The Naval Guadalcanal Campaign, 1942-1943 - Animated (ALL PARTS)

[@HoH]

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[@snakycake4790]

I have noticed a small typo at 6:37; The heavy cruiser pictured is misspelled, it was named the HMAS Canberra, just an extra R but its very noticable to me because I am from there lol

[@Bellephrontos]

And I noticed at 37:40 you say torpedoes to starboard but you show the left side of the ship hehe

[@saylortusk8489]

Fantastic. One can not comprehend Guadalcanal, the central event of the Pacific War, without understanding the gruesome attrition of ships, airplanes, and men over so many months.

[@nedkelly9688]

lmfao was not the central event and was not the turning point of the war at all. just Yankee misinformation and propaganda. Guadal was tiny compared to New Guinea campaign and this battle did not save Australia like yanks love to lie about either.. Turning point was Aussies at Milne Bay who stopped the Japanese advancing first time ever in WW2 that no other nation had done....

[@davidasher8718]

Most people don't even know what the Battle of savo Island is

[@saylortusk8489]

@@nedkelly9688 It is true brother that 'Yankee' histories give little notice to the New Guinea campaign beyond MacArthur's maneuvers. Respect!

[@johnhallett5846]

@@nedkelly9688 Guadalcanal forced the IJN to lose valuable ships; the IJA to lose a log of aircraft and pilots. Bluntly speaking did a lot more damage to Japan then the New Guniea campaign. Simple truth.

[@dantreadwell7421]

​@nedkelly9688 certainly easier to do when you outnumbered the IJN/IJA troops about 4:1, and for the most part, IJN attention was a bit further south, given the Guadalcanal campaign kicked off two weeks earlier. Was it the first time Japanese land offensives had been defeated, yes, and almost entirely by Aussie units. Do most videos (for whatever reason) focus on US involvement in the Pacific/S.E.A. theater? Disgustingly, unfortunately so, yes. Being as dismissive of the Guadalcanal campagin, and the ensuing Solomons Islands campaign as you are being however, is just as disingenuous as you are claiming others of being. Could the USN and RN, for that matter, done as well as we did through '42 without Royal Australian armed forces, and without massive logistical support from Australia? Oh hell no, we would have been screwed. I will say, however, that I don't believe yall needed saving. The whole idea of trying to take New Guinea and then Australia by Japan is them biting off way way more than they could ever hope to chew and swallow.

[@MarcusAgrippa390]

I will be watching this for many months as a sleep aid, the pacing and tone of voice is relaxing as hell. Of course I'll eventually manage to finish it but these videos have infinite replay value.

[@HoH]

Thank you, I never imagined my videos would be good for that but I'm happy they are!

[@bishop6218]

@@HoH you're not the only one. I've discovered recently we are a bunch of people using certain history channels as lullabies. Keeps our brains something to focus on during our pre-sleep quiet time overdrive i suppose. Drach and the Battlefield series are my go-to channels since they’re ad-free, but your soothing voice does a wonderful job too ! Gotta keep the ads scarce tho 😉

[@mattskustomkreations]

@@HoHYep, actually just unintentionally dozed off. And thought to myself this will be a good sleep aid. That said the graphics, musical score and presentation are fantastic.

[@oneofspades]

arguably the most important campaign during the Pacific War covered with blow by blow with animation. Thank you for the work.

[@2whostruckjohn]

Agree that the campaign was the central pivot of the Pacific war, but I'd define it more broadly by taking the Japanese perspective. From their perspective at Rabaul, the campaign was a two-headed struggle with the Americans on Guadalcanal and the Australians on New Guinea. The attrition was fatal: the Allies could replace losses and the Japanese could not.

[@nedkelly9688]

was not the most important campaign f the war lmfao.. had no impact or effect on anything at all...

[@nedkelly9688]

@@2whostruckjohn was not the central pivot of anything at all. was way out in the middle of nowhere and did nothing byt defeat 20,000 Japanese. Now New Guinea was the turning point of the war as saved Australia and had more Japanese here then Guadal or Solomons or even Iowa Jima. and Aussies at Milne Bay were the first to stop Japanese advancing and this was the turning point giving allies the confidence that they could be stopped.

[@VersusARCH]

The most important was the Marianas campaign. Everything else was just fooling around.

[@johnhallett5846]

@@nedkelly9688 Strange more Japanese DIED at Guadalcanal than in New Guinea. The Australian part has been definitely overshadowed but this was about Guadalcanal. Tough titty.

[@navyman4]

These videos should be REQUIRED VIEWING for Naval Officers like myself back in college.

[@M-I-k-e1301]

Thank you for your service!

[@19miked83]

My great uncle served on USS Atlanta during this battle and survived the sinking... He ended up fighting in a fox hole on Guadalcanal with the Marines.

[@glenb29649]

Talk about, “not what you signed up for”.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

ALMOST 3 HOURS OF HOH?! YES PLEASE ❤❤❤❤

[@snakycake4790]

thank you, im so glad normal and comprehensive videos are still being made with these nice overviews

[@KHK001]

Thanks for your hard work HOH! love these naval battles series!

[@bishop6218]

That’s one heck of a job well done sir !

[@manuelacosta9463]

Excellent compilation. The Guadalcanal campaign was a turning point but came at quite the cost in the grinding jungle combat. I could be wrong, but I believe this was the first major Pacific War campaign where a significant number of Japanese troops were taken prisoner.

[@Hillbilly001]

Slightly wrong. Approximately 31,000 Japanese soldiers and sailors served on Guadalcanal. Of that number 20,000 were left by December with 12,000 fit for duty. Over 14,000 were killed and 9000 dieing from disease or hunger with 1000 captured. If you reckon 1000 out of 31,000 "significant" then you are correct. It should be noted that all those prisoners were wounded or otherwise incapacitated.

[@picklerick8785]

That's a function of it being the first campaign the Japanese lost-it's kind of hard to take any prisoners when your forces are getting their teeth kicked in and losing every battle and surrendering.

[@alganhar1]

@@picklerick8785 Wrong again. It was not the first time they had lost. That was on New Guinea thanks primarily to the Australians. It was only the first campaign won in its entirety because the PNG campaign went on for the entire war, as compared to Guadalcanal, PNG is MUCH, MUCH larger and the Allies had to winkle them out of every bolt hole. By the time of Guadalcanal however the Japanese were never again a threat on PNG. Guadalcanal is the first ground victory against the Japanese to the Americans, and only the Americans, as it *was* the first ground victory that involved primarily US forces. As a result the US historiography tends to ignore PNG as if it never happened....

[@cameronspence4977]

​@alganhar1 while it is definitely not ignored by historians, even in the US, there are for sure far fewer videos made and attention paid to it popularly, than there are the major famous battles like midway and guadalcanal.

[@nedkelly9688]

@@picklerick8785 OMFG YOU HAVE NO CLUE ON WW2 SON.. this was not the first defeat of Japanese.. Milne Bay Australians were first defeat of Japanese and first stopping of Japanese advancing in WW2. mnths before Guadal Canal. Aussies had defeated Japanese in 5 battles on Papua before Guadal was finished lmfao...

[@loganw1232]

Love these videos. Thank you for making them. Great way to learn History.

[@jedrzejlehman3987]

Outstanding work !

[@RickBredlau]

it's too bad there isn't more content in this commercial - I like the style and content

[@clark_ok]

Children put add blocker on machine, now no adds... 😊

[@jamesedward6424]

Quality content keep it coming

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content ❤❤❤❤

[@jackhill3837]

Brilliant, a really well made documentary

[@johnvanstone5336]

A brilliant series, plenty of detail but with excellent clarity

[@alganhar1]

Just as a quick note, there was no miracle about the US Torpedo not exploding when it hit a friendly ship. This was *before* the debacle that was the US torpedo situation was resolved, most of them did not explode. The family of torpedoes in service in the USN at the time of Guadalcanal were, quite frankly, garbage, and it took Admiral King finally losing his rag with BuOrd for them to *finally* admit that perhaps there might be a problem.... That was 18 months *after* the US entered the war. The US Submarine service was essentially more or less crippled for the first year because BuOrd refused outright to admit there was an issue, and only some unofficial testing (BuOrd had never actually bothered testing their revolutionary new torpedo) and jury rigged work arounds got them somewhat reliable... The utter slaughter of the Japanese Merchant fleet by said submarines would likely have occurred more than a year earlier than it did historically if BuOrd had been bothered to get its head unstuck from its rectum, and that may well have saved US and Allied lives.

[@nedkelly9688]

lmfao but US did torpedo a Australian ship HMAS Canberra was hit by USA torpedo at Savo Island, why USA has named 2 of it's navy ships after it.. not doing it for no reason lol.. USA sailor who fired the torpedo saids it in a interview about the sinking...

[@jamesfagan9818]

You have Admiral Kinkade's picture listed as Frank Fletcher at 2:25

[@stanleydomalewski8497]

Magnificent Job 😊❤

[@ald1144]

I'll never get tired of hearing how Admiral Lee beat the stuffing out of the Kirishima, nor of how the Enterprise had her aircraft seemingly everywhere. But also, I'll never understand how the Japanese missed the South Dakota with so many torpedoes. Some optical phenomenon must have deceived every single one of them.

[@dagoelius]

As an Aussie born way after these events took place, its crazy to to think how close the Japanese came to invading us. I will always have deep respect for our American fighting friends. Our history is long and sacred.

[@adrian6990]

This video is incredible

[@maestro-zq8gu]

Appreciate you doing your free Pacific WW2 unlike that bait and switch Kings & Generals did.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Wonderful historical coverage long time video shared by an amazing ( House of History) channel....thanks for sharing

[@robertdillingham2015]

Fire video 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Arms872]

Grest vid. Appreciate your constant use of the term “alloes”. The US did the bulk of the fighting in the Pacific, true, but they were never the only friendly combatant.

[@cameronspence4977]

That's the trend for the majority of the US' wars. Unfortunately, that causes a lot of the allied contribution to historically be overlooked in the united states, but the US rarely fights alone

[@cameronspence4977]

Unfortunately the japanese wiped out the Dutch forces early in the campaign and Britain was obviously far too preoccupied in Europe and Africa. So sadly, it was basically just australia and other small pacific island countries fighting with us in this one

[@nedkelly9688]

@@cameronspence4977 Australia did the bulk of the ground fighting in South Pacific lil one. USA yes navy and even airforce Australia was up there. Guadal Canal only had 30,000 Japanese while Papua New Guinea nearly all Australian troops had 200,000 Japanese and barely any USA fought here except US 51ST and USA 32nd Divisions. Why Australian General Blamey was allied ground forces commander as only he could order the Aussie troops around. MacArthur had 10 mix matched Divisions of Australians and only 2 US Divisins under his command in South Pacific.. Bougainville US troops left 40- 60,000 Japanese to live freely there unless they attacked the USA ao and only defended, was not until Aussies took over as USA geared up to take Japanese islands did they find out and go hunt them all down.. USA was lazy in this part of the war. Then Australia special z unit performed over 1000 missions in Pacific and Asia.. was no American special forces who did anything as daring as they did..,,

[@johnhallett5846]

@@nedkelly9688 Homer alert. The reason that we left so many Japs alone was so not to lose people trying to wipe them out when they no longer important. You Aussies love to put your troops in meat grinders then cry about the casualties.

[@johnhallett5846]

@@nedkelly9688 The US was simply smarter not lazy. Bypassing Japs to let them die on the vine and not lose anyone dealing with them. You Aussies were the dumb ones.

[@oneofspades]

Inflection point in the war. Germany on the eastern front will see a steady but clear decline with the Soviet ascending and the USN getting steadily better in material and tactics.

[@ManMountainMetals]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎉❤

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

The USS Helena CL-50 -"The Machine Gun Cruiser", as hailed by the Japanese, they thought these Brooklyn Class Light Cruisers had some kind of New Rapid Firing 6 inch Gun (It kind of did, older guns with a new purpose). Reality, 10,000 Tons, 100,000 HP, w/ 15 fast firing 6 inch Rifles it literally was a War Wagon with Cannon Caliber Machine Guns. I'm Very Proud to be an American

[@sonnyjim5268]

Outstanding as always. Here's a video topic for you to consider. The Soviet Union and the Japanese short war in the summer of 1939.

[@HoH]

Good idea!

[@sonnyjim5268]

@@HoH Thanks. I'm reading Victor Davis Hanson's book, "The Second World Wars", (excellent book) and he references it but doesn't go into detail. It's odd that the Soviets beat the Japanese quiet soundly in '39 yet preformed terribly against the Finns and the Germans in the early stages. As you know, the Japanese army had issues but being a bad army is not one of them.

[@USS-SNAKE-ISLAND]

Watching IJN carriers cruising in reverse is kinda weird.

[@udsmall7306]

My grandfather was there. He was a USN Seabee running an open cab bulldozer, grading Henderson Field for the scrappy "Cactus Air Force". The island was not yet secure- he had a twelve gauge sawed off shotgun aboard and had to use it. 😐 He didn't like to talk about it much, said it was Hell. He eventually contracted malaria and was rotated out. He was never well afterwards. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants. ⚓

[@nedkelly9688]

omg he was rotated out after contracting malaria.. Aussies in Papua had to keep fighting while had dissentry and malaria. did Milne Bay and Kokoda and every other battle with 88=98% soldiers suffering malaria and dissentry This is bs how Guadal was turning point or most pivotol in this war also.. Australia defeated Japanese at Milne Bay months before Gudal and was first stopping of Japanese advancing in WW2.. no other country had before them/ Australia had defeated Jpaanese in over 4 battles in Papua before Guadal was ended.. and Papua is 90 kilometres from Australia thus saving Australia and not Gudal Canal 2000 kilometers away. American misinformation and propaganda is rediculous in wars..

[@udsmall7306]

@nedkelly9688 sure mate. Thanks for dissing the memory of my grandad. If it wasn't for us you'd be speaking Imperial Japanese. Ungrateful wretch.

[@JavierMartinez-iu9rg]

House of history, what sources do you use for the battle of Tigranocerta? Great video.

[@HoH]

I can recommend Matyszak's books to begin with!

[@JavierMartinez-iu9rg]

@ thanks

[@chrisbrown5625]

6.36min in, I think there is a typo. The ship titled Cranberra is meant to be Canberra.. please correct me if I am wrong on this?

[@HoH]

You are right.

[@PigPissBeUponThem]

Did you ever do a colab with World of Warships I feel like you can get some great footage for your videos like close up high detail broadsides etc etc the sinking animations are quite good as well even taking several minutes in game to actually sink fully giving plenty of time to clip overlay and edit to your will.

[@strike5029]

So, what's going to be the next project. I would like to see the raids that happened at the Mariana atoll. Not much is said about the raids.

[@HoH]

Great suggestion! I am currently working on a detailed documentary about the Battle of Midway, but most of my time is dedicated to creating my first 3D animation documentary. I hope to finish it within a month, it's about Scharnhorst & Gneisenau's attack against HMS Glorious.

[@strike5029]

@HoH that sounds like a great idea for a subject.

[@PB1776Politics]

Great Job on this breakdown… It’s hard to believe the Allied won the war.. Admiral’s were inept .. Wright should have been made a Ships Cook

[@slappy8941]

You mean the Allies and admirals.

[@True-history-24]

The turning point was Milne Bay. The first major defeat of Japan

[@rudigerlullau954]

Milne bay was a skirmish,not a campaign, with less than 2th Japanese troops deployed.

[@oneofspades]

This was the graduate school for the USN in warfare. USN thought they knew how to conduct a war. IJN taught them otherwise. Hats off to the USN. It is ok to make mistakes. The real sin is to not learn and continue making them.

[@ronaldfinkelstein6335]

D3A "Val" dive bombers can only carry a 550 lb.(250kg.) bomb. No 1,000 lb. bombs.

[@tomswift3835]

There seems to be some consistent confusion in this video about just which sides of a ship are "starboard" and "port". The narration and the pix just don't match.

[@johnvanzo9543]

I wouldn't trust Wright to command a rubber ducky in a bathtub

[@ts.elliot5870]

How was it possible the Northern Force didnt ssend out a warning message?

[@cameronspence4977]

Incompetence I think. Most of the US lower level admirals in the early 1/2 of the war weren't very good from what I know. Plus we lost Scott in 1942 who was of the few good ones

[@chrisanderson8207]

Never heard of the Cranberra before. FFS - It's not hard to check this shit.

[@PeterOConnell-pq6io]

A seldom heard tribute to the USN; who suffered 4X more causulities than the US marines fighting for the Solomon islands.

[@cameronspence4977]

Wouldnt have been the case if we had better commanders in some of these battles in this video. Just a complete waste of lives from stupidity

[@PeterOConnell-pq6io]

Most of the setbacks resulted from a deadly. combination of inexperience, poor intelligence, and overconfidence. Stupidity (eg, Savo Island, Tassafaronga) didn't help.

[@tonydevos]

The first picture of fletcher is not fletcher. I think its gormley

[@j.k.kaisla1431]

Why even mention US torpedos? They are not going to detonate. And I think you should mention why they all suck

[@dennisjk768]

Drachinifel's videos to that topic are hilarious. "Failure is like onions"

[@TK-55-95]

Granted the US won, but performance during the sea battles was definitely sub-par even with the radar advantage. Thankfully they learned for later battles.

[@estonadamson7868]

“Cranberra” 😂 as an Aussie this is rough to see

[@giovannidepetris6335]

The efficacy of torpedoes was strikingly different, the US torpedoes were gravely inadequate in their manufacturing quality and or employment doctrine. The us sailors were saved by their courage not by equipment or leadership many times.

[@kangaroo13113]

Slightly offputting how Canberra is misspelt for all of the battle of Savo Island

[@ballefrans1156]

In the video you say N. Scott was killed by IJN gunfire.. Wasn’t he killed by friendly fire from USS San Francisco?

[@HoH]

It's something that's quite hotly debated in most sources, but I should have provided both accounts for sure.

[@ballefrans1156]

ah, gotcha! Thanks for the reply😊 And a Merry Christmas to you all! this video has been wonderful "infotainment" during gift wrapping this year🎁

[@HoH]

@@ballefrans1156 Thank you - merry Christmas to you as well!

[@ald1144]

Hornfischer seemed pretty convinced of it when he wrote "Neptune's Inferno". Can you imagine? Not only do you get killed by friendly fire, but it's from the ship carrying the inexperienced admiral who superseded you?

[@Warreference]

movie perfect

[@dantreadwell7421]

2:06:29 ahh, Adm 'Ching' Lee. Fecking battleship sniper he was. Too bad he didn't survive the war. Sudden heart attack. Wonder what he may have been able to do post war. . . Too bad what happened to SoDak here as well. Crap luck.

[@Bellephrontos]

Why did they always torpedo their own ships when they were damaged? A waste of torpedoes if you ask me

[@robkitchen5344]

This is why you dont give incompetence peole command of warships..... Crews should have been trained .... The Captain...or ex-O should have been up and alert instead of sleeping... A picket ....a picket that actually prevents entire fleets of enemy ships from sneaking by instead of what that bullshit was....

[@sonsofthewestredwhiteblue5317]

13:47 so it’s an absolute comedy of errors. Ffs

[@mynameisnobody211]

The turning point of the Pacific war was by Australians in Papua New Guinea. The Aussies were the first to beat the Japanese on land.

[@davidhoward4715]

The Australians were backed up by American units at Milne Bay. The Japanese retreated from the Kokoda Track so they could reinforce Guadalcanal. I'm Australian, but I don't pretend we could beat the enemy singlehanded.

[@mynameisnobody211]

@ There were many more battles the length of Papua New Guinea than just Kakoda and yes the Americans did contribute to a small degree with troops but overwhelmingly it was Australians in Papua New Guinea that stopped the Japanese advance in the South Pacific which enabled the Americans to consider to then take Rabaul. Hyperhysterical History a KZbin channel has documented many of the battles and it is a great resource if you want to know more about the amazing contributions that the Australians made in the South Pacific in WW2.

[@TheCarlosAmador-x2q]

Good bless America!

[@JamesBerlo]

its so unbelievable how bad American Torpedo's were, a fucking crime, much of the navy though brave were like the keystone cop's.

[@HeedTheLorax]

Great animations with juvenile sound effects. The sound effects make this unwatchable. Drac doesn't need crap like that.

[@964cuplove]

Talking about a Betty and showing a zero… 🤦‍♂

[@curtiscriscoe367]

The Japanese thought the Marines would surrender. They thought a sneak attack would make us surrender, they thought bonzi attacks would frighten us, they thought they could win, they thought their swords were special, as we dropped the sun on them. Twice

[@hb-ol9oc]

US had impressive brave soldiers but very bad command. The soldiers won the Pacific war despite the admirals. You realize that when you see a ship crew still fighting and hitting the enemy after the whole hight command and staff had been decimated. Glorious soldiers.

[@jamesbryanata6424]

Worst American defeat radar useless

[@nedkelly9688]

you are either a liar or do not know true WW2 history,, Guadal Canal was a useless battle that did nothing but defeat a few Japanese in a area with no importance.. Australian's defeated Japanese at Milne Bay before Guadal Canal and Aussies saved Australia here 90 kilometres from Australia. not Guadal 2000 kilometres away. Milne Bay was the turning point of this war as was first stopping of Japanese advancing in WW2.. Australia defeated Japanese in around 4 battles before Guadal was finished.. Tell me how it was pivotal lmfao. only in the ego minds of lying Yanks...

[@jeffmalone5009]

Pfft….if it wasn’t for the “Yanks”, Australians would be speaking Japanese today.

[@rudigerlullau954]

You're an embarrassment to your country, Australia had a population of 7 million at the time. Most their best troops were in the UK and in north Africa. Milne bay was a skirmish with less than 2 thousand Japanese soldiers.

[@rudigerlullau954]

Milne bay was a skirmish not a campaign, less than 2th jap troops committed. So nedkelly ,breaker morant or what ever your name is, take your blinkers off and stop being being so jingoistic.