Very proud my uncle was the radio operator on the darter. The crew would meet every year after the war. They had a great deal of respect for their captain.
@@robertgrimm986 comprehension is very low out in the wide world. This could easily be a movie (if anyone wanted to bother), does that clear it up? you busy trying to be "actually" guy
I'm not sure why I watch your stuff but I have to point out something here. These two boats did not "stumble upon" the Japanese attack group. THEY WERE LOOKING FOR THEM AND FOUND THEM!!! That's a big difference.
Please explain how the end result would have changed if they confidently, logically, and systematically found them vs stumbing upon them. Isn't it the actions after the position fix that matter. Many a systematic search came up empty in the Pacific. Even ones where the general location of the enemy was known. The sea is a big place. I sometime think of all the sailors and aviators lost who survived there crash or sinking but were never located. Horrifying. They would have been elated to be stumbled upon.
@@mikemorgan5015 Oh, that's easy. They were sent to look for them and ordered not to attack untill they had reported the location, track and speed. This was different than the normal war patrol. Normaly they would have attacked them first and talked about it later. This was very different.
@@simplyamazing880 Seems in your world, sub commanders were trained no more than a bird dog, without the discipline. I still don't think the outcome is much different. Hell Leyte Gulf is only about 50 miles wide.
@@mikemorgan5015 It is relevant because to “stumble” on them would indicate luck. While a little luck is always good to have, this was more deliberate.
The music with narration at the same time is strange and annoying. They areas where it faded out felt like a relief. Perhaps useful if you have some dead air but otherwise just a strange distraction.
Your last comment: "Admiral Kurita sailed into a well prepared force which would defeat him;" is not quite true. Kurita was defeated by the destroyers and escort carriers. Halsey sailed north taking the fleet carriers and fast battleships to Luzon. The unprepared escort fleet fought Kurita.
You are both wrong. The Japanese did not know there were enemy nearby and certainly did not know they were about to be attacked -- unprepared. Whereas the Americans, discovered the Japanese task force, track the task force, and put together a hasty plan to attack the task force. The general overall preparedness of the US naval units allowed then to put together a quick, last minute plan to attack the Japanese task force before the Japanese knew the Americans were nearby -- prepared. In this example your vast years as "arnchair admirals" has failed you.
@joecombs7468 No, that was the Japanese centerforce, the most combat capable detachment they could muster. Verses a small detachment of destroyers and escort carriers to support landing operations, Laffy 3. Sheer incompetence is the only reason the Japenese centerforce was repelled. They grossly misclassified their targets as heavy cruisers and fleet carriers instead of destroyers and escort carriers. So they spent most of their time poking holes with armor piercing rounds instead of firing the more appropriate high explosive rounds. This alone is what made the fierce US defense possible, as they would have been utterly destroyed otherwise. Additionally, when the Japanese centerforce turned back, they had effectively rendered the US forces helpless. The Yamoto alone had a greater displacement than all of the US ships combined. The US forces were hopelessly out matched if it wasn't for the Japanese incompetence. The US got lucky that day. We were caught with our pants down when Halsey went after the Japanese decoy carriers. That was Japan's biggest blunder of the war. They could have really set back American efforts considerably if they had properly identified their targets at the start of that fight. That said, Laffy 3 was beyond brave, bold, and divisive. Their actions shouldn't be discredited in any way. They gave it thier all, and all of the ships had pretty much expended their magazines. But, if the Japanese had switched to those high explosive rounds sooner, or held out just a little longer before thier withdrawal...
Laffy 3? You mean Taffy 3? That group went down in history by gutting the will of the main attack force. Kurita was convinced he had severely damaged the US landing force and retired from the battle. The legend of the USS Johnston, a mere destroyer escort, was born.
Why on earth has the producer of this quality video chosen to spoil whole sections of this story with the utterly stupid din of totally irrelevant "Music" that just impedes the listener from hearing the narrator? 🙄
I served on two WWII submarines after the Korean War. One was original and the other had been modified as a "Guppy". Later I would serve aboard two different "nukes", at the height of the "Cold War". The earlier boats were very "hands on", whereas the "nukes" were becoming more and more systems oriented, moving towards "push button" technology. I can hardly imagine what the latest designs must be like. "Inner Space" ships must be "star wars" in the deep. The big thing is to understand that this is transit warfare in an inky black alien environment where sound waves become the medium of identification and directional fields of fire, in a type of warfare vested in scientific formulations, all considered in a 360° spheroid of deep space, in which nothing is tangible, except the reciprocal contacts and if combat ensues, the only survivors are those ships not stricken. During WWII, the primary combat was near the surface, even at 500', whereby some survival was still possible for casualties. Now, at depths unimaginable, it is pretty much all or nothing. Consider the famous James Bowie. When dueling was legal, "gentlemen" had "seconds", who under strict rules, would determine where and when the duel would occur and with what weapons. Bowie, under the rules, chose an empty cotton warehouse, near New Orleans, LA, stripped except for a pair of trousers and armed with razor sharp knives, at midnight, with only a single door (and no windows), fastened shut and no light, in the inky black interior of the empty warehouse. Imagine how the two men would control their breathing and movements, so as to not be discovered first by his opponent. Bowie emerged alive. Modern submarine warfare is like that. "Music"? Who cares? It is the "silent" service. But, if you haven't been there, the silence is deafaning. The portrayal is just that...a portrayal. The narrator has already destroyed the silence. Chilling.
@@PVEnsemble He meant that the video didn't mention the Japanese not having radars on their ships at the time (Even though most people can probably guess that because otherwise the subs really couldn't have pulled that one off)
@@Mega-tl8vv the commenter said, "Radar was the technological edge of the allies NOT MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO." I just responded that the video mentions that several times in the first four minutes of the video. So, not sure what you're getting at.
@@crypto_que Ah, WHAT are you talking about? My comment was "I thank God that He has protected our Country. I thank our Military for protecting our Freedom." WHERE in that comment are the words "conquest" or "economic interests"? Explain yourself. Even if I did spell something incorrectly - SO WHAT?
I have to concur. Your work is extraordinary and no small part of that specialness is your smart production. Dialogue is the attraction. Nobody is here to hear music. Nobody.
I keep thinking there's a TV on in the next room! Ugh! Please re-post this excellent video without the distracting music (distracting to the point that I am compelled to comment!), and I promise you will make 400,000 people very happy.
I remember the first countdown our Drill Sargent gave us in Basic Training, I had no idea how long 15 sec, actually was. We raced from our bays & bunks into uniform from the 3rd floor & made it to formation before he could kick our asses. "Precious seconds" mean everything in combat. This a world class tale of besting the enemy with cunning and stealth increasing the survivability of personnel.
I really enjoyed the video EXCEPT for the distracting and total unnecessary music underneath the narration. Please get rid of that music - it only detracts from an otherwise excellent video...
Yes as usual forgot about all the other countries fighting Japan. For instance the Chinese had been fighting them for years. It was nice you finally showed up.
I really enjoy this fellas narrating ,.. !. His English pronunciation's so good adding something I can't quite pin down...anticipation or excitement or focus on what's most vital - I'm uncertain , but enjoy it much... Thanks- Mr. Speaker ,!
I'm in the UK - over 80 and have read of this action more than once since I was a boy. Always thought back to Wellington's words - "Damn close-run affair !" Remember when small boys never had to look all that far for heroes?
Sailing so close to an enemy battlegroup and transmitting radio reports where anybody with a tin can and some wire could probably hear them. In a diesel sub, this is unheard of, as usually if you have an ASW screen worth a damn they're pinging on active sonar and trigger happy on anything that remotely resembles a submarine. No destroyer pickets, that's just asking for trouble.
Firing torpedos with iffy fuses from knife fighting range. A close miss with a main gun sinks the sub. I am retired navy and just boarding a sub give me the creeps.
@DarkDocsSeas I love your videos but just wanted to give you some negative feedback that I hope will help you. By far the most important part of your videos is your commentary (your voice). The background music I'm hearing at 1:59 not only makes it difficult for me to hear your words, but it also doesn't fit the historical period of the content. When I watch your channels, I have come to expect and appreciate that they take me back to the past and provide interesting and entertaining learnings. This out-of-context music mars both of those parts of the experience that I've come to know and love about your channel. Keep up the great work, partner! I enjoy your mini-documentaries as much as those old Ken Burns works they used to run on PBS back in the day before Wokedom.
as ex submariner I was victim of the clickbate, but hell, glad that I did. So many posts of the Leyte gulf of Aiir-and Surface Warfare, but this ONLY one of the 2 submarines in this area made my day. So nice to see their tactic to shadow and report patiently and thence the kill, nice footage indeed. Submariners know how crowded submarine life is, imagine with the double amount. Meals, Loo, sweat, drinking water, . allround hot bed bunking etc Love it, no problem to watch it over and over again
My dad tracked subs from a P-3 Orion. He said he was 5 days on a carrier, 3 days on a sub and that's 8 days too long to be on anything that's grey and float. I was in the U.S. Army....
This was an amazing video ... one of your best ever!! Thank you. I had not heard about this event in WWII. As you narrated the outcome I had a big smile on my face. Rarely are WWII events so one-sidedly favorable to the Allies.
Obviously no one was filming the real thing during combat so its hard to show. But the random shots pieced together in this follow the narration better than most videos for that era do.
This sounds like a video made from the transcript of another video, with some (probably contracted) video editing to provide a nice, smooth, finished surface.
Your background music is way to loud and makes unplesant listening - you need to turn it down to -2 or lower - dont use the zero setting as this is way to loud.
I have also read that there was too much rivalry among the Japanese admirals in the operation and that this contributed even more to the subsequent defeat in Leyte Gulf. Greetings from Patagonia Argentina.
Its a nice run down of what happened, but its unclear what the "jaw-dropping submarine tactic that totally shocked Japan" actually is referring to. That combined with the music makes me think this is just a clickbait hype video thats not worth watching.
Kurita sailed into an unorepared force that was a fraction consisting of destroyers, destroyer-escorts, and escort carriers. It was only through the suicidal bravery of the men and officers of Taffy-3 that Kurita lost his nerve and retreated when victory was in his grasp.
Going by what was said, victory was never within his grasp. It was the lure .. Had he known he lost the element of surprise, he would have turned tail for open water
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Very proud my uncle was the radio operator on the darter. The crew would meet every year after the war. They had a great deal of respect for their captain.
I'm currently reading Dick O'kane's autobiography about his time as captain of USS Tang.
To cool my friend
What?!!! WOW! That's so cool! Those dudes were and are AMERICAN HEROES!
It’s a luxury to survive and know you and your team made a difference. I’m glad they enjoyed that privilege.
I'm glad he wasn't the navigator!
This battle could easily be a movie by itself.
I've watched numerous TV documentaries about it, but am not aware of any big screen productions.
@@robertgrimm986
They are all too busy working on the remake of Ishtar and Sharknado:The Final Fin!
@@robertgrimm986 comprehension is very low out in the wide world. This could easily be a movie (if anyone wanted to bother), does that clear it up? you busy trying to be "actually" guy
I agree!
I was thinking the same thing!
I'm not sure why I watch your stuff but I have to point out something here. These two boats did not "stumble upon" the Japanese attack group. THEY WERE LOOKING FOR THEM AND FOUND THEM!!!
That's a big difference.
Please explain how the end result would have changed if they confidently, logically, and systematically found them vs stumbing upon them. Isn't it the actions after the position fix that matter. Many a systematic search came up empty in the Pacific. Even ones where the general location of the enemy was known. The sea is a big place. I sometime think of all the sailors and aviators lost who survived there crash or sinking but were never located. Horrifying. They would have been elated to be stumbled upon.
This guy repeadedly reinforces old propaganda.
@@mikemorgan5015 Oh, that's easy. They were sent to look for them and ordered not to attack untill they had reported the location, track and speed. This was different than the normal war patrol. Normaly they would have attacked them first and talked about it later. This was very different.
@@simplyamazing880 Seems in your world, sub commanders were trained no more than a bird dog, without the discipline. I still don't think the outcome is much different. Hell Leyte Gulf is only about 50 miles wide.
@@mikemorgan5015
It is relevant because to “stumble” on them would indicate luck. While a little luck is always good to have, this was more deliberate.
I really want to watch this video but I can't with that music going on. I guess I'll just mute and it and hope the CC is working properly.
The music with narration at the same time is strange and annoying. They areas where it faded out felt like a relief. Perhaps useful if you have some dead air but otherwise just a strange distraction.
Another vote against terrible music in videos.
Wanted to watch this but 1 minute and 48 seconds in I couldn’t get past that annoying background music.
Reduce the volume of the music , or better, lose it entirely.
Totally agree!
Or at the very least have some less obtrusive sound track
Psycho-idiots_Marketing, everywhere.
Disrespectful music at that.
Yeah! I hate hard rock musicians messing with my learning opportunities!
Your last comment: "Admiral Kurita sailed into a well prepared force which would defeat him;" is not quite true. Kurita was defeated by the destroyers and escort carriers. Halsey sailed north taking the fleet carriers and fast battleships to Luzon. The unprepared escort fleet fought Kurita.
Stuff like that is why I rarely watch dark content anymore. Alot of what he says is not consistent with well documented facts
You are both wrong.
The Japanese did not know there were enemy nearby and certainly did not know they were about to be attacked -- unprepared.
Whereas the Americans,
discovered the Japanese task force, track the task force, and put together a hasty plan to attack the task force. The general overall preparedness of the US naval units allowed then to put together a quick, last minute plan to attack the Japanese task force before the Japanese knew the Americans were nearby -- prepared.
In this example your vast years as "arnchair admirals" has failed you.
@joecombs7468 No, that was the Japanese centerforce, the most combat capable detachment they could muster. Verses a small detachment of destroyers and escort carriers to support landing operations, Laffy 3. Sheer incompetence is the only reason the Japenese centerforce was repelled. They grossly misclassified their targets as heavy cruisers and fleet carriers instead of destroyers and escort carriers. So they spent most of their time poking holes with armor piercing rounds instead of firing the more appropriate high explosive rounds. This alone is what made the fierce US defense possible, as they would have been utterly destroyed otherwise. Additionally, when the Japanese centerforce turned back, they had effectively rendered the US forces helpless. The Yamoto alone had a greater displacement than all of the US ships combined. The US forces were hopelessly out matched if it wasn't for the Japanese incompetence. The US got lucky that day. We were caught with our pants down when Halsey went after the Japanese decoy carriers. That was Japan's biggest blunder of the war. They could have really set back American efforts considerably if they had properly identified their targets at the start of that fight.
That said, Laffy 3 was beyond brave, bold, and divisive. Their actions shouldn't be discredited in any way. They gave it thier all, and all of the ships had pretty much expended their magazines. But, if the Japanese had switched to those high explosive rounds sooner, or held out just a little longer before thier withdrawal...
@@joecombs7468 What are you even yapping about? How can someone be so wrong yet so confident
Laffy 3? You mean Taffy 3?
That group went down in history by gutting the will of the main attack force. Kurita was convinced he had severely damaged the US landing force and retired from the battle.
The legend of the USS Johnston, a mere destroyer escort, was born.
I'm amazed at how you get all this footage. It's incredible. I enjoy it. Thanks
Please oh please drop the music in the background it brings nothing to the table of contents
1:25 The anachronistic music is a serious distraction. You seem to have forgotten which war this is.
Why on earth has the producer of this quality video chosen to spoil whole sections of this story with the utterly stupid din of totally irrelevant "Music" that just impedes the listener from hearing the narrator? 🙄
Indeed Sir! I 2nd your comment.
@@glennharrison7036 Well said, sir!
Probably to fool YT's copyright filters.
I served on two WWII submarines after the Korean War. One was original and the other had been modified as a "Guppy". Later I would serve aboard two different "nukes", at the height of the "Cold War". The earlier boats were very "hands on", whereas the "nukes" were becoming more and more systems oriented, moving towards "push button" technology. I can hardly imagine what the latest designs must be like. "Inner Space" ships must be "star wars" in the deep. The big thing is to understand that this is transit warfare in an inky black alien environment where sound waves become the medium of identification and directional fields of fire, in a type of warfare vested in scientific formulations, all considered in a 360° spheroid of deep space, in which nothing is tangible, except the reciprocal contacts and if combat ensues, the only survivors are those ships not stricken.
During WWII, the primary combat was near the surface, even at 500', whereby some survival was still possible for casualties. Now, at depths unimaginable, it is pretty much all or nothing.
Consider the famous James Bowie. When dueling was legal, "gentlemen" had "seconds", who under strict rules, would determine where and when the duel would occur and with what weapons. Bowie, under the rules, chose an empty cotton warehouse, near New Orleans, LA, stripped except for a pair of trousers and armed with razor sharp knives, at midnight, with only a single door (and no windows), fastened shut and no light, in the inky black interior of the empty warehouse.
Imagine how the two men would control their breathing and movements, so as to not be discovered first by his opponent.
Bowie emerged alive.
Modern submarine warfare is like that.
"Music"?
Who cares? It is the "silent" service. But, if you haven't been there, the silence is deafaning.
The portrayal is just that...a portrayal. The narrator has already destroyed the silence.
Chilling.
The music accompanying this is very distracting.
yeah, would be better without it going much of the time.
Ha! That was it. The distracting music, was the stunning tactic that destroyed Japan.
always liked your videos but am having a real tough time with your background music.
Radar was the technological edge of the allies not mentioned in the video. The Japanese did not know they were being observed and tracked.
He mentions radar several times in the first four minutes of the video.
@@PVEnsemble The commenter didn't deny that, dude
@@Mega-tl8vv what did he say?
@@PVEnsemble He meant that the video didn't mention the Japanese not having radars on their ships at the time
(Even though most people can probably guess that because otherwise the subs really couldn't have pulled that one off)
@@Mega-tl8vv the commenter said, "Radar was the technological edge of the allies NOT MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO." I just responded that the video mentions that several times in the first four minutes of the video. So, not sure what you're getting at.
Electric guitar as background music why? Totally incongruous given the historical context.
You might as well use excerpts of "Victory at Sea", which was my brother's favorite music for about a decade.
Music not needed.
Nice vid.
And the narrator sounds like he has a mouth full of water in every video.
Get a life and make your own video.
@@chrisnull3658 Let's you narrate one.
Not so much not needed as actively makes it worse.
Are you implying tha the allies didn't win the naval war in the Pacific because of rockin' guitars?
The new music is distracting
Please get rid of the annoying music.
I had to turn off the sound and just read the cc text because the background music was so distracting. Ughh!
I came to the comment section to say the exact same thing
Agree. Stopped watching. Thumbs down
What's with the weird, distracting music in the background?
Makes it hard to follow
It's Led Zepplin man.
It may be Led Zepplin, but holy crap it's annoying... had to nope out of there....
Its fine, go make your own video or mute it and turn in subtitles
@jt3008
I just don't watch annoying videos.
There are plenty with no distracting music to choose from!
@@t-bonejones3576 then don't watch sister mister and quit crying
Please, just the words, not the music.
I can't watch this any longer the music is completely inappropriate and distracting from a good story.
Please reduce the volume of the music. It is very distracting. You don't need it as you have a good narration voice.
love when people loving provide constructive criticism, instead of just being hateful! Have to agree
The breathy voice is also a big distraction.
Thank you for another well told history lesson.
Thumbs down for the intrusive background noise.
I really like your videos. Please reduce the volume of the background music. Please. Thanks!
What Courage! Teamwork At Its Best!
Submariners are a brave bunch of guys.
I thank God that He has protected our Country. I thank our Military for protecting our Freedom.
Why didn't he protect Germany? They were 70% christian in the 1930s.
You spelled conquest & economic interests wrong
@@crypto_que Ah, WHAT are you talking about? My comment was "I thank God that He has protected our Country. I thank our Military for protecting our Freedom." WHERE in that comment are the words "conquest" or "economic interests"? Explain yourself. Even if I did spell something incorrectly - SO WHAT?
I think you're being wound up.@@born2bbald12
@@douglasclerk2764 Seriously? Explain.
I like your channel, but if you're going to start using background music, I'm outa here.
Agreed. It is not helping the otherwise excellent content.
Mediocre content. "Ending America's Pacific War" is pure hyperbole. The SW Pacific was one theatre, not all of them.
This music choice is not a fit.
I have to concur. Your work is extraordinary and no small part of that specialness is your smart production. Dialogue is the attraction. Nobody is here to hear music. Nobody.
@@brasidas2011 You could have made that important point without the leading insult. Just saying.
Excellent presentation, thanks
Background music interfering with the info.
I keep thinking there's a TV on in the next room! Ugh! Please re-post this excellent video without the distracting music (distracting to the point that I am compelled to comment!), and I promise you will make 400,000 people very happy.
I thought that was there intentionally, wondering do they think this shitty music is helping?? LOL
WOW... Your narrative was GREAT!
Drop the music.
yeah the music does not fit the era of WWII. find it distracting.
What a bloody story. So well narrated too. Thank you.
I agree!
The background music choice with the guitar was really bad. This needs something more low-key.
Great narration, but the music was very distracting and (to my ears, ymmv) was inappropriate.
Outstanding narration.
Your channel is so fascinating to me.
Excellent coverage, love the real vids, your narration - all of it is "well done".
I remember the first countdown our Drill Sargent gave us in Basic Training, I had no idea how long 15 sec, actually was. We raced from our bays & bunks into uniform from the 3rd floor & made it to formation before he could kick our asses. "Precious seconds" mean everything in combat. This a world class tale of besting the enemy with cunning and stealth increasing the survivability of personnel.
I love these stories, they are well constructed, and accompanied by video. Thank you
Music too loud. Make it softer, preferably no music at all.
Very brave men all of them, we should give thanks to them everyday
I thought the music was coming from another tab, super annoying
Yeah get rid of the background music and sound effects
I really enjoyed the video EXCEPT for the distracting and total unnecessary music underneath the narration. Please get rid of that music - it only detracts from an otherwise excellent video...
For the first year of America’s entry into the war, America’s submarines carried a disproportionate burden of the war in the Pacific.
According to the movies, we did it with substandard torpedoes. See what I did there?😅
We definitely had a target rich environment. With most of our surface force was not in our AO we had the depths to ourselves.
Yes as usual forgot about all the other countries fighting Japan. For instance the Chinese had been fighting them for years. It was nice you finally showed up.
@@Charles-k9g5yAnd the Royal Navy…👌🏼😉
@@rwarren58Unfortunately that's true. A lot of them didn't explode and they were easier to spot thanks to their air bubble trails
What a story. Excellent!
Great video made good, could do without the music. Does not seem to fit.
Well done! Thank you :)
The music is distracting and annoying.
I really enjoy this fellas narrating ,.. !.
His English pronunciation's so good adding something I can't quite pin down...anticipation or excitement or focus on what's most vital - I'm uncertain , but enjoy it much... Thanks- Mr. Speaker ,!
I'm in the UK - over 80 and have read of this action more than once since I was a boy.
Always thought back to Wellington's words - "Damn close-run affair !"
Remember when small boys never had to look all that far for heroes?
I agree with the previous comment no background music like this. It totally distract you from trying to listen to the content
Drop the music ! Please ! Peace ✌️ !
😎🙏🏆🤗
Thank you for sharing this
Please no music 🎶
why did you use background music that was written for car commercials?
What exactly was the "jaw dropping submarine tactic"????? They shot some torpedoes and sank some ships. Isn't that what they were designed to do?
Quietly hiding, under the water.
Sailing so close to an enemy battlegroup and transmitting radio reports where anybody with a tin can and some wire could probably hear them.
In a diesel sub, this is unheard of, as usually if you have an ASW screen worth a damn they're pinging on active sonar and trigger happy on anything that remotely resembles a submarine.
No destroyer pickets, that's just asking for trouble.
OP needs to provide his address so we can send “waste of time” invoices
Firing torpedos with iffy fuses from knife fighting range. A close miss with a main gun sinks the sub. I am retired navy and just boarding a sub give me the creeps.
@@johnthomas-uy4twI’m also a retired navy man, spent 12yrs on subs and they give me the creeps as well
@DarkDocsSeas I love your videos but just wanted to give you some negative feedback that I hope will help you. By far the most important part of your videos is your commentary (your voice). The background music I'm hearing at 1:59 not only makes it difficult for me to hear your words, but it also doesn't fit the historical period of the content. When I watch your channels, I have come to expect and appreciate that they take me back to the past and provide interesting and entertaining learnings. This out-of-context music mars both of those parts of the experience that I've come to know and love about your channel.
Keep up the great work, partner! I enjoy your mini-documentaries as much as those old Ken Burns works they used to run on PBS back in the day before Wokedom.
I've been a subscriber for a long time and I always enjoy your videos. This is one of your absolute BEST.
The hard rock background music does not fit the nature of this channel. Please stop using it.
Isnt that the home depot commercial music? What are we doing? Building a deck?
I thought that the American and Japanese navy vessels had brass bands on board .I had no idea they had cheesy pub rock bands.
I am loving your channel.
as ex submariner I was victim of the clickbate, but hell, glad that I did. So many posts of the Leyte gulf of Aiir-and Surface Warfare, but this ONLY one of the 2 submarines in this area made my day. So nice to see their tactic to shadow and report patiently and thence the kill, nice footage indeed. Submariners know how crowded submarine life is, imagine with the double amount. Meals, Loo, sweat, drinking water, . allround hot bed bunking etc
Love it, no problem to watch it over and over again
My dad tracked subs from a P-3 Orion.
He said he was 5 days on a carrier, 3 days on a sub and that's 8 days too long to be on anything that's grey and float.
I was in the U.S. Army....
The background music is annoying.
Get rid of background music or turn it WAY down
Please consider removing the music. It directly competes with the narration.
Mike agrees width richeymt about "out of context music" and further say .... Why any music to begin with? Your narration carries the mail quite well!
Why put the crappy music behind the interesting narration? Thumb down for intentionally making the video irritating.
Stories like THIS need to be made into movies and show how incredible the US submarine fleet was in WWII
Kind of disappointed the tactic wasn't putting a Godzilla head on the submarine.
not sure whether to focus on the story or get up and dance to that jammin rock music!
This was an amazing video ... one of your best ever!! Thank you. I had not heard about this event in WWII. As you narrated the outcome I had a big smile on my face. Rarely are WWII events so one-sidedly favorable to the Allies.
good video, but why the unfitting and way to loud music (content has some climax, music has all the time… unnecessarily nervous)
Thank you for sharing that story. God Bless America ⚡🇺🇲 . Have a Happy Independence Day🎉🇺🇲
I’m not sure who is more psychopathic, the people in these historic scenes, or the people who put music to this video.
Obviously no one was filming the real thing during combat so its hard to show. But the random shots pieced together in this follow the narration better than most videos for that era do.
Don't listen the haters,keep up the good work 👏
My dad was at Layte. He always said that just couldn't be compared that to any July 4th show.
This sounds like a video made from the transcript of another video, with some (probably contracted) video editing to provide a nice, smooth, finished surface.
Your background music is way to loud and makes unplesant listening - you need to turn it down to -2 or lower - dont use the zero setting as this is way to loud.
It's funny how he says "Before the submarine sank..." when he means "before the submarine submerged..."
I knew of the sub going around but didn't know the context. Thankyou.
The bearskin commercial killed it for me!
Made it to 2:33 but music made me leave. Wonder what happened next
I have also read that there was too much rivalry among the Japanese admirals in the operation and that this contributed even more to the subsequent defeat in Leyte Gulf. Greetings from Patagonia Argentina.
I like your channel and I didn't even think about the background music because it was fitting and reasonable to the situation at hand.
The rock n' roll background adds nothing but annoyance.
@1:00 Nineteen twenty four? Seems like you swapped the last 2 digits?
Sub on thumbnail is a Russian Typhoon not a w² sub
This is as good as it gets, great story.
Wierd choice of background music
It's very annoying
the music sucks, very distracting.
Its a nice run down of what happened, but its unclear what the "jaw-dropping submarine tactic that totally shocked Japan" actually is referring to. That combined with the music makes me think this is just a clickbait hype video thats not worth watching.
Subs search for enemy, find enemy, engage enemy & escape enemy. “Jaw-dropping”!😂😂
This channel is heavy on click bait titles. I skip most of them. I should have skipped this one.
Kurita sailed into an unorepared force that was a fraction consisting of destroyers, destroyer-escorts, and escort carriers. It was only through the suicidal bravery of the men and officers of Taffy-3 that Kurita lost his nerve and retreated when victory was in his grasp.
Going by what was said, victory was never within his grasp. It was the lure ..
Had he known he lost the element of surprise, he would have turned tail for open water
Your choice of background music destroyed this video.
Scrap the music it is horrible and irritating.