I've been a student of WWII for 45 years and have been quite familiar with the story of Midway. I'd never seen those images, and indeed, a few took my breath away. Nor was I aware of some of those details, like torching off the guns from her port side to reduce the list. You did an excellent job here. Thank you and Good work.
It's interesting to see how (appropriately) quickly Captain Buckmaster ordered to abandon ship. His action may have saved a lot of lives, men experienced in their various roles. The IJN was less renowned for valuing and preserving the lives of experienced men. WRT the bomb hits, the Yorktown class open-sided hangar decks allowed much blast effect to blow outward from the hangar. Akagi's and Kaga's hangars were close-sided, which confined and concentrated the blast effects from bomb hits within the hangars, with devastating effect on personnel and planes/fuel/ordnance.
USS Yorktown's AA suite, at Midway, was a mix of the good (5"/38s and 20 mm Oerlikons), the unreliable (1.1" cannon), and the more or less useless (the .50 machine guns, whose range was too short). Proximity-fused 5" AA shells had not yet come into use (if they were even developed yet), thus the time-delay fuse was manually set. Her radar didn't have the range and usability of the radar in use later in the war, and fighter direction and radio discipline were also in early development. Not making excuses, just pointing out the kinds and degree of progress that were made from what was learned by the USN in 1942 carrier battles.
Yorktown is a legend Japanese probably thought they’d sunk 2 US carriers. Instead, they hit Yorktown twice and still need to send a submarine to finish her off. What we owe that generation we can never repay our freedom is because of them.
The I-168 was able to penetrate a screen on destroyers actively pinging. Perhaps this was because of the inexperience of sonar operators at this early stage of the pacific war. The Time-Life book about the carrier war states that there were three sailors trapped aboard Yorktown when she sank, but in no other publications have i seen any reference to such an incident.
I read that same story about 45 years ago. I only saw it one place and I believe it was there. If it’s the one I’m thinking of, someone trapped supposedly said through a working voice tube something like “We’re fine…we have a heck of an acey-deucey game going. Do us a favor and aim those torpedos at us…”. They thought they might need to scuttle the ship but it wasn’t necessary-if I recall correctly
@@jameschenard1386 Thanks for that! Yes the acey-duecy reference was there, but not the torpedo thing in this book. Hopefully someone out there knows the truth!
Wow, I knew about Yorktown but never the entire story. The pictures are especially haunting. I never knew about the sub. Thank you for keeping up with this channel. As a content idea, could you do something about WW1 subs; especially Germans?
@@billotto602 Please re-listen to that section. I said Yorktown participated in the destruction of 5 carriers over the course of the war. Shoho at Coral Sea would be one while Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and hiryu at Midway are the other 4.
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Yorktown: The ship that just wouldn't quit.
Shows how robust and professional was the USN damage control to nearly save such a damaged ship.
Well told. Again, thank you for sharing pics I've never seen before.
The Yorktown class was excellently built. The Essex class was pretty much and enlarged and improved version
Photos were incredible!
especially 15:10
I've been a student of WWII for 45 years and have been quite familiar with the story of Midway. I'd never seen those images, and indeed, a few took my breath away. Nor was I aware of some of those details, like torching off the guns from her port side to reduce the list.
You did an excellent job here. Thank you and Good work.
Pleasant and clear reading voice. Makes a nice change from the usual readers I hear on military videos.
It's interesting to see how (appropriately) quickly Captain Buckmaster ordered to abandon ship. His action may have saved a lot of lives, men experienced in their various roles. The IJN was less renowned for valuing and preserving the lives of experienced men. WRT the bomb hits, the Yorktown class open-sided hangar decks allowed much blast effect to blow outward from the hangar. Akagi's and Kaga's hangars were close-sided, which confined and concentrated the blast effects from bomb hits within the hangars, with devastating effect on personnel and planes/fuel/ordnance.
Great video as always
USS Yorktown's AA suite, at Midway, was a mix of the good (5"/38s and 20 mm Oerlikons), the unreliable (1.1" cannon), and the more or less useless (the .50 machine guns, whose range was too short). Proximity-fused 5" AA shells had not yet come into use (if they were even developed yet), thus the time-delay fuse was manually set. Her radar didn't have the range and usability of the radar in use later in the war, and fighter direction and radio discipline were also in early development. Not making excuses, just pointing out the kinds and degree of progress that were made from what was learned by the USN in 1942 carrier battles.
Excellent recap, Crosser.
Excellent
Yorktown is a legend Japanese probably thought they’d sunk 2 US carriers. Instead, they hit Yorktown twice and still need to send a submarine to finish her off. What we owe that generation we can never repay our freedom is because of them.
Don't forget the hundreds of men on the Hammond that got vaporized by the IJN submarine.
I sincerely enjoyed this video.
Thank you.
What a battle....
What a battle
The I-168 was able to penetrate a screen on destroyers actively pinging. Perhaps this was because of the inexperience of sonar operators at this early stage of the pacific war.
The Time-Life book about the carrier war states that there were three sailors trapped aboard Yorktown when she sank, but in no other publications have i seen any reference to such an incident.
I read that same story about 45 years ago. I only saw it one place and I believe it was there. If it’s the one I’m thinking of, someone trapped supposedly said through a working voice tube something like “We’re fine…we have a heck of an acey-deucey game going. Do us a favor and aim those torpedos at us…”. They thought they might need to scuttle the ship but it wasn’t necessary-if I recall correctly
@@jameschenard1386 Thanks for that! Yes the acey-duecy reference was there, but not the torpedo thing in this book.
Hopefully someone out there knows the truth!
Wow, I knew about Yorktown but never the entire story. The pictures are especially haunting. I never knew about the sub. Thank you for keeping up with this channel.
As a content idea, could you do something about WW1 subs; especially Germans?
@@louisr6560 I intend to cover WW1 u-boats one day. Thank you.
@@centralcrossing4732 Can you double your offer and cover WW1 subs t(w)oday? :3
Funny to think that all 5 of the carriers sunk at midway (and 2 of the other 3 US fleet carriers lost) were sunk by long lances.
Really good stuff, and some detail I was not aware of.
Awesome video Central crossing :D
Great vid
I do own the book on the Yorktown class from Warship Pictorial's series.
Great images, and diagrams, as usual.
Take care, and all the best.
13:40 the wording of these accounts do a good job of making you feel what it could be like to be there.
FIVE Japanese aircraft carriers sunk ???? 😳🤔😳🤔😳🤔
@@billotto602 Please re-listen to that section. I said Yorktown participated in the destruction of 5 carriers over the course of the war. Shoho at Coral Sea would be one while Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and hiryu at Midway are the other 4.
@@centralcrossing4732 gotcha ! Sorry.