Thanks for the video. I didn’t know it was built here in the SF Bay Area. -- Too bad we couldn’t keep it around as a museum somewhere in California. We do have USS Iowa as compensation I suppose.
Yes well I'd rather have my States ship docked where she belongs!! I'm talking about the USS Iowa..❤🇺🇸🙏 She's the best Battleship ever built. And no she's not your ship, she belongs to every single Iowan!! I'm sorry that the USS California couldn't be saved...it's sad and your State was robbed of having your pride and joy docked nearby. The California was a great ship, she even helped at the Battle for Leyte Gulf, one of the other notable Battles, she was refurbished and ready to sink and destroy the Japanese southern force after Rear Admiral Jesse Ohlendorf took her and Tennessee, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland to form a Battle line and they crossed the T with the Japanese Southern Force during that night Battle... The California was a brave and mighty ship that ended up getting revenge on the Japanese Navy for what they did to her on December 7th, 1941.. Sorry I can't remember the Battle name...but I do know it was one of the many Battles for Leyte Gulf in October of 1944....❤🇺🇸🙏💙
Great shot of Philly Naval Yard at the end - you can see Tennessee, California and even USS Olympia (she is a museum ship in Philly now). Great video! Cheers!
Could we expect to see some more videos on Japanese heavy cruisers? IJN Chokai, Haguro, Nachi, Takao, Fururaka, and Kumano would be some deserving candidates.
My father served on USS California BB-44 from 1939 to just prior to the Okinawa Invasion. He was in R Division, a damage control switchboard operator. He stayed with the ship during recovery and modernization. Then, off to the pacific. Dad went to shorthand school and became a yoman. He retired from the Navy after Korea a Chief Yoman.
One important thing about California at Pearl Harbor is the mud she was in. The Utah was in the same mud. Utah was lost to the mud. California was almost lost to the mud. Probably helped mostly because it didn't capsize like the Utah. Utah was rolled to around a 58 degree list and that's all they can do.
@@dannymiller3315Because she was a Battleship and the US Navy couldn't honestly spare any ship. Even with it being older and obsolete as you have so graciously mentioned... It should have been saved and then refurbished and used in the Pacific Theater during WW2. Just because a ship is older doesn't mean that it's not important or can't be used by the US Navy.. Heck they could have used the Utah to guard the coastlines of the United States.... At any rate she could have been used to bolster our Navy at the time....especially since so many Battleships were destroyed or sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor!!
You know what's super corny is the uss Pennsylvania could've easily been built at the Philly Navy Yard. But no, Newport News. You'd think they would want the extra pride it may induce to build a battleship in the same state if at all possible. Just my opinion
That's ridiculous!! Why didn't they build her in the Philly Shipyard?? You would think that it would be super prideful and a huge moral boost?! I'm with you that's utterly corny!! 😶 Great comment btw!!
Imagine USS Pennsylvania being docked with Olympia and Becuna in Philly across the Delaware from New Jersey? Though I can’t deny bodying two nukes and an entire day of shellfire isn’t a badass way to send a ship off. Certainly more dignified than being scrapped imo.
My great granddad was FCC on the California at Pearl. He lived and was through every battle of the Pacific except for Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima. After the Pacific, he went and fought in Korea on a destroyer
Skynea great video! I’d love to see you follow up on some of the fleet problems with more content about those and possibly what other countries were doing at the time too. Cheers!
My grandfather was stationed on the California. I have the mission book they gave to all of the sailors after the war. My grandfather spent some time on Japan after the war and I have Japanese currency he used while on Japan.
Glad my namestate battleship aided in the sinking of an enemy battleship, as opposed to being stuck to secondary roles like shore bombardment and carrier escorting, the sad fate of most US battleships throughout the war (cough cough, the Iowas, cough cough)
Could you do a video on USS Mississippi BB-41? It seems like she did a lot during and after WWII, but i haven't seen anyone specifically talk about her career.
17:03 This was standard IJN procedure. Since the Aichi Vals couldn't carry a ship injuring thousand pounder like the Dauntless, (that's why they used Kates as level bombers at Pearl Harbor) they were were to divide and suppress AA via killing the AA gun mounts and exposed personnel on capital ships. The main weapons of the Kido Butai were their Kates. Look how many bombs Yorktown took at Midway and she was in no danger of sinking until Tomanaga appeared. And she STILL didn't sink.
The rapid lessons we learned and put into practice after losing Lex at Coral Sea didn’t hurt, either. The damage control chief of Yorktown got the bright idea to drain CV-5’s aviation gasoline system and purge the lines with CO2 when a confirmed enemy strike was inbound. This prevented her from suffering the massive gasoline fires that took down Lex and later on Kido Butai at Midway. It took maximum effort on the part of the Japanese to get Yorktown to go down and this same technique would pay dividends majorly later in the war when we had battles like Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz. It also is the primary reason we didn’t lose Bunker Hill and Franklin in spite of how horribly those two ships got hit by kamikazes. Their ordinance exploded in the hangar decks because of the terrible timing of those attacks during strike prep and deck spotting but both could have been immensely worse.
l was rather surprised there was no mention of the ships nick name...."THE PRUNE BARGE". Any native Californian (ok, boomers and earlier generations) should remember this, after all we were always known as "Prune Pickers".
Another great video I wish she was saved as a museum ship.
I listened to this video chillin and drinking a beer at the uss California bell in Sacramento state capital park thanks man
Thanks for the video. I didn’t know it was built here in the SF Bay Area.
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Too bad we couldn’t keep it around as a museum somewhere in California. We do have USS Iowa as compensation I suppose.
Yes well I'd rather have my States ship docked where she belongs!!
I'm talking about the USS Iowa..❤🇺🇸🙏
She's the best Battleship ever built.
And no she's not your ship, she belongs to every single Iowan!!
I'm sorry that the USS California couldn't be saved...it's sad and your State was robbed of having your pride and joy docked nearby.
The California was a great ship, she even helped at the Battle for Leyte Gulf, one of the other notable Battles, she was refurbished and ready to sink and destroy the Japanese southern force after Rear Admiral Jesse Ohlendorf took her and Tennessee, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland to form a Battle line and they crossed the T with the Japanese Southern Force during that night Battle...
The California was a brave and mighty ship that ended up getting revenge on the Japanese Navy for what they did to her on December 7th, 1941..
Sorry I can't remember the Battle name...but I do know it was one of the many Battles for Leyte Gulf in October of 1944....❤🇺🇸🙏💙
Great shot of Philly Naval Yard at the end - you can see Tennessee, California and even USS Olympia (she is a museum ship in Philly now). Great video! Cheers!
Could we expect to see some more videos on Japanese heavy cruisers? IJN Chokai, Haguro, Nachi, Takao, Fururaka, and Kumano would be some deserving candidates.
My father served on USS California BB-44 from 1939 to just prior to the Okinawa Invasion. He was in R Division, a damage control switchboard operator. He stayed with the ship during recovery and modernization. Then, off to the pacific.
Dad went to shorthand school and became a yoman. He retired from the Navy after Korea a Chief Yoman.
One important thing about California at Pearl Harbor is the mud she was in. The Utah was in the same mud. Utah was lost to the mud. California was almost lost to the mud. Probably helped mostly because it didn't capsize like the Utah. Utah was rolled to around a 58 degree list and that's all they can do.
Utah was obsolete and a training ship they could have raised her with effort but why try
@@dannymiller3315Because she was a Battleship and the US Navy couldn't honestly spare any ship. Even with it being older and obsolete as you have so graciously mentioned...
It should have been saved and then refurbished and used in the Pacific Theater during WW2.
Just because a ship is older doesn't mean that it's not important or can't be used by the US Navy.. Heck they could have used the Utah to guard the coastlines of the United States....
At any rate she could have been used to bolster our Navy at the time....especially since so many Battleships were destroyed or sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor!!
You know what's super corny is the uss Pennsylvania could've easily been built at the Philly Navy Yard. But no, Newport News. You'd think they would want the extra pride it may induce to build a battleship in the same state if at all possible. Just my opinion
That's ridiculous!! Why didn't they build her in the Philly Shipyard??
You would think that it would be super prideful and a huge moral boost?!
I'm with you that's utterly corny!! 😶
Great comment btw!!
Imagine USS Pennsylvania being docked with Olympia and Becuna in Philly across the Delaware from New Jersey?
Though I can’t deny bodying two nukes and an entire day of shellfire isn’t a badass way to send a ship off. Certainly more dignified than being scrapped imo.
My great granddad was FCC on the California at Pearl. He lived and was through every battle of the Pacific except for Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima. After the Pacific, he went and fought in Korea on a destroyer
Skynea great video! I’d love to see you follow up on some of the fleet problems with more content about those and possibly what other countries were doing at the time too. Cheers!
Salute to my friend and Shipmate, Jerry Driscoll, MM1c, who survived the sinking of California at Pearl Harbor. Fair winds and following seas, Jerry.
My grandfather was stationed on the California. I have the mission book they gave to all of the sailors after the war. My grandfather spent some time on Japan after the war and I have Japanese currency he used while on Japan.
Glad my namestate battleship aided in the sinking of an enemy battleship, as opposed to being stuck to secondary roles like shore bombardment and carrier escorting, the sad fate of most US battleships throughout the war (cough cough, the Iowas, cough cough)
USS California 1941 and 1944 looks like two different ships , Unbelieveable
There is a beautiful model of the USS California at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
The San Francisco Maritime Museum has a beautiful model of the Calidornia in its prewar condition.
Could you do a video on USS Mississippi BB-41? It seems like she did a lot during and after WWII, but i haven't seen anyone specifically talk about her career.
I agree, BB-41 served as a gunnery/weapons training ship into the mid-1950's, even firing missiles. She would indeed make a fine subject for a video.
17:03 This was standard IJN procedure. Since the Aichi Vals couldn't carry a ship injuring thousand pounder like the Dauntless, (that's why they used Kates as level bombers at Pearl Harbor) they were were to divide and suppress AA via killing the AA gun mounts and exposed personnel on capital ships. The main weapons of the Kido Butai were their Kates. Look how many bombs Yorktown took at Midway and she was in no danger of sinking until Tomanaga appeared. And she STILL didn't sink.
The rapid lessons we learned and put into practice after losing Lex at Coral Sea didn’t hurt, either. The damage control chief of Yorktown got the bright idea to drain CV-5’s aviation gasoline system and purge the lines with CO2 when a confirmed enemy strike was inbound. This prevented her from suffering the massive gasoline fires that took down Lex and later on Kido Butai at Midway. It took maximum effort on the part of the Japanese to get Yorktown to go down and this same technique would pay dividends majorly later in the war when we had battles like Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz. It also is the primary reason we didn’t lose Bunker Hill and Franklin in spite of how horribly those two ships got hit by kamikazes. Their ordinance exploded in the hangar decks because of the terrible timing of those attacks during strike prep and deck spotting but both could have been immensely worse.
The Doom Turtle, YES!!!
"And now to wrap up the tentacle details."
Yeah, not sure why but that's always what my monkey brain hears right out the gate.
Good stuff.
Great stuff
I would like to see how you would spoke about HMS Hood,
wonder if we will ever see a uss montana build in its name state
l was rather surprised there was no mention of the ships nick name...."THE PRUNE BARGE". Any native Californian (ok, boomers and earlier generations) should remember this, after all we were always known as "Prune Pickers".
@ 2:30 why does the clock not have standard 12 hours? Is that even a clock? What is going on there?
It's not a clock, but now I have forgotten what it was for.
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Range clock so that other ships know where she's aiming her guns
What does that look like a clock 2:30
Yes, it was used to tell your fleet behind you how far the enemy is in front of you.
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Compro 2.000.000 navios dessa classe para a marinha do Brasil rio de janeiro