People keep getting the Doolittle Raid wrong. The B-25's came in independently (not in any kind of formation). They were *very* low as they came in, climbed to 1,500 feet, bombed and then got back on the deck to bug out. The bombs were very scattered and many people on the ground saw and heard nothing. Go read Lawson's book for cryin' out loud!

Midway Island is actually 2 islands and an atoll.

*You know in 2011 there was CGI available that was MUCH better than the crap "cgi" in this.*

I'm no military strategies but how did the Japanese expect to resupply the midway islands thousands of miles from Japan, if they did capture them?

山口提督が親方だったらな～(^_^;)

山口提督だったらな～(^_^;)

大東亜戦争の幕開けは、昭和１２年です。

I enjoyed this.

いまだに山本五十六この局面将棋なんて指してるんだとするものがいるけども あれは中国古典の傑作のひとつ「三国志」のなかに出てくるもの。 リーダーが如何なる場面でも冷静沈着にいられるかを表したもの。 五十六は北陸長岡藩の武家の出身。こどもの頃からの武家の教養として三国志は読んでいるはず。 まわりの参謀たちもそのことを咎めないのは同じように知っているからだろう。 軍人のなかにはけっこう芸術・文化に精通していた者がいたことは確かなようだ

Today, he would be charged with War Crimes by the Hague, and hanged. He was no war hero. But a victim of totalitarian visions of world domination.

Order. Counter-order. Disorder.

Good movie

If you look at the Japanese perspective prior to the start of WW2, their logic made sense as to why the war started. The Japanese saw an isolationist United States still reeling from being dragged into WW1 against its will and still recovering from The Great Depression. Furthermore, the Japanese saw how the US was not intervening with troops in Europe when Germany looked unstoppable and stood idle while Britain was pummeled by The Blitz. They genuinely believed a decisive initial blow would cause the US to call it a day and stay out of Asia.

If anyone is interested in how The Battle of Midway was actual fought (and the USS Yorktown was never hit by a suicide attack, what BS) then I highly recommend reading the book "Shattered Sword--The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway" by Jon Parshall and Anthony Tully. The book recounts the battle from the Japanese point of view and destroys the myth of the "five minutes" that doomed Japan.

史実では８時30分には第一次攻撃隊を収容している。米国の攻撃を受けたのは10時前後。運命の5分といわれているが、実際には米空母を補足できないまま一方的に空爆を受けた可能性さえあります。汚名を少しでもかえすために、運命の5分だとか、兵装転換さえなければとうい美談が創作されたのかと思います。

Yamamoto's early support of naval aviation means he should bear partial responsibility for IJN not being able to advance technology and replenish manpower...... not in comparison to the USN but as a fighting arm itself. It's one thing to be surpassed by the USN (although it should have been deemed a common issue for both IJA and IJN), but it's another when aircraft carriers were ultimately reduced to decoys and battleships and cruisers had to give up their scout planes to shore-based units because they had too few pilots left.

May I join u

Those .50 caliber rounds really hurt.

pube-tube

h. youtubube only likes anti-american propaganda.

こんなことを新聞記者が下馬評していいのかね？こりゃ、軍事機密ですよ。

10:41 南雲提督　"直掩機を収容…" 参謀長　(…ここは島の攻略を優先…島が攻撃されている事を知ればあわよくば敵の空母も引き返すかもしれん…そこを一気に) 南雲提督　"第二次攻撃隊、魚雷に転装" 参謀長・参謀　"！！？！？" 参謀長　"長官！島の攻略を優先するのでは？！" 南雲提督　"それは敵の空母が出てこなかったらの話。空母が出てきた以上、まず叩くべきは空母" 参謀　"お言葉ですが、空母を叩くのであれば、今の装備のままで事足ります。一刻も早く第二次攻撃隊を発艦させるべきです" 南雲提督　"それは甲板に命中すればの話。敵空母には護衛機がついている。そうやすやすとは命中できん" 参謀　"しかし…" 南雲提督　"よしんば命中できたとしても、沈めることはできん。ここまで来て、みすみす逃がすわけにはいかん。敵空母は、ここで確実に仕留める" 南雲提督　”時間が惜しい。伝令”

Yorktown wasnt hit by any suicide attacks. She was attacked three times ( and repkrted sunk after each I believe) Once by bombers. She patched up and was sailing fine when she attacked by Torpedoe planes . Hit again, this time she was abandoned. Next day still afloat, she was boarded by repair crews, who were making progress when she was attacked by a sub. She still managed to stay afloat overnight, finally sinking the next morning. One tough ship.

What’s that hat gesture?

Abe as Admiral Yamaguchi, awesome He was in a Taiga with Kagawa Teruyuki about the Russo Japanese war, where Japanese got the “even when out matched, win a decisive victory and you’ll win the war”. Unfortunately for the Japanese the Americans weren’t as big as clowns as the Russians and failed to have a ship as bad as the Kamchatka

History Buffs has a good analysis on midway movie, the recent one by Emmmerich. Worth watching Nagumo had too much to do, he was a too careful Admiral and having that much to do doomed him.

My dad fought Atlantic,,, let is all thank our lords😢

I was fortunate to watch the full movie in its entirety on this channel before it was removed. I can only echo the comments of others. Thank you so much for making it available. I had searched for it since seeing a trailer years ago. It didn't disappoint. I recommend everyone to start with chapter 1 and watch the complete series.

ラバウル小唄・南洋航路/ Japanese Song 🙂 軍艦行進曲 / Gunkan Kōshinkyoku / Japanese Song

These five minutes are a part of what is commonly referred to in naval history as Nagumo's dilemma named after Admiral Nugumo.

戦艦艦隊を囮に使うくらいの博打が必要だったが、山本が凡人すぎたな

What movie is this from? 🤔🤨

These scenes are incredibly well made. The scene where the Zero pilot runs out of ammunition isn't far from the truth, though almost as bad is their 20 mm cannon ammunition ran out fairly quickly with only sixty shells per gun which were largely used up against American torpedo bombers. Unfortunately, there are several egregious errors in this film which need to be pointed out. Perhaps, the translation is faulty or incomplete, but the scene where we hear a crew member say, "Enemy planes twenty minutes away" and later "enemy planes in five minutes" is just wrong. No one in Kido Butai had any clue how far away American planes were until they could see them and they didn't see the dive bombers until they were practically on top of them. The air strike which was being prepared wasn't on deck when the American dive bombers arrived, so the scene where Admiral Nagumo orders the planes to take off is totally false. This is just repeating the lie that Fuchida Mitsuo made in his book, Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan. This was debunked in Japan in the 1980's after Fuchida's death in 1976, when other Japanese survivors of the battle felt free to give their version of events. The fact that Hiryu's counter-attack didn't take off until thirty or forty minutes after the American attack is proof of this. This last one is much more forgivable, but the scene with Akagi is somewhat exaggerated. Only three planes attacked the Akagi because of a mistake by American flyers that sent almost two full squadrons of dive bombers at that Kaga. In fact, deck and bridge crew members on the Akagi had a little time; maybe thirty seconds or a tiny bit more, to see the Kaga getting plastered by American bombs before Lt. Richard Best and his two wingman began their attack. Only one of those three bombs missed Akagi. One bomb punched through the rear flight deck; but missed Akagi's hull underneath because it was descending at a roughly 70 degree angle, and flew out the side into the water near Akagi's stern. The explosion from that bomb severely damaged Akagi's rudder, freezing the Akagi in a turn it never recovered from. The fatal bomb that Richard Best dropped, that hit Akagi's center elevator, didn't make a giant air born fireball above the flight deck. It made the fireball inside Akagi's hanger. I get that this was a bit of dramatic license to show how devastating that hit was. That one bomb was; in some ways, the equivalent of the shell from the Bismarck that destroyed HMS Hood, but in slow motion. It didn't just destroy the elevator and start a horrific fire which set off torpedo's, bombs and set fire to aviation fuel. The bomb blast destroyed a roll down fire screen which could keep a fire separate from the rest of the hanger. When the elevator crashed down into the hanger, part of it crashed down into a well below the hanger deck which contained Akagi's emergency fire suppression system, rendering it useless. On top of all that, the bomb was perfectly placed to destroy Akagi's water delivery system on both sides of the Akagi. Akagi's water delivery system had been designed to divide water delivery to the starboard and port sides of Akagi, so if the port side water mains and pipes were damaged or destroyed, water could be brought over from the starboard side, and vice versa. That bomb created a shock wave that destroyed the pipes to the water mains on both sides of the Akagi, making fire fighting all but impossible for Akagi's surviving crew members.

Japan was a big fish in a small pond before they crossed the Pacific.

You start a war, your enemy might end it for you.

What movie is this from?

Great man.😢

What if there be a F-18E carrying bombs to kamikaze a modern carrier like Kuznetsov or Shandong, even a Nimitz-size one

油断した結果

Why was battleships kept at the rear? Shouldn't they be escorting the carriers?

会社で突然残業をお願いされた時、「実は油が無いんだ」と言われ、絶望感たっぷりの門倉さんみたいになる。

The Imperial Japanese Navy has a bad habit of being very afraid of losing combat power, which often leads to it often carrying out a key battle with insufficient combat power, resulting in the inability to achieve the planned tactical plan.

With all the crap we have to watch and not do because of the utube police I can’t believe the crap that they allow in the commercials. 😊

一概に「誰が悪い」とはなかなか言えないんだよね。表面的には敵空母が見つかったのに兵装転換したりマゴマゴ第二次攻撃隊を出さなかった南雲司令部の問題のように見えるのだが、山本五十六らの作戦自体が「ミッドウェー島を攻略した上でハワイからの敵空母を迎え撃つ」という想定で「ミッドウェーで敵空母が既に待ち構えている」ことは想定していなかった。空母が見つかった時点で作戦が破綻しており、その点では作戦を立てた山本五十六らにも責任がある。

0:24「これが大東亜戦争の幕開けだった」 映画のセリフにおいて初歩的な歴史用語がここまで誤って使われてるのを初めて見た😂 「歴史を忘れた民族に未来はない」は大韓民国大統領が必ず日本に向けて言う発言だが、確かに日本人は歴史を忘れてる。 大東亜戦争という言葉に代表される日本側の歴史観を日本人が忘れてるということは、韓国人には望ましいことに映るだろうが、これは実際には日本人が過去の歴史に対して無知で無関心なだけ。

It seems like the Japanese tended to keep their battleships too far back from their carriers until late in their Solomon campaign. Having any battleship other than the Kongos as escorts would have slowed down the carriers, but they also could have contributed additional AA guns and even distractions against the American strike craft. Perhaps, for all his efforts committed into naval aviation, Yamamoto still treated his battleships as the instruments of decisive battle and hoarded them accordingly. In any event Kido Butai got blasted apart trying to pave the way for the decisive battle that ultimately happened not entirely on IJN's own terms.

OMG dispersion sometimes is horrible

nice video. What do you recommend? Schlieffen or St Vincent? thanks

Corporations are bad master, no matter which era, nation or administration. Unfortunate for future generations, untill there remains only AI. Is this humanity's future? ... Nasakenai

Q frustración sentirían al ver su navío tocado .