Attack on Pearl Harbor (Montemayor) - A Historian Reacts

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[@meganradcliffe8834]

Montemayor’s videos are insanely good and so detailed as well. His battle of midway ones are my favourites i know you’ve already done one on midway but if you could manage to watch his videos on battle of midway from the Japanese perspective (3 parts) that would be great because they’re at lot more detailed. Love your extra info, wish i had a teacher like you for history

[@KanJonathan]

Pearl Harbor 80th anniversary was coming, I wish he would upload an revise and vastly improved version, just like how he redo Savo Island.

[@lovelyhatter]

You have no idea how excited I am to see you post this and discover Montemayor. This is going to be a blast!

[@svenrio8521]

One of the absolute best videos on the attack of Pearl Harbor imo. Also Chris if you didn’t know Montemayor also has a video on Jackson's Valley Campaign of 1862, if you ever get the chance I'd suggest watching it.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

That was a really well done video. Thanks for putting that on the radar and for the insightful commentary!

[@spruceschmickington3005]

The Midway videos are real good.

[@user-bl1gx8mn5l]

Indie Neidel at WW2 channel made a 10 part, 30 min/part series, on the attack at Pearl Harbor minute by minute and it is a glorious series. It has so many perspectives and it is a must watch documentary.

[@christopherjones1937]

Couldn't tell you the number of times I watched it!!!! Amazing series!!!

[@jacobcoady8852]

Glad to hear you're covering Montemayor! His takes on Midway and the rest of the war in the pacifc are amazing!!

[@brianhall4182]

Drachinifel did a fantastic long look into the aftermath of Pearl Harbor and the sheer amount of effort and work that went into cleaning everything up. He goes in-depth into each ship that was damaged and what it took to either repair/salvage/or refloat them.

[@dutovdevlich3781]

Highly recommend watching the 3 part videos Drach did on the salvaging effort.

[@Rocketsong]

Agreed, one of the most impressive deep dives on the recovery effort I have ever seen.

[@thomasmeehan2602]

yep i jest put up the links

[@rubenloza1920]

A good talk about Layte Gulf is something I always look for. Seems really glossed over in a lot of history even though it's really one of, if not the, biggest and nastiest naval battles in history.

[@charlessapp1835]

Also, the Battle off Samar is just truly epic end to an era of ship vs ship combat.

[@memecliparchives2254]

@@charlessapp1835 And Battle of Surigao Strait. The last battleship vs battleship fight.

[@charlessapp1835]

@@memecliparchives2254 More like Battleship vs. fish in a barrel.

[@Xorthane]

First time the Japanese used kamikazes

[@Ben-um1cy]

just discovered your channel a week ago and have been binge watching everything you've put out. excellent content, thanks for putting these out. They've also lead me to other great channels as well.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Welcome, glad to have you!

[@Pleau1]

This is definitely a channel to watch the rest of the videos from. They are super high quality.

[@alexdevlin4431]

Another good place to look for information on Pearl Harbor, is the World War 2 channel. They did a minute by minute coverage of the attack, about a year ago. They plan on doing the same for the whole 24 hours of D-Day, in two years.

[@currahee]

oh my god. the d day vid is such a good idea.

[@scottleonard7445]

If you want to know more about the salvage efforts after the attack, Drachinifel did an excellent three part series on the salvage efforts.

[@arjanv45]

Montemayor's Midway videos are incredible. Particularly his approach to take the Japanese perspective is educational. Recommended for the channel

[@1378Mrbubbles]

Speaking of salvaging the Pearl harbor ships I remember reading some pretty horrific first-hand accounts from the repairman in salvagers that had to go into those battleships in order to refloat them and how certain parts of the ships were straight out of a nightmare due to the human remains that had been sitting in there for weeks if not months at that point.

[@Avalanche041]

The Japanese used their carriers to attack Pearl Harbor because the Japanese naval doctrine designated carriers as their raiding force. The term "Kido Butai" even means, mobile force. Japan was still just as married to the Battleship as every other Navy on the planet. That is why they built the Yamato's. The Japanese understood that they could use air power to even the odds in a war with a larger naval power. But they still assumed that they could get an enemy to commit to a decisive battle and that battle would be fought with battleships. Now, there was a minority group within the Imperial Japanese Navy that viewed carriers as the new dominant naval weapon, and it was this group that felt sinking the American Carriers would be more useful than sinking the battleships. But this opinion does not really reflect the mood of the Japanese Navy as a whole.

[@justinsingree2565]

I agree, if the Japanese knew that battleships were on the way out they wouldn't have used so many resources on the super battleships or even their armored aircraft carriers. If they were so advanced they would have only spent resources on Battlecruisers or pocket battleships that could keep up with the carriers and just act as a defense for the carriers, similar to today's naval battle doctrines.

[@stevesmindcarnival673]

It's been awhile, but I've read that the Japanese wanted to sink any carriers at PH not necessarily b/c they viewed them as the new most important capital ship, but more as a short term priority target since they could've launched a counterstrike at Kido Butai. So, hit them and the airfield first to prevent any counter airstrike, then move on to battleships and cruisers.

[@justinsingree2565]

@@stevesmindcarnival673 I think the reason for the priorities isn't just how important they viewed the targets, but how likely the ship was to sink or be significantly damaged. While battleships were the top target I don't think they viewed them as important, but not as easy to sink.

[@stevesmindcarnival673]

@@justinsingree2565 IIRC we already had three of the new Essex class carriers being built and 8 more soon to be started (and then even more were ordered more after the PH attack). The Essex was commissioned just a year later. The Japanese did have a few new carriers being built or planned, but they ended up having to hastily convert quite a few battleships and such to carriers along the way. Seems like the USN may have had a better grasp of the importance of carriers in the near future than the Japanese did.

[@cosmiccrunch1827]

Yes! Been hoping for this. Love his Midway videos, they are long but really good and detailed.

[@Hi-zn3nx]

My great grandfather survived Pearl Harbor he was on the USS Nevada

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Wow! What stories he must have told...or did he not talk about it?

[@Hi-zn3nx]

@@VloggingThroughHistory I never met him unfortunately but according to my dad he served in both world wars as well

[@memecliparchives2254]

It's just pure fascinating luck that the USS Enterprise was just a few miles away when the attack happened and it's ironic that a storm saved the carrier from a far worse fate (well almost since scout pilots from Enterprise were soon attacked in the air as well and for a few of them, it was their first and last encounter with the enemy). Also, Battle of Savo Island is a worthy look too by Montemayor.

[@tannerraque4348]

It would also not be the only time Enterprise was saved from a random story as during santa Cruz she was given cover by a random storm preventing the Japanese from finding or bombing the ship. There's a reason she had the nickname Lucky E after all.

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

Luck favoured the Japanese destruction of the American aircraft in the Philippines, it took place a half day later than Pearl Harbor but McArthur had done nothing and the planes were destroyed parked wing tip to wing tip. The Japanese were expecting fierce fighter defence but faced none.

[@tannerraque4348]

@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 That was hardly luck that's just the nature of launching a suprise attack on a colony with an underfunded defense force. Remember it wasn't like the modern day where information was shared instantly. Not to mention MacArthur had been trying forever at that point to get proper funding to defend the Philippines so it's hardly his fault.

[@Rocketsong]

@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 Well, lucky that the utterly incompetent McArthur was in charge.

[@memecliparchives2254]

@@Rocketsong Let's not go there. The Philippines would have fallen regardless at that point because the military capabilities of the US was still recovering from the Great Depression. Only by 1943 did the US had full power of its military forces. Neither MacArthur nor Wainwright could have done anything. And I'm Filipino so I know this one.

[@theonewhoknocks8632]

Echoing what many have already said, I was very excited when I saw the review for a Montemayor video. Watching his videos got me introduced to Oversimplified, which then got me to your reviews and channel. This for me is events coming of full circle. Which history in itself tends to do. Can’t wait for the reviews on Midway!

[@masterplokoon8803]

There is a channel callled World War Two which is composed by the same people from Time Ghost History who where also part of the Great War Channel from which you covered recently the Erwin Rommel WW1 video, and they did a 10 episode special on Pearl Harbour alone, pretty good documentary. They cover the whole atack minute by minute and its planning but also the political background in both the USA and Japan and the world surrounding it.

[@drunkpigeon628]

Thank you so much for reacting to this!I had been requesting this for a long time...hope you like other montemayor videos too.

[@leannefresquez3490]

I really wish he's react to the midway series by montemayor.

[@carolinaalcantara4256]

Love your channel! Great work!

[@joecaldwell9881]

Thank you for doing a Montemayor video. This was so good. Please do Midway next!

[@untruelie2640]

I'm so glad that you reacted to this video. Your reactions sre always the best ones, so VTH + Montemayor = Awesomeness. :D

[@gabrielcourser4137]

A man from my hometown in Michigan was on the Oklahoma when she capsized. He did not survive but was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions of helping his crew mates escape the capsizing ship. His name was Francis Flaherty.

[@CaptainTalion]

My great grandpa was a marine stationed at Pearl Harbor during the attack. Sadly I never got to meet him.

[@TribeTaz]

That video was very well done. Thanks for sharing this

[@michaelaburns734]

I hope you enjoy Gettysburg and D.C. trip. Be safe on your travels.

[@nicklrrueckert]

Great video for today. Gonna watch your new one next

[@dug117]

Great analysis of a very good video. As in Montemayor's video, almost all videos about Pearl Harbor deal with the devastation in the harbor. I would like to see a video that deals with the land attacks on Wheeler, Fort Schafter, Schofield Barracks, etc. I haven't seen a video that covers this.

[@Andy-sp2ke]

I dont comment much on youtube but i gotta say, you are awesome!💜Mad respect to you Sir, keep up the good work!I studied history extensively in high school with my class’s profile being History, so i have huge respect and love for history❤️

[@calebjames7444]

Hey Chris, great video as always. As your interest grows in the Pacific Theater, I want to again recommend Ian W. Toll's trilogy on the subject. Pacific Crucible, The Conquering Tide and Twilight of the Gods. I am almost finished with the third book and it is fantastic. Have a great trip to the Capitol and Gettysburg! Stay safe.

[@joshuawells835]

A while back, I came across a story about Admiral Nimitz's thoughts upon inspecting the damage at Pearl Harbor after arriving to assume command. When asked what he thought of the carnage, Nimitz apparently said, "Either the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attacking force could make or God was taking care of America." •Mistake 1-The attack ultimate came on a Sunday, when 9 out of 10 sailors would have been on shore leave. Had the Japanese tried to lure the fleet out to sea and sink it there, Nimitz reasoned that it would have been the difference between 3,800 sailors lost and 38,000 sailors lost. •Mistake 2-The Japanese saw Battleship Row and got excited, neglecting the dry-docks across from them. In the time it took to tow the battleships into dry-dock, repair, refit, and relaunch, they could have had to be towed all the way back to the mainland for the same work. •Mistake 3-As mentioned, the fuel supply for the entire Pacific Theater was in overhaul storage tanks and the Japanese did not attack them. As a suggestion for the Pacific War, the channel Kings and Generals is currently in the middle of a series on that subject. The first video went over the European colonial rise, then the rise of Japan, and most recently the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and subsequence chaos in China as the Nationalists and Communists squabble between themselves and the Japanese.

[@jaysan6908]

Another great video. I suggested this before but now that we are talking about the Pacific, I would suggest again to do a video about wake island from bazbattles. I dont think a lot of people know about that event compared to pearl harbor and midway.

[@flyingeagle3898]

SO glad you are doing these. Monemeyor's are some of the best battle coverage on youtube of anyone The only downside to his channel is he has so few videos

[@t2force212]

You can often (not always) tell how much care someone puts into the videos they make by looking at how long of a gap there is between them.

[@ZenkoTheGreat]

Drachinifel did a series of 3 videos in the last year about the Pearl Harbor salvage operation. Here's Part 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHOQh2yZeLh2btE

[@Rocketsong]

Mitsuo Fuchida has long been considered an extremely unreliable source. Both on the attack on Pearl, as well as the timeline of what occurred at Midway. That being said, the target list was: 1) land based air fields, 2) carriers, 3) battleships, 4) cruisers (preferably heavy cruisers) . it was believed that taking out the land based air fields was critical for taking out the rest of the target list.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

That may be, but he's hardly the only Japanese source that indicates the carriers were what they really wanted.

[@ConkerVonZap]

Didn't knew this channel, really liked.

[@Nateorade117]

great video!

[@gamelandmaster3680]

I remember watching a few videos of Montemayor, one was the military concept of defeat in detail, and Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign, others include the way the infantry, cavalry, and artillery played in Napoleonic warfare.

[@CodyChepa88]

My Great Grandfather was at Pearl Harbor 3 week's before the attack but he had real serious heart problems which made the army send him back to the California where he would eventually receive a medical discharge . but he always said that might have also saved his life. He passed away in 2016 but it's kinda hits home to me because had he not had his medical problems when he did i worry if he would have been alright. He lived a very long life though which i am ultimately great full for. He was a MP and loved his country and i miss his stories . Keep up the good work and im enjoying the videos about the Pacific theater of the war

[@Shifty69569]

i have never been so happy for you to actully do response to coments

[@eknapp49]

Fuchida is not a good source. He has been found to have been telling "War Stories" in a lot of cases. Japanese historians had known this since the 60's. Western historians only discovered this in the last 20 years. The book "Shattered Sword" by Parshall and Tully talks a lot about this.

[@detroitpolak9904]

Montemayor’s Midway videos, especially the video from the Japanese perspective are excellent. Coral Sea and Savo Island are worth your time as well.

[@RavenRozarria]

please go through montemayors midway videos, they are by far the best i have ever seen

[@ChuckinCluck]

Havent given us a good "Welcome back everybody" in a while, always cuttin it one syllable short with the 'everyone'

[@billshears6062]

how do you notice this?

[@yochitoranaga]

Drachinifel made a short series of videos about pearl harbor's salvage operations if you're interested.

[@Dangerousbuzz934]

Montemayors ongoing series on the Pacific theatre is in my opinion the best on the subject on KZbin. Id love to see you cover his other Pacific videos

[@allenheaps2084]

Great video and awesome reaction as always thank you! Just a small observation the "3rd Carrier Div" listed in the video was actually the 5th carrier Division. The 3rd division on 7 December 1941: Tactical assignment: Main Body Air Force. Midnight: HOSHO and ZUIHO with Main Body of 8 BBs (including NAGATO flying the flag of CinC Yamamoto Isoroku), 7 cruisers, and twenty-eight DDs departs the Inland Sea "for the purpose of providing protection for Nagumo unit returning home." (Note 1). ZUIHO has embarked twelve B5N attack planes and sixteen A5M fighters.

[@cleverusername9369]

22:35 just want to jump in and say that at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, the most brand new battleship in the US Navy was USS Washington BB-56, as she was the final battleship commissioned in 1941 on May 15th, a month and a week after her older sister North Carolina, the newest battleship since 1923. Iowa wasn't launched until August of '42, and Missouri was only launched in '44.

[@TwilightWolf2508]

My uncle had a katana and familial flag above his fireplace that his uncle supposedly recovered from a crashed japanese fighter at Pearl Harbor. It was neat and a bit eery to see and learn about, and part of me always hoped to get it one day and see if it was possible to return it to the family.

[@phantomtitan9792]

Those are some pretty epic photos.

[@wilfriedbony1048]

Im not even that big on history, but your videoes are really entertaining for some reason. I keep coming back🤣

[@kingmac6638]

Can you do three kingdoms by oversimplified, it’s insanely intresting and there’s games on it too Very nice history to get into and really shows how china…….was always this way

[@kingmac6638]

@The History don’t what……?

[@georgeince4136]

Fantastic video I have been saying this for years.

[@WhoIsCalli]

Incredible photos

[@vinniebate2981]

Can somebody explain liking videos as a member? Or does it mean I automatically like every video? Makes it easier for me to like them all if that’s the case! Again best content going, all the best brother

[@ChuckJansenII]

Montemayor always does good video. Your added analysis and observations are also very good. I count 1937 as the start of World War II with 1931 being the prologue. The following analysis I read in several books about the USS Enterprise. CV-6 USS Enterprise was supposed to port in Pearl on the December 6. Their task force was delayed by a storm that caused damage to an escort vessel (I believe a destroyer). The delay meant the task force would port in Pearl around 06:30 hours on December 7th. Admiral Halsey decided to delay further in order to refuel. This double delay meant Enterprise would no port until around noon. A few Enterprise scout planes from Scouting 6 and Bombing 6 were launched as an advance patrol. Several of the SBD Dauntless Dive Bombers were shot down with a few KIA including Lt. Dickinson's gunner. Fuchida is an interesting figure from the IJN. Many contemporary officers dispute his views. I believe that Fuchida was calling it as he saw it.

[@TOPBLAZER85]

Montemayor's videos on midway are great, its a 3 part series, the first two parts are solely from the Japanese perspective and goes over Nagumo's dilemma.

[@andreaswidham3607]

19:08 This is only the second time that Aircraft Carriers have been used like this. We should not let hindsight blind us to how new of a threat this was. Just 10 years earlier this sort of attack wouldn't have been possible.

[@trail-wolf4x4]

Definitely when you get the opportunity, do a reaction video to the Battle of Samar and learn about the USS Johnston and her badass, Captain Evans

[@jacobchinn8593]

Pearl Harbor and Coming of the Pacific War by Iriye Akira was an interesting book that gave a lot of the American and Japanese perspectives before the pre emptive strike. It had transcripts of imperial conferences, ambassador telegrams, deliberations between heads of state, and it largely let you decide if the attack was overall inevitable or not. It gave you all the resources and let you decide, I had to read it and do an essay on it for my college American History class. Would recommend

[@coenisgreat]

Can’t forget that officially Aircraft carriers weren’t considered captial ships (I.E. the most important ships in the navy) by the US until late 1942, after Midway

[@williewoodson2542]

If you are doing a meet and greet what times for Gettysburg would love to meet you in person love your videos

[@5ivess.]

I don't know if you'd be able to react to it or if it would make for good react content but the Battle 360 documentary series is on KZbin and I think you'd really enjoy it given your recent Pacific War kick! It centres around the USS Enterprise's role in the war and has extensive veteran interviews of serviceman and pilots who served on her deck and those who were on other US ships involved with battles where she went. I'd also love to see you react to Baz Battles' video about the St. Nazaire Raid, very excited to see you react to more of Montemayor's videos, I can only second everybody's thoughts! WWII in real time is another channel you should definitely check out for their Pacific War coverage. The Pearl Harbor minute-by-minute coverage is fantastic

[@Gyugvgyiuhb]

Yes please his midway videos!

[@ashyjeremy]

I like/appreciate your content and I have a fascinating book suggestion if you haven't already read it yet. It is called American History Revised by Seymour Morris Jr. Regarding Pearl Harbor, he expresses that the majority of the fleet was actually lucky to be in port because of the shallow water where as if the attack was out at sea, then many of the fleet would've sunk to the bottom and the human deaths would be way more severe. Also, like you pointed out, he states that the bombers missed the fuel depots and tanks which would've severely crippled the fleet's supply line. With the exception of the Arizona and Oklahoma, pretty much all of the ships were repaired rather quickly even if partially submerged in the shallow water. Sorry, I wrote all this out before the last 90 seconds of the video but I pretty much knew it already because of the book. A great read in my opinion.

[@ravenblood1954]

I greatly appreciate that you used Japanese sources to inform your understanding of the event. I know that conceptually historians are supposed to take stories from both sides, but in practice I find that western historians only skim through the perspective of the Asian side of the war. Western historians understand really well the motivations of Hitler, Stalin and their subordinates. But I find that they speak very little to the motivations of the Japanese, and the internal political divisions that lead to their decisions during and leading up to the war. Often the Japanese are depicted to have been united in their desire to create an imperial japan in the image that we saw (brutal, militarist and extremely fascist), when the reality was that the Japanese civilian government was very hesitant to commit to war, and there were several political assassinations and coup attempts before imperial Japan came to be.

[@jacobwalsh1888]

It's not actually that common. Anyone who does any reading about ww2 should be aware of the political divisions within the Japanese government, and even within the military itself, particularly between the army and navy.

[@briansonnenfelt7125]

Interesting fact…The Ford Island Dispensary was just about complete in its construction at this time. It is still on the island, and its located very near where the California was berthed. It was a “Modern” design, meaning it had an open air courtyard, so it was basically a hallow square. One of the bombs from the high level planes targeting California missed, and landed in the courtyard. Had the dispensary been a traditional design, it would have destroyed the building. But due to the open concept, the building remained intact and was the primary triage area for wounded sailors and marines from the ships moored around the island. It still stands today, and you can see where the bomb detonated in the yard.

[@bartmansd71]

It was Army General Short that had the planes at Wheeler and Hickam Fields lined up so they could be more easily guarded.

[@eldaxeruskalocraw4213]

The Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute series on the World War 2 channel is insanely good too, hope you'll check it out!

[@A_Name_]

Can you post a link to that stuff you were reading @11:30 I won't be near my computer for a few days and my phone is a POS so I couldn't read the site.

[@liamtaylor5284]

Kazuo Sakamaki became the First Japanese prisoner of WW2. When he tried to get into Pearl harbour his submarine was trapped on reef at waimanalo Beach . he tried to scuttle his submarine with explosives but they failed to explode he went under water to check but went unconscious due to lack of oxygen and was captured by U.S. Soldier David Akui

[@leannefresquez3490]

Damn what bad luck lol

[@scottleonard7445]

Drachinifel aslo did a 8 part series on the Guadalcanal naval campaign and an excellent video on the battle of Samar.

[@hwheelez24]

I don't remember which ship, but I remember reading a heartbreaking story of saviors being trapped deep in the ship, and the guys on the outside couldn't rescue them because of where they were , many reported hearing the men banging on the hull of the ship, for days until they starved to death , but they were reported to have died in the seventh , to spare the families of the men the trauma of the truth.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Oklahoma.

[@supersaiyandrgnslayr]

YES, I'VE BEEN RECOMMENDING MONTEMAYOR FOR SO LONG!

[@badcornflakes6374]

I like his Latino accent

[@laurbster2680]

love from canada. RIP to those sailors who never got a chance to really get in the fight.

[@AndrewAbernathy]

You have got to do his Midway videos.

[@michaelfrye9864]

The kings and general channel has a 5 episode series on the way in the pacific that’s very good.. I’m pretty sure it’s still on going

[@repost9581]

Montemayor is good stuff. Glad that you are finally doing reacts to his vids. You can tell where amatuer historians power plays are. Yours is the American Civil War, Montemayor is the Pacific Naval War. 👌 good content for me any how. Teach on.

[@soggy9]

Fun Fact: The anchor chain from the Arizona is at my college, the University of Arizona, and is still on display there as a fountain

[@jacobgivens7906]

Kings and Generals is doing a weekly pacific war series

[@Thecdnwinter]

I saw someone else bring it up in the comment sections, but I'd like to echo their sentiment in addition to just upvoting them. Fuchida is not at all considered a reliable source by many historians, and most of his stories have been first debunked by Japanese historians in the 60s, and recently in the English world by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully in Shattered Sword.

[@Krzysztof.l.Polak.84]

08:50 after findings of J. Parshall during his research for "Shattered Sword" I would be careful with relying on Fuchida`s writing :D

[@onenote6619]

Drachinifel has a three-part on salvage operations after Pearl Harbour. Very interesting.

[@emwungarand]

Disagree on the "Japan knew the carriers would be key". Fuchida is a first hand source, but, has been known to embellish his accounts or even outright falsify them, considering he mentions USS Hornet in that article but Hornet was still working up in Norfolk Virginia on December 7th. The US understanding of the Japanese side of events at Midway was based on his testimony alone for almost 50 years before more historians began deep diving the battle and finding many inconsistencies with Fuchida's recalling. "Shattered Sword" is a fantastic book about Midway that is told from the Japanese perspective and used sources more reliable than Fuchida. Yamamoto, Genda, Fuchida, and a small handful of other officers knew the importance of carriers, but they were still considered a secondary means of attack in IJN doctrine at the time. The majority of Japanese Naval staff was still deeply entrenched in the teachings of Alfred Thayer Mahan and the IJN battleships were kept in home waters specifically for the Kantai Kessen. It ended up being a blessing that they missed our carriers at Pearl, but, one could argue that they erred even more significantly by not hitting the submarine base, fuel tanks, and docks. The US Submarine force made up roughly 2% of the entire US Navy during WWII yet accounted for 30% of all IJN Warships sunk and 55% of all Japanese merchant marine destroyed during the war. The flattops get the lions share of the glory, but the Silent Service was punching WAY above their weight.

[@joshuaroman5410]

you should react to Drachs videos on the salvage of pearl harbor!

[@emwungarand]

@25:26 They actually recovered the Annapolis class ring of Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd that was fused into the bulkhead on the bridge of the Arizona. It was the only trace that anyone was manning the bridge at the time.

[@The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage]

Random question... Band of Brothers, the miniseries about the Western Front is inarguably phenomenal. What were your thoughts on The Pacific, the other Tom Hanks produced miniseries? I have no opinion, as I don't remember much of it

[@P99s-s]

I love that channel

[@Benzema117]

Thanks you for listening the voice of the people

[@PeterTheodore91]

I heard the Japanese pilot were using a some kind of machine gun camera produced by "Konica Minolta" (not sure the name back then). Maybe this is one of the reason why they have a good imagery on 17:25 and other.

[@Krzysztof.l.Polak.84]

06:25 that moment battleship was still considered THE MAIN force of any big navy, with carriers important, but still more supportive ship. This changed only next year, with battles like Midway and especially Kwantuan, which were open-water battles. Attacks on ports and bases, such as Taranto or Pearl didn`t count in that time as turning points in that perspective, co`s were not "open battles" only surprise attacks on bases. Yes, they showed potential of airpower against fleet, and its advantages in specific scenarios, but it was like Port Artur - despite success, nobody (except of some French :)) thought, that destroyers / torpedoboats were main force of the navy because they knocked-out several battleships in port. Even as late as 1944 Japanese still looked for decisive naval battle, where battleships were expected to bring the final and decisive blow. So I`d argue, that BB`s were not only propaganda, but real, strategic targets of that attack, so as would be carriers.

[@BHuang92]

One of the photos showing the attack on USS Oklahoma suggests that one mini sub did managed to successfully launched a torpedo on the Oklahoma.

[@nathanmeece9794]

I read in a WW2 Trivia boo that the commander at Pearl Harbor wanted the USS North Carolina BB55 55 at Pearl Harbor before the attack. .The North Carolina arrived in July 1942. It was said that when she came in to the harbor the men stopped working and gave a big yell.Some said she was the most beautiful sight that they ever saw. They knew that that men and equipment would be arriving.

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

The documentary on the USS Enterprise, I felt, covered the carriers' perspectives during Pearl Harbor (and its immediate aftermath after the Enterprise came back into Pearl Harbor) particularly well.

[@memecliparchives2254]

My favorite ship in history. Should have been a museum ship.

[@__Peter]

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[@Eisenthorn4179]

World War 2 weekly made a video on this and I was surprised by how many stuff happened even before the attack happened. Like a destroyer sinking a midget submarine in the entrance to the harbor

[@thomashorner7474]

Tora Tora Tora is definitely the best movie to break down both perspectives of the attacks.

[@johnbeaulieu2404]

One point about Fuchida's testimony is that USS Hornet was not a part of the Pacific Fleet at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. She had only been commisioned on the 20th of October, 1941 and was still working up her air group. She sailed from Norfolk Naval Station on February 2nd, 1942, and arrived at Alameda Naval Station on March 20th, 1942.