Yamamoto was kind of a tragic figure. He was already in the twenties aware that instead of huge Battleships, aircraft carriers were the key to naval supremacy. He studied at Harvard, and therefor was well aware of the industrial power of the US. Therefor he tried to prevent a war with the United States at all cost, but he could do little against the warmongering nationalistic admirals, generals and politicians in Japan. So in the end he had to fight a war he never wanted. He planned the attack on Pearl Harbor because he knew that Japan has only about a year where they can advance until the US will outproduce and outnumber them greatly. So his plan was to make sudden strikes so he can negotiate peace with the Allies as soon as possible and not have to fight them in a long war.
Spot on! Admiral Isokoru Yamamoto was definitely Japan’s most tragic, in hindsight even sympathetic, combatant. In attacking Pearl Harbor he knees his days were numbered.
Tragic figure....hardly : if you’re opposed to something that you know will cause millions of dead and untold destruction on your country the courageous man RESIGNS. It’s that simple.
Michel Kerger Not really when you’re the commander in chief of the combined fleet, have close relations with the imperial family, and very popular among your men and other officers. Resigning” in this case would certainly be seen as an act of treason and Yamamoto would be executed.
Jesus, imagine being a broken soldier, afraid with no moral left waiting for your commander to come and boost your spirits, then just to hear that he got shot down by the Americans while on the way.
The shots look a bit too clean for a 20mm, so I think it was the 50.s that made those holes. The 20mm on the p38 wouldve caused massive shrapnel holes on a lightly armored bomber like the betty
Another source said Yamamoto was hit by at least 2 .50 caliber rounds, including one to the head, which makes me wonder how much of a head he'd have after being hit by that size round.
It wasn't very badass, I think it was quite tragic. Yamamoto was against the war against the USA from the outset, and tried everything he could to prevent it. In the end, he became one of the countless victims of the behemoth his superiors woke up from its slumber. I hope he's at peace
This video sent me on a search to find out more about Ballale. It's amazing how much history there is on a tiny island most people have never heard of. Bless the souls of the British POWs who were murdered there.
Thanks for the perspective on this historical event! My father was a side-gunner on a B-29 and told many stories of his many flights, from Tinian, Okinawa, and ultimately over Tokyo. He said his air group was separated by a chain-link fence from a couple of other B-29s that had no armaments, they practiced taking off and landings..ultimately one was the Enola Gay. Dad's plane was Angel-in-Da-Skies.
Thank you again Forrest for this video. After just watching the movie "Midway" at the theater, of course Admiral Yamamoto was a central part. At the end of the film, the producers clearly explain what happened to each key figure of the battle, American & Japanese. For Admiral Yamamoto, they said our codebreakers knew his flight path, date & time, & our fighters shot his plane out of the sky. But now, thanks to you, I know how his life really ends. Can't wait for your next video.
*Imagine dying fighting a war you tried to prevent....with a strategy you were against. Imagine you tried talking every sensible logic/ideas with everyone....only to have your ideas shot down and for you to be appointed the leader in an attack you wanted no part of. What a tragic story...*
Yamamoto was a military genius. The war could have go on for a long time. We could have even lost Australia or the northern island of New Zealand. Yamamoto being shot down is the first time I think that America has ever publicly admitted to giving the order to assassinate a political/military figure. Which why so many P-38's were used.
Azriel They never had a chance, I don’t think the battle of the coral sea was there chance of an invasion, battle of midway makes more sense. If the 4 carriers hadn’t sunk they would be a great help for a Australian invasion but it doesn’t mean they can defeat Australia, I bet they would manage to land but the US wouldn’t let go of such a large ally in the pacific they would defend Australia to death. The Japanese can’t take a long war and eventually the US industry would be finish producing a lot of carriers and ships. That would overwhelm the Japanese navy, no matter how great of a mind you think of Yamamoto, the power of American Industry and economy will ultimately be the weight he can’t take. War can not be won by minds alone but by statistics and resource as well.
Another new subscriber here, have watched several of your vids, find them informative and entertaining. I would like to point out at the 6:07 mark, the holes on the tail you think are bullet holes are actually very recent damage to the airframe done sometime after 2015, not from aerial rounds fired in 1943. The image starting at the 5:24 mark looks like a screen shot from a 2015 vid of the site, and the image at the 6:07 marks looks like a screenshot from a 2018 video. In the 2015 screenshot, there are no holes in the tail, and the fuselage is still attached the the empennage. In the 2018 vid, there are now holes in the tail, and the top half of the fuselage is no longer attached to the tail. Those holes look like pieces of the aircraft skin cut out by souvenir hunters. They are too square in shape and are lined up between the internal structure of the tail where a hand held knife knife would be able to cut out the thin skin between the thicker structural ribs. I've seen examples of this while I was training in aircraft BDAR (Battle Damage Assessment Repair/Recovery) in the military.
A devastating blow to the Japanese forces during world war II, which lead to a domino effect of imperial japanese defeat. Great video forrest, Id love to see you do one on the German operation to rescue Mussolini from the Italy prison in the mountains using gliders and paratroopers
No suggestions what to post from me, just support. Everything you cover is thorough and paints a new perspective on history bringing all the loose ends full circle. I don't care what you post, just post more. Keep on keepin on buddy.
Hag,,,for your info, the pilot of one of the P-38"s spotted a plane he felt might be Yamamoto's he moved into position to commence his attack, in the process he "pulled" the trigger to clear his guns, and to his surprise he hit the target, it was the Admirals plane, down it went. This was told by the pilot of "that" P-38
Cool Thanks.... My dad was a teenager in the Navy over there during that time. Said they went on a souvenir mission, saw a Japanese Officer laying there out of a Japanese Betty Bomber with all these medal on him, no one wanted his sword because it was damaged. Later he found out it Was Admiral Yamamoto. He had me watch films on Guadalcanal alot. Never could find where Yamamotos sword ended up.
I'm sorry to tell you but the Admirals body was recovered the next day and his ashes were inturned after a state funeral in Tokyo and his ancestral home.
@@g2macs Thank you, for the information. I’am glad he was returned to his homeland and family. ☮️ peace not war! We need to talk before we take up arms against one another!
I love how you explain in simple for viewer to understand. Thank you for what you did. But If you can go little bit more detail, can you tell what kind of canon/bullet that American posses, that shoot and kill the general?
Outstanding, the war in the Pacific is so interesting, our boys fought for our freedom and that is not an exaggeration. Thank you for posting, great job!
I believe there is gun camera footage of the shoot-down. I’ll dig around to see if I can find it. The P-38 was a very capable, superb aircraft and a much feared opponent by the Japanese airmen. Thanks for the video.
I never knew this... I’m a little ashamed to admit that, but I’m also thankful for the history lesson. May I make some recommendations for future videos? How about Gettysburg, The location of the Donner Party tragedy, and the crash site of either Patsy Cline and or Jim Reeves? Keep up the great work. Thank you sir and subscribed!
Lindbergh was ~1 year too late to help with this intercept. This mission was at the upper end of the P-38's normal ~7 hour radius with drop tanks and standard fuel management, but it was feasible without modifications. Lindbergh joined the 433rd F.Sq. (P-38s) in late June 1944, ~14 months later, and gave his talk on July 3. Briefly, he knew that USAAF planes were overbuilt to withstand their entire performance envelope, and could fly non-combat legs on lean mixtures with no short-term damage. Long-term damage is not much of an issue because warplanes get replaced in cycles before then. In his talk, he taught his squadron to reduce 2200 => 1600 rpm, auto-rich => auto-lean, and low => (slightly) high(er) manifold pressure, and thus extend 7 hours => 9 hours aloft, or +30% range. On the next mission on July 4, they flew 6h 40m and the lowest fuel on landing was 160 gallons, enough for another 2+ hrs at 70 gallons per hour. Lindbergh left on July 7, so he was with them barely 1.5 weeks. Apparently he first flew the P-38 on June 20, so he did all that in 2.5 weeks. Engines are engines. www.charleslindbergh.com/wwii/
Another great insight to history. And to think I ended up on your site here today "exactly" 77 years after the fact. Amazing. Love your history reviews w/ google earth. Most impressive.
Thanks Forrest. Your videos really make these events seem so much more real to me. May god bless our veterans! My humble requests: the Boston Marathon bombings and Stevie Ray Vaughn's helicopter crash.
Awesome videos. I do this sort of thing frequently on google maps, it's so fascinating. It's great to see an even more detailed look at it. I'd love to see the black hawk down situation or maybe miami dade shootout in more detail. The original target building still exists in mogadishu but the durant crash site now has a building on it.
Cool stuff, Forrest! Tho it seems that people want sites that are already well known, I think it would be a great idea to feature some more obscure or less-known sites that have very interesting backstories. Just a thought.
Buz Aldrin He was flying an experimental B-17 Flying Fortress rigged with explosives and could be piloted by remote control. Human pilots would take off and at one point flying toward the target, they would bail out, and the plane would be flown by remote control using primitive TV Camaras. Kennedy was preparing to bail out but ran into a problem and the plane exploded in mid air.
Yamamoto’s stance was to oppose the invasion of China. He also opposed war against the United States, partly because of his studies at Harvard University (1919-1921) and his two postings as a naval attaché in Washington, D.C.,where he learned to speak fluent English. Yamamoto traveled extensively in the United States during his tour of duty there, where he studied American customs and business practice.
I'm surprised you can't find this pinpointed on GoogleEarth and Wikipedia is all over the place. One paragraph on their webpage has the location as 9 miles SW of Panguna which is also where the coordinates they give, take you, another has it North of Buin where all the other references has it W-SW of Buin.
I love how clear your vids are and I just subbed. Can you make a video about the battle of Philippine sea and leyte gulf? This would be interesting in google map perspective
I once heard that the Naval Intelligence code-breaking group was mad as hell over this attack because it clearly demonstrated that the IJN code had been cracked, thus informing the enemy. I don't know how true this detail is, however.
Great videos,especially the WW2 videos.I wanna make a request for Omaha Beach or Ste.Mere’ Eglise.Oh yeah please!!! Lol It’s like going on a field trip around the world!!!!
Forrest Haggerty Have you ever done a video on Benghazi?? That would be a good one because of the multiple battle locations,the CIA Annex and the gov’t compound
Im surprised if that is a true pic that the planes remains were not salvaged for display or museum in Japan. My father in law who was in intelligence in WW2 Air Force said the planes at his base were P-38 Lightnings.
The gaping hole in the fuselage by the tail that is bent in slightly I'd imagine is probably damage from a cannon round that detonated on impact. It is certainly far too large to be .50 cal.
I remember watching a video interview of the pilot who shot him down. He was saying that he was clearing his guns and the Betty bomber went down! Pure luck that it happened that way.
They said when he was found he had one had clasped to his katana. They also said he was easy to recognize and identify .....which I found odd after taking a .50 cal that exited out of his face (eye)
Yamamoto was kind of a tragic figure.
He was already in the twenties aware that instead of huge Battleships, aircraft carriers were the key to naval supremacy.
He studied at Harvard, and therefor was well aware of the industrial power of the US. Therefor he tried to prevent a war with the United States at all cost, but he could do little against the warmongering nationalistic admirals, generals and politicians in Japan.
So in the end he had to fight a war he never wanted.
He planned the attack on Pearl Harbor because he knew that Japan has only about a year where they can advance until the US will outproduce and outnumber them greatly. So his plan was to make sudden strikes so he can negotiate peace with the Allies as soon as possible and not have to fight them in a long war.
I watched that documentary too.......
He was a great poker player.
Spot on! Admiral Isokoru Yamamoto was definitely Japan’s most tragic, in hindsight even sympathetic, combatant. In attacking Pearl Harbor he knees his days were numbered.
Tragic figure....hardly : if you’re opposed to something that you know will cause millions of dead and untold destruction on your country the courageous man RESIGNS. It’s that simple.
Michel Kerger Not really when you’re the commander in chief of the combined fleet, have close relations with the imperial family, and very popular among your men and other officers. Resigning” in this case would certainly be seen as an act of treason and Yamamoto would be executed.
Jesus, imagine being a broken soldier, afraid with no moral left waiting for your commander to come and boost your spirits, then just to hear that he got shot down by the Americans while on the way.
6:30 P-38's were deadly having both 50 cal MGs and 20 mil cannon. Those holes look a lot like 20 mil hits.
The shots look a bit too clean for a 20mm, so I think it was the 50.s that made those holes. The 20mm on the p38 wouldve caused massive shrapnel holes on a lightly armored bomber like the betty
Sketchboi well the g4m1 betty had no armor except for the seal sealing tanks
They were .50 caliber armor-piercing incendiary.
Those aren't bullet holes. You can see earlier pictures and there are no holes in the tail. People have been cutting pieces out of it.
I didn’t know America managed to get the guy who commanded the pearl harbour attack that’s pretty badass much respect from Britain
Another source said Yamamoto was hit by at least 2 .50 caliber rounds, including one to the head, which makes me wonder how much of a head he'd have after being hit by that size round.
JJ Brooks Took a while, but we got Bin Laden too.
@@rb1179 I wondered the same thing. Could of been fragments of the rounds maybe.
It wasn't very badass, I think it was quite tragic. Yamamoto was against the war against the USA from the outset, and tried everything he could to prevent it. In the end, he became one of the countless victims of the behemoth his superiors woke up from its slumber. I hope he's at peace
@BC Bob very, very true...
This video sent me on a search to find out more about Ballale. It's amazing how much history there is on a tiny island most people have never heard of. Bless the souls of the British POWs who were murdered there.
Thanks for the perspective on this historical event! My father was a side-gunner on a B-29 and told many stories of his many flights, from Tinian, Okinawa, and ultimately over Tokyo. He said his air group was separated by a chain-link fence from a couple of other B-29s that had no armaments, they practiced taking off and landings..ultimately one was the Enola Gay. Dad's plane was Angel-in-Da-Skies.
The P38 pilots had a long running feud about who shot him down.
I love these videos. Thanks for teaching me about this, I’d never heard about it before.
Thank you again Forrest for this video. After just watching the movie "Midway" at the theater, of course Admiral Yamamoto was a central part. At the end of the film, the producers clearly explain what happened to each key figure of the battle, American & Japanese. For Admiral Yamamoto, they said our codebreakers knew his flight path, date & time, & our fighters shot his plane out of the sky. But now, thanks to you, I know how his life really ends. Can't wait for your next video.
*Imagine dying fighting a war you tried to prevent....with a strategy you were against. Imagine you tried talking every sensible logic/ideas with everyone....only to have your ideas shot down and for you to be appointed the leader in an attack you wanted no part of. What a tragic story...*
DJ UwU very true!
He went out to boost morale & got shot down?
I guess that's what you call a failed mission.
I'm from Philippines 😁😁😁🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭,, and now Japan and the United States are closed allies, both are more than friends,,,
They are lovers!!!
XD
Use to be closer when they were a territory of the US
But our fucking scumbag president doesn't want the US to interfere in the west philippine sea
Glad to hear that! Hate for long time now gone and going for weabo
Yamamoto was a military genius. The war could have go on for a long time. We could have even lost Australia or the northern island of New Zealand. Yamamoto being shot down is the first time I think that America has ever publicly admitted to giving the order to assassinate a political/military figure. Which why so many P-38's were used.
Military leaders are not "assassinated". They are the enemy and you kill the enemy.
I doubt even with Admiral Yamamoto’s genius that they can invade Australia
Yamamoto was NOT a military genius. I have difficulty thinking of any his actual successes.
@@dogeyt5995 They lost their chance at Australia after the Coral Sea
Azriel They never had a chance, I don’t think the battle of the coral sea was there chance of an invasion, battle of midway makes more sense. If the 4 carriers hadn’t sunk they would be a great help for a Australian invasion but it doesn’t mean they can defeat Australia, I bet they would manage to land but the US wouldn’t let go of such a large ally in the pacific they would defend Australia to death. The Japanese can’t take a long war and eventually the US industry would be finish producing a lot of carriers and ships. That would overwhelm the Japanese navy, no matter how great of a mind you think of Yamamoto, the power of American Industry and economy will ultimately be the weight he can’t take. War can not be won by minds alone but by statistics and resource as well.
As always, another excellent video.
Please consider covering Pan Am 103, whose 30th anniversary has just passed.
Found your channel recently and binge-watched all of them in a week. Great work!
Another new subscriber here, have watched several of your vids, find them informative and entertaining. I would like to point out at the 6:07 mark, the holes on the tail you think are bullet holes are actually very recent damage to the airframe done sometime after 2015, not from aerial rounds fired in 1943. The image starting at the 5:24 mark looks like a screen shot from a 2015 vid of the site, and the image at the 6:07 marks looks like a screenshot from a 2018 video. In the 2015 screenshot, there are no holes in the tail, and the fuselage is still attached the the empennage. In the 2018 vid, there are now holes in the tail, and the top half of the fuselage is no longer attached to the tail. Those holes look like pieces of the aircraft skin cut out by souvenir hunters. They are too square in shape and are lined up between the internal structure of the tail where a hand held knife knife would be able to cut out the thin skin between the thicker structural ribs. I've seen examples of this while I was training in aircraft BDAR (Battle Damage Assessment Repair/Recovery) in the military.
It's a nice feeling when Forrest Haggerty pops up in my Bell icon. Happy Christmas people.
I missed your videos
#MeToo!! Lol.
Relaxing and informative, great video like always.
A devastating blow to the Japanese forces during world war II, which lead to a domino effect of imperial japanese defeat. Great video forrest, Id love to see you do one on the German operation to rescue Mussolini from the Italy prison in the mountains using gliders and paratroopers
No suggestions what to post from me, just support. Everything you cover is thorough and paints a new perspective on history bringing all the loose ends full circle. I don't care what you post, just post more. Keep on keepin on buddy.
Hag,,,for your info, the pilot of one of the P-38"s spotted a plane he felt might be Yamamoto's
he moved into position to commence his attack, in the process he "pulled" the trigger to
clear his guns, and to his surprise he hit the target, it was the Admirals plane, down it went.
This was told by the pilot of "that" P-38
These are the best videos on YT. Some are addicted to Oxycontin, some to Google maps. It's an addiction.
Hi from Portugal. Love your videos. Keep up the good work.
You're welcome. Cheers 🥂
Relaxing and interesting video, nice job keep em coming
Cool Thanks.... My dad was a teenager in the Navy over there during that time. Said they went on a souvenir mission, saw a Japanese Officer laying there out of a Japanese Betty Bomber with all these medal on him, no one wanted his sword because it was damaged. Later he found out it Was Admiral Yamamoto. He had me watch films on Guadalcanal alot. Never could find where Yamamotos sword ended up.
Pretty much up his butt that day :)
I'm sorry to tell you but the Admirals body was recovered the next day and his ashes were inturned after a state funeral in Tokyo and his ancestral home.
@@g2macs Thank you, for the information. I’am glad he was returned to his homeland and family. ☮️ peace not war! We need to talk before we take up arms against one another!
The sword most likely ended up with his eldest son after the state funeral, as per Japanese and samurai tradition.
This was an success of US intel. The P 38's did a good job.
Paul Willson Little do you know that Yamamoto tried to prevent the war
ToxiK xYellowMan Yamamoto was a hero
@@zhang_the_yellowman206 the U.S. risked American lives on an unnecessary mission just for the sake of revenge.
@@zhang_the_yellowman206 until he didn't
@Michael Stearnes Stearnes eh no
I love how you explain in simple for viewer to understand. Thank you for what you did. But If you can go little bit more detail, can you tell what kind of canon/bullet that American posses, that shoot and kill the general?
When I was a flight instructor I would teach my students about this mission to show the importance of basic navigation using only a compass and time.
Love these videos, man. So entertaining and interesting.
your videos are my favorite asmr, please keep making fantastic videos
Outstanding, the war in the Pacific is so interesting, our boys fought for our freedom and that is not an exaggeration. Thank you for posting, great job!
Its not like Japan would have taken over America...
I believe there is gun camera footage of the shoot-down. I’ll dig around to see if I can find it. The P-38 was a very capable, superb aircraft and a much feared opponent by the Japanese airmen. Thanks for the video.
I never knew this... I’m a little ashamed to admit that, but I’m also thankful for the history lesson. May I make some recommendations for future videos? How about Gettysburg, The location of the Donner Party tragedy, and the crash site of either Patsy Cline and or Jim Reeves? Keep up the great work. Thank you sir and subscribed!
Will you do a battle of midway and leyte gulf segment.. your videos are informative and insightful
Appropriate that P38s were the fighters used to take down Japan's greatest Admiral (imo). The Japanese nicknamed the P38 Twin tailed Death.
Also called the "fork tailed devil"
Exceptional video, always gasp when I see you’ve uploaded
I think Charles Lindbergh had a small role in this, by leaning out the carburetors on the P-38 Lightnings to get the extra range out of them...
Lindbergh was ~1 year too late to help with this intercept. This mission was at the upper end of the P-38's normal ~7 hour radius with drop tanks and standard fuel management, but it was feasible without modifications.
Lindbergh joined the 433rd F.Sq. (P-38s) in late June 1944, ~14 months later, and gave his talk on July 3. Briefly, he knew that USAAF planes were overbuilt to withstand their entire performance envelope, and could fly non-combat legs on lean mixtures with no short-term damage. Long-term damage is not much of an issue because warplanes get replaced in cycles before then. In his talk, he taught his squadron to reduce 2200 => 1600 rpm, auto-rich => auto-lean, and low => (slightly) high(er) manifold pressure, and thus extend 7 hours => 9 hours aloft, or +30% range. On the next mission on July 4, they flew 6h 40m and the lowest fuel on landing was 160 gallons, enough for another 2+ hrs at 70 gallons per hour. Lindbergh left on July 7, so he was with them barely 1.5 weeks. Apparently he first flew the P-38 on June 20, so he did all that in 2.5 weeks. Engines are engines. www.charleslindbergh.com/wwii/
Thanks for sharing this fantastic history with us who not known so much about this part of the World War Two.
Yamamoto has an interesting story.
A very clever man.
Thank you for this and Merry Christmas !
He knew Japan would never win the war, but the rest of the military wouldn't listen to him
The Japanese shouldve automatically assumed that the Allies had broken their codes and intercepted their frequencies
and then acted accordingly.
Yay! You’re back! And doing what nobody else on RUclips does!...pure and good education and entertainment.
for those whom are interested, there's a most excellent book called Lightning Strike by Donald Davis about the Yamamoto attack that's worth reading
I have held one of the propeller blades from this aircraft in my hands also tail gunners foot pedal. Also my birthday. How cool is that
This is a channel that has true real content and its awesome
The Betty bomber, AKA The flying Zippo. The Japanese weren't keen on self sealing fuel tanks.
Mike,same with the Zero
1:17, small point but the Japanese withdrew from the island, there was no surrender of it by them like the allies did for Corregidor, etc.
" Just Checked In To See What Condition My Condition Was In"
According to Pacific Wrecks link Yamamoto was still holding the hilt of his Samurai sword.
@Stephen Beck-von-Peccoz Hereen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Vengeance#Interception's what I found...
Another great insight to history. And to think I ended up on your site here today "exactly" 77 years after the fact. Amazing. Love your history reviews w/ google earth. Most impressive.
Walton Warrior thank you for your kind words! I truly appreciate them 👍
Forrest Haggerty You are most welcome. You do a great job in these history reviews. Exemplary work!
Those "Bullet" Holes on the tail section are actually 30MM cannon holes. Seems there are some 30 and 50 Caliber holes too in the rest of the plane.
Goes to boost confidence and ends up making things worse. Whoever that decoder was deserved major props
It's Christmas come early, thank you Forrest! Have a Merry Christmas!!
Always happy when notified of you doing a new video. They are always excellent.
Great video Forrest!
Thanks Forrest. Your videos really make these events seem so much more real to me. May god bless our veterans! My humble requests: the Boston Marathon bombings and Stevie Ray Vaughn's helicopter crash.
Cool, new upload! Love your videos, always find them interesting. Thanks for your efforts.
Awesome videos. I do this sort of thing frequently on google maps, it's so fascinating. It's great to see an even more detailed look at it. I'd love to see the black hawk down situation or maybe miami dade shootout in more detail. The original target building still exists in mogadishu but the durant crash site now has a building on it.
I have been binge watching your vids keep'em coming please And Merry Christmas
Cool stuff, Forrest! Tho it seems that people want sites that are already well known, I think it would be a great idea to feature some more obscure or less-known sites that have very interesting backstories. Just a thought.
There is a great documentary on this on amazon prime. What one guy found (by chance) is really amazing. Definitely worth watching.
Make a Video on the JFK Jr Plane Crash please.....would love to see it.
How about Joe Kennedy Jr's plane that exploded in 1944 on a secret mission?
What a family history!
Lol why do you love Susan Atkins?
@@patjohn775 I have always loved her since 1976, when I first learned of her.
Buz Aldrin He was flying an experimental B-17 Flying Fortress rigged with explosives and could be piloted by remote control. Human pilots would take off and at one point flying toward the target, they would bail out, and the plane would be flown by remote control using primitive TV Camaras. Kennedy was preparing to bail out but ran into a problem and the plane exploded in mid air.
@@jjojo2004
It was actually the Navy version of the B-24 Liberator, called the PB4Y-2 Privateer, not a B-17
Pretty damn fantastic Forrest, thank you again!!
Yamamoto’s stance was to oppose the invasion of China. He also opposed war against the United States, partly because of his studies at Harvard University (1919-1921) and his two postings as a naval attaché in Washington, D.C.,where he learned to speak fluent English. Yamamoto traveled extensively in the United States during his tour of duty there, where he studied American customs and business practice.
I'm surprised you can't find this pinpointed on GoogleEarth and Wikipedia is all over the place. One paragraph on their webpage has the location as 9 miles SW of Panguna which is also where the coordinates they give, take you, another has it North of Buin where all the other references has it W-SW of Buin.
I always wondered what happened to him thanks for the vid
Hello again!! Thanks for teaching me something new. I have missed your videos!!
I always enjoy it when you release a new vid, sir. Cheers and thanks.
Great video. Using Google Maps to show the locations is really helpful.
Very interesting as usual, have a merry Christmas!
I love how clear your vids are and I just subbed. Can you make a video about the battle of Philippine sea and leyte gulf? This would be interesting in google map perspective
I once heard that the Naval Intelligence code-breaking group was mad as hell over this attack because it clearly demonstrated that the IJN code had been cracked, thus informing the enemy. I don't know how true this detail is, however.
Randall Parr they flew the exact same mission the day after to show the Japanese that it wasn’t a fluke
Cool video, very interesting. Can you do a birds eye view on Stalingrad?
Great videos,especially the WW2 videos.I wanna make a request for Omaha Beach or Ste.Mere’ Eglise.Oh yeah please!!! Lol
It’s like going on a field trip around the world!!!!
Michael Deluca I did one on D-Day that includes Omaha beach.
I gotta find that one!! THANKS
Forrest Haggerty
Have you ever done a video on Benghazi?? That would be a good one because of the multiple battle locations,the CIA Annex and the gov’t compound
RIP Admiral
Yes another video!! Do one on dyltov pass
I knew nothing about any of this.Very interesting. Thank you.
Im surprised if that is a true pic that the planes remains were not salvaged for display or museum in Japan. My father in law who was in intelligence in WW2 Air Force said the planes at his base were P-38 Lightnings.
A great Christmas present! Fascinating as always. I'd also love to see some modern plane crash stories.
Very facinating! I was not aware of this! Thank you for sharing!
I'm always happy to see another video from you!
keep doing these vids VERY INTERESTING
Bomber crew: Admiral we've got trouble
Yamamoto: Rut Roe !!!
I didn't know the story. Really interesting! Great commentary. Thanks👍
The gaping hole in the fuselage by the tail that is bent in slightly I'd imagine is probably damage from a cannon round that detonated on impact. It is certainly far too large to be .50 cal.
Excellent video however one minor correction. The P-38s departed from a strip called Fighter II, not Henderson Field, which was close to the shore.
Again, I think these are awesome. Great Work
I remember watching a video interview of the pilot who shot him down. He was saying that he was clearing his guns and the Betty bomber went down! Pure luck that it happened that way.
Two lightning pilots have reasonable claim to the kill but regardless of which one, the war changed that day.
I actually never knew this was how Yamamoto died, interesting
Fantastic content sir, thank you.
I have held the propeller blade and the tail gunners foot pedals in myhands.also my second birthday
Great info! Glad to see another upload!
Wikipedia has the crash site a considerable distance away from the one you show. Not saying you're wrong, I'm just puzzled.
Another brilliant video. Thank you!! 👍
excellent content. thank you for making this.
They said when he was found he had one had clasped to his katana. They also said he was easy to recognize and identify .....which I found odd after taking a .50 cal that exited out of his face (eye)
Very informative. Please do more.
I was just wondering if you had uploaded a new video
(edit) Merry Christmas!
Can’t wait to watch this video
The P-38s actually took off from Kukum Field not Henderson Field.
Great video. Please do more conspiracy/government/secret type videos.