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Counterpoint: Though it may not have been the biggest, it was still pivotal on the eastern front of WW2. I agree with the first poster - Leyte and Kursk would be really interesting.
The 3 Japanese carriers that were hit were operating in relatively close proximity while Hiryu and it's escort was separated from the main IJN carrier force. That's why Hiryu wasn't hit at the time the other 3 were. Also, it wasn't a single US torpedo bomber attack but 3 uncoordinated torpedo bomber attack - and they were slaughtered almost to a man. The TBD Devastator was retired from service after this battle, replaced by the new TBF Avenger. Unknown to the Japanese, the USS Nautilus provided the key to the dive bombers finding the carriers. The destroyer Arashi had tried to sink Nautilus earlier in the battle for making torpedo attacks on the Japanese fleet, but failing to find the submarine, and was streaming to rejoin the fleet. This ship all but pointed the lost dive bombers it the right direction.
"3 uncoordinated torpedo bomber attack - and they were slaughtered almost to a man.'' True, and worst part is that they knew they were going on a suicide mission. They knew the ancient planes had no chance of survival against the Japanese Zeros and AA guns. The men of VT-8 were all told to write letters to their loved ones before they took off and give them to another sailor to send home after they are killed later that day. The squadron leader Walton went around the ship shaking hands and telling his friends goodbye before leading his men to their planes and giving them their final order - "We will strike, regardless of the consequences.” The Japanese are remembered for their Kamikaze pilots who used their planes as missiles against US ships but actually the first suicide attack of the war came from a B-26 at Midway who missed the bridge of the Akagi by only a few feet, nearly killing Nagumo and his command staff in the opening minutes of the battle. All of them are heros, much like Doris Day and his .50 at Pearl Harbor. Captain Ernest E. Evans and the men of Taffy 3 who charged a massive Japanese fleet led by the battleship Yamato and slugged it out in their tiny "tin can" destroyers. Machinist Donald K. Ross who kept the dynamo running on the USS Nevada as the old battleship desperately fought her way to open ocean during the Pearl Harbor attack. The Nevada suffered two torpedo attacks and 10 bombs as the Japanese focused on making sure the ship couldn't leave the harbor. Ross, badly injured and blinded, ordered his men to evacuate the burning dynamo room but he stayed behind because he knew if the ship lost power they were doomed. The next attack rendered him unconscious. He was rescued and resuscitated only to run back to his station. Minutes later he passed out again. Dragged out once more, he awoke and ran to the aft dynamo room where he worked until he was finally ordered to abandon ship. Along with so many more men that history has largely forgotten. It's funny that both Hitler and Tojo judged Americans as decadent and effeminate, not a warrior race like the Germans and Japanese. They judged wrong.
Also, Japanese carrier decks were not laden with aircraft, fuel and munitions as portrayed by multiple media including this one. They were in fact cleared due to the constant CAP (combat air patrol, or fighter) ops. The piecemeal/scattered attacks meant the Japanese were constantly driving off wave after wave of bombers, meaning they had no time to prepare planes for the supposed strike. This is evidenced by the delay it took for Hiryu to launch its counterattack, had they been laden with aircraft and munitions in preparation for the supposed strike Hiryu would have responded sooner. Finally it wasn't so much the vertical separation of the Japanese CAP that led to their fighters missing the dive bombers, so much as the lack of central directors and horizontal separation of the fighters from the attacking bombers. The A6M Zekes could easily climb to catch the dive bombers but were simply to far away from the new attackers
@@captaindusty4884 Add to the fact that many of the Zeros were low on ammunition from fending off repeated air attacks. There were so many factors that gave the VB and VS squadrons a free shot. The Kido Butai could have been better served by a light carrier providing Scouting Aircraft and augmenting the CAP of the fleet. One handycap of the IJNAF is the relucance to use carrier strike aircraft as scouts. The Soryu did have a detactment of two fast D4Y scouts but they were used too late.
You've gotta do the Normandy Landing Binkov every game, movie, tv show, documentary, book, and dramatic reading does their version of god damn Normandy.
It's interesting to consider that the US's first production class of purpose-built carriers (Ranger was a one-off and the Lexington-class was converted from battlecruisers) proved more hardy than Japan's armored carrier Taihou. Both Hornet and Yorktown carriers took immense punishment before finally succumbing. It goes to show that there's more to performance than what's on paper.
ソウタ.ブリーズ indeed, the damage control on the Yorktown was really good. Taihou, on the other hand, practically sunk itself after a very survivable torpedo hit.
@Random.exe Hirohito did no warcrime. In fact a lot of people who should have been charged with warcrimes got away while other innocent people were charged.
caif4 attacking pearl harbor. attacking guam. attacking Phillipine islands. attacking wake island. attacking and occupying Alaska. what is that? not a warcrime?
@@one7decimal2eight First none of those are warcrimes or should we say the US attacking saipan, Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Okinawa, occupying Japan, etc are warcrimes? Second, all of those were planned and carried out by military officers and not the emperor.
Oh god That green repair wrench! it makes me think of the old RTS games like C&C: Red Alert, love it. Also, great vid. They need to start playing these video's during modern history classes.
Before EA fucked everything up, good ol' times. I am currently studying to become a history teacher and I have considered this, but then again, videos lack of the proper interactivity to ensure your students actually learn what you're showing.
Midway exemplifies the problems with Japanese leadership at the time. Many were hardliners and unwilling to shift their plans when a new problem presented itself, this was partly because many members of opposing viewpoints had been purged or silenced by factional squabbles. This attitude is how Japan ended up fighting so many countries at once with no real goal rather than just focusing on the territory they wanted on the East Asian coastline.
Honestly, I don't entirely blame the Japanese admirals for this battle. They were essentially fighting with one arm tied behind their backs. That coupled with the fact that disorganized attacks from Midway and the American carriers ended up making it impossible for them to counterattack until it was too late
Every time i watch a recap of this battle i am appalled at the huge amount of luck the americans had. Then again, it was Japanese's fault to go for those risky missions knowing you can't cope in case of failure; and americans had all the intelligence. Then again it was all fault of totalitarian warring culture, to arrogantly believe that huge operational disadvantages can be overcome with sheer tactical triumph.
It's well considered that even if America lost the sea battle Japan would have failed the naval invasion. (basing it off of what America needed when invading Japanese islands) the Japanese would have not only been outgunned by the Americans but also outnumbered and it's generally considered impossible to successfully invade when outnumbered. (assuming both sides are equally equipt).
Something to keep in mind, is that the US had already written off the island, all aircraft in the fight, and a reinforced division of marines on the island off as acceptable losses. The US could take losses that the Japanese could not, and thus Japan was going to lose no matter what happened at any individual battle.
It interesting considering the Imperial Japanese had no real Naval defeats until Midway (and had several victories in the Java Sea, Sunda Strait, Indian Ocean, sinking the Prince of Wales and Repulse, etc.)
Remember, US having intelligence with radio intercepts and the other advantages they had are all part of the battle. Radio intelligence is a force multiplier and may as well be like having more assets in equivalence.
the loss of mechanics and aircraft service crews had huge impact. planes don't fly without service personnel, and those experienced crews were irreplaceable. after the battle, us aircrews rotated back to the states to train more pilots. they just got better and better. and the USN soon replaced their shitty torpedoes. and upgraded their fighter/bombers. the war was over by 1944 when the US submarine force destroyed 90% of the japanese merchant fleet. the real victory was how the subs starved the japanese for food and fuel.
Taffy 3, especially Samuel B Roberts, along with the Johnston's suicide run against Yamato and the heavy cruisers. One of the battleship's turrets weighed more than Evans entire ship but he didn't give a shit. "Survival cannot be expected, we will do what damage we can."
Tactically, Japan won coral sea. We destroyed one escort carrier sunk and crippled one fleet carrier in exchange for one fleet carrier and a second fleet carrier crippled. Strategically, we won because the lack of carrier air power caused Japan to abort invading a British colony in the area.
Comrade Binkov! More of these. It would be great to see an analysis of the military tactics used in famous battles / examples of excellent military tactics.
One small inaccuracy in the video. USS Yorktown wasn't being towed to harbour, the crew were trying to damage control/salvage the ship when the Japanese I-168 made a torpedo attack striking the Yorktown and the destroyer USS Hammann
Another major factor in the planning was that Adml.. Yammoto's plan depended on total surprise. He never considered that the U.S. would learn of the plan and there for had no back up or contingency plans for it. Also, many of his own staff were against it because it was so complex. If threaten to resign if they didn't do it his way.
5:26 The Japanese thought this was an intentional suicide decoy mission by the US Torpedo bombers. The Torpedo bombers came in without fighter escort, and got slaughtered but drew the Japanese fighters away just in time for the US dive bombers to attack the carriers without being harassed by any Japanese fighters Those Torpedo bomber pilots had guts and paid a heavy price for this county but in doing so their sacrifice helped sink 3 Japanese carriers (and eventually a 4th), turn the tide of the Battle of Midway and the tide of the entire War in the Pacific. May they Rest in Peace even though they have no formal graves
In terms of Japanese Naval Aviation, Midway in June 1942 was obviously a disaster. But only a few months later in August 1942 , the Allies mount the offensive for Guadalcanal. In the ensuing year of bitter fighting for Guadalcanal, whatever elite pilots the IJN had were lost in the meat grinder of Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands. There'd be several more Carrier engagements around Guadalcanal, each costing the Japanese more of their precious elite aviators. Not only that, those surviving pilots from Midway, etc. were posted in Rabaul and many died fighting over Guadalcanal. By the time Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands were irrevocably lost by the Japanese in 1943, their Naval Aviators had suffered such horrific losses that it would take them 1 year to get enough pilots to staff their carrier air groups again. Their early war veteran pilots were gone. The Americans are sending fully trained pilots from the states, new airplanes like the Hellcat, Corsair. The existing pilots they had continue to gain flight and combat experience each day. When the Japanese Navy finally felt good enough with their Carrier force to send them into combat, they do so in 1944 for the Battle of the Philippine Sea, a.k.a. "The Marianas Turkey Shoot." The Japanese aviators were too inexperienced and thrown against veteran US pilots with their new planes, as well as formidable ship anti-aircraft artillery. It was a slaughter, and from this point on, IJN Naval Aviation would no longer play a significant role. When the Japanese Carriers would be sent again late in 1944 for the Battle of Leyte Gulf, they would only act as a decoy force with barely any planes.
A couple of errors: The torpedoes that were fired at the Yorktown - one hit the Yorktown, and one hit the destroyer Hammann; and both sunk. Also, in the first US carrier attack waves in the morning, the Hiryu was not attacked at all. And finally, there was another Japanese fleet that attacked the Aleutian Islands as part of the plan. (Source: Incredible Victory, by Walter Lord.)
9:00 Finding the Yorktown immobilized was a stroke of luck BUT sneaking in through the destroyer picket line was an accomplishment indeed AND the Japanese submarine got away. Respect.
6:40 Two myths: 1. The strike force was not on the flight deck but the hangars. The Japanese fleet could not spot aircraft during evasive maneuvers. 2. The Zero could climb from sea level to 10k feet in 5 minutes. The real issue was the Thach Weave. The American fighters tied up so many Japanese fighters that the Japanese were not looking for dive bombers and were far away from the carriers they were supposed to protect.
I see several suggestions and if I may add on, the Battle of Jutland was the only major battle of Dreadnaught battleships in history and is really interesting when looking at it moment by moment.
Again, no, it was just the largest. The Russians had numerous engagements between their newly built and launched Dreadnaughts and the lone "ottomon"BC in the Black Sea, French and Italian DNs clashed with German DNs in the Mediterranean, and German and British DNs dueled in the south atlantic.
Aluetian islands force was the bait for the Midway trap. The plan was hope that the US would rush to defend Alaska, giving the Japanese the time to take the Midway atoll. The Japanese could then lie in wait for the Americans and destroy their carriers once and for all.
Yep but we knew it was just bait because we had broken their code. We knew the real attack was on an island but weren't sure which one it was so we had the commander of Midway send an non-coded message to Pearl Harbor that the water purifiers were broken. Shortly afterwords the Japanese sent a message saying their target needed repairs on the water purifiers. Bingo.
The Aluetian Islands operation was _not_ a bait. This myth was dispelled by Shattered Sword, and was dispelled in Japanese literature decades before the writing of Shattered Sword. The Aluetian Islands operation was a mission undertaken as an opportunistic invasion. Since the US fleet would be distracted at Midway, the Japanese could grab the islands without much opposition. At least, that was the logic used by the Japanese. This much is made perfectly clear by Japanese documents and war plans.
one thing that's striking about this sort of naval campaign is just how widely dispersed the units supporting each other are - literally hundreds or thousands of miles apart. Without terrain to navigate around, the ocean becomes one BIG chess board
Japanese have two characteristics：First，a plan is done in a particularly detailed and detailed manner。What is the use of planning？Things always change，The plan has not changed fast。However， when the Japanese encounter an unexpected situation, they will collectively crash。Second， it is very Stingy。Japanese are very concerned about the amount of input。And Americans don’t care much about the amount of input，Because the amount of input is nothing compared to the output。Nagumo Chūichi' reason for not To order planes to leave after discovering the US carrier is that there is no fighter escort，Because If he ordered the plane to fly，the loss will be great。however，Spruance lost dozens of torpedo bomber but switched to the result of sinking four Japanese carriers。
Overall a good report but the Japanese carrier decks were relatively clear. The Planes were still in the hangar decks but Fujita started a myth that the IJN was nearly ready to attack. This has been debunked. Fujita was just trying to save face. The IJN sub did not stumble across the Yorktown, it was tasked with finding and sinking it. Also the US was deciphering about 10-15% of the JB25 code.
Binkov, you forgot about Jimmy Thatch! He and two of his men were able to hold up over a dozen Zeroes while using his famous Thatch Weave. Which was also the first use of it, as the three men were all that were left of their squadron!
Lesson 1. Never put all your air craft cariers in one spot. 2. Send out decoy plans so even if your enemy decifers your codes it splits them up. Weakens and confuses the enemy.
Japan couldn't use their other two main carriers, as the one was damaged and needed to be fixed and the other had lost over 3/4 of their planes. One of the reasons why we won was because of Midway and their constant attacks. The Japanese couldn't launch an airstrike while being attacked. If you are interested in the battle then watch Montemayor video. I too would love to see the battle of Kursk,
It's my understanding that Midway was the major turning point. After midway the US went on the offensive and the Japanese Empire, while fighting well, was eventually overcome by the USA's far greater economic capacity.
The japanese carrier decks were not full - there is even pictures from the attack with them empty. "In Shattered Sword, Parshall and Tully provide an alternate time sequence and explanation of the events on the morning of 4 June, claiming that because of the nearly constant attacks by American aircraft and the necessity of retrieving combat air patrol (CAP) aircraft, it was the maneuvering of the Japanese carriers that hindered rearming operations and the spotting of the strike force aircraft.15 The two books’ tactical explanations for Nagumo’s inability to launch a strike against the American carriers that morning differ, but the overall conclusion of both books is that Nagumo was nowhere near being ready for such a strike-and hence the miraculous coincidence of Fuchida’s “fatal five minutes” is greatly diminished. Photographic evidence taken of the carriers maneuvering to avoid early morning air attacks clearly shows empty flight decks, except for a handful of CAP fighters"
Could you do the falkland islands conflict between Britain and Argentina in 1982. e.g. Sinking of the ARA General Belgrano and the Battle of Goose green
I'm sorry to have to correct this, but the Zero's that went after Torpedo 8 had plenty of time to get back up to altitude. VT-8 arrived at 0938, then VT-6 got there around 20 minutes later with similar results. The dive bombers weren't involved until after 10am. So it makes no sense at all to say that Torpedo 8 drew the fighters down to sea level and saved the dive bombers. Any fighter of that era could have been back up to altitude within that time frame with room to spare. Also alot of people claim that this was a miracle or an amazing triumph for the Americans to have won such a lop-sided battle, but realitically the odds were slightly favored towards the Americans. They had 3 carriers, plus a 4th unsinkable carrier called Midway island. The greater portion of the Japanese force was scattered around and unable to support each other. The Japanese had fewer aircraft, but excellent tactics and experience in their favor to counter the USN's numerical superiority. The Americans had the advantage of surprise, but it was offset by their awful inability to launch a large coordinated multi-carrier strike, which the Japanese managed as a matter of routine. One last note: according to the Japanese logs, the decks were so busy conducting CAP landings and take-offs that they had no chance to load the decks with their strike force which was still being re-armed below decks anyway. So the myth of the decks being loaded down and vulnerable to the air strikes is also false. The constant air attacks had slow down the rearming process, can you imagine trying to rearm an airplane while it veered around avoiding bombs from Midway and torpedos from the carriers? Must have been hell in the hangars. In many ways is was probably worse that the strike aircraft were below since the bombs pierced the decks and landed among them down there.
@@trevynlane8094 I know, and its sad that Lucky E was scraped after she returned to US. But all of these ships played a huge part in the war and they won't be forgoten.
Trevyn Lane CV-3 Saratoga was the other U.S Pacific Aircraft Carrier to survive the war too (along with CV-6 Enterprise). CV-4 Ranger who was in the Atlantic throughout the war would also survive as well.
@@Nuke89345 Ranger was not a fleet carrier, she was a light carrier, with half the capacity of a Lexington class CV and 10 knots slower (built to test concepts and be the first purpose built US flattop, and she never saw combat). The best information I have is that the US started with 6 fleet carriers (2 Lexington class, 3 Yorktown class, and the very frail Wasp) Lexington herself was sunk at Coral Sea, Yorktown was sunk at Midway, Hornet and Wasp were lost in the meatgrinder of Guadalcanal. You are correct, however, Saratoga and Enterprise are the only prewar fleet carriers that the USN had that survived the war, and Ranger also made it through.
Trevyn Lane She was designed to be the first from the ground up built aircraft carrier in the USN and is designated with the CV designation instead of the CVL for light carriers. Also her size while smaller than the Lexingtons and the Yorktowns, she still was significantly bigger than the designated USN light carriers like the Independence class. Heck, she's even bigger than CV-7 Wasp that you yourself listed as a Fleet Carrier. She didn't had half the capacity as in fact, her normal plane capacity is comparable to the Lexingtons own at 76 vs. the Lexington's 78. Her speed however was definitely her big weakness as she was around 4-5 knots slower than a Lexington from what I'm seeing. She did participated in combat too as she was part of Operation Torch where she led a fleet of four escort carriers to provide air support the for the amphibious invasion of Vichy France held Morocco. Ranger even helped BB-59 Massachusetts out in defeating the Vichy French Battleship, Jean Bart where the battleship retreated only to come back in a later battle a 2nd time only for Ranger's planes to sink her so Ranger has a battleship sunk to her record too (even if said battleships was brought back from the harbor floor and returned to service). She also participated in Operation Leader where her flight crews successfully damaged and destroyed large portions of a German Convoy s well. That information was likely meant for Fleet Carriers in the Pacific theater as Ranger was the only pre-war USN carrier that did not saw combat with the IJN. Ty btw for the self admittance for Saratoga being the other prewar USN carrier to survive.
I have read stories that the 'traditional' Midway story is partly incorrect. This was because the author was a Japanese combat pilot (who did not participate in the battle, being in the sick bay at the time, which probably saved his life). It was co-authored by Mitsuo Fuchida, the same pilot who commanded the raid on Pearl Harbor. In his story, the arrival of the first American divebombers follows just after the Japanese fighters have fended off the doomed American torpedobombers (1 survivor only). Meanwhile the flight decks were still filled with aircraft whose bombs were being swapped for torpedoes. It was this fateful coincidence which sealed the fate of Japan's War in the Pacific, at least according to Fuchida. However, on closer examination, the Japanese carriers having no armoured (bomb-proof) flight decks and seeing how they fared later in the war, it was inconsequential whether the decks were full of planes or not. If they were not, the bombs would still have fallen through the wooden decks and exploded in the hangers below, igniting ammunition and fuel in the stores and tanks and in the planes in the hangers. Perhaps Fuchida hated to admit that Japanese anti-air and firefighting techniques simply weren't up to scratch for a modern (WW2-era) carrierfleet. The Japanese high command was aware of the vulnerability of her carriers, at least at the start of the war. During planning of the attack on Pearl Harbor, they calculated in the loss of at least two of their own carriers because of the inevitable American counter attack. That is why the admirals insisted on sending no less than 6 aircraft carriers on this mission. If I am wrong, feel free to correct me.
I know, reminds me of strategy games where the enemies will purposely ignore my near full health units to strike at my near dead one at the back. especially annoying if I can heal that unit for future use and replacing it costs a ton.
Enemy: [Attacks low HP tank] Enemy: [Loses a Heavy tank because it ran into an encirclement] OR Enemy: [Attacks low HP tank] Enemy: [Miss] Me: [I HAVE A PRIZE UNIT ENCIRLED AT MAX HP AND YOU GO FOR THE LOW HP UNIT!?] Me: [Moves prize unit onto enemy base]
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Most look at the numbers from Europe... Which are staggering... But the Pacific War was the largest naval war in human history fought over an area that was 4 times bigger than the Eastern and Western fronts put together.
6:30 Its a very common misperception that the US torpedo and dive bombing attacks were close enough together for the IJN Zeros to have still been at low-altitude when the second wave commended. However, in Parshall/Tully's book "Shattered Sword" they looked at Japanese action reports and flight logs from the carriers, and found that there was plenty of time between the two attacks for the IJN CAP to have regained the needed altitude to deal with the dive bombers. The value of the sacrifice of the torpedo bombers was in delaying the IJN's strike on the US carriers, so that when the dive bombers did hit, the Japanese carriers' decks were full of planes just beginning to launch instead of being empty. This also resulted in the one Japanese strike only being from Hiryu, instead of all four carriers.
Hum... Your message is sort of strange. If you have read Shattered Sword, you should have realized by now that the flight decks were pretty much empty - if spotting had happened at all, it had just started at the moment of the attack. Evasive actions just didn't allow for enough time to actually arm and spot the strike planes. If you mean by "decks full of planes" the hangar decks, I can understand - but it doesn't seem so from what I read afterwards ^^
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Comrade, please make another Earth VS Star Wars battle? Yet ground warfare.
How about battlestation pacific game
pls. do battle of bataan
How tf was this uploaded 20hours ago
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Now that you've done Midway. Why not do Kursk?
Well Kings & Generals already made that video. Here's the link if you want to see it it's a realy cool video ruclips.net/video/IKtD2kht1ZI/видео.html
Philippinnes Sea or Leyte Gulf
Actually 3rd battle of Kharkov would be more interesting than Kursk
Battle of leyte gulf - biggest naval battle
Battle of kursk - biggest tank battle
Binkov pls do both of these battle.
Kursk wasn't the biggest tho.
Counterpoint: Though it may not have been the biggest, it was still pivotal on the eastern front of WW2. I agree with the first poster - Leyte and Kursk would be really interesting.
@@mabussubam512 which was?
Георгий Мурзич battle of dubno i think
Battle of Normandy - Biggest Combined Allied landings.
The 3 Japanese carriers that were hit were operating in relatively close proximity while Hiryu and it's escort was separated from the main IJN carrier force. That's why Hiryu wasn't hit at the time the other 3 were.
Also, it wasn't a single US torpedo bomber attack but 3 uncoordinated torpedo bomber attack - and they were slaughtered almost to a man. The TBD Devastator was retired from service after this battle, replaced by the new TBF Avenger. Unknown to the Japanese, the USS Nautilus provided the key to the dive bombers finding the carriers. The destroyer Arashi had tried to sink Nautilus earlier in the battle for making torpedo attacks on the Japanese fleet, but failing to find the submarine, and was streaming to rejoin the fleet. This ship all but pointed the lost dive bombers it the right direction.
"3 uncoordinated torpedo bomber attack - and they were slaughtered almost to a man.''
True, and worst part is that they knew they were going on a suicide mission. They knew the ancient planes had no chance of survival against the Japanese Zeros and AA guns.
The men of VT-8 were all told to write letters to their loved ones before they took off and give them to another sailor to send home after they are killed later that day. The squadron leader Walton went around the ship shaking hands and telling his friends goodbye before leading his men to their planes and giving them their final order - "We will strike, regardless of the consequences.”
The Japanese are remembered for their Kamikaze pilots who used their planes as missiles against US ships but actually the first suicide attack of the war came from a B-26 at Midway who missed the bridge of the Akagi by only a few feet, nearly killing Nagumo and his command staff in the opening minutes of the battle.
All of them are heros, much like Doris Day and his .50 at Pearl Harbor. Captain Ernest E. Evans and the men of Taffy 3 who charged a massive Japanese fleet led by the battleship Yamato and slugged it out in their tiny "tin can" destroyers. Machinist Donald K. Ross who kept the dynamo running on the USS Nevada as the old battleship desperately fought her way to open ocean during the Pearl Harbor attack. The Nevada suffered two torpedo attacks and 10 bombs as the Japanese focused on making sure the ship couldn't leave the harbor. Ross, badly injured and blinded, ordered his men to evacuate the burning dynamo room but he stayed behind because he knew if the ship lost power they were doomed. The next attack rendered him unconscious. He was rescued and resuscitated only to run back to his station. Minutes later he passed out again. Dragged out once more, he awoke and ran to the aft dynamo room where he worked until he was finally ordered to abandon ship. Along with so many more men that history has largely forgotten.
It's funny that both Hitler and Tojo judged Americans as decadent and effeminate, not a warrior race like the Germans and Japanese. They judged wrong.
Also, Japanese carrier decks were not laden with aircraft, fuel and munitions as portrayed by multiple media including this one. They were in fact cleared due to the constant CAP (combat air patrol, or fighter) ops.
The piecemeal/scattered attacks meant the Japanese were constantly driving off wave after wave of bombers, meaning they had no time to prepare planes for the supposed strike.
This is evidenced by the delay it took for Hiryu to launch its counterattack, had they been laden with aircraft and munitions in preparation for the supposed strike Hiryu would have responded sooner.
Finally it wasn't so much the vertical separation of the Japanese CAP that led to their fighters missing the dive bombers, so much as the lack of central directors and horizontal separation of the fighters from the attacking bombers. The A6M Zekes could easily climb to catch the dive bombers but were simply to far away from the new attackers
@@captaindusty4884 Add to the fact that many of the Zeros were low on ammunition from fending off repeated air attacks. There were so many factors that gave the VB and VS squadrons a free shot. The Kido Butai could have been better served by a light carrier providing Scouting Aircraft and augmenting the CAP of the fleet. One handycap of the IJNAF is the relucance to use carrier strike aircraft as scouts. The Soryu did have a detactment of two fast D4Y scouts but they were used too late.
If memory serves (always questionable at my age) I believe the Hiryu was hidden by a rain squall at the time of the initial attack
You've gotta do the Normandy Landing Binkov every game, movie, tv show, documentary, book, and dramatic reading does their version of god damn Normandy.
Most overrated battle on history tbh
Tano Strelok ?
Kyle T. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO goddamit whyyyyyyy
Please no, the battle is really overrated
He can’t, he works for putin.
The USS Yorktown was the Black Knight of the pacific.
It just wouldn't stay down, lol.
tis but a scratch
It's interesting to consider that the US's first production class of purpose-built carriers (Ranger was a one-off and the Lexington-class was converted from battlecruisers) proved more hardy than Japan's armored carrier Taihou. Both Hornet and Yorktown carriers took immense punishment before finally succumbing. It goes to show that there's more to performance than what's on paper.
ソウタ.ブリーズ indeed, the damage control on the Yorktown was really good. Taihou, on the other hand, practically sunk itself after a very survivable torpedo hit.
@@nutsackmania A scratch? Your bomber wing's off!
ソウタ.ブリーズ that and Enterprise was falsely reported to have been sunk 3 times. Only to show up at the next battle.
Japan: *attacks Midway*
US: no u
Japan: Emperor Hirohito, I don't feel so good
@Random.exe Just like Tony Stark.
@Random.exe Well McArthur gave him a Second Chance to redeem himself and the Entire Government.
@Random.exe Hirohito did no warcrime. In fact a lot of people who should have been charged with warcrimes got away while other innocent people were charged.
caif4 attacking pearl harbor. attacking guam. attacking Phillipine islands. attacking wake island. attacking and occupying Alaska. what is that? not a warcrime?
@@one7decimal2eight
First none of those are warcrimes or should we say the US attacking saipan, Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Okinawa, occupying Japan, etc are warcrimes?
Second, all of those were planned and carried out by military officers and not the emperor.
Oh god That green repair wrench! it makes me think of the old RTS games like C&C: Red Alert, love it. Also, great vid. They need to start playing these video's during modern history classes.
Before EA fucked everything up, good ol' times.
I am currently studying to become a history teacher and I have considered this, but then again, videos lack of the proper interactivity to ensure your students actually learn what you're showing.
@Kyle T. calm down, man.
Midway exemplifies the problems with Japanese leadership at the time. Many were hardliners and unwilling to shift their plans when a new problem presented itself, this was partly because many members of opposing viewpoints had been purged or silenced by factional squabbles. This attitude is how Japan ended up fighting so many countries at once with no real goal rather than just focusing on the territory they wanted on the East Asian coastline.
Honestly, I don't entirely blame the Japanese admirals for this battle. They were essentially fighting with one arm tied behind their backs.
That coupled with the fact that disorganized attacks from Midway and the American carriers ended up making it impossible for them to counterattack until it was too late
Every time i watch a recap of this battle i am appalled at the huge amount of luck the americans had. Then again, it was Japanese's fault to go for those risky missions knowing you can't cope in case of failure; and americans had all the intelligence. Then again it was all fault of totalitarian warring culture, to arrogantly believe that huge operational disadvantages can be overcome with sheer tactical triumph.
It's well considered that even if America lost the sea battle Japan would have failed the naval invasion. (basing it off of what America needed when invading Japanese islands) the Japanese would have not only been outgunned by the Americans but also outnumbered and it's generally considered impossible to successfully invade when outnumbered. (assuming both sides are equally equipt).
Something to keep in mind, is that the US had already written off the island, all aircraft in the fight, and a reinforced division of marines on the island off as acceptable losses. The US could take losses that the Japanese could not, and thus Japan was going to lose no matter what happened at any individual battle.
It interesting considering the Imperial Japanese had no real Naval defeats until Midway (and had several victories in the Java Sea, Sunda Strait, Indian Ocean, sinking the Prince of Wales and Repulse, etc.)
Remember, US having intelligence with radio intercepts and the other advantages they had are all part of the battle. Radio intelligence is a force multiplier and may as well be like having more assets in equivalence.
True, although the U.S. had intelligence and radar during the battle of the Coral Sea, but still lost the Lexington (and the battle tactically).
Splendid! One of the most fascinating naval battles in history.
R.I.P Yorktown you tanked a lot for your friends :')
Awesome video! It seems a series of animated historical battles is on its way to becoming a hit.
Do more battles from the pacific theatre, please!
the loss of mechanics and aircraft service crews had huge impact. planes don't fly without service personnel, and those experienced crews were irreplaceable. after the battle, us aircrews rotated back to the states to train more pilots. they just got better and better. and the USN soon replaced their shitty torpedoes. and upgraded their fighter/bombers. the war was over by 1944 when the US submarine force destroyed 90% of the japanese merchant fleet. the real victory was how the subs starved the japanese for food and fuel.
I want the battle of khalkhin gol for the next video please 👍
Good job binkov from France
I prefer battle of france 1940
@@bsolutions525 lol you are a troll because i am french
I want Stalingrad
Mayala/Singapore and Gaudacanal please
what ? A French ? Me too !
Nice cliffsnotes version of the battle of midway and its consequences! TY
How about Battle of Leyte Gulf next? Comment if you agree..
Taffy 3, especially Samuel B Roberts, along with the Johnston's suicide run against Yamato and the heavy cruisers. One of the battleship's turrets weighed more than Evans entire ship but he didn't give a shit. "Survival cannot be expected, we will do what damage we can."
A W USS Samuel B. Roberts otherwise known as “The Destroyer Escort that Fought Like a Battleship”
Great video as always commissar!
Battle of the coral sea. The real first American carrier victory of ww2 please.
harbringer F I know, right?
Coral Sea was a strategic victory with a heavy price to pay. Midway was the first real US total victory
It was a Japanese material victory.
But it was an American strategic victory.
Tactically, Japan won coral sea. We destroyed one escort carrier sunk and crippled one fleet carrier in exchange for one fleet carrier and a second fleet carrier crippled. Strategically, we won because the lack of carrier air power caused Japan to abort invading a British colony in the area.
Trevyn Lane What British Colony, you mean Australia?
Comrade Binkov! More of these. It would be great to see an analysis of the military tactics used in famous battles / examples of excellent military tactics.
One small inaccuracy in the video. USS Yorktown wasn't being towed to harbour, the crew were trying to damage control/salvage the ship when the Japanese I-168 made a torpedo attack striking the Yorktown and the destroyer USS Hammann
Great video, I hope the recaps of historical battles becomes a thing for this channel.
Wow, I wanted to see the Battle of Midway because I've been playing World Of Warships Already. Thanks for hearing out my wishes Binkov!
Another major factor in the planning was that Adml.. Yammoto's plan depended on total surprise. He never considered that the U.S. would learn of the plan and there for had no back up or contingency plans for it. Also, many of his own staff were against it because it was so complex. If threaten to resign if they didn't do it his way.
Thank YOU. Well done for the presentation.
5:26 The Japanese thought this was an intentional suicide decoy mission by the US Torpedo bombers. The Torpedo bombers came in without fighter escort, and got slaughtered but drew the Japanese fighters away just in time for the US dive bombers to attack the carriers without being harassed by any Japanese fighters
Those Torpedo bomber pilots had guts and paid a heavy price for this county but in doing so their sacrifice helped sink 3 Japanese carriers (and eventually a 4th), turn the tide of the Battle of Midway and the tide of the entire War in the Pacific. May they Rest in Peace even though they have no formal graves
dammit you beat me to it. One of my subs asked me to make this a week ago.
Great job, Binkov !!!! you made this history come alive !
Good video, enjoyed the new format
In terms of Japanese Naval Aviation, Midway in June 1942 was obviously a disaster. But only a few months later in August 1942 , the Allies mount the offensive for Guadalcanal. In the ensuing year of bitter fighting for Guadalcanal, whatever elite pilots the IJN had were lost in the meat grinder of Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands. There'd be several more Carrier engagements around Guadalcanal, each costing the Japanese more of their precious elite aviators. Not only that, those surviving pilots from Midway, etc. were posted in Rabaul and many died fighting over Guadalcanal.
By the time Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands were irrevocably lost by the Japanese in 1943, their Naval Aviators had suffered such horrific losses that it would take them 1 year to get enough pilots to staff their carrier air groups again. Their early war veteran pilots were gone. The Americans are sending fully trained pilots from the states, new airplanes like the Hellcat, Corsair. The existing pilots they had continue to gain flight and combat experience each day.
When the Japanese Navy finally felt good enough with their Carrier force to send them into combat, they do so in 1944 for the Battle of the Philippine Sea, a.k.a. "The Marianas Turkey Shoot." The Japanese aviators were too inexperienced and thrown against veteran US pilots with their new planes, as well as formidable ship anti-aircraft artillery. It was a slaughter, and from this point on, IJN Naval Aviation would no longer play a significant role. When the Japanese Carriers would be sent again late in 1944 for the Battle of Leyte Gulf, they would only act as a decoy force with barely any planes.
Clearest explanation i heard yet!
A couple of errors:
The torpedoes that were fired at the Yorktown - one hit the Yorktown, and one hit the destroyer Hammann; and both sunk.
Also, in the first US carrier attack waves in the morning, the Hiryu was not attacked at all.
And finally, there was another Japanese fleet that attacked the Aleutian Islands as part of the plan.
(Source: Incredible Victory, by Walter Lord.)
9:00 Finding the Yorktown immobilized was a stroke of luck BUT sneaking in through the destroyer picket line was an accomplishment indeed AND the Japanese submarine got away. Respect.
Well done. A great breakdown of the Midway battle. The extra work on this is much appreciated.
I didn't know why it is called midway till I saw this video, these islands really are in the midway between Japan and USA.
So, if it is up to you, iceland would have to be called mid-island ? because it is midway between europe and america ?
The area was called Midway Atoll. That's why it's called the battle of midway.
Iceland is fake country does not exist, just like Australia,
@@FulkNerraIII At least Iceland has the balls to throw corrupt globalist bankers in prison unlike your country.
You can name things to one attribute , this island name came from the ice cover it most of the year.
6:40
Two myths:
1. The strike force was not on the flight deck but the hangars. The Japanese fleet could not spot aircraft during evasive maneuvers.
2. The Zero could climb from sea level to 10k feet in 5 minutes. The real issue was the Thach Weave. The American fighters tied up so many Japanese fighters that the Japanese were not looking for dive bombers and were far away from the carriers they were supposed to protect.
Comrade Binkov!! I really liked this video! Make more like it!
Nice info sir.
Won't mind seeing more of these.
I see several suggestions and if I may add on, the Battle of Jutland was the only major battle of Dreadnaught battleships in history and is really interesting when looking at it moment by moment.
No, it was the largest. There were dozens of them from WW1 all the way to 1945.
@@trevynlane8094 You're right. It was the only one of the first world war.
Again, no, it was just the largest. The Russians had numerous engagements between their newly built and launched Dreadnaughts and the lone "ottomon"BC in the Black Sea, French and Italian DNs clashed with German DNs in the Mediterranean, and German and British DNs dueled in the south atlantic.
... my favorite Dreadnaught battle. Now can we get a video of it?
***Sabaton Midway, intensifies***
Well done. Great video.
My grandfather was in the US Navy during the Second World War. He was present at Midway in one of the patrol boats.
I saw one back in 2010, for such a small boat its armed to the teeth.
Love the history video!
The USN actually cracked the Japanese code and staged a “water problem”, the Japanese went crazy.
You could sum up japan as the glass cannon.
Aluetian islands force was the bait for the Midway trap. The plan was hope that the US would rush to defend Alaska, giving the Japanese the time to take the Midway atoll. The Japanese could then lie in wait for the Americans and destroy their carriers once and for all.
that's what I learned too...
Yep but we knew it was just bait because we had broken their code. We knew the real attack was on an island but weren't sure which one it was so we had the commander of Midway send an non-coded message to Pearl Harbor that the water purifiers were broken. Shortly afterwords the Japanese sent a message saying their target needed repairs on the water purifiers. Bingo.
Midway if successful would have given the Empire of Japan 6 more months of life...
The Aluetian Islands operation was _not_ a bait. This myth was dispelled by Shattered Sword, and was dispelled in Japanese literature decades before the writing of Shattered Sword.
The Aluetian Islands operation was a mission undertaken as an opportunistic invasion. Since the US fleet would be distracted at Midway, the Japanese could grab the islands without much opposition. At least, that was the logic used by the Japanese. This much is made perfectly clear by Japanese documents and war plans.
I like these kind of videos more than hypothetical ones. I think the Falkland war would be a good one to do next.
one thing that's striking about this sort of naval campaign is just how widely dispersed the units supporting each other are - literally hundreds or thousands of miles apart. Without terrain to navigate around, the ocean becomes one BIG chess board
Blindfolded chess at that.
Do more of these, I love this
Japanese have two characteristics：First，a plan is done in a particularly detailed and detailed manner。What is the use of planning？Things always change，The plan has not changed fast。However， when the Japanese encounter an unexpected situation, they will collectively crash。Second， it is very Stingy。Japanese are very concerned about the amount of input。And Americans don’t care much about the amount of input，Because the amount of input is nothing compared to the output。Nagumo Chūichi' reason for not To order planes to leave after discovering the US carrier is that there is no fighter escort，Because If he ordered the plane to fly，the loss will be great。however，Spruance lost dozens of torpedo bomber but switched to the result of sinking four Japanese carriers。
Overall a good report but the Japanese carrier decks were relatively clear. The Planes were still in the hangar decks but Fujita started a myth that the IJN was nearly ready to attack. This has been debunked. Fujita was just trying to save face. The IJN sub did not stumble across the Yorktown, it was tasked with finding and sinking it. Also the US was deciphering about 10-15% of the JB25 code.
great vid commissar!
may i suggest Bataan and Corregidor?
If memory serves, the decisive attack on the Hiryu didn't come from the Yorktown, as implied in the video, but from the Enterprise.
Binkov, you forgot about Jimmy Thatch! He and two of his men were able to hold up over a dozen Zeroes while using his famous Thatch Weave. Which was also the first use of it, as the three men were all that were left of their squadron!
Excellent. Hope you do the battle of the Coral Sea too.
Lesson 1. Never put all your air craft cariers in one spot.
2. Send out decoy plans so even if your enemy decifers your codes it splits them up. Weakens and confuses the enemy.
I wonder if you were a Japanese commander!!
F to pay respect to poor Yorktown. Just couldn't get a break from the constant beatings.
6:52 that bomber strike was probably the biggest oof of the entire war in the pacific next to hiroshima
No big deal, a fight against buddies that all, made us stronger as friends.
Japan couldn't use their other two main carriers, as the one was damaged and needed to be fixed and the other had lost over 3/4 of their planes. One of the reasons why we won was because of Midway and their constant attacks. The Japanese couldn't launch an airstrike while being attacked. If you are interested in the battle then watch Montemayor video. I too would love to see the battle of Kursk,
Great video!
Hey! this is nice! i need more like these
It's my understanding that Midway was the major turning point. After midway the US went on the offensive and the Japanese Empire, while fighting well, was eventually overcome by the USA's far greater economic capacity.
How about doing a video on the Guadalcanal campaign. Guadalcanal was the only campaign in the Pacific, where the two opponents were evenly matched.
The japanese carrier decks were not full - there is even pictures from the attack with them empty.
"In Shattered Sword, Parshall and Tully provide an alternate time sequence and explanation of the events on the morning of 4 June, claiming that because of the nearly constant attacks by American aircraft and the necessity of retrieving combat air patrol (CAP) aircraft, it was the maneuvering of the Japanese carriers that hindered rearming operations and the spotting of the strike force aircraft.15 The two books’ tactical explanations for Nagumo’s inability to launch a strike against the American carriers that morning differ, but the overall conclusion of both books is that Nagumo was nowhere near being ready for such a strike-and hence the miraculous coincidence of Fuchida’s “fatal five minutes” is greatly diminished. Photographic evidence taken of the carriers maneuvering to avoid early morning air attacks clearly shows empty flight decks, except for a handful of CAP fighters"
There's no reason for it, but Japan Vs UK seems like a needed showdown of islands.
this was great!
0:00 After many times i realize it's September campaign (German invasion on Poland 1939) on the background.
Could you do the falkland islands conflict between Britain and Argentina in 1982.
e.g. Sinking of the ARA General Belgrano and the Battle of Goose green
Do the Battle of Stalingrad, Guadacanal, Kursk, Tripoli, Tunisia, Sicily, Monte Cassino, Normandy, Paris, Market Garden, Guam, Saipan, Burma, Pelileu, Manila, Iwo Jima, Bulge, Berlin, Okinawa.
Yorktown couldn't catch a break. What luck.
Now that I have been playing Kantai Collection this 6:42 make me really sad. D:
I'm sorry to have to correct this, but the Zero's that went after Torpedo 8 had plenty of time to get back up to altitude. VT-8 arrived at 0938, then VT-6 got there around 20 minutes later with similar results. The dive bombers weren't involved until after 10am. So it makes no sense at all to say that Torpedo 8 drew the fighters down to sea level and saved the dive bombers. Any fighter of that era could have been back up to altitude within that time frame with room to spare. Also alot of people claim that this was a miracle or an amazing triumph for the Americans to have won such a lop-sided battle, but realitically the odds were slightly favored towards the Americans. They had 3 carriers, plus a 4th unsinkable carrier called Midway island. The greater portion of the Japanese force was scattered around and unable to support each other. The Japanese had fewer aircraft, but excellent tactics and experience in their favor to counter the USN's numerical superiority. The Americans had the advantage of surprise, but it was offset by their awful inability to launch a large coordinated multi-carrier strike, which the Japanese managed as a matter of routine. One last note: according to the Japanese logs, the decks were so busy conducting CAP landings and take-offs that they had no chance to load the decks with their strike force which was still being re-armed below decks anyway. So the myth of the decks being loaded down and vulnerable to the air strikes is also false. The constant air attacks had slow down the rearming process, can you imagine trying to rearm an airplane while it veered around avoiding bombs from Midway and torpedos from the carriers? Must have been hell in the hangars. In many ways is was probably worse that the strike aircraft were below since the bombs pierced the decks and landed among them down there.
I Really Liked the 1976 Movie "Midway", More. But Liked the CGI of 2021 "Midway"
Suggestion: US navy vs German navy in the North Sea during WW2. Specifically the battleships and heavy cruisers.
Can you please make a Chile vs Peru video? This is my 23rd petition.
USS Enterprise, USS Hornet and USS Yorktown the beautiful and legendary aircraft carriers that help win the war in paciffic.
Only Enterprise survived the war. All the other fleet carriers that the US started with wound up on the bottom of the Pacific ocean.
@@trevynlane8094 I know, and its sad that Lucky E was scraped after she returned to US. But all of these ships played a huge part in the war and they won't be forgoten.
Trevyn Lane CV-3 Saratoga was the other U.S Pacific Aircraft Carrier to survive the war too (along with CV-6 Enterprise). CV-4 Ranger who was in the Atlantic throughout the war would also survive as well.
@@Nuke89345 Ranger was not a fleet carrier, she was a light carrier, with half the capacity of a Lexington class CV and 10 knots slower (built to test concepts and be the first purpose built US flattop, and she never saw combat). The best information I have is that the US started with 6 fleet carriers (2 Lexington class, 3 Yorktown class, and the very frail Wasp) Lexington herself was sunk at Coral Sea, Yorktown was sunk at Midway, Hornet and Wasp were lost in the meatgrinder of Guadalcanal. You are correct, however, Saratoga and Enterprise are the only prewar fleet carriers that the USN had that survived the war, and Ranger also made it through.
Trevyn Lane She was designed to be the first from the ground up built aircraft carrier in the USN and is designated with the CV designation instead of the CVL for light carriers. Also her size while smaller than the Lexingtons and the Yorktowns, she still was significantly bigger than the designated USN light carriers like the Independence class. Heck, she's even bigger than CV-7 Wasp that you yourself listed as a Fleet Carrier. She didn't had half the capacity as in fact, her normal plane capacity is comparable to the Lexingtons own at 76 vs. the Lexington's 78. Her speed however was definitely her big weakness as she was around 4-5 knots slower than a Lexington from what I'm seeing.
She did participated in combat too as she was part of Operation Torch where she led a fleet of four escort carriers to provide air support the for the amphibious invasion of Vichy France held Morocco. Ranger even helped BB-59 Massachusetts out in defeating the Vichy French Battleship, Jean Bart where the battleship retreated only to come back in a later battle a 2nd time only for Ranger's planes to sink her so Ranger has a battleship sunk to her record too (even if said battleships was brought back from the harbor floor and returned to service). She also participated in Operation Leader where her flight crews successfully damaged and destroyed large portions of a German Convoy s well.
That information was likely meant for Fleet Carriers in the Pacific theater as Ranger was the only pre-war USN carrier that did not saw combat with the IJN.
Ty btw for the self admittance for Saratoga being the other prewar USN carrier to survive.
Good thing that I have a history project on Midway....
Not saying that I’m completely in the dark on the subject
What was your grade?
Very nice video :)
Ah the battle of Midway.
A battle the rising sun would never recover from.
the enterprise single handy won the pacific war that ship and its crew what amazing
I have read stories that the 'traditional' Midway story is partly incorrect. This was because the author was a Japanese combat pilot (who did not participate in the battle, being in the sick bay at the time, which probably saved his life). It was co-authored by Mitsuo Fuchida, the same pilot who commanded the raid on Pearl Harbor. In his story, the arrival of the first American divebombers follows just after the Japanese fighters have fended off the doomed American torpedobombers (1 survivor only). Meanwhile the flight decks were still filled with aircraft whose bombs were being swapped for torpedoes. It was this fateful coincidence which sealed the fate of Japan's War in the Pacific, at least according to Fuchida.
However, on closer examination, the Japanese carriers having no armoured (bomb-proof) flight decks and seeing how they fared later in the war, it was inconsequential whether the decks were full of planes or not. If they were not, the bombs would still have fallen through the wooden decks and exploded in the hangers below, igniting ammunition and fuel in the stores and tanks and in the planes in the hangers. Perhaps Fuchida hated to admit that Japanese anti-air and firefighting techniques simply weren't up to scratch for a modern (WW2-era) carrierfleet. The Japanese high command was aware of the vulnerability of her carriers, at least at the start of the war. During planning of the attack on Pearl Harbor, they calculated in the loss of at least two of their own carriers because of the inevitable American counter attack. That is why the admirals insisted on sending no less than 6 aircraft carriers on this mission. If I am wrong, feel free to correct me.
Poor Yorktown... really got focused hard.
I know, reminds me of strategy games where the enemies will purposely ignore my near full health units to strike at my near dead one at the back. especially annoying if I can heal that unit for future use and replacing it costs a ton.
Enemy: [Attacks low HP tank]
Enemy: [Loses a Heavy tank because it ran into an encirclement]
OR
Enemy: [Attacks low HP tank]
Enemy: [Miss]
Me: [I HAVE A PRIZE UNIT ENCIRLED AT MAX HP AND YOU GO FOR THE LOW HP UNIT!?]
Me: [Moves prize unit onto enemy base]
Czech republic vs. Someone (for ex. Slovakia,Poland,...) please.
please do more historical ww2 battles
Mr. Binkov, please consider making a Colombia Vs. Venezuela video.
"The US went on to win the whole war". Best summation ever.
Love form a grateful ally (Australia).
What few know is that General Binkov, the cute green frog, was a MiG-21 pilot during the cold war. Demoted a record 37 times for strafing hot air balloons, stray cats, pizza trucks and a cloud that really did look like a dragon, he always found a way back into the cockpit -- usually by pleasuring a general's wife and then getting her to intercede for him. He could make love until he croaked. Renowned for his Rasputin-like ability to hypnotize female frogs, he was never without female company. While in the KGB he declared war on cats and had large pizzas sent to the White House as a prank. It all came to an end when he thought war had broken out and, because of an amphibian's poor eyesight, he strafed a "whale" at a nude beach.
These are my 3 favorite aviation art books on Amazon:
- Icon by Frank Frazetta
- Aviation Art by Lou Drendel
- Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson
Some inaccuracies but overall tells the story.
Most look at the numbers from Europe... Which are staggering... But the Pacific War was the largest naval war in human history fought over an area that was 4 times bigger than the Eastern and Western fronts put together.
6:30 Its a very common misperception that the US torpedo and dive bombing attacks were close enough together for the IJN Zeros to have still been at low-altitude when the second wave commended. However, in Parshall/Tully's book "Shattered Sword" they looked at Japanese action reports and flight logs from the carriers, and found that there was plenty of time between the two attacks for the IJN CAP to have regained the needed altitude to deal with the dive bombers. The value of the sacrifice of the torpedo bombers was in delaying the IJN's strike on the US carriers, so that when the dive bombers did hit, the Japanese carriers' decks were full of planes just beginning to launch instead of being empty. This also resulted in the one Japanese strike only being from Hiryu, instead of all four carriers.
Hum... Your message is sort of strange. If you have read Shattered Sword, you should have realized by now that the flight decks were pretty much empty - if spotting had happened at all, it had just started at the moment of the attack. Evasive actions just didn't allow for enough time to actually arm and spot the strike planes.
If you mean by "decks full of planes" the hangar decks, I can understand - but it doesn't seem so from what I read afterwards ^^
I hope you do operation bagration at some point
Now i want to see a battle between the boys who eat cheese in the alps against the boys who eat Schnitzel in the alps
Few video ideas. Sorry I am late to the party.
Ticonderoga Vs Kirov
Zumwalt Vs Kirov
Ingalls BMD ship concept vs the Russian airforce
Binkov how do you create your effects in the videos since they look simple but very effective! :)
WERMACHT VS LOLI-oh wait wrong channel...
Montemayor video is so much better tbh
Agreed, the Montemayor video about Midway was a masterpiece.
I am having BF1942 and BF3 flashbacks.
Wasn't the Yorktown the SOuthern most carrier not the Northern most???