How a Lone US Sub Destroyed Japan's Most Important Ship in WW2

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[@ColtGoerner88]

I don’t like it it took forever for me to get a new warship

[@ColtGoerner88]

and the first aircraft carrier is so hard to control

[@blacklake13]

Worth noting that Zuikaku, Shokaku's sister, wasn't present at Midway because, while the ship wasn't damaged at Coral Sea, its air wing suffered unsustainable losses. It also returned to port to replace planes and work-up new pilots.

[@fighter5583]

Zuikaku could've participated at Midway if Japanese doctrine wasn't so strict. Shokaku still had more of her air wing, but Japan's navy had a "one crew, one ship" ideology that prevented mixing up air groups in the event a ship was lost. This made them inflexible unlike the U.S. navy where carrier pilots could land on any flat top if needed. Yorktown's surviving pilots took off from Enterprise at Midway when the carrier herself was lost.

[@M4A1BestGirl]

​@@fighter5583Zuikaku: *Gets badly damaged* Akagi: *Angery Foxgirl noises*

[@wolftamer5463]

@@M4A1BestGirlOr smugly and arrogantly teasing her juniors for being damaged, and telling them to watch and learn, only to get rekket in the next battle 4-1.

[@f430ferrari5]

@@fighter5583this supposed doctrine went right out the window after the 4 main carriers sunk. Also, instead of putting it on doctrine it was simply a flawed battle plan. The US Naval War College already did in depth analysis and stated the IJN didn’t properly use its surface ships. Had they done so there were all kinds of potential combinations that could have had Carrier Zuikaku at Midway loaded with fighter planes to provide CAP. The IJN had plenty of pilots and A6M’s. The IJN had over 1,500 pilots in their program at the start of the war. They certainly didn’t lose very many in the 5-6 months leading up to Midway.

[@fighter5583]

@f430ferrari5 They had plenty of pilots sure, but they didn't rotate them out as much as they should have. Most of the experienced pilots Japan had stayed on the front lines until they were eventually shot out of the sky. And their pilot training program to replace the lost expertise wasn't good enough to sustain the losses they kept incurring. The carrier battle of the Philippines Sea was proof of that.

[@corymorimacori1059]

“Pycrete! You take some wood, you take some ice and you get pycrete. He pulled out a gun and the wood shattered, then shot pycrete and the bullet ricocheted and hit someone in the conference room. Then they tried to make a pycrete aircraft carrier but that idea was scraped because that’s a really dumb idea.”

[@Einsatzkommando1945]

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[@limwellz]

Pykrete*

[@helmit_kid9755]

who is this refrencing again?

[@memepower641]

​@@helmit_kid9755Oversimplified

[@ChewyAmpersand]

@HeisenbergTheOG Lol, no one cares 😂

[@S0RGEx]

Interesting thing about the Shōkaku-class is that in nearly every battle the two participated in, the outcome was the same: Shōkaku is damaged, Zuikaku escapes without so much as a scratch on her. It happened at Coral Sea, Eastern Solomons, and Santa Cruz Islands. Zuikaku only took battle damage for the first time in her career after Shōkaku was sunk at Philippine Sea, and was sunk the first time she went into a battle without Shōkaku at Cape Engaño.

[@matthewhecht9257]

Her meat shield.

[@bkjeong4302]

Zuikaku actually proved quite difficult to put down at Cape Engano in spite of being combat-ineffective even from the start of the battle, soaking up quite a bit of damage before sinking (in spite of the fact she was the main focus of the American attacks for obvious reasons). Not too surprising given that the Shokakus were intended to be Japan’s carrier counterparts of the Yamatos.

[@ph89787]

@@bkjeong4302 That being said, i still view Cape Engano as a missed opportunity for Halsey, Mitscher and Ozawa to have a one on one carrier duel with Zuikaku vs Enterprise.

[@bkjeong4302]

@@ph89787 That would have been fun. Impractical and pointless, but fun.

[@ph89787]

@@bkjeong4302 yeah but in the words of Captain Raymond Holt. “Who wouldn’t want to see a man fight a crocodile.”

[@hmk5123]

Although the Shokaku was well-liked in the Navy, the pride of the Kito Butai was the Akagi, until it was destroyed at Midway, leaving Shokaku as the flagship of the Kito Butai.

[@bkjeong4302]

This was entirely due to crew experience. Everyone knew that Shokaku was the far better design.

[@wolftamer5463]

@@bkjeong4302Especially since Akagi was a conversion, Shokaku purpose built. Conversions were always compromises that would never be as good at their intended role as something specifically built for it. That’s why even if ships like Saratoga or Shinano were big they often had small air groups, trouble with machinery, and limited capacity for upgrades as the war went on.

[@bkjeong4302]

@@wolftamer5463 Not only was Shokaku purpose-built, the Japanese actually intended her to be the carrier equivalent of Yamato, and both Shokakus were built at the same time as Yamato and Musashi. The limited amount of infrastructure (mostly the number of large enough drydocks) meant that Japan couldn’t build large numbers of capital ships, so they decided to go for quality instead in the late 30s, and not just with their new battleships (though they partially abandoned this idea for the carriers and began a massive carrier fleet expansion program even before PH, relying on small, new designs that could be built in smaller, more numerous drydocks). The Shokakus were thus designed explicitly as “supercarriers”, a massive quantum leap ahead from the smaller and/or less efficient earlier Japanese carriers and intended to outmatch enemy carriers individually. As with the Yamatos (design-wise) the Japanese came insanely close but not quite to getting everything they wanted out of the Shokakus, mostly for factors that had little to do with the ships’ design. The big one was aircraft design-the Shokakus actually had more hangar space than any other carrier of the end-30s and could thus carry a lot more aircraft in theory, but Japanese folding wing designs didn’t fold as tight as American equivalents, meaning that the Shokakus ended up with slightly smaller air wings than the Yorktowns in spite of having a lot more aircraft capacity, which wasn’t helped by the Japanese not using deck parking (though even then it was quite close). In terms of speed and durability, though, the Shokakus delivered on their promises (especially considering that all the American dive-bomber hits that damaged Shokaku over her career had much higher payloads than any of the Japanese dive-bomber hits on any of the Yorktowns). Definitely the most fearsome Axis vessels of the war and not to be taken lightly, at least not until pilot attrition had caught up with them.

[@DeezzzNuts1987]

Yes we took out the japppppppp war criminals

[@f430ferrari5]

@@bkjeong4302 you say Japan wasn’t capable of building large quantities of capital ships but at the time of Midway, the IJN brought: 11 battleships Had 9 carriers available. All used for Midway/Aleutians except Zuikaku. 22 cruisers 64 destroyers And more importantly, around 12-16 fleet oilers. The US brought to Point Luck 3 carriers with Yorktown damaged, 8 cruisers and 15 destroyers. That’s it. Think they had one fleet oiler. Want to discuss the US lack of fleet oilers in 1942. Nah you wouldn’t want to do that. 😂

[@alexanderleach3365]

Shokaku and her sister Zuikaku are great aircraft carriers, feared by the Allies until their demise in 1944.

[@blacklake13]

They were certainly the best CV designs the IJN had. Still exhibited a flummoxing combination of closed, side-armored hangars with no deck armor above, which kind of defeats either purpose. However they did prove that, despite this, and unlike the other four CV's of Kido Butai, they could take punches and live to fight another day. On the whole the Yorktowns were better ships, though at least up to and through Midway the skills of their air wings couldn't compete with the IJN's (which I'd expect adds more to the reputation than the ships - all the IJN wings at that point were crammed full of combat experience and discipine. Plus the A6M was still considered something of a super-fighter).

[@yourboishitposts]

No one reference azur lane

[@TheGhostFart]

USS-Cavalla to Shokaku: SURPISE

[@bkjeong4302]

@@blacklake13 It’s debatable if the Yorktowns were better ships overall; they had a slightly larger air wing, but this was down to aircraft design and the use of deck parking (the Shokakus actually had more hangar space). In terms of durability it’s a wash (better ventilation vs. Better protection against torpedoes and more reserve buoyancy) and the Japanese carriers were also a bit faster.

[@ph89787]

To be fair, the US Navy did have an opportunity to build the Yorktowns up to 27,000 tonnes under the Washington Naval Treaty. If the US Navy wanted to go for quality vs quantity like the IJN did. @@bkjeong4302

[@ryanbrown7597]

USS Cavalla is now a museum ship in Galveston, TX alongside the destroyer escort USS Stewart.

[@LeftyWriterTx]

And both vessels make for a fantastic tour.

[@nogoodnameleft]

@@LeftyWriterTx Just a heads up to anybody if they want to see Stewart's engines (very unique because the U.S. has only two destroyer escorts left, Stewart and Slater) they should ask for the hard hat tour that is only available 3 days a week. They should plan accordingly and make some phone calls to check.

[@c.w.simpsonproductions1230]

Even crazier was what happened to the Shinano, Japan's super aircraft carrier. It was the third of the Yamato class that was abruptly changed to an aircraft carrier from a battleship after Midway. And then ten days after commissioning while it was on route to complete fitting, it was spotted by the US sub Archerfish, and was sunk by four torpedos and claimed over 1,400 men including the captain. Japan was so desperate to keep the disastrous news hidden that the survivors were isolated on an island until 1945, and no one in the US believed the Archerfish's captain until after the war ended. The archerfish was awarded the most tonnage sunk during the war with that one ship.

[@ChrisMattern-oh6wx]

And let's talk about Taihou, sunk by single torpedo from the sub USS Albacore (she fired three but two missed) thanks to utterly botched damage control measures that led to a massive fuel-air explosion. Japanese carriers had no luck with US subs, that's for sure. From the title of the video, I thought it was going to be about Taihou.

[@justanothergmailaccount1353]

The Barb is still better.

[@nogoodnameleft]

Shinano was not a real carrier yet. She had no shakedowns and she didn't even have bulkheads installed which made her easy to sink. She was serving as an aircraft ferry until final refitting. So when she was sunk she was an oversized/overrated aircraft ferry, not a real aircraft carrier. As for Taiho she was poorly manufactured unlike Shokaku and Zuikaku. At least Shokaku had to take 3 or 4 torpedoes from Cavalla to get sunk. Pretty sad that Taiho was sunk with only 1 torpedo.

[@thereal84]

Wasn’t awarded the most tonnage overall (only like 16th), but highest tonnage in a single patrol, beating Rasher.

[@Johnrich395]

When the movie “Pearl Harbor” was released WW2 veterans were upset that they had used WW2 US aircraft carriers to shoot the shots of the Japanese planes taking off. Director Michael Bay made a statement that, “I would have loved to use a WW2 Japanese aircraft carrier, but YOU SUNK THEM ALL!”

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Which is a piss poor excuse for lazy film making. For “Tora! Tora! Tora!”, made over 30 years earlier, the built a 1.1 scale replica of Akagi’s bridge and flight deck (as well as Nagato’s starboard side), and made models of all the other Japanese carriers. “Pearl Harbor” had the advantage of CGI and a larger budget (114 million and 140 million adjusted for 2001 inflation) and yet they still settled for using modern warships and Essex class carriers for everything but the American battleships.

[@triadwarfare]

​@@sirboomsalot4902labor cost more than what it was 30 years ago, so we stopped using replicas of that scale

[@tamisthewizard3199]

@@sirboomsalot4902 I read that as he saved tens to hundred millions of dollars by not building his own, seems smarter than lazy

[@LightS_bRight]

​@@triadwarfareyea because actors need the money more than actual working people. I completely forgot about the world we live in.

[@LightS_bRight]

​@@tamisthewizard3199is not really smart, more like greedy. I bet the actual workers and laborers don't get paid more than 50k a year or anywhere near 100k

[@isaacgonzo]

This is what i love bout these videos. I never knew bout this ship, but it seems to have garnered the legacy of a ship thats well known, like the american missouri

[@nogoodnameleft]

Cavalla, WWII-wise, did far more than the famous Missouri. Cavalla actually sank a fleet carrier! Missouri sank nothing.

[@TheSilverShadow17]

How about the "Grey Ghost" USS Enterprise?

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

Shokaku lived her life just like in your average WOWs match: everything going accordingly until a sub ruins your day

[@shadowling77777]

Kek

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

@@shadowling77777 what does that mean?

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@@user-op8fg3ny3j in world of warcraft saying LOL on hordeside translates to Kek alliance side. Apparently now there is also a reference to an Egyptian god and the alt-right or something, so outside of wow, I'm not sure.

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

@@ironfist7789 WOWs means World of Warships though, not World of Warcraft

[@ironfist7789]

@@user-op8fg3ny3j it can for some people, but world of warcraft has been called wow since 2004 or whatever... warships says 2015

[@andrewmontgomery5621]

Sakura Empire aircraft carrier Shokaku:"This melody is a requiem."

[@apollyonkurze3211]

I was wondering how long it'd take to find another admiral from Azur Lane.

[@yoseipilot]

*Laugh in KanColle*

[@apollyonkurze3211]

@@yoseipilot Ya know, I keep forgetting Kancolle exists

[@yoseipilot]

@@apollyonkurze3211 There’s no denying that first original exist

[@apollyonkurze3211]

@@yoseipilot Oh, I know. I'm not denying that it exists.

[@Masonthebaconhair]

IJN Shokaku Aircraft Carrier was a very hard ship to sink until her demise was near. They got guts to poke the Hornets' Nest and paid the ultimate price.

[@snitchpogi1277]

Saw that in Kancolle anime tho.

[@mkthis3559]

I really love this channel, can you make more navy videos?

[@Iphres]

I’ve been inside the Cavalla as a museum ship in Galveston and it’s a lot smaller inside than you’d think. Only room enough for a couple of people to work engine or torpedoes at any time, cots built into the engineering area to always be at the ready, the periscope area requires climbing up a nearly claustrophobic ladder to access, you’d almost wonder how something so small could take out the Shōkaku. A single one of its peroxide torpedoes cover a quarter of the floor space! It was an enlightening visit, imagining the kind of hectic activity going on in that tight space during a battle.

[@scottgalbraith7461]

You don't need to sink a carrier. All you need to do is disable her runways.

[@aran5033]

Japanese work addicts would fix it back in half day

[@jeanmatthews3899]

​@@aran5033 nah most of their aircraft carriers sunk with the first bombs being dropped unlike the americans, this is thanks to more standardization on the american side and aggressive tactics used on the japanese which often means lack of defence like good deck armour and poorer damage control compared to the allied side

[@Zam_man]

yea japan used WOODEN runways on their carriers - probably not the best decision in hindsight LOL

[@scottgalbraith7461]

@@aran5033 half an hour.

[@Cholin3947]

​@@Zam_manmost America carriers prior to the Essex had unarmed flight decks.

[@GabrielRoy-q7r]

My great grandfather served on the cavalla his story of sinking that carrier has been passed down through the generations never forget the sacrifices of people for their country

[@bkjeong4302]

These things really deserve more attention as the absolute worst the Axis navies could send at the Allies. They actually did plenty of damage too. It’s also worth noting that the Shokakus were intended to be superweapons in the same vein as the Yamatos (and were built simultaneously).

[@paleoph6168]

Ay, nice seeing you here. I believe I've seen you in the comment sections of the channel Riamus and his paleo media content. I guess people with an interest in the prehistoric past also can be interested in human history.

[@agentepolaris4914]

So they are the absolute best instead

[@rokusai11]

The Shokaku sisters definitely had far better battle history than the Yamato. Yamato feels like the Japanese navy flex at engineering and feel more like a religious figure for the Japanese navy. The Shokakus definitely deserved the title of the strongest Japanese ships than Yamato, all Yamato was just "haha big battleship".

[@bkjeong4302]

@@rokusai11 The Japanese never actually hyped Yamato up as this “religious figure” until after the war, contrary to what you seem to believe; this idea of her being this gigantic pointless propaganda piece is a falsehood, not because she wasn’t pointless (she was), but because she was never used for propaganda value. Yamato was actually kept under secrecy the whole time and was NEVER supposed to be taken seriously (the idea being that the Americans would also have no idea how capable she was if it was a secret-and the USN indeed didn’t realize it until almost at the end of the war, and it wasn’t until after she’d already been sunk that they confirmed their suspicions). The ACTUAL “religious figure” and symbol of the IJN was the much older and far less capable Nagato. Also, it should be noted this “haha big dumb Yamato” narrative is based on a major case of double standards; the reason she was useless and did basically nothing (or rather, nothing that could ever have justified her existence) was because the entire battleship concept was obsolete by that time, which applies to Allied battleships built around the same time as well; in fact, I’d argue as few as two out of the 29 WWII-era battleships ever managed to NOT be a complete strategic disaster. Yet in the popular narrative, Yamato is the only one of the lot who gets criticized for being a gigantic waste of resources.

[@wolftamer5463]

​@@bkjeong4302That's true. Very few people were even aware that the Yamato's existed at all. The Americans thought the newest Japanese battleships were significantly smaller than they actually were, and had next to no knowledge of Shinano. Even the sailors and admirals on the ships themselves didn't know the ship's own specifications. As far as being useless, fast battleships could still be useful as escorts and add their AA to the carriers, and pull away enemy bombers from the more vulnerable carriers like when Japanese diver bombers went after the Sodak at Santa Cruz Islands instead of the crippled Enterprise. Even slower battleships could still be used for shore bombardment and convoy escort, both very common missions that are unglamorous but necessary and a battleship would be just as or more effective than a cruiser in. Ultimately, a ship cannot be judged based on just one or two major actions, but the overall strategy. And there were many things battleships could still be good at. They still had the intimidation factor and "fleet in being" concept to hold the line when carriers were running low and cruisers and destroyers might not have the firepower. For more comprehensive overviews on this stuff, check out Drachinifel. He has good talks about battleships like in his Myths and misconceptions video and shore bombardment video.

[@alm5992]

No matter which side, my heart always sinks when hearing that thousands of sailors weren't able to escape a sinking and/ or exploding ship. Edit: The NAVY had a lot less to do with the suffering of civilians, unlike the ARMY which deserves no respect, I agree.

[@Tzunamii777]

Thats the sting that always remains. Being trapped in a doomed leviathan....

[@FlyingTigersKMT]

I feel nothing but joy at IJN losses. Screw them.

[@mauldalorian4725]

I have no sympathy for the IJN, not after the horrific crimes that they did.

[@paleoph6168]

​​​@@mauldalorian4725I am familiar with atrocities of the IJA, but not so much of the IJN. Could you provide some examples (besides the Attack on Pearl Harbor)? And if possible, those done in particular by the crew of the Shokaku?

[@FlyingTigersKMT]

@@paleoph6168 How about... ummm... pearl harbor? The murder of Bruno Gaido and his pilot after torturing them? The various invasions of the south Asian islands where the navy landed and took prisoners and did everything the IJA did including murder, rape, and torture? Look up the stories of the Dutch and English who were taken prisoner by the IJN.

[@lucasthehonkaimanectric1690]

Shoukaku class in history: the crane sisters that feard the allies Shoukaku in AL: Zuikaku: grey ghost!!! Shoukaku: *play flute*

[@wolftamer5463]

Do you mean spread fear in the Allies or something?

[@lucasthehonkaimanectric1690]

@@wolftamer5463 due to advance of the shi

[@ph89787]

“Those 2 carriers.” Admiral Chester Nimitz.

[@bkjeong4302]

The Nemesis Carriers.

[@kennethbarrett3902]

I always get overly excited when I see you drop a new video my wife says “we’ll good my little nerd will be happy for at least a good 10-20 minutes however the new nerd history video is” lol that being said let’s nerd out hahaha

[@nicholasmontgomery8594]

I wish you guys did a video on the Berlin Candy Bomber.

[@EngPheniks]

The Pacific theatre of WW2 was undoubtedly the biggest ever naval and air battle in history.

[@zangrygrapes4571]

Your animation really improved!

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

I’m sure there was some sort of strategic advantage to poking the bear. Anyway, kudos to Japan’s military strategists. Because that’s what they did.

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

They poked the Dragon, and wiped a lot.

[@AdmiralBlackstar]

They thought the bear would come anyway and hitting it hard enough might keep it from striking back. There is some merit to that idea and the did cripple the pacific fleet's conventional offensive arm by taking out eight battleships, at least for the immediate future. A more conventionally minded nation whose leadership was war-shy might have just taken the L, but FDR was looking for an excuse to throw down AND if there are two things Americans are good at doing it's ignoring conventional wisdom and improvising.

[@jiyuhong5853]

IJN Carriers Ranked by success 1. Shokaku & Zuikaku 2. Hiryu 3. Akagi

[@smtoonturkce]

*I really love this channel, can you make more navy videos?*

[@Vert_GreenHeart]

The only Shoukaku i know wears a white/red crane-sleeved kimono top with a black short skirt, white thigh highs and a silky smooth silver hair toppled with a dazzling red eyeliner and a beautiful blood red rose hair clip.

[@ahmedbaumusvonderstamm]

I see you are an Admiral of culture as well

[@trazkey]

You probably play Azur Lane

[@komkitty6571]

ngl, Shoukaku & Zuikaku are my no. 1 favorite ships. And thank to a certain game about anthropomorphic ships, I got obsessed with those 2 ships.

[@yoseipilot]

I see you are Teitoku culture as well

[@SpecJack15]

@@komkitty6571 Zuikaku is my fave IJN carrier.

[@stanleyronblake1646]

Gracias... saludos desde Argentina...

[@cyarxb1174]

Fun Fact: The USS Cavalla (SS-244) is now a museum ship at Seawolf Park, in Galveston, Texas.

[@zali13]

You missed the chance to show the deck crews participating in rajio taiso😊 Great video as always. By late 1944, the Rengo Kantai's large surface units were expensive fuel guzzling soon-to-be hulks. There would never be a decisive fleet battle which the High Command desperately yearned for, their Fleet God was dead, and enemy submarines were systematically dismantling the shipping between the Home Islands and their resource rich colonies in Malaya, Borneo and the East Indies, starving Japan of the necessities it needed to wage war. That is why the majority of the big fleet units were moved to Singapore or Brunei, to be close to the oil source. The battles to prevent the Americans from taking the Marianas and the Philippines were the swan song of the IJN, where they sacrificed the majority of their big fuel thirsty ships in a blaze of glory. Truly a crushing of the jewels...

[@p.strobus7569]

They had their decisive battles from MI to Sho-Go 1, they just kept shouting “nuh-unh, that didn’t happen” as if sheer denial could prevent decisive from being decisive. The rest of your comment is spot on, it was a crushing of the jewels.

[@snitchpogi1277]

As a fan of Kancolle and Azur Lane animate series, i really appreciate your perspective about Shoukaku-class Aircraft Carriers, thanks Simple History!.

[@ansettwise0005]

Here comes another fellow Admiral

[@snitchpogi1277]

@@ansettwise0005 I am not an Admiral but i do like watching both shows BTW.

[@anonymousidn777]

Flight Deck C H E S T

[@anonymousidn777]

​@@snitchpogi1277Watch kancolle S1 eps 6 the curry competition bro

[@HammersRComing]

Ahh yes. Shokaku reminds me of that one guy who revealed his waifu in public

[@Minboelf]

While Zuikaku almost in every battle didn't suffer much damage, Shokaku meanwhile is a literally Bomb Magnet whenever both fight together

[@Takomi_chan2]

coral sea: got three bombs santa cruz: 6 bombs.. i can live.. philippine sea: 3 torpedo hits and a plane just exploded, guess ill die..

[@ShadowMark3_]

"We sank three boats. They dropped the sun on us twice."

[@TheGhostFart]

we sank 2 of their carriers with submarines too

[@paleoph6168]

Japanese government be like:

[@wolftamer5463]

@@TheGhostFart4 if you count Shinano and Unryu

[@07Alpha]

My great grandfather was witnessed the Japanese bombing of Trincomalee, ceylon which sunk the British carrier HMS Hermes. HMS Hermes was later discovered by some divers. But her escort vessel, HMAS Vampire is never identified.

[@CARL_093]

Great sponsor i had playing that game right now

[@ncavis]

I visited the Cavalla today in Galveston, such an awesome boat!

[@Rix_the_rex]

Great video simple history and thanks for the new video

[@blyatman7368]

we need more ww2 carrier vids or naval ships in general.

[@cheesyfromindonesia9969]

Reject IJN Kaga, return to IJN Shokaku

[@seaeggs]

Now it’s a good aircraft on world of warship with some weird halloween skins 😂

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

Yeah, I got that skin too: really weird. But AA at Shokaku's tier eats the paper planes

[@Switcharoo12]

I hate boatwrap 🤦🏼🙅🏼

[@Hfoster3]

Saw the uss cavalla today in Galveston. Great history to see the ship in person

[@randylaffy7679]

That was an awesome video. Keep up with the history videos

[@shokaku123]

this video appeared on my KZbin homepage. I guess I was fated to watch this video LOL

[@suspiciousgranadier736]

Can you make a video about Zuikaku next??

[@pokefan-ix7sh]

Shōkaku was the lead ship of her class of two aircraft carriers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy shortly before the Pacific War. Along with her sister ship Zuikaku, she took part in several key naval battles during the war, including the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of the Coral Sea, and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, before being torpedoed and sunk by the U.S. submarine USS Cavalla at the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

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[@combineeliteunit8769]

I came as fast as I saw the notification

[@brunocorrea2854]

The title made it seem like the video was about the submarine.

[@OliverButOllie]

A similar situation happened to the japanese supercarrier Shinano. Only one sub sunk her, the USS Archerfish. It would be awesome if you talked about how Shinano sank. 😃

[@richardthomas5362]

Shinano was big and heavy, but it was a conversion rather than purpose built. I think the original intention was to use that ship to ferry fighters to the real carriers.

[@OliverButOllie]

@@richardthomas5362 Yep. Shinano was originally supposed to be the 3rd Yamato-class battleship, but after either the Battle of Midway or the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the japanese decided to convert Shinano from a battleship, to a carrier since they lost a decent amount of carriers.

[@bkjeong4302]

@@OliverButOllie Shinano’s construction was suspended following Force Z, then resumed with the only goal being to just get her out of her dock (without any intention of completing her), and THEN Midway happened and they decided to turn her into a carrier.

[@PlanetLuthian]

A fantastic era war drama movie made Japan called "The Battle of Archimedes" is very good theatrical story of the Shokaku and the Yamamoto

[@cardiv5zuikaku944]

Anyone still think of a lovely silver haired girl wear headband, shortened miko uniform with arm bracers and thigh boots with propellers protuding from them. wields a bow and wears a muneate inscribed with the katakana シ (shi), often called ms unfortune because of her luck and have matured big sister personality who want to do her best, when hearing the word Shoukaku? Also before you said i know Shoukaku from random japanese moe game, i already lnow Shoukaku way before im into Anime, it was from Air Conflict Pacific Carrier, it is because of that game im into Shoukaku and Zuikaku and ended up loving their moe form.

[@CaptRexSkyEye118]

For me I watched them From The History Channels and Documentaries :D, Love Both Shoukakus.

[@cardiv5zuikaku944]

@@CaptRexSkyEye118 i used to watch Battle 360 Enterprise to know a bit about them as well, lol

[@skytrooperss892]

I already know Shoukaku sisters from game Pacific Front 1942 before I'm into their anime version

[@CaptRexSkyEye118]

@@cardiv5zuikaku944 Battle 360 was back then History Channel was not about aliens.

[@shoukatsukai]

That's my girl ❤

[@panagea2007]

The loss of Shinano, also sunk by a lone sub, may have been even more important, had it ever reached operational status.

[@TexasHoosier3118]

At that stage of the war, IJN carriers were pretty worthless. Lack of skilled maintenance personnel, skilled pilots, and US naval air power would have rendered the Shinano useless.

[@baconpwn]

Not really. Shinano was converted too late to become a fleet carrier. She was going to be a support carrier. Plus, at that point in the war, it would have been Shinano vs the unending Essex Horde. Not exactly a war winning matchup

[@EliteFuller]

u should do the Ijn Taiho or hms illustrious

[@bagoquarks]

At 5:55 the overhead view shows the Shokaku and Zuikaku with their islands on the port sides of the vessels - NOT CORRECT. Elsewhere in the video the Shokaku is correctly depicted with its island at starboard. Again, at 5:55, the sister ships are sailing AWFULLY CLOSE together. Otherwise I must commend you for making excellent use of what appears to be SVG animation. I did not find fault with any of the facts covered in the narration.

[@oliversherman2414]

"Pride of a nation, a beast made of steel" - Sabaton

[@wolftamer5463]

Probably would be more fitting for the Yamato tbh, but I can’t say no to some Sabaton.

[@oliversherman2414]

@@wolftamer5463 yeah lol

[@wendigoactual8325]

Fun fact: America holds the record made for most rice crispys made in one second

[@christopherdempsey3878]

Still waiting for you guys to make a video on Sergeant Alvin York.

[@naksunen5968]

Can you do more of these? Like story of Kaga.

[@SirGamerTheFirst]

Skip to 8:00 for the actual event.

[@corymorimacori1059]

“I was saving the planet from an Axis of Darkness, while you were back home opening National Parks! Yes!” Winston Churchill

[@muhammadyudhi1338]

No wonder if Japanese was second strongest navy in the world, because they have a good designed Carrier ship and elite air wing of Kidou Butai And also like other Japanese Aircraft Carrier, Shoukaku have a good looking design so make her more beatiful and artistic

[@FishHatcheryGuy]

Cavalla is on display as a museumship at the Galveston Naval Museum alongside the Destroyer Escort Stewart in Galveston Texas.

[@hopatease1]

Love seeing vids with happy endings : )

[@j_mack1996]

I thought this was about Shinano and Archerfish.

[@MOTDY]

5:55 What are the names of the 2 ships escorting the Shokaku and Zuikaku? The top one looks like the Mikasa but I cannot figure out the 2nd one.

[@nogoodnameleft]

USS Cavalla still exists today and is a museum ship in the wonderful Seawolf Park/Galveston Naval Museum. USS Stewart, a destroyer escort, is also her neighbor. USS Texas, a pre-WWI superdreadnought battleship, will be also located in Galveston just a few miles from Cavalla/Stewart. Just a heads up to anybody if they want to see Stewart's engines (very unique because the U.S. has only two destroyer escorts left, Stewart and Slater) they should ask for the hard hat tour that is only available 3 days a week. They should plan accordingly and make some phone calls to check before they visit Galveston.

[@danielsantiago1715]

GREAT VIDEOS

[@anonymousidn777]

Flight deck C H E S T 💀💀💀

[@CaptainJG95]

I actually go to college just down the street from the USS Cavalla.

[@nogoodnameleft]

Did you visit Cavalla yet?

[@CaptainJG95]

@@nogoodnameleft yes. She's very nice

[@ingenhk]

4:33 levitating plane

[@perryjoejimbob]

Even if Shokaku had survived, the writing was on the wall. Carriers are useless without trained pilots, and Japan did not train enough pilots. The Americans believed every qualified person could be a pilot, and opposed to the Japanese class system.

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

Plus, a big growing population to supply your dying pilots. Immigration to Japan is nothing compared to America

[@TheGhostFart]

it really did not help japan at all that they started teaching their pilots to ram their planes at enemy ships

[@derkaiser420]

Good think she was sent to Davey Jones with most of her crew where she belonged.

[@imhatchmantoo]

Yikes.. that sinking was uh, that was terrible. I mean even by ships getting sunk in wartime standards that was pretty brutal.

[@wolftamer5463]

Unholy numbers of casualties can be caused on big ships. Some of the worst would have only a few hundred or less out of more than 2,000. The deadliest sinking of all time was the SS Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea. It was evacuating civilians from eastern Prussia when the Red Army was closing in, and was overcrowded far beyond capacity. A Soviet submarine torpedoed it, and all of those people met the freezing mid-winter ocean. Nearly 10,000 people died.

[@ph89787]

Similar thing happened at Guadalcanal when submarine I-19 sank USS Wasp (CV-7) with three type 95 torpedoes.

[@donlukes2805]

I just went to see my dad's submarine that he served on when they brought down that ship,the guy giving the tour told me that my dad was a badass.I never knew

[@nogoodnameleft]

Shokaku was a legendary ship, like the Japanese Enterprise. She sank or heavily damaged some battleships at Pearl Harbor and then sank the carriers USS Lexington, USS Hornet, and HMS Hermes followed by damaging USS Yorktown, possibly hurting her enough to compromise her at Midway. She also sank a lot of other smaller ships like cruisers and destroyers all over the Pacific. Your dad was a badass. Cavalla is the only surviving submarine in the entire world that sank a capital ship (battleship, battlecruiser, fleet aircraft carrier).

[@pepingcortez8697]

I remember this in Battle 360

[@nursestoyland]

previously on battle 360

[@dimosthenistserikis5901]

Amazing animations as always

[@davea6314]

Question: What do aircraft carriers eat for breakfast? Answer: scrambled jets 😜 *Unfortunately, I can't list the citation without this comment getting deleted.

[@oz2147]

The USS Cavalla was laid to rest in Galveston Tx! Visit if you’re ever in the area.

[@thegoofyyy]

I went to see the USS Cavalla in real life a year ago. It’s now a museum beside a famous destroyer located in Galveston, Texas.

[@lonewolf6370]

I absolutely love the history you guys talk about I love Learning about both sides of any conflict because when everythings said and done it was mostly just people doing what they thought and were told was right and the all have a story as well

[@halfdome4158]

Awww, isnt that nice? Well, China just completed a naval base in Cambodia and is building an airstrip on Triton Island off the coast of Vietnam. The poisonous Vietnamese are terrified. Great! Hope they are blown off the map.

[@MurraytheCat]

All of this water must have taken FOREVER to animate

[@anthonyxavier6300]

That guy on your thumbnail reminds me of the flagger in the movie Pearl Harbor.

[@thebes118]

Cavalla is at Seawolf park near Galveston Tx. Been through her.

[@antoniocarrascosa6060]

Magníficos dibujos y mapas. Enhorabuena desde España

[@jeffmonte787]

I hope to see more videos on warships.

[@Spitfiresammons]

It’s weird how the Japanese build strange aircraft carrier types like Shinano the biggest aircraft carrier of ww2. Please do the history of the Escort carrier aka the jeep carrier.

[@TheGhostFart]

Shinano was originally supposed to be a battleship but was quickly converted to a support carrier after their losses in Midway only for her to get ripped apart by a US submarine before she even got planes.

[@recoil53]

@@TheGhostFart At that point it didn't really matter, there weren't enough good pilots left for any IJN aircraft carrier to matter.

[@gasmaskalan1771]

Big boat

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

Nice, the loss of these ships set Japan back decades in R&D plus training the sailors and pilots.

[@chrislakkas3962]

Sometimes you have to walk away from people, not because you don't care, but because they don't.

[@JackCallSports]

USS Cavalla and USS Albacore were true hero’s of the Battle of Phillippine Sea

[@nogoodnameleft]

Yes indeed. The Turkey Shoot would have been completely meaningless and worthless if Cavalla and Albacore hadn't taken out the two powerful fleet carriers that they sank. The one Japanese carrier that the U.S. carriers sank was technically large enough to be called a "fleet carrier" but was really a "fleet carrier" who had the skillset and slow speed of a light carrier. Shokaku's speed was around 40 mph while Hiyo's top speed was only 30 mph. Also Hiyo was converted from a civilian cruise liner, so pretty much the same thing like converting the Titanic into a huge "fleet carrier". Unfortunately Albacore was sunk a few months later by the Japanese. Cavalla miraculously survived 100+ depth charges right after sinking Shokaku, which is insane.

[@Z020852]

It wasn't just the Shokaku. They also lost the supercarriers Taiho and her sistership Shinano to submarines. Something you can't feasibly think is doable today considering how many ASW helicopters are on just one American, British, or French carrier, let alone the ones operating off the escorting vessels. The supercarriers were lost to Albacore and Archerfish...so basically they lost the biggest carriers to a sub named after what goes from a can and into a sandwich (or a salad) and the other to a sub named after a fish that spits on insects like an AA battery.

[@Khornecussion]

I can't believe the US sunk the Shikaka. Ace Ventura will be upset.

[@Egg.335]

This how much damage a few planes with torpedoes can deal

[@CaptRexSkyEye118]

"This is Awacs Here Callsign Sky Eye, Do you Read? Today My birthday a Happy Day you would be nice (For Real Tho Sept 14 is my Birthday.) Where are all my fellow Admirals and Commanders all callsign Check in!"

[@mobucks555]

Metal Gear, Splinter Cell, Assassin's Creed. All kid stealth games compared to Silent Hunter.

[@kevinv.m.94]

IJN Shokaku is greater than IJN Yamato, except for weight.

[@JustParadis]

Tbh almost every japanese ship is greater than Yamato, Musashi, Shinano and Taihou. They are like japanese version of Wunderwaffe

[@TheGhostFart]

yamato was a floating hotel, that's a pretty low bar to climb over

[@yoseipilot]

It’s terror of Pacific, not just Pearl Harbor

[@willgibson9718]

Hey simple history can you please make a video damn yankee b17?