Japan's Most Desperate WW2 Attempt to Destroy the US Air Forces

[@free_at_last8141]

Welcome to Kamikaze school. Today is a crash course on everything you'll need to know. Watch carefully, I'm only going to do this once.

[@flickingbollocks5542]

😂 I wonder how many will understand your humour...

[@newkid8806]

And remember, don't go back for round two if you missed

[@flickingbollocks5542]

@@PartyhatRS Lots of PEOPLE on YT with a toddler's IQ. I'm guessing you made it to teenager.

[@flickingbollocks5542]

@@newkid8806 😂

[@xxghostboyxx685]

😂😂😂😂

[@Scrotom]

Thank you for slightly slowing down the speed of the narration. It's subtle, but my slow brain is much happier now.

[@chrisnewton5126]

Just got to mention "Old 666" the bomber dragged out of the boneyard by a crew of misfits and up-gunned. The crew and plane would go on to become the highest awarded crew in AAF history w/ 2 MoH during a solo photographic recon over Japanese territory. Maybe she'd be worth a little video.

[@johnhaskin1077]

Already covered it on their Dark Skies channel.

[@philgiglio7922]

The remaining crew members All were awarded DSCs

[@RJFPme]

I turned 66 on the 6th this year ? I’m one lucky guy 🎉.

[@michaelcampin1464]

There is a video about Old 666, sorry I just cant remember whose channel but very probably either this one or an allied channel

[@CloudRollerFox]

Yarnhub made a video on "Old 666". Pretty well made too

[@danielshoudy265]

The Japanese tanks are kind of adorable.. Like the grunts in Halo.

[@derekbowbrick6233]

Or 40k, "Dats Orky".

[@alexcarter8807]

Kei tanks

[@shinjaokinawa5122]

The Chisai tanks were exactly as the name said, small (chisai).

[@justintyme720]

It's like wrapping a riding lawn mower in tin foil then calling it a tank

[@danielshoudy265]

@@shinjaokinawa5122 indeed, and they didn't need large tanks for the first part of WW2 (I consider '37 to he the real start of the war) and never needed large ones but they should have realized by the time they kicked the sleeping giant so to speak, that they'd need to upscale. I think they even acquired or attempted to acquire a Tiger Tank, n especially the blueprints but the jerries said no on the last part (I'm pretty sure they did get their hands on one tiger tho altho this is off purely off memory)... They did manage to rig some interesting designs up as well as that ill fated massive tank which idr the name of. Why the didn't just put more attention into making larger sized and more anti-tabk focus guns based off the very good field gun they had but was just too small... I do know a fair bit about WW2 altho admittedly my knowledge of Japanese weaponry aside from small arms and the IJN which I kind of have a thing for lol... As a mil enthusiast and historian I am a big fan of Isoroku Yamamoto, my kind of commander. Was also way smarter than idiots like Tojo n is why he designed Pearl Harbor attack like he did which was a brilliant attack n as he basically said once he realized the carriers were on a relatively quick and surprise drill exercise, he said something to the effect that the Japanese had already lost the war was just a matter of time.

[@BiGDuke6Actual]

Another great insight into one of our lesser-known chapters of history. Keep'n it Dark on all channels Thank you

[@ChrundleTGreat]

GEN Stillwell’s great grandson was one of my Soldiers when I was a squad leader. Smarter than almost any other Soldier I ever served with! He had lots of cool stories about Japan’s surrender.

[@shinjaokinawa5122]

The Gym in Fort Buckner Okinawa, Stillwell Field House is a testament to his significance in WW2. I used to lift weights there and Train on the bag. It was an incredible place to work out. They had everything.

[@drpepperr]

Though I have no personal connection to General Stillwell, Barbara Tuchman's book about him made me ~feel~ like I do.

[@ChrundleTGreat]

@@shinjaokinawa5122 So Stillwell’s Aide de Camp, CPT Bunce, married Stillwell’s daughter. CPT Bunce was responsible for adding to the Japanese surrender terms that the emperor renounce his divine/god status.

[@jackzimmer6553]

Good old Vinegar Joe!

[@flexinclouds]

​@@ChrundleTGreat I always loved that they made that part of the official terms of surrender lmao

[@Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu]

B-29's look so good in olive drab, they look like warriors.

[@jonathanoconnor9546]

The Army Air Force determined that un painted bombers and fighters would increase speed and range without the drag from a coat of paint. Also OD "camouflage" fooled no one.

[@drmarkintexas-400]

Thank you for sharing Merry Christmas 🎅🤶🌨️🎄⛄🎁

[@markfrank3307]

Merry Christmas

[@flickingbollocks5542]

Merry Christmas to you and your family, friends and all your loved ones from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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[@R.U.1.2.]

Excellent research. Thank-you.

[@philgiglio7922]

My father was a gunner on the supply missions over ''the hump'

[@davewilson9738]

How history changes, we now vilify China for its actions towards Japan, not fully comprehending the history.

[@JSchaffer214]

If you want to know more about China/Japan history, you need to go back a lot further than the last century. And I do mean A LOT FURTHER.

[@mike-pl8sn]

Interestingly enough, the United States did not have the Air Force in World War II we had the army air corps, and I will say my grandfather served in the army air corps

[@iKvetch558]

It is true that the US Air Force did not exist as a separate service during WW2, however, the US Army Air Corps was phased out in 1941, and the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) existed as a part of the US Army from June 1941 to September of 1947. ✌

[@mrwhips3623]

It was a force... In the air

[@Stewart1953]

so did my father. he flew out of N. Africa.

[@johnchristopherrobert1839]

Ichi-go is not commonly understood as number “one operation”. In this context the meaning would be more “last chance” or “one opportunity”

[@interstellarsurfer]

Exactly.

[@johnchristopherrobert1839]

@@interstellarsurfer I really wasn’t trying to be snarky. That’s how a Japanese person would understand that term.

[@G31mR]

Ichibon = "number one".

[@shinjaokinawa5122]

@@G31mR So des Ney!

[@richarddouglas688]

Ichi-go=一号= number one

[@emac3863]

Need maps to convey all the mentioned offensive areas

[@cincinnaticobra3154]

Just 30 more thousand and your at a million that's awesome you do great work keep it up

[@beernd4822]

Thanks for the more sudued and adequate music

[@limonade7050]

Great video! I think changing the name to at least contain Ichi-Go will rake in more views. There's little content on YT about the operation. Just a suggestion

[@webcelt]

I think I heard Mao was among those who said this Japanese offensive gave him the victory in the civil war later from all the damage the Nationalists suffered.

[@williamtell5365]

Japan in the mid 20th century had plenty of educated people. I still cannot understand how they calculated that a war on the US, in addition to China, the UK, Netherlands etc could go well. Staggeringly incompetent.

[@williamhoffer9277]

Great presentation!

[@alanmoffat4454]

HOW SOON SOME PEOPLE FORGET AMERICAN FORCES THERE TILL 1948 NOT WHATS SAID IS IT .

[@litopalmes208]

Now he speaks slowly,and clearly!

[@tesssanders7993]

I had 7 uncles in WWII, one in the China-Burma-India campaign. I'll always remember my Grandma's red silk pillow with C B I embroidered on it.

[@williamtomkiel8215]

how much was actually secret if most of the codes were broken?

[@donlum9128]

My dad was in Luichow China when Japan earned their Nukes. Dad and his fellow US soldiers Danced. They knew the damned war was over!!!!!!!

[@aldhilucky2222]

hey @dark docs can you make a video about the allies post war combat in Surabaya, Indonesia 10th November 1945

[@baldap500]

Are you going to cover operation Mole Cricket 19?

[@JDDC-tq7qm]

I love history it's what made the people we are today 😊

[@alasdair1571]

The Chinese history before, during and after WW2 is very interesting. I didn't know this

[@avnrulz8587]

8:57 Maybe the Japanese Expeditionary Army?

[@Theflag_Streamersguy]

I can feel the spiritual pressure weakening.

[@colinbarnard6512]

'....may help to explain the persistence of Communism to this day'. I must say that is one of the most provocatively intriguing conclusions to ANY historical line of thought I've heard, or read, in quite some time. Thank you, folks! Well done!

[@alexcarter8807]

China was a mass of warlords, corruption, starvation etc and then WWII and the Japanese came along. We've all heard a ton about the evils of the Chinese Communist Party but they were vastly preferable to the average person. This should tell us how bad things were for the average people.

[@haroldaranda8042]

The Kuomingtang, by extension Chiang Kai Chek, were gangsters who overthrew the last emperor.

[@firehawk2248]

I have seen the symbol at 3:40 recently 😆

[@jessicabuckman9675]

The Japanese began the war, then they saw th writting on the wall, they got what they deserved.

[@alanjohnson2528]

i bet the chinese were not forced to pay back after the war like England did

[@tillman40]

Their payback was selecting communism

[@jamestonbellajo]

Wow, what a welcomed surprise. I clicked this video expecting to hear about the usual aggressive island defenses of 1944 and 1945 and kamikaze attacks. Didn’t expect Ichi-Go to be the topic. Definitely needed to be talked about more. Now if someone can speak about the stalemate between 1940 and Ichi-Go, that would be awesome.

[@williamdougherty2914]

@4:10 If it wouldn't be too much trouble, I would like to read the sources for allied aircraft in China. It's not that I am questioning you, it's that I apparently know very little on the subject considering The Flying Tigers and several bombing sorties are the extent of my knowledge on US aviation in China.

[@iKvetch558]

If you want some good basic reading for the USAAF in China during World War 2, look up Air Raids on Japan on Wiki, and also Operation Matterhorn there and elsewhere on the Internet ✌

[@郑颍]

Then why not research it for yourself instead of waiting for someone to feed it to you?

[@Count_Gustav]

Please correct your title to US Army Air forces, back then US Air Forces didn't exist until after World War 2

[@iambiggus]

Air Forces... please don't be pedantic.

[@Count_Gustav]

@Devin Kelly corrected thx

[@Count_Gustav]

@@iambiggus ppl made mistake esp. For Non-English speaker no need to be rude. Anyway corrected thanks for pointing out.

[@steinfrich7281]

More maps please

[@beerdrinker6452]

Ichi Go translates to 1 5. One Five, not fifteen. Fifteen sounds different.

[@dragonsnail3298]

Landing strips? Where we're going we won't need landing strips.

[@georgenish]

Operation Ichi-Go is not Operation 1 (One) 5 (Five).　一号作戦 literally means First Operation or Operation Number One. Ichi (一） = numeral 1.　 Go (号) = numeric sequence. Thus First Operation or Operation Number One...or simply Operation One.

[@marvwatkins7029]

The "Gimo" could never be trusted.

[@clydeblair9622]

Excellent.

[@Benzyl]

The Americans meddled with Japanese communication lines using He 111s? Sometimes you can make use of too much irrelevant stock footage!

[@abdelmalekmetidji]

Yep I noticed that too .

[@auro1986]

did they knew about atom in b29?

[@jessenoyhing3871]

God bBless America

[@petedudson6671]

A good topic to cover but again the usual carelessness with his videos for example the narrator says ..."meddling with Japanese communications lines via bombing...." and the background video is a Heinkel he 111 bombing somewhere over Europe. Actually, the rest of the background video was pretty good this time.

[@paulroese1376]

at the beginning of the war the Japanese were often aided by help from their air force. where was the US and China air force during the Japanese offensive?

[@marcr9541]

Chiang Kai Shek was not pro Democracy. His politics was aligned more like a Fascist than a Democrat.

[@budmccaff550]

Mao had a deal with the Japanese.

[@anubis20049999]

Is crazy how Operation Ichi-go was during the Nazi invasion and Ichigo from Bleach has a swastika on his Bankai sword

[@buzzman4860]

Air force? What's up with the title?

[@williamschlenger1518]

A waist of lives.Why are the Japanese wearing German helmets?

[@markcana2917]

BATTLEFIELD V operation i-chigo

[@darraghchapman]

I'm going to think of this as 'Operation Strawberry'. Feels less harrowing, somehow :/

[@narayanalee]

I DONT WANT ANYTHING GOOGLE PHONE PLZ STOP

[@georgefranklin2738]

Same scenes repeated over and over.

[@kgs42]

Very interesting that Japanese forces were supported by Luftwaffe Heinkel He IIIs!

[@erepsekahs]

Same old bit of film over, and over, and over again.

[@tommy-er6hh]

I doubt Ichi-Go was "the cause" of communists winning. They were committed to a struggle that would have won anyway, Ichi-Go just made it a faster victory, along with the Soviet help in Manchuria with all the captured supplies they gave the Chinese Communists.

[@VersusARCH]

True.

[@tommy-er6hh]

@darkdocs1 if it is for me, pass it on to the next person, if not, congratulations!

[@TesterBoy]

Actually, Mao admitted that the imperial Japanese were instrumental in handing China to the communists. To say otherwise is a distortion of history

[@BST-lm4po]

@@TesterBoy Just like the British, French, & Americans were instrumental in handing eastern Europe over to the Communists.

[@flickingbollocks5542]

I had really really itchy Go (-nads) till I put some cream on them.

[@scavulous6336]

i chuckled a bit ngl

[@AmraithNR]

I believe Ichi-Go is 1-5, not number one. Ichi, ni, san, yon, go - 1,2,3,4,5. Number one (the best) would be Ichiban

[@Air-bear]

Gadfly here 😗. Knowledge…knowledge…knowledge 😋. Give me more 🙂

[@Air-bear]

Gadfly here 🤔interesting name. Lots of meanings “morning star of “?devil??”or is it the gnostic “Baalial”ruler of the underworld 🫤

[@richarddouglas688]

Ichi-go can be read as number one: 一号 the first character is one the second is number.

[@lorinhardy8920]

At first I thought it was operation Strawberry.😀

[@米空軍パイロット]

Thank you for your opinion, but it's wrong. It's Number 1. Your comment is starting to confuse people who also don't know how to use Google.

[@jmmck2361]

And again there are segments of combat footage completely unrelated to the narration. Misrepresenting the time line of actual events with unrelated film is pretty sad.

[@matismf]

At the Cairo conference, Frankie saw an opportunity to fellate Mousey Tongue as well as Stalin!

[@bry3741]

There was no U.S. Air Force in WW2....Jus sayin'

[@ChrisLove887]

I think he meant the Air Forces of the US, not necessarily the US Air Force branch. But the title is somewhat ambiguous regardless.

[@MoctezumaStudios]

353 viewer! uploaded 5min ago!

[@flickingbollocks5542]

And you were the fourth commenter.

[@strikezero01]

Operation Strawberry?! ... what the..

[@chrisnolin7103]

Darn it. We were doing so well. Right up until 11:13. US "Armed" Air Forces? I know it's a small mistake, but it just shows you're reading something written by someone else. No one who actually understands this Era would ever say US Armed Air Forces.

[@bigfoot3866]

Imagine supporting Mao and Stalin then tricking everyone in the US this war was not only justified, but had good outcomes. Lol.

[@kenofi673]

Noice Ichigo!

[@ChrundleTGreat]

13:50 are we really still calling China “communist”? Sure is lots of capitalism there.

[@colinbarnard6512]

The Dictatorship of the Proletariat is 100% institutionally welded to the Byzantine CCP bureaucrasy (essentially, every member and agent): the State regulates everything, even relative freedom. The CCP sees itself as the embodiment of the country, and the Guardians of China's soul. Challenge at anyone's peril. One simply cannot separate China and the CCP. So, of course, NO decision in China that does not benefit the Party gets made, even in the 'Private' Sector'. 'Communist China', it is, boyo!

[@billm2078]

They are communists led by a dictator.

[@chickenfishhybrid44]

They call themselves the CCP. Even if they have much more of a Market economy with lots of state intervention. You can make the time old argument of "not real communism" but apparently that has never existed or been achieved anywhere.

[@ChrundleTGreat]

@@billm2078 just barely. They are a twisted blend of socialist fascism with some capitalism mixed in there.

[@RAIDENPVP]

Ichigo means strawberry depending on how it was written.

[@holysmoke8439]

Those crazy zipps... always causing trouble

[@zillsburyy1]

the German night fighter with photocells in the wings was very successful

[@benquinneyiii7941]

Unrelated

[@scarletcrusade77]

All this guy does is narrate Wikipedia articles and play stock WW2 footage

[@scottmccloud9029]

You can do better?

[@scarletcrusade77]

@@scottmccloud9029 Anyone can do literally the exact same level of work as him if they just start narrating historical events with WW2 stock footage.

[@scottmccloud9029]

@@scarletcrusade77 Well, do it. Let's see how good you are.

[@scarletcrusade77]

@@scottmccloud9029 I said anyone can, I never said me personally. I'm just stating a fact.

[@scottmccloud9029]

@@scarletcrusade77 Sounded to me like you were criticizing. I don't usually do that unless I can do better. Good evening to ya.

[@williamrogers.]

Duck-Duck Documentaries.

[@mikefitzgerald41]

The US helps out China against Japan and The USSR against Germany And look how they completely forgot about it soon after the war

[@atakorkut5110]

Did you just say Chang Chi Chi government was a democratically elected government? Did you really just say that? Do you know why the communist party started in China 😊

[@mrcotter2531]

❤🎉😊

[@rg20322]

It's unfortunate that Communism is in China today, my opinion of course, but based on what they do they are just 1 level above N. Korea. I'm not saying the US is any better with this current situation, we as a nation should be worried with what comes out of the WH, but China is deliberate.

[@johnjohnon8767]

Your opinion is right.china is communist. The workers have no say about policy whatsoever. And yes, marxists in this country is feeding candy to get people addicted to every new social programs. And the needed increase of tax money to pay for it.

[@goatface6602]

Communists never give up. That is the ONLY good thing I will say about them. Communism must be destroyed.

[@carlkkguy]

You should go to China and see for yourself the actual situation there before you can make a truthful conclusion whether it's "unfortunate" for Communism to be in China. I am an overseas Chinese born in Malaysia. My grandparents had to risk their lives to sail in a junk for weeks to reach North Borneo from South China because they couldn't even get enough to eat at home. We Chinese have suffered for almost 2 centuries with the inapt governments from the Ching dynasty and the Nationalist. The Communist Party of China has changed China: look at the numbers of Chinese tourists visiting the globe every year. The Chinese can now not only have enough to eat, but have the money to travel overseas for fun! The Chinese are free to travel overseas and return to China. China is still not perfect today. There are rooms for improvement. But we have to bear in mind that every country/society is unique. What is good for you isn't necessarily and similarly good for another. It's the Chinese Communist Party who has improved China. I have visited China multiple times. Their cities are the most advanced and developed in the world. With the world's second biggest GDP, The Chinese government had also embarked on ways to help the poor and was saluted for its Poverty-Alleviation Efforts in eliminating poverty in the countryside with commendable results. Come to China and see with your own eyes. Don't just simply believe in the Western media biased "news reports".

[@bulltraderpt]

First!

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You were third🥉 Use the newest comment button and scroll all the way 👇 down....

[@godwhymenowman]

@@flickingbollocks5542 Don't confuse Him, He's still waiting on YT to pop up like a book

[@bulltraderpt]

@@flickingbollocks5542 🤣

[@CM-ve1bz]

I missed the part where the Russians came to save us from the Japanese after they had finished defeating 90% of the German army.

[@Bluelightbandit]

🤡

[@Roodski]

Oh you mean after they kept alerting the Japanese to Americas plans for invasion so the US didn’t win the war before they could get their fingers in the action?

[@manowa3395]

Objectively false but okay.

[@Roodski]

@@manowa3395 Soviet apologist much?

[@paulpowell4871]

PutinBOT alert. Stalin had Russians to Spare and cried like a baby for the Opening of the Western front. He did not cry for US MArines dying in the Pacific and Maintained a Non Aggression pact with Japan until VE day and then he wanted to be on the carving table of Japan but 2 fat Atomic bombs took away his greedy desire.

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

This has to be your worst effort to date, man. I hate to sound so critical, but this video is just a complete mess. It's both incoherent and incorrect, which makes it sound like a middle school book report.