Japan's Kamikaze Rocket of WW2

An overview of the Ohka AKA Cherry Blossom. A suicide attack aircraft used by Japan in 1945.
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[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

I always get some complaints when I use anime. If it's not your thing don't worry about it. I use a lot of mixed sources for my videos and try to include something for everyone. Exposing new stuff to people is half the objective of the channel. The Japanese LOVE to story tell with animation and it can be a bit nutty but also real quality too.

[@pyeitme508]

Ok

[@themightypen1530]

Well those people can get rekt I think it's awesome that you use anime clips. It lets me see which anime I haven't seen but should watch.

[@tk-5268]

Don't worry about those people, anime is a valid type of media Johnny

[@Isseinoyuu]

Fuck them, the fact that you use a variety of media without bias is why I subscribed. The Japanese tend to be meticulous about historical details. I got my undergraduate degree in history and I remember professors would make us watch movies like Grave of the Fireflies as part of the curriculum.

[@themightypen1530]

@@Isseinoyuu Oof. Grave of the Fireflies is a rough one. I was in a rather bad spot in my life when I watched it and I am not too proud to say that I cried until my eyes bled. I'm not exaggerating.

[@じんたん-s7v]

The military commanders instructed the pilots on the Ohka, saying, "One Ohka can sink a battleship or a large aircraft carrier. If that happens, Japan and its people will be saved from an invasion by the United States." Many kamikaze pilots thought that by dying they would be able to live in peace with their families.

[@treystephens6166]

The Japanese were totally brainwashed.

[@DanDanJanJanJP]

Do you have the source for that citation?

[@giathuanleviet4138]

@@DanDanJanJanJPit was reveal to him in a dream

[@Black-Rat]

Only, none of those really scored a direct hit on a capital ship ( Battleship and Aircraft-Carrier ) best damage on a Carrier was two Kamikaze hit by two conventional Kamikaze on the USS Bunker Hill, just a third Kamikaze hit and she would've been sunk..... The Bunker Hill was withdrawn from the combat zone and sent back to the US mainland for urgent and extensive repairs via Pearl Harbor... She was still in the shipyards under repairs when Japan officially surrendered...

[@伊藤雲黒斎]

Japan soldiers can see their families at Yasukuni Shrine if they are killed in battle. Japan people are forever grateful to the soldiers who died in battle. However, the Chinese graffiti "toilet" on the Yasukuni Shrine.

[@memenadekhanh3992]

Japanese pilot: "Sir do we have a computer to guide this anti-ship rocket bomb thing?" Japanese commander: "Yes, but you are the computer."

[@epikberman7756]

Women computers did math, planes and calculations Men computers on the other hand….

[@Joshua_N-A]

Input command: t3nn0_he1ka/b8n2a1

[@Imbrojeff2361]

This feels so warhammer.

[@Joshua_N-A]

@@Imbrojeff2361 well, they had a god-emperor.

[@raccoonfacts8633]

Fun fact: The hangers where they stored the Cherry blossoms can still be seen and visited at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa

[@oddballsok]

pin point it on google maps..which point of the airfield base exactly ?

[@janitorjulius8627]

@@oddballsok i was stationed on Kadena AB (2018-2020) and there's no MXY-7 Ohka hangers on base nor tiny caves they could've stored them in

[@whilwheaton]

@@janitorjulius8627 lucky mother fucker i was stuck at langley my entire enlistment.

[@treystephens6166]

@@janitorjulius8627 GODZILLA (1985)

[@makukawakami]

Isn't that the haunted airbase in Okinawa?

[@drewdederer8965]

No problem with using "The Cockpit" for something like this. Leiji Matsumoto's father (the manga artist who created the story) was a Japanese (Air) Naval officer during the war. The one detail that "Thunder gods" gets right is the distress of the surviving pilot. It is very awkward to show up alive after you've said all your good byes, the stress on pilots who didn't find a target or got grounded on mission day or otherwise was immense.

[@115islandscompass6]

However, this video repeatedly calls the pilots who failed and crashed "stupid", right?

[@drewdederer8965]

@@115islandscompass6 Uh, no. "The Cockpit" actually has the American characters refer to the Ohka's as "Cherry Blossoms". And shows they really don't understand the mentality of someone who would fly something like that.

[@ak9989]

My dad a ww2 Okinawa marine vet told me he saw some of these at the airfields abandoned. He felt bad for all the sailors being killed by the kamikaze.

[@elcoyote9137]

Lo más triste es que muchos jerarcas Japoneses no fueron juzgados como criminales de guerra ,como los del escuadrón 747,que cometieron crímenes peores que las ss

[@iamapolloboy]

@@elcoyote9137 731 ⚠️👁️💀 Greetings from Ukraine 🇺🇦 Zaporizhzhya The war zone 💥💥🪖 3 hours ago was s300 rockets bombing

[@leomuar1286]

​​@@elcoyote9137La mayoria de cientificos del eje que consiguieron algun tipo de avance cientifico (por muy horribles que fueran los metodos utilizados para ello) no sufrieron ningun tipo de represalia, todo lo contrario, los sovieticos y estadounidienses trataron de conseguir la mayor cantidad de esos cientificos para tener la ventaja cientifica en la guerra fria que se aproximaba. Es por eso que la mayoria de ingenieros importantes de hitos espaciales importantes como el sputnik o el alunizaje venian de haber trabajado en el proyecto del V2

[@Logarius-]

Sounds legit, many Ohka’s were unable to be used to due to g7m bomber shortages, many were found left abandoned on airfields at Okinawa, US troops and intelligence got some of the first looks into these devices

[@DanDanJanJanJP]

He felt bad for military sailors being killed in battle? He must have felt devastated then when civilians were killed by atomic bombs.

[@ComissarYarrick]

People often atribute Japans use of kamikazes as byproduct of it's culture, but there is also some cold logic in this maddnes. By later stages of the war, US fleets had enough AA defences that atacking it was practicaly a suicide anyway. If most (if not all) planes lunched in attack will be lost anyway, Kamikazes are just one "logical" step forward, throwing away any already non-existing chance of return in hopes for maximazing chance to do (any) damage.

[@kotnapromke]

Камикадзе это логичное продолжение фашизма в Японии. Милитаризм высшего уровня. Он безумен и глуп. Японцы в этом аниме героизируют дураков. Они не сделали никаких выводов из своего поражения в ВВ2.

[@christiandietz6341]

True. By that time late in the war, ANY land, sea and air attack on US forces was a suicide mission anyway. The last Yamato mission too was a suicide one.

[@bkjeong4302]

The biggest issue wasn’t AA (though that was also a problem), but the issue of American fighters shooting down Japanese aircraft. Even after the introduction of the proximity fuse AA only claimed half the number of aircraft fighter screens did, and the disparity was even wider prior to that.

[@tiagodecastro2929]

​@@bkjeong4302 Potential History has a great video about the kamikaze pilots. I really recommend it

[@Whatsuppbuddies]

it is absolutely a byproduct of its culture. You cannot look at overwhelming firepower and say "oh well, I guess we shouldn't surrender and we should just die instead" and assume it is any sort of reasonable process. That cognition is only possible within a culture that disrespects life to the advantage of victory - however slim.

[@Nafeels]

Ironically, its lightning fast speeds was also its weakness. In 1945 nobody knew the effects of transsonic and supersonic speed effects on control surfaces, except maybe NACA. Controlling the damn thing must’ve been really hard, and they only have a few seconds to adjust their target before impact. Worse, there is at least one case where the Ohka went through the hull of a cruiser without the warhead detonating, sparing it from certain destruction. Think about that for a second. A human-guided, anti-ship missile ripped through layers of steel so fast the warhead wasn’t triggered.

[@flaksight]

thanks for using clips from the Sonic Boom Squadron episode of The Cockpit. it's one of my favorite episodes and thought it was completely forgotten. i loved watching it in mixed dubs where the japanese spoke their language with engsubs, and the allied troops spoke english. the soundtrack is badass and i loved the dogfights! the main character was a rocket engineer who dreamt of building a rocket to the moon, but had to do this instead~

[@kirgan1000]

Yes, but I am quite sure that a american capten, will call it a "Idiot Bomb" and not a Japanese poetic name like "Cherry Blossoms" that have no cultural mening for a american.

[@blitzzkrieg1400]

Germans be like "Dude, our unmanned flying bombs are better than yours!"

[@NOOBSLAYER-cw3gd]

i was fortunate enough to see a restored Ohka at my local aviation museum in Palam, New Delhi. That particular Ohka was taken as war booty by 4th Squadron RIAF in 1946 during the allied occupation of Japan.

[@mikloridden8276]

I wonder what those rRIAF did to Japanese woman

[@NOOBSLAYER-cw3gd]

@@mikloridden8276 nothing, they were stationed close to Hiroshima iirc and frequently flew sorties over the city

[@Pgb633]

@@mikloridden8276 i wonder what japanese soldiers did at Nanking , to everyone! Even babies ! Bruh you don't just order soldiers to steal babies , throw them up in the air , and catch them with a bayonet on a rifle

[@Kruppt808]

cool story OP. Dumb comment section. Can't talk about any part of history without "what about ism" being thrown around. Glad JJ said something about it on his targeting medics vid.

[@tankerthewarengineer3018]

The one fast crashing kamikaze in Battlestations Pacific

[@swenhtet2861]

I had fun playing that mode. I hope to play it again in the future and the remastered mods.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

May that game and its Midway predecessor be fixed up for modern systems and properly rereleased respectively nowadays.

[@User_Un_Friendly]

United States: “Dude, our pigeon guided bombs have better hit percentages.” 🕊️. (this was in fact true. Skinner’s experiments using trained pigeons to peck at television images of enemy ships, linked to a guidance mechanism had high success rates. if not for the US Navy not taking it seriously, the US might have started naval battles with a wave of pigeon guided bombs…)😮

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

I've been brewing on doing a pigeon video for sometime. Lots of weird history in that subject.

[@User_Un_Friendly]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Tesla wrote romantic poetry to one. 😵

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

There's a whole BlackAdder WW1 episode on a pigeon I'd love to use

[@User_Un_Friendly]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq I KNEW THERE WAS A REASON I LIKED YOUR CHANNEL SO MUCH!!! The infamous Beer episode, and that lovely opening song! 🙂😉😛

[@onlythena9927]

Meanwhile Bat with firebomb: So I start to blasting

[@CoffeeMug2828]

Ohkas are basically the grandfather of anti-ship missiles. It's a bomb with human acting as the guidance system. Meanwhile the Germans made the first guided bombs which is the Fitz X. If you think about it, the Axis power might be up to something here.

[@renegadeleader1]

The axis weren't really onto something the Allies themselves weren't already working on. The biggest difference between allied and axis technology was that the allies won and all their secret projects remained just that, secret and not publicized or disseminated among the various winning countries. That's why things like the Fritz X, and Ohka are pretty well known, but US designed missile systems like the LBD Gargoyle, Gorgon, or ASM-N 2 Bat are largely forgotten and obscure not being declassified for almost 30 years.

[@Gambrinus75]

@@renegadeleader1 Totally true! Axis "secret weapons" were rushed into service, while conventional allied weapon systems were sufficient to win the war. No need for superheavy US-"Maus" clones, when you can´t load them onto Liberty- or Victory-class vessels, no need for P-80´s, when you already control the skies over Europe...

[@cpte3729]

Didnt stop them from taking the L

[@MandalorV7]

Does make you wonder how much more deadly WWII could have been if Hitler didn’t kick things off for another ten years.

[@blitzzkrieg1400]

Baka in Japanese: stupid Baka in Filipino: cow 🐄

[@THEBIGGAME683]

The cow is stupid and also a bomb

[@Top1ito]

And?

[@jenniferstewarts4851]

The "sub launched" variant was a truely scary concept, the only flaw being the sub would have to surface. an I-400 could carry 3 of them, and was expected to surface 20 km away from a task group, there it would still be out of radar detection range. Its hanger doors would open and an ohka with 2 additional boosters would move onto the catapult. it would be launched with the help of the boosters, then it could kick on its rocket motors staying low over the water.. launching all 3 at once would be risky and then the sub would crash dive... but at the same time this tactic could be used not just against ships but against harbors, land targets, etc.

[@The_Conspiracy_Analyst]

The Yokosuka MXY-7 was not originally intended to be a kamikaze weapon. It was originally intended to be a weapon like the Henschel HS-293. However, the infrared seeker head part of the project stalled and they quickly redesigned the Ohka to be piloted suicide weapon instead.

[@aldreenbautista2375]

The use of anime as an example is better than showing an old clip but does not represent the topic of the video. They can also show more emotions and other stuff that are probably not portrayed well in other sources. Finally, not all events were filmed or captured. Kamikaze attacks using planes were common and there are a lot of videos in the internet yet this rocket, although documented by the Allies, only a few were filmed. I might be biased but this channel uses 2 of my favorite types of shows, war picture/documentary and anime. Have a great New Year everyone!

[@georgeviney9360]

Every time I think of the Oka I always hear in my mind the meme that goes “ Ay bro watch your jet, watch your jets bro WATCH YOUR JET!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

[@alanwestmoreland6152]

German: *ok we've given you a jet engine as per your request, what're your plans for it?* Japanese: *we're basically going to take your experimental engine and strap a big ass bomb on the front and ram the aircraft into a ship* German: *verdammt, Kenji.*

[@RileyZilla1001]

You should cover the Kyushu J7w Shinden. It is a very rare plane that had a tremendous appearance in the new Godzilla Minus 1

[@paleoph6168]

Will you do a video on the German task force who did something similar to this and the kamikaze, the Sonderkommando Elbe?

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

I will! I almost went into it in this video but decided to save it for it's own down the road :)

[@MrPh30]

And they were a unit under the KG-200 overall command.

[@KawaiHiromi]

Ohka is develop to Tomahawk missile now. pilot is changed to CPU tips.

[@bongodrumzz]

I was young when I first heard of Oka, didn't think it was a real thing but old newsreels were shown at my school during history lessons and later I saw one at the Imperial War Museum, it was quite something, obviously a one way trip so it often made me think, what was going through the pilots mind? Thank you Johnny, another trip down memory lane.

[@laresial]

They fight for his Country. They were PATRIOTS

[@spookyt8692]

@@laresial Is that the same for ISIS and the Taliban who do it for their religion?

[@laresial]

@@spookyt8692 i do not know I imagine they think they do the correct

[@spookyt8692]

@@laresial your comment made me think quite a bit, about something I’ve thought long about but thanks to your comment I can articulate the thoughts better.

[@LeadMetal82]

"We have guided missile at home"

[@xxGravyBabyxx]

My local air museum (Chino, California Planes of Fame) has a static Ohka aircraft for display and it is stupidly small. Very eerie that people were brainwashed to enter one of those planes back in the war.

[@theussmirage]

I distinctly remember seeing the Smithsonian's Ohka, there were unmanned cruise missiles on display bigger than that terrible machine

[@roccosfondo8748]

You call it brainwash, I call it love for the Fatherland.

[@laresial]

Not brainwashed. They were patriots

[@115islandscompass6]

But according to this video, those patriots are being called stupid(馬鹿), though.

[@laresial]

@@115islandscompass6 when you lost the war, all try to find the guilty. Usually, the death man. From a lost war all the heroes death are stupidity... Maybe, but heroes.

[@rijnvanessen7359]

The cockpit was one of the best anime.

[@TheRealBekathy]

Japanese pilot: OH NO I DON'T HAVE AMMO! The Emperor: "MY SON I NEVER SENT ANYTHING BUT YOU AS AMMO!"

[@langbo9999]

Pilot: NANI!!!!

[@renegadeleader1]

I've seen an example of the Ohka up close when I visited the USAF Museum near Dayton. It's pretty unique as it is a "training" version with an inert dummy rocket motor, weighted nose cone, and a landing skid for safe recovery.

[@michaelusswisconsin6002]

The USS Stanly actually survived two Ohka attacks. One from the warhead over penetrating the hull so it exploded outside. Two by kill the pilot which made the bomb go up and miss the ship.

[@蚊陽]

Ouka's technology was later adopted for the Shinkansen. Engineers no longer want their technology to be used in warfare.

[@themightypen1530]

Suicide submarines, suicide air planes, and now suicide rockets. Not to mention Seppuku. If there is one thing the Japanese have always loved it's killing themselves. Seems like a rather strange evolutionary strategy. To each their own though.

[@蚊陽]

Please excuse my poor English. I wanted to make it wireless, but it didn't make it in time. Had the incompetent upper echelons adopted this technique, there would have been fewer casualties.

[@StevenLiew-tc1cl]

The idea somewhat similar to the German Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg (piloted V-1 flying bomb) except the German pilot have to bail out quickly before impact.

[@singhjobim9719]

Well done. I've had trouble finding anything in detail on the Ohka. Thanx for the links.

[@SteelGnat]

My wifes Grandfather was suppose to be a cherry blossom pilot yet was spared because a suprise bombing run of their airfield during the pre start of the battle of Okinawa blew up the storehouse where the fuel was hidden it was suppose to be under ground but nearby shell blewup pierce the wall hot lit the oil instead ending up in a plane he became a artilary scout for the landing of the US troops he was captured after being knock out by a debry from the explotions from the ships cannons he somehow survive by being thrown into a fox by the shell blast and woke up in a american prison in a bed handcuff with a concusion from the blow he survive the war and returned to Nara after a year 1946 since he was taken to prison and was process

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

That baka footage is gonna be one of the few and probably only times Johnny will show anime without the english dubs

[@Orangnus]

The American approach to guided bombs: "Put a bird in it!" The German approach to guided bombs: "Put a radio in it!" The Japanese approach to guided bombs:

[@Strongjd770]

Another great video, always amazed how you dig up such great material. The US training film was a peach 👍

[@gustafmannerheim9720]

Germany: develop radio controlled guided bombs Japan: WE DONT NEED THAT

[@戦艦三笠-s2d]

開発していたが、間に合わなかった。

[@wolf_7479]

I remember using one of these in the Battlefield 1942 mod Forgotten Hope years ago, since I was playing with bots only I had to fly the bomber close enough to the ships myself and then quickly enter the Ohka through a very janky bomber interior.

[@drewdederer8965]

Ah, "The Cockpit", classic. BTW, there is some fuzzyness about the provenience of "Baka", either it's a simple shift from Ohka (and let's face it, "baka" is a well known Japanese word), OR it was because the first (ground) intact specimens were found April 1 1945 (April Fool's Day). You left out another likely Anime link, the idea for a rocket plane was suggested by a Lieutenant Ohta (ironically, a wash-out at pilot training). I've seen photos and Officer Ohta of Patlabor is likely an intentional likeness (this isn't as big a stretch as it seems, Ohta is the one die hard/crazy cop on the team and the two commanders are named after admirals Gotoh and Nagumo). Ironically Ohta survived the war. The Air Force Museum at Dayton has a training model, usually parked under the P-61 across from "Boch's Car". They also have the only example of the jet-powered model (never saw service). While (Cockpit aside) no carrier was ever hit by an Ohka, they did contribute to the destruction of Unryuu. Unryuu was ferrying 30 of them to the Philippines and they were likely at the center of the explosions resulting from Redfish's second attack that effectively blew the bow off (less than 10% of the crew survived). Shinano was also carrying them when sunk, but they apparently didn't "cook off".

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

I didn't know that fact about the Unryu! Thanks so much for adding this.

[@battlejitney2197]

You’re killin’ it, Johnny!

[@thekhoifish0146]

Johnny I can’t take it seriously when you suddenly put in a baka montage lol

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

lol in the original version I made of this the montage was twice as long. I have to lighten things up for my own health when researching depressing topics like this...

[@thekhoifish0146]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq ah ok, thanks

[@thekhoifish0146]

@Edward Smith oh yeah it was definitely funny, just caught me offguard against the grim tone of the rest of the vid

[@DavidCowie2022]

Now we need a reason for Johnny to include an "ara ara" montage.

[@thekhoifish0146]

@@DavidCowie2022 dear god

[@dudududu1926]

I feel like you watched every military anime in existence.

[@connorhart7597]

I think its a really good thing that you mentioned they were brave but brainwashed. They werent all just crazed individuals. Like somebody else said, adding onto their general purpose brainwashing of Hirohito being a deity, they were told that their sacrifice would make such a big impact on the war that giving their life essentially saves countless others on the mainland. Horrific time to be around in general.

[@FP194]

There is an Ohka on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton Ohio in their WWII section There is a picture of it on there website

[@zhicaofang2354]

Best scene of the video is the anime "Baka" compilation LOL

[@chardaskie]

My step-dad told my stories of his grandpa who fought in The Pacific Theater of WW2. Cannot remember what his job was be he was in the Navy. Until the day he died he had a deep hatred for Japanese

[@alanmacpherson3225]

I believe the first ship to be hit by a Kamikaze was the cruiser HMAS Australia in 1944.

[@jdelark6428]

It may have been early 1945 in Leyte Gulf - hit multiple times over as many days and withdrawn for repair, I think.

[@alanmacpherson3225]

@@jdelark6428 October 44 hit by 6 Kamikazes

[@jdelark6428]

@@alanmacpherson3225 oops, I take that back. my mistake :)

[@alanmacpherson3225]

@@jdelark6428 No worries mate. I must admit I had to Google the info about the actual event.

[@serjindaserragaucha7242]

When you become the ammo

[@alexiachimciuc3199]

IV read in a book that it have aerodynamic problems at high speed. In the dive the target moved in the upper part of the cross hairs with the commands frozen.

[@natejones902]

The navy yard museum in DC has one on display. But I've wondered in the anime The Cockpit you showed clips from, the plane breaks the sound barrier. I wonder if the plane could have broken the sound barrier. (If you tried to do that with it, vs by chance as seen in the show.)

[@-jolt31v39]

アニメ化されていませんが70年代の松本零士の漫画にレシプロ戦闘機の急降下で音速を超えるための苦痛を繰り返す作品があります。B-29のタービンを使用していたかもしれません。P-47との壮絶な戦い。「衝撃降下90度」という作品です。興味があれば調べてみてください。

[@moonshineofthemoon8054]

I always wanted to see a Ohka before. I still plan to find places that have the Ohka Bomb today still surviving.

[@roccosfondo8748]

You call it brainwash. I call it love for the Fatherland.

[@Bonewerkz]

If you die for your family and friends,you are a hero. If you die for some power obsessed Alpha Chimpansees, a.k.a "politicians" or "leaders" you are a Baaka. So simple is it.

[@NEX1-t7j]

Patriotism is brainwash, no one should die for a country or a flag that doesn't care about you.

[@roccosfondo8748]

@@NEX1-t7j anyway, considering that the alternative is seeing Americans acting as conquerors on your Fatherland is more than enough to make a person volunteer for kamikaze.

[@rafigoghimarfirman3480]

Would you ever do an overview of the lunge mine?

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

I would! Though not sure how much footage is out there...

[@recruit8921]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq guess battlefield 5 will have to do

[@thenorthstarsamurai]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq or Enlisted

[@gypsydildopunks7083]

I'd like a mini doc about Canada's greatest punk band, Propagandi.

[@kevinnorwood8782]

After first learning about this suicide rocket thanks to the History Channel show Dogfights, I firmly agree with the Allies decision to give this weapon the name "Baka". The entire battle plan barely achieved ANY results compared to other standard Kamikaze attacks, so the whole concept really was honestly BEYOND idiotic.

[@laniemon]

That few seconds of 'baka' made me chuckle.

[@OtherWorldExplorers]

There is archival footage of a Betty being shot down with an oka slung under her belly. I've seen it several times.

[@MrJigger28]

I can understand when people say they don’t like anime, i don’t like it,but you can’t find any movies or anything like that,that use such interesting thing

[@MrJigger28]

Like the guided bombs and stuff like that

[@otiebrown9999]

The original, "Rocket Man". What a tragedy!

[@bigblue6917]

The Ohka was a sign of desperation and that Japan would lose the war. Sinking escort and transport ships, though tragic for those who died on them, was never going to make any difference to the war as the US had the capacity to replace them so very quickly. At Okinawa one Ohka succeeded in had a near miss on one of battleship West Virginia's 16 inch turrets which caused moderate damage. And the US quickly adapted to this threat and extending their "defensive rings" outward to intercept the G4M/Ohka combination aircraft before the suicide mission could be launched. In fact postwar analysis concluded that the Ohka's impact was negligible, since no U.S. Navy capital ships had been hit during the attacks because of the effective defensive tactics that were employed. It is interesting that if the 1946 invasion of Japan had gone ahead there was a proposal to have a vanguard made up of all the US and British capital ships with the heaviest AAA fit to blunt any Kamakahi attacks before the invasion fleet arrived.

[@PACKERMAN2077]

I thought it said kamikaze reacts and I kind of thought that was a bit impossible

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

would probably be a very short video.. ^.^

[@k.sammokko4218]

Buck Danny thumbnail - a man of culture, I see.

[@ieattuna]

I like the Baka Anime part lol

[@ianashby6294]

Saw a full scale replica at Australian War museum Canberra

[@rolfagten857]

In a documentary on National Geopgraphic titled: "Nazi Megastructures" , attention was also paid to this device.

[@seanmager1168]

The anime Scenes you Put in these are AMAZING dude. What anime is it? I Never Heard of it nor Saw it I think.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

The Cockpit (1993). It's a three episode miniseries. Well worth checking out.

[@seanmager1168]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Cool. THAnks. I Will. Thanks again. I Owe You 1. P.s. those Japanese Kamikaze Bomber Guys, they were FUCKING CRAZY. and DAMN STUPID.

[@BloodlessJG]

Great video, battle stations pacific is a fantastic game 👍

[@nursestoyland]

Nice video! I have a series suggestion: ships of war

[@christophersnyder1532]

Merry belated Christmas, and I hope you will have an exceptional new year. Take care, and all the best.

[@timmiekat6072]

3:30 battlestations Pacific, had so much fun with that game brings the memories

[@dudududu1926]

Japanese pilot to American: "Anta baka?" *violently exploded*

[@hunterwatson9542]

I'm very happy you showed some gameplay from battlestations Pacific showing the ohka

[@corbynxavier1162]

Sup dude been late for awhile now I’m only 17 seconds good vid my boi and I have you had a good chrissie and a better new year

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

You too Corbyn! Lots more videos to come in the New Year :)

[@HoLyzPiNoyZ]

people commenting on anime just ur typical trolls, dont mind em. Im not a fan of anime but i feel like sometimes the scenes you picked out gives a more clearer understanding of the topic.

[@mrnobodytheuser2950]

Those Pilots were effective in defence of their Nation and way of life, For wrong or right I have to respect them.

[@nikkovalidor4890]

so did you come from an alternate reality or something

[@mrnobodytheuser2950]

@@nikkovalidor4890 Yes I came here from an alternate dimension, true story

[@johnclinete6193]

You call a weapon a cherry blossom and expect people to be afraid of it!

[@RX552VBK]

First time I learned of the Ohka was in that same anime film.

[@hotarutomoeofficial]

I saw the cockpit on VHS when i was younger and last year i watch again i am proud on my nation the nation of Japan i cried a lot with that anime Much love stay healthy!

[@phaasch]

This is my first visit to your channel, and I have to say, your use of Anime was inspired. It often happens on some KZbin channels where original footage and photographs are very limited, and we end up with either repeated, or off-subject material used as fill. Here, the story is told vividly in both words and visuals. Great job. Subscribed. Btw, does anyone know why the apparent tradition of Anime characters having such European features?

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Can't say I fully know the answer to that question but I do appreciate the kind feedback :)

[@joshuajoaquin5099]

i recall that the Japanese are kinda fascinated on European culture, there are a lot of anime and manga inspired by European culture even if its fantasy you can see similarities

[@phaasch]

@@joshuajoaquin5099 interesting. Thanks for that. It's funny when you think that 80 years ago, they despised anything to do with European culture.

[@kleif1027]

Okha, the Tomahawk at home before tomahawk exist.

[@Mackinstyle]

7 total ships damaged/sunk is pretty much 0 when you look at the unbelieveable number of ships being deployed. It's, in a way, relieving to see that all these various suicide tactics were not effective. It would have been horrible had they turned out to be a highly valuable doctrine.

[@bluetopguitar1104]

I think there is still one of these hanging from the ceiling in a museum at the Washington navy yard in D.C.

[@Blitz9H]

Thank you for this video! Thank you for commenting on what the US personnel called it (BAKA) for stupid. I oft think of the line in Go For Broke, when the Nissei say BakaTadi

[@i_like_trains1923]

2:18 sussy baka (sorry i had to)

[@warpartyattheoutpost4987]

In our Axis&Allies house rules the Ohka is available to Japan if they have enough R&D and the Home Islands are threatened.

[@historyarmyproductions]

Wonderfully done as always, Johnny! Mind if I ask what anime you showed at 0:01? I'd love to check it out.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

The Cockpit 1993. Well worth a watch!

[@historyarmyproductions]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Ah, wonderful! I'll give it a look.

[@fredlandry6170]

I have read about this thing in WW2 books.

[@foracal5608]

Imagine if the NASA X-15 had been built for this mission talk about hypersonic kaboom

[@JembutTerbakar]

I know after all that if the IJA succeed breaking the emperor's surrender record, they'd fight with literal stick and stone, because they'll have absolutely no resources

[@andymckane7271]

Quite the last-ditch weapon. Folks flying these baka bombs had to have been highly dedicated and true believers in their nation's cause.

[@AFriendlyUnit]

Ohka... Baka! Proceeds to wheeze

[@Minboelf]

Baka:being Mention The entire anime community:

[@雨竜-極]

もう戦死して反論も事訳も出来ない英霊に対して、切り抜いた動画で馬鹿馬鹿って… 情けない子供だな…☹️

[@rismarck]

1:10 was that footage from battle 360 or dog fights pacific? Classic history channel shows, you’re a man of culture as well I see 😏

[@ivancaraig1715]

Its from Dogfights

[@MommyTarSoulLei]

These are so OP in battlestations pacific

[@josephbingham1255]

When the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano was sunk Nov. 29, 1944 she had 50 Ohka aboard being transported to Okinawa and the Philippines. See Wikipedia

[@samnelson9038]

Falls into a similar catagory to german guided munitions. They are a novel design thats more than capable of knocking a ship out of commission. Problem is the delivey system for them hinges on poorly protected bomber aircraft that get shredded when they come up against more capable aircraft.

[@伊藤雲黒斎]

The B-29's target is civilians, while the target of the human missile is a warship. Did you know that there are more crew members of downed B-29s than deaths in kamikaze?

[@TheyAreHere2]

The B-29s targeted military industry exclusively, civilians were unfortunate collateral damage. If they had been the target, many more would have been killed. The Japanese Empire attacked industry in much the same way, throughout China and the Pacific, all the way to the coast of California. The only reason it did not do it to the extent America did is because it could not. If it had gotten the capability, it would have, and it would have been doing a disservice to its citizenry if it didn't.