Japan Suffered A Disastrous Defeat By Americans In Marianas Turkey Shoot

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(Part 10) Watch our video " Japan Suffered A Disastrous Defeat By Americans In Marianas Turkey Shoot " and explore the untold stories of courage, strategy, and honor on the high seas during World War two. Join us as we delve into the experiences of a renowned Imperial Japanese naval commander, offering a unique perspective on the Pacific War. Witness the challenges, triumphs, and the indomitable spirit of those who navigated the turbulent waters of one of the most significant conflicts in history. Dive deep into the complexities of naval warfare, for a captivating exploration of the human side of war, where every episode unfolds a new layer of resilience, honor, and the indomitable spirit that prevailed amidst the chaos of the Pacific War.
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@WW2Tales 5 ай бұрын

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 10 of memoirs of a Japanese Destroyer Captain, He was an Imperial Japanese naval commander during the Pacific War and the author of the IJN manual on torpedo attack techniques, notable for his skill in torpedo warfare and night fighting. He was a survivor of more than one hundred sorties against the Allies and was known throughout Japan as the Unsinkable Captain. A hero to his countrymen, Captain exemplified the best in Japanese surface commanders: highly skilled, hard driving, and aggressive. Moreover, he maintained a code of honor worthy of his samurai grandfather. He was as free with praise for American courage and resourcefulness as he was critical of himself and his senior commanders. He was the only IJN destroyer captain at the start of World War 2 to survive the entire war Here is the link of the playlist kzbin.info/aero/PLGjbe3ikd0XEgpZaJTo25BGLPJDrer821 Link of Part 1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYbGfqF5oKiUra8 Link of Part 2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXXZkoF3rJKjpZo Link of Part 3 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYiVhp-Yqtt0nbs Link of Part 4 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGGno5puhcahnKM Link of Part 5 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHS6qYWkgL-Gf9E Link of Part 6 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpm2fml6g7qZosk Link of Part 7 kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3nblJeYi55ngNk Link of Part 8 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHTck2OJq6atnKM Link of Part 9 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ2WoJubfr92ZpY

@PatrickSharkey-ul5cx 5 ай бұрын

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@needmoney666 4 ай бұрын

Captain Hara's book is one of the best I've ever read on the War in the Pacific. Had the Japanese high command had more commanders like him the IJN would have been much more difficult to defeat.

@locker1325 5 ай бұрын

Luckily this type of officer wasn't on the bridge of every Japanese ship.

@erichughes284 5 ай бұрын

A battle with no casualties but significant material loss.A rarity.

@nrschicago 5 ай бұрын

One reads dry history that talks about American Industrial power. But in listening to diaries, you see the effect on man and see the reality. Amazing

@timklein185 5 ай бұрын

I enjoy these memoirs but a few maps (rather than a static photo) would greatly enhance the experience.

@mikespangler98 4 ай бұрын

Especially since many of those places have changed names over the years.

@sirboomsalot4902 4 ай бұрын

Their are maps on the version of this book I have, which is the newest print on Amazob

@justlucky8254 4 ай бұрын

Voiceovers that correctly pronounced words in the various involved languages would also be nice. That's the downside of current AI, apparently.

@michaelconnors1301 3 ай бұрын

Exactly. It makes absolutely no use of the video. What a waste.

@riverlady982 3 ай бұрын

@@justlucky8254 I just wish that channel's like this that share material of such important historical matters wouldn't use the AI voice because it can't even pronounce (already difficult) names of places and people the same way twice. I don't care so much if someone reading these for videos says the names wrong in their enunciation as long as they use the same enunciation each time. It becomes very difficult to follow who and what has been sunk when it keeps changing the enunciation of the place or name. Sometimes it even makes some of the names of Captain's and Boat's sound so much like alike or exactly the same that it gets even more confusing.

@Not_So_Weird_in_Austin 5 ай бұрын

Its interesting to hear criticism of the IJN and IJA. Something that rarely occurred in Japan in WW2. My father was the duty chief on the Enterprise on December 7th and when he took the air raid message to Admiral Halsey was ordered to get conformation even as battle stations were ordered...

@erichughes284 5 ай бұрын

Look at all those near misses I can only imagine the panic on that ship.

@erichughes284 5 ай бұрын

He criticizes everybody including himself.But he gives praise when its due he seems to be as honest as can be expected

@tannertempleton3404 5 ай бұрын

Much more believable account and sounds like a more likable dude than that Japanese fighter pilot.

@ralphe5842 5 ай бұрын

Or the crybaby Kraut always whining about the Geneva convention like they ever followed it

@guest6398 5 ай бұрын

He does a lot of humble-bragging. "When I departed, there was not a dry eye among my comrades"... "They insisted that I was Japan's greatest commander, and I protested and denied it." I take it all with a grain of salt.

@mikehimes7944 5 ай бұрын

@@guest6398. It's also easy to be the 'best' if everybody else is dead.

@thekitchencounterauthor 5 ай бұрын

@@tannertempleton3404the differences between a good ship captain with a crew to keep and a good individual fighter with a couple of wingman.

@knudge6334 5 ай бұрын

Dove Truk Lagoon in the late 80's. Lots of sailors still there.

@johncaldwell-wq1hp 3 ай бұрын

DID YOU SEE "I-69"- ??

@knudge6334 3 ай бұрын

@johncaldwell-wq1hp Unfortunately not! The Truk Stop took us to the bigger ships. Some deep dives for just compressed air. 20ft stop required for for all dives!

@Titus-as-the-Roman 2 ай бұрын

In the all encumbersome Fog of War with these after war commentaries we get to see what is happening at both sides, it gives understanding to many wide open questions. Adm. Hara does an excellent job of this. Unfortunately much of the action is found at places in the middle of the Pacific No-Where that most has no idea where it is located, I'm a geology nerd but most aren't, maps would be nice.

@kinnish5267 5 ай бұрын

so interesting to hear the other side

@whittpond8803 4 ай бұрын

This is a really excellent article on a critical aspect of the Pacific war between the US and Japan. Well worth watching.

@erichughes284 5 ай бұрын

The fact that he could say what he felt needed to be told to his superiors and get away with it proves how valuable he was.

@jayglithero524 4 ай бұрын

Admiral Tanaka said what he felt but didn't get away with it, despite being valuable.

@warfarenotwarfair5655 4 ай бұрын

In the military it's about tact, if you have no tact and always, "expressing your feelings" get ready for a world of hurt and a stalled career.

@jayglithero524 4 ай бұрын

You saw how well tact enabled the Japanese to win the war.

@warfarenotwarfair5655 4 ай бұрын

@@jayglithero524 When I was in the USAF just constantly blabbing your mouth to your direct supervisors or jumping over them when it wasn't prudent was career suicide. Tact is essential if you want anyone to listen to you in the military, if you just open your trap like your local union trailer trash you will find yourself in crappy commands and Korea unaccompanied. When I dealt with the Army the place was full of these low IQ specialists with all mouth and no solutions.

@Conn30Mtenor 5 ай бұрын

I'll tell you all what is batshit insane, utterly useless and inhumane about the Japanese military leadership during WW2. Dropping off troops into a jungle with neither interest nor capacity to support or supply them is absolutely insane. I have no respect for the Japanese soldier, he was a beast but to drop these men without hope of victory was a senseless waste.

@canuck_gamer3359 4 ай бұрын

You're absolutely right. People just don't realize that the Japanese were every bit as depraved as the Nazi's. The Germans, Japanese and Russians all treated their own soldiers like ammunition, something to be expended without thought or care.

@WardenWolf 4 ай бұрын

Not all were evil or committed heinous acts. Many were just doing what they felt was their duty to their country, blissfully unaware of atrocities that were happening elsewhere in the war. People often forget this. We see patriotism on all sides of war, and often good men wind up on the wrong side of history. This is especially so when conscription is involved as it was here. I have respect for the average soldier on both sides and the hardships they endured. I have no respect for butchers, but I respect those who fought and died doing, in their limited scope of view, what they thought was right. People didn't have the same access to information we have today; they couldn't have informed opinions. My late grandfather served in World War II. He was a member of the US Army Signal Corps. On Okinawa in 1945, he bought a captured Japanese Type 99 rifle from another GI. This was an early-production example from around 1941. This meant it, and likely the soldier who carried it, went through the entire Pacific war, only to meet their end during Japan's desperate final stand. And the rifle bears all the hallmarks of its hard service. I often wonder the things this rifle and the person who carried it saw. Likely some poor young man who died doing what he thought was right or what he was forced to do, even if history proved him to be on the wrong side.

@warfarenotwarfair5655 4 ай бұрын

What do you think paratroopers are used for? They are fodder to tie up larger forces or to capture critical points behind the lines.

@Conn30Mtenor 2 ай бұрын

@@WardenWolf there were no "Good Japanese" in the IJA or IJN. There were certainly good Japanese people- there were pacifists and anti-militarists but they were all in prison. The Japanese were brutalised in training and even their Korean conscripts sometimes outdid them in their extreme behaviour. There are no reliable sources claiming otherwise. They were, to a man, beasts.

@garypillischafske1425 4 ай бұрын

Most interesting look into the polical implications of war. This was, for the Japenese, a precurser to the U.S. and Vietnam. We had the forces, and the technical advantages in all areas and squandered over 50,000 lives for politicians. I am as bitter as this destroyer officer. Politicians usually start wars and the troops pay the price for their incompetence.

@gineasley3517 4 ай бұрын

The US was wise to intervene in Vietnam against Ho Chi Minh- an open and unapologetic admirer of Joseph Stalin, with his secret police, concentration camps and opposition to all human rights, such as freedom of speech. Ho Chi Minh did likewise. Add to this The Domino Theory of one Stalinist country likely infecting adjacent countries with this horrid political disease, was well founded. Opposition to the Vietnam War came from pampered, brain dead leftists in the US. The result was Ho Chi Minh’s reign of terror, culminating in the tragedy of the boat people- ethnic Chinese in Vietnam who were forced to flee aboard tiny boats + which were attacked brutally by Vietnamese pirates who raped, murdered and robbed them. All thanks to the American liberal left! I remember the talking heads on TV with their hang dog facial expressions when this predictably occurred!

@Godzilla00X 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for all your work, these are always a treat. BTW the thumbnails for the past few eps have been so on point. The dred in the image matches the title

@WW2Tales 5 ай бұрын

@Godzilla00X Much appreciated Sir ! 🙏

@wadeenyart9676 5 ай бұрын

TY so much

@WW2Tales 5 ай бұрын

@wadeenyart9676 Sir most welcome 💐

@skippy2752 4 ай бұрын

Great videos. Glad I found these. Subed and liked.

@WW2Tales 4 ай бұрын

@skippy2752 Awesome, thank you so much Sir 🙏

@joselitostotomas8114 5 ай бұрын

Hara was despairing of the technical advantage of American DD's at this stage of the war. He didn't seem to factor in that effective American leadership had also appeared such as Frederick Moosbrugger and Arleigh Burke. The Pacific USN had also developed an effective means of dissemination of lessons learned from each encounter as time went by.

@Jakal-pw8yq 4 ай бұрын

You're exactly right. Good old 31 knot Burke!

@sirboomsalot4902 4 ай бұрын

To be fair, it’s quite unlikely imo that Hara would have known any American commanders or how their leadership was.

@joselitostotomas8114 4 ай бұрын

@@sirboomsalot4902 Hara may not be high on the food chain, but he had been griping about the IJN leadership being a bunch of inflexible officers. He didn't reflect that the USN leadership might be adapting faster than the IJN. It's an institutional bias as far as I can see.

@rbaxter286 4 ай бұрын

The "31 Knots" being a well-known laugh at his INABILITY to come anywhere NEAR that speed of operations. @@Jakal-pw8yq

@warfarenotwarfair5655 4 ай бұрын

@@sirboomsalot4902 Yamamoto did though.

@richardthornhill4630 5 ай бұрын

How many armies and navies have been led by incompetent officers whose rank depended upon WHO they knew instead of WHAT they knew? Incompetence peters out as the war continues. German's incompetent Corporal should never have decided to invade Russia without wise counsel of strategy and established supply lines.

@Conn30Mtenor 4 ай бұрын

Frank Fletcher was sidelined by political admirals.

@treystephens6166 2 ай бұрын

Needs more photographs 📸

@steveg6978 5 ай бұрын

Interesting Rabul was open to air attack, yet they put cruisers in the harbor that they could not maneuver.

@russellmz 5 ай бұрын

rare to have ships park outside protected bay harbors at sea. problem is less the harbor than the fact they were there at all.

@larryyoung5757 4 ай бұрын

I don’t think the newspaper accounts embarrassed him at all. He’s very full of himself and take what he claims with a large grain of salt 😊

@johnr8252 4 ай бұрын

@48:05 ..why did I feel sadden when I heard the Shigure had been hit?

@janewray-mccann2133 4 ай бұрын

Because you are human and therefore somewhat susceptible to human frailty.

@nelsontoondrawer7618 4 ай бұрын

These are great audios from the Japanese point of view. But, can I suggest you to place numbers on each so we know the order to listen to them? Thanks. 😊 oops just saw your pinned comments. So sorry, as they would say.

@ninline2000 4 ай бұрын

It's obvious from this story that the Japanese high command had gotten so used to being able to dominate opponents that they had no idea what to do when outgunned.

@covercalls88 4 ай бұрын

Shigure was considered a lucky ship. It the only ship which survived Battle at Sruigao Strait Nishimura Southern force.

@ppumpkin3282 5 ай бұрын

The real problem is that the US industrial might eventually caught up with Japan. Japan couldn't fight the war and keep up with improvements in technology, techniques, training, and production at the same time. Also the allies may have been better at survelance, communication, spying and scouting.

@tommorgan1291 4 ай бұрын