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There is something you better learn if your going to keep doing these, never and I mean NEVER call a SAILOR or a MARINE a soldier. A soldier is a member of the US ARMY, not the Navy or the Air Force who by the way are called AIRMAN.
Unexpected Fact: My dad was at Hickham Field in Pearl Harbor when it was attacked. He said that as soon as they realized what was going on, they ran for the gun lockers. The gun lockers were locked which delayed the men from getting to the guns to shoot at Japanese airplanes. My dad until his dying days couldn't figure out why the gun lockers were locked that morning as they had never been locked before.
Notice "Japs" or "Jap" being used to describe the Imperial Japanese Nation at the Era of World War 2. Anyone taking "offense" please go away into oblivion. Just disappear.
Maybe it was staged to get the USA into WW2? I heard somewhere that the US president at the time knew full well that the Japanese were attacking and yet did nothing to deter them. I mean, to think that Pearl Harbor and 9/11 could've been avoided but they allowed it to take place... all for profit?
Oklahoma is not still there she was eventually stripped of her remaining armament and superstructure before being sold for scrap in 1946. The hulk sank in a storm in 1947, while being towed from Oahu, Hawaii, to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay. The other ship still present as a wreck is the USS Utah which was a target ship. As part of it's fitting out for that role she had heavy timbers laid across her deck and it is thought that the Japanese pilots believed she was one of the Carriers
Actually Utah was a gunnery training ship. While they weren't able to pull her up right due to the composition of the mud and coral of the bottom of the harbor, they did retrieve thousands of rounds of 5 inch shells from her wreck.
There's actually another battleship resting near Ford Island in Pearl Harbor that you missed, she is sitting on the direct opposite side of Ford Island from where Arizona is sitting and her name is the USS Utah. The Utah was an outdated battleship by the early 1930s and so she was used as a Gunnery platform and a test bed for other equipment such as radar and rangefinders. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese aviator actually identified her and radioed to other Japanese torpedo bombers that the Utah was useless and that they shouldn't waste ammo by attacking it, but three B5N2 Kate bombers still launched Torpedoes against the Utah and sank it. The Utah still sits where she was sank at and there is even a memorial dock near her wreck.
The narrator gave the impression that Arizona was hit by torpedoes. NO torpedoes hit her. Instead the 'torpedo bombers' acted as level bombers and dropped 16" shells converted to bombs.
They called the bombers which attacked Arizona torpedo planes, and then called the torpedo planes which hit Oklahoma bombers. I'm no sure I'd trust any of those documentaries on Magellan to be accurate.
Since 2000 closer enhancement of Japanese photographs of the harbor while under attack do reveal wake patterns of a torpedo attack upon the USS Arizona. When the wakes were plotted back and that line searched a small Japanese submarine was found in the harbor bottom.
The waters of Pearl Harbor average only about 40 feet deep so the Arizona is actually sitting on the bottom. Her superstructure was removed during the war and her guns repurposed as harbor defense weapons. The Oklahoma is in much deeper waters.
Oklahoma was lost somewhere in the 1700 miles between Pearl Harbor and the California Coast. the other wreck is USS Utah an older dreadnought battleship that had been downgraded to gunnery practice ship long before the attack. Both Utah and Arizona were left in place because, I think, they were deemed too badly damaged to salvage for scrap, let alone for repair, Arizona's keel being broken apart by the blast that sank her (explosion of forward 16" shell room).
There is a park somewhere I think in Phoenix that has one of the Arizonas guns and one from USS Missouri although the gun was not on the Arizona aat the time of the attack
Not only did he give a concert he paid his way in to see his own performance (none of the performers or anyone else got in for free). It was his second concert after getting out of the army (the other was in Memphis), his last concert before going into the Army was in Hawaii, he would not perform another concert for eight more years. He stayed on in Hawaii to film “Blue Hawaii). All the proceeds of the concert went to the memorial fund including concessions profits and donations raised by the concert. Elvis and Colonel Parker paid the other performer’s salaries out of their own pockets as well as making a donation to the fund.
Thanks so much to all the brave men and women in Pearl that day and the days following who thought more of the lives of the ones in danger than they did of their own lives!
They were no valuable enough to bother with, according to the US navy, the guns and superstructure were worth salvaging. Not like the Oklahoma, where they bucketed out the dead and washed them away with water and pumps where possible, before selling her as scrap. Sailors are not as valued as the USS navy pretend they are, especially dead ones. Steel is though and worth every effort to retrieve.
There were also two small Japanese subs involved in the action. This wasn't verified until the 21st century because of digital techniques that had previously not been available.
Actually there were five. Two sunk in the harbor, recovered and used as fill in dock construction. Ensign Sakamaki's boat was recovered and later sent to Fredericksburg, Texas for the Nimitz Museum. The submarine The USS Ward sank with her 3" gun was found in 1500 feet of water a few years ago. The fifth boat is still out there.
@@johnemerson1363 Thank you sir. This is exactly why I post this sort of thing. I post the information that I have in hopes that if it's incorrect someone like you teaches me something new.
@@johnemerson1363 Actually, all 5 have been accounted for. The first one sunk by USS Ward. The second washed ashore as stated was Ensign Sakamaki's. One of the ones that got into the harbor to be sunk by USS Monaghan and savaged for a landfill with the Japanese crew still inside. Another found just off the harbor entrance in 1960 with it's torpedo's still in the tubes. The last did penetrate the harbor and photographic evidence shows it firing on Battleship row toward USS Oklahoma and USS West Virginia. This last sub was accidentally discovered after the 21 May, 1944 West Loch Disaster during clean up operations. The sub was broken into three sections and taken out to sea with the other wreckage and debris. It was later rediscovered amongst the debris field that was dumped from that clean up. Later confirmed by Japanese and American historians that went to explore the site.
Brian, I love your videos, but you need to do a little better job proof-reading your scripts. Alaska is part of the Continental USA, but not part of the contiguous 48 states. The memorial itself also does not float. It is built on supports sunk into the harbor. And while Oklahoma's hulk was lost at sea in 1947 in deep water, USS Arizona and USS Utah are both still in the shallow water around Ford Island in Pearl Harbor. You can see both on Google earth, and in person. Utah wasn't a designated BB anymore, serving as a gunnery training vessel with several different kinds of turrets and guns fitted, but she was a BB hull. Had the USA been able to raise her quickly, it is possible they may have refit her as a BB, perhaps with Arizona's recoverable weapons. But as it stands, she has her own memorial, though not as extensive or well-visited as her more famous sister.
We vacationed in Hawaii several years ago and visited the Arizona Memorial, it would've been a much more solemn visit if not for the kids that were allowed to run and holler. Had the pleasure of meeting one of the survivors before taking the launch to the memorial. From there to the Missouri, very cool!!! The start and end of the war in one place. It was also about a week after the ceremony, ,marking September 2nd.
My grandfather enlisted in the navy in 1942, and was sent to pearl almost a year to the day after the attack, he said it was still just terrible, the carnage laying around even a year later.
I've been to the Arizona twice first time Family vacation USS West Virginia survivor Richard Fisk was our tour guide at the time he has since passed away and volunteered many hours at the Arizona memorial there were originally 289 Arizona survivors but they're pretty much all gone
I lived in Hawaii in 2008, i had a book signed by some of the Arizona survivors, i used to be a little history nut, they even let 8 year old me spout out some facts on the tour bus. All the survivors who signed my book have now passed on, may they Rest In Peace.
You forgot the USS Utah. Although it had been downgraded from a battleship to a target ship, it too was sunk on 7 Dec. They tried to raise it and that failed, so it still is sunk and a memorial on the opposite side of Ford Island than battleship row.
The other Battleship still there was the Former USS Utah, that at the time was the fleet training ship that had just been decommissioned and was awaiting a fleet SinkX. Also the Japanese were not after the Battleships, they were after the Carriers that were not in port at the time, the Arizona also was not sunk via a direct hit on the Second turret magazine, it was hit in the secondary magazine in the rear and the blast travelled down the centre passageway that was designed to move ammunition around the ship (the Alaska highway as it's called I think) that is what caused the explosion.
I was going to post about BB-31 as well. I think because it wasn't anchored on the row, it is not considered as important. 58 souls says otherwise in my opinion.
@@foddersfollies7494 There are the remains of 58 men onboard and the remains of a newborn baby girl. Her ashes are in an Urn in the Locker of Chief Yeoman Albert Thomas Dewitt Wagner. She died at birth and Wagner was waiting for a Chaplain to come aboard while at sea so he could scatter her ashes. After the attack, he asked Navy divers if they could retrieve the urn but they reported the Chief's quarters were to badly smashed to gain entrance.
The stern part of USS Arizona was intact with minimal damage. The bomb dropped into the forward magazine was a converted 16" armor piercing naval shell. When dropped from the height of the high level bombers it had the momentum to penetrate the armored decking into the ship before exploding and causing the massive explosion that was film from the USS Solace. An interesting fact is that most people that play the footage of the explosion are playing a reversed film. The true footage shows the explosion going from center to the Right. Reversed footage shows explosion from the center and going to the left.
It's History. One correction with all due respect. Oklahoma was eventually righted with great effort and taken under tow from Pearl. She parted her tow line in a storm and sank offshore from Hawaii. Japan not only failed to take out the US aircraft carriers but they failed also to destroy the petroleum tank farms that fueled the Pacific fleet and would have necessitated for a time moving the fleet back to the West Coast.
They also failed to attack the repair and logistics facilities. Enterprise and her escorts entered Pearl Harbor the evening of 8 December. These ships refueled, rearmed, reprovisioned, and were over the horizon before dawn on 9 December. What started as a brilliant tactical victory for the Japanese became a fatal strategic defeat when that happened.
I have lived on Oahu all my 60 years and have never heard Pearl Harbor called Waimomi. The Hawaiian name for the harbor is Puuloa, which translates to “long hill.” It is unknown why they called it that, but my guess is it came from the Waipio peninsula, which is indeed a long hill (it separates West Loch from the main part of the harbor). As for waimomi…momi does indeed mean “pearl” in Hawaiian, but “wai” means fresh water. “Kai” is the word for sea water and I can assure you that Pearl is salty. It is an estuary, so it is somewhat brackish (which is why Pearl oysters used to live in it), but it is definitely not fresh water. BTW, they are currently trying to reestablish the oysters in the harbor. I am curious though where you found that “waimomi” reference. As I said, I have never heard that before in my entire life.
My family lived on the Ewa side of West Loch in the early to mid 60s and later near Ewa Beach. Like you, I was only familiar with two names, Pu'uloa and Pearl Harbor, aka 'Pearl.' So I was curious about Waimomi. The Hoakalei Foundation website and the Hawai'i Magazine website have a bit of information about the origin of Wai Momi as a place name. Mahalo.
I lived on Oahu in Catlin Park my Dad stationed Cincpacflt.I took many bicycle rides to ferry landing,riding it to Ford island,then riding my bike around Ford Island,fished over there once with a friend.It was a weird feeling riding my bike on the air strip,down streets(old movie theater).I was imagining what it was like back in '41 to see the Japanese planes flying over as I was riding the strip.This was back between 1986-90,of course unfortunately now days it wouldn't be the same due to newly added housing area's and such,still for me as a teen it was an incredible time for me!!
the Battleships USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma, USS California, USS West Virginia, USS Nevada and 3 other vessels were sunk, two destroyers burned in fires so hot really only their boilers survived, and those fires burned all the paint of the bow of the Battleship USS Pennsylvania which shared drydock #1 with those destroyers. Battleships USS Maryland, USS Tennessee and 8 other assorted vessels took varying degrees of damage. USS California, USS West Virginia, USS Maryland USS Pennsylvania and USS Tennessee, plus 13 other lesser vessels and support ships were salvaged/repaired and restored to duty by the end of the war. Of the vessels damaged or sunk on December 7, only USS Arizona and the USS Utah, a former battleship reclassed as a gunnery practice ship were left in place and USS Oklahoma was salvaged but was lost while being towed back to California after the war. The weapon that hit USS Arizona's forward shell storage is now believed to be a 16" shell dropped from a bomber flying overhead.
As tragic as it was, the truth is that the Japanese screwed up did a lousy job militarily that day. - They did not damage or sink any carriers. - No oil supply or distribution facilities were destroyed. - Only 12 ships were knocked out of commission. There were more than 60 of strategic consequence. - The islands were not invaded. - The command and communication centers were not destroyed. -And, the Japanese stayed conservative by not launching a thrid wave attack. For all their planning, they really didn't end up with much.
Fuchida, the commander of the attack wing, wanted to go in again with a third wave, precisely to destroy the fuel depots and remaining vessels, but Admiral Nagumo, concerned now because the element of surprise had been lost and worried about casualties and the fleet's vulnerability to US submarines, ordered the airmen to stand down and pulled the task force back to Japan. Nagumo undermined Yammamoto's plan, which was to do enough damage at Pearl to cripple any US ability to resist Japanese expansion across the Western Pacific. Yammamoto knew the US would eventually rebuild its Pacific Fleet but he was hoping that with Japan in complete control of the Pacific east of Midway, the US might instead be willing to negotiate a truce that would leave Japan in control of its holdings. Nagumo was probably right that a lot more Japanese pilots would have been lost in a third wave attack, but Fuchida was also right that the destruction of the fuel tanks and more US naval surface vessels might have forced the US to pull all of its remaining ships, including the aircraft carriers Enterprise, Hornet and Yorktown all the way back to San Diego and San Francisco. But, it didn't happen and the naval victories in the Coral Sea and at Midway (where Nagumo blundered again) pretty much put an end to the IJN as a fighting force.
The Japanese also didn't destroy the dry docks. Had they put them out of commission, the war would have lasted longer, and possibly had a different outcome.
I was stationed at Hospital Point (at an old warehouse where a couple mobile C4I commands work out of) from April 98 till June 2001. Do I miss living in Hawaii, definitely especially when it's 45 below zero in North Dakota!
My father and uncle were there when it was attacked. One ship your missing is the USS Utah. It's still there. I believe it may be just east of the Arizona. Probably closer to where the Oklahoma capsized.
Yes USS Arizona & USS Utah are still there but the USS Oklahoma was raised and was being towed to California but a fierce storm in the Pacific she sang.... She ( USS Oklahoma) is not there ...
Ironic that the three battleships that could not be salvaged are the only ones that still exist. Or at least in part. The Oklahoma is out there somewhere.
Only 2 battleships in Hawaii USS Arizona and USS Utah still sitting on the bottom never recovered. USS Oklahoma was re-floated, stripped too the deck and sat there until war was over. Then sunk out in middle of ocean being towed back to the Mainland for scrapping. Where did you get your history from?????????????????????
The steam tug Hercules which was towing the hulk of the Oklahoma to the breakers when she sunk is alive and well in California. They got the tow line parted before the Oklahoma almost dragged her down.
I was interested to hear that the Arizona was sunk in deep water off the coast of Hawaii. I guess it was a miracle that we could see it from the memorial....
I had an Uncle that was stationed at Pearl Harbor during the attack. He told me that when they saw the plains flying in, they didn’t know at first who they were until they saw the torpedoes and bombs hanging under them as they were coming in and then saw the “rising sun” under their wings as they flew over them headed towards the ships. He said that as soon as they saw the explosions, he jumped on a keep that was headed that way but soon , he and some other soldiers were told to jump out. He said he didn’t know why the officer in the keep had told him that at the time, but right after they did, the keep that they were just in got hit. He gave credit for his life to that officer who unfortunately didn’t make it. He said that the noise of all of it was so loud that you couldn’t hardly hear the person right near you yelling. I know that he certainly missed his fellow soldiers through the years and kept them in his memory until he died.
One survivor of the attack recounted that two days afterward, he could still hear survivors trapped inside USS Arizona banging from inside its hull, but they couldn't do a thing to get them out. Here's the part of his interview where he mentions that: ruclips.net/video/gICSUxZOWv0/видео.html
I heard that before but getting them out another thing. Ship was badly damaged with broken keel. Navy had divers trying to get inside but didn't get far. Coffer dam around the ship and pump water out but how long would this have takin?
@@pdmustgtd1013 From what I have learned That idea has been suggested and studied but because of the porus nature of the harbor bottom a cofferdam would be useless. Can anyone else confirm that?
For the Arizona? That was definitely the case with the Oklahoma, as they couldn’t burn through the hull, but the Arizona was still mostly upright and they had access to most of the ship, though they had to use divers. The books about the salvage operations are perhaps the best (and most haunting) things I’ve ever read.
@@mattbulfin4220 They didn't have full access to the ship. forward powered magazine went off it wreaked 3/4 of the ship. Navy divers did try only got about 1 or 2 decks down in very rear of the ship and still couldn't get far
@@mattbulfin4220 In the video I linked, he said the Arizona. Maybe he misremembered; I didn't realize divers could actually access most of the ship. What do you think a good book would be to start with?
Good job on the documentary, but a quick correction, the two ships that remain at Pearl Harbor are, the USS, Arizona, obviously, and the USS Utah at Fox berth 11. The USS Utah was at one time, during the first world war, a battleship, but when the Washington naval treaty was signed, she had her main guns removed, and she was reassigned as a target ship. This meant that she had platforms put on her decks and was used by aircraft to drop dummy bombs or bags of flour to simulate an attack on a ship. On December 7, she was parked where a carrier would normally be birth, and the Japanese had that spot marked other maps where a carrier should be so when the Japanese came in to attack, they put torpedoes in her immediately. Because the Utah was not a priority ship, she was never fully raised in remains at her berth today
The USS Arizona is not off the coast of Hawaii, she rest peacefully in Pearl. I know it’s nit picking, but not accurate. Otherwise, a beautifully done video.
Arizona was wrecked by high altitude bombers not torpedo bombers. The Japanese used modified 16 inch armor piercing shells. The brave men entombed inside Arizona are sailors and marines not soilders.
I was stationed in Pearl Harbor from 10/26/1976 to 10/18/1978. I have seen the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. The USS Utah which was on the East side of Ford Island which was also lost and sunk at Pearl Harbor on 12/7/1941 along with the USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma. There was supposed to have been a memorial for the USS Utah which never happened. The USS Utah was and is totally ignored as if it never existed at all.
The US declaring war on Germany had little to do with the Pearl Harbor attack. The attack prompted Congress to declare war only on the Empire of Japan on December 8. It was, in fact, Germany's declaration of war on the US on December 11 that induced US's declaration against Germany and the remaining Axis powers later that same day.
You totally forgot the Utah on the other side of Ford island. It capsize an sank and is still there and is the grave of hundreds of sailors mostly forgotten
Interesting fact #1: both the Arizona (which symbolizes the beginning of US involvement in WWII) and the Missouri (which symbolizes the end of WWII) were built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Interesting fact #2: the Maine (which symbolizes the beginning of the Spanish-American War) was also built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Saying that Arizona was specifically attacked because of her size and power is stretching the truth a bit. The main target of the attack was the Pacific fleet in general and the battleships and carriers in particular. Also, by this time Arizona was 25 years old with the Tennessee, California, Maryland, and West Virginia being newer and mounting more powerful guns.
The craziest story I’ve heard first time hearing it was I guess a history lesson when I was in the Marine Corps about Marines me and on post after Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor in the Marines were basically standing guard in front of capsized ships, they kept hearing banging so they knew people were alive inside the ships and they ran to tell their Next in command eventually reaching the point that they were all towed before they went on post that they’re going to hear the noises there’s nothing that we can do! I forget what ship it was in but there were two guys that got locked in almost immediately when the bomb started dropping they were in the very bottom of the ship Where the fresh water will was and just so happens they got locked in and they had Food come to find out six months later when they reach them they found out they were alive for 16 days they ran out of air
Excellent history lesson. Several facts I had never heard of before. I don’t recall hearing anything about Elvis raising money for the Arizona memorial in 1961~62. Thank you for these very informative videos.
Although the incident didn’t happen on December 7th nor were they battleships but in the west noch on May 21, 1944, big group of LST were getting loaded up, a huge explosion (cause is still debated) resulting in six LST sunk. The official death toll is 163 but could possibly be more because the whole incident was classified until the 60s. There is strong speculation that the fifth Japanese mini sub was found during salvage operations, which it and other LST wreckage got towed out to sea and dumped. Unknown if any human remains are still onboard but the LST 480 was left and is still there. In fact you can see it in google map. Also I don’t know if it’s actual part or believed to be but in a park near me in California, Is some scrap taken from the Arizona.
Hey did you do a video about the Brooklyn Queen navy shipyard? If not I’d be a cool subject. That and other decaying canals near the metropolitan ave and grand ave intersection. I’m a long haul trucker and go there twice a week and have been wondering for years what once stood there
i live near there id like to know.... but after 60 years of decay in the last 15 years it has come back as an industrial park. the arizona and the monitor first iron clad was built there
it's battle ship Uss Arizona and Uss Utah(a de-facto training ship ex active battleship ) still at the bottom of Pearl harbor. but yeah you can say that about the uss Oklahoma being sunk of Hawaii by storm.
... umm... what about the museum ship that was attacked/sunk during the attack. I think it's still there, but it's not a popular visit site, like the Arizona is. edit: guess it was Utah....a training ship. 54 still in the ship.
There's a third. The U.S.S. Utah which is located on the other side of Ford Island. It was a target ship which was in the area which the aircraft carrier would have been if they were in Pearl on that Sunday. The Oklahoma was raised and sunk during a storm during her trip back to the mainland.
You have really awesome content and great storylines and dialogue! But just one thing makes it hard to follow you. Please know that this is constructive criticism and not meant to be offensive: You're not punctuating your sentences with clear beginnings and endings, making the whole story seem like a run-on sentence from beginning to end. If you even just put in a few extra microseconds of pause in between the end of one/beginning of the next sentence, you'd be much easier and relaxing to follow along with. Again, no offense, as I'm not a content creator and really have no business criticizing you, who are, but I would really like to see all of your content in the future. Wish you well and thanks.
The US declared that a "state of war exists with the Empire of Japan." Then asked that Congress declare the obvious. Germany and Italy declared war against the US several days later. If Hitler had not declared war, it probably would have been months before congress got around to declaring war against Hitler.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was not a surprise. FDR had intelligence in January of 1941 that Japan had chosen its target - Pearl Harbor. British intelligence and Dutch intelligence knew about it as well.
It is sad when someone tries to make a video about history, but does not know the actual history. Oklahoma does not still sit in Pearl Harbor, the Arizona and the Utah does.
He never said that the Oklahoma still sits in Pearl Harbor. He said it sank while being towed to be scrapped. I think the fact the he never mentioned the Utah still being there, has people a bit confused.
Just a point of fact the USS Utah is still on the bottom of pearl harbor as well. Though she was being used as platform to practice gunnery she was still a battle ship and still had a crew that fought and died same as the other two ships. She to has memorial in pearl harbor where she rest on the other side of Ford island from Arizona.
Before you make a video. You need to research your content first .The USS Oklahoma was salvaged 2 years after Pearl Harbor , and sunk during a storm on its way to overhaul
Trying to change history here? USS Oklahoma sank under tow and she definitely is not in Pearl Harbor anymore. The other battleship that is still there is the USS Utah. Even an amateur naval historian knows that. This video is such a disappointment considering that you're supposed to be a history channel.
Seems more interested in shilling for Magellan than creating factually accurate historic content. Guess Magellan doesn’t care about the content they sponsor
It is unfortunate that he never mention the Utah still being there, because the Oklahoma WAS there for a few years before they finally got her turned back over and he did mention that it sank while being towed. So I don't think he was all that far off.
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There is something you better learn if your going to keep doing these, never and I mean NEVER call a SAILOR or a MARINE a soldier. A soldier is a member of the US ARMY, not the Navy or the Air Force who by the way are called AIRMAN.
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Unexpected Fact: My dad was at Hickham Field in Pearl Harbor when it was attacked.
He said that as soon as they realized what was going on, they ran for the gun lockers. The gun lockers were locked which delayed the men from getting to the guns to shoot at Japanese airplanes.
My dad until his dying days couldn't figure out why the gun lockers were locked that morning as they had never been locked before.
Love hearing little pieces of history not generally known among the historian community. Thank you for sharing this about your family.
An unfortunate decision by some unamed service member with a rank beginning with "O" for Commissioned Officer.
Notice "Japs" or "Jap" being used to describe the Imperial Japanese Nation at the Era of World War 2. Anyone taking "offense" please go away into oblivion. Just disappear.
Bless his heart
Maybe it was staged to get the USA into WW2? I heard somewhere that the US president at the time knew full well that the Japanese were attacking and yet did nothing to deter them. I mean, to think that Pearl Harbor and 9/11 could've been avoided but they allowed it to take place... all for profit?
Oklahoma is not still there she was eventually stripped of her remaining armament and superstructure before being sold for scrap in 1946. The hulk sank in a storm in 1947, while being towed from Oahu, Hawaii, to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay. The other ship still present as a wreck is the USS Utah which was a target ship. As part of it's fitting out for that role she had heavy timbers laid across her deck and it is thought that the Japanese pilots believed she was one of the Carriers
Exactly where did "it's history" get their info from?
Actually Utah was a gunnery training ship. While they weren't able to pull her up right due to the composition of the mud and coral of the bottom of the harbor, they did retrieve thousands of rounds of 5 inch shells from her wreck.
He said that in the video around 20min mark.
USS Oklahoma said "No!" to the breakers.
I agree with you about the Oklahoma. I lost a relative on that ship, he was a Catholic priest and was the first chaplain to die in WW2.
For those interested Drachinifel did a few very detailed vids about the salvage operation
Agreed. Go watch Drach’s video for an accurate history of Pearl Harbor. Much better than this
@@bentley4446 yep
Different focuses for the channels. Drachs is incredibly through.
@@mattnw42 "through." ? No he is thorough, not through.
Drach's vid on the Arizona puts into perspective y it was never raised. Way more damage than expected.
There's actually another battleship resting near Ford Island in Pearl Harbor that you missed, she is sitting on the direct opposite side of Ford Island from where Arizona is sitting and her name is the USS Utah. The Utah was an outdated battleship by the early 1930s and so she was used as a Gunnery platform and a test bed for other equipment such as radar and rangefinders. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese aviator actually identified her and radioed to other Japanese torpedo bombers that the Utah was useless and that they shouldn't waste ammo by attacking it, but three B5N2 Kate bombers still launched Torpedoes against the Utah and sank it. The Utah still sits where she was sank at and there is even a memorial dock near her wreck.
Actually, the Utah was one of the first ships hit that morning. Along with the Raleigh and the Helena.
@@norshstephens2395 I never said when it sank, I just said that a Japanese Aviator said to not attack it, but it was attacked and sunk anyway
I remember on my bike ride riding around Ford what that other ship was in 86-90 when I was there wasn't much of a memorial there then!
You forgot the sunken USS Utah, which still lies on the north side of Ford Island and is visible from both the island and Google maps
I was thinking the same thing
Was going to comment on this!
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The narrator gave the impression that Arizona was hit by torpedoes. NO torpedoes hit her. Instead the 'torpedo bombers' acted as level bombers and dropped 16" shells converted to bombs.
they lost all credibility at that point - why'd they even bother making it?
They lost their credibility earlier on by saying the Oklahoma is still there
How did you get that impression? Is the deck of the ship on the side? He said the first bomb struck her deck.
They called the bombers which attacked Arizona torpedo planes, and then called the torpedo planes which hit Oklahoma bombers. I'm no sure I'd trust any of those documentaries on Magellan to be accurate.
Since 2000 closer enhancement of Japanese photographs of the harbor while under attack do reveal wake patterns of a torpedo attack upon the USS Arizona.
When the wakes were plotted back and that line searched a small Japanese submarine was found in the harbor bottom.
The waters of Pearl Harbor average only about 40 feet deep so the Arizona is actually sitting on the bottom. Her superstructure was removed during the war and her guns repurposed as harbor defense weapons. The Oklahoma is in much deeper waters.
Oklahoma is not at pearl harbor today. That would be USS Utah
Oklahoma was lost somewhere in the 1700 miles between Pearl Harbor and the California Coast. the other wreck is USS Utah an older dreadnought battleship that had been downgraded to gunnery practice ship long before the attack. Both Utah and Arizona were left in place because, I think, they were deemed too badly damaged to salvage for scrap, let alone for repair, Arizona's keel being broken apart by the blast that sank her (explosion of forward 16" shell room).
There is a park somewhere I think in Phoenix that has one of the Arizonas guns and one from USS Missouri although the gun was not on the Arizona aat the time of the attack
@@georgewnewman3201 USS Arizona did not have a forward or even an aft 16" Shell room. She had 14" shells for her main armament not 16" shells.
@@LegalVideoMan true, sorry my mistake, but that is what exploded breaking her keel, the 14" forward shell room
Such a devastating part of history. Thank you for covering such a monumental event!
Not a very accurate video thou. So many false things were said
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I didn’t know about the Elvis concert to raise money for the memorial. Your research is awesome!
Not only did he give a concert he paid his way in to see his own performance (none of the performers or anyone else got in for free). It was his second concert after getting out of the army (the other was in Memphis), his last concert before going into the Army was in Hawaii, he would not perform another concert for eight more years. He stayed on in Hawaii to film “Blue Hawaii). All the proceeds of the concert went to the memorial fund including concessions profits and donations raised by the concert. Elvis and Colonel Parker paid the other performer’s salaries out of their own pockets as well as making a donation to the fund.
Thanks so much to all the brave men and women in Pearl that day and the days following who thought more of the lives of the ones in danger than they did of their own lives!
Better check out the USS Utah, Brian.
Bodies were removed from the USS Arizona.
Just not many.
They were no valuable enough to bother with, according to the US navy, the guns and superstructure were worth salvaging. Not like the Oklahoma, where they bucketed out the dead and washed them away with water and pumps where possible, before selling her as scrap. Sailors are not as valued as the USS navy pretend they are, especially dead ones. Steel is though and worth every effort to retrieve.
Why did you not mention the USS UTAH, BB31, still resting on the bottom of Pearl Harbor, on the north side of Ford Island?
Back in 1982 I went to the Arizona. I highly recommend going. Its a solemn. You feel the spirits.
There were also two small Japanese subs involved in the action. This wasn't verified until the 21st century because of digital techniques that had previously not been available.
Actually there were five. Two sunk in the harbor, recovered and used as fill in dock construction. Ensign Sakamaki's boat was recovered and later sent to Fredericksburg, Texas for the Nimitz Museum. The submarine The USS Ward sank with her 3" gun was found in 1500 feet of water a few years ago. The fifth boat is still out there.
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Thank you sir. This is exactly why I post this sort of thing. I post the information that I have in hopes that if it's incorrect someone like you teaches me something new.
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@@johnemerson1363 Actually, all 5 have been accounted for. The first one sunk by USS Ward. The second washed ashore as stated was Ensign Sakamaki's. One of the ones that got into the harbor to be sunk by USS Monaghan and savaged for a landfill with the Japanese crew still inside. Another found just off the harbor entrance in 1960 with it's torpedo's still in the tubes. The last did penetrate the harbor and photographic evidence shows it firing on Battleship row toward USS Oklahoma and USS West Virginia. This last sub was accidentally discovered after the 21 May, 1944 West Loch Disaster during clean up operations. The sub was broken into three sections and taken out to sea with the other wreckage and debris. It was later rediscovered amongst the debris field that was dumped from that clean up. Later confirmed by Japanese and American historians that went to explore the site.
Brian, I love your videos, but you need to do a little better job proof-reading your scripts. Alaska is part of the Continental USA, but not part of the contiguous 48 states. The memorial itself also does not float. It is built on supports sunk into the harbor. And while Oklahoma's hulk was lost at sea in 1947 in deep water, USS Arizona and USS Utah are both still in the shallow water around Ford Island in Pearl Harbor. You can see both on Google earth, and in person. Utah wasn't a designated BB anymore, serving as a gunnery training vessel with several different kinds of turrets and guns fitted, but she was a BB hull. Had the USA been able to raise her quickly, it is possible they may have refit her as a BB, perhaps with Arizona's recoverable weapons. But as it stands, she has her own memorial, though not as extensive or well-visited as her more famous sister.
Like always the Utah is always forgotten about and that ship is still where she sank during the Pearl Harbor attack.
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Interesting. I was just on the Pearl Harbor tour this week. I would highly recommend to anyone visiting Hawaii.
We vacationed in Hawaii several years ago and visited the Arizona Memorial, it would've been a much more solemn visit if not for the kids that were allowed to run and holler.
Had the pleasure of meeting one of the survivors before taking the launch to the memorial.
From there to the Missouri, very cool!!!
The start and end of the war in one place.
It was also about a week after the ceremony, ,marking September 2nd.
My grandfather enlisted in the navy in 1942, and was sent to pearl almost a year to the day after the attack, he said it was still just terrible, the carnage laying around even a year later.
I've been to the Arizona twice first time Family vacation USS West Virginia survivor Richard Fisk was our tour guide at the time he has since passed away and volunteered many hours at the Arizona memorial there were originally 289 Arizona survivors but they're pretty much all gone
I lived in Hawaii in 2008, i had a book signed by some of the Arizona survivors, i used to be a little history nut, they even let 8 year old me spout out some facts on the tour bus. All the survivors who signed my book have now passed on, may they Rest In Peace.
I have visited the USS Arizona Memorial 15 times since 1986. A must see when you visit Hawaii.
You forgot the USS Utah. Although it had been downgraded from a battleship to a target ship, it too was sunk on 7 Dec. They tried to raise it and that failed, so it still is sunk and a memorial on the opposite side of Ford Island than battleship row.
If you can get a tour of the back waters of Perl you can see the parts taken off the ships rusting in the mangroves.
Most of the Arizona superstructure is up in the hills above Honolulu, the Navy just took it up there and left it to rust away.
I like how you illustrate Hawaii's 1959 joining day with a picture from the 1910s
Don't forget Utah! She is on the other's identity of Ford Island, right by the ammo loading area.
That was so interesting so much unknown historic facts. Thanks so much for the photos maps and explanation of everything.
This video is brutal when it comes to facts. Check the comments. We're right.
The other Battleship still there was the Former USS Utah, that at the time was the fleet training ship that had just been decommissioned and was awaiting a fleet SinkX. Also the Japanese were not after the Battleships, they were after the Carriers that were not in port at the time, the Arizona also was not sunk via a direct hit on the Second turret magazine, it was hit in the secondary magazine in the rear and the blast travelled down the centre passageway that was designed to move ammunition around the ship (the Alaska highway as it's called I think) that is what caused the explosion.
I was going to post about BB-31 as well. I think because it wasn't anchored on the row, it is not considered as important. 58 souls says otherwise in my opinion.
@@foddersfollies7494 There are the remains of 58 men onboard and the remains of a newborn baby girl. Her ashes are in an Urn in the Locker of Chief Yeoman Albert Thomas Dewitt Wagner. She died at birth and Wagner was waiting for a Chaplain to come aboard while at sea so he could scatter her ashes. After the attack, he asked Navy divers if they could retrieve the urn but they reported the Chief's quarters were to badly smashed to gain entrance.
The stern part of USS Arizona was intact with minimal damage. The bomb dropped into the forward magazine was a converted 16" armor piercing naval shell. When dropped from the height of the high level bombers it had the momentum to penetrate the armored decking into the ship before exploding and causing the massive explosion that was film from the USS Solace. An interesting fact is that most people that play the footage of the explosion are playing a reversed film. The true footage shows the explosion going from center to the Right. Reversed footage shows explosion from the center and going to the left.
USS Utah BB 31 wreckage and Memorial is off of Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oahu
It's History. One correction with all due respect. Oklahoma was eventually righted with great effort and taken under tow from Pearl. She parted her tow line in a storm and sank offshore from Hawaii. Japan not only failed to take out the US aircraft carriers but they failed also to destroy the petroleum tank farms that fueled the Pacific fleet and would have necessitated for a time moving the fleet back to the West Coast.
Yeah.... that was in the video. People should watch the video before commenting.
@@chuckkline2970 comment was made while watching before mention of Oklahoma. Cheers 🍻
They also failed to attack the repair and logistics facilities. Enterprise and her escorts entered Pearl Harbor the evening of 8 December. These ships refueled, rearmed, reprovisioned, and were over the horizon before dawn on 9 December. What started as a brilliant tactical victory for the Japanese became a fatal strategic defeat when that happened.
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I have lived on Oahu all my 60 years and have never heard Pearl Harbor called Waimomi. The Hawaiian name for the harbor is Puuloa, which translates to “long hill.” It is unknown why they called it that, but my guess is it came from the Waipio peninsula, which is indeed a long hill (it separates West Loch from the main part of the harbor). As for waimomi…momi does indeed mean “pearl” in Hawaiian, but “wai” means fresh water. “Kai” is the word for sea water and I can assure you that Pearl is salty. It is an estuary, so it is somewhat brackish (which is why Pearl oysters used to live in it), but it is definitely not fresh water. BTW, they are currently trying to reestablish the oysters in the harbor.
I am curious though where you found that “waimomi” reference. As I said, I have never heard that before in my entire life.
My family lived on the Ewa side of West Loch in the early to mid 60s and later near Ewa Beach. Like you, I was only familiar with two names, Pu'uloa and Pearl Harbor, aka 'Pearl.' So I was curious about Waimomi. The Hoakalei Foundation website and the Hawai'i Magazine website have a bit of information about the origin of Wai Momi as a place name. Mahalo.
@@timhazeltine3256 Thanks for the reply. I probably should’ve googled it before I posted … hehe! 🤙🏽
I lived on Oahu in Catlin Park my Dad stationed Cincpacflt.I took many bicycle rides to ferry landing,riding it to Ford island,then riding my bike around Ford Island,fished over there once with a friend.It was a weird feeling riding my bike on the air strip,down streets(old movie theater).I was imagining what it was like back in '41 to see the Japanese planes flying over as I was riding the strip.This was back between 1986-90,of course unfortunately now days it wouldn't be the same due to newly added housing area's and such,still for me as a teen it was an incredible time for me!!
the Battleships USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma, USS California, USS West Virginia, USS Nevada and 3 other vessels were sunk, two destroyers burned in fires so hot really only their boilers survived, and those fires burned all the paint of the bow of the Battleship USS Pennsylvania which shared drydock #1 with those destroyers. Battleships USS Maryland, USS Tennessee and 8 other assorted vessels took varying degrees of damage. USS California, USS West Virginia, USS Maryland USS Pennsylvania and USS Tennessee, plus 13 other lesser vessels and support ships were salvaged/repaired and restored to duty by the end of the war. Of the vessels damaged or sunk on December 7, only USS Arizona and the USS Utah, a former battleship reclassed as a gunnery practice ship were left in place and USS Oklahoma was salvaged but was lost while being towed back to California after the war. The weapon that hit USS Arizona's forward shell storage is now believed to be a 16" shell dropped from a bomber flying overhead.
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As tragic as it was, the truth is that the Japanese screwed up did a lousy job militarily that day.
- They did not damage or sink any carriers.
- No oil supply or distribution facilities were destroyed.
- Only 12 ships were knocked out of commission. There were more than 60 of strategic consequence.
- The islands were not invaded.
- The command and communication centers were not destroyed.
-And, the Japanese stayed conservative by not launching a thrid wave attack.
For all their planning, they really didn't end up with much.
I don't think they hit any subs or their base.
Fuchida, the commander of the attack wing, wanted to go in again with a third wave, precisely to destroy the fuel depots and remaining vessels, but Admiral Nagumo, concerned now because the element of surprise had been lost and worried about casualties and the fleet's vulnerability to US submarines, ordered the airmen to stand down and pulled the task force back to Japan. Nagumo undermined Yammamoto's plan, which was to do enough damage at Pearl to cripple any US ability to resist Japanese expansion across the Western Pacific. Yammamoto knew the US would eventually rebuild its Pacific Fleet but he was hoping that with Japan in complete control of the Pacific east of Midway, the US might instead be willing to negotiate a truce that would leave Japan in control of its holdings. Nagumo was probably right that a lot more Japanese pilots would have been lost in a third wave attack, but Fuchida was also right that the destruction of the fuel tanks and more US naval surface vessels might have forced the US to pull all of its remaining ships, including the aircraft carriers Enterprise, Hornet and Yorktown all the way back to San Diego and San Francisco. But, it didn't happen and the naval victories in the Coral Sea and at Midway (where Nagumo blundered again) pretty much put an end to the IJN as a fighting force.
@@rogersmith7396 Yes a few were hit, one was sunk and the remains are still in the mud.
The Japanese also didn't destroy the dry docks. Had they put them out of commission, the war would have lasted longer, and possibly had a different outcome.
I was stationed at Hospital Point (at an old warehouse where a couple mobile C4I commands work out of) from April 98 till June 2001. Do I miss living in Hawaii, definitely especially when it's 45 below zero in North Dakota!
The USS Arizona's fuel tanks were almost full because she was scheduled to return the Mainland for maintenance and upgrades.
My father and uncle were there when it was attacked. One ship your missing is the USS Utah. It's still there. I believe it may be just east of the Arizona. Probably closer to where the Oklahoma capsized.
No, it is on the west side of Ford Island, right next to the restricted anchorage for loading ammunition. Been there.
@@brucelytle1144 I stand corrected. My apologies.
R.I.P. U.S.S. Arizona and U.S.S. Utah , and to all of those who gave so much on that day your not FORGOTTEN !
The U.S.S. Utah is probably the least visited memorial at Pearl Harbor.
I thought they only allowed members of the military and their families to visit there and it was not opened to the general public.
Yes USS Arizona & USS Utah are still there but the USS Oklahoma was raised and was being towed to California but a fierce storm in the Pacific she sang.... She ( USS Oklahoma) is not there ...
Ironic that the three battleships that could not be salvaged are the only ones that still exist. Or at least in part. The Oklahoma is out there somewhere.
No Word over the USS Utah? This ship is at Hawaii today and not over 500 miles away.
Only 2 battleships in Hawaii USS Arizona and USS Utah still sitting on the bottom never recovered. USS Oklahoma was re-floated, stripped too the deck and sat there until war was over. Then sunk out in middle of ocean being towed back to the Mainland for scrapping. Where did you get your history from?????????????????????
THAT is EXACTLY what he said.
Title says other wise
The steam tug Hercules which was towing the hulk of the Oklahoma to the breakers when she sunk is alive and well in California. They got the tow line parted before the Oklahoma almost dragged her down.
I was interested to hear that the Arizona was sunk in deep water off the coast of Hawaii. I guess it was a miracle that we could see it from the memorial....
I had an Uncle that was stationed at Pearl Harbor during the attack. He told me that when they saw the plains flying in, they didn’t know at first who they were until they saw the torpedoes and bombs hanging under them as they were coming in and then saw the “rising sun” under their wings as they flew over them headed towards the ships. He said that as soon as they saw the explosions, he jumped on a keep that was headed that way but soon , he and some other soldiers were told to jump out. He said he didn’t know why the officer in the keep had told him that at the time, but right after they did, the keep that they were just in got hit. He gave credit for his life to that officer who unfortunately didn’t make it. He said that the noise of all of it was so loud that you couldn’t hardly hear the person right near you yelling. I know that he certainly missed his fellow soldiers through the years and kept them in his memory until he died.
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One survivor of the attack recounted that two days afterward, he could still hear survivors trapped inside USS Arizona banging from inside its hull, but they couldn't do a thing to get them out. Here's the part of his interview where he mentions that: ruclips.net/video/gICSUxZOWv0/видео.html
I heard that before but getting them out another thing. Ship was badly damaged with broken keel. Navy had divers trying to get inside but didn't get far. Coffer dam around the ship and pump water out but how long would this have takin?
@@pdmustgtd1013 From what I have learned That idea has been suggested and studied but because of the porus nature of the harbor bottom a cofferdam would be useless. Can anyone else confirm that?
For the Arizona? That was definitely the case with the Oklahoma, as they couldn’t burn through the hull, but the Arizona was still mostly upright and they had access to most of the ship, though they had to use divers. The books about the salvage operations are perhaps the best (and most haunting) things I’ve ever read.
@@mattbulfin4220 They didn't have full access to the ship. forward powered magazine went off it wreaked 3/4 of the ship. Navy divers did try only got about 1 or 2 decks down in very rear of the ship and still couldn't get far
@@mattbulfin4220 In the video I linked, he said the Arizona. Maybe he misremembered; I didn't realize divers could actually access most of the ship. What do you think a good book would be to start with?
Good job on the documentary, but a quick correction, the two ships that remain at Pearl Harbor are, the USS, Arizona, obviously, and the USS Utah at Fox berth 11. The USS Utah was at one time, during the first world war, a battleship, but when the Washington naval treaty was signed, she had her main guns removed, and she was reassigned as a target ship. This meant that she had platforms put on her decks and was used by aircraft to drop dummy bombs or bags of flour to simulate an attack on a ship.
On December 7, she was parked where a carrier would normally be birth, and the Japanese had that spot marked other maps where a carrier should be so when the Japanese came in to attack, they put torpedoes in her immediately.
Because the Utah was not a priority ship, she was never fully raised in remains at her berth today
The USS Arizona is not off the coast of Hawaii, she rest peacefully in Pearl. I know it’s nit picking, but not accurate. Otherwise, a beautifully done video.
He said the Oklahoma sank off the coast of Hawaii
Arizona was wrecked by high altitude bombers not torpedo bombers. The Japanese used modified 16 inch armor piercing shells.
The brave men entombed inside Arizona are sailors and marines not soilders.
I live in hawaii and I was able to visit the uss Arizona memorial in person as well as everything else on display at the museum
What about the Utah, she's still on other side of ford island sunk and capsize and mostly forgotten but most of her crew died onboard
Horrible video.
What about the Utah??
The UTAH is also still resting in Pearl on the other side of Ford Island.
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I was stationed in Pearl Harbor from 10/26/1976 to 10/18/1978. I have seen the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. The USS Utah which was on the East side of Ford Island which was also lost and sunk at Pearl Harbor on 12/7/1941 along with the USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma. There was supposed to have been a memorial for the USS Utah which never happened. The USS Utah was and is totally ignored as if it never existed at all.
Well done, I did sign up to Magellan because if your link! Hope ya get the recognition for it! It is an AWESOME channel!
The inaccuracies in this video loom large.
Oklahoma isn't a wreck at the bottom of Pearl Harbor and the Arizona wasn't sunk by torpedoes.
What about USS Utah ???
Great video thank you 😊
The US declaring war on Germany had little to do with the Pearl Harbor attack. The attack prompted Congress to declare war only on the Empire of Japan on December 8. It was, in fact, Germany's declaration of war on the US on December 11 that induced US's declaration against Germany and the remaining Axis powers later that same day.
I can always envision Arizona during the attack when I look at the memorial
USS Oklahoma is NOT at Pearl. She was refloated already during war, but sank after war in middle of Pacific while on tow to scrappers.
You totally forgot the Utah on the other side of Ford island. It capsize an sank and is still there and is the grave of hundreds of sailors mostly forgotten
Interesting fact #1: both the Arizona (which symbolizes the beginning of US involvement in WWII) and the Missouri (which symbolizes the end of WWII) were built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Interesting fact #2: the Maine (which symbolizes the beginning of the Spanish-American War) was also built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Saying that Arizona was specifically attacked because of her size and power is stretching the truth a bit. The main target of the attack was the Pacific fleet in general and the battleships and carriers in particular. Also, by this time Arizona was 25 years old with the Tennessee, California, Maryland, and West Virginia being newer and mounting more powerful guns.
The craziest story I’ve heard first time hearing it was I guess a history lesson when I was in the Marine Corps about Marines me and on post after Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor in the Marines were basically standing guard in front of capsized ships, they kept hearing banging so they knew people were alive inside the ships and they ran to tell their Next in command eventually reaching the point that they were all towed before they went on post that they’re going to hear the noises there’s nothing that we can do! I forget what ship it was in but there were two guys that got locked in almost immediately when the bomb started dropping they were in the very bottom of the ship Where the fresh water will was and just so happens they got locked in and they had Food come to find out six months later when they reach them they found out they were alive for 16 days they ran out of air
do you edit halfway through sentences? very distracting
Excellent history lesson. Several facts I had never heard of before. I don’t recall hearing anything about Elvis raising money for the Arizona memorial in 1961~62.
Thank you for these very informative videos.
Although the incident didn’t happen on December 7th nor were they battleships but in the west noch on May 21, 1944, big group of LST were getting loaded up, a huge explosion (cause is still debated) resulting in six LST sunk. The official death toll is 163 but could possibly be more because the whole incident was classified until the 60s. There is strong speculation that the fifth Japanese mini sub was found during salvage operations, which it and other LST wreckage got towed out to sea and dumped. Unknown if any human remains are still onboard but the LST 480 was left and is still there. In fact you can see it in google map.
Also I don’t know if it’s actual part or believed to be but in a park near me in California, Is some scrap taken from the Arizona.
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Colorado class: Are we a joke to you?
It know I was laughing. So yeah
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Hey did you do a video about the Brooklyn Queen navy shipyard? If not I’d be a cool subject. That and other decaying canals near the metropolitan ave and grand ave intersection. I’m a long haul trucker and go there twice a week and have been wondering for years what once stood there
i live near there id like to know.... but after 60 years of decay in the last 15 years it has come back as an industrial park. the arizona and the monitor first iron clad was built there
it's battle ship Uss Arizona and Uss Utah(a de-facto training ship ex active battleship ) still at the bottom of Pearl harbor. but yeah you can say that about the uss Oklahoma being sunk of Hawaii by storm.
... umm... what about the museum ship that was attacked/sunk during the attack. I think it's still there, but it's not a popular visit site, like the Arizona is.
edit: guess it was Utah....a training ship. 54 still in the ship.
the battleship UTAH is still there also!! many saviors died there!!!👍🏻🖖🏻😉
There's a third. The U.S.S. Utah which is located on the other side of Ford Island. It was a target ship which was in the area which the aircraft carrier would have been if they were in Pearl on that Sunday. The Oklahoma was raised and sunk during a storm during her trip back to the mainland.
Arizona & Oklahoma are not "off" the coast of Hawaii. The are in Pearl Harbor.
Oklahoma is not at pearl harbor.
You have really awesome content and great storylines and dialogue! But just one thing makes it hard to follow you. Please know that this is constructive criticism and not meant to be offensive: You're not punctuating your sentences with clear beginnings and endings, making the whole story seem like a run-on sentence from beginning to end. If you even just put in a few extra microseconds of pause in between the end of one/beginning of the next sentence, you'd be much easier and relaxing to follow along with. Again, no offense, as I'm not a content creator and really have no business criticizing you, who are, but I would really like to see all of your content in the future. Wish you well and thanks.
Thanks for pointing this out. I'm using RUclips autotranslation and it will give better results with clear beginning and endings.
The US declared that a "state of war exists with the Empire of Japan." Then asked that Congress declare the obvious. Germany and Italy declared war against the US several days later. If Hitler had not declared war, it probably would have been months before congress got around to declaring war against Hitler.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was not a surprise. FDR had intelligence in January of 1941 that Japan had chosen its target - Pearl Harbor. British intelligence and Dutch intelligence knew about it as well.
USS Arizona Oklahoma we’re famous ships but in Pearl Harbor were you visit now there is Utah which is the Memorial
Would love to see you do a video over Elwood Indiana at once it has the worlds largest tin plate factory
Oklahoma capsized being towed to frisco needed major work done there
She also capsize during the Pearl Harbor attack.
Kind of overlooked Utah, didn’t you?
It is sad when someone tries to make a video about history, but does not know the actual history. Oklahoma does not still sit in Pearl Harbor, the Arizona and the Utah does.
I'm done with this channel after that obvious fact.
He never said that the Oklahoma still sits in Pearl Harbor. He said it sank while being towed to be scrapped. I think the fact the he never mentioned the Utah still being there, has people a bit confused.
The USS Utah is still sunk where she sank. Much more could have been said about the BB 31. But your presentation was still very interesting.
The memorial does not float it sits on metal piers above the wreck. If it floated the tide and wave action would cause it to bang into the ship.
To history buffs, we know . To those who don't, read up on our history. Then maybe you might see our country in a different light.
Just a point of fact the USS Utah is still on the bottom of pearl harbor as well. Though she was being used as platform to practice gunnery she was still a battle ship and still had a crew that fought and died same as the other two ships. She to has memorial in pearl harbor where she rest on the other side of Ford island from Arizona.
Yup.
Just a heads up the USS Utah and Arizona are the ones still present. Source: been there multiple times this year lol
I had two uncles who were at the attack. One on a destroyer at PH. The other a USS California crewman. IDK where he was during the attack
Missed one.... The USS Utah
you left out a whole shit load of boats... like the ships lost in an ammo explosion
Before you make a video. You need to research your content first .The USS Oklahoma was salvaged 2 years after Pearl Harbor , and sunk during a storm on its way to overhaul
Trying to change history here? USS Oklahoma sank under tow and she definitely is not in Pearl Harbor anymore. The other battleship that is still there is the USS Utah. Even an amateur naval historian knows that. This video is such a disappointment considering that you're supposed to be a history channel.
Seems more interested in shilling for Magellan than creating factually accurate historic content. Guess Magellan doesn’t care about the content they sponsor
Nevada is now sunk outside of Pearl Harbor in deep water.
It is unfortunate that he never mention the Utah still being there, because the Oklahoma WAS there for a few years before they finally got her turned back over and he did mention that it sank while being towed. So I don't think he was all that far off.
I study pearl harbor and war war two
Before becoming a target ship, the USS Utah was a battleship.
And it had crew that were killed that day.
This thing sounds like a high school term paper. All in all, I'd give it a B-.