Japanese Were Shocked By Aggressive Americans (Ep.3)

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[@WW2Tales]

Ladies And Gentlemen, This is part 3 of "Memoirs of a Japanese Ensign Aboard Battleship Yamato". Link of Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLGjbe3ikd0XGHziC9zkhRt4Pl2Mz3i4Cc Link of part 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooeQXnmAmtFjrLM Link of part 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIPIZHSDodaVoMU

[@Stellaknot]

I wish I could listen to these stories all the time

[@davidsmith7372]

Doing my small part for the algorithm

[@WW2Tales]

@davidsmith7372 Sir David welcome onboard

[@supermopar7497]

The sad reality is, that before the demise of Yamato,the war was well over.

[@livingadreamlife1428]

It was certainly over after Saipan.

[@nancymilawski1048]

It was over after Pearl Harbor because they did not get the US aircraft carriers and they had no backup plan to find them even though the number one priority for the dive bombers was the carriers.

[@bunkstagner298]

all I can say is REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR ?

[@geeeeeee3]

No sympathy for any of them.

[@maryholder3795]

The Ensign words after 79 years rings as true today, as it did in 1945. The whole attack ordered by Headquarters was an exercise in futility. Did they care, not really in my mind. The Japanese tradition was not to surrender and they despised those who did. One of the reason they despised the Uk/Us/Aussie POW who surrendered. Yamoto demise was useless, futile it was wasteful of the ship, and in the loss of sailors lives. The grief of their families With no graves to pay respect to their men of Yamoto

[@ncander64]

It is always remarkable how a battle or war’s outcome is affected by underestimating an enemy.

[@mississippichris]

18:05 "Already, more than half those on the bridge are dead. It's nice to have much more room to move around in..." This is cold even in context. Taken out of context it's chilling.

[@larryyoung5757]

That struck me too.

[@oldmike7239]

Excellent narration; almost poetic. Too bad the video didn’t have a photo of the Yamato instead of some non descriptive cargo ship. Agree with another commenter that by this time the war was over. Japan could have saved countless lives by accepting that fact instead of sacrificing needlessly.

[@TheShootist]

Helmut reads Japanese too? dang.

[@larryyoung5757]

All American crews were trained in damage control and rescue. The Japanese only trained two groups in damage control and response. When they were killed the Japanese were helpless. And what is that ship that they show?

[@yankeecornbread8464]

I guess this spectacular story was written by Mitsuru Yoshida, a participant in the battle.

[@vaderv]

Good video.

[@mkunes2502]

We had always known that devotion to the deity/emperor inspired fatal service. But, the shock, by the common sailor, that any deity or deity/emperor would allow them to be so ridiculously unprepared, is a new one to me.

[@emmetjames3]

So few Japanese combat veterans survived due to their vow to die before surrender that very little useful military intelligence filtered back to the nipponese Islands. Every encounter with the Japanese tended to be the same as the first, relatively easily handled, because they had no surviving veterans to tell them different. That is a fatal disadvantage of the supposed bushido code.

[@gregwasserman2635]

Chikuma class protected cruiser from the 1910s, probably the lead ship Chikuma.

[@deepcosmiclove]

What is the difference between a protected cruiser and an armored cruiser?

[@gregwasserman2635]

@@deepcosmiclove, the degree of armor protection. An armored cruiser had more armor.

[@deepcosmiclove]

@@gregwasserman2635 Does a protected cruiser have an armored belt? Or are just some parts of the ship armored?

[@gregwasserman2635]

@@deepcosmiclove, no armor belt. Protection around the conning tower and machinery.

[@deepcosmiclove]

@@gregwasserman2635 Thank you!

[@keithludowitz9637]

Very poetic text by the Ensignl

[@vaderv]

It really is.

[@4catsnow]

They really didn't think they'd get away with Pearl Harbor...Did They??

[@daleeasternbrat816]

Some really did. The Japanese who spent time here knew. Admiral Yamamoto knew. He had sent considerable time here. Certain Political and Military leaders in Japan started Believing Their Own Propaganda. That happened a lot in Axis Powers.

[@4catsnow]

@@daleeasternbrat816 My uncle graduated high school Jun 1942...left town,, wound up on a carrier sailing from San Franscisco...he reported to the ship with his orders...yeoman took hin below decks to his bunk.. on it was a note...."Welcome to Operation slap the jap off the map"...

[@emmetjames3]

Yes. They considered Americans soft cowards with no patriotism who would flinch like the leaders we have in the Brandon/kakala White House and negotiate to allow Nippon to keep with they had conquered.

[@emmetjames3]

Kids today with instant access to all sorts of facts and lies have no concept of how the axis powers stifled all free communication and only pumped out pure propaganda with no dissension ever allowed or heard. Japan was particularly vulnerable to misinformation since they had no access to alternative factual radio transmissions. 95% at least of their population thought they were still winning when the emperor surrendered.

[@JohnNoZ35]

They really did not have a lot of choice. The US has blockaded their supply likes for oil and rubber, and they were already at war with China. They hoped to catch the carriers at Pearl Harbor and cripple the Pacific fleet. There were no carriers at Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack.

[@steveschlackman4503]

When it comes to Japanese stupid acts the stupidity of sacrificing the Yamato for no purpose is the crowning achievement. This was a War Criminal act.

[@Dav1Gv]

Notable that none of the top brass joined them.

[@steveschlackman4503]

The aim of this insanity was to show devotion to the emperor by dying for him. There were elements of the army that wanted to sacrifice the entire population of Japan in showing devotion to the emperor by dying for him. The US allowed the emperor to remain for stability. He certainly could have been charged as a war criminal.

[@geeeeeee3]

Attacking America was pretty moronic as well.

[@steveschlackman4503]

@@geeeeeee3 There were some senior Japanese Navy leaders who were aware that attacking The US was going to be suicidal. They knew, after Midway, that the US was building a large fleet of carriers. Those carriers were Game Over.

[@maryholder3795]

​​@@steveschlackman4503 for once a savvy political move that saved the Americans lives and Japanese civilians lives. Even if as you correctly say the emperor should have been put on trial with the rest of the army/navy men for war crimes.

[@ninline2000]

What a sad waste of brave men. They never had a chance.

[@jeffmcdonald4225]

I guess they knew how it felt to be on the Arizona.

[@Bob.W.]

Yoshido Mitsuru

[@brianferus9292]

They should have put more resources into submarine production

[@geeeeeee3]

Too arrogant.

[@Zerox_Prime]

I recall in one documentary that Japan built 100 submarines during the war... cannot say it was so.

[@Archivvve]

They were doomed from the beginning.

[@daleeasternbrat816]

The Japanese model was the British. Makes sense. Japan resembles Britain in geographic situation. The Japanese wanted a strong surface fleet. More submarines, used aggressively, would not have hurt , it wouldn't have won the war either.

[@Zerox_Prime]

@@daleeasternbrat816 Good insight. A notion that Japannia could rule the waves and colonize the world... but those were different times.

[@davidkeller6156]

Does anyone know what ship is pictured in the photo? Looks a Japanese cruiser from the early 1900s except I don’t see a bridge like they had.

[@Macombdji]

I think that what made us angry was that the bombing took place on a SUNDAY

[@emmetjames3]

Are you kidding? Because it was a Sunday, my father-in-law was ashore rather than on the Vestal before the Arizona was blown up next to it. His tears upon seeing the monument with the names of the Arizona sailors who were friends of his had nothing to do with the day of the week when they died.

[@osea5000]

44:30

[@tykehotep2865]

Whilst very poignant and thought provoking to listen to this one single persons own horrible experience, and yes the hideous things he describes are too horrendous to contemplate happening to you personally. But in amongst his description you can hear the regimented mind set of the wartime Japanese, that same mindset that meted out such atrocities as Nanking Hong Kong Philippines China Burma etc etc Marched and worked to death thousands upon thousands. Used female Native American British Australian prisoners as whores for their troops. And the woke whine about American detention camps Japanese Americans were sent where they were treated most humanly. So yeah poor bloke but I do feel it hard to feel sorry for a person for who hatered was a way of life Call it what you want a "warrior mindset" mebbe what ever it was hate pure and simple.