Very good videos. The weave is actually initiated when a zero approaches your wing mate from behind. You turn towards your wing mate. When you do that it tells your wing mate that there is a zero on his tail. He turns towards you giving you a head on shot at his attacker. One benefit is that you don't have to maneuver to see your six o'clock all the time. You also have a better view of your wing man's six than he does. From several readings of Lundstrom's explanation in The First Team to try and understand what it was about. Thank you for an enjoyable effort.
In both versions of Midway, Adm. Chester Nimitz positioned the 3 US carriers Yorktown, Hornet and Enterprise way further north of Midway. The Japanese naval strategist when asked by Adm. Nagumo as to where the Americans would likely place their carriers said that it would be north of Midway. Adm. Nagumo sent a scout plane to north of Midway but because the US carriers were way, way off to the north of Midway far from the normal reach of the Japanese scout plane, the Japanese pilot failed to see the US carriers. This Adm. Spruance heading US Hornet and US Enterprise used to his advantage saying that they know for certain where the Japanese carriers are but the Japanese do not know where they are and so despite being so far from the Japanese carriers and may have a hard time returning back due to low fuel, he ordered the carriers to launch the attack and immediately sunk 2 Japanese carriers who were caught by surprise.
Allow me to point out a "typo" on the Recap of US Air Losses at 7.35 in the video. There it lists VF-6........10. This is incorrect because VF-6 was the Enterprise fighter group and they suffered no losses at this stage. I believe it should read VF-8 instead of VF-6. VF-8 was Hornet's fighter squadron which had to ditch from fuel exhaustion.
Gen. Nimitz in the much earlier movie, Midway, after the Americans sunk the last Japanese carrier Hiryu, said that either the Americans were better than the Japanese or were just plain lucky.
I own both midway movies. Even thought both weren't completely accurate, i favor the 75 movie cause i went to see it when i was a kid on the big screen. The recent remake is good too, lots of good dauntless cgi.
I thought, Jeez he's not going to show animations of all ten ditching is he? Answer: Yep! BTW for the most gripping account of Midway bar none, read the chapter on it by Victor Davis Hanson in Carnage and Culture.
Juan Manzano Much of the information about the Japanese losses was due to extensive research by the writers of the book Shattered Sword. They used Japanese naval records and something called a kodashoho which is an extremely detailed record that went right down to the amount of ammunition used. In the American case the records are clear for those who choose to do the research (which is noted by the counts I gave of losses on both sides). You are correct that many authors do not put forth the research to go into proper detail.
@@maxsmodels thanks for tbe info. I find this video series to be really good. WhAt saddens me is that at the end of the day those who died were people from middle and lower classes
Juan Manzano it’s about time, for a long time in history you had to be rich to be an effective soldier. Sure you can muster peasants but you had to have nobles and men at arms, who owned their own weapons to even stand a chance. So now the lower classes can taste war that my ancestors fought for generations to win power! Feels good right? Haha, don’t be so weak just because you are ill bred, the GUN made us equals. Too bad technology and automation will take that away again and you’ll be a peasant once more....
at the time of the battle Japan had one of the best fighter planes in the world, and some of the best pilots in the world. They would never recover from this defeat. But, it would be a long war.
It seems ironic, that both major axis powers, lost the outcome of the war, from one decisive conflict, not by an attrition war. For the Germans it was Kursk, here, Midway. And for both it was against a super power, although through different strategy course. Russians, chose a defensive approach, based on their enormous quantity advantage, willing to sacrifice thousands of men and hundreds of tanks, to weaken the german attack, while the Americans, were much more bold, flexible, innovative and tacticians.
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Very good videos. The weave is actually initiated when a zero approaches your wing mate from behind. You turn towards your wing mate. When you do that it tells your wing mate that there is a zero on his tail. He turns towards you giving you a head on shot at his attacker. One benefit is that you don't have to maneuver to see your six o'clock all the time. You also have a better view of your wing man's six than he does. From several readings of Lundstrom's explanation in The First Team to try and understand what it was about. Thank you for an enjoyable effort.
In both versions of Midway, Adm. Chester Nimitz positioned the 3 US carriers Yorktown, Hornet and Enterprise way further north of Midway. The Japanese naval strategist when asked by Adm. Nagumo as to where the Americans would likely place their carriers said that it would be north of Midway. Adm. Nagumo sent a scout plane to north of Midway but because the US carriers were way, way off to the north of Midway far from the normal reach of the Japanese scout plane, the Japanese pilot failed to see the US carriers. This Adm. Spruance heading US Hornet and US Enterprise used to his advantage saying that they know for certain where the Japanese carriers are but the Japanese do not know where they are and so despite being so far from the Japanese carriers and may have a hard time returning back due to low fuel, he ordered the carriers to launch the attack and immediately sunk 2 Japanese carriers who were caught by surprise.
Allow me to point out a "typo" on the Recap of US Air Losses at 7.35 in the video. There it lists VF-6........10. This is incorrect because VF-6 was the Enterprise fighter group and they suffered no losses at this stage. I believe it should read VF-8 instead of VF-6. VF-8 was Hornet's fighter squadron which had to ditch from fuel exhaustion.
"Enter the Torchbearers..." I love it.
Gen. Nimitz in the much earlier movie, Midway, after the Americans sunk the last Japanese carrier Hiryu, said that either the Americans were better than the Japanese or were just plain lucky.
I own both midway movies. Even thought both weren't completely accurate, i favor the 75 movie cause i went to see it when i was a kid on the big screen. The recent remake is good too, lots of good dauntless cgi.
10:47 love to read about f4fs shot down
Well done Max, If only you and Steven had this in 1977, those Kodak 8mm would have been filmed somewhere else.
I thought, Jeez he's not going to show animations of all ten ditching is he? Answer: Yep!
BTW for the most gripping account of Midway bar none, read the chapter on it by Victor Davis Hanson in Carnage and Culture.
It was a way of emphasizing the loss
Back seat director....
In the other books the US losses are so vague. How can you detailed about the other side, yet so sketchy about your own?
Juan Manzano Much of the information about the Japanese losses was due to extensive research by the writers of the book Shattered Sword. They used Japanese naval records and something called a kodashoho which is an extremely detailed record that went right down to the amount of ammunition used. In the American case the records are clear for those who choose to do the research (which is noted by the counts I gave of losses on both sides). You are correct that many authors do not put forth the research to go into proper detail.
@@maxsmodels thanks for tbe info. I find this video series to be really good. WhAt saddens me is that at the end of the day those who died were people from middle and lower classes
Juan Manzano it’s about time, for a long time in history you had to be rich to be an effective soldier. Sure you can muster peasants but you had to have nobles and men at arms, who owned their own weapons to even stand a chance. So now the lower classes can taste war that my ancestors fought for generations to win power! Feels good right? Haha, don’t be so weak just because you are ill bred, the GUN made us equals. Too bad technology and automation will take that away again and you’ll be a peasant once more....
at the time of the battle Japan had one of the best fighter planes in the world, and some of the best pilots in the world. They would never recover from this defeat. But, it would be a long war.
It seems ironic, that both major axis powers, lost the outcome of the war, from one decisive conflict, not by an attrition war. For the Germans it was Kursk, here, Midway. And for both it was against a super power, although through different strategy course. Russians, chose a defensive approach, based on their enormous quantity advantage, willing to sacrifice thousands of men and hundreds of tanks, to weaken the german attack, while the Americans, were much more bold, flexible, innovative and tacticians.
Battle of Midway and Pirates of the Caribbean...weird combination.
Don’t mess with us remember our original flag Don’t Tread On Me. We get mad and totally destroy for our freedom they never had
As a general rule, dont begin a sentence with "But...". Try to avoid jargon and acronyms defined in previous videos such as Kido Butai, CAP, VT-3.