Fun fact: an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate would be named after the Samuel B. Roberts. This Roberts would strike a mine which snapped her keel in two, almost always a death sentence for any ship. But apparently being named Samuel B. Roberts gives a ship the ability to spit in the eye of Davy Jones, because they managed to stop the flooding and reinforce the hull enough to make it to port. Another thing that wasn’t mentioned in the video was that just because they hadn’t had enough, after the battle Taffy 3 was attacked by the very first organized Kamikaze attack, which sank another escort carrier.
@@cfgeneric7677 No, the St Lo, not St Louis. Originally named Midway to commemorate the Battle of Midway, she was renamed Saint-Lô (after a battle during the D-Day invasion in France) to free up the name Midway to go on one of the new battle carriers. They always say that it is bad luck to change the name of the ship once it has been launched. Changing the name of a ship or boat is very bad luck. She was sunk on Oct 25th, 15 days after the name change.
Because the Samuel B Roberts was so small the Chikuma(sp?) was not able to depress it's guns low enough to hit the Roberts making all of it shot sail right over it as the Roberts blasted it to pieces.
As the Johnston was sinking a Japanese destroyer came in close by. Her commander then came to attention and saluted the valiant destroyer as she slipped beneath the waves. Amazing video. Had me rolling throughout!
Actually, one of the best stories told after the war I read in "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour Paperback - March 29, 2005. In it he relates that after the war and the USN got ahold of the IJN papers including Kurita's report of the battle. Someone remarked to Admiral Sprague about the Battle "according to Kurita's report, the carriers were running away at 30Knots(the CVE's could only make 20 at most) the man said to Sprague I KNEW you were scared, but I didn't know you were THAT scared!" Kurita had mistaken the escort carriers for the fleet carriers that COULD go at 30 knots.
@@williamhalejr.4289Yeah, through the entire battle Kurita thought he had fleet carriers and their full sized escorts under his guns. Amazing book, may Mr. Hornfischer rest in peace
The destroyer was actually the IJN Yukikaze, she's a very famous ship as well, she was the only Kagero class to survive the war and was known as a VERY lucky ship.
The brave sailors who on the morning of October 25, 1944 accomplished something astounding. These small Destroyers, primarily the USS Hoel, USS Heerman, USS Johnston and the USS Samuel B. Roberts were able to disperse and retreat a far superior Japanese Fleet whose flagship was the largest warship in the world, the IJN Yamato. The Japanese didn't realize that they could have blown through the American Escort Carrier groups without much risk, killing thousands and sinking every American ship in sight. Because of the aggressive and heroic nature of our attacking Destroyers, these men saved thousands of lives. After the war, Imperial Japanese Navy's Admiral Kurita was debriefed by the U.S. military: "I moved only with the knowledge that I was able to acquire with my own eyes and did not realize how close I was to Victory. I see now that it was very regrettable that I did not push on at the time." It was the men on these Destroyers who stopped him. To say we are proud of them is an understatement. We are deeply thankful for their service and for their sacrifices for the privileges of freedom. These were warriors when our Country asked.
Do note the importance of Taffy 1 and especially Taffy 2 in launching air attacks against Centre Force. Especially because Taffy 2 had anti-ship weapons like aerial torpedoes even from the start of the battle, making them actually dangerous (Taffy 1 and Taffy 3 rearmed later in the battle for the same reason).
Samuel B. Roberts Crewmember: Captain we're out of star shells Captain: THEN LOAD THE POTATOES (runs out of potatoes) BREAK UP THE FURNITURE, (RUNS OUT OF FURNITURE) GET THE SILVERWARE (runs out of silverware) LOAD THE MASCOT (uses the Mascot) LOAD YOURSELVES
That is a matter of opinion that is NOT universal. Halsey's planes had bombed the center force the day before and sank the Musashi among others and damaged the rest of the fleet into turning around. They had driven off the center force when news of the approaching IJN carriers were coming south from Japan. Halsey DID NOT know that the carriers had basically no aircraft and pilots remaining and that this was a sacrifice force. The Center force that had been fleeing then turned around in the middle of the night. The battleship portion of Halsey's fast carrier fleet was supposed to remain to guard the invasion fleet, but through it was believed a clerical error, they went with Halsey chasing after the incoming carriers.
Kongo wasn’t even shooting at Johnston when that happened. The whole idea she actually did much of anything in this battle is one of many things wrong with the traditional narrative of Samar; most if not all of her supposed hits here were delivered by the Japanese cruisers or even by Yamato (not that this actually justifies Yamato’s construction).
Nope, according to Yamato’s official after action report, she hit and “sunk” an enemy “cruiser” at pretty much the exact moment that Johnston was hit. Three main 18.1 inch shells gutted the engine room while three secondary 6.1 inch shells blasted the bridge.
Well done. The Battle off Samar as part of the larger Battle of Leyte Gulf has been one of my favorite naval engagements to study. You’re humor is pretty funny. Keep doing what you do man.
One other thing that was going on, that sometimes gets missed is the planes. The Japanese Navy had no air cover. They had just lost several hundred planes the week before Leyte began when an American Carrier force snuck to Formosa (Taiwan) and in three days of non stop attacks had pulverized the last remnants of Japanese naval air power. The Japanese Navy sent every plane they had into that fight only to lose them all. All the planes that were supposed to protect Kurita’s fleet. So Kurita sailed without knowing he would not have any air cover. He found out about it the day before Samar, when the full force of the 15 Fleet Carrier 3rd Fleets AirPower fell on him in the Siobyan Straight. Sinking 3 Cruisers and the Yamato’s sister the Musashi. Halsey went to chase the decoy because he thought Kurita was in retreat. Then when Kurita popped up in front of Taffy 3, Admireal Spague had his 6 escort Carriers launch every plane. They were only armed for ground attacks and anti sub patrols. Nothing that would harm a Battleship. But after the day before the Japanese couldn’t ignore them. So the Taffy 6 Avengers and FN2 Wildcats bravely harassed the Japanese ships. Dropped small fragmentation bombs and Napalm on them. Dropped depth charges on the ships. Straffed them until they ran out of ammo, then kept still making attack runs forcing the Japanese to maneuver and react. The Japanese were fighting a swarm of angry bees while the Johnston was crotch kicking them. And then the planes from Taffy 2 and Taffy 1 started showing up. They were coming in in more organized waves. And Taffy 1 had even managed to get a few Torpedos and AP bombs loaded. Kurita thought they were Halsey’s 3rd fleet arriving, and without air cover he would have no chance. That’s when he decided to call it a day. Also it wasn’t a “nice day. It was overcast with scattered squalls. The Japanese were never able to get a good look at what they were facing. They never realized it was just a handful of small unarmored ships. All Kurita could see was mostly his own ships on fire. Well that and the completely Mad Dog insane Johnston attacking and sinking his cruisers. Sammy B’s Star Shells plus a few scattered canisters of Napalm made Kurita think his ships were much more damaged then they were.
100% correct. The importance and bravery of the Navy airmen during this battle are continuously understated. Even if Kurita managed to destroy and drive off Taffy 3, they would have kept up their attacks. The other Taffys were refueling and rearming planes as quick as they could and throwing them back into the fight. Even the primitive airstrips on Leyte were getting into the action. One pilot, er... Naval Aviator, led a team off into the jungle to scrounge a spare wing off of a wreck to put his plane back into the air during the fight. The battle was organized chaos across the board and quite frankly I don't think the Japanese were ready for that kind of response. The weaker side was supposed to demure in a near peer engagement. But they didn't because they were so incredibly weak that it wasn't near peer. It was a last stand action that should be fought to the death. So that is what they did.
Fun video, makes me wonder what would have happened if the Japenese had gotten by Taffy 3 and actually made it to the invasion beaches, after all, there were more destroyers there. My one complaint is you ignored the fact that the Escort Carriers supplied aircraft to the attack as did the nearby islands. One of the theroies as to why Kurita retreated was they were being attacked by skip bombing B-25's and Kurieta had read an intellegence report that the Americans were using B-24s as torpedo bombers which he mistook the B-25s for. Finally, one of my favoite lines from WW2 happened in this battle. When the Japanese turned away a sailor on the Gamblier Bay was reported to have exclaimed. "Dammit! They're getting away!"
I just watched another version of this, of about the same length, with 800,000 views and 25,000 likes and this version is 100x times better in literally every way. (Sadly, we do have a slight correct as Chokai's torpedoes were eventually found to be unexploded, meaning White Plains probably doesn't get credit for the kill, though they definitely get credit for scoring several hits. ) I especially appreciate the bit at the end, where you take a minute to talk about all the mistakes that lead up to the battle and caused the disaster of the aftermath. Incredibly well-done!
This is amazing. Awesome job sir. The Monty Python bit was a good start and by the Leeroy Jenkins went charging off, I was laughing out loud. Well done....very well done.
The funny thing is the Japanese were missing at first because they were convinced no mere destroyer would charge like that. They thought it was a battleship or at minimum a heavy cruiser. Therefore they thought it was a larger ship further away, and aimed over the destroyer until they were so close they could aim down enough to hit them at all
All the memes made it fun, but the key points were there. Should edit in a GI Joe "knowing is half the battle" image for your parting thoughts/lessons to learn.
*USS Johnston uses Confusion* *center force was confused* *it hurt itself in its confusion* *USS Johnston used Inspiration* *Taffy 3 lends its support*
Thank you for the video. There was a brief mention of the USS White Plains. My dad was aboard that ship. I'm reading "Last stand of the the tin can sailors" to get more insight as to the role it played. My dad didn't talk about it much.
See the photo @ 0.27. That is the USS White Plains _sinking_ IJN Chokai with a lucky hit on the torpedo tubes, blowing whole ship to SMITHEREENS! Yarggh! The substack of tcinla has that photo and the whole account of the solo 5-inch gunner hitting _Chokai_ 6 times at the gun's maximum range of 11,700 yards. That's about 6 nautical miles, within range of the gigantic Japanese 24-inch torpedoes. It seems likely to me the Chokai had her torpedo tubes trained outboard, about to fire, as opposed to tucked in to the ports in her hull where they would be protected from arcing fire from the 5-inch gun at maximum range. However this narrator, like most others, gives only partial credit to USS White Plains. But the photo says it all. And that gun was manually laid (aimed), no fancy fire control radar or turret like on a destroyer. That gunner knew his craft and shoulda got the Navy Cross or sumpin'.
Dude, I’m reading the book now and stumbled upon this. I hope you got an A on your project! Stylistically this reminds me a lot of the history of Japan video that went viral.
1. Well, the Japanese 'did' possess the ability to aim their main batteries by radar. Yamato was in fact using radar- assisted gunnery off Samar. The first- salvo hit which Yamato registered on Gambier Bay- at just under 22,000 yards- was aimed soley by the ship's Type 22 radar because Yamato lacked a visual to Gambier Bay until approximately one minute after she opened fire. 2. Chokai's torpedoes in her launchers were not detonated by a hit from White Plains' 5" gun. 3. Over 300 United States Navy aircraft participated in the battle. 4. Without taking anything away from the courageous efforts of the crews of our surface warships, the fact is that the Japanese warships sunk off Samar were sunk primarily as a result of air attacks. Otherwise, a fairly good video.
They don't mention the escort carrier's airplanes. While most didn't have proper anti ship weapons(torpedoes, armor piercing bombs). Instead they dropped depth charges on the jspanese ships, High explosive bombs[intended for land targets], fired rockets, strafed with their machine guns, and buzzed the Japanese ships. This added to the damage the destroyers and destroyer escorts did, This 'discombobulated' Admiral Kurita so badly that he decided to break off the battle, and retreat. (-I am not belittling the contribution of Johnston and the others, just pointing out others helped) One more thing-there are two quotes I remember reading, from the battle. I do not know who said them, but here they are: 1. "We're suckering them into 40 millimeter range@" 2. When the Japanese broke off and retreated:"They're getting away!"
The wreck was found and the torpedos were intact, so it was probably a friendly fire hit by the Kongo, as the Chokai was in the battleships line of fire, which makes the loss of the cruiser even more hilarious.
@@fabianzimmermann5495 The oxygen tanks could get hit and cause the damage without setting off the actual torpedo launchers. There is a bank of oxygen generators next to the launchers. It's the main problem with using pure oxygen as fuel.
The golden testicle award goes to the crews of taffy three. The woke generation of today with stand there and go oooh let’s make some tea and talk it over
If feel it could have went like that a bit: Captain of Samuel B Robert: fire the guns Crew: but sir we used all the ammo Captain: act like you guys are firing the gun then The japanese: *gets damage anyway*
The wreck of Chokai has been found, and she was not hit by the US CVE, and her torps had hence not exploded, but she had a bunch of 14" holes in her, so the IJN cruiser was actually hit by Kongo or Haruna !? Besides it was the 400 or so US aircrafts that did the most damage to the Japanese force.
Today 2023 we have more information about this battle, it explains more of what and why it happened. IJN Yamato was “wounded”, two armor piercing bombs already had struck it and it had taken a lot of tons of water. Apparently all sunk American ships were hit by Yamato’s primary and secondary artillery… one against one of the destroyers at 19 nautical miles distance making it the longest naval hit in history, by a lot! The IJN battleship group was not looking for a naval fight but to destroy the invading US force… the delay was enough to defeat this plan, so it’s nonsensical to claim the retreat to be a defeat, not reaching their destination was everything… probably the war would have lasted months if not until 1946 if this delay didn’t happened. IJN Yamato wounded was able to sink 4 ships and assist in the sinking of a 5th apparently. The USN Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts did the brave action in order to save the escort carriers, IMO these are the heroes of the battle… and villain must be the main US fleet’s commander. The discovery of the “little destroyer who fought like a battleship” is evidence of the three 18.1” hits, and how the crew claiming they were 14-15” was a confusion only, who can blame them (shells went thru with out exploding, aka “tin cans”) This story from both sides deserves to be made public thru television or movie… but then again so many more deserve that chance too. Enough remakes! Geez
Well, the reasons for this aren't entirely true in this video. Center force was engaged the day prior and was sent retreating back to Japan till they circled around anyways. That's how the Japanese lost Yamato's sister ship the Musashi. The americans thought the threat had been beaten and sent running
You didn't even mention the fighter who shot a pistol at the Japanese ships. Your pronunciation could use some clean up if I'm honest, it can be a little distracting, never thought I'd say this but the meme usage was excessive, especially the Leeroy Jenkins, that's outdated even by my standards and cranked a fair bit too loud for the rest of the video. There's also details of how the Navy fuck up happened that was left out, but yes it was a lack of communication and issues in organization that were a rather continuous issue in many American actions. In general it needs some tightening up and there's a bunch of cool shit missing, didn't really go over the carrier actions at all, but it's a solid piece.
The only differences between the narrator's cartoon voice-over and Drachinifel's much more professional - and much more entertaining - narration is this page's almost word-for-word description of said Drachinifel but delivered with an annoying VO and equally annoying graphics. When are your braces getting removed?
The attitude of the roberts is basically:
"I paid for the whole destroyer escort, so I'm gonna use the whole god damn destroyer escort!"
sin to use gods name in vain
@@jackbloomer1334 Whoo boy then I am going straight to the lowest pit of hell because I take the name of the lord in vain on a daily basis
@@jackbloomer1334 also a sin to eat shrimp 💀
@@jackbloomer1334 you see the trick to not sin by saying god in vain is simply to sin by not believing? Crazy huh? Because not everybody is christian
@@hyennavernhyavonragnarok3999 Yep, if you do not believe in that religion, than you can in no way blaspheme that religion.
Fun fact: an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate would be named after the Samuel B. Roberts. This Roberts would strike a mine which snapped her keel in two, almost always a death sentence for any ship. But apparently being named Samuel B. Roberts gives a ship the ability to spit in the eye of Davy Jones, because they managed to stop the flooding and reinforce the hull enough to make it to port.
Another thing that wasn’t mentioned in the video was that just because they hadn’t had enough, after the battle Taffy 3 was attacked by the very first organized Kamikaze attack, which sank another escort carrier.
The Saint Louis
@@cfgeneric7677 No, the St Lo, not St Louis. Originally named Midway to commemorate the Battle of Midway, she was renamed Saint-Lô (after a battle during the D-Day invasion in France) to free up the name Midway to go on one of the new battle carriers. They always say that it is bad luck to change the name of the ship once it has been launched. Changing the name of a ship or boat is very bad luck. She was sunk on Oct 25th, 15 days after the name change.
This is possibly the best breakdown of the Battle off Samar ever
I would look up drachinifels version as well.
If you have an afternoon free watch Drachinifel
@@ieuanhunt552 Nah if you have a free week read “The Last Stand of The Tin Can Sailors”
Well, everybody said what I was gonna say. So yeah, they are right.
Because the Samuel B Roberts was so small the Chikuma(sp?) was not able to depress it's guns low enough to hit the Roberts making all of it shot sail right over it as the Roberts blasted it to pieces.
As the Johnston was sinking a Japanese destroyer came in close by. Her commander then came to attention and saluted the valiant destroyer as she slipped beneath the waves. Amazing video. Had me rolling throughout!
Actually, one of the best stories told after the war I read in "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour Paperback - March 29, 2005. In it he relates that after the war and the USN got ahold of the IJN papers including Kurita's report of the battle. Someone remarked to Admiral Sprague about the Battle "according to Kurita's report, the carriers were running away at 30Knots(the CVE's could only make 20 at most) the man said to Sprague I KNEW you were scared, but I didn't know you were THAT scared!" Kurita had mistaken the escort carriers for the fleet carriers that COULD go at 30 knots.
@@williamhalejr.4289Yeah, through the entire battle Kurita thought he had fleet carriers and their full sized escorts under his guns. Amazing book, may Mr. Hornfischer rest in peace
The destroyer was actually the IJN Yukikaze, she's a very famous ship as well, she was the only Kagero class to survive the war and was known as a VERY lucky ship.
The brave sailors who on the morning of October 25, 1944 accomplished something astounding. These small Destroyers, primarily the USS Hoel, USS Heerman, USS Johnston and the USS Samuel B. Roberts were able to disperse and retreat a far superior Japanese Fleet whose flagship was the largest warship in the world, the IJN Yamato. The Japanese didn't realize that they could have blown through the American Escort Carrier groups without much risk, killing thousands and sinking every American ship in sight. Because of the aggressive and heroic nature of our attacking Destroyers, these men saved thousands of lives. After the war, Imperial Japanese Navy's Admiral Kurita was debriefed by the U.S. military:
"I moved only with the knowledge that I was able to acquire with my own eyes and did not realize how close I was to Victory. I see now that it was very regrettable that I did not push on at the time."
It was the men on these Destroyers who stopped him. To say we are proud of them is an understatement. We are deeply thankful for their service and for their sacrifices for the privileges of freedom. These were warriors when our Country asked.
Do note the importance of Taffy 1 and especially Taffy 2 in launching air attacks against Centre Force. Especially because Taffy 2 had anti-ship weapons like aerial torpedoes even from the start of the battle, making them actually dangerous (Taffy 1 and Taffy 3 rearmed later in the battle for the same reason).
6 destroyers and 1 light cruiser VS THEJOHNSTON.
Now that's a fair fight
@@americana_incarnate1717 you beat me too it damnit.
Samuel B. Roberts Crewmember: Captain we're out of star shells
Captain: THEN LOAD THE POTATOES (runs out of potatoes) BREAK UP THE FURNITURE, (RUNS OUT OF FURNITURE) GET THE SILVERWARE (runs out of silverware) LOAD THE MASCOT (uses the Mascot) LOAD YOURSELVES
🤣🤣🤣 that is funny. Also love your videos
LOAD THE SHIP! AND THE KITCHEN SINK!
@@Equinerhael We used the sink first thing…..
So glad America saved all the plot armor cards it didn’t use during Midway for this battle.
Then you didn’t pay attention to the battle of Midway. Yorktown used up at least three all by itself, Enterprise at least 2.
@@Isolder74
I did… and they clearly still had some leftover for Samar.
@@stevenchoza6391 I’m sure Enterprise never ran out.
@@Isolder74
It might’ve at Okinawa, given what that one Kamikaze did (even if it didn’t sink, it was knocked out of the war).
@@stevenchoza6391 that was probably its last one which is why she became refrigerators.
“Halsey behaved stupidly!” Sean Connery in the “Hunt for Red October” the writer of the movie was right!
And Taffy 3 had to pick up his mess.
That is a matter of opinion that is NOT universal. Halsey's planes had bombed the center force the day before and sank the Musashi among others and damaged the rest of the fleet into turning around. They had driven off the center force when news of the approaching IJN carriers were coming south from Japan. Halsey DID NOT know that the carriers had basically no aircraft and pilots remaining and that this was a sacrifice force. The Center force that had been fleeing then turned around in the middle of the night. The battleship portion of Halsey's fast carrier fleet was supposed to remain to guard the invasion fleet, but through it was believed a clerical error, they went with Halsey chasing after the incoming carriers.
Extremely well done!!! I will point out the _Kongo's_ 14" is most likely what hit _Johnston's_ bridge.
As far as i am aware, it was Yamato's secondary batteries that struck the johnston
@@emilbt7588 Specifically the 6 inch battery.
Kongo wasn’t even shooting at Johnston when that happened. The whole idea she actually did much of anything in this battle is one of many things wrong with the traditional narrative of Samar; most if not all of her supposed hits here were delivered by the Japanese cruisers or even by Yamato (not that this actually justifies Yamato’s construction).
Nope, according to Yamato’s official after action report, she hit and “sunk” an enemy “cruiser” at pretty much the exact moment that Johnston was hit. Three main 18.1 inch shells gutted the engine room while three secondary 6.1 inch shells blasted the bridge.
@@Shaun_Jones Yep
Well done. The Battle off Samar as part of the larger Battle of Leyte Gulf has been one of my favorite naval engagements to study.
You’re humor is pretty funny. Keep doing what you do man.
Congratulations sir, you had me in tears when the Johnston burst through the wall.
One other thing that was going on, that sometimes gets missed is the planes. The Japanese Navy had no air cover. They had just lost several hundred planes the week before Leyte began when an American Carrier force snuck to Formosa (Taiwan) and in three days of non stop attacks had pulverized the last remnants of Japanese naval air power. The Japanese Navy sent every plane they had into that fight only to lose them all. All the planes that were supposed to protect Kurita’s fleet. So Kurita sailed without knowing he would not have any air cover. He found out about it the day before Samar, when the full force of the 15 Fleet Carrier 3rd Fleets AirPower fell on him in the Siobyan Straight. Sinking 3 Cruisers and the Yamato’s sister the Musashi. Halsey went to chase the decoy because he thought Kurita was in retreat. Then when Kurita popped up in front of Taffy 3, Admireal Spague had his 6 escort Carriers launch every plane. They were only armed for ground attacks and anti sub patrols. Nothing that would harm a Battleship. But after the day before the Japanese couldn’t ignore them. So the Taffy 6 Avengers and FN2 Wildcats bravely harassed the Japanese ships. Dropped small fragmentation bombs and Napalm on them. Dropped depth charges on the ships. Straffed them until they ran out of ammo, then kept still making attack runs forcing the Japanese to maneuver and react. The Japanese were fighting a swarm of angry bees while the Johnston was crotch kicking them. And then the planes from Taffy 2 and Taffy 1 started showing up. They were coming in in more organized waves. And Taffy 1 had even managed to get a few Torpedos and AP bombs loaded. Kurita thought they were Halsey’s 3rd fleet arriving, and without air cover he would have no chance. That’s when he decided to call it a day. Also it wasn’t a “nice day. It was overcast with scattered squalls. The Japanese were never able to get a good look at what they were facing. They never realized it was just a handful of small unarmored ships. All Kurita could see was mostly his own ships on fire. Well that and the completely Mad Dog insane Johnston attacking and sinking his cruisers. Sammy B’s Star Shells plus a few scattered canisters of Napalm made Kurita think his ships were much more damaged then they were.
100% correct. The importance and bravery of the Navy airmen during this battle are continuously understated. Even if Kurita managed to destroy and drive off Taffy 3, they would have kept up their attacks. The other Taffys were refueling and rearming planes as quick as they could and throwing them back into the fight. Even the primitive airstrips on Leyte were getting into the action. One pilot, er... Naval Aviator, led a team off into the jungle to scrounge a spare wing off of a wreck to put his plane back into the air during the fight. The battle was organized chaos across the board and quite frankly I don't think the Japanese were ready for that kind of response. The weaker side was supposed to demure in a near peer engagement. But they didn't because they were so incredibly weak that it wasn't near peer. It was a last stand action that should be fought to the death. So that is what they did.
Fun video, makes me wonder what would have happened if the Japenese had gotten by Taffy 3 and actually made it to the invasion beaches, after all, there were more destroyers there.
My one complaint is you ignored the fact that the Escort Carriers supplied aircraft to the attack as did the nearby islands. One of the theroies as to why Kurita retreated was they were being attacked by skip bombing B-25's and Kurieta had read an intellegence report that the Americans were using B-24s as torpedo bombers which he mistook the B-25s for.
Finally, one of my favoite lines from WW2 happened in this battle. When the Japanese turned away a sailor on the Gamblier Bay was reported to have exclaimed. "Dammit! They're getting away!"
That was from the St Lo not Gambier Bay which had sunk at that point.
@@Isolder74 Okay, thanks for info.
I just watched another version of this, of about the same length, with 800,000 views and 25,000 likes and this version is 100x times better in literally every way. (Sadly, we do have a slight correct as Chokai's torpedoes were eventually found to be unexploded, meaning White Plains probably doesn't get credit for the kill, though they definitely get credit for scoring several hits. )
I especially appreciate the bit at the end, where you take a minute to talk about all the mistakes that lead up to the battle and caused the disaster of the aftermath.
Incredibly well-done!
Top tier content
Top tier action! I loved what the USN sailor said
“Damnit boys their getting away!”
"When, knock knock guess who it is. IT'S THE USS JOHNSTON!!!
Lmao. We are out of ammo what do we do? Shoot flares at them. Light them up
This is ART
This is amazing. Awesome job sir. The Monty Python bit was a good start and by the Leeroy Jenkins went charging off, I was laughing out loud. Well done....very well done.
A new approach to an old story, well done. Please do more video's, you have a great talent here.
Actually laughed at the Leroy Jenkins
The funny thing is the Japanese were missing at first because they were convinced no mere destroyer would charge like that. They thought it was a battleship or at minimum a heavy cruiser. Therefore they thought it was a larger ship further away, and aimed over the destroyer until they were so close they could aim down enough to hit them at all
All the memes made it fun, but the key points were there. Should edit in a GI Joe "knowing is half the battle" image for your parting thoughts/lessons to learn.
*USS Johnston uses Confusion*
*center force was confused*
*it hurt itself in its confusion*
*USS Johnston used Inspiration*
*Taffy 3 lends its support*
By far my favorite WW2 story. This was a uniquely presented version of this story, and I enjoyed it immensely. Good work...
Thank you for the video. There was a brief mention of the USS White Plains. My dad was aboard that ship. I'm reading "Last stand of the the tin can sailors" to get more insight as to the role it played. My dad didn't talk about it much.
See the photo @ 0.27. That is the USS White Plains _sinking_ IJN Chokai with a lucky hit on the torpedo tubes, blowing whole ship to SMITHEREENS! Yarggh! The substack of tcinla has that photo and the whole account of the solo 5-inch gunner hitting _Chokai_ 6 times at the gun's maximum range of 11,700 yards. That's about 6 nautical miles, within range of the gigantic Japanese 24-inch torpedoes. It seems likely to me the Chokai had her torpedo tubes trained outboard, about to fire, as opposed to tucked in to the ports in her hull where they would be protected from arcing fire from the 5-inch gun at maximum range. However this narrator, like most others, gives only partial credit to USS White Plains. But the photo says it all. And that gun was manually laid (aimed), no fancy fire control radar or turret like on a destroyer. That gunner knew his craft and shoulda got the Navy Cross or sumpin'.
The Johnston was a honey badger that day
Thank you for the reflection at the end of the video. Well stated.
Very well done account of the Battle of Samar - Hilarious & Informative. Bravo!
This video is legendary.
Dude, I’m reading the book now and stumbled upon this. I hope you got an A on your project! Stylistically this reminds me a lot of the history of Japan video that went viral.
This was entertaining as hell. Nice video and memes. I liked the lessons to be learned at the end to very often overlooked.
"Fleetmaster, they outnumber us 6 to 1!"
"Then it is an even fight."
This is a very underrated video
1. Well, the Japanese 'did' possess the ability to aim their main batteries by radar. Yamato was in fact using radar- assisted gunnery off Samar. The first- salvo hit which Yamato registered on Gambier Bay- at just under 22,000 yards- was aimed soley by the ship's Type 22 radar because Yamato lacked a visual to Gambier Bay until approximately one minute after she opened fire.
2. Chokai's torpedoes in her launchers were not detonated by a hit from White Plains' 5" gun.
3. Over 300 United States Navy aircraft participated in the battle.
4. Without taking anything away from the courageous efforts of the crews of our surface warships, the fact is that the Japanese warships sunk off Samar were sunk primarily as a result of air attacks.
Otherwise, a fairly good video.
Great clear explanation right to the point I enjoyed understanding what happened clrearly. Congratulations.
10/10! I need more of these - like one for every other sea battle. Ms. Smith please assign more of these 😊
They don't mention the escort carrier's airplanes. While most didn't have proper anti ship weapons(torpedoes, armor piercing bombs). Instead they dropped depth charges on the jspanese ships, High explosive bombs[intended for land targets], fired rockets, strafed with their machine guns, and buzzed the Japanese ships. This added to the damage the destroyers and destroyer escorts did, This 'discombobulated' Admiral Kurita so badly that he decided to break off the battle, and retreat. (-I am not belittling the contribution of Johnston and the others, just pointing out others helped)
One more thing-there are two quotes I remember reading, from the battle. I do not know who said them, but here they are:
1. "We're suckering them into 40 millimeter range@"
2. When the Japanese broke off and retreated:"They're getting away!"
Apparently "Bull" Halsey hated his nickname but really earned it here.
This deserves a million plus views
Shipmaster, they outnumber us 23 to 1:
The USS Johnston: then it is an even fight
Ok that was a lot of fun too watch.
as fellow cultured of memeing, i much appriciate this very much
This is a masterpiece
Imagine being on any of those fucking boats that day… that’s fucking crazy
Absolute Masterpiece
When school project memes are better than RUclips videos. Good one m8
I love the memes, but I also love the breakdown at the end. Excellent video.
History in memes. Love it
This is wonderful. Such fun.
The only Japanese ship in the fleet with radar was the Yamato
Very simple. Very entertaining. Very funny.
And, you did justice to the sailors of Taffy 3.
They was some debate on weather it was a 5-inch shell or a plane’s bomb that blown up the oxygen torpedo launchers
The wreck was found and the torpedos were intact, so it was probably a friendly fire hit by the Kongo, as the Chokai was in the battleships line of fire, which makes the loss of the cruiser even more hilarious.
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@@fabianzimmermann5495 The oxygen tanks could get hit and cause the damage without setting off the actual torpedo launchers. There is a bank of oxygen generators next to the launchers. It's the main problem with using pure oxygen as fuel.
Great video fantastic hilarious edits
glad this was in my recomended
Underrated Channel
You made that as school project? Damn, that is impressive. Good work, you should do more stuff like that.
Bro your video is legend and make my day
you make more vids like this and imma sub so fast
if this is how history is taught when i was a kid, id replay this sh*t until i get A+
The golden testicle award goes to the crews of taffy three. The woke generation of today with stand there and go oooh let’s make some tea and talk it over
We have you 7to1. Johnston I like those odds
Nice video if you keep on making these videos you could get a lot of views
This video deserve attention
If feel it could have went like that a bit:
Captain of Samuel B Robert: fire the guns
Crew: but sir we used all the ammo
Captain: act like you guys are firing the gun then
The japanese: *gets damage anyway*
Good info, love the memes both new (Leroy Jenkins!) and old (coolaid man)!
Make more videos
Reality is stranger than fiction
The wreck of Chokai has been found, and she was not hit by the US CVE, and her torps had hence not exploded, but she had a bunch of 14" holes in her, so the IJN cruiser was actually hit by Kongo or Haruna !? Besides it was the 400 or so US aircrafts that did the most damage to the Japanese force.
Meme+History
Please make more XD
Today 2023 we have more information about this battle, it explains more of what and why it happened.
IJN Yamato was “wounded”, two armor piercing bombs already had struck it and it had taken a lot of tons of water.
Apparently all sunk American ships were hit by Yamato’s primary and secondary artillery… one against one of the destroyers at 19 nautical miles distance making it the longest naval hit in history, by a lot!
The IJN battleship group was not looking for a naval fight but to destroy the invading US force… the delay was enough to defeat this plan, so it’s nonsensical to claim the retreat to be a defeat, not reaching their destination was everything… probably the war would have lasted months if not until 1946 if this delay didn’t happened.
IJN Yamato wounded was able to sink 4 ships and assist in the sinking of a 5th apparently.
The USN Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts did the brave action in order to save the escort carriers, IMO these are the heroes of the battle… and villain must be the main US fleet’s commander.
The discovery of the “little destroyer who fought like a battleship” is evidence of the three 18.1” hits, and how the crew claiming they were 14-15” was a confusion only, who can blame them (shells went thru with out exploding, aka “tin cans”)
This story from both sides deserves to be made public thru television or movie… but then again so many more deserve that chance too.
Enough remakes! Geez
S tier editing on all accounts
Even if a meme video, It's still a great video.
I hope you got an A
Well, the reasons for this aren't entirely true in this video. Center force was engaged the day prior and was sent retreating back to Japan till they circled around anyways. That's how the Japanese lost Yamato's sister ship the Musashi. The americans thought the threat had been beaten and sent running
>USS Johnston bursts through the wall
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Hey dude can i use de video for a school presentation? I wont use tge sound just the video
Amazing
Wow what a nive meme
anyone else learned about this from dogfights
yup! I grew up watching that show as a kid
Can someone recommend me channels like this?
Gg
You didn't even mention the fighter who shot a pistol at the Japanese ships.
Your pronunciation could use some clean up if I'm honest, it can be a little distracting, never thought I'd say this but the meme usage was excessive, especially the Leeroy Jenkins, that's outdated even by my standards and cranked a fair bit too loud for the rest of the video. There's also details of how the Navy fuck up happened that was left out, but yes it was a lack of communication and issues in organization that were a rather continuous issue in many American actions. In general it needs some tightening up and there's a bunch of cool shit missing, didn't really go over the carrier actions at all, but it's a solid piece.
Maybe some good constructive criticism, nonetheless, this video is absolutely Brilliant and Hilarious! Very Well Done Sir!
The only differences between the narrator's cartoon voice-over and Drachinifel's much more professional - and much more entertaining - narration is this page's almost word-for-word description of said Drachinifel but delivered with an annoying VO and equally annoying graphics.
When are your braces getting removed?