Scenes on board a light cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Aleutian Islands campaign

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@jasongoodman4930 Ай бұрын

Seeing ww2 Japanese footage is so rare and unique. Amazing scenes.

@SMGJohn Ай бұрын

There is an entire documentary in colour from Japanese service men who filmed using Kodak colour during the war.

@Pkarchpray16 Ай бұрын

@@SMGJohn Whats the name of it? where can it be seen?

@SMGJohn Ай бұрын

@@Pkarchpray16 Its literally called "Japan's War in Colour (2004)" The only way to see it is going into the high seas or buying the DVD from Amazon.

@northernskys Ай бұрын

Interesting footage. Nice shots of the crew running through their drills with the practice gun. The floatplane appears to be a Kawanishi E7K2. Officially called the "Navy Type 94 Reconnaisance Seaplane Model 2".

@MM22966 Ай бұрын

Was that a radar dome installed behind the the 3rd crewman? I checked the Wiki entry and it doesn't mention anything. EDIT: A little research shows it to be a Type 3 Mark 6 Model 4 (Type H6) surface search radar. There was also a notation in another entry about MAD gear, but no details.

@Oligodendrocyte139 Ай бұрын

@@MM22966Well, well. I never knew MAD technology was around so early 👍

@hw97karbine Ай бұрын

Agreed

@MM22966 Ай бұрын

@@Oligodendrocyte139 I couldn't find any greater detail on it; somebody might have misunderstood what it does/poor translation. I don't know much about MAD tech, but I can't see them carrying much more weight on a plane that size, so maybe it is wrong on that score.

@Oligodendrocyte139 Ай бұрын

@MM22966 So, they did develop the technology, called KMX, it doesn't look too bulky, and was fitted to floatplanes. The Aleutian campaign is probably too early though. Interesting 👍

@MM22966 Ай бұрын

One of those cases where you better win, because going into the water is right out.

@billyponsonby Ай бұрын

Not so tough after all. British light cruisers had an open bridge.

@dmoney6005 Ай бұрын

@@billyponsonbyThat just makes them dumb. I bet those guys felt real tough when they were freezing

@MM22966 Ай бұрын

@@billyponsonby I am shivering just thinking about it.

@Mthammere2010 Ай бұрын

See the dude going up the frozen ladder with no gloves? Sailors were a different breed back then.

@slick4401 Ай бұрын

Excellent work by the cameraman, whoever he was.

@jcwoodman5285 Ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure that's IJN CL Tama at the start. She had a unique camo pattern...

@hw97karbine Ай бұрын

I'm not very au fait with the minutia of Japanese naval vessels but comparing to references I would agree, although the cameraman seems to be on board a different class, possibly the Nagara-class cruiser Abukuma

@jochenheiden Ай бұрын

Incredible!

@user-yo1im9hx4b Ай бұрын

ah yes, the famous ice camo pattern

@Finoramadhan10-hu5bw Ай бұрын

5:40 ah yes, catapult take off, impressive this technic also can work properly with a monoplane like aichi e13a

@johnrose9559 Ай бұрын

Mopping the deck as soon as the ice was knocked off, 0:31

@Mthammere2010 Ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure Wargaming would be interested in this historical footage!

@MM22966 Ай бұрын

4:20 Question: was that a mock-up breech for gun drill? I had no idea such an installation would be on a ship. Is that common?

@MorangRus Ай бұрын

On the "Bismarck" those "Ladeübungskanonen" practice breeches (one for 10.5 cm and one for 15 cm guns) were on the deck between two rear main turrets Casar and Dora, on the "Scharnhorst" they were in front of the funnel just inboard of the foremost 10.5 cm mounts, and there was one on the "Nurnberg" in front of starboard rear torpedo set. Didn't find them on "Hipper" or "Deutschland" classes though.

@JGCR59 Ай бұрын

From 4:20 they're practicing on a loading simulator

@Grandizer8989 Ай бұрын

The tail (Aleutian Fleet) was too far away from the head (Midway Fleet) to help save the day. Big mistake by Yamamoto. One of many, actually

@magr7424 Ай бұрын

Ideen.. The whole alutian operation was a mess and did not contribute at all to midway.. Would have been much wiser to put the carrier in a parallel course with kidu butai in case there is a trap to fight back

@Grandizer8989 Ай бұрын

@@magr7424 Yup. Nimitz was probably like, The Aleutians? Where the hell is that? They can have them!

@magr7424 Ай бұрын

@@Grandizer8989 yes... A few icy rocks where the japs would only suffer cold, snow and there was noway to go from there.. A grave strategic mistake.. Later they were easily surrounded and driven away..

@user-gr3ej6yv4k Ай бұрын

AMAZING 😊😊😊

@yasuhiroueno9446 Ай бұрын

Note: Left and right seemed to be reversed, judged from Japanese characters.

@SpenzOT Ай бұрын

Kuma class light cruiser?

@billyponsonby Ай бұрын

I wonder what the survival rate was on a IJN light cruiser?

@SSN515 Ай бұрын

About 50 percent of them survived the war. Mostly due to lack of fuel at the end. Most of the losses were in port or at anchor due to air stirkes.

@tikuma1025 Ай бұрын

What kind of cruiser is this?

@gordonhall9871 Ай бұрын

cold

@ThomasEPeters Ай бұрын

A CL with single mount 14cm guns. Nagara? or one of her classmates?

@ThomasEPeters Ай бұрын

It kind of surprises me that they don't have any low pressure steam fittings on the weather deck to just hose most of this stuff off, and they have to hammer it off.