Japanese Troops Were Shocked By The Ferocious Americans (Ep.1)

(Japanese Ensign Series, Part 1) Watch our video "Japanese Troops Were Shocked By The Ferocious Americans (Ep.1)" and "Join us on a profound journey into the heart of the Pacific War through the eyes of a junior naval officer aboard one of Japan's most legendary warships Battleship Yamato. This video series unveils the gripping, first-hand account of a desperate April 1945 mission that marked the final chapter for the iconic battleship. Witness the human side of warfare: the valor, the sorrow, and the raw heroism in the face of overwhelming odds. Discover how life and duty intersect in the tumultuous final moments of a ship fated to go down in history. Subscribe to WW2 Tales for more stories of bravery and survival from the fiercest battles of the Second World War."
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[@WW2Tales]

(Ep.1) Ladies And Gentlemen Welcome to our new series of "Memoirs of a Japanese Ensign Aboard Battleship Yamato". Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLGjbe3ikd0XGHziC9zkhRt4Pl2Mz3i4Cc

[@sheilatruax6172]

It's pronounced in-sin, not in-sign.

[@davorklemen3194]

To anyone wondering - the vessel in the photo is Fubuki class destroyer Sagiri - name written in direction from stern to bow. Number on the bow marks the destroyer division. It was sunk on Dec. 24th in 1941 by Dutch submarine HNMLS K XVI. This submarine was in turn sunk just a day later by a Japanese submarine I-66.

[@GenX...MCMLXV]

Perhaps it would be pertinent to use an actual photo of the Yamato....

[@RNW11B94B]

Be careful what you wish for they may have used the Yamato from the anime series 🤭

[@billj8513]

Above or below sea level?

[@4catsnow]

Japan opted to wake America at Pearl Harbor...America awoke. America was angry. America rose..Then America came for them.

[@michaelclark587]

Japan chose to F around. America let them find out.

[@davidhatton583]

Another reason they lost… the common sailors were terrorized repeatedly… so None would ever dream of taking initiative. Even if they saw the entire damage control party blown up… they were trained it was not their job so none would even consider picking up the fire hose

[@timothyodonnell8591]

Thank you for adding the episode number to the title!

[@WW2Tales]

Very kind of you sir 🙏

[@scottgiles7546]

"Decisive Battle". The IJN sought, and had, several decisive battles by this point in the war losing them all. If it's a decisive battle and you lost should you not take the hint?

[@jackbarnhill9354]

Delusions linger. There is no changing culture. A military can change many things but not that.

[@richardm3023]

Some people piss blood and still don't get the hint.

[@infernalone666]

Call do-overs until you win

[@joebuckaroo82]

Instead of changing our behavior to match reality, people are hell bent on denying reality.

[@kevinohalloran7164]

The Americans are fighting on Okinawa - an island populated by Japanese citizens, the Musashi, Shinano, and Yamato have been sunk, and they were still contemplating a "decisive battle?"

[@HERETOHELPPEOPLE729]

Love this channel thanks for another excellent upload ❤

[@WW2Tales]

Thanks for listening Sir 🙏

[@HERETOHELPPEOPLE729]

@@WW2Tales Thank you my friend

[@WW2Tales]

@@HERETOHELPPEOPLE729 Sir we are very much grateful to you for the support and encouragement , stay blessed Sir

[@philbyd]

One of the best channels I have ever found on YT ,many thanks

[@WW2Tales]

Sie thank you so much 💐🙏

[@safespacebear]

To think of mother with children fighting on both sides of a war...brutal. I doubt anyone could pray for peace harder than her

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

It happened a great deal in our American Civil War. In the camps, the Neisi formed gangs and attacked Japanese who remained loyal to the U.S. The riots were so bad that the Army had to use tear gas and tanks at times.

[@Dav1Gv]

Very interesting as usual. At the end of WW1 officers of the German High Seas Fleet decided to sail on a death ride against the British Grand Fleet to save the honour of the German nave. The sailors mutinied and joined those who wanted the war to end. This video really rubs home just how different the Japanese were. The Yamato's sister ship the Mushashi had been sunk by US planes in the Battle of Leyte Gulf without acheiving anything, making it obviouse that the whole thing was futile simply makes this wholve fiasco even more tragic.

[@raymondswenson1268]

The sunken battleship Yamato (Great Peace, an ancient name of Japan) was the hero of a 1981 Japanese science fiction anime TV series. Earth is under alien attack, the Pacific Ocean has dried up exposing the wreck of the Yamato. A strange transmission from a distant star gives them the science to turn the wreck into an interstellar spaceship with a powerful weapon fired from its bow, in place of the imperial chrysanthemum emblem. Space Battleship Yamato marked a resurgence in military patriotism in Japan. For the first time, Japan Self Defense Force officers could wear their uniforms in public without being harassed. In the TV story, Japan is fighting back for all humanity. The series can be found on a streaming service.

[@jackkunkel]

In a video about the biggest battleship in history, why would they display a picture of a destroyer? It's not like photos of Yamato are hard to find!

[@buck9739]

I thought it was small. I know Asian junk is smaller but jeez

[@arcticfox5769]

The part of commanding with fear is eventually you either drive the initiative from your soldiers or find yourself with a knife in your back in the first battle

[@csulb75]

The ship pictured is the Fubuki, a Japanese destroyer.

[@billisaacs702]

These Japanese are interminably melodramatic.

[@lunhil12]

You can see the same everywhere today. Nationalism depends on hyperbole to inflame the drones.

[@raymondswenson1268]

The picture is NOT the battleship Yamato. It is a destroyer named Sagiri (the name written on its side).

[@earlworley-bd6zy]

The secret mission of USS-Maryland BB-46 sometime after Pearl Harbor attack.,If all American air craft carriers were wiped out,Then Maryland was to seek out the Japanese fleet & fire every last shell & ram until she was unable to move or sinking & then the crew was to go to the closest ship & take over & start fighting again until no more ships left or the crew was all killed.

[@wisconsinfarmer4742]

Some say yah-may-toe some say yah-mah-toe shouldn't we call the whole thing off?

[@GenX...MCMLXV]

there is no alternate pronunciation.....

[@moldyoldie7888]

ho - ho - ho, who's got the last laugh now?

[@fishbike9103]

“yaMAto”: Japanese is NOT a derivative of Spanish, where the accent defaults to the second to the last syllable. “YAmato”!!

[@jeffmcdonald4225]

What a waste of perfectly good metal.

[@user-qz8km2qr8g]

Don't forget the Canadian Defense forces 🇨🇦!!!!

[@doninventura9474]

Learned lesson: don’t ever underestimate the power and will of the United States.

[@user-em4ol2uy4e]

We are now in more danger than during WW2 for we have a enemy who wants to destroy us from within

[@user-yn8io9vx7t]

My father was on HMAS Barcoo during WW2. I remember his thoughts of an American ship that would not leave home port until they had their full compliment of ice cream.

[@user-bf2cv9xo7x]

The USS Donald Trump.

[@daddygamer5552]

THe USS Joe Lie-Den

[@geoffbeattie3160]

My father was in the royal navy in ww2 and had also heard this story about ice cream on us navy ships

[@VincenzoPentangeli]

AI has trouble with Sake.

[@wittwittwer1043]

The ship shown during this narrative is NOT the Yamato.

[@lummoxx8586]

It is one of Yamato's lifeboats.

[@NKBobcat]

Please use human narrators. SAKE is pronounced Sah-kee.

[@creid7537]

SAKE is pronounced Sack-ay. But yeah, not simply sake

[@larrycumba2741]

Also spelled wrong. Should be Sackey.

[@creid7537]

@@larrycumba2741 and should be preceded by Hackey

[@larrycumba2741]

@@creid7537 Even better.

[@scottbattaglia8595]

23:27 i love me some "sake"

[@bonzomcduffy8336]

If that's the Yamato it shrank a lot.

[@tommywolker5787]

I listened to this entire video. Although interesting, it did not even ADDRESS what the title advertised. That was really sloppy!!!

[@kevinh5349]

This is the decisive battle. Oh wait. I guess we still have more decisive battles in us.

[@NateWilliams190]

Japan didn't know it at the time, but Pearl Harbor was The Decisive Battle.

[@infernalone666]

Only when japan loses is it not *really* desicive

[@ejnordberg]

How was this log retrieved from Yamato? Is this historical fiction?

[@user-xh2yg4uv9q]

Yamato knew it was a suicide run that was doomed to failure due to the Americans be far more numerous and better equiped. Battleships were already obsolete.

[@edwardadams9358]

Shouldn't the picture be of IJN Yamato

[@WW2Tales]

Sir used in today's video ( last part of series)

[@larryyoung5757]

It’s disrespectful that the photo is not Yamato. It’s to the shame of the Japanese naval staff that it was not used earlier in 1942 where it may have done some damage to the US Navy. Their caution, ironically, brought about Yamato’s demise without achieving anything.

[@WW2Tales]

Sir Yamato's picture is used today ( in the last part of this series)

[@James-he7bu]

Do cultures that develop on islands, isolated, develop unusual traits?

[@moldyoldie7888]

Asst Comms Officer Nakatani, a drafted Nisei, at 10:28

[@2rightsmakeauturn]

Your fathers fathers expect you to follow heroically and save our country and freedom

[@MikeHunt-fo3ow]

repeat?

[@rickrudd]

I think this might be, "Requiem for Battleship Y a m a t o"

[@WW2Tales]

Sir we are uploading this series for the first time

[@roykliffen9674]

I do not know who wrote these narratives. Other channels provide similar content. If these are published narratives it is well possible different channels use the same narrative.

[@stannousflouride683]

I paused this to find something more about Yamato's final battle and discovered the Japanese film "Yamato" from 2005 and just finished watching it with English subtitles. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4imf2OhZ9ecm9k It is a very powerful, if gruesome, movie about the futility of of war.

[@allrequiredfields]

09:09 Mistakenshittens?

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Do not think they remained shocked or surprised endlessly. Please give them some credit. Japan lost but they were certainly not naive imbeciles. Thanks!

[@gtaylor2770]

Japanese sailors drinking "sake" (rhymes with "cake")? And your algorithm can't even pronounce 'ensign' correctly? Come on!

[@Pixx4you]

Sake, rice wine, is pronounced sock-ee.

[@fishbike9103]

“sock-AY”! [in pseudo-English]

[@maswinkels]

I might consider watching videos from this channel. But my policy against click-bait and overly sensational titles makes me ignore them.

[@mechanicman8687]

I’m out. Thanks

[@baronoflivonia.3512]

Sake or socky

[@jeffreyflathers5]

Oh, for goodness sake!

[@patricktracey7424]

They must have scared easily when the yanks weren't shooting at the enemy they were shooting at each other, Its an American tradition which continues to date. In the battle of the bulge the germans carved there way through an entire american army routing them, if not for Patton turning his entire army 180 degrees to attack the germans and the germans being short of fuel it could have ended very differently. At the falaise pocket when the germans were trapped the allies and the americans were going towards each other full speed ahead, The allies stopped there advance because they didn't trust that the americans would not fire on them.

[@quoilluminentur2981]

Suppose that's the risk you take when you can't even begin to fight your own wars, a British tradition which continues to date. 😂

[@danwenner1906]

Not hard to surprise a bunch of green army new recruits who thought nothing was coming this way due to a forest. Also the Germans were already stalled before Patton arrived.

[@yankeecornbread8464]

Is this story historical fiction? Whoever wrote it did well.

[@peterrobbins2862]

It most certainly wasn't in new guinea they weren't held in high regard by the Australian or nipon forces

[@keithsargent6963]

Other countries still like to underestimate America.

[@user-bf2cv9xo7x]

Sometimes, they decide the president is a moron. Like Bush Jr.

[@azul8811]

Like Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq?

[@rosaliegolding5549]

Philic 231 you”e obviously don’t know an educated narrative voice when you hear one ,it just simply causes distain and to comment what you imagine is correct diction and well expressed to your choice of a well spoken Narrative 🤗just saying 🤷‍♀️

[@davidaware2366]

It is really text to speech computer program though

[@CarlLarsonSeattle]

Interesting story but did not match the title and the ship is wrong. Fail

[@dusanbatancev5576]

Midway was turn over in the USA vs Japan war...Four carriers sunk and Japan did not have resurses and production capibiletis to make a new one...Holding back on the battleships was one more mistake from Japanes...Rest is history...

[@ernestimken6969]

Why is the only pic an American destroyer escort while the report is from Japan?

[@NateWilliams190]

Japan built 5 large carriers after Midway. They built the Taiho, Shinano & 3 Unryu class carriers - Unryu, Amagi & Katsuragi. Taiho, Shinano & Unryu were all sunk by American Submarines. Amagi was sunk by American planes in Japanese home waters. Katsuragi was badly damaged by American planes in Japanese home waters.

[@dusanbatancev5576]

@@NateWilliams190 thanks for this information i did not known theat 🙂

[@sabatcross8110]

​​@@ernestimken6969 that is not a American USN DD picture... You can tell by the front turret design and Japanese writing on the middle side hull... Google picture of IJN Fubuki. You can see that it will mostly match this ship in IJN design style.

[@donpietruk1517]

Actually moving forward with the battleship strategy was the huge mistake. The Japanese Naval staff were still mostly wedded to Admiral Mahan's battleship strategy which they had adopted wholeheartedly. Ironically the Japanese decimating the US battleship fleet at Pearl freed the US Navy from this strategy which they also favored and forced them to rely on carriers and smaller faster Destroyers. They relied on speed and maneuver more than raw power.

[@gertpotgieter6461]

Japanese Troops Were Shocked By The Ferocious Americans

[@TheHeavensEagle]

Goes to show how poor the AI reader is. Can't pronounce the name of the rice wine properly. Sake is pronounced sak-ee

[@warrenbfeagins]

🫡

[@ml8028]

I am quitting watching until corrected with no AI. I just can not stand it.

[@gertpotgieter6461]

Japanese Troops Were Shocked By The Ferocious Americans ??? To what war are you referring" Could not be WW2! Ferocious is definitely not a word associated with USA troop prowess in the pacific theatre of war. They were brave and willing to go the extra mile - give credit where credit is due. The Japanese - they could be described as ferocious. USSR celebrated Victory Day because they live under the dream they won the war against Germany in 1945. The US live in a bubble with limit knowledge of the rest of the world. They are taught the illusion they single handedly won WW2. Would you describe any country using weapons of mass destruction as "ferocious"? Then you are right - USA is the only country that ever used such weapons against civilians! - A crime against humanity. USA double standards is sickening!

[@lindaterrell5535]

WWII was a crime against humanity. Nearly 50 million people dead as a result. Half or more of that number were civilians. The firebombing of Tokyo destroyed more area and killed as many civilians as Hiroshima. Why no tears for Tokyo? People cry more over Dresden. Many French civilians died when the allies liberated them. This isn’t a buffet, you aren’t allowed to cherry pick which civilian atrocities to cry over.

[@juliantimothy8945]

The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved millions of lives - The Americans expected over 1 million American casualties based upon the losses involved in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Estimated losses that did include expected British and Commonwealth losses or the 5 to 10 Million Japanese dead expected from the Invasion. My Father who had suffered smoke inhalation damage to his lungs and extrene exposure from landing his burning plane on the Northern North Sea after being shot down flying to Murmansk in Winter 1941/42 spent 1943 and 1944 in South Africa training Anzan and South Africa aircrew for the far east before being posted to the far east in 1945 and didnt return to the UK until 1946. He was posted to take part in Operation Downfall, the invasion of the Japanese home islands planned in 2 stages - Stage 1 being Operation Olympic on November 1st, 1945 - The scheduled invasion of the Japanese home island of Kyushu to establish a staging base for Operation Coronet, the invasion of the Honshu and the Tokyo plain scheduled for March 1st, 1946. Operation Olympic (X-Day) was to be the largest amphibious invasion of WW2 with 42 aircraft carriers, 24 battleships and over 400 destroyers supporting the landings of 500,000 men on X-Day dwarfing the D-Day landings of 100,000 men on D-Day in Normandy to defeat Germany. The occupation of Kyushu was essential as both the staging post for the land base fighters, fighter bombers medium bombers essential for supporting. Once Kyushu was taken the aircraft carriers and battleships would not needed for operation Coronet invasion of Honshu in March 1946. The invasion of Kyushu being required as a staging base for the amphibious invasion of Honshu and as an unsinkable aircraft carrier for the allied airforces as well the ability to use fighters, ground attack aircraft and shorter range bombers operating across the narrow straights and not the 1000 miles from the USAAF bases bombing Japan. The Americans expected over 1 million casualties and between 500,000 and 1 million dead americans and between 5 million and 10 million japanese dead. The Americans also hoped the Japanese faced with a massive increase of bombing from the combined allied airforces operating out of Kyushu before the launch of Operation Coronet would save lives. Dropping the Atommic bombs saved millions of lives and the total destruction for Japanese cities like in Germany.

[@Philc231]

AI voice is annoying .

[@joebwan0240]

No kidding.

[@naardri]

Incorrect

[@MrPapageorgio]

Maybe he sounds like a nerd and doesn't want people to hear. Source: I sound like a nerd and wouldn't want people to hear.

[@williamcunningham3650]

The AI has the hiccups.

[@TomSkinner]

As is your whining