This presentation is a gift to civilization. Thank you Sir!

I disagree with the idea that there was a dilemma. 1st target was US carriers group, Midway was just a pretext / secondary target to attract them. Nagumo made what is today well known as "target fixation" on secondary target and wanted to 'finish the job' on Midway when, once Midway has been attacked once, be ready to attack carriers as soon as they were discovered, and put all his efforts at it while staying out of range from Midway. And no longer attack Midway after his first strike, whatever the result. It is not a dilemma, It's a major tactical mistake. Probably due to a biased perception of its own power, considering he could do two things at once when he obviously could not. Anyway, good for us and for the world.

Great, but be reminded that it was NOT a surprise.

bro capping so hard to win the pride of us army even though the us army lost badly in this attack ,so biased

Id argue that the Archerfish sinking of the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano was actuality the most deadly torpedo attack of ww2. 4 out of 6 hit and sank approx 76k tonnage Yamamoto class carrier. That's pretty insane. It may not have been ready, but that was a huge one submarine take down

Feel bad for the Sims and the oshoa or whatever the oil tanker was called. Bad luck to get hit with full carrier strike group

This battle was what got me really into naval history. Well done videos on midway. I’ll watch another.

You do amazing work man, this was best hour and half of KZbin in months. My grandpa (decreased about 7 years ago) was a marine in guadacanal and lost everyone in his DFP and lost half his ass to a grenade. Wish i could of talked about it more after i joined. My other grandpa was in navy and went to Japan after surrender. They stole a train apparently and should of been court martialed but commanders were angry at that point still and ignored it. He actually got to see nagasaki and said it was devastating to look at.

You present this in an entertaining, objective fashion. Love watching your videos and learning every time!

Best transition in a documentary ever.... 21.06

You should do an episode on the Gulf Of Sidra incidents of 1981 and 1989.

Pearl Harbor and Grave of the Fireflies are the two films I want the current generation to see.…

Here's an actual recording describing the events on the Wasp and in the water from by Dad: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHnIgoGeiKykqrc

The Union practically gift-wrapped this victory for Jackson and the Confederates overall. That said, I would love to see a video on how each side scouted the movements of each other and how this was communicated in a timely manner to react properly. Telegraph was only relatively practical for the Union side and relying strictly on horseback would require added days/weeks to scouting, reporting, and reacting during a protracted campaign of almost constant movement. It often seems that Jackson's "brilliance" can be attributed as much on issues of coincidental timing, the Union underreacting/overreacting precisely as the Confederates had hoped, Jackson's keeping his eyes on the prize, and, of course, George McClellan perennial poor judgement and feet of clay.

I'm with you - I'm not going to second guess the high brass if they felt Fletcher wasn't the man they wanted, but I think that it's unfair to judge him so harshly. I think all of your arguments in that direction are good ones, and I agree. Also, don't forget that his ship put down three carriers at Midway. That is HUGE.

Honestly, I think that sinking three enemy carriers at Midway is more or less enough all by itself to make the man's name. I do get it that the Marines were righteously upset with him at Watchtower, and I also really found that hard to swallow when I learned about it. Guadalcanal became a living hell for those boys, and maybe some of that could have been prevented if he'd gotten them all of their supplies. At the end of it all, though, I sure wasn't there, so I'm not going to second-guess the men who were.

Luck is such an important thing in life. How different things might have been had our carriers been at berth that day too. We'd likely still have eventually won, but it would have taken a lot longer.

It really looks to me like the fundamental screw-up the Japanese committed was when those Zeros left their position covering the carriers to go after the fighters that had just taken out their other Zeros. They should have held their spot over the carriers, and then that attack likely would have gone the way the others did. Because that was where the whole thing went south for the Japanese.

One of the few times the Japanese properly used their subs

@ 12:45 .. .A full B-26 crew willing to Sacrifice their lives by burying their Bomber down the throat of a Japanese Carrier when atleast some of the guys could have bailed out , They dont have a word that describes how Heroic & Selfless all of those men in one aircraft were!

Great story, thanks.😅

The two other torpedoes carrying on that distance (5mi) and then hitting the other TF is unbelievable.

Although the battle was successful for I 19, I don’t see this is something that should be promoted as a successful doctrine when the Japanese failed to ever repeat this type of success, the type of success that the Americans had against the merchant supply lines of Japan in comparison is much more strategic victory, and an overall victoryany success the Japanese submarine fleet had

Man, you have a talent for these videos. Give us a European theatre *series*... Please 🙂

Japan LOST the war at Midway,, NEVER recovered.. It took Japan over 8 months to build a carrier,,let alone 4 fleet size ships..

Great presentation. Thank you !

Great presentation.

Cannot wait to see your video on the Battle of Santa Cruz

Como dices los norteamericanos cuando mexico es parte de norte america 😂😂😂

At least a generation of kids know how the plane's timing screwups, missed locations, following the Japanese destroyer trying to find the US summarine, etc. all happened just right. 5 minutes that ended the Pacific War.

The reality is the Japanese lost the war the minute they attacked Pearl Harbor and they didn't bring troops in and take over the island that was their first mistake pretty much sealed their fate in the Pacific!

from what I understand IJN Shokaku and IJN Zuikaku are part of Carrier Division 5 (you did get Carrier Divisions 1 and 2 right) Carrier Division 3 would compose of light carriers IJN Zuihō and Hōshō and destroyers IJN Mikazuki, and Yūzuki (August 1941 composition) nevertheless, great video

30 seconds to just update us on what you are working on? Or just to say you are still alive?

Can you start uploading again please!

Brilliant presentation!

This chick is drunk or impaired seems like.

The cowardly use of Japan's Battle Ships shown most strongly here. 10 BB from WW1 including the four Kongo class and The two Yamato class BB. Send all of them here American's lose the entire campaign especially after this moment. And the Japanese BB forces should have been risked in these campaigns not thrown away later in the war. Note at Midway the loss in air battle rattled the Japanise overall commander too much. If he had the slightest clue of Carriers operations he would have realized there was no way for US to prevent the loss of Midway to the large Japanese Battleship force the one operational US carrier left could no more than maybe sink one BB or a few transports. Plus of course at Midway the Japanese Battleships should have led the attack and had the job to take out the airfield not the Carriers. The Japanese Carriers staying gaurd against any possible US Carriers and maybe providing some close air support to BB force which would try to show up off Midway near daybreak like they did in later battles. Japanese Carriers don't get caught changing out weapons like the Wasp here. Note after attack on Pearl Japan lost the war. The 44 US Armada would crush Japan even if Hawaii was lost there actually was nothing Japan could do to win the war only delay losing. Cleaver attack plan loses war similar to German invasion of Belgium to beat France in WWI lost them the war. Japan's goal for war was capturing resources under British Control in the area while holding the US off if they joined the war to help British. US expected to get tired of losses basically Vietnam and Afghanistan War win tactics for enemy. The US and British had imposed sanctions over the atrocities Japan committed in China. With strong Neutrality movement in US a Japanese attack on the British might not even get US into the War. Philippines held by US were a threat to supply of attack on British but nothing the vastly superior Japanese air forces could not deal with. So Japan attacks British and Roosevelt somehow gets US to go help them. The US public not that interested. Japan make certain they only defend vs US they probably right US loses some BB at Philippines and Aircraft carriers the British fighting in Europe have no desire to fight in Pacific having no US help in Europe. Treaty removing the sanctions on Japan established US leaves the war. British and Germans work out peace deal with British control of the Sea German settle for reverse of end of WWI deal their borderlands restored France freed under conditions simmilar to what it put on Germany after WWI. SOVIETS fall. WWI Britain not even at war with Germany till attack on Belgium Germany has to know they lose any war with British because of control of the Sea for WWI. Even if England joins war without attack on Belgium US might even join German side in WWI over British Blockade but in no way does US fight against Germany instead deal to release blockade thus preventing German unrestricted submarine warfare nothing to upset US over with civilian ships sunk. Best german suprise attack though Belgem could get is France out of war that not worth England in war. It was just a very cleaver plan that looked to good to pass up but lost the war just like Pearl Harbor great chance to sink US BB but piss off US so badly that US will not stop till Japan no more. Note Japan also too cleaver with trying to give US declaration of war before attack on Pearl but to late for Washington to war Pearl with any chance of Pearl doing anything about it. Even if Japan's Embasy gets message to US on time before the attack hits Rosovelt changes his speach just a tad to Japan declares us too late for US to do anything about it. Same result US pissed off to much to stop. Only if declaration of War Arrives a few days before giving US full time to prepare defenses at Pearl would attack there not piss off US that much and in this case BB and Carriers will not be there.

My Take: A Sigle guy did this in Paint. OMFG! Video: So? Me: We're good, all good :)

yep, US victory in ww2 was just a string of dumb luck. it was anyone's game

3 ships struck in one spread. What are the odds?

Thank u for this valuable video. 🖤♥️

A documentary showing The arrogant Japs of that era losing to the powerful United States of America. The latest motion picture <Midway> is absolutely amazing & is perfect to use in every college

I know this is an older video now but I got genuine chills watching that opening for the first time. This series is truly great!

The quality and the level of detail in your videos is amazing

Are you dead

I hear… a lot of excuses. Endless excuses lol. Funny how the same thing doesn’t happen for Pearl Harbor. I’ll never understand this bizarre infatuation with the Japanese people / culture relating to WWII in an apologetic demeanor. It’s completely absurd and ridiculous.

car div 5 shokaku and zuikaku carriers

MY sister is a Montemayor! Been watching you for years keep it up.❤

Choice of music: no hueys?

5000 vs 500 is a 10x odd. 10k to 5k is an 2x odd. u telling me they couldn't handle napoleon in 2x but they handled other army with 10x?