Japan Was Crushingly Defeated At Midway
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- (Part 5) Watch our video " Japan Was Crushingly Defeated At Midway " and explore the untold stories of courage, strategy, and honor on the high seas during World War two. Join us as we delve into the experiences of a renowned Imperial Japanese naval commander, offering a unique perspective on the Pacific War. Witness the challenges, triumphs, and the indomitable spirit of those who navigated the turbulent waters of one of the most significant conflicts in history. Dive deep into the complexities of naval warfare, for a captivating exploration of the human side of war, where every episode unfolds a new layer of resilience, honor, and the indomitable spirit that prevailed amidst the chaos of the Pacific War.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 5 of memoirs of a Japanese Destroyer Captain, He was an Imperial Japanese naval commander during the Pacific War and the author of the IJN manual on torpedo attack techniques, notable for his skill in torpedo warfare and night fighting. He was a survivor of more than one hundred sorties against the Allies and was known throughout Japan as the Unsinkable Captain. A hero to his countrymen, Captain exemplified the best in Japanese surface commanders: highly skilled, hard driving, and aggressive. Moreover, he maintained a code of honor worthy of his samurai grandfather. He was as free with praise for American courage and resourcefulness as he was critical of himself and his senior commanders. He was the only IJN destroyer captain at the start of World War 2 to survive the entire war
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So when will you cover Midway?
Captain Tamechi Hara, (I put his family name last, not as an insult, but because that’s the way Westerners write and read names), is the author of this book. It is his autobiography: “Japanese Destroyer Captain.” I highly recommend it. Another autobiography I highly recommend is: “I-Boat Captain” by Zenji Orita, a good, solid Japanese submarine skipper who also survived WW2. And of course I recommend reading “Samurai!” by Saburo Sakai, the highest scoring Japanese Naval fighter pilot to survive WW2.
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@@williampaz2092 Sir we have already uploaded a series based on memoirs of Saburo Sakai ,all of your recommendations are top class
Well he must have been the only one with any honour. It was an unknown thing to the Japanese Officer Class in WW2 Changhi, Thai Burma railway, Bataan, Sandakan, the officers there were Samurai
Author Hara is an excellent storyteller, but (as often seems to be the case with defeated military officers in general) shows himself here as a very arrogant and self-rationalizing man: in his telling, his own judgements were superb, his men were skilled and daring, his ship and equipment were unbeatable, and his adversaries generally incompetent and ill-trained; it was only poor decisions by higher-ups and incidents of bad luck that deprived him of the unbroken string of victories to which he (in his own view) was rightfully entitled. James D. Hornfischer in "The Fleet at Flood Tide" opined that because of the lack of extensive postwar war-crimes trials, the Japanese (unlike the Germans) were never forced to come to terms with the full consequences of their wartime actions, and instead, to this day, tend to view the outcome of the war not as a military defeat, but as a massive but impersonal catastrophe like an earthquake or a tsunami; the overall tone of this tale is very much in line with that view.
Excellent observation but thankfully (well to be seen given China’s posturing) the event was taken as a turning in a completely opposite direction to that say of Germany after WW1 when the Nazis came to power (many other factors such as the Great Depression at play there of course).
I think at 48:30 Hara says: "The much-exaggerated rape of that city (Nanking)." is an example of what you mean.
The most sensitive USN assets at Guadalcanal were the fast freighters which were scarce as hen's teeth and wanted everywhere yesterday. The marines captured the massively overstocked undamaged Japanese ration dump on the first day which turned out to be a big key to their later hard fought victory.
Not only that the Japanese supplies helped to sustain the Marines after the Navy departed the AO with the carriers and transports.
I think that’s what the OP meant.
One could almost feel sorry for the Japanese. Their logistics were always on a shoestring, and when they got a massive supply dump...the US nicks it.
Rice and Saki IIRC
bullshit. the marines were never in need of anything at Guadalcanal. they were in control from the first day of the landings until the end six months later.
If the enemy is making mistakes, dont interrupt them.
I felt anger, hearing of IJN Ryujo captains incompetence. Then remembered, its the enemy, its actually a good thing.
''Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.''
If they win we might not have ever got anime and that’s worth something
@@masonclark531 We probably would still get anime but you might not like it looked.
@@masonclark531yeah what makes you think anime would not have happened if they won?
@@masonclark531anime sure, but what about Godzilla? There would be no Godzilla? That’s sad
The industrial capacity of the US was awesome. Any idea that when it was fully implemented Japan could compete was crazy.
Which is what Adm Yamamoto told the Japanese leaders before the war (well, the wording was sllightly different but that was the meaning).
The Japanese military was told Americans were sissies. At Midway the American pilots were willing to give their lives to defeat the enemy. That shocked the Japanese!
An old Australian commando who fought the Japanese in Borneo told me "Before we got to the jungle, we were told the Jap (his words) was max 5ft, buck toothed and slanty eyed, they can barely lift their rifle" he then said "the first one I ever saw was at least 6ft tall, he'd been up in a tree waiting for us for weeks... When I saw the size of him I thought "get fucked" and knew everything I was told was bullshit"
Yes both sides badly mis-read the others attitudes and determination.
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That is the same thing the russians and chinese are being told about the west. We are weak and easy to defeat. russia has found out that they are the weak ones given how they are unable to beat one country called ukraine.
It is refreshing to get a little insight into the thoughts of Japanese ship captains and what they had to deal with. Keep it coming.
@johnemerson1363 Sir, your support means the world to us
@johnemerson1363 I agree with you. … I always want to hear the other side of the conflict.
The amount of anger when Clint Eastwood released Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima was everything from “racism” to “Un-American”, while some Japanese also tried to re-write history in the same vain as the Daughters of the Confederacy and the lost cause.
The fact that both the confederacy and the Japanese lost due in no small part to effectively the same doctrine of “decisive battle” is not lost on me.
There is also very little of the “apology tour” going on here unlike the memoirs of German commanders post WW2, and it’s absolutely refreshing.
@@WW2Tales The destroyer captain talked about having IJN Shiguri part of his destroyer squadron on several occasions. I have always admired "lucky" Shiguri but he said that she survived the war. It is my understanding that she was sunk by a US submarine late in 1944. Which is correct?
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Interesting perspective from a Japanese Commander. War lords do not like to be exposed when they make fatal blunders. Midway cost Japan dearly. Four aircraft carriers, many of its best pilots and best ship crews.
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Japan was much better at fighting among themselves than fighting the world.
Ver y articulate. Very informative. Nice to have a different perspective about WW2 from a Japanese officer.
I’m not an expert but a little context here. The Japanese navy and Army hated each other. They would sometimes do things to screw each other up instead of winning the war. Whoever won would won leadership of Japan. It was very screwd up.
@mclark23 Sir you are absolutely right ,Japanese Navy and Army badly hated each other
It was so bad that at the point when US bombers began hitting the Home Islands. The army refused to act because they believed the aircraft flying over the ocean made them a navy problem. The navy countered that given they were bombing over land it was the army's responsibility
So much that Yamamoto was sent to take command of the Combined Fleet in order to keep him from being assassinated by the army.
One thing the IJN lacked with their own ground troops. Unlike the US Navy which had the Marine Corps at the division size. The IJN had some ground troops but they were only of battalion size. So the IJN were too dependent upon the IJA for ground troops.
I read Hara's book "Destroyer Captain". Well written and pretty accurate.
Is that the name of this book ?
@@augustuswayne9676 might be "Japanese Destroyer Captain" by Hara.
@@Iamkcs2c there is a channel called Audiobook WW2 and I was wondering if they have this book on their channel . Thanks for your help .
Yeah, accept for ya know…. The whole “Nanking was exaggerated.” Take…. Another brainwashed navy guy from 1940’s Japan…. But hey it was everyone else’s fault… not his. Right.
Hara's book was a travel through the war, from good times to tragedy. It's a great book.
If you place an inexperienced pilot in every squadron, inexperienced enemies will focus only on them during dogfights. Japan had a huge training problem.
The Japanese tried to be too perfect in training new pilots. As a result it couldn't keep up with war losses.
Not the Navy. Japanese navy training shortages were one of the decisive failures that they committed on themselves. The Great Marianas Turky shoot was a result.
It's just amazing just how fast we Yanks built the world's largest navy in so short a time. I always wondered what our allies thought of that.
Many of the large capitol ships were authorized/under construction long before Pearl Harbor.
This is not to downplay the tremendous effort of the American people, just to put some things into perspective.
It's very nice to be able to have two years to prepare and gear up for war.
Before lend lease there was cash and carry, which bolstered armaments manufacture, mostly for obsolete prewar munitions.
The liberty ships probably had a greater effect on the wars outcome than the vast preponderance of the naval vessels.
But without US industrial production, the war could not have been won in the time frame it was.
The US literally built 1,050 warships and over 2,000 Liberty Ships in the 40 months after Pearl Harbor (faster pace after Sept ‘42 when production ramped up). Average of over two ships per week!
Interesting, I am fascinated by the Japanese point of view.
The Japanese had one fatal flaw. The over estimated their abilities and under estimated their enemies.
That’s two fatal flaws.
Another flaw with the Japanese was the concept of “the decisive battle”. It came from the culture. Face.
Ironic, that was the American and British mistake at the beginning of the war.
As it turned Yamamoto read the situation correctly.
@@mikespangler98 the British had no delusions about their state of preparedness, the Americans didn’t either, with the exception of the tank and file discounting the rumors of the zero based purely on race
@@mikespangler98I don't agree. They didn't want war and were behind in preparation. Also, both Germany and Japan gave signs of wanting peace.
Only one of the large Japanese carriers was seriously damaged at coral sea however the other had its airgroup severely depleted. The Japanese were not flexible enough to just transfer all available aircraft to the fit carrier and simply kept it out of operation until its air group had naturally regenerated. This denied them a key vessel that would otherwise have been available for operations.
Very well done. I have read quite a bit about the naval war in the Pacific. But it has always been from the American point of view. So good to get the Japanese view on these actions and to get a sense of what was going on in their minds
"Much exaggerated rape of that city." Despite the thorough analysis, this author seems to lack infomation on the "Rape of Nanking"
A disqualifying mistake, imo.
The author is Japanese and only knew what the Japanese propaganda wanting the Japanese to know. Just like the truth of the Battle for Midway was withheld from the Japanese public.
There was no thorough analysis of the Rape of Nanking when this book was written in the 1950s. That didn’t happen at all until the 1980s, and even today that information isn’t widely circulated in Japan. And even then, Hara has shown that he was less educated in certain things than even his peers were (as his relationship with the geisha showed). It is completely reasonable for someone in the 1950s who was not directly involved with the Rape of Nanking to believe it was exaggerated, especially someone with Hara’s background. I’d probably think it was over exaggerated too if I didn’t have the proof that it wasn’t available.
@@sirboomsalot4902 excellent point. Thank you for your insight.
it`s ok Dresden was no war crime either then right?
My favorite movie. I own it and watch it over and over.
After Midway Japan Retreated and the US reloaded.
Excellent narrator. Enjoying the series.
@chipparker3950 Very kind of you Sir ,your support means the world to us
I just read his book love it
It also makes the history more personal and human
Interesting and clear perspective
Another very interesting video.
Very interesting and very informative !
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This sounds like the gentleman that did the video on Jutland, Dreyer I think it was. Best Jutland documentary ever made by a long shot. Is this you Sir? You sound identical. 🍻
It's refreshing to hear some mild criticism of Yamamoto, he was an able Commander but he made strategic mistakes.
..but then, who did not made mistakes? Japan Military was lots of politics, Army did not like the Navy and vice versa.
The search for the pilots illustrates what a disadvantage existed in the lack of effective radar in the IJN.
Mismanagement seems to be order of the day for the Japanese military. They fought well as long as there was no real force in front of them.
Delusional aggression seemed the order of the time for the Japanese armed forces.
Yes, they went to war on the premise, "The Americans are rich and soft. They won't fight back. Right?" How'd that work out? Btw, the greatest man from New Jersey is not Frank Sinatra. It's John Basilone.
The definition of a military is mismanagement
It wasn't just mismanagement but also the Japanese Army and Navy hated each other and just refused to cooperate with each other. Not to say that there wasn't problems on the allied side with MacArthur thinking he should be in charge of everything and Nimitz disagreeing. At least they cooperated when it was necessary.
I do wish they would place these in chronological order by number (or some other method). I feel like I'm shooting blind with each episode. And since there's no real introduction, you also have to spend time orienting yourself as to where and when they are referring. The titles don't do much to help. Otherwise, I love these things.
Click on the ww2 tales icon, then click playlist, and each book and chapter is laid out in order
@caracoidwren944 Dear Sir, when ever you watch some video ,you will find a link of playlist of that series in video description ,go to that link and you will find all the parts in sequence ,secondly the easiest way is to go to comments section of the video you are watching ,see the first comment (it will be a pinned comment by channel WW2 Tales) ,In this comment you will find the links of all the previous parts of that series ,Kind Regards
@carthy29 thank you so much for the kind help
Thanks everybody! (like I've always said, it pays to complain.) ;-)
@caracoidwren944 It surely does Sir :)
This was the fourth of these narrated videos I've watched. Frankly, I'm surprised at how interesting the stories are, and how compelling the voice of the narrator is. Even though there is no visual element to them, I found myself listening intently to the end. It's true... most battles appear to be won by the side that makes the least number of mistakes.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just a fan's suggestion: While the story in being told, why not have a leisurely paced slide show of vintage images. Interesting Pacific WW2 related stuff. There has to be a lot floating around on the internet in public domain, and the program to create it is probably already on your PC. It's not hard. Rather than just the same image for an hour. Again, love the stories.
I have been checking for the past 3 hours non stop for then next installment, I hope it come soon.
me too
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What should also be taken into account was that at the time of these actions being recounted in these memoirs is that the Japanese did not know that their communications were being read by the Americans. It is one of the big "ifs" to ponder what would have happened if this had not been the case.
Eggzactly, they were reading his mail. I was going to add that comment, but you saved me the effort. Thank you.
No matter we win anyway
The USA would have won anyway. There is no big "if". I'll make it easy for you:
NO OIL = NO FIGHTING CAPABILITY
Got it??
@@robertkoth4022Of course. They had no oil. W t f were they thinking?
At most the war goes on a few more years , which would be horrific for all involved, but even *if* the Japanese won at midway, it simply could not keep up with US industrial power. There was no guarentee the US would back out of the pacific war had the japanese won, and by the end of the war the US was capable of pumping out escort carriers by the dozens, and by wars end had 29 "main line" or "big" carriers. The war would have been longer and more brutal no doubt, but the Japanese failing to force the US to back out by well, midway, had made their defeat an inevitability.
Yamamoto knew the war was lost after lingering on six months after midway. He said that at Midway planning meetings assuming they took Midway. When they lost Midway and all the carriers except Hosho, he new the outcome of the war.
Fascinating. Sure would have been easier to understand with the addition of MAPS.
When he said that the Nanking massacre was exaggerated , I lost confidence in him .
When did he write this. Soon after the war or long after? That may have some bearing on his beliefs.
@@johnemerson1363 I don't know . I wish the uploader would give the name of the book .
Perhaps he was confusing Nanking for Hiroshima or Nagasaki? I hear they barely knew a war was in progress and almost nothing of any historical interest occured in either locations.
As a destroyer skipper he may not have known. The Japanese army and navy were enemies. They hated each other almost as much as they hated the Americans.
As a general rule of thumb, you should never have confidence in *anyone* to tell the truth in their memoirs. As it turns out though, this one is actually one of the less intentionally misleading ones I’ve come across (but it still gets a lot of things wrong. In another part or two Hara will claim that he sunk the Helena, which he didn’t). The idea that the Rape of Nanking was over exaggerated was a widely held belief when this book was published in the 1950s (in fact, it still is in Japan today, but less understandably). The first person accounts from both the victims and perpetrators weren’t translated and published until the 1980s, when there was a surge of interest in the event. Only then did we realize that the Allied propaganda was actually right. So, it’s completely reasonable for Hara (who we already know is fairly ignorant of things that aren’t torpedoes) to believe this.
I find this series enlightening and historically interesting. It’s good to hear the other sides story.
Nicely done and well told. Thank you for posting this. For future reference Tone is pronounced TOE-NEH
@edtakei5575 Sir thank you so much ,and your observation regarding TOE-NEH noted
Its text to speech AI
Japan had a sufficient number of battle ships and cruisers with the invasion force to flatten Midway. But their leadership wanted to recreate their carrier success they had at Pearl and let them them take another bow. They would have been better of using their big guns out of range of Midways guns. And level the the island before the invasion fleet went ashore. And leave the carrier fleet for it main purpose of destroying the US fleet. If it showed up.
And maybe showed with 6 carriers rather than waste two of their carriers performing a diversion attack against the Aleutian Islands. What a waste
@@Madmok128 The Japanese knew that the Yorktown was heavily damaged in the Coral sea action. And should have been out of action for months. But the repair crews and shop workers at Pearl had been working on and putting ships back together since the Pearl Harbor attack and were the most experienced in the world. And got her operational in days. So Japan thought the US only had 2 operational carriers. Four carriers was more than sufficient to wipe out the US fleet If Yamamoto used surface ships instead of planes to bombard Midway. But the carriers brought Yamamoto his fame so he felt they would increase it.
The Allies were very lucky Hitler and Yamato made some fatal mistakes or the war wud have lasted longer? It wud have ended the same way but cost millions more deaths?
15 20 ships against an air base?without any air support?
It wasn't a diversionary attack. The Aleutian attack was a ploy to please the IJA and get them out of the way, while the IJN did the important stuff.@@Madmok128
The Tone had 8-inch guns, all forward.
Fantastic JNV, respect from Vietnam.... Allahu Akhbar.
He's highly critical of Yamamoto. Interesting.
Actually, they thought about canceling the mission to assassinate him because he sucked so bad as a fleet commander...
@@brushhogg1 I believe he was trying to conserve the battleships and other resources for the "decisive battle", which is the cause of the piecemeal commitment. This was IJN strategic doctrine and any Japanese admiral would likely have done the same. They didn't realize the Americans were not going to go along with that plan until they had built up overwhelming strength.
That’s one of the things that sets Hara’s account apart from other Japanese memoirs.
@@brushhogg1 personally I don't think that they could have found anyone else who could have done any better. How do you win a naval campaign against an enemy with an economy and industrial capacity fourteen times your size?
@@Conn30Mtenor Japan planned on Decisive battle, then take advantage of the situation and consolidate further, to make the enemy turning the tide all the more bloody. Before the US industrial might would reach the front.
With this the idea was the Enemy would sue for Peace, as the price for turning the tide wouldn't be worth continuing, with the Enemy losing Heart.
In many wars this did actually work.
But Japan never had that Decisive battle, nor was the US going to make peace, in a time of total war/fighting till the enemy is destroyed in full
Don't think for one second that the Japanese forgot
Wasn’t Yamamoto often given faulty information? It is a difficult to operate any force when the Army is inept and your enemy is more powerful and its anger off the charts. Japans military should have been commanded by the Navy until the troops were landed. I doubt Army Officers are experts at Sea Operations.
The Sky is blue, and water is wet.
Sounds like Moscow was sending Japan some fake news at the time!
Thanks so much for the upload! ❤
Very kind of you sir 😊
Interesting information. That might explain why the Japanese response was very moderate at first. I wonder if it was a false US report, sent to our attache, false information we sent to the Russians, or false info created by the Russians. Later in the war when it was clear America was going to win, I have heard of instances where the Russians gave the Japanese our battle plans (i.e. what islands we were going to leapfrog). Russia had a vested interest in seeing the US didn't win the war, until they piled in - they wanted to make sure the Communist in China dominated, and they wanted parts of Japan. It would make a good book - you may remember the Russians would not let Dolittle land in Russia - they really were trying to stay on Japans good side.
@@ppumpkin3282 yeah "Uncle Joe" had Roosevelt duped .
Wouldn't the smaller carriers in the Aleutians campaign have slowed Kido Butai down? I think Japan's tradition of not transferring aircrews to other carriers prevented Zuikaku from taking on Shokaku's aircrews and at least making a possible difference in the balance. Not that I would've liked that.
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Critics of Makawa would expect him to not only disregard not knowing where our carriers were but would expect him to know more about the importance of the Guadalcanal landings than IJN high command knew at the time
The title does not correspond to the narration. It treats the American Invasion of Guadalcanal, not Midway.
A bit odd to title the video "Japan Was Crushingly Defeated At Midway" when it describes events post Midway
These accounts are riveting.
Hara was a very very competent officer to say the least.
The Japanese rigid mindset was a weakness that only exacerbated its disadvantage in numbers and industrial capacity.
Who was Japan's opponent in the Midway battle should tell you all you need to know about why they lost.
Kind of like China's industrial might after moving our industries to China by our corrupt politicians in Clinton's and later Bush's administrations.
A japanese that sounds like Octavian in HBOs Rome . It really does take away from the account . Anyway , the battle of midway was a series of happy accedents , and could have gone either way .
The balls on this guy, calling out the carrier’s incompetence. 😳
It was after the war so the Japanese could talk more openly .
@@augustuswayne9676He did this as it was happening though. He signaled the Ryujo and politely told them to “hurry the fuck up”
@@sirboomsalot4902 he would not get away with criticism of the government without retribution. He waited till after the war to write his book .
@@augustuswayne9676 He wasn’t criticizing the government though, just one captain
@@sirboomsalot4902 yes but he is a heavy critic of Yamamoto . And he also criticizes the Army and Navy and they are the government .
Imo, the battle at midway was a rude awakening for the Japanese as to what they were up against at sea, just as Guadalcanal showed them that americans did ideed, posess the will to fight and that the US marines were a force to be reckoned with. In both cases it was a brutal lesson in not underestimating your opponent
Tameichi Hara
Most Americans are unaware that the Japanese Army and the Japanese Navy literally assassinated each other's leadership.
The Japanese Civilian politicians also advanced in rank by assassinating rivals.
Think of the episode Mirror, Mirror from Star Trek TOS.
The United States would never do such a thing (at least not since 1963).
And today the way they stole the election from President Trump
Both sides made serious mistakes, but the American ones were not as fatal.
Use Shredders' voice for Japanese voices. The English voice just doesn't go.
And, only one photo?
@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm i know, i suggested an ai generated slide show. Just show "nazis in peril" random , no correlation to the story needed, really.
Peter Gore Seer,
Japan Had A Million Men Put In Manchuria To Keep Them Safe, As Ageed Under Japans Part In The War.Eurpoe Took Japan In 1850s.
no military ever would do what the Americans did at Midway.
I believe I can fly…. I believe I can touch the sky, I believe I can crawl into the abyss want to join me?
Until Midway, Japan had not faced an able enemy.
Japan lost this war on December 7, 1941. They had no hope of competing with the industrial might of America.
What might have happened if the carriers were in port that morning or if they had bombed the dry docks?
The war would have lasted longer, but Japan had no chance. The US built 24 Essex Class fleet carriers during the war, and would have built more if the war had lasted longer. Japan could not have stopped the US production.@@Iridium43
@@TheKodiakalphaExactly. And that's not even mentioning the USA's main weapon: OIL, which Japan lacked. The Japanese were deeply irrational and allowed rabid nationalism to start a war that was impossible to win. t f was wrong with them
Heroic men.
Yamamoto did Not make the decision...
The Japanese failed to concentrate their forces for one decisive blow. Yamamoto, after the Indian Ocean raid in April 1942, always attacked in driblets. In August 1942 the Japanese still held a material and technological advantage over their foes. The Japanese at the time were also far better trained than their American naval counterparts, especially when it came to night actions. By dispersing his forces, Yamamoto ignored the principle of concentration. Instead, he should have gone in with all he had. The Japanese might have turned the situation in the South Pacific around if they had hit the Americans with one giant mailed fist? If ever there was a time to commit all of the Combined Fleets assets, it was in August 1942 when the Americans were still weak? Sacrificing a valuable carrier in a wasteful decoy operation epitomises Yamamoto's incompetence.
Try wargaming the Japanese and see how easy it was for Yamamoto they simply did not have enough assets to accomplish their goals which were too grandiose to begin with. The biggest problem for japan was their culture and the dysfunctional nature of the army and navy they would have been much better off if one side became dominant instead the worst case scenario ensued. They really had no chance though as long as the US stayed in the war Japan would lose.
I disagree! He had about 7 battleships with the Yamato and her sister ship! They could have been with the carriers to help fight off American airplanes and attacked the carriers. Too far behind the carriers and decided to chase them too late. Too dispersed to help!
@@jameshannagan4256The facts you mention underscore the stupidity of Japan's decision to go to war with the US in the first place. In defence of Yamamoto, he was against the whole project from the start. He realised that going to war against an opponent that out-massed the Japanese Empire by at least ten to one in industrial output was pretty much a losing proposition. On the other hand, like many senior Japanese officials, he underestimated the morale of the American people. It seems like Yamamoto believed that the spiritual strength of the Japanese fighting man would act as a counter weight to American material superiority. We can see this dismissive attitude in full play in the run up to the Battle of Midway, where Japanese plans were predicated on the belief that the Americans had to be lured into battle. Whereas in reality, the American Navy was itching to hit the Japanese even though they knew that they were out numbered. It therefore can be argued that the Japanese belief in their own moral and racial superiority, along with the other factors you mentioned, played a major part in their inability to mass their force against the Americans while they still possessed the material advantage in the Southern Pacific..
@@nigellawson8610 Imperial Japan had no hope because they were becoming a new island empire in an era where that would be nigh-on impossible. Japan needed everything from somewhere else, the classic problem of any island nation not named Great Britain. Yamamoto was of course very correct in assessing the fundamental problem that would stymie all hope of success.
With respect to Musashi and Yamato, once they were built Japanese brass didn’t want to get their shiny chess megapieces sunk. So, they never properly used them until their Navy was so defanged that any engagement seen by either ship would mean an almost certain sinking.
ou have given this some real thought. I always thought Japan screwed up without a follow-up landing at Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese horribly underestimated the fighting ability of the American ground and sea forces. At Guadalcanal Japanese forces tried their bonzai attacks and a thousand were found motionless on the ground the next morning. The Battle of the Coral Sea should have given Japan a warning, fighting America was not going to be easy at any point and America's industrial capability would quickly make fighting a war against America impossible. German suffered a similar 'we can't lose' delusion until the Luftwaffe had to go up against the Royal Air Force who, even heavily outnumbered, bloodied the German bombers and fighters every time they came close to Englad.
Who's narrating? Sounds like Paul Bettany.
I thought exactly the same thing!
Why is your thumbnail from the movie The Great War of Archimedes ? Which has nothing to do with the battle of Midway?
Well, a crushing defeat of an enemy wouldn’t have resulted in the crusher losing a carrier, would it?
The crusher easily replaced its losses in ships and pilots easily, especially they were able to replace pilots as well trained as the few lost. Japanese naval aviation never recovered from the lost carriers, experienced pilots and ground crews. At the start of the war, IJN pilots were the best trained of any combatants, training took any astonishing 3 years. During the war this was unable to be maintained and the skills of Japanese pilots dropped rapidly to a very poor level, so yes this was a crushing victory.
@@richardtargett4128 Call it what you will. A loss is a loss and dead sailors aren’t so easily replaced to a widow.
Well the US had to work with only Enterprise and Saratoga left by October 1942(Enterprise being the only carrier operational in theatre for a time, after Saratoga was badly damaged and left for repairs) of its fleet carriers till the Essex swarm began arriving in 1943...
In late 1942, Japan still had the Material advantage, and experience.
Yet it was in the Solomons when the US was Outnumbered, that the island hopping took off.
“The rape of Nanking was exaggerated.” LOL
"The much exaggerated rape of Nanking" all nationals tend to minimize their war crimes.
If this story is following along with what he knew at the time that would be consistent. Rumors of the Army getting out of hand would have circulated, but the Army wasn't putting newsreels of advanced baby bayoneting techniques either.
True, but Japan is a special case on the depth and breadth of their atrocities. There is ample evidence to support their claims.
RUclips, a video service where you show a picture...
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Have you petted your pet goat today?
Tone is pronounce Toe-Nay
Not really sure how that happened, with Japan's emperor being God and all.
LOL
this guy hates him some Yamamoto, eh?
Great proniunciation of Japanese names, except for IJN Tone. It’s not pronounced “tone” like the English word, but “toe-nee” or “toe-nay.” I hope it’s clear. Good job nevertheless!
Hey! On the 20th minute Tone pronounciation was correct!
I thought the thumbnail was Michael Jackson 😅
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Sounds like Withnail
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you are about 82 years late with this news
Yep, that's how history works.
Crushingly defeated?? That's a silly way to put it, ain't it?
not about midway at all.
@DJS11811 Sir the title is basically excerpt from his memoirs , if you have watched this video ,you must be knowing he said exact these words in this episode,regards
I find the title seriously misleading
@download77 Sir the title is basically excerpt from his memoirs , if you have watched this video ,you must be knowing he said exact these" Japan Was Crushingly Defeated At Midway" words in this episode, regards
Yamamoto was a tool
A narrator with a Japanese accent would sound more authentic.
It's a bot voice.
@@guest6398 i know, an AI voice that can be programmed with different accents
Is it an AI reading or a real person?
AI, it just called Tońe, "tone"
Not interested in Pacific theatre, for some reason, even though my dad fought there, a Hellcat pilot.
Give it another try. Watch the Island hopping campaigns. Brutal
Funny, I've been interested in the Pacific theater, even though my dad fought on a destroyer in the European theater.
I’m the exact same way.
Very irritating he never says destroyers were not meant to be transport ships; if the Japanese navy was as great as he claimed, then using transport ships shouldn't have been a problem. They were a problem because they could be sunk because the Japanese navy wasn't powerful enough to protect them. DUH!
The title says one thing and the video another. Misleading really.
no, japan was crushingly defeated at the factory halls of the.
midway was just a formality.
noobs talk about wins in battles, everyone who actually knows what they are talking about, knows that wars are won not in battle, but at the logistics board...
if japan would've won midway, they still would've lost world war 2...
they just couldn't produce enough weapons and material to fight such a war, other than the US, which could stamp out whole carrier task forces in no time...
Exactly! And the USA had the most powerful weapon of all: OIL!
There was no way Japan could fight a war without fuel! What the effing eff were they thinking?
Was he in Nanking? No, I didnt think so. Just Japanese twisting to save face. Shame.