can hop on?
Hey Chris can we get your reaction to the Kendrick Lamar and Drake drama
Have to love self sealing fuel tanks. One hit would bring down a zero. The pilot protection was not a priority for the Japanese aviators.
Going after Yamamoto is like going after Bin Laden. He attacked us and therefore the we had every right to go after him.
Hey never been this early before. How y’all doing?
I'd also highly reccomend the video that "The Operations Room" channel did on this subject. Very detailed animations as well 👍ruclips.net/video/smMjyIJPMNI/видео.html
After looking at Yamamoto's background and his understanding of the situation, I think he knew VERY WELL that the Japanese brass or even the emperor would still ask him to plan the attack on pearl harbor, *regardless of him objecting* . But orders are orders, and he got the blame for it; while the higher ranks or the emperor who ordered him got away Scott-free
Can you react to weird weapons of war by mitsi studio please
can you please react to StarvHarv badly translated American history HE is back!
Day 12 of asking, can u pls react to midway from the japanese perspective
with that new haircut you look like you have aged a lot
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