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*Fun fact: After the New Orleans had her bow blown off, she collided with the still floating bow, technically making her the only ship to have rammed herself.*
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 Well, the US freed Europe by defeating the evil general Montgomery at the great battle of Omaha didn't they? (meant entirely as a joke, my education about the Pacific was about on this same level 😁)
@@ooyginyardel4835 I believe the Aussies role in the South Pacific is understated or just ignored way too often. From rare early Allied victories air and ground to the Battle of Bismarck Sea to fabricating drop tanks for 5thAAF P47s months before the 8thAAF had them fitted to their P47s to coastal watch and aerial recon networks their role at the fight should be mentioned by American historians more often. We don't need to follow MacArthur's example on this.
@@icewaterslim7260 : Couldn’t agree with you more sir. You are absolutely correct in everything you say, particularly about McArthur. But won’t you agree with me just a little bit that most of the allies would have been very hamstrung were it not for the U.S.? For instance, you did just mention P47’s - where did they come from? I can’t speak to your comment about American historians. I think that Americans are getting cheated out of their own history much less that of any other country.
arguably the worst defeat in USN history. savo island was bad; but command was fractured; and most of the cruisers were very inexperienced. By November the US cruisers had learned; and in this battle THEY were the attacking force. THEY had overwhelming firepower. They had Radar. But they also had an idiot for an admiral. Up against arguable the best Admiral the IJN had in Tanaka the Tenacious.
They were all kind of idiots as well, not just that admiral knockoff of Sobel but other captain's. They all thought they're torpedoes outraged the Japanese torpedoes but in reality, the range of the enemy was 4X that of ours and a bigger warhead too. Plus, the captain who had any common sense was the captain of Honolulu who realized, "Oh Shit, There's Torpedoes" unlike Northamptons captain who actually lined his ship up perfectly with the incoming fish
@@darthnihilus4158 that is incorrect nitwit Wright was told by the other captains that intelligence had shown the IJN ship fired torpedoes had a very long range and EVERYONE knew by then that the IJN torps had a much bigger warhead. This idea that we still did not know about the Long Lance capabilities is BS. Wright just chose to ignore that. As regards Northhampton, have you read the official log that is at the Naval Institute and is available online? If you had you would not have made such an ignorant remark
@@johnhallett5846 Wright actually got a Navy Cross for his performances. So if he lost all the cruisers, would he get a Medal of Honor? 😂🤣 According to Richard Frank, Tanaka was not the real hero but Captain Torajiro Sato was. Sato led the front column quietly past the US column before turning around and firing the Long Lance. If Sato had the reloads, the entire TF 67 might be sunk.
After the battle, Wright was promptly sent back to Washington on shore duty and never received another combat command. At least King, Nimitz, and Halsey didn't wait for further proof of Wright's unfitness for combat.
Iowa was where he was born. He'd graduated in the top 10% of his class at Annapolis in 1912. He apparently was an ordnance specialist and spent very little time at sea for someone to be given a critical role in the Guadalcanal campaign. Many of the "old school" navy didn't trust, understand or fully appreciate radar. "Bull" Wright included.
@@jamesstimpert4693 Halsey got lucky Earnest Evans and Taffy 3 saved his rear end too or I'd lump him in with Wright despite his actions earlier in the war.
Thank you for these! We are rapidly approaching a time when WWII veterans will all have passed on, and it's ever increasingly important to educate ourselves on the sacrifices these folks made. Gone but never forgotten.
Battle 360 focust on the USS Enterprise. She didn't take part in any of the night actions off Guadalcannal so they aren't really mentioned in the show.
I learned about this, and many other Guadalcanal battles in 1993 when the computer game "Task Force: 1942" came out. That game also introduced me to the Yamato and Musashi; and the vivid descriptions of the night battles, with starshells and such fascinated me. However, these animations make things MUCH clearer than the most detailed written account; as they say, "a picture is worth 1000 words"
It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage episode about that naval stroke between Japanese navy forces and US navel Task force ...thank you an excellent ( house of history) channel for sharing this magnificent episode
Several years ago I talked to an old man who claimed he was on the Northampton. Very interesting story from pearl harbor to watching the signing on board the missouri.
Learning about Naval history, I noticed that in situations when British or American admirals and captains would take their chances and try their best to exploit any opportunity to finish the enemy, even taking a significant risk, Japanese, German or Russian command would be more indecisive and cautious, and mostly satisfied with limited success. I think that if Tanaka would be American or British "style" admiral, he would do everything to inflict as much damage as he could after crippling opposing task force. Don't know was this Anglo-Saxon trait decisive for the outcome of Pacific War, but it added to this outcome dramatically.
I believe that Tanaka was keenly aware of how swiftly the IJN DD forces were being depleted of both trained crews and ships. Of the roughly 140 DD's they started the war with, roughly half "front line" DD's, USNI says IJN lost 40 during the first 16 months. They were only able to build 1 replacement for every 3 lost, and those were lesser ships than their more powerful predecessors. The Solomon's was a brutal attrition conflict for both sides.
The Japanese were totally overextended in the Solomon islands.. Not destroying the US Navy fleet Carriers at Pearl Harbour earlier on in the war plus not destroying the fuel tanks also at Pearl Harbour was a crucial mistake that would ultimately cost Imperial Japan in the long run..
Standard japanese doctrine was the preservation of assets over the complete destruction of the enemy. We saw that many times from the 3rd aerial wave that was cancelled at Pearl Harbor to the battle of Samar sea when Yamato and the other ships turned around in the face of an inferior force. They went desperate when they had no other options left.
@@CaptainSeato Making accurate torpedo and dive bombing strikes against late war us ships , with their intense anti aircraft fire and better CAP fighters was no longer possible for the japanese, who also could not train pilots fast enough for that purpose. None of them had any other alternative nor could they contenplate defeat.
It is, but it was a conscious decision. There are no photos available of any damage control teams on other ships, so I figured I'd use this to illustrate what happened. They are extinguishing flames from another ship as well, not the case in this video.
The US learn their mistakes, after that they never send heavy cruisers to guadalcanal anymore but sending a light cruiser task forces to fight the Japanese destroyer task force that was carrying troops and supplies to their army.
Japanese not following through on a successful strike ... had they stayed more and launched the second wave of torpedoes the outcome would have been very different ... all the rest of the 3 cruisers would have been sunk.
Wright was in command of 12th Naval District, San Francisco Port facilities, at the time of the ammunition explosion at the dock called Port Chicago. He screwed up there, too. Catastrophically.
8 destroyers and 5 cruisers of the USN were routed by 8 IJN destroyers. The cruiser Northampton was sunk and the Pensacola, Minneapolis, and New Orleans all got their bows shot off by IJN Mark 93 `Long Lance´ torpedoes forcing them to limp helplessly back to harbor on Tulagi Island. Admiral Carleton Wright's career continued ashore resulting in the Port Chicago Disaster in California costing another 392 victims their lives. The incident caused a mutiny and a cover-up that jailed 50 black seamen/stevedores before discharging them dishonorably for refusing unsafe working conditions.
At the end, USA and Allies won the war mostly because of three main things: 1) radar advantage e 2) cracked japanese radio codes 3) immense resourse adavntage One can speculate how te war would have gone if Japan didn't have so many disadvanteges from the start,.
They still weren't able to do the critical resupply so it' wasn't a total victory by the IJN that day. Wright made terrible decisions that evening, deserved to be relieved, and sent to a desk job as a disgrace the rest of the war. One also needs to remember that the US was completely unprepared for WW2 and lacked experienced and battle tested leadership at many mid and top-level posts throughout all of its branches. 1942 was considered school time for all of the USA military. But if you look at the total picture of what they accomplished in all of 1942, and that they did it all in school mode, it's beyond impressive. 4 carriers and a cruiser sunk at Midway. Many additional Japanese war ships sunk during the battles around the Solomons. And especially the catastrophic losses of the IJN and Japanese Army air forces during that year, by the end of 1942. they were forced to pull out of the eastern Solomons and were incapable of ever mounting a serious offensive campaign in the pacific ever again. The rest of the war was defense and retreating. Any technical and leadership advantages of the Japanese were pretty much erased by the beginning of 1944.
I usually like this narrator but is there some sort of problem this time. He mispronounced two homonyms - 10:05 the "lead" ship and 10:43 tore off her "bow"... pronounced as lead (the metal) and bow (the ribbon). I can understand an AI making this mistake but a human narrator familiar with naval terminology should know.
enjoy your videos. I have to point out that "bow" the front of a ship is pronounced so it rhymes with "cow". You pronounce it for the tied ribbon little girls have in their hair
It is sooooo frustrating as an American officer seeing these scenarios where zuzs Naval officers again and again make the same, dumb, lazy mistakes even so late into the war. Its clear to me that senior leadership were utterly incompetent and uncapable of making even the most basic decisions under any sort of stress. This is what happens in peacetime. Politicians are the ones who get promoted while actual leaders are punished, stymied and cashiered for doing the right thing. Then, when wars break out our ranks are full of idiots and useless armchair officers with no combat experience and no leadership skills beyond abuse of authority. Those weak people then get a lot of people killed before theyre finally pushed out to make way for actual leaders. This is happening right now under Biden who has cleared out all the real leaders and promoted DEI hires and weak sychophants who couldnt find their asses with both hands cuffed behind their backs, Milly being the quintessential peacetime douchbag. I pray Trump cashiers these fools before they put us into an untenable situation that costs us a war...or worse, our country.
Roosevelt was quite the fool, was pretty obsessed with fighting in Europe, if the fool had it his way, The vast majority of American forces would have been fighting in Europe and would have given the Japanese time turn their pacific empire into an unbeatable fortress. after all, most of the pacific forces started the War using older rifles while those going to Europe had all the new equipment, plus as noted here, a very large portion of the U.S. fleet was in the Atlantic despite the Pacific being so much bigger and didn't have as much help from allied fleets as they had in the Atlantic .
I dont think the Japanese could have made the pacific an unbeatable fortress even if they had ample time. Although they had captured enough oil fields, their industry (though large) lacked the means and expertise to exploit those newly conquered resources and speed up production. Most of their weapons and systems were inferior until 1944 with some exceptions of course. The topography, and the vast ocean made it an ideal submarine hunting ground for us submarines, and the japanese were completely unprepared and lacked anti submarine wepons and systems plus they were unwilling to refine their tactics and organize their ships into convoys. That being said, even a small force of us submarines could have detrimental effect on Japanese economy. And actually thats exactly what happened. For the Japanese the clock was ticking, and they knew the only chance they had was to win in some major surface action and hope that the subsequent shock would force the americans to the negotiating table.
You have no understanding of history. Roosevelt had been helping our Europen Allies since the lat 30s. There were agreements in place before Pearl Harbor to fight the Germans. FDR had to follow through as best he could. The US wasn't at war with Japan until Dec 1941. The war in Europe started in September 1939. Research the basic facts before spouting off.
Just came across this channel. Nice animation and video, but is the narrator AI? It's a little distracting to have him constantly butchering pronunciations like "bow", "lead", "Rabaul", etc. Anyways, good content
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The Battle off Samar 🎉🎉
*Fun fact: After the New Orleans had her bow blown off, she collided with the still floating bow, technically making her the only ship to have rammed herself.*
*Nobody can sunk new orleans, except new orleans*
Friendly fire on a whole new level 💀
Lost a great uncle in this battle. He was on the New Orleans in forward ammo room. Age 18. RIP Harris Brien.
My sincere condolences
Love how informative this is, never heard much about Guadalcanal before this and never laid out so simply on a map making it easy to follow
Thats ALL we hear about, you know, how the US is the greatest and saved everyone in WW2
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 Well, the US freed Europe by defeating the evil general Montgomery at the great battle of Omaha didn't they? (meant entirely as a joke, my education about the Pacific was about on this same level 😁)
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944: Of course they didn’t save everyone but would you agree that everyone wouldn’t have been able to do much without them?
@@ooyginyardel4835 I believe the Aussies role in the South Pacific is understated or just ignored way too often. From rare early Allied victories air and ground to the Battle of Bismarck Sea to fabricating drop tanks for 5thAAF P47s months before the 8thAAF had them fitted to their P47s to coastal watch and aerial recon networks their role at the fight should be mentioned by American historians more often. We don't need to follow MacArthur's example on this.
@@icewaterslim7260 : Couldn’t agree with you more sir. You are absolutely correct in everything you say, particularly about McArthur. But won’t you agree with me just a little bit that most of the allies would have been very hamstrung were it not for the U.S.? For instance, you did just mention P47’s - where did they come from?
I can’t speak to your comment about American historians. I think that Americans are getting cheated out of their own history much less that of any other country.
The wait wasn't too long. Been really dig'n these naval videos. Thanks for the upload. Cheers from Tennessee
arguably the worst defeat in USN history. savo island was bad; but command was fractured; and most of the cruisers were very inexperienced. By November the US cruisers had learned; and in this battle THEY were the attacking force. THEY had overwhelming firepower. They had Radar. But they also had an idiot for an admiral. Up against arguable the best Admiral the IJN had in Tanaka the Tenacious.
They were all kind of idiots as well, not just that admiral knockoff of Sobel but other captain's. They all thought they're torpedoes outraged the Japanese torpedoes but in reality, the range of the enemy was 4X that of ours and a bigger warhead too. Plus, the captain who had any common sense was the captain of Honolulu who realized, "Oh Shit, There's Torpedoes" unlike Northamptons captain who actually lined his ship up perfectly with the incoming fish
@@darthnihilus4158 that is incorrect
nitwit Wright was told by the other captains that intelligence had shown the IJN ship fired torpedoes had a very long range and EVERYONE knew by then that the IJN torps had a much bigger warhead. This idea that we still did not know about the Long Lance capabilities is BS. Wright just chose to
ignore that. As regards Northhampton, have you read the official log that is at the Naval Institute and is available online?
If you had you would not have made such an ignorant remark
No American admiral is as incredibly incompetent as Halsey, so...
@@johnhallett5846 Wright actually got a Navy Cross for his performances. So if he lost all the cruisers, would he get a Medal of Honor? 😂🤣
According to Richard Frank, Tanaka was not the real hero but Captain Torajiro Sato was. Sato led the front column quietly past the US column before turning around and firing the Long Lance. If Sato had the reloads, the entire TF 67 might be sunk.
@@DarthV3622Fkmcorrect, He would of got the MOH plus a promotion.
Admiral Wright was incompetent. He seemed to think he was somewhere in the cornfields of Nebraska or something
After the battle, Wright was promptly sent back to Washington on shore duty and never received another combat command. At least King, Nimitz, and Halsey didn't wait for further proof of Wright's unfitness for combat.
Iowa was where he was born. He'd graduated in the top 10% of his class at Annapolis in 1912. He apparently was an ordnance specialist and spent very little time at sea for someone to be given a critical role in the Guadalcanal campaign.
Many of the "old school" navy didn't trust, understand or fully appreciate radar.
"Bull" Wright included.
@@jamesstimpert4693 Halsey got lucky Earnest Evans and Taffy 3 saved his rear end too or I'd lump him in with Wright despite his actions earlier in the war.
Thanks For all your hardwork! Really liked this one
Thank you for these! We are rapidly approaching a time when WWII veterans will all have passed on, and it's ever increasingly important to educate ourselves on the sacrifices these folks made. Gone but never forgotten.
Your Quality is ALWAYS Amazing
This channel’s details are way better than Battle 360.
Battle 360 focust on the USS Enterprise. She didn't take part in any of the night actions off Guadalcannal so they aren't really mentioned in the show.
@@Napoleon1815-l8c My favorite on this particular battle was "Operations Room". I got different favorites for different battles.
Great video with high production standards as always. Keep up the excellent work!
Excellent as usual sir - another wonderful job!
Daniel here! Thanks For this ❤❤❤
Wow you're quick!
Amazing video as always HOH!
I learned about this, and many other Guadalcanal battles in 1993 when the computer game "Task Force: 1942" came out. That game also introduced me to the Yamato and Musashi; and the vivid descriptions of the night battles, with starshells and such fascinated me. However, these animations make things MUCH clearer than the most detailed written account; as they say, "a picture is worth 1000 words"
At the time the USN didn’t realize the outstanding range of the Long Lance Torpedos.
Nope. Not true. They knew very well by then. The Admiral was an abject moron.
im kinda worried the same thing might happen with Chinese missiles.
It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage episode about that naval stroke between Japanese navy forces and US navel Task force ...thank you an excellent ( house of history) channel for sharing this magnificent episode
My father was cpo on us s. minne. This is what happens when a desk jockey gets put in charge of a combat force!
This series is awesome!
Making a mistake is human error but making the same mistake is negligence.
Nicely done video.
I love how the flag showing Japanese losses, uses the layout drawings for the Argo, (formerly Yamato) from the cartoon Starblazers.
The quality is amazing
Several years ago I talked to an old man who claimed he was on the Northampton. Very interesting story from pearl harbor to watching the signing on board the missouri.
Learning about Naval history, I noticed that in situations when British or American admirals and captains would take their chances and try their best to exploit any opportunity to finish the enemy, even taking a significant risk, Japanese, German or Russian command would be more indecisive and cautious, and mostly satisfied with limited success.
I think that if Tanaka would be American or British "style" admiral, he would do everything to inflict as much damage as he could after crippling opposing task force.
Don't know was this Anglo-Saxon trait decisive for the outcome of Pacific War, but it added to this outcome dramatically.
I believe that Tanaka was keenly aware of how swiftly the IJN DD forces were being depleted of both trained crews and ships. Of the roughly 140 DD's they started the war with, roughly half "front line" DD's, USNI says IJN lost 40 during the first 16 months. They were only able to build 1 replacement for every 3 lost, and those were lesser ships than their more powerful predecessors. The Solomon's was a brutal attrition conflict for both sides.
@@TheAnxiousAardvark You have a good point. Still, IJN indecisiveness is well seen throughout the war, in comparison with USN.
The Japanese were totally overextended in the Solomon islands.. Not destroying the US Navy fleet Carriers at Pearl Harbour earlier on in the war plus not destroying the fuel tanks also at Pearl Harbour was a crucial mistake that would ultimately cost Imperial Japan in the long run..
I like how japanese win and then retreat, but when losing they do suicidal attack's
Standard japanese doctrine was the preservation of assets over the complete destruction of the enemy. We saw that many times from the 3rd aerial wave that was cancelled at Pearl Harbor to the battle of Samar sea when Yamato and the other ships turned around in the face of an inferior force.
They went desperate when they had no other options left.
Mind you, the kamikazes were the brainchild of officers who didn't have to fly the planes.
@@CaptainSeato Making accurate torpedo and dive bombing strikes against late war us ships , with their intense anti aircraft fire and better CAP fighters was no longer possible for the japanese, who also could not train pilots fast enough for that purpose. None of them had any other alternative nor could they contenplate defeat.
Your visual artstyle is really simiar to bazbattles in a good way.
Another Guadalcanal classic
11:49 isn't that a carrier?
It is, but it was a conscious decision. There are no photos available of any damage control teams on other ships, so I figured I'd use this to illustrate what happened. They are extinguishing flames from another ship as well, not the case in this video.
молодцы японцы-разменяли 1 эсминец на 1 тяжелый крейсер и 3 повредили))))уделали янки)))
Very interesting
Battle of Rennal island next?
Definitely!
12:54 It should be the 48 star flag.
couldn't they just like ahmmm fish?
An Admiral good only for court marshal
Love these animations. I don't like your naval gunfire sound effect though. sounds too wimpy..hahah otherwise, great job!
I'll see if I can find better quality audio!
@@HoH Haha not a huge deal!
Just read this last night in the rising sun by John tolland
Strange serendipity
Great book!
@@HoH agreed very political incorrect by today’s standards
Aka”j@ps” would not be used today
Tulagi harbor. Guadalcanal was a walk on. Tulagi was a fight tooth and nail.
THis was Japan's revenge for their loss at the Battle of Guadalcanal.
The US learn their mistakes, after that they never send heavy cruisers to guadalcanal anymore but sending a light cruiser task forces to fight the Japanese destroyer task force that was carrying troops and supplies to their army.
Japanese not following through on a successful strike ... had they stayed more and launched the second wave of torpedoes the outcome would have been very different ... all the rest of the 3 cruisers would have been sunk.
Can you do a video about the Battle of Ridgeway (Fenian raid)
Never heard of this - I'll have to read up on it a bit!
Carlton Wright? Wonder why we dont hear much about him during WW2...
....oh thats why
Wright was in command of 12th Naval District, San Francisco Port facilities, at the time of the ammunition explosion at the dock called Port Chicago. He screwed up there, too. Catastrophically.
8 destroyers and 5 cruisers of the USN were routed by 8 IJN destroyers. The cruiser Northampton was sunk and the Pensacola, Minneapolis, and New Orleans all got their bows shot off by IJN Mark 93 `Long Lance´ torpedoes forcing them to limp helplessly back to harbor on Tulagi Island. Admiral Carleton Wright's career continued ashore resulting in the Port Chicago Disaster in California costing another 392 victims their lives. The incident caused a mutiny and a cover-up that jailed 50 black seamen/stevedores before discharging them dishonorably for refusing unsafe working conditions.
@@joelmccoy9969 That should be a video in itself.
Pensacola did not have her bow shot off.
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It was a tactical victory for the Japanese and a strategic victory for the US.
0:16 Thos message is older than you mom ass
At the end, USA and Allies won the war mostly because of three main things: 1) radar advantage e 2) cracked japanese radio codes 3) immense resourse adavntage
One can speculate how te war would have gone if Japan didn't have so many disadvanteges from the start,.
They still weren't able to do the critical resupply so it' wasn't a total victory by the IJN that day. Wright made terrible decisions that evening, deserved to be relieved, and sent to a desk job as a disgrace the rest of the war. One also needs to remember that the US was completely unprepared for WW2 and lacked experienced and battle tested leadership at many mid and top-level posts throughout all of its branches. 1942 was considered school time for all of the USA military. But if you look at the total picture of what they accomplished in all of 1942, and that they did it all in school mode, it's beyond impressive. 4 carriers and a cruiser sunk at Midway. Many additional Japanese war ships sunk during the battles around the Solomons. And especially the catastrophic losses of the IJN and Japanese Army air forces during that year, by the end of 1942. they were forced to pull out of the eastern Solomons and were incapable of ever mounting a serious offensive campaign in the pacific ever again. The rest of the war was defense and retreating. Any technical and leadership advantages of the Japanese were pretty much erased by the beginning of 1944.
Also they were inexperienced in night engagement despite having a radars on their ship.
1000!
Battle of Elli?
I usually like this narrator but is there some sort of problem this time. He mispronounced two homonyms - 10:05 the "lead" ship and 10:43 tore off her "bow"... pronounced as lead (the metal) and bow (the ribbon). I can understand an AI making this mistake but a human narrator familiar with naval terminology should know.
Its an AI voice but other wise good animation, informative and actuate. Hope you get large enough to have full crew.
What US Cruisers launching torps?
USN Cruisers did not have torpedoes except for the Omaha & Atlanta class
enjoy your videos. I have to point out that "bow" the front of a ship is pronounced so it rhymes with "cow". You pronounce it for the tied ribbon little girls have in their hair
The japanese were once very brave. Banzai!
Any Soldier is beyond brave .. respect 🙏
If you are going to display an American flag, please use those applicable to the year of the battle. There only 48 states at the time.
It is sooooo frustrating as an American officer seeing these scenarios where zuzs Naval officers again and again make the same, dumb, lazy mistakes even so late into the war. Its clear to me that senior leadership were utterly incompetent and uncapable of making even the most basic decisions under any sort of stress.
This is what happens in peacetime. Politicians are the ones who get promoted while actual leaders are punished, stymied and cashiered for doing the right thing. Then, when wars break out our ranks are full of idiots and useless armchair officers with no combat experience and no leadership skills beyond abuse of authority. Those weak people then get a lot of people killed before theyre finally pushed out to make way for actual leaders. This is happening right now under Biden who has cleared out all the real leaders and promoted DEI hires and weak sychophants who couldnt find their asses with both hands cuffed behind their backs, Milly being the quintessential peacetime douchbag. I pray Trump cashiers these fools before they put us into an untenable situation that costs us a war...or worse, our country.
It's 'ow', not 'oh'. B'ow', not B'oh'.
I think it's an AI narrator. I've noticed several mispronounciations throughout their videos.
Roosevelt was quite the fool, was pretty obsessed with fighting in Europe, if the fool had it his way, The vast majority of American forces would have been fighting in Europe and would have given the Japanese time turn their pacific empire into an unbeatable fortress.
after all, most of the pacific forces started the War using older rifles while those going to Europe had all the new equipment, plus as noted here, a very large portion of the U.S. fleet was in the Atlantic despite the Pacific being so much bigger and didn't have as much help from allied fleets as they had in the Atlantic .
I dont think the Japanese could have made the pacific an unbeatable fortress even if they had ample time. Although they had captured enough oil fields, their industry (though large) lacked the means and expertise to exploit those newly conquered resources and speed up production. Most of their weapons and systems were inferior until 1944 with some exceptions of course. The topography, and the vast ocean made it an ideal submarine hunting ground for us submarines, and the japanese were completely unprepared and lacked anti submarine wepons and systems plus they were unwilling to refine their tactics and organize their ships into convoys.
That being said, even a small force of us submarines could have detrimental effect on Japanese economy. And actually thats exactly what happened. For the Japanese the clock was ticking, and they knew the only chance they had was to win in some major surface action and hope that the subsequent shock would force the americans to the negotiating table.
You have no understanding of history. Roosevelt had been helping our Europen Allies since the lat 30s. There were agreements in place before Pearl Harbor to fight the Germans. FDR had to follow through as best he could. The US wasn't at war with Japan until Dec 1941. The war in Europe started in September 1939. Research the basic facts before spouting off.
0:16 Thos message is older than everyone mom
Just came across this channel. Nice animation and video, but is the narrator AI? It's a little distracting to have him constantly butchering pronunciations like "bow", "lead", "Rabaul", etc. Anyways, good content
It is AI
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